Neighbourhood

In 2015 the European Architectural Photography Prize “architekturbild” is awarded for the eleventh time: Since 1995 it has been awarded on a two-yearly basis for a different topic and since 2008 in cooperation with the Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt (German Architecture Museum) in Frankfurt. From the international submissions, the jury chose the 28 best ones on this year’s topic which was “neighbourhood”. Here, neighbourhood literally means spatial contiguity. And neighbourhood can at the same time be very welcoming but also very annoying. In the countryside the nearest neighbour may well live one or two miles away, but in the city only a wall separates them. But not only people, also buildings and, in general terms, things can be neighbours – at a distance or very close to each other, in harmony or in discordance.