The Mies van der Rohe Foundation presents the program of activities for 2022

The Mies van der Rohe Foundation has presented its program of activities for the year 2022, which will be one of the most international and varied to date and which confirms it as a cultural protagonist in the dissemination of architecture, art , music, dance or cinema. The Pavilion becomes a meeting place to design future ways of living combining culture, nature, social inclusion and research.

On May 12, the EU Mies Award will bring to Barcelona the most current voices and debates in contemporary architecture. The role of architecture in achieving equity and democracy through the inclusion and acceptance of diversity will be the highlight of the conversations between the authors and clients of the winning and finalist works, the recognized members of the jury and political representatives such as the Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, of the European Commission, Mrs. Mariya Gabriel, also responsible for the Horizon Europe and Creative Europe programs. This great celebration open to everyone will also allow you to delve into the 40 selected works from 532 nominees in a traveling exhibition that will begin its journey in Barcelona and participate in the awards ceremony - with surprises included - on the esplanade of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion. In 2022, the exhibition will travel to Cologne, Brussels and Vienna. The EU Mies Award will also be presented in other European cities such as Belgrade in the context of the BINA Festival, Belgrade International Architecture Week, and cities on other continents such as Montevideo and Shanghai.

The Young Talent Architecture Award 2023 will begin at the end of the year, bringing together schools of architecture, young architects and the most outstanding proposals on how to face the challenges of the moment and the future. This year's edition is special for the involvement of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in the activities of the European Year of Youth.

In addition, materials from the EU Mies Award Archive have made possible four exhibitions, in four different venues: Transformation Strategies: Architecture Caring for the Lithuania Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai, EU Mies Award in Poland ”at Warsaw Zodiac, YTAA 2020 at the University of A Coruña and Large-scale Transformation, a new sustainability challenge. Kleiburg in Amsterdam, Grand Parc in Bordeaux on collective housing in Le Pavillon de Caen. This last exhibition will travel during the first semester to Madrid in the context of the International Forum of the International Union of Architects - "Affordable Housing Activation".

The results of the winning research works of the second edition of the Lilly Reich Scholarship will be presented on March 8 with a preview of the documentary [On Set with] Lilly Reich by Laura Lizondo Sevilla, Débora Domingo Calabuig and Avelina Prat García which will be presented later entirely as a side event of the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival - BARQ 2022 (May 10 to 15) and the presentation of the works of the three winners of the category of high school research papers. Coinciding with the 137th anniversary of the birth of the German architect on June 16, the third edition of the scholarship will be launched, the winning proposals of which will be made public on World Architecture Day, the first Monday in October.

On the other hand, El Pavelló will invite you to debate and think about the challenges that must be answered globally with architects, sculptors, designers, musicians and other artists. The naturalization of the lake stands out with the introduction of the aquatic plants that originally had the Pavilion of 1929, contributing a change of image to one of the works of architecture of the city more appreciated in the world-wide scope: “Water Lilies ”(Central, Warsaw). He will also highlight the dynamism and vitality that the interventions “Psychoarchitecture” (Óscar Abraham Pabón, Caracas-Barcelona), “Mass Madera” (Vicente Guallart and Daniel Ibáñez, New York-Barcelona), “The Grid” (Eugenia López) will bring to the Pavilion Reus & Miguel Jaime, CritTeam, Barcelona) and “The Mineral Model” (Ciro Najle, Josep Ferrando and Anna Font, Buenos Aires-Barcelona), which will delve into the materiality of the Pavilion and the impact of the creative and construction industries .