Host: Non Architecture

Registration Deadline: 30.10.2021

Winner Announcements: November 2021

You can use the code NONAWARDS_HiddenArchitecture to get a 10% discount over the price of the current registration phase.

LINK TO COMPETITION

THE AWARD

Construction is the most obvious reward for an architectural project, but very often in order to make things buildable, architects have to sacrifice innovation and creativity and surrender to business as usual. Non Architecture launches an award to honour those projects that didn’t take that approach and are unbuilt and unbuildable, either because they were designed to stay as such, or because their innovative charge brought them into the realm of the unpractical. We want to reward their innovative and experimental character with an award, organized in 4 categories – Urban, Landscape, Architecture and Aspatial.

By recognizing remarkable achievements in architecture, we intend to highlight exemplary projects that serve as inspiration for practitioners. Equally important, these awards elevate the potential for positive impact that an exploratory approach in architecture has on the future of the profession.

The award is open for student works, conceptual designs, competition entries, research & speculative initiatives of all sorts. Projects can have an exploratory or critical purpose, as long as they were not designed with the primary goal of being built.

CATEGORIES:

Non Architecture framed 4 categories. They are ideologically open and comprehensive, leaving to the designers the decision to select the most suitable category for their projects:

•URBAN – Projects can include any urban or master plan dedicated to the long-term connections between buildings, infrastructure, social and economic conditions, environments, and future development.
• LANDSCAPE – Projects admittable not only include gardens and parks. They can more extensively or subtly address nature, and as such, be eligible for this category.
• ARCHITECTURE – Projects can include residential, commercial, cultural, hospitality, institutional, sports & recreation, transportation, or temporary structures.
• ASPATIAL – Projects can include abstract and conceptual ideas with no physical representation such as utopian projects, projects for digital platforms, tools or devices, process-oriented projects, participatory process or even gaming and digital simulations.

ELIGIBILITY:

Non Architecture Award is open to all human beings, from every age and cultural background, working in groups or individually. The registration fee is paid per project, separately for each category, regardless of how many people participated in the design.

You can use the code NONAWARDS_HiddenArchitecture to get a 10% discount over the price of the current registration phase.

PRIZES

Non Architecture will award 1 winner and 9 honorable mentions for each category, selected by the jurors collectively.

• WINNER (4 Prizes in total / 1 in each category)

o Non Architecture Trophy (1 Trophy)
o Digital and physical Non Architecture Award certificate
If the project was developed by a group of individuals, the certificate will be made for each individual, if developed by one or more organizations, it will be made for each organization.
o Exclusive use of the Non Architecture Award logo
o Publication in the Non Architecture website
o Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs


o Several Architecture books from DOM Publisher

• HONORABLE MENTIONS (9 in each category)

o Digital Non Architecture Award certificate
If the project was developed by a group of individuals, the certificate will be made for each individual, if developed by one or more organizations, it will be made for each organization.
o Exclusive use of the Non Architecture Award logo
o Publication in the Non Architecture website
o Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs

• FINALISTS (20 in each category)

o Publication in the Non Architecture website

The organization might establish additional special prizes and awards during the award development and in the evaluation phase.

Note: The appearance of the involved architectural platforms is subject to the agenda and availability of the external platforms involved.

THE TROPHY

Our winners deserve a truly remarkable showpiece. That’s why we designed a one-of-a-kind trophy to honour our winners’ great design creativity and accomplishments.

JURY & CALENDAR

Each category will be evaluated by a separated group of juries. The jury members are the following:

Category Urban

Jos-Willem van Oorschot
Architect Partner & Director at VenhoevenCS architecture+urbanism

Jules Gallissian
Architect / Urban Designer at Snøhetta

Francesco Garofalo
Founder of Open Fabric

Wenchi Yang
Associate Architect at Tekuma Frenchman

Corinna Dean
Professor at the University of Westminster, Urbanist and Curator

Category Landscape

Karoline Liedtke
Head of Landscape at Cobe

João António Ribeiro Ferreira Nunes
Founder of PROAP

Federico Scopinich
Urban, Landscape Planner and General Manager at Land

Kasmir Jolma and Ashley D. Penn
Co-founders of Jolma Architects

Category Architecture

Samuel Gonçalves
Founder of Summary Architecture Studio

Maria Claudia Clemente & Francesco Isidori
Founders of Labics

Francisco Leiva
Founder of Grupo Aranea

Gilles Delalex and Yves Moreau
Founders of Studio Muoto

Lu Yun
Founding Partner and Principal Architect at MUDA Architects

Stefan Rier and Lukas Rungger
Founders of noa* | network of architecture

Category Aspatial

Alberto Martinez Garcia and Hector Rivera Bajo
Founders & Editors of Hidden Architecture

Shizuka Hariu & Shin Bogdan Hagiwara
Co-directors of SHSH ARCHITECTURE + SCENOGRAPHY

Murat Germen
Artist, Academic and Photographer

Fosbury Architecture / Mirek Classen
Head of innovation and generative design at BigRep GmbH

You can use the code NONAWARDS_HiddenArchitecture to get a 10% discount over the price of the current registration phase.

CALENDAR

16 July 2021 – Award launch and submissions open on our website.
16 – 31 July – Special registration period (10€).
01 – 20 August – Early registration period (15€).
21 August – 10 September – Regular registration period (20€).
11 – 30 September – Late registration period (25€).
30 September, 11:59 PM – Submission closes.
01 – 05 November 2021 – Winner’s announcement.

The timing always refers to Central European Time (CET). To avoid confusion, please check the countdown on the award page.