Today, the Mexican collective c733 won the first Siza Award, an architectural award that the Serralves Foundation in Porto will award annually to studio and emerging architects.
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12/11/2026
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Lusa
O mexican collective c733 today won the first Siza Award, an architecture award that the Serralves Foundation, in Porto, will award annually to studio and emerging architects.
The Collective c733 brings together the individual practices of architects Israel Espín, Carlos Facio, José Amozurutia, Gabriela Carrillo and Eric Valdez.
The Collective c733, founded in 2019, aims to develop public projects, having already completed more than 30 urban infrastructure projects in Mexico, according to a biography published by this year's World Architects Congress, where they were speakers.
Among the main projects of the Collective c733 are the Matamoros Market in Tamaulipas, the Casa da Música in Nacajuca, the Market and Tapachula Station in Chiapas, the Cais de San Blas in Nayarit, and the Ecoparque de Bacalar in Quintana Roo.
With the Siza Prize, the Serralves Foundation intends to distinguish “practices that value the relationship with the territory and the environment, communities and the public space, affirming the potential of architecture as a contribution to the common good”.
The award has a monetary value of 50,000 euros and a trophy designed by Álvaro Siza, and there is also an exhibition at the foundation and lectures “about culture, space, geometry, route, nature, light, humanity and expectations”.
Inspired by the thought and legacy of architect Álvaro Siza Vieira, Pritzker Prize in 1992, the Siza Award “hopes to challenge and inspire the international community through the appreciation of more or less peripheral workshops, whose recent projects contain potential for sensitive excellence and didactic synergy”.
According to Serralves, the prize nominees are proposed by a group of invited specialists, consisting of architects, curators, critics and institutional representatives, who do so anonymously, between winter and spring.
The jury meets annually in summer and will be composed by the Director of Architecture of Fundação de Serralves, currently António Choupina, and by five more permanent members of its Advisory Board and two rotating members.
The Advisory Council of Architecture Directorate is composed of Álvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura, Farrokh Derakhshani (director of the Aga Khan Architecture Award), Carles Muro (architecture teacher at Milan Polytechnic, Italy), Martha Thorne (former director of the Pritzker Prize), Phyllis Lambert (founder of the Canadian Architecture Centre) and historian Kenneth Frampton.
The prize counts with De La Espada and Otiima as patroness.