International Piranesi Award

International Piranesi Award, conferred since 1989, is part of Piran Days of Architecture international conference. It is named after the 18th century Italian artist and architect Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778), whose family comes from Piran, It awards the best architectural realizations that have been created in the last two years in the territory of ten Central European countries: Austria, the Czech Republic, Greece, Croatia, Italy, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia. In 2018, Piranesi Award was joined by Serbia and in 2019 by Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The projects presented at the Piranesi exhibition, are selected and nominated at the end of October by the national selectors of the abovementioned countries. Each selector can propose five projects.

Part of the exhibition for Piranesi Award is also an international student exhibition, at which seventeen architectural faculties - Graz, Spittal, Vienna, Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Split, Zagreb, Thessaloniki, Budapest, Pescara, Trieste, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Maribor, Belgrade, Novi Sad and AA London - present two projects according to the selection of student selectors.

For Piranesi Award compete 50 architectural realizations and 34 student projects. The distinguished Piranesi Award, two Piranesi Honorable Mentions and one Piranesi Student's Honorable Mention are selected by an international jury consisting of annual PDA conferencing lecturers and conferred by the honorary sponsor of the PDA Conference.

In 1989, Bogdan Bogdanovic received the first Piranesi award for the Dudik Memorial Park in Vukovar, Croatia. Since then, Piranesi has been awarded various projects of different sizes and programs, but the focus of the award remains on the relationship of contemporary architecture to the natural and cultural context.