ACE is pleased to participate in the international jury session of the Barbara Cappochin Foundation, reviewing 376 submitted projects from across the world — a powerful reflection of the diversity, ambition and responsibility shaping today’s architectural practice.

Daniel Fügenschuh, ACE President (Austria), joined an esteemed international jury composed of:

• Massimo Crusi, Architect – President, Consiglio Nazionale Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori (Italy)
• Marta Macaglia, Architect – Asociación Semillas para el Desarrollo Sostenible (Italy / Peru)
• Josep Ricart Ulldemolins, Architect – Harquitectes (Spain)
• Kentaro Takeguchi, Architect – Alphaville Architects (Japan)

The jury’s work focuses on evaluating projects through the lens of architectural quality, considering innovation, cultural relevance, sustainability, social responsibility, and long-term impact — core dimensions that define excellence in the built environment.

For ACE, awards are more than recognition. They are strategic instruments to promote quality-based procurement, raise professional standards, and reinforce the public value of architecture.

In this context, ACE recently published “Architecture Awards as Instruments of Systemic Change”, examining how award frameworks can contribute to more sustainable, inclusive and resilient built environments across Europe.

🔗 Read the report here: https://ace-cae.eu/news/new-publication-architecture-awards-as-instruments-of-systemic-change/

About the Prize: 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.

https://www.barbaracappochinfoundation.net/en/edizione-corrente

Credits: Photographer: Alessandro Lana/ Barbara Cappochin Foundation.