Barozzi Veiga

For its penultimate exhibition of the year, the Gallery of Contemporary Art and Architecture – České Budějovice House of Art presents On Continuity by Barcelona architecture studio Barozzi Veiga. The central theme of Veiga’s work is searching, meaning the search for an appropriate type of architecture and its conditions, limits, and boundaries within the context of the changes that are constantly happening as a result of developments in the architecture and in society.

Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga founded Barozzi Veiga in Barcelona in 2004. Since then, they have worked internationally in the field of public and private projects and have received numerous prestigious awards, including the Ajac Young Catalan Architect Award (2007), the Barbara Cappochin International Architecture Award (2011), and most importantly the Gold Medal for Italian Architecture for the Best Debut Work (2012) for the Ribera del Duero Headquarters. The studio is also the recipient of the Young Talent of Italian Architecture Award (2013), the Design Vanguard Award (2014), the Fad International Award (2015), and the Life in Architecture Award (2015), and they were nominated for the Iakov Chernikhov International Prize (2008), Design of the Year (2015), the Fad Award (2018), and the International Swiss Architectural Award (2018). In 2015, their project for a philharmonic in Szczecin earned the prestigious Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture, and in 2018 their plans for a Museum of Art in Chur, Switzerland, was given the RIBA Award for International Excellence. The studio has also been active in the Czech Republic, where it recently took second place in the competition for the Vltava Philharmonic.

Barozzi Veiga was also invited to participated in the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial and the Venice Biennale in 2014, 2016, and 2021. Besides their current showing in České Budějovice, they have previously exhibited in Switzerland, Italy, the United States, and – last year – in South Korea and Tokyo, Japan.