I DECADA PRIZE 2000
(Works completed in 1990)
Jury: Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi
(Pritzker Architecture Prize 1991)
Winning work: Fundación Tàpies
Architect: Lluís Domènech and Roser Amadó
JUROR’S REPORT
"We have chosen the Fundació Antoni Tàpies made for Roser Amadó and Lluís Doménech, as the winner of the Década Award.
In parallel, we have suggested a Special Award for the City Council and for the architects and landscape architects of its plazas and ramblas.
The first choice for this new award will set a precedent for the future, therefore we feel fortunate that projects of highest quality have been submitted. Our chosen projects confront important tasks faced by our profession in the last decade and represent grateful directions taken by the city of Barcelona in that time. They cover urbanism, architecture, landscape architecture and historic preservation, and the work of both the private sector and the public sector in the city.
The Tapiès architectural project can represent a valid and vital juxtaposition of the old and the new -of the building of the original Antoni Tapiès organization and of the current Antoni Tapiès Foundation- where the aesthetic of the old is graciously respected and where the architectural programmatic and technical qualities of the new are positively celebrated in a dynamic city like a Barcelona which is both old and new.
!Viva layers of elements like glass panels, steel details, advanced lighting and mechanical systems, and abstract roof sculpture upon a distinguished masonry Art-Nouveau composition which create harmony via analogy and contrast!
The City Council is to be congratulated for bringing parks to local neighbourhoods where they are needed, and for introducing high levels of design in these localities. We salute this public body’s creative vision in setting out the principles and guidelines that lie behind the individual architects interpretations of parks and ramblas.
Our chosen project and our special awards address a range of conditions in Barcelona –from its ramblas to its moderniste heritage- that contribute t the city’s uniqueness. The design have in common that they are nurturing: they draw their solutions and their special qualities from what lies within them, from their problem and its context, physical and cultural".
Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi
June 2000
The winning work is above. Below, Lluís Domènech and Roser Amadó talking to Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, prize judge. Beth Figueras being introduced by Oscar Tusquets Blanca to Scott Brown and Robert Venturi. In the last two photos, the mayor of Barcelona, Joan Clos, greeting the juror and the prize-winners.
