The Wienerberger Brick Award| Einreichfrist

For more than one decade now, Wienerberger AG has been hosting the international “Wienerberger Brick Award” every two years, providing a stage for excellent brick architecture and its architects. Wienerberger initiated the Brick Award for the first time in 2004 in order to put this natural building material into the spotlight, demonstrating how exciting, exceptional and modern architecture using brick can be.

The spectrum of applications ranges from building solutions using classic clay blocks, facing bricks and roof tiles to the creative application of clay pavers and ceramic façade panels.

Although Wienerberger is the host of the award, it is an independent award and the use of Wienerberger products is no decisive factor for participation. Over the last years, projects have been submitted from all over the world and nominations as well as winners have been chosen using a wide range of manufacturers and brick types in all colours and shapes. In a dialogue with you, architects and architecture fans as well as critics, we want to further strengthen the public focus on the aesthetic and functional aspects of this great building material.

How to participate in the award - Submissions

The submission period for the Brick Award 2020 has already started. Architects, international architecture critics, and journalists can submit projects between January 7^th and April 9^th 2019. The 50 nominated projects will be revealed on this website as well as Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter from November 2019 onwards. The winners will be communicated at the Brick Award ceremony at the end of May 2020.

An important criterion for the submission is that a significant part of the project must consist of clay building materials and it must be a current project, which has been completed in 2016 or later.

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Download the document on the right to find out which information is necessary for the submission.

The jury and winners

The award comprises of different categories that are subject to slight change depending on the year and the development of trends and current topics.

For the Brick Award 2020 the following categories will be awarded: Feeling at Home, Living Together, Working Together, Sharing Public Spaces and Building Outside the Box.

Between January and April 2017, 576 projects worldwide were submitted for the Wienerberger Brick Award 2018. An independent pre-jury panel consisting of architecture critics and journalists had the challenging task to narrow down this number to a total of 50 projects split into the five categories that were then nominated for the award. See all nominees of the Brick Award 2018.

Subsequently, an international jury of renowned architects, who change with every award, selected the winners within the categories including two Grand Prize winners. See who was on the jury board of the Brick Award 2018.

Assessment criteria include innovative design and architecture concept, skillful and innovative use of bricks as well as architecture quality in terms of aesthetics, shape and configuration of the project. Special attention is also directed to the adequacy of the project in relation to its intended purpose, building type and cultural context, as well as to sustainability and energy efficiency aspects.

The winners of the Wienerberger Brick Award are announced biennially at an award ceremony and presented, along with the 50 nominations in the accompanying ‘Brick’ book. Winning projects are endowed with price money and can be found all over the world. The first Wienerberger Brick Award in 2004 was won by Josef Pleskot in Czech Republic with his beautiful solution for a pedestrian passage in a castle park. In the following years the grand prizes went to Hungary, Germany, Liechtenstein, South Africa, Thailand, Spain Austria, and in 2018 to Belgium and Switzerland.

Find out here who are the winners of the award 2018!