Dogma has been awarded the 2023 RIBA Charles Jencks Award

The practice of AA PhD Supervisor Pier Vittorio Aureli has been awarded the 2023 RIBA Charles Jencks Award. Dogma is a Brussels based practice focused on the relationship between architecture and the city. It was founded in 2002 by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Martino Tattara.

Dogma’s work towards 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 – inside the AA and far beyond – through their thought processes and representation of architecture, landscape and urbanism. 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. On receiving the Award, they said:

‘We are truly delighted and honoured to receive this award. We are especially honoured because it is dedicated to Charles Jencks, whose practice combined history, theory and design, which are also inseparable aspects of our work. Over the last ten years, we have tried to put forward ideas to improve the way in which we live and work in our houses and in our cities, and have done this both through design proposals and by revisiting some of the most salient and often forgotten chapters of the history of our discipline. We would like to share the award with past and present collaborators without whom our work would have not been possible.’

Dogma will host a lecture at the 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.

More information on the award can be found here.

Image: 11 Projects exhibition, AA Gallery, 2013.