The BUILT SPACE category refers to projects finished between June 2016 – June 2018, including interventions (reconversions or extentions) on existing buildings with or without any heritage value , from domains such as:
– housing: single-family or collective;
– commercial: commercial buildings, offices, mixed-use or industrial buildings;
– services: hotels, restaurants, bars, clubs, wellness or recreation buildings;
– institutional: public institutions or public interest buildings that are part of the following domains: socio-cultural (education / health / social assistance / sport and youth), national defense (military units / specialized educational units), public order (police units / firefighter units), public authority (central administration public institutions / local institutions – city halls, prefectures, courts), tourism (touristic information centres / tourism institutions), other domains (environment protection institutions, water management, research institutions);
– cultural: libraries, museums, theatres, cinemas, churches;
– heritage: reabilitation, reconversion, restorations or consolidation projects.
NOTE: in the BUILT SPACE category participants can submit only COMPLETED BUILDINGS and NOT PROPOSALS which are only at the project stage and have not been implemented.
Architects that have the right to practice in accordance with the laws of the country where they work, as well as collectives coordinated by them are eligible.
In this category, one can submit works located in the DKMT euroregion or works that belong to authors that have a permanent residence in the DKMT euroregion (Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad and Hunedoara counties from Romania, Csongrád and Bács-Kiskun counties from Hungary and the Vojvodina province from Serbia).
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euro, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros, have been considered.*
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT 1). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
* as specified in the competition Rules
Jury
Attila Kim
Is an architect, experienced in exhibition design, cultural events, restoration and architectural design, three times Mies van der Rohe Contemporary Architecture Awards nominee. He’s a founding member and partner of Studio Kim Bucșa Diaconu (SKBD) and Lundi Et Demi architecture studios, and has been practicing independently since 2012, leading a young and dynamic team. Attila Kim has studied architecture at the Technic University of Cluj Napoca, and has had study grants in Slovakia, the United States of America and the Netherlands. Attila Kim is the Romanian Commissioner at the Venice Biennale, 2016 and present editions.
Irina Cristea
Is a French Romanian architect, in 2001 she founded AZC, a Paris based office, with Grégoire Zündel. The office masters a wide range of programs, in both public and private sectors, from metro stations, to housing projects, it completed around thirty buildings.For several years, AZC has been initiating a freer approach to architecture that questions the theme of happiness. Presented in the book, "Time For Play", this work consists of temporary projects that invite to a playful and spontaneous practice of the urban space. AZC keeps track of the construction of each of its projects, large or small, which allows it to gain experience and build an organized, motivated and stable team.
Grozdana Šišović
Is an architect and an educator, co-founder of re:a.c.t architects from Belgrade, which she leads together with Dejan Milanović, since 2007. Her practice is known for persistent and successful participation in architectural competitions as well as for recognized built objects of different typologies. She is an assistant professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, where she defended her doctoral thesis in 2017. The focus of her research is on the issues of architectural disciplinarity as well as the theory of architectural design.
Levente Szabó
Architect, contributed to the design of several public buildings, historic monuments, urban projects and memorial places as the owner of Hetedik Műterem. He won several architectural prizes in Hungary and from abroad. He has been working as a full-time university lecturer and presently as an associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture, where he is the vice head of the Department of Public Building Design and the secretary of the Doctoral School of Architecture. He got his doctoral degree in 2008 and his habilitation in 2017. He is the author of several theoretical articles, book chapters and a book. His interest focuses especially on the relationship between architecture and memory.
Oana Stănescu
Is a founding partner at Family, a New York based design practice. Oana has been teaching a studio at GSD Harvard University in Fall 2017, and previously taught studio Core I at MIT in Cambridge and well as Advanced Studio at GSAPP Columbia University in conjunction with her Partner Dong Ping Wong. She is also a frequent critic at various schools like Yale University, MIT, GSD and GSAPP. She has also contributed to numerous architectural publications such as Domus, MARK and Abitare. Oana’s work has been celebrated in publications such as the New York Times, Forbes, Madame Figaro, Architect Magazine, New York Magazine, Mark, Time Magazine or Cultured, to name a few. Prior to joining Family, Oana worked at a diverse array of award-winning offices around the world including Herzog and De Meuron, OMA, Architecture for Humanity and SANAA. Photo courtesy of Brigitte Lacombe
The INTERIOR SPACE category refers to interior design, lighting design and scenography projects (performance spaces) finished between June 2016 – June 2018.
NOTE: in the INTERIOR SPACE category participants can submit only COMPLETED PROJECTS and NOT PROPOSALS which are only at the project stage and have not been implemented.
Graduates from higher education institutions from domains such as architecture, interior design, furniture design, lighting design, decorative arts, scenography, design, with diplomas or certificates approved by their country of origin and domain’s professional organizations are eligible.
In this category, one can submit works located in the DKMT euroregion or works that belong to authors that have a permanent residence in the DKMT euroregion (Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad and Hunedoara counties from Romania, Csongrád and Bács-Kiskun counties from Hungary and the Vojvodina province from Serbia).
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euro, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros, have been considered.*
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT 2). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
* as specified in the competition Rules
Jury
Attila Kim
Is an architect, experienced in exhibition design, cultural events, restoration and architectural design, three times Mies van der Rohe Contemporary Architecture Awards nominee. He’s a founding member and partner of Studio Kim Bucșa Diaconu (SKBD) and Lundi Et Demi architecture studios, and has been practicing independently since 2012, leading a young and dynamic team. Attila Kim has studied architecture at the Technic University of Cluj Napoca, and has had study grants in Slovakia, the United States of America and the Netherlands. Attila Kim is the Romanian Commissioner at the Venice Biennale, 2016 and present editions.
Irina Cristea
Is a French Romanian architect, in 2001 she founded AZC, a Paris based office, with Grégoire Zündel. The office masters a wide range of programs, in both public and private sectors, from metro stations, to housing projects, it completed around thirty buildings.For several years, AZC has been initiating a freer approach to architecture that questions the theme of happiness. Presented in the book, "Time For Play", this work consists of temporary projects that invite to a playful and spontaneous practice of the urban space. AZC keeps track of the construction of each of its projects, large or small, which allows it to gain experience and build an organized, motivated and stable team.
Grozdana Šišović
Is an architect and an educator, co-founder of re:a.c.t architects from Belgrade, which she leads together with Dejan Milanović, since 2007. Her practice is known for persistent and successful participation in architectural competitions as well as for recognized built objects of different typologies. She is an assistant professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, where she defended her doctoral thesis in 2017. The focus of her research is on the issues of architectural disciplinarity as well as the theory of architectural design.
Levente Szabó
Architect, contributed to the design of several public buildings, historic monuments, urban projects and memorial places as the owner of Hetedik Műterem. He won several architectural prizes in Hungary and from abroad. He has been working as a full-time university lecturer and presently as an associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture, where he is the vice head of the Department of Public Building Design and the secretary of the Doctoral School of Architecture. He got his doctoral degree in 2008 and his habilitation in 2017. He is the author of several theoretical articles, book chapters and a book. His interest focuses especially on the relationship between architecture and memory.
Oana Stănescu
Is a founding partner at Family, a New York based design practice. Oana has been teaching a studio at GSD Harvard University in Fall 2017, and previously taught studio Core I at MIT in Cambridge and well as Advanced Studio at GSAPP Columbia University in conjunction with her Partner Dong Ping Wong. She is also a frequent critic at various schools like Yale University, MIT, GSD and GSAPP. She has also contributed to numerous architectural publications such as Domus, MARK and Abitare. Oana’s work has been celebrated in publications such as the New York Times, Forbes, Madame Figaro, Architect Magazine, New York Magazine, Mark, Time Magazine or Cultured, to name a few. Prior to joining Family, Oana worked at a diverse array of award-winning offices around the world including Herzog and De Meuron, OMA, Architecture for Humanity and SANAA. Photo courtesy of Brigitte Lacombe
The PUBLIC SPACE category refers to projects / works finished between June 2016 – June 2018, such as:
– landscape design, masterplan projects, territorial planning, revitalisations/ restructuring of certain urban / rural areas, squares, pedestrian areas, parks, temporary public spaces, installations, pavilions, designed by architects, urbanists or landscape architects which have the right to practice in accordance with the laws of the country where they work, as well as collectives coordinated by them;
– works of art belonging to the public space, designed by graduates from higher education institutions from domains such as architecture, plastic arts, visual arts, decorative arts, design, art history & criticism, as well as from domains concerning new media and technologies based on photo-video or image processing with diplomas or certificates approved by their origin country and domain’s professional organizations;
– infrastructure projects / works, including accesibility projects / green infrastructure / technological infrastructure / transportation networks (including depots and garages) / street networks (streets and street profiles, bridges, road passages, walkways), which are done by the professional body – meaning a series of practitioners responsible with the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: architects, urbanists, landscape architects, engineers (structural, installations, electric, traffic etc.), restorers, contractors, including IT specialists, that have the right to practice in accordance with the laws of the country where they work.
In this category, one can submit works located in the DKMT euroregion or works that belong to authors that have a permanent residence in the DKMT euroregion (Timiș, Caraș-Severin, Arad and Hunedoara counties from Romania, Csongrád and Bács-Kiskun counties from Hungary and the Vojvodina province from Serbia).
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euro, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros, have been considered.*
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT 3). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
* as specified in the competition Rules
Jury
Attila Kim
Is an architect, experienced in exhibition design, cultural events, restoration and architectural design, three times Mies van der Rohe Contemporary Architecture Awards nominee. He’s a founding member and partner of Studio Kim Bucșa Diaconu (SKBD) and Lundi Et Demi architecture studios, and has been practicing independently since 2012, leading a young and dynamic team. Attila Kim has studied architecture at the Technic University of Cluj Napoca, and has had study grants in Slovakia, the United States of America and the Netherlands. Attila Kim is the Romanian Commissioner at the Venice Biennale, 2016 and present editions.
Irina Cristea
Is a French Romanian architect, in 2001 she founded AZC, a Paris based office, with Grégoire Zündel. The office masters a wide range of programs, in both public and private sectors, from metro stations, to housing projects, it completed around thirty buildings.For several years, AZC has been initiating a freer approach to architecture that questions the theme of happiness. Presented in the book, "Time For Play", this work consists of temporary projects that invite to a playful and spontaneous practice of the urban space. AZC keeps track of the construction of each of its projects, large or small, which allows it to gain experience and build an organized, motivated and stable team.
Grozdana Šišović
Is an architect and an educator, co-founder of re:a.c.t architects from Belgrade, which she leads together with Dejan Milanović, since 2007. Her practice is known for persistent and successful participation in architectural competitions as well as for recognized built objects of different typologies. She is an assistant professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, where she defended her doctoral thesis in 2017. The focus of her research is on the issues of architectural disciplinarity as well as the theory of architectural design.
Levente Szabó
Architect, contributed to the design of several public buildings, historic monuments, urban projects and memorial places as the owner of Hetedik Műterem. He won several architectural prizes in Hungary and from abroad. He has been working as a full-time university lecturer and presently as an associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture, where he is the vice head of the Department of Public Building Design and the secretary of the Doctoral School of Architecture. He got his doctoral degree in 2008 and his habilitation in 2017. He is the author of several theoretical articles, book chapters and a book. His interest focuses especially on the relationship between architecture and memory.
Oana Stănescu
Is a founding partner at Family, a New York based design practice. Oana has been teaching a studio at GSD Harvard University in Fall 2017, and previously taught studio Core I at MIT in Cambridge and well as Advanced Studio at GSAPP Columbia University in conjunction with her Partner Dong Ping Wong. She is also a frequent critic at various schools like Yale University, MIT, GSD and GSAPP. She has also contributed to numerous architectural publications such as Domus, MARK and Abitare. Oana’s work has been celebrated in publications such as the New York Times, Forbes, Madame Figaro, Architect Magazine, New York Magazine, Mark, Time Magazine or Cultured, to name a few. Prior to joining Family, Oana worked at a diverse array of award-winning offices around the world including Herzog and De Meuron, OMA, Architecture for Humanity and SANAA. Photo courtesy of Brigitte Lacombe
The GRADUATION PROJECTS category refers to final projects made for the graduation of architecture and/or urbanism bachelor’s degree, realised during the 2016-2017 or 2017-2018 academic years.
Graduates from Romanian, Hungarian or Serbian higher education institutions – architecture and/or urbanism universities / faculties / departments – are eligible.
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euro, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros, have been considered.*
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT 4). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
* as specified in the competition Rules
Jury
Attila Kim
Is an architect, experienced in exhibition design, cultural events, restoration and architectural design, three times Mies van der Rohe Contemporary Architecture Awards nominee. He’s a founding member and partner of Studio Kim Bucșa Diaconu (SKBD) and Lundi Et Demi architecture studios, and has been practicing independently since 2012, leading a young and dynamic team. Attila Kim has studied architecture at the Technic University of Cluj Napoca, and has had study grants in Slovakia, the United States of America and the Netherlands. Attila Kim is the Romanian Commissioner at the Venice Biennale, 2016 and present editions.
Irina Cristea
Is a French Romanian architect, in 2001 she founded AZC, a Paris based office, with Grégoire Zündel. The office masters a wide range of programs, in both public and private sectors, from metro stations, to housing projects, it completed around thirty buildings.For several years, AZC has been initiating a freer approach to architecture that questions the theme of happiness. Presented in the book, "Time For Play", this work consists of temporary projects that invite to a playful and spontaneous practice of the urban space. AZC keeps track of the construction of each of its projects, large or small, which allows it to gain experience and build an organized, motivated and stable team.
Grozdana Šišović
Is an architect and an educator, co-founder of re:a.c.t architects from Belgrade, which she leads together with Dejan Milanović, since 2007. Her practice is known for persistent and successful participation in architectural competitions as well as for recognized built objects of different typologies. She is an assistant professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, where she defended her doctoral thesis in 2017. The focus of her research is on the issues of architectural disciplinarity as well as the theory of architectural design.
Levente Szabó
Architect, contributed to the design of several public buildings, historic monuments, urban projects and memorial places as the owner of Hetedik Műterem. He won several architectural prizes in Hungary and from abroad. He has been working as a full-time university lecturer and presently as an associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture, where he is the vice head of the Department of Public Building Design and the secretary of the Doctoral School of Architecture. He got his doctoral degree in 2008 and his habilitation in 2017. He is the author of several theoretical articles, book chapters and a book. His interest focuses especially on the relationship between architecture and memory.
Oana Stănescu
Is a founding partner at Family, a New York based design practice. Oana has been teaching a studio at GSD Harvard University in Fall 2017, and previously taught studio Core I at MIT in Cambridge and well as Advanced Studio at GSAPP Columbia University in conjunction with her Partner Dong Ping Wong. She is also a frequent critic at various schools like Yale University, MIT, GSD and GSAPP. She has also contributed to numerous architectural publications such as Domus, MARK and Abitare. Oana’s work has been celebrated in publications such as the New York Times, Forbes, Madame Figaro, Architect Magazine, New York Magazine, Mark, Time Magazine or Cultured, to name a few. Prior to joining Family, Oana worked at a diverse array of award-winning offices around the world including Herzog and De Meuron, OMA, Architecture for Humanity and SANAA. Photo courtesy of Brigitte Lacombe
The category INITIATIVES / EXPERIMENTS / VISIONS IN ARCHITECTURE refers to either realised or speculative projects implemented between June 2016 and June 2018, including:
– cultural / architectural education / participative initiatives / public policy projects etc., made by the professional body, administration or by the civil society;
– speculative architectural projects that reinterpret the role of architecture (projections on the future of architecture): visions / strategies / theories / programs / competitions, realised between June 2016 – June 2018 and that are made by architects or urbanists which have the right to practice in accordance with the laws of the country where they work, as well as collectives coordinated by them.
Professional body refers to a series of practitioners responsible with the design, construction and maintenance of the built environment: architects, urbanists, landscape architects, engineers (structural, installations, electric, traffic etc.), restorers, contractors, including IT specialists, that have the right to practice in accordance with the laws of the country where they work.
Administration refers to all those community members and state employees that have the responsibility of managing the present and future built environment and civil society refers to all the society members that are not part of the professional body, nor of the administrstive body, that both influence and are influenced daily by the build environment (associative apolitic groups realised in accordance with the laws of the country of their origin, that intervene along with the decision factors or state institutions to influence them in order to protect the rights and interests of their represented citizen groups).
Civil society refers to all the society members that are not part of the professional body, nor of the administrative body, that both influence and are influenced daily by the built environment (associative apolitic groups realised in accordance with the laws of the country of their origin, that intervene along with the decision factors or state institutions to influence them in order to protect the rights and interests of the citizen groups they represent);
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euro, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros, have been considered.*
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT 5). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
* as specified in the competition Rules
Jury
Attila Kim
Is an architect, experienced in exhibition design, cultural events, restoration and architectural design, three times Mies van der Rohe Contemporary Architecture Awards nominee. He’s a founding member and partner of Studio Kim Bucșa Diaconu (SKBD) and Lundi Et Demi architecture studios, and has been practicing independently since 2012, leading a young and dynamic team. Attila Kim has studied architecture at the Technic University of Cluj Napoca, and has had study grants in Slovakia, the United States of America and the Netherlands. Attila Kim is the Romanian Commissioner at the Venice Biennale, 2016 and present editions.
Irina Cristea
Is a French Romanian architect, in 2001 she founded AZC, a Paris based office, with Grégoire Zündel. The office masters a wide range of programs, in both public and private sectors, from metro stations, to housing projects, it completed around thirty buildings.For several years, AZC has been initiating a freer approach to architecture that questions the theme of happiness. Presented in the book, "Time For Play", this work consists of temporary projects that invite to a playful and spontaneous practice of the urban space. AZC keeps track of the construction of each of its projects, large or small, which allows it to gain experience and build an organized, motivated and stable team.
Grozdana Šišović
Is an architect and an educator, co-founder of re:a.c.t architects from Belgrade, which she leads together with Dejan Milanović, since 2007. Her practice is known for persistent and successful participation in architectural competitions as well as for recognized built objects of different typologies. She is an assistant professor at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, where she defended her doctoral thesis in 2017. The focus of her research is on the issues of architectural disciplinarity as well as the theory of architectural design.
Levente Szabó
Architect, contributed to the design of several public buildings, historic monuments, urban projects and memorial places as the owner of Hetedik Műterem. He won several architectural prizes in Hungary and from abroad. He has been working as a full-time university lecturer and presently as an associate professor at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Faculty of Architecture, where he is the vice head of the Department of Public Building Design and the secretary of the Doctoral School of Architecture. He got his doctoral degree in 2008 and his habilitation in 2017. He is the author of several theoretical articles, book chapters and a book. His interest focuses especially on the relationship between architecture and memory.
Oana Stănescu
Is a founding partner at Family, a New York based design practice. Oana has been teaching a studio at GSD Harvard University in Fall 2017, and previously taught studio Core I at MIT in Cambridge and well as Advanced Studio at GSAPP Columbia University in conjunction with her Partner Dong Ping Wong. She is also a frequent critic at various schools like Yale University, MIT, GSD and GSAPP. She has also contributed to numerous architectural publications such as Domus, MARK and Abitare. Oana’s work has been celebrated in publications such as the New York Times, Forbes, Madame Figaro, Architect Magazine, New York Magazine, Mark, Time Magazine or Cultured, to name a few. Prior to joining Family, Oana worked at a diverse array of award-winning offices around the world including Herzog and De Meuron, OMA, Architecture for Humanity and SANAA. Photo courtesy of Brigitte Lacombe
In the context of BETA 2018, the ARCHITECTURE ESSAYS category encourages a theoretical and critical discourse surrounding this year’s theme ”Collective Housing, between product and process”*.
Nowadays mass housing has become more and more of a commodity, a marketable and nicely presented product. However, the process that characterizes this product does not end with its mere sale, the process being the result of a complex mechanism, defined by a series of “voices” with different perspectives and interests: the administration, the developer, the architect and the user/ inhabitant.
Through a critical view of its two states (housing as a product and housing as a process), one can derive various transversal debate subjects on collective housing, such as:
– the need and right to housing: diversity vs. segregation, accessibility vs. inaccessibility (prices);
– the project’s quality: individuality within the community, space vs. areas, flexibility, mixed-uses, relationship with nature, general satisfaction with the act of dwelling;
– economic rationality: quality-price ratio; what lies behind an apartment’s price?;
– marketing vs. reality; products that can/cannot be sold presently;
– the inhabitant’s profile: types of families then and now, uses in time;
– relationship with the city: isolation vs. opening, periphery vs. centre, old vs. new build environment, density, facilities, neighbourhoods, access;
– housing policies, investments and urban development etc.
Contributors are invited to reflect on the quality of contemporary collective housing, though the idea of housing as product and housing as a process, and to expose their own vision on the matter through an essay.
Those that are active in the domains of architecture and urbanism (architects, urbanists, academics, students / MAs / PhDs of architecture and/or urbanism universities / faculties / departments) or other related fields (sociologists, psychologists, critics, theorists, philosophers etc.), with a permanent residence in Romania, Hungary or Serbia are eligible and encouraged to participate.
For this category, 1 award of 1000 euro, as well as 2 honorable mentions, each consisting of 500 euros, have been considered.**
To submit an entry for this category, respecting the provided layout is mandatory (LAYOUT 6). Entries can be submitted by completing the registration form.
More details about the competition are to be found in the competition Rules.
* with its proposed theme, category 6. ARCHTECTURE ESSAYS is connected to the biennial’s main exhibition, which aims to promote debates on housing throughout society.
** as specified in the competition Rules
Jury
Catherine Slessor
Highly experienced architectural editor, writer and critic. Former Editor of The Architectural Review, the leading print and digital platform for critical coverage of international architecture and analysis of the ideas that shape it.
Ethel Baraona Pohl
Critic, writer and curator. Co-founder of the independent research studio and publishing house dpr-barcelona, which operates in the fields of architecture, political theory and the social milieu. Editor of Quaderns d'arquitectura i urbanisme from 2011-2016, and contributor to several magazines and books. Her writing appears in The Form of Form (Lars Muller, 2016), Together! The New Architecture of the Collective (Ruby Press, 2017), Architecture is All Over (Columbia Books of Architecture, 2017), Harvard Design Magazine, and Volume, among others. Curator of the exhibition "Adhocracy ATHENS" at the Onassis Cultural Centre, 2015, winner of the ADI Culture Award 2016. Director of Foros 2017, the architecture lecture series of the UIC Barcelona School of Architecture. Since 2016, dpr-barcelona is platform member of Future Architecture.
Tamar Shafrir
Is a design researcher at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam and a lecturer at Design Academy Eindhoven. Her writing has been published in Disegno, Real Review, Domus, Volume, MacGuffin, Dirty Furniture, and PIN-UP magazines, and in the books Values of Design, Material Utopias, and Symbolic Exchange. With Joseph Grima, she co-founded Space Caviar in 2013, and recently co-curated the 2018 Design Academy Eindhoven exhibition NOT FOR SALE during Milan Design Week.