Young Architect Award 2010

Submission Deadline: 15 July 2010, 3 pm

The goal of the architectural competition Young Architect Award 2010 is to help students and young architects to find their place on the current architectural scene, to make the wide public familiar with contemporary architecture and to make the study of architecture more attractive for young people. Last but not least, the competition will help to map the creative work of beginning architects.

The aim of the competition is

• to offer young architects a possibility of drawing public attention to their work
• to stimulate interest in architecture and to attract young population to the study of architecture
• to support public debate about architecture

Competition participants
Eligible to enter the Competition Review are students or graduates of architecture, urban development, landscape, and garden architecture study branches, as well as self-taught people educated in the branch, whose age has not exceeded 33 years as of the closing deadline for submission of competition works.

Categories

• Study
• School Work
• Implementation

As the competition is supposed to take current topics into account, one of the criteria for assessment is the environmental impacts of the constructions designed.

Schedule
Answering to eMails and written questions: 7 May 2010
Closing deadline for answering the questions: 21 May 2010
Deadline for submission: 15 July 2010, 3 pm
Announcement of nominations: 9 September 2010

Languages
Czech, Slovak or English

Registration fee
Eur 40

Prizes

• Young Architect Award 2010 in the Study category at an amount of CZK 30,000
• Young Architect Award 2010 in the School Work category at an amount of CZK 30,000
• Young Architect Award 2010 in the Implementation category at an amount of CZK 30,000
• Architekt Josef Hlávka Award in the Study/School Work category at an amount of CZK 25,000
• CTU Rector Award in the “School Work“ Category at an amount of CZK 10,000
• iDnes Award for the best 3D model of a submitted work
• Construction Forum Award for a construction design showing the path to residential development

The iDnes Award will be granted to the author of the best 3D model of a submitted work. All works with a 3D model attached to the compulsory documentation will be displayed on the iDnes web portal in the Bydlení (Living) category. iDnes readers will select 10 nominees from which iDnes editors will pick the overall winner. The winner will be dedicated a special article on the iDnes portal. Furthermore, the winner will be given additional space to present winning work, as well as his/her other designs.

In addition to the financial award, the laureate of the main prize, Young Architect Award, in the school work category will receive a CAD program Artlantis Studio worth CZK 25,900 (excl. VAT).

All works submitted will be displayed on the respective websites of the competition and its media partner E-architekt where the public will vote for the best work in online polls until the announcement of results. The poll winner will be awarded the Award of the Public.

Young Architect Award 2010 nominees will be given space for a wider presentation of their work on iDnes, E-architekt and eStav portals.

The announcement of results will be followed by a travelling exhibit (odkaz) of all works submitted with these venues: Czech Technical University (CTU) in Prague, Brno Technical University (BTU), Technical University (TU) in Liberec, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, and the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava.

Further Information:
Bc. Eva Pácaltová
ABF, a.s.
Mimonská 645
190 00 Praha 9
Ceská republika
Tel.: +420 222 891 117
Fax: +420 222 891 197
Mobile: +420 739 003 161
eMail: pacaltova@abf.cz
web: www.yaa.cz/2010/en/zain.asp