Living Places. Simon Architecture Prize

2026

Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize returns in 2026 with its 6th edition, continuing its commitment to recognising architecture from the perspective of the people who inhabit it.

Organised by Simon and curated by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, the prize highlights built works that transform everyday spaces into meaningful places for living, working, learning, playing and sharing. Since its creation, Living Places has placed special emphasis on architecture as an experience, understood through the quality of the spaces and the narratives they generate.

This new edition will be launched in Barcelona with the presentation of Caçador de Geometries, the inaugural video filmed at Les Feixes by Matilda Vidal de Llobatera, winner of the Best Audiovisual Narrative award in the previous edition. The event will conclude with a conversation between Matilda Vidal de Llobatera and Sesi Bergeret, member of the jury of this 6th edition.

2024

The Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize organized by the Simon Group with the curatorship of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe announces the jury that will evaluate the proposals presented in its 5th edition.

The international jury is made up of five experts in architecture and related topics such as cinema, design, inclusion and sustainability among others: Andrés Jaque, Amanda Sans Pantling, Salvi Plaja, Verena von Beckerath and Gabriela de Matos.

We remind you that proposals can be submitted until September 30 and that each winning project will receive a prize of €10,000 and a trophy designed by Andreu Carulla.

Previous editions

2022

The Fundació Mies van der Rohe is curating the fourth edition of the Living Places – Simon Architecture Prize, created to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Simon in 2016.

This biennial competition is distinguished by its focus on the people who inhabit the architecture through the video format as a basic document to explain the use of space. Participation is free and allows anyone to propose works that they consider to be of interest. Registration will be open until 15 September 2022.

Tuesday 21 June at 7 p.m. at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion this edition will be opened with “Arquitecturas Vividas“: a conversation between Carla Juaçaba (architect and president of the jury of the 2022 edition) and Ángela García de Paredes (architect at Paredes Pedrosa and finalist in the 2016 edition).

See the event on youtube.

2020

Fundació Mies van der Rohe curates the 3rd edition of the project Living Places – Simon Architecture Award, organised in 2016 as one of the main events of the celebration of the 100th anniversary of Simon and with a 2nd edition in 2018.
This biennial contest is characterized by an approach defined on the basis of the perspective of the inhabitant, by adopting the video format as the essential means by which to explain the work and by an inclusive participation process that allows any citizen to propose those works they regard as interesting. The award distinguishes those architectures of excellence by focusing on the experience of their inhabitants.

On its third edition edition, the prize has continued to increase participation and has received 140 candidatures from projects built in more than 20 countries between Europe and Mexico.

The jury of this edition, formed by Anupama Kundoo, Louise Lemoine, Victor Jaime, Ana Luisa Soares, Dean Skira and Salvi Plaja met in two online sessions last October to choose the finalists and winners of the two categories in which the award is structured: Collective Places and Living Places.

The announcement of the winners was held online on Thursday, 10 December, at 6pm, with the live presence of Anupama Kundoo, president of the jury, in conversation with each of the winners, who presented their awarded projects.

Watch the awarding ceremony:

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