The award is granted with the intention of recognizing a young architectural trajectory and, at the same time, promoting a career with emerging projection, giving visibility to those contributions that, besides assuming an exemplary professional practice, contribute to promote, develop and consolidate the architectural culture.

Therefore, the prize is not awarded to a specific work or job, but a set of works of a diverse nature. The prize rewards the incipient emergent trajectory of an architect or of a team led by one or several architects within their first 10 years of exercise after qualifying.

All architects or teams led by architects can enter for the competition, provided that in addition to fulfilling the geographical requirement (having their headquarters in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country or having trained as architects there) they have obtained their qualifying title after May 29, 2015. In the case of teams, the requirement must be met by all the architects who integrate it.

Architects who are family or work related with the members of the Jury, or those who have obtained it in an earlier edition, will not be eligible for the Peña Ganchegui Prize.

It will be the candidates themselves who will present their candidacy, contributing their merits that may include works, projects and research that contribute to the field of Architecture, covering all areas and scales, from the design of objects to interventions on the territory.

The Jury is sovereign to establish the procedure that it considers appropriate to judge the works in order to assess the criteria of professional capacity, originality, innovation, consistency and those others that it decides to incorporate in its judgment.

The Jury will be composed of 5 members, including a representative of the Department of Environment, Territorial Planning and Housing of the Basque Government and a representative of the Archivo Peña Ganchegui, both of them with voice but without vote, to which three external members will be added with voice and vote, of which two, at least, must be architects. It will also count on a secretary, without voice or vote, appointed by the Archivo Peña Ganchegui.

The Jury of the Fourth Edition of the Peña Ganchegui Prize counts on the following external members:

Carme Pinós Desplat (Barcelona, 1954). Architect since 1979 from the ETSAB, she achieved international recognition in the 1980s with projects such as the Igualada Cemetery and the Morella School-Home, carried out together with Enric Miralles. In 1991 she founded her own studio, with projects such as the Massana Art School and the façade of the Boqueria Market in Barcelona, the Department Building of the WU Campus in Vienna, the Caixa Forum in Zaragoza and the Cube I and Cube II Office Towers in Guadalajara (Mexico). She has been a visiting professor at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Columbia University, Harvard University, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Since 2013 he has been an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. His work has received multiple awards and distinctions, including the Gold Medal for Architecture (2022), the Spanish National Architecture Prize (2021), the Neutra Medal of the California Polytechnic University (2016) and the Creu de Sant Jordi (2015).

Begoña Fernández-Shaw Zulueta (Madrid, 1962). Architect since 1987 from the ETSAM, she was awarded a scholarship as Teaching Assistant at Cornell University, where she studied the first year of the Master of Architecture at the Ithaca Campus and at the Cornell Campus in Rome with Colin Rowe. After working in various studios in Spain and the USA, including Peter Eisenman (1988-1990) and Junquera y Pérez Pita (1990-1999), in 1994 he and Luis Rojo de Castro founded their firm, Rojo/Fernández-Shaw arquitectos. Her work has been awarded in competitions, published in specialised media, recognised with prizes such as COAM (2019, 2012) and Luis Moreno Mansilla (2019, 2014), and selected as a finalist in FAD awards and in the VII Biennial of Spanish Architecture. Since 2000, she has been Assistant Secretary of EUROPAN/SPAIN in charge of projects.

Ángel Martínez García-Posada (Seville, 1976). Architect since 2001 from the ETSA in Seville and PhD since 2008, he has been teaching since 2005 and has been a tenured lecturer since 2022. He was co-director of the journal Neutra, the official publication of the Seville College of Architects, from 2002 to 2005. He is director of the research group Proyecto y Patrimonio of the Junta de Andalucía and editor of the publication Galerías de la ETSA in Seville. He was director of the XVI Spanish Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism together with María González García and Juanjo López de la Cruz. He is currently director of editorial collections at the Arquia Foundation. As a teacher and researcher, he has written and edited publications on architecture, city, territory and contemporary art.

The Jury will select a maximum of 10 finalists, one of which will be awarded a single prize of € 6,000. The selected candidates will receive an accreditation of their status as Finalists in the Peña Ganchegui Prize, which in the case of the winning architect or team will have an outstanding format.

The award has its own dissemination platforms, available through the url premio.ganchegui.com where any information related to the Peña Ganchegui Prize will be published, both during the convocation phase and after the decision, including the communication of the result and the dissemination of the awarded works that can be object of an exhibition and / or publication.

To be eligible for the Prize, candidates must register by 29 April 2025. To do this, they must pay € 20 in the account ES50 2100 5092 11 0200067386 of "La Caixa", indicating "Premio Peña Ganchegui Saria" and the name of the candidate or the team (as applicable) as well as filling out the online form available for that purpose on the website of the award (http://premio.ganchegui.com). The information required includes: Name and surname of the candidate or candidates; Date of qualification; Place of qualification; Workplace; Address, telephone and e-mail for contact. Candidates must submit in this phase, electronically, the proof of payment of the registration fee.

Candidacies, which must be submitted before 29/05/2025 through the online application available on the award website, will consist of one or more PDF files that will include:

– A submission report, in vertical DIN A4 format, of the trajectory that is submitted to evaluation of the Jury, with a maximum extension of 500 words.

– A maximum of 6 pages, in horizontal DIN A3 format, of free content and composition, including graphic and / or written material that illustrates the trajectory that opts for the Peña Ganchegui Prize.

– The documentation proving the fulfilment of the requirements needed to qualify for the Peña Ganchegui Prize.

Entering the Peña Ganchegui Prize competition implies the full acceptance of its rules by the candidates, who also agree to the use by the organizationof all the materials contained in the documentation presented in order to carry out the exhibitions and / orpublications deemed appropriate by the organization.

Any doubts in the interpretation of the present rules will be resolved by the Jury, whose decision will be final.

29/03/2025: Convening the Peña Ganchegui Prize 2025.

29/04/2025: Deadline for registration.

29/05/2025: Deadline for submission of candidacies.

16/10/2025: Award Ceremony and Exhibition of the Prize.

Inquiries regarding the award convening can be addressed to this email address: premio@ganchegui.com