World Architecture Festival 2008 - 1st "Prix de Barcelona"

Type Architecture Award
Genre Architecture
Country Barcelona
Registration Deadline 20 June 2008
Submission Deadline 20 June 2008
Eligibility Architects
Target Field Buildings completed between 1 January 2007 and 20 June 2008

The first and largest architectural awards programme in the world.

Description
The World Architecture Festival (WAF) will celebrate the work, concerns and aspirations of the international architectural community, during a three-day event taking place in Barcelona, Spain from 22 to 24 October 2008.

The Festival will be an annual opportunity to compare and contrast the extraordinary range of designs created by a profession which has always looked beyond national borders to the wider world of architectural culture.

At the heart of the Festival will be the biggest architectural awards programme in the world.

The 2008 awards are for buildings completed between 1 January 2007 and 20 June 2008. Buildings in any country, by architects of any nationality, are eligible for entry.

International juries will shortlist the best entries in 96 building types, grouped into 16 categories. All shortlisted architects will present their work to live juries and audiences at the Festival, competing against each other to become category winners.

Category winners will compete against each other in front of a super-jury, to win the ‘best in show’ prize, the first architecturalPrix de Barcelona.

All entries in the awards will be exhibited on site at the Festival in a gallery modelled on the Barcelona grid system, and after the Festival all entries will be permanently available on the WAF website.

Jury
Kara, Christopher Kelly, David Headed by Lord (Norman) Foster, Will Alsop, Cecil Balmond, Stefan Behnisch, Richard Burdett, Yung Ho Chang, Sir Peter Cook, Neil Denari, John Denton, Mark Dytham, Massimilio Fuksas, Nabil Gholam, Zaha Hadid, Margrét Harðadóttir, Francine Houben, Christophe Ingenhoven, Charles Jencks, Eva Jiricna, Françoise-Hélène Jourda, HanifMackay, Luis Mansilla, Richard Meier, Kim Herforth Nielsen, Shane O'Toole, Lee Polisano, Raj Rewal, Fatih Rifki, Michel Rojkind, Robert Stern, Niels Torp, Gert Wingardh, Ken Yeang.

Prize
Exhibition

Entry Fee
950 EUR

Timetable
Shortlisting by international jury: July 2008
Category winners selected at the Festival: 22 & 23 October 2008
Best in Show announced at the Festival: 24 October 2008

Promoter
Emap

Official Website
http://www.worldarchitecturefestival.com/