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.
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
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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.