The “Alvise Trincanato” award is established by the social promotion association “A testa in su”, in collaboration with the Andrea Palladio International Center for Architectural Studies, to support young scholars in memory of Alvise Trincanato, PhD student in History of Architecture at the University IUAV in Venice, who prematurely passed away in 2019. The objective of the Prize is to publish original research in the field of the history of modern architecture held every two years. Scholars of any nationality who have obtained a PhD with a thesis in History of Architecture in the last five years, i.e. not before January 1, 2017, are eligible to apply.

Presentation

To be eligible to compete, the research material must be from a PhD thesis already ready for publication, with a length of about 400,000 characters and a maximum of 160 images in either black or white. Only complete and ready-to-print material will be taken into consideration, accompanied by the definitive iconographic apparatus for which every aspect relating to rights and copyright has already been fulfilled by the author.

Among the possible research topic choices eligible for publishing, no distinction will be made based on the nationality of the author or the subject treated, as long as it falls within the field of architectural history studies between the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries. The research must be presented in either Italian, English, German, French or Spanish.

Submission guidelines

Those wishing to participate in the selection must submit an abstract of no more than five pages (in Italian or) directly to the Award Commission, as well as their CV (maximum one page and in Italian or English) and a letter which includes the candidate’s name, surname, date and place of birth, residence and e-mail (where you wish to receive any communications), research topic, and a declaration that the research presented has not received other awards or is in the process of being published.

For the 2022 edition, abstracts, cover letters and CV must be sent by e-mail to info@atestainsu.it no later than February 28, 2022. Finalists will be requested to send their manuscripts completed with notes and appendices, in three unbound copies and pdf format, by 31 May 2022 .

Selection process

The Selection Commission will select the projects admitted to the second evaluation level, for which the submission of manuscripts in paper format will be requested. Further, the Selection Committee will identify the winning research, which will be published by A testa in su aps in collaboration with the C.I.S.A. Andrea Palladio, and will be able to point out a particularly worthy second candidate. The Commission may decide not to deem the prize if the deserving publication of any manuscript among those examined is not suitable for publishing. The decisions of the Commission are final.

The Prize must be mentioned in the published file and the names and logos of the two promoters must be published within the research. The presentation of the volume will take place during a public event organized in Verona, Vicenza or Venice.

The Commission of selection will be composed of a member appointed by A testa in su aps a member appointed by the C.I.S.A. Andrea Palladio, and a third member identified by mutual agreement between scholars and experts in the field of history of architecture.

Committee members

Massimo Bulgarelli, IUAV University, Venice

Howard Burns, CISA "Andrea Palladio", Vicenza

The prize commission will appoint the third member of the committee in the coming days.