ARCVISION PRIZE 2015 EDITION

Architect Angela Deuber wins the ARCVISION PRIZE 2015 EDITION – Women and Architecture. Special mentions for Kate Otten (South Africa), Patama Roonrakwit (Thailand) and Samira Rathod (India)

Italcementi Group names winner of the award for architecture by women and with the World Fair in Milan presents the WE-Women for Expo special award to Paula Nascimento, designer of the Angolan Pavilion at Expo 2015.

Angela Deuber is the winner of the third arcVision Prize – Women and Architecture, an international architecture award for female designers instituted by the Italcementi Group. Angela Deuber is one of the youngest nominees in the year edition of the prize. The jury recognized the directions of her architecture that at the same time successfully synthesized the important aspects of structural construction, judicious use of materials, involvement and concern for the social role of women architects.

The ArcVision Prize was awarded in the usual setting of i.lab, the Bergamo-based Italcementi’s Research and Innovation Centre

Architect Angela Deuber was chosen after two days of discussion by the Jury, composed as in the past editions by outstanding professionals from architecture and socio-economic fields: Shaikha Al Maskari (Board Member of the Arab International Women’s Forum-AIWF), Vera Baboun (Mayor of Bethlehem), Odile Decq (owner of the Odile Decq architecture firm), Yvonne Farrell (co-founder of Grafton Architects) Louisa Hutton(co-founder of the Sauerbruch Hutton architectural practice), Suhasini Mani Ratnam (an Indian actress, producer and writer), Samia Nkrumah(President of the Kwame Nkrumah Pan-African Center), Benedetta Tagliabue (owner of the Miralles Tagliabue EMBT architectural firm), Martha Thorne (Director of the Pritzker Prize, regarded as the ‘Nobel Prize’ of architecture)

In line with the Italcementi entrepreneurial vision, the arcVision Prize aims to promote ideas and projects with a strong focus on innovation and functionality that are both sustainable and socially significant. It puts the accent on the “female” vision of architecture, to regenerate and design existing and future architecture.

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ABOUT: Angela Deuber

Angela Deuber is a Swiss architect, educated at ETH Zurich (2002), with the practice based in Chur, Grisons. From 2007 until 2010 she taught at the ETH in Zurich and was appointed lecturer at Lucerne University in 2012. Her office has produced a number of recognised buildings and projects, including: 2014 House on the Hebridean Island of Harris, Scotland, UK, 2013 School building in Thal, Canton of St. Gallen, 2012 Conversion of a late medieval House in Stuls, Grisons.

2012 – present Lecturer in construction and design at the University Lucerne
2009 – 2010 Assistant at ETH Zurich Prof. Christian Kerez
2007 – 2009 Assistant at ETH Zurich Prof. Annette Spiro
2006 Own architectural office established, based in Chur, Grisons, Switzerland
2002 Graduate as Architect at the ETH Zurich

Buildings and projects (selection)
2014 Museum ‘Haus der Gegenwart’ in Lenzburg, competition
2014 Orthopedic Clinic in Lucerne, competition
2014 House on the Hebridean Island of Harris, Scotland, UK
2014 Collection Centre for the Swiss National Museum in Affoltern, Zurich, competition
2009-13 School building in Thal, competition (1st)
2012 Palazzo del Cinema di Locarno, competition (4th)
2012 Multi-purpose hall Seefeld in Buochs, competition (1st)
2009-12 Conversion of a late medieval House in Stuls, Grisons
2011 Swiss chancellery in Nairobi, Kenya, competition
2010 Apartments for the elderly Rigahaus in Chur, Grisons (3rd)
2010 Theatre space in Zuoz, Grisons, study commission
2009 Retirement and care home in Vella, Grisons, competition (3rd)

Exhibitions (selection)
2014 ‘Island’. Eight new house designs by Architects from Scotland, Switzerland and Sweden for the Hebridean Island of Harris’, AE Foundation, White Space Gallery, Edinburgh (UK)
2014 ‘Young Swiss Public’. Exhibition of work by seven emerging architects from Switzerland, Organized by the Swiss Embassy, The Cass Gallery, London (UK)
2013 ‘Intermediate forms: when attitude makes space’. Exhibition about the Landscape, Art and Architecture in Grisons, Chur, Lucerne, Zurich

Publications (selection)
“Das Schulhaus in Thal oder die Liebe zur Geometrie”, Lucia Gratz, Baumeister, Munich, 2014 December
“Angela Deuber: School in Thal”, Douglas Murphy, Iconeye, Loughton, 2014 October
“Neues Schulhaus Buechen, Thal, 9422 Thal (SG)”, Florence Auras, AS Architecture Suisse, Lausanne, 2014 August
“Betongbarneskole i Thal-Buechen”, Aina Dahle, mur+betong, Oslo, 2014 June
“Eigenwillig willensstarker Solitär”, Hannes Mayer, Archithese, Zurich, 2014 April
“Kluge Partnerwahl”, Barbara Hallmann, Tec21, Zurich, 2014 April
“Der Beste Umbau. Die 11 Finalisten”, Umbauen+Renovieren, Zurich, 2014 January
“Deubers Liebe zu Ideen, die zu Räumen werden”, Olivier Berger, Südostschweiz, 2014 January
“Porträt. Mit Respekt und Menschenverstand”, Silvia Steidinger, Umbauen + Renovieren, Zurich, 2013 July
“Il Palazzo del Cinema di Locarno”, Hochparterre.wettbewerbe, Zurich, 2013 February
“Stuls. Umbau eines Doppelhauses mit denkmalpflegerisch schützenswerter Bausubstanz”, Angela Deuber, Chur, 2012
“Weiterwachsen. Spätmittelalterliches Wohnhaus mit Stall in Stugl/Stuls”, Raya Badraun, ‘werk, bauen + wohnen’, Zurich, 2012 March
“Ersatzbau Schulhaus Buechen, ThaI, mit Atelierbesuch bei Angela Deuber”, Ivo Bösch, Hochparterre.wettbewerbe, Zurich, 2010 April