7th Advanced Architecture Contest
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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is a center for research, education, production and outreach, with the mission of envisioning the future habitat of our society and building it in the present.
IAAC follows the digital revolution at all scales (from bits to geography, from micro-controllers to cities, from materials to the territory) to expand the boundaries of architecture and design and meet the challenges faced by humanity. IAAC is an experimental and experiential center where one learns by doing, through a test methodology that promotes real solutions. IAAC is open, independent and radical; inspired by the values of Barcelona, the capital of architecture and design, where urbanism was invented and where a local high quality and innovation-oriented research is connected to an international network of excellence in technology, architecture and society fields.
IAAC, beyond its educational and pro-research work, is an interdisciplinary and multicultural stable community that seeks permanent contact and cooperation among the hundreds of teachers, researchers, institutions and companies that have worked with us or that pursue the objective of provide solutions to the great challenges of humanity.
IAAC follows the digital revolution at all scales (from bits to geography, from micro-controllers to cities, from materials to the territory) to expand the boundaries of architecture and design and meet the challenges faced by humanity. IAAC is an experimental and experiential center where one learns by doing, through a test methodology that promotes real solutions. IAAC is open, independent and radical; inspired by the values of Barcelona, the capital of architecture and design, where urbanism was invented and where a local high quality and innovation-oriented research is connected to an international network of excellence in technology, architecture and society fields.
IAAC, beyond its educational and pro-research work, is an interdisciplinary and multicultural stable community that seeks permanent contact and cooperation among the hundreds of teachers, researchers, institutions and companies that have worked with us or that pursue the objective of provide solutions to the great challenges of humanity.
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The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia is pleased to announce the 7th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of RESPONSIVE 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: 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.
We have invited some of the most prestigious architects around the world to be part of the jury.
Jury
Silvia Brandi, Architect. IaaC Academic Coordinator.
Oliver Broadbent, Think Up
Albert Cañigueral, OuiShare
Lucas Cappelli, Architect. Director of the Advanced Architecture Contest.
Andrea Caridi, DARTS
Àfrica Sabé Dausà, Santa & Cole
Ricardo Devesa, Urban Next
Tomas Diez, Director FabLab Barcelona.
Dennis Dollens, Studio Exodesic
Luís Falcón, InAtlas
Chiara Farinea, IAAC Head of European Projects
Manuel Gausa, UNIGE
Vicente Guallart, Founder & Principal | Guallart Architects.
Marité Guevara, Ersilia
Mariina Hallikainen, Colossal Order
Davina Jackson, Davina Jackson / University of London
Lydia Kallipoliti, EcoRedux / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Xavier De Kestelier, Foster + Partners
Areti Markopoulou, Architect. IaaC R&D Director.
Tanner Merkeley, OMA
Willy Muller, Architect. Intelligent Cities Research Studio Professor, IaaC.
Elodie Nourrigat, ENSAM
Claudia Pasquero, EcoLogicStudio / Bartlett
Ethel Baraona Pohl, dpr-barcelona
Daniele Quercia, Bell Labs Cambridge
Philippe Rahm EPFL/FAS
Mar Santamaria, 300000kms
Judith Sykes, Useful Simple Projects
Andreu Ulied, MCRIT
Tomas Vivando, co-Director Fab Lab Santiago and Distributed Design / Professor Design School PUC
Oliver Broadbent, Think Up
Albert Cañigueral, OuiShare
Lucas Cappelli, Architect. Director of the Advanced Architecture Contest.
Andrea Caridi, DARTS
Àfrica Sabé Dausà, Santa & Cole
Ricardo Devesa, Urban Next
Tomas Diez, Director FabLab Barcelona.
Dennis Dollens, Studio Exodesic
Luís Falcón, InAtlas
Chiara Farinea, IAAC Head of European Projects
Manuel Gausa, UNIGE
Vicente Guallart, Founder & Principal | Guallart Architects.
Marité Guevara, Ersilia
Mariina Hallikainen, Colossal Order
Davina Jackson, Davina Jackson / University of London
Lydia Kallipoliti, EcoRedux / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Xavier De Kestelier, Foster + Partners
Areti Markopoulou, Architect. IaaC R&D Director.
Tanner Merkeley, OMA
Willy Muller, Architect. Intelligent Cities Research Studio Professor, IaaC.
Elodie Nourrigat, ENSAM
Claudia Pasquero, EcoLogicStudio / Bartlett
Ethel Baraona Pohl, dpr-barcelona
Daniele Quercia, Bell Labs Cambridge
Philippe Rahm EPFL/FAS
Mar Santamaria, 300000kms
Judith Sykes, Useful Simple Projects
Andreu Ulied, MCRIT
Tomas Vivando, co-Director Fab Lab Santiago and Distributed Design / Professor Design School PUC
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Rewards
1st Prize
$3 492+ Master in Advanced Architecture (value 18.750,00 €) + 2 days trip for 1 person (team leader) to the Lively Architecture Festival in Montpellier (600,00€ grant)
2nd Prize
$2 328+ Master in Advanced Architecture (value 18.750,00 €) + 2 days trip for 1 person (team leader) to the Lively Architecture Festival in Montpellier (600,00€ grant)
3rd Prize
$1 164+ Master in Advanced Architecture (value 18.750,00 €) + 2 days trip for 1 person (team leader) to the Lively Architecture Festival in Montpellier (600,00€ grant)
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Europe/Madrid
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