BSI SWISS ARCHITECTURAL AWARD 2010. Arq. Bijoy Jain. Mumbai. INDIA

Bijoy Jain was born in Mumbai, India in 1965 and received his M. Arch from Washington University in St Louis, USA in 1990. He worked in Los Angeles and London between 1989 and 1995 and returned to India in 1995 to found his practice.

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BSI SWISS ARCHITECTURAL AWARD 2010. Arq. Diébédo Francis Kéré. BURKINA FASO / GERMANY

[...] Diébédo Francis Kéré (Burkina Faso/Germany) as the winner of the second BSI Swiss Architectural Award for his "exceptional capacity to create buildings that, while benefiting from the technical knowledge he gained while studying in Europe, are deeply rooted in the cultural tradition and social fabric of his country of origin, Burkina Faso, and are the result of local communities’ intense involvement".

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BSI SWISS ARCHITECTURAL AWARD 2008. Arq. Solano Benitez. Assunción. PARAGUAY

He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the National University of Asunción in 1986; he was awarded the national prize for architecture 1989-1999 by the college of Paraguayan architects; he reached the finals of the second “premio Mies van der Rohe de arquitectura latinoamericana”; he represented Paraguay at the Biennali in Venice, São Paolo and Lisbon, the capital of Ibero-American culture.

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