Miroslav Šik won the Prix Meret Oppenheim 2025

Miroslav Šik, emeritus professor of ETH Zurich and current professor at the School of Architecture at AVU in Prague, has received the artistic award Prix Meret Oppenheim 2025 from the Swiss Federal Office of Culture. As a leading representative of analog architecture, he has influenced generations of ETH students since the 1980s, briefly worked at ČVUT, and since 2018 has continued his teaching activities at AVU. In addition to his academic career, he also runs a private architectural practice focused on sacred buildings, social and cooperative housing. Gradually, he has developed a timeless signature that is based on classical principles and programmatically rejects pure modernism as well as cynical postmodernism. The jury justified their decision by stating that during his professorship at ETH, he “taught a practically oriented and conciliatory architectural language that mixed regionalism, traditionalism, and modernism and was referred to as old-new architecture.” Miroslav Šik has previously received prestigious awards: in 2005 he was honored with the Heinrich Tessenow Medal and in 2024 he received the State Award from the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.
Other recipients of the Prix Meret Oppenheim 2025 include Swiss multimedia artist Pamela Rosenkranz and artistic foundry worker Felix Lehner. The ceremonial presentation of the 25th anniversary of the award will take place on June 16, 2025, during the opening of the Swiss Art Awards exhibition in Basel.

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