Advanced Architecture Contest, IaaC Competition 2017, Entry, Dates, Deadline, Prizes, Theme

Advanced Architecture Competition

Responsive City: IaaC Architecture Contest, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Europe

7th Advanced Architecture Contest

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is pleased to announce the 7th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of RESPONSIVE CITY.

25 Sep 2017

7th Advanced Architecture Contest

The aim of the architectural 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 design 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: 62.250 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 Responsive City.

The Registration is FREE, and the competition entries should be submitted digitally in PDF files via the Internet.

For more information check the contest website: www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org

12 Jun 2013

5th Advanced Architecture Contest

5th Advanced Architecture Contest

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is pleased to announce the 5th Advanced Architecture Contest – an international architectural competition open for both architects and students.

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For more information you can check on http://www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org/

Registration is free.

20 Jun 2011

4th Advanced Architecture Contest

4th Advanced Architecture Contest

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 4th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of CITY-SENSE: Shaping our environment with real-time data.

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, designers and artists 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 urban planning, with the purpose of balancing the impact real-time data collection might have on sensor-driven cities.

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The prize (Total value: 50.000, 00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme.

The competition jury, which is composed by Aaron Betsky, Vicente Guallart, Juan Herreros, Michel Rojkind, Nader Tehrani, Neil Gershenfeld and Willy Muller among others, is looking for outstanding proposals at any scale, for any city in the world on Smart Cities, Eco neighborhoods, Self-sufficient buildings, Intelligent homes or any other proposal that analyzes the phenomena of sensor-driven cities and intelligent behavioural systems.

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The Registration is FREE and the competition entries should be submitted digitally in PDF files via the Internet.

Projects will be accepted up until Monday September 26th 2011 www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org.

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is a cutting edge education and research centre dedicated to the development of an architecture capable of meeting the worldwide challenges in the construction of habitability in the early 21st century. Based in the 22@ district of Barcelona, one of the world’s capitals of architecture and urbanism, IAAC is a platform for the exchange of knowledge with faculty and students from over 25 countries, including USA, China. India, Poland, Italy, Mexico and Sudan. Students work simultaneously on multiple scales (city, building, manufacturing) and in different areas of expertise (ecology, energy, digital manufacturing, new technologies), pursuing their own lines of enquiry on the way to developing an integrated set of skills with which to act effectively in their home country or globally.

IAAC organizes the Masters course in Advanced Architecture, directed by Vicente Guallart, Willy Müller and Marta Malé-Alemany in conjunction with the UPC Polytechnic University. The Open Thesis Fabrication course is open to Masters architecture students from around the world. The Fab Academy is part of the global network of Fab Labs affiliated to MIT’s Center for Bit and Atoms. iaac.net

HP, the worlds largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that expands printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP (NYSE: HPQ) is available at hp.com

Previously:

3rd Advanced Architecture Contest

3rd Advanced Architecture Contest – The Self-Sufficient City, Spain

28 Sep 2009 deadline – registration

3rd Advanced Architecture Contest
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
organized by IaaC and HP

Envisioning the habitat of the future

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 3rd Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY: Envisioning the habitat of the future. 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 should be like. The contest is open to architects, planners, designers and artists 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, socialization and globalization, with a view to enhancing the connected self-sufficiency of our cities. The prize (Total value: 60.000, 00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme. This Architecture Competition Jury, which is composed of architects, directors of some of the world’s foremost architecture schools, and mayors of prominent cities around the globe is looking for outstanding proposals for any city in the world, at any scale, and within any timescale. The Registration is FREE, and the competition entries should be submitted digitally in PDF files via the Internet – www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org –

Why Barcelona?
The competition coincides with the 150th anniversary of the Eixample Plan for Barcelona, drawn up by the engineer Ildefons Cerdà, which did so much to define the concept of urbanism that served to construct cities throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. From this starting point, participants will reflect on the need to define new paradigms for the recycling of existing cities, and the need for new rules with which to build in continuity with nature, in such a way as to generate spaces for human habitability that contribute to the environmental, economic and social sustainability of the planet.

Barcelona Architecture

Why IaaC?
The IaaC is a latest-generation education and research centre with a focus on defining new models of habitat for the 21st century. The IaaC acts as a network within which specialists from a variety of disciplines (ecologists, anthropologists, engineers, computer programmers, artists, sociologists and others) interact with architects in the attaining of knowledge and skills with which to develop advanced architecture. The Institute uses cutting-edge technologies to design and produce prototypes of self-sufficient habitats and works closely with other nodes of knowledge in various cities around the world, as well as participating in the Fab Lab network, effectively furthering our understanding of different realities and acting globally.

Why HP?
HP, the worlds largest technology company, simplifies the technology experience for consumers and businesses with a portfolio that expands printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure. More information about HP is available at www.hp.com

Why the Advanced Architecture Contest?
This is the third Advanced Architecture Contest to be organized by IaaC since 2005. The first competition, on the theme of Self-Sufficient Housing, attracted entries from more than 2,500 architects and students from 108 countries, clearly demonstrating the potential of the Internet as a medium for researching new architecture. The special book of the short-listed projects was selected by the RIBA bookshop as one of the best new titles of 2006. The second competition was devoted to The Self-Fab House. The winners of these two previous Advanced Architecture Contests—from France, China and Spain—have completed the IaaC Master course and are currently working in a range of research projects.

Jury Members

JURY
Mayors and former mayors
Jordi Hereu, Mayor of Barcelona
Jaime Lerner, Former Mayor of Curitiba and former President of the IUA
Joâo Coser, Mayor of Vitòria, ES, Brasil
Valentina Matvienko, Governor of Sant Petersburg, Rusia

Architecture Schools
Stan Allen, director of the Princeton School of Architecture (Princeton, NJ, USA)
Brett Steele, director of the Architectural Association (London, UK)
Bob Somol, director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago (Chicago, IL, USA)
Pankaj Joshi, director Urbanism Design Research Institute (Mumbai, India)
Benyam Ali, director director Department of Architecture. Adis Abeba_University (Ethiopia)

Architects
Yung Ho Chang (Beijing, China)
Snøhetta (Oslo, Norway)
J. M. Lin (Taipei, Taiwan)
Aaron Betsky (Cincinnati, USA)
Bostian Vuga (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Michel Rojkind (Mexico)

Experts
Neil Gershenfeld, physicist (MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA)
Michael Slitch, engineer (Germany)
Salvador Rueda, ecologist (Barcelona, Spain)
Alejandro Gutierres (Ove Arup, London)
Haakon Karlstein Jr. President Fab Foundation (Norway)

IaaC
Vicente Guallart, Director of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.
Lucas Cappelli, Director of the Advanced Architecture Contest.
Willy Müller, Co-director, Master in Advanced Architecture
Marta Malé-Alemany, Co-director, Master in Advanced Architecture
Areti Makopoulu, Coordinator, Master in Advanced Architecture

Partners
Representative of HP
Representative of the Spanish Ministry of Housing
Representative of Generalitat de Catalunya
Representative of Actar

Contact Details

CONTACT
Advanced Architecture Contest
Pujades 102 baixos, Poble Nou
08005 Barcelona, Spain.
fax 93 300 43 33
contact@advancedarchitecturecontest.org

Director: Lucas Cappelli
Coordinator: Luciana Asinari
Contents: Vicente Guallart, Lucas Cappelli, Josep Mias, Silvia Brandi, Haakon Karlsen jr., Tomas Diez
Communication: Marie Jacquinet, Jorge Ledesma, Agostina Cabral
Web Design: Nitropix Web Projects, Leticia Peuser, Roxana Degiovanni, Mateo Lima-Valente
Web Data-base: Emilio Degiovanni

Organized by Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia : www.iaac.net

2nd Advanced Architecture Contest

2nd Advanced Architecture Contest 2008
Self-Sufficient Housing
THE SELF-FAB HOUSE

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia directed by Vicente Guallart – www.iaac.net –is issuing an international summons to architects, designers and students from around the world, inviting proposals for the construction of self-sufficient dwellings with an emphasis on exploring people’s capacity to self-construct their own homes.

The 2nd Advanced Architecture Contest directed by Lucas Cappelli – www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org – encourage in this edition of the Self-sufficient housing competition, the design of a “SELF-FAB HOUSE” using industrial or traditional craft-based techniques generated on the basis of the knowledge of the information age, such as digital processes, software-driven manufacturing, skills and know-how in the use of new or established materials, the strategic recycling of other chains of production or familiarity with the historical processes of the construction of habitats in natural environments, revised in the light of new standards of sustainability.

Location: Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain