Competitions and Prizes: Visual - Architecture
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Below is a list of organisations which offer competitions or prizes in architecture.
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Americas
Arquine Competition (Mexico)
Deadline: January
More info: "Different urban and architectural themes are addressed each year in the competition: "A Pedestrian Border Crossing", "Re-Inhabiting the Center of Mexico City", "The Twenty-First-Century House", "Documentary Center of Modern Latin-American Architecture", and "The Park of the Senses", among others.
Asia
Hanssem International Interior Design Competition
Deadline: see website
More info: An opportunity for creative designers. Three categories are being accepted: architectural design, interior design, and furniture and household utensils design.
Space Prize for International Student of Interior Design (Korea)
Deadline: August
More info: SPACE GROUP, Korea's leading company in architecture and urban design, is proud to announce the Space Prize for International Student of Interior Design
Europe
Archiprix International
Deadline: see website
More info: A biennial international competition for the best graduation projects in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture.
Euphoria: International Architecture Bienalle (Slovenia)
Deadline: see website
More info: see website
European Prize for Urban Public Space (Europe)
Deadline: March
More info: This is a biennial competition that aims to highlight the importance of public space as a catalyst of urban life, and to recognise and foster investment by public administrations in its creation, conservation and improvement, while also understanding the state of public space as a clear indicator of the civic and collective health of our cities.
European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture
Deadline: see website
More info: The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture or Mies van der Rohe award is a prize for architecture given by the European Commission.
The Euroasian Premium (Russia)
Deadline: June
More info:- The Annual International Festival of Architecture and Design. Organizer: The Publishing House Univer Press". Fabulous and universal event to find, award and promote your pioneering projects as long as we deal with innovative architectural and design ideas. Various contests and doings of wide profile which are made to extend cooperation between the Ural school of architecture and design and architects and designers from around the world. A good way to make you get together and more. Further info is available by request to: konkurs@upress.ru
International Co-operation in Sustainable Design (Netherlands)
Deadline: see website
More info: The Foundation for International Co-operation in Sustainable Design invites young architects and urban designers to participate in a competition which will end in an exchange programme of knowledge and working practice in The Netherlands or Argentina.
Living Steel International Competition (Brussels)
Deadline: January
More info: The competition is a unique opportunity for architects to bring their vision for innovative and responsible housing design and construction to life. Along with prize money of €50,000 for each winning design, and €10,000 honorarium for other finalists, winning designs from the second competition will be built in Brazil, China and the United Kingdom. The competition is open to architectural firms of all sizes and location.
Riea Book competition (Switzerland)
Deadline: May
More info: A competition organized by Riea.ch, the Research Institute for Experimental Architecture, in order to select authors for both the Riea Book Series and the Riea Concept series. The Competition, which will be organized every two years, selects authors for both of the series, reference is given by the Riea books which are already out.
Rome Prize 2007 (Italy)
Deadline: November
More info:. The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the Rome Prize competition. One of the leading overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities, the Academy offers up to thirty fellowships for periods ranging from six months to two years. Fellowships are awarded in the following related fields: Architecture; Design (including graphic, fashion, industrial, interior, lighting, set, and sound design, engineering, urban planning, and other related design fields); Historic Preservation and Conservation (including architectural design, public policy, and the conservation of works of art); Landscape Architecture.
Schindler "Access for All' Award Architecture Competition 2005/06
Deadline: July
More info: The Schindler Award Architecture Competition 2005/06 is open to students in their higher years at university schools of architecture in Europe.
Pacific
Proposition3047
Deadline: see website
More info: An annual architecture and urban design competition for architects, planners and developers, focusing on urban sites around Australia. Proposition brief, jury, evaluation, calendar and news.
UK
Eric Lyons Memorial Fund
Deadline: see website
More info: Competition for architectural student projects relating to house and housing design. Also general information on ELMF.
National Building Museum's Vincent Scully Prize
Deadline: see website
More info: The Vincent Scully Prize was established in 1999 to recognize exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism in architecture, historic preservation and urban design. Created by the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., the award first honored the distinguished Yale professor and namesake of the award, author and educator, Vincent Scully.
RIBA Sterling Prize
Deadline: see website
More info: The RIBA Stirling Prize is given for the RIBA Building of the Year. It is run in association with The Architects' Journal and is presented to the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of architecture in the past year.
The winning architect receives a cash prize of £20,000. The prize is named after the great British architect Sir James Stirling (1926-1992).
Royal Gold Medal
Deadline: see website
More info: Given in recognition of a lifetime’s work, the Royal Gold Medal is approved personally by Her Majesty the Queen and is awarded annually to a person or group of people whose influence on architecture has had a truly international effect. The award is for a body of work, rather than for one building or for an architect who is currently fashionable.
USA
Death By Architecture
Deadline: see website
More info: United States Partner in the International Competition Network. This site features current competition listings, job resources, architecture links, feature projects and new media related information.
New York City Green Building Competition
Deadline: January
More info:. The New York City Department of Environmental Protection (NYC DEP) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 2 are pleased to co-sponsor the New York City Green Building Competition. This is a national competition that attracts professionals and students from across the field to present their innovative green building design projects and ideas for New York City. As a pre-eminent urban center, the city of New York plans to broaden its status to become a showcase for the world's green buildings.
Peepshow Architecture Competition, Calgary
Deadline: August
More info:. Promoting visual art, design, and architecture through a creative street presence for visual art, the annual juried PEEPSHOW competition commissions the design and construction of one pavilion every year. These temporary Artcity pavilions, scattered throughout Calgary's downtown core, create a dialogue among designer, artist, and viewer, encouraging discourse into the fine art and the urban relationships that evolve around them.
Pritzer Architecture Prize
Deadline: see website
More info: The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honor a living architect. Created in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and run by the Pritzker family, it is considered the world's premier architecture prize. The winner receives $100,000, but more important is the industry-wide fame and subsequent interest from building developers. The Pritzker is sometimes referred to as "the Nobel Prize of Architecture".
Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition
Deadline: October
More info: Sponsored by the Dallas chapter of the American Institute of Architects, this competition awards prizes to entries that exhibit outstanding abilities in architectural illustration, both by hand and by digital means. This annual competition, which is in its 32nd year, is open to both students and professionals.
The Lyceum Fellowship
Deadline: see website
More info: Promotes new talent by creating a vehicle for stimulating perceptive reasoning and inspiring creative thought in architecture.
reThink / reDesign / reCycle
Deadline: see website
More info: The AIA Chicago Young Architect's Forum is organizing a two-phase juried competition that seeks proposals for an ecologically intelligent, urban recycling receptacle.
Skyscraper Architectural Competition
Deadline: see website
More info:- An international competition for students, architects, engineers, and designers willing to propose new ideas on the concept of vertical density. Details and schedule.
Steedman Fellowship International Design Competition
Deadline: January
More info: The Steedman Fellowship, granted since 1925, is awarded biannually on the basis of an International Design Competition. The Competition is supported by an endowment given to the Washington University School of Architecture in honor of James Harrison Steedman. The competition award is $30,000 and is open to all eligible graduates of professionally accredited degree programs in architecture worldwide.
Young Architects Forum Competition
Deadline: February
More info: The Young Architects Forum is an annual competition and series of lectures and exhibitions organized by the Architectural League and its Young Architects Committee. The Forum was established to recognize specific works of high quality and to encourage the exchange of ideas among young people who might otherwise not have a forum. The theme for 2006 is "Instability". Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. The jury will select work for presentation in public forums, an online installation, and an exhibition at the Architectural League this spring.
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