MCHAP Awards Announced

John Hill

24. October 2014

Jacques Herzog, Wiel Arets and Alvaro Siza at MCHAP Ceremony

The winners of the inaugural Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize were announced at a benefit dinner at the S.R. Crown Hall of the Illinois Institute of Technology on 22 October 2014.

The biennial prize, announced by Wiel Arets, Dean of the College of Architecture at IIT, and others at an event at the CCA in February, recognizes the most distinguished architectural works built in North and South America. Nominations for the inaugural MCHAP consisted of 265 projects from over 15 countries. Jury chair Kenneth Frampton explained, per a statement from IIT, "We decided to give two equal awards, one covering the period 2000 through 2008, and one covering the shorter period 2009 through 2013."

MCHAP 2000-2008 Winner:
Iberê Camargo Foundation in Porto Alegre, Brazil, by Álvaro Siza

Ibere Camargo Foundation by Alvaro Siza (Photo: Elvira Tomazoni Fortuna)

MCHAP 2009-2013 winner
1111 Lincoln Road in Miami Beach, Florida, USA by Herzog & de Meuron

1111 Lincoln Road by Herzog & de Meuron (Photo: Hufton + Crow)

Per IIT: "The authors of the two winning projects honoring the best built works in the Americas will each be recognized with the MCHAP Award, the MCHAP Chair at IIT College of Architecture for the following academic year and funding of $50,000 USD, in support of research and a publication related to the theme of 'Rethinking Metropolis.'"

The finalists, in addition to 1111 Lincoln Road and Iberê Camargo Foundation:

• Altamira Residential Building in Rosario, Argentina, by Rafael Iglesia Arquitectura
• Capilla del Retiro in Auco, Los Andes, Chile, by Undurraga Deves Arquitectos
• Mestizo Restaurant in Santiago, Chile, by Smiljan Radic Studio
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building in Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. by Steven Holl Architects
• Seattle Central Library, in Seattle, Washington, U.S. by OMA / LMN

The prize also includes the MCHAP for Emerging Architecture, which was given in May to Pezo von Ellrichshausen for their Poli House in Tome, Chile.