RIBA International Prize 2021
Image: Friendship Hospital, Satkhira, Bangladesh, designed by Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA.
© Asif Salman. Courtesy of Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA.
ARCHITECTURE
Friendship Hospital
by Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA
RIBA International Prize
Friendship Hospital is an eighty-bed community hospital situated in a remote rural area of southwest Bangladesh, designed by Bangladeshi architect Kashef Chowdhury/URBANA. The low-cost building was designed to work with and withstand the tangible climate change effects of rising sea water in the surrounding area. A series of courtyards bring in natural light and ventilation, while a canal traversing the site collects valuable rainwater, since the groundwater remains unusable for most purposes.
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Le FRENCH DESIGN 100
Image: Dragon Mountain Pavilion, Rizhao Zhulong Shan, Shandong, China,
an installation by Aurelien Chen, 2019. © Aurelien Chen.
DESIGN
Le FRENCH DESIGN 100
Le FRENCH DESIGN 100 has undertaken the mission of selecting 100 objects and spatials design projects that help spread French design around the world. This second edition is placed under the High Patronage of Mr Emmanuel Macron, President of France. Among hundreds of candidates, an international jury led by jury president, Hervé Lemoine, director of Mobilier national, selected the projects that excelled the most in diffusing the spirit and values of French design throughout the world. From January 20 to February 21, Le FRENCH DESIGN organizes a Digital Festival during which the names of the winners are gradually revealed.
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Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2021
Image: Teresa Moller, Punta pite, Santiago, Chile, 2005. © Chloe Humphreys.
ARCHITECTURE
Teresa Moller
Richard Sennett
Solano Benitez & Gloria Cabral
Severiano Porto
José Cubilla
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture
The prize rewards each year five architects, researchers or landscape architects whose approach is cemented on sustainable development. The 2021 winners are the Chilean Teresa Moller, whose approach combines careful observation of the landscape with minimalist architecture; the American sociologist Richard Sennett, who wrote on the question of global warming; the architectural duo Solano Benitez and Gloria Cabral, based in Paraguay and defenders of a materialist posture inspired by brutalism; the Brazilian architect Severiano Porto, who had a pioneering role in saving the Amazon; and José Cubilla, based in Paraguay, whose architecture practice seeks to restore the rural experience within the city.
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Erasmus Prize 2021
Image: Grayson Perry, Selfie with Political Causes, 2018. 27 3/8 x 40 1/4 in.
ART
Grayson Perry
Erasmus Prize
The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has awarded the Erasmus Prize 2021 to the British artist Grayson Perry. The award is the Dutch equivalent of the Nobel Prize, given annually to a person or institution that has made "an exceptional contribution to the humanities, the social sciences or the arts". The theme of the Erasmus Prize this year was ‘The power of the image in the digital era’. Grayson Perry received the prize for the insightful way he tackles questions of beauty and craftsmanship while addressing wider social and cultural issues.
Artists residencies
Art Explora – Cité internationale des arts
Image: Brook Andrew, Beach (blue sun), 2018.
Linen, ink, acrylic paint. 188,5 x 188,5 x 5 cm.
ART
Artists residencies
Art Explora – Cité internationale des arts
The Art Explora Foundation engages with public and private stakeholders to support creation and its circulation in society at large, reaffirming the central role of artists in addressing the major contemporary issues and mutations. Art Explora has established a partnership with the Cité internationale des arts to co-construct a biannual residency programme for international artists and researchers in Montmartre. This programme offers the possibility for artists and researchers to carry out research and creation work in the heart of Paris, in connection with the French artistic and professional scene.
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Gordon Parks Foundation
Fellowships in Art
Image: Bisa Butler, Dear Mama, 2018.
ART
Bisa Butler
Andre D. Wagner
Gordon Parks Foundation
Fellowships in Art
The Gordon Parks Foundation, an organization that works in service of the legacy of the late, great photographer Gordon Parks, has named two new fellows in art for 2022: textile artist Bisa Butler and photographer Andre D. Wagner. The fellowships support the development of new or ongoing projects that explore themes of representation and social justice. The fellowships culminate in a solo exhibition at the Gordon Parks Foundation Gallery in Pleasantville, New York.
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Foundation for Contemporary Arts's Grants
Image: Eve Fowler, at the violet hours winds fan the purple sky, 2019. Acrylic polyurethane on aluminum.
49 x 68 x 1.5in. 124.5 x 173 x 4cm. Courtesy of Morán Morán.
ART
Eve Fowler
Matt Savitsky
Joan Waltemath
Foundation for Contemporary Arts's Grants
The New York–based nonprofit Foundation for Contemporary Arts, founded in 1963 by John Cage and Jasper Johns, has named the 20 artists honored with unrestricted grants in 2022. The visual artists honored this grant cycle are Eve Fowler, who works in photography and text-based media; interdisciplinary artist Matt Savitsky; and Joan Waltemath, an editor-at-large for the Brooklyn Rail whose abstract painting are assembled with an architect’s sensibilities
