Borders

architekturbild, the European Architectural Photography Prize, has been awarded on a two-yearly basis since 1995. Since 2003, the prize has been awarded by architekturbild e.v., a non-profit organization, and since 2008 in cooperation with the Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, and since 2016 with the Bundesstiftung Baukultur, Potsdam\Berlin.

This time the subject is »Borders«. Whether in the sense of opening or closing, of including or excluding or as definitions of geographical or (urban) spatial areas, borders are physically present and clearly recog- nizable or subtly noticeable, but always perceived as either protecting or deterring. In the context of the European Architectural Photogra- phy Prize 2017 we by no means focus on the negative interpretations of this term but rather on the photographic-artistic involvement with our built environment