At the Palazzo dell’Arte in Milan, the collaboration between Triennale Milano and MAXXI is strengthened with the second edition of the Italian Architecture Award, together with the TYoung Award - promoted by the Claudio De Albertis Award Committee - and the Lifetime Achievement Award.
The prize for the best building of the Italian Architecture Award was assigned to LCM 2018, the Casa-Asilo di Maria Giuseppina Grasso Cannizzo in Mazzarrone (Catania). An “anonymous building” reinterpreted through a series of discreet interventions that reflect on the adaptation of a school structure to residential habitability.
The honorable mention went to Onsitestudio with the Mapei Football Center in Sassuolo (2019).
The president of the Claudio De Albertis Award Committee, Carla De Albertis, connected by videoconference with the winner of the last edition Simone Gobbo di Demogo, then announced the winner. Among 45 projects, the TYoung prize was awarded to Simona Della Rocca (BDR Bureau) for the Enrico Fermi School (2019) in Turin.
The honorable mention went to the Roman collective Orizzontale per Civico Civico (2020) in Riesi (Caltanissetta).
Finally, Paolo Portoghesi was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, who commented that he was grateful “to the two institutions, which by founding this award have tied Rome and Milan hand in hand” .
The finalist projects of the awards are on display at the Milan Triennale until 22 August 2021.
The winners of the prizes were announced at a press conference by the president of the Triennale Stefano Boeri, the president of the MAXXI Foundation Giovanna Melandri, Lorenza Baroncelli (artistic director of the Triennale Milano) and Carla De Albertis.
The jury of this edition of the Italian Architecture Award is composed of Stefano Boeri, Lorenza Baroncelli, Pippo Ciorra, Onofrio Cutaia, Francis Kéré, Fulvio Irace, Giovanna Melandri, Anaa Ramos, Lucy Styles, Francesca Torzo, Cino Zucchi and, for the award TYoung, Carla De Albertis, Simone Gobbo and Elena Tettamanti.