Tile of Spain has announced an open call for the 13th Tile of Spain Awards of Architecture and Interior Design competition. The awards honor international excellence in projects with Spanish ceramic tile in three categories: Architecture, Interior Design and Degree Project in Architecture, according to the organization.
Presiding over the panel of judges is architect Emilio Tuñón, who, together with the late Luis Moreno Mansilla, founded a studio that has received many prizes including the Mies van der Rohe Award and the Spanish National Architecture Award. The remainder of the panel of judges is made up of Italian architect Cino Zucchi; the executive director of the Pritzker Awards, Martha Thorne; architect Anupama Kundoo; architect José María Sánchez, who is the recent winner of the BSI Swiss Architectural Award, which honors architects under 50 years of age whose work has contributed to improving theoretical and practical aspects of contemporary architecture; Fernando Márquez Cecilia, editor and director of El Croquis architecture journal; and Castellón-based architect Ramón Monfort.