Manuelle Gautrand wins "highest award" for European architects
French architect Manuelle Gautrand has been named as this year's laureate of the European Prize for Architecture, making her the first woman to receive the accolade.
The annual European Prize for Architecture was set up in 2010 to recognise European architects who have made a commitment to advance "the principles of European humanism and the art of architecture".
Danish architect Bjarke Ingels, the founder of architecture firm BIG, and Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava are among the previous winners of the prize described as the "highest award for architecture".
Gautrand's most recognised work includes the angular Cité des Affaires office building in French city Saint-Etienne
Gautrand, who runs Paris-based Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, is both the first female and the first French architect to be named laureate. She was selected in recognition of her "boldness and non-conformity" by the organisers, The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design. "All her projects express a specific relationship to the site: a desire to revive it and enchant; a deep commitment to working on the programmes entrusted to the firm, make them even more efficient, more malleable and more unexpected," said president of The Chicago Athenaeum, Christian Narkiewicz-Laine.
"Her works admirably and poetically fulfil the traditional requirements of architecture for phy...
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