Archisearch.gr has been a journey partner of the EU Mies Award for a long time, acting both as an expert that nominates works for the Prize every two years and as an ambassador of European and Greek architecture. The collaboration has become stronger in the last years, following the growth of communication tools and means.
Fundació Mies van der Rohe in Barcelona and the European Commission organise the EU Mies Award since 1988 and the first Greek work that participated in it was the Solar Village Nº3 in Northern Athens by Alexandros N. Tombazis & Associates Architects. The EU Mies Award works as a network of people, institutions and organisations throughout Europe and beyond which share a common passion for architecture and the role it has among all of us as inhabitants of the territory, both urban and rural.
Archisearch.gr was invited to be an expert of the Prize because of this shared interest in architecture and its disseminations, reaching all kinds of audiences: professionals, users, and those who make decisions such as clients and politicians. At the same time, as architecture is understood in a context of different fields that collaborate together to reach common achievements. Tools such as the website, the podcasts and social media, and programs of very high quality such as the ESO conferences that this year reach their tenth edition, or the forthcoming Design Democracy event as well as the carefully and beautifully designed and printed publications, have been some of the reasons for this fruitful collaboration between Archisearch.gr and the EU Mies Award.
And above all, there is the human factor between Vassilios Bartzokas and Fundació Mies van der Rohe. As the founder and CEO of Design Ambassador which focuses on communication, consulting, content creation and productions for Architecture & Design and founder & editor of the leading online Greek magazine ARCHISEARCH.gr, has a strong knowledge on the architecture panorama in Greece and all over Europe which has allowed the Prize to become stronger.