The Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers' Association (ASCER) is running the competition once again for the VIIth Tile of Spain Awards of Architecture and Interior Design, with a total prize fund this year of 50,000 Euros for the three categories: Architecture, Interior Design and Degree Projects. US architect and director of the Miami Art Museum (MAM), Terrance Riley, is to chair the jury.

This will be the seventh year of the Awards and the quality of the winning work and the caliber of juries each year mean that they enjoy considerable recognition and prestige amongst professionals. This year's jury chair, Riley, is a great expert on contemporary architecture, having led the architecture department at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) from 1992-2006. The rest of the jury will be comprised of many prominent architects and designers, including the president of the Castellón Guild of Architects, Ramón Monfort.
 
The two main categories in the Tile of Spain Awards are Architecture and Interior Design, which each have a prize fund of 20,000 Euros. There is also a Degree Projects category to the competition which is aimed at students of architecture and has a prize fund of 10,000 Euros. The awards are sponsored by Vodafone España, Gas Natural and the Valencia Port Authority.

Some of the winning projects in the architecture category in the last few years have included: the Spanish Pavilion at the Aichi Expo in Japan by Alejandro Zaera and Farshid Mousasavi; the Castilla La Mancha Archives in Toledo by Guillermo Vázquez Consuegra; the renovation of Santa Caterina Market in Barcelona by Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue.
 
Competition entries and all required supporting documents must be received by October 31, 2008.