The day 18 June 2021 the Jury of Brother Sun Foundation for the evaluation of projects received by the IX Edition of the European Prize for Sacred Architecture.
The projects can be viewed at https://europeanprize.fondazionefratesole.org/
The assembled Jury is composed as follows: Giorgio Della Longa, Esteban Fernández Cobián, Axel Frühauf, Luigi Leoni, Caterina Parrello, Don Valerio Pennasso, Walter Zahner.
The Jury, through successive selections, was able to express a shared ranking; it should be noted that, in addition to the winning project and those mentioned that were subject to a detailed evaluation, other projects with reasons of interest were considered but did not continue the process due to a non-shared evaluation by the Jury.
That said, the Jury expressed itself as follows:
first prize
Francesco Menegato
for the dissertation
Inhabiting the threshold. The liminality of sacred space in the design of the new church of St. John the Baptist in Pile (L'Aquila) - Italy
Rapporteur: Prof. Martino Doimo
IUAV of Venice, Faculty of Architecture, Italy
Graduation date: 18/5/2020
mention
Lorenzo Del Mastio
for the dissertation
A cell modelled by light. The new chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary Immaculate of Galluzzo, Galluzzo (Florence) - Italy
Rapporteur: prof. Fabio Capanni
University of Florence, Faculty of Architecture, Italy
Graduation date: 14/9/2020
mention
Maria Giada Di Baldassarre
for Master's thesis
Post earthquake community. A new devotional chapel dedicated to the Holy Virgin Mary in Visso (Macerata) - Italy
Rapporteur: Prof. Guendalina Salimei
La Sapienza' University Rome, Faculty of Architecture, Italy
Thesis date: 17/4/2019
mention
Federica Frino
for the dissertation
The new church of San Tommaso in Pontedera (Pisa) - Italy
Rapporteur: Prof. Fabrizio Rossi Prodi
University of Florence, Faculty of Architecture, Italy
Graduation date: 19/12/2019
The award ceremony will take place in Pavia next Saturday, 2 October.