The jury committee of  FAD 2012 architecture awards, consisting of Guillermo Vázquez Consuerga, Marta Cervelló, Ignasi Forteza, Victoria Garriga, Inés Lobo, José Mª Sánchez García, Pere Serra and Cesc Solà, has announced the results of the last edition of the competition. Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra, the president of the jury, winner of numerous national and international awards for his work, acclaimed “a very high quality of the architecture realized on the Iberian Peninsula, which places both Spain and Portugal ahead of the European architecture.” Among the multiple criteria for the projects´ selection one can highlight “the will to distinguish architecture that is able to address the current necessities of the modern society and that avoids the formal and architectural excess. Architecture committed to civil values, that enhances public and common spaces; architecture that is able to tell the history of its times and at the same time lodge the future.”

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