The Barbara Cappochin Foundation, created to preserve Barbara’s memory, has always sought to raise awareness of the close link between quality of life and the quality of architecture. The link between life and architecture is strange, unusual and seemingly illogical, but in reality it is real, concrete and inviolable.

to learn and study, a place to work, to listen to silence, spaces for recreation, spaces that are always respectful of the different needs that life provokes. Like humanity, nature also needs to be “heard”, respected, preserved and admired because it is a wonderful and indispensable gift.

It is right here, between man and nature, where architecture is situated: architecture as a service, as a search for emotion, as a place of transmission and protection, a welcoming place to share and coexist in diversity, architecture as lightness and transparency.

The Barbara Cappochin Foundation and the Order of Architects, Urban Planners, Landscapers and Commissioners of the province of Padua continue to offer the International Prize for Architecture and Exhibitions, so that each of us, according to our roles and our scope, can become a creator, animator and protagonist on the path that leads to quality: quality of life, quality of architecture