LINA Writing Award 2024

As member organisations of the LINA European architecture platform, the Irish Architecture Foundation and architecture research and publishing practice dpr-barcelona are collaborating on the LINA Writing Awards programme for three years, 2023-2025. Through the annual LINA Open Call, two book proposals are selected each year for a writing award and publication.

The LINA Writing Awards encourage the creation of architecture-related writing, offering emerging thinkers a chance to publish their work with the support of the IAF and dpr-barcelona. The awards support inventive writing that fosters a genuine sharing of knowledge. We particularly value projects that explore pressing environmental concerns in the built environment from creative and interdisciplinary angles.

The LINA Writing Award recipients for 2024 are: Patrícia Coelho (Portugal) for Curating Ecologies on Architecture, commissioned by the IAF Juri Velt (Austria) for the signs are collapsing, and no longer certain, commissioned by dpr-barcelona. This is the second of three annual writing awards that we are supporting through the LINA programme. These recipients were chosen based on the creative strength of their proposed writing projects and their interest in writing and communicating architecture in a critical way.

The IAF and dpr-barcelona will publish Patrícia Coelho and Juri Velt’s books in the summer of 2024, making their words and ideas heard within the European architecture community. We will also support the writers’ development through the process of working with professional editors, copy-editors, designers, and publishers, actively discussing how books are conceived, produced, and promoted and how to ensure they are not merely products but tools for discussion and spaces of encounter.

Collaboration with LINA fellows

The LINA Fellows have been offered a writing grant to produce a new publication. We in the IAF and dpr-barcelona seek to promote emergent voices that will enrich the panorama of architectural thinking. We have selected emerging writers with exciting projects and high potential and will immerse them in a collaborative environment to develop their cultural projects within the LINA programme’s parameters.