The European Award AHI, organised with the support of the Architects’ Association of Catalonia, is a biennial event. Its main goal is to distinguish quality interventions in all the aspects of built heritage and contribute to their dissemination. The contest is aimed at consolidating itself as a catalyst and observatory of new challenges added to the conservation and intervention in built heritage by the globalization of contemporary architecture.

The Award is aimed at all those professionals, associations and administrations linked to architectural heritage, such as: architects,  architectural firms, town planners, historians, archaeologists..., whose works have been conducted in the European geographical Area.

The call is divided into four categories:

Built heritage
Aimed at all those architectural interventions, ephemeral or permanent, in buildings, at any scale. Interventions are mainly considered in protected buildings and groups of buildings, but may also involve all those interventions of culturally specific interest which have no protection, but are embedded in an urban or naturally protected space and help to define its historic character.

Exterior spaces
Aimed at all those interventions intended to propose solutions to the historic public space, understood as a space facilitating the social and economic relations that exist in historic centres. Those spaces that are declared monumental groups of buildings are also included, as are those that constitute the origin of villages, towns and cities. Interventions in the area of monuments and cultural landscapes are also accepted.

Urban planning
Aimed at all those Special Plans for heritage protection, catalogues, inventories, or other planning instruments, involving the protection, conservation and enhancement of architectural heritage. General planning documents, those documents derived from planning, etc., are also included, as well as those at local level that are aimed at the protection of architectural heritage.

Disclosure
Aimed at all those initiatives and actions which are mainly concerned with the dissemination of architectural heritage values, not only among professionals and technicians in the industry, but in society in general. Publications, articles, audiovisual accounts, presentations, events and all kinds of activities related to the promotion and appreciation of this heritage are also accepted.

The deadline for submission of documentation will be on March 17th, 2023 at 24:00 h. (GMT+1).

For further information, visit the AHI website.