Fabrizio Carola At the international prize ‘Vassilis Sgoutas’

Give visibility and prestige to architecture and architects “solidarity”: the intent of the International Architecture Award “Vassilis Sgoutas”This year awarded the International Union of Architects (UIA) Neapolitan architect of Origin Fabrizio Carola.

Class 1931, was born in Naples, 18 years of age Caròla left Italy and moved to Belgium, where in 1956 he graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture in Brussels. Since the sixties it takes to design in Morocco, Mali and Mauritania. Learns and espouse the architectural and construction of traditional African architecture: the derivation of Nubian domes made of wood with a compass, arches and vaults, the clay and the bricks.

Fabrizio Carola Vassilis Sgoutas withdraw the award in September in Tokyo, during the UIA World XXIVCongresso. The National Council of Architects, which proposed the candidature for the prize, the Neapolitan architect describes as “an example of cultural sensitivity and social architecture capable of interpreting as a lever to enhance the reality of all places, right from its even more intimate and traditional features. It is hoped that the award to Carol as a further stimulus for increased awareness of the principles of sustainable architecture. ”

“The culture of the building must, in fact, to listen, analyze and fully understand the territory in which it is called upon to intervene, the architecture has to collect the signals coming from different parts of society – especially the most disadvantaged – and interpret them to propose solutions that improve the living conditions of the population. The reality of many African countries so widely expressed and dramatic shortages of most basic standard of living and quality of life, but the social approach of architecture must give attention to the function in any context of harmonization between needs, objectives and realities of territory. “