In 2006, for the fourth time, Sexten Kultur advertised the architecture prize Neues Bauen in den Alpen (New Building in the Alps) and awarded it to the architects of outstanding structures in the Alps. This handsomely designed catalogue is the direct successor to the 1999 exhibition catalogue, which was honored with the Frankfurt Book Award. It selects particular structures and as exemplary for a technical analysis of building in the mountains, with its special climatic and topographical conditions. Of 419 submitted projects, 31 projects were honored and described by the five distinguished jurors: architectural historians Bruno Reichlin and Friedrich Achleitner and the internationally esteemed architects Sebastiano Brandolini, Manfred Kovatsch, and Günther Vogt. The highly atmospheric descriptions and analyses are ideally supplemented by the top-flight photographs and thus do a beautiful job of rendering the structures' temoerament and character.
The exhibition of the architecture prize will travel to numerous venues in the next several years: Innsbruck, Linz, Bolzano, Flims, Vienna, Cividate Camuno; in 2008 Landsberg, Munich, Graz, Stuttgart, Kempten, Zell am See (Saalfelden). Also planned in 2009, Zurich, Basel, Dornbirn, Grenoble, Belluno, Imst, Eisenstadt, Thonon les Bains, and Bergamo.