The Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture (IIT) has announced six finalists for its Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (MCHAP), a biennial awards program that recognizes the best architectural projects in the Americas. This year’s shortlist includes buildings in the United States, Mexico, Peru, and Brazil. While the projects vary greatly in scale and context, they all share a common theme, said jury chair Ricky Burdett.
“The architectural language of some of these very contemporary projects we admired are deeply rooted in the spatial concerns of the mid- or even early twentieth century,” Burdett said in a statement. “Many buildings celebrated the ‘sectional,’ three-dimensional experience over the planar and the two-dimensional.”
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