The UV-CHOPTV Demetri Ribes Chair calls the Demetri Ribes Research Award addressed to bestowing unpublished researches on topics related to development, dissemination and promotion on research on the history of transportation, public works and heritage of Civil Engineering and Spatial Planning.

The aim of the call is to award the best work in order to promote the study of the above mentioned activities as well as the dissemination of the awarded works within the university context and among society in general. Holders of a Diploma, llicenciatura (former Spanish Undergraduate Degree) or Doctors in any academic discipline, are elegible to present a research work as long as it fulfils the basis of the contest. The deadline is 1 November 2016.

All information can be consulted in the call’s basis found at the Chair’s site www.catedrademetrioribes.com

The UV-CHOPTV Demetri Ribes Chair  was created in the frame of an agreement signed in 2003 between the UV and the Valencian Department for Housing, Public Work and Road Structure.

This award has been called within this Chair since 2004.

Demetri Ribes, born in Valencia in 1875 was one of the most important architects of the 20th Century. Hired in 1902 by the Compañía de los Caminos de Hierro del Norte de España held its activity his death in 1921. The Estació del Nord  (North Station) of Valencia, the offices of the Príncipe Pio Station of Madrid of the Barcelona-Vilanova Station are some examples of his architectonic works. He becomes, hence, a necessary reference when we speak about the Valencian Secessionist movement and a main character in the first steps of a rational architecture.  The UV-CHOPTV Demetri Ribes Chair, from which it takes its name, tries to pay homage to one of the most valuable architects of the 20th Century.