6th Advanced Architecture Contest

The aim of this architecture competition is to promote on-line discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.

Category Idea Competition / Open to Students
Type International, Idea, Open, Single-Stage
Genre Architecture, Urban
Country Barcelona, Spain
RegDeadline 18 January 2016 GoogleCal iCal
18 January 2016 (via Online)
Eligibility All

Description
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the FabLab Barcelona are pleased to announce the 6th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of PRODUCTIVE CITY.
The aim of the competition is to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.
The competition is open to architects, engineers, planners and designers who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and productive cities.
Prize (Total value: 60.000,00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme. The competition jury, which is composed of architects, professionals in a wide range of fields and directors of some of the world's foremost architecture schools, is looking for outstanding proposals at any scale, for any city in the world on Smart Cities, Eco neighborhoods, Self-sufficient buildings, Intelligent homes, FabLabs, Urban farming or any other proposal that analyzes the phenomena of the Productive City.

Jury
Alberto Diaspro, Director of the Department of Nanophysics at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, advanced materials.
Ali Basbous, Founder and Director of BAD, Built by Associative Data.
Alfredo Brillembourg, Urban-Think Tank & ETH-Zurich.
Andrew Watts, Newtecnic, façade system design.
Areti Markopoulou, Architect. IaaC R&D Director.
Carlos Gomez, Interaction Designer, IaaC faculty on Design with Nature Masters.
Dave Pigram, Design Director at supermanoeuvre, Sydney [UTS].
Elizabeth Diller, Diller Scofidio + Renfro.
Enric Ruiz Geli, Principal Cloud9 Architects (Spain).
Farshid Moussavi, Farshid Moussavi Architecture.
Giovanna Carnevali, Fundación Mies Van der Rohe.
Izaskun Chinchilla, ETSAM, Madrid Spain.
Jan Knippers, Founder of Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering.
Jelle Feringa, CTO at Odico formwork robotics, co-founder of EZCT Architecture & Design Research, open source developer.
Javier Peña Galiano, Chemical Engineer. IaaC faculty on Self-sufficient Buildings Masters.
Jose Luis de Vicente, Journalist, digital culture, arts & technology.
Kengo Kuma, Kengo Kuma and Associates.
Lucas Cappelli, Architect. Director of the Advanced Architecture Contest.
Mireia Luzárraga, Head Architect of elBulliFoundation in Cloud9.
Mitchell Joachim, TERREFORM ONE, NYU.
Oscar Tomico, Designing Quality in Interaction Research Group, TU/e.
Rodrigo Rubio, Architect Iaac Faculty, IAAC. Spain.
Rodolphe el-Khoury, Dean at University of Miami.
Silvia Brandi, Architect. IaaC Academic Coordinator.
Tomas Diez, Director FabLab Barcelona.
Willy Muller, Architect. Intelligent Cities Research Studio Professor, IaaC.
Xiangning Li, Professor in history, theory and criticism at Tongji University College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Yael Reisner, Architect. Yael Reisner Studio + madmdesign.

Prize
1st Prize: 3,000 € + Master in Advanced Architecture (value 17,400 €) + Designjet T520 (value 1,500 €)
2nd Prize: 2,000 € + Master in Advanced Architecture + Designjet T120 (value 700 €)
3rd Prize: 1,000 € + Master in Advanced Architecture + Designjet T120 (value 700 €)
People's Choice Award

Entry Fee
None

Entries
Three (3) A-3 panels

Timetable
Announcement of the results: 20th March 2016
Book Release: April 2017
International Exhibition: June/July 2017

Links
Past winners

Organizer
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and the FabLab Barcelona

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