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Tarih: 14 Mayıs - 11 Temmuz 2004 Saat: 10:00 - 13:00, 15:00 - 19:00
Yer: Palladian Basilica - Vicenza

The best of architecture produced in the last two years in 30 countries from 5 continents will be exhibited from 14 May to 11 July 2004 in the Palladian Basilica in Vicenza. These are the prize-winning and nominated projects of the fifth edition of the Dedalo Minosse International Award, promoted by the Associazione Liberi Architetti ALA ­ Assoarchitetti (Association of Professional Architects) and the international architectural review l'ARCA, together with the sponsor Caoduro Lucernari.

Projects, drawings, models, photographs and films of the prize-winning and nominated works exhibited inside the historical spaces of the Palladian Basilica in Vicenza. Open: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. - 7 p.m. every day except Monday. Free entry.

The "Dedalo Minosse 2003-2004" awarding ceremony will take place on Friday 14 May at 5 p.m. and will be held in the Olympic Theatre, another of the most renowned symbols of Palladio's Vicenza. The ceremony will be followed by the official opening of the exhibition.

After just 5 editions, the Dedalo Minosse Prize has already become one of the most important architectural awards in the world, a kind of Pritzker, with the strength of its peculiarity of being targeted at the client rather than the architect.

Owing to the enormous number of competitors (over 500 works registered in the contest to compete for the award) the work of the Jury is particularly demanding. It is composed of: Stanislao Nievo, Chairman, writer and one of the founders of the WWF; Dante O. Benini, architect; Paolo Caoduro, the main sponsor; Cesare Maria Casati, editor of the review l'Arca; Odile Decq, architect; Bruno Gabbiani, chairman of the association ALA ­ Assoarchitetti; Giovanni Gabetti, real estate agent; Guido Gentili, editor of the newspaper Il Sole 24 Ore; Richard Haslam, art historian; Hideto Horiike, architect of the client who won the 2002 edition; Boris Podrecca, architect; Adriano Rasi Caldogno, general secretary for planning in the Veneto Region; Roberto Tretti, chairman of the Centro Studio per le Libere Professioni (Study Centre for the Private Professions); the architects Stefano Battaglia and Marcella Gabbiani for ALA.

The "top designers" of world architecture along with the most promising architects of the new and very new generation will compete in the various sections of the award, to prove the prestige of an Italian Award that, as sometimes happens, is better known abroad than in Italy. International interest in the "Dedalo Minosse" is confirmed by the presence for the opening in Vicenza of delegations from the most important international associations of architects, including the American Institute of Architects, and the fact that, as was the case in the previous edition, the winning works will be exhibited throughout the world, in ten capitals, selected by the Organizers from the 44 capitals that applied to host the exhibition.

Some of the winners are: (the complete list of the prize-winning and nominated projects is available on the website: www.studioesseci.net).

Quinquennial Honorary Award 2004
A new meeting centre
The Quinquennial Honorary Award is presented to the Rome Vicarage for the "Dives in Misericordia" Parish, which the American architect Richard Meier was commissioned to design after bidding for the tender.

Dedalo Minosse International Prize 2004
The largest airport in the world
The Dedalo Minosse International Prize 2004 is presented to the President of Kuala Lumpur International Airport, Dato¹ Ir Jamilus Hussein, architectural connoisseur. The airport, created to be the largest in the world (10km x 10km), was designed by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa.

Dedalo Minosse International Prize 2004 UNDER 40
Aluminium Forest
The Dedalo Minosse International Prize 2004 Under 40 is presented to a Dutch client, the director of the Aluminium Center Foundation, Paul Brisnam, who put his trust in the young architect Micha de Haas, to design the headquarters of the foundation, supported by a "forest" of aluminium columns, like a metallized wood that hums in the wind.

Ala-Assoarchitetti Prize 2004
Rebirth of the Italian client
The Ala-Assoarchitetti Prize, directed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is for the New Chancellery of the Italian Embassy in Washington, designed by Piero Sartogo.

A true display window of Italian design from the 50s to present time, with a strong mark of contemporaneity.

Ala-Assoarchitetti Prize 2004 UNDER 40
From decay to valorization
The Ala-Assoarchittetti Prize Under 40 is presented to the Local Government of Siracusa, for a courtyard on the Island of Ortigia, designed by the architect Vincenzo Latina,in an area that has been neglected for years.

Veneto Region Special prize
The rock in the mountain
The Veneto Region Special Prize is presented to the Marxer Foundation for commissioning the architect Hans Hollein from Vienna to design the headquarters of the Centrum Bank in Vaduz, conceived as a rock fallen from the surrounding mountains.

Province of Vicenza Special Prize
Art and innovation on urban scale
Frederick and Laurie Smith, attached to artists like Picasso, Chagall and Miro, in close contact with the architect Eric Owen Moss, developed a project on urban scale to offer Culver City the chance of renewal after the Los Angeles riots in 1992, which determined a decline in the area.