Here at Architect-US we hear time and again that Architecture Design Competitions are the best way to be able to challenge yourself, improve your skillsets, and also show top architecture firms in the US that you are able to sketch, design, and execute.
A great resource to be able to find a bunch of different Architecture Design Competition opportunities beyond the five we highlight below is Competition Archi website you can find <<HERE>>.
Submission: September 30, 2022
Registration: September 30, 2022
Language: English
Location: Global
Prizes: Please see the details below
Type: Open
Participants of this competition are asked to create a visionary concept for an urban block in the Metaverse. This time we challenge designers to reinterpretate and design what could be a city in the virtual world, by taking advantage of the absence of real-life rules or restrictions such as gravity, structural stability, climatic issues, or physical laws. On the other hand, new rules will apply.
Designers should forseee which those rules will be and how to play with them. Designers are free to explore in a critical way the different interpretations of such topics, from practical approaches to more dystopian/utopian scenarios.
The “Meta City” is a design competition developed to explore the creative potential of architectural design through one of the most iconic architectural drawings: the axonometric projection. This competition is an opportunity to experiment with how an axonometric can communicate a project today. What kind of design choices can better respond to the issues raised in the brief and how can one drawing communicate the concept in the most effective way? Participants have only one axonometric projection to answer those questions.
Submission: January 06, 2023
Registration: December 01, 2022
Language: English
Location: Global
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open
For the Gaudi La Coma Artists’ Residence competition, participants are asked to submit designs for a sustainable artists’ residence and education complex called “La Coma”. It will be located in Huesca, Spain and would need to follow Antoni Gaudi’s design values and principles of sustainability, functionality, aesthetics, and innovation. At this stage, participants should focus on defining a clear, coherent and harmonized set of building volumetrics, demonstrating how new structures would fit within the site and correspond between each other, as well as defining the general architectural guidelines for the future development of the building complex. The jury are looking for designs that have the potential to become an iconic landmark while still remaining sensitive to the natural surroundings.
The Gaudi La Coma Artists Residence is the first in a series of design competitions run in partnership with the Gaudi Knowledge Association and Inngenium Lab to celebrate Gaudi’s intellectual heritage. For this competition, participants are asked to submit an architectural volumetric composition for a sustainable artists’ residence and education complex called “La Coma”. It will be located in Huesca, Spain and would need to follow Antoni Gaudi’s design values and principles of sustainability, functionality, aesthetics, and innovation.
Submission: January 06, 2023
Registration: December 01, 2022
Language: English
Location: Global
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open
It may not be your first instinct when entering a building to consider how it makes you feel, but architecture has always had a big impact on emotions. Different spaces are designed to make their inhabitants feel different things; offices can make you feel energised and productive, art galleries can make you feel thoughtful and curious, and museums can make you feel calm and intrigued. Each of these spaces is completely different from each other and is far more than just a building.
As part of a series of annual architecture competitions, the Museum of Emotions competition is tasking participants with using architecture as a tool to bring out different emotions. They are asked to design a museum that includes two separate exhibition halls that bring out contrasting emotions – one inducing negative emotions, and the other inducing positive emotions.
Participants are free to choose the specific emotions they incite with their designs – fear, anger, anxiety, love, happiness, laughter, etc. The purpose of the Museum of Emotions is to use architecture as the primary tool to create emotional states, through consideration of the scales of the spaces, the journey through the space, colour, lighting, and material choice.
As this is an ideas competition, participants are free to choose any site location, real or imaginary, as well as the size of their structure.
Museum of Emotions is one of Buildners’ silent competitions, in which participants must communicate their ideas without the use of any text. The design concept and thinking behind it must all be communicated solely through the use of visuals.
GENERAL INFO:
- Registrations open until the 15th of July, 2022
- 5 scholarships full-coverage of the enrollment cost
- opportunity to participate in the courses from remote connection
- languages: Italian with simultaneous interpretation into English
- application website
From Stonehenge to Greek temples, architecture is the signature of humankind on landscape, the artificial element that has always been connected to the natural environment. Architecture and landscape are linked by a fundamental continuity that is now starting to fade, damaging the quality of the space we dwell.
More than ever today, landscape is a precious heritage that architecture can and must enhance, while protecting it to pass it on to future generations: architects shall not give up on working on landscape, instead they should be able to design architectures that respond to each landscape’s specific feature and generate wonderful and unique spaces.
The “Architecture for Landscape” course was created on these premises: it aims at training designers who are able to meet the diverse needs of transforming territories, enforcing an attentive and productive dialogue with the surrounding landscape to respond to the needs of prestigious clients in outstanding contexts.
Through a thorough analysis of the natural world, light and geomorphological features of terrains, the designers will become more and more able to reconnect human design to the natural environment and be inspired by landscape to design outstanding, sustainable and impressive architectures.
The course will be made up of 86 hours of lessons, a 32-hour workshop and multiple lectures by well-renowned professional architects. At the end of the course, YACademy Placement office will guarantee each student a proposal for an internship / collaboration within the partner studios.
Submission: September 18, 2022
Registration: September 04, 2022
Language: English
Location: Global
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open
As spatial practitioners, we are often presented with uncomfortable relationships, forcing us to choose sides and make decisions. We are constantly challenged to rethink how we embrace the dynamics between architecture, and external forces.
Ultimately, we envisage architecture as a tool to comment, critique, dismantle and reposition a condition. As it is secretly the dark fetish of a designer to wipe the slate clean, a tabula rasa, what if you were presented with a work-in-progress new city?
Hengqin was a sleepy, rural community on the other side of a narrow river across from the city turned world- class gambling Mecca after the local gaming license was liberalised. Located in Macau’s Cotai Strip, its location, along with social and physical up-coming advancements makes it an ideal place for architectural experimentation and exploration.
The unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a serious blow to the gaming industry, prompting the Macau SAR, Guangdong and Hengqin to seek new paths for economic diversification.
Beyond the ‘2022 Development plan’, there are clearly physical and social gaps in its conception. Public infrastructures and the conveniences of life have forgotten; cast aside in favour of Layer 01: economic diversification.
Now that the Development Plan has settled, we ask that you, the designer: intervene to plug the gaps of the life it hasn’t yet accounted for.
Hengqin was planning to expand its cooperation with Macao to jointly develop logistics, tourism, finance, leisure, and cross-border e-commerce industries. With the upcoming proposal, Hengqin is destined to be adopted into a different way of life tha leads to an alienation from its own past.
As modern insertions embedded into Hengqin can be seen as impermanent, caught in a shorter life cycle of constant change, the city can be viewed as placing strain on its collected historical anchors in favour of an architecture which responds to only its immediate economic and environmental needs, dismantles, and creates again.
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