IS ARCH AWARDS / OPEN CALL

The IS ARCH Awards are international awards targeting students of architecture. Our aim is to provide a platform for debate surrounding the architecture solutions that students contribute within the framework of their university studies. The competition aims to boost avant-garde trends and to recognize new research that emerges from universities. It also provides students’ work with an opportunity for international projection that extends beyond the traditional relationship between students and their lecturers. 

 

The IS ARCH Awards require an insight and collaboration between the various teaching and learning methodologies for architecture adopted by participating universities. This cooperation creates a favourable environment for open reflection and comment, which is crucial in order to move forward and progress in architectural knowledge and knowhow. A further objective of the IS ARCH Awards is to encourage young people to join the debate on architecture, contributing with their unique vision and opinions.

 

The philosophy behind the IS ARCH Awards is to support the creativity of young and emerging talent and to boost debate between the various students that take part in this initiative.

 

a. IS ARCH is conceived as a platform for the promotion and recognition of university projects on an international scale.

b. The three winning projects will receive prizes worth a total of €6,000.

c. By promoting this platform, the IS ARCH Awards intend to provide students with a gateway to the professional and corporate world. 

d. As part of its interest inpromoting the winning projects, IS ARCH is in contact with various  specialized magazines and websites in order to secure their publication. All selected works will be published  on IS ARCH`s various platforms and on its website. 

e. The possibility to a professional internship in the studios of members of the jury is also open.

 

The competition is opened to all  students of architecture and young  architects that have graduated within the last 3 years prior to the date of sending in the necessary documents. Each participant or team participants may submit as many  projects as they wish, regardless  of their nature, programme and budget. The panel of judges will take all entries into consideration. The proposals may be entered by individual students or groups of students. 

 

The documents should consist of academic projects carried out at university and mounted horizontally on a single DIN A1 panel. The name of the project must be stated correctly in the bottom right-hand corner of the panel. All proposals must be anonymous

and the text which appears on it in English. The authors may also include all information they  consider necessary in order to  fully understand the project: planes, sections, perspectives, photos of the model, sketches and specifications, etc.

 

Entries must be in JPG format with a resolution of 300 dpi and the maximum file size is 20MB. The name  of the JPG should be the TITLE of the project submitted. Entries must be sent by email to [email protected]. In order to take  part in these Awards, participants  must also register on the ISARCH  website, as explained below, and pay the corresponding registration fee.  When it is done, the scanned copy of  proof of payment of the registration fee has to be sent to info@isarch.  org Payment must be made by bank transfer to:  

 

Caja de Arquitectos, Spain – IBAN ES52 3183 0700 40 0001063124 BIC CASDESBB  stating the author`s name and title  of the entry.

 

Prizes 

First prize 3,000€ 

Second prize 2,000€,

Third prize 1,000€

10 Honourable mentions. 30 Finalists.

We are managing several agreements  for doing professional practices at  Architecture studios. As part of its interest in promoting the winning projects, IS ARCH is  in contact with various specialised  journals and websites in order  to secure their publication. All selected works will be published on  ISARCH`s various platforms. 

 

31st of November 2015 Start of the first registration period €30 

16th of March 2016 Start of the second registration period €60 Special Registration period: 

26th march – 15th april. 

15th of July 2016 Start of the third registration period €90 

1st to 20th of November 2016 Publication of all competition entries on the ISARCH website. Deliberation period for the professional panel of judges (80%of the final score). 

Public voting period starts on the ISARCH website. (20 % of the final score). 

24th of November: Announcement on the ISARCH website of: The winners of the First, Second and Third prizes The 10 Honourable mentions The 30 Finalists.