Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Prize 12° edition 2025/2026 , Padua / Italien

 

- “Barbara Cappochin Foundation”, which has its office in Selvazzano Dentro, Padova (Italy), Vegri street, n° 33/a;

- The Order of Architects, Planners, Landscapers and Conservators of the Province of Padua, which is located

in Piazza Salvemini, n° 20 in Padua (Italy).

 

The Prize was created to remember Barbara and what she left us during her 22 years of life, through the understanding of the deep and intimate connection existing between architecture and everyday life with the objective to bring out the centrality and responsibility of architecture in the process of landscape modification, with particular respect to the urban outskirts, according to the principles of bio architecture, energy efficiency and sustainable urban planning, selecting and rewarding the works that stand out for the quality intended as sphere including sensorial and emotional quality, attention to the human scale, innovative design and construction, appropriate use of materials and structures, study of constructive details, combination of aesthetic and quality, functionality and sustainability.

 

Participation in the 2025/2026 edition of the “Barbara Cappochin International Prize” is open to works, completed between 1 January 2022 and 31 December 2025, relating to new construction, redevelopment and/or extension of existing buildings, landscape architecture, designed by individual architects or associates, of any nationality, registered in the professional register or in an equivalent association and belonging to the following categories:

 

1. Public and/or private residential architecture

2. Commercial, executive, mixed architecture

3. Public architecture (educational, cultural, socio-sanitary, religious, sports, recreational)

4. Landscape architecture and Urban Planning

 

26 October 2025: registration opening

31 January 2026: registration deadline

26 - 27 February 2026: works of the Jury at the headquarters of the Order of Architects P.P.C. of the Province of Padua

March 2026: publication of the minutes of the Jury on the websites of the Barbara Cappochin Foundation and of the Order of Architects P.P.C. of Padua

May 2026: Award Ceremony, Inauguration of the Exhibitions and further events of the 2025/2026 edition of the Biennial