In favour of public space

Bearing witness to the tensions of public space in Europe: this is the aim of the European Prize for Urban Public Space. It was established in 2000 by the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CC B) and now counts with the collaboration of six other European institutions. This book is the first publication about the prize, which celebrates its 10th issue. It presents a Texts by: Magda Anglès, Arnold Bartetzky, Oriol Bohigas, Ole Bouman, David Bravo, Peter Cachola Schmal, Judit Carrera, Zeljka Corak, Luis Francisco Esplá, Luis Fernández-Galiano, Kjartan Fløgstad, Beatrice Galilee, Luis García Montero, Lars Gemzøe, Huib Haye van der Werf, Andreas Huyssen, Hans Ibelings, Sarah Ichioka, José Miguel Iribas, Gabriele Kaiser, Dirk Laucke, Luca Molinari, Rafael Moneo, Joan Nogué, Shane O'Toole, Antoni Puigverd, Francis Rambert, Josep Ramoneda, Xavier Ribas, Marina Romero, Manuel de Solà- Morales, Dietmar Steiner, Elías Torres, Montserrat Tura, Philip Ursprung, Ana Vaz Milheiro, Adam Zagajews Projects by aldayjover arquitectura y paisaje, Atelier d'Architecture Autogérée, Atelier Kempe Thill, PLOT A/S: Bjarke Ingels & Julien De Smedt, Batlle i Roig Arquitectes + Teresa Galí-Izard, Büro Kiefer, Caruso St John Architects, among many others First publication on the European Prize for Urban Public Space award, compiling a selection of winning projects and reflecting on its ten year history selection of projects from former and new winners and theoretical texts from Manuel de Solà-Morales, president of the 2008 award, Dietmar Steiner, director of Architekturzentrum Wien and a jury member since 2002, the architect and president of the 2010 jury, Rafael Moneo and David Bravo, secretary of the 2010 award.