The ceremony for the award has been held in Milan at the Isozaki Tower.

Mendini’s work ranges from the creation of iconic objects, furnishings, interiors, paintings and installations to architecture and urban planning, and also includes significant theoretical work, both with the famous Studio Alchimia and with his brother Francesco, an architect, with whom he founded Atelier Mendini in 1989.

For decades, Alessandro Mendini has played the most pivotal role in the development of contemporary Italian design, mostly as publisher of the magazines Casabella (1970-1976), Modo (1979-1985), Domus (1980-1985 and 2010-2011), and Ollo (1988). For many years following his architectural studies, Mendini was the principal theoretician of the Italian avant-garde design and its most important trend-setter.

The nomination and the award confirm The European Prize for Architecture’s direction in recognizing those influential architects that have changed and challenged the direction of contemporary architecture today and who have blazoned a more humane and intellectual approach to architecture, acknowledging their pursuits and their achievements before a European and world-wide audience.

The European Prize is awarded to those rare architects who have demonstrated the highest standard of public design and have significant contributed to humanity and to the built environment through the highest art of architecture.