AHI Architectural Heritage Intervention

“Contributing to enhancing our heritage, as the way forward for 21 st Century architecture is our raison d’être; to emphasize a diverse, rich vision that necessarily complements the intervention is our mission, and achieving it with reflexive and purposeful efforts is the challenge”.

This project, founded in, and directed since, 2011 by Ramon Calonge, Oriol Cusidó, Marc Manzano and Jordi Portal, architects and members of the Group of Architects for the Defence and Intervention in Architectural Heritage (AADIPA), has, through the years become a platform that includes four actions that are both independent and transversal.
 
The European Award, a biennial event that brings together and showcases the multiple approaches of intervention in Europe.

The International Biennial, a framework that serves to compare and gain closer insight of quality interventions in architectural heritage in non-European countries.

The digital Archive, a live and open window that provides a panoramic view of interventions in the history of our surroundings.

The Forum, a meeting place where you can participate in on-going debates about the main preoccupations and lines of thought about interventions in architectural heritage in Europe.

EUROPEAN AWARD AHI 2025

Meet the Jury of the European Award AHI 2025

Meet the Jury of the European Award AHI 2025

25 January 2025

The submitted candidacies will be evaluated by an international jury with extensive experience and expertise in the field of heritage intervention.
The panel, comprising 14 international architects, including, as has become customary, winners and finalists of the previous edition of the Award (in this case, the one held in 2023), will determine the selected projects, finalists and winners in each category. In order to ensure the utmost rigour and equity in the selection of the finalists and winners, the jury for each category of the Award is composed of professionals from across Europe who share sources, forms, values and traditions, thus fostering synergies that enhance their affinity when it comes to analysing the works.

Each juror initially receives the information on the submitted works and evaluates them individually, following the assessment criteria specified in the terms and conditions of the Award. The opening meeting of the jury of each category is held independently in early May. The goal of this first meeting is to enable the jurors to touch base, share their evaluations, learn the list of selected works resulting from their individual scores, and set the overall criteria with which they will assess the projects. An in-person meeting to debate and determine the winner and finalists of each category is subsequently held in Barcelona before the award ceremony. This meeting will also be attended by the directors of the Award in order to reach a consensus and ratify that the jury’s decision is in line with the terms and conditions of the Award.

In the Built Heritage category, the jury of this edition is composed of the Italian architect Stefano Francesco Musso, Full Professor of Architectural Restoration at the University of Genoa and, among other positions, Chair of the Heritage Working Group of the Architects’ Council of Europe (ACE); the architect and engineer Stijn Cools, co-founder of the Belgian studio aNNo Architecten (with noteworthy projects to its name that balance creativity and historical sensitivity, such as the Wintercircus Mahy building in Ghent, a finalist in the previous edition of the Award) and lecturer at KU Leuven, where he teaches and conducts research in the fields of renovation and heritage conservation; and the Catalan architect Meritxell Inaraja, Associate Lecturer of Restoration Projects at the University of Girona, who has headed her own studio since 1995, completing major restoration projects such as the old city walls of Vic, the Castle of La Tossa de Montbui, and the building of the Unió de Cooperadors (Cooperative Union) in Gavà, chosen as a finalist in the previous edition of the Award.

The members of the jury in the Exterior Spaces category are as follows: Michaela De Poli is a landscape architect who has completed the international programme in Landscape Architecture and Planning at the Wageningen Agricultural University in the Netherlands. She is the co-founder of the Italian studio MADE associati, devoted to landscape and planning projects focused on the preservation and development of sensitive areas. The studio’s Antonio Caregaro Negrin Cultural Park project in Mogliano Veneto was shortlisted in the previous edition of the Award. The architect Gentzane Goikuria, from San Sebastián, is the co-founder of the behark studio, which practices a quiet architecture dedicated to the transformation of built environments, restoration and urban regeneration, as embodied in its Last Chance for a Slow Dance project in Larrabetzu, a finalist in the previous edition. The third member of the panel is Fernando Menis, winner of the last edition of the Award with his El Tanque Garden project in Tenerife. With a career spanning more than 40 years, Menis continues to lead pioneering projects such as the adaptive reuse of the Viera y Clavijo Cultural Park, also in Tenerife. His work has been exhibited at institutions such as the MoMA in New York and at events including the Venice Architecture Biennale.

In the Urban Planning category, the jury is composed of Ioanna Spanou, Director of the Area of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape of Barcelona Regional, an urban development agency, ans Associate Lecturer in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB)-Polythecnic University of Catalonia (UPC). Her current research focuses on cartography as a tool to interpret reality and foster the reconfiguration of the metropolitan landscape. The Turkish architect Batu Kepekcioglu heads the Istanbul-based studio DATA, a multidisciplinary design studio opearting at various scales. One of the studio's most notable projects is the Kamil Abdus Lake, an ecological recreation and restoration project in Tuzla that won the National Landscape Architecture Award in Turkey un 2021. Lastly, the architect Bart Akkerhuis is founder of Paris-based firm Studio Akkerhuis, leading a team of 40 creatives of 17 different nationalities who work on projects of various scales, ranging from intallations to large-scale developments such as the De Meelfabriek Masterplan, involving the urban transformation of a 55,000 m2 former industrial flour mill complex composed of ten historiacal buildings and four new ones. This project was a finalist in the previous edition of the Award.

Finally, in the Disclosure category, the jury is made up of the following members: Elodie Degavre is a Brussels-based architect and film director who lectures at UCLouvain. She is a member of the editorial board of the Belgian magazine A+ Architecture and of the Spanish magazine En Blanco. Her documentary La vie en Kit, winner of the previous edition of the Award, has been screened at leading international festivals. The British architect Stephen Bates, a finalist in the previous edition with his book Lineage and Legacy: A Certain Modernism in Cadaqués, is Professor in Urbanism and Housing at the Technische Universität in Munich. He has been a member of prestigious juries such as that of the EU Mies Award. The third jury member is the Catalan architect Mariona Benedito, who has been an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Architectural Projects at the Barcelona School of Architecture (ETSAB)-Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) since 2003. She is currently co-curator of the UIA Barcelona 2026 World Congress of Architecture: Becoming, architectures for a planet in transition. In the previous edition of the Award, her project for 34 emergency housing units was awarded the New European Bauhaus Special Mention.

To select the recipient of the Special Mention for the New European Bauhaus, the Award directors (Ramon Calonge, Oriol Cusidó, Marc Manzano and Jordi Portal) will be joined by the architect and Member of the European Parliament Marcos Ros. Meanwhile, to decide on the recipient of the Special Mention for Restoration, they will be joined by the Belgian architect and heritage expert Anneleen Stevens, project director at the B-Juxta studio and recipient of this Special Mention in the previous edition for the restoration project of the Gruuthusemuseum in Bruges.