Piranesi Award
Background
Every year the national selectors select five projects from their country which compete for the Piranesi Award. The most important criterion for the selection is to have made a step forward in finding architectural solutions within a certain "milieu". The jury consists of the participating lecturers of the international conference Piran Days of Architecture.
Since 2009 a cash prize is given to the winners by the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning – a grant of 3,000 EUR for Piranesi Award winners, and a grant of 1,000 EUR each for both Piranesi Honorable Mentions and the Student Piranesi Award.
Piranesi Award
In 2009 a total of 31 projects from Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Slovakia, and Slovenia took part in the international exhibition for the International 2009 Piranesi Award, which was granted to decaARCHITECTURE from Greece for the project Aloni house in Antiparos.
Recent Piranesi Award winners were Miha Klinar, Špela Kuhar, Blaž Medja, Uroš Pavasovič, and Robert Potokar from Slovenia (2004), Idis Turato & Saša Randić from Croatia (2005), Dean Lah & Milan Tomac – Enota Architects from Slovenia (2006), Studio Njirić+Arhitekti from Croatia (2007), and Ján Studený and Martin Vojta from Slovakia (2008).
Piranesi Honorable Mention
The International 2009 Piranesi Honorable Mention went to Laura Peretti (Studio Insito) from Italy for the project Watermills Houses' renovation, and Andreas Cukrowicz and Anton Nachbaur–Sturm (Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten) from Austria for the project Community Center in St. Gerold.
Student Piranesi Award
In 2009 the competition for the Piranesi Student's Honorable Mention took place for the first time with an international competition and for the second time with an international jury.
From the 16 exhibited works by students from the Faculty of Architecture, University of Ljubljana and faculties of architecture of Maribor, Trieste, Pescara, Zagreb, Graz, and Vienna, the jury granted the International 2009 Piranesi Student's Honorable Mention to students Gregor Pils & Andreas Claus Schnetzer and mentors Karin Stieldorf and Pekka Janhunen from the Technische universitaet Wien, for the project Pallethous.