The Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House and the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) are pleased to announce Dogma, a Brussels-based practice focused on the relationship between architecture and the city, as the 2023 recipient of the Charles Jencks Award.
Given annually, the award recognizes an individual or practice who has made a major contribution to both the theory and practice of architecture.
The award will be celebrated with a lecture by Dogma on their significant portfolio of work and approach to Architecture at RIBA headquarters, 66 Portland Place on Thursday 16th May 2024. We would love for you to join us. To book tickets, please use the button below.
Dogma will host a lecture at RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London on Thursday 16 May 2024. Tickets will be released and can be booked through the RIBA website starting from January 2024.
Founded in 2002 by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara, Dogma’s work on large-scale urban design projects and exploration of the relationship between theory and practice continues to have a major influence on the profession, particularly among students, through both their thought processes and representation of architecture. In addition to design projects, members of Dogma engage passionately with teaching, writing and research, with Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara teaching at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and the Faculty of Architecture, KU Leuven respectively.
Lily Jencks, founder of the Jencks Foundation and jury member said: “Few architects have had a greater influence on students’ thinking and representation over the last 10 years than Dogma. Through teaching, exhibitions, competitions and books, they follow a clear and uncompromising project to dismantle the relationships of architecture and capital.
While Dogma have not built many projects, all of their work takes the material construction of buildings seriously, and has implications on the building profession. They are an important counter to the commercialized architectural profession, using their deep knowledge of architectural history and theory, to propose alternative ways for us to live together.”