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COMPETITION RULES

ORGANIZERS

ELIGIBILITY

The current competition is organized for the students studying in the schools affiliated to AEEA. Equally, those students attending other schools, without AEEA affiliation, are eligible. The projects can be either individual or designed by a student team coordinated by a faculty member.

LANGUAGE

English is the official competition language

REGISTRATION

Students can register by filling in a form delivered by organizers. It will be e-mailed to the competition secretariat according to the deadline mentioned in the competition schedule.

Download: registration form.doc

PROJECT JUDGMENT

There will be two judgment phases:

1. Within each school participating in the competition.
2. Final judgment

JUDGMENT WITHIN EACH SCHOOL

During this phase, the participating school will choose those projects that will represent the school in final judgment.

Each school will decide on the number of projects for final judgment. Each school is responsible for the election of the jury members.

FINAL JUDGMNENT

Final judgment will take place at “ION MINCU” UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM, BUCHAREST, ROMANIA.

Prizes and mentions will be awarded following the final judgment for the best projects. The procedures will be established by the jury members.

FINAL JURY MEMBERS

President: Mario BOTTA, Switzerland

• Leen VAN DUIN, EAAE Representative, Netherlands
• Cristopher ALLSOPP, United Kingdom
• Petr FRANTA, Czech Republic
• Pere RIERA I PAŇELLAS, Spain
• Juhani KATAINEN, Finland
• Emil Barbu POPESCU, UAUIM Representative, Romania
• Lafarge representative to be nominated

Note: Faculty members who coordinated the competition projects are not eligible for the jury.

Secretariate

• Françoise PAMFIL
• Veronoca ZYBACZYNSKI

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Competitors can e-mail questions to the competition secretariat at: competition-eaae-2008@iaim.ro

They will be e-mailed at the sender’s address the frequently asked questions and their answers.

PRIZES

• Prize I: 6,000 Euro
• Prize II: 4,000 Euro
• Prize III: 3,000 Euro
• Mentions: 1,000 Euro each

The Jury is free to award these prizes or distribute the prize fund in the manner they have agreed upon.

SUBMISSION CONDITIONS

• 2 A1 drawings (594x841). DRAWINGS ON RIGID PAPER ARE NOT ACCEPTED.
• A CD with pictures of 2 A1 drawings (594x841) in .jgp format. The drawings will be set vertically (the longer side vertically, and the shorter side horizontally).

INSURING THE ANONYMITY

Each paper format A1 will display in the right down corner a code made of 6 digits (numbers and letters chosen not consecutive) written with a 1cm height ARIAL FONT body text.

This code will be marked also on the CD cover, disk and folders and will be provided by to organizers through the filled in registration form.

The same code will be written on the A5 sealed envelope. Inside the envelope, an A4 paper will be placed containing the following data:

1. Forename and name of the author (authors). The students teams will also add the name of the team leader;
2. Forename and name of the tutor;
3. Name of the School of Architecture the author attends;
4. Address of the School of Architecture the students attends;
5. Author’s/authors’ statement about the originality of the project (a list of authors will be provided for projects designed by a team). The statement will be signed by the team leader or the author, in case of individual participation.

Both the CD and closed envelope will be packed together with the drawings and posted to organizers.

ANNOUNCEMENT OF RESULTS

The competition results will be relayed to all participating schools.

They will be also published on the site of “ION MINCU” UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM – BUCHAREST.

A press release will be dispatched to architectural reviews. We think of publishing the best projects in an official catalogue of the competition.

RIGHTS

The competition organizers have the right to publish the eligible competition projects or parts of them in catalogues or various periodicals as well as the right to set up exhibitions including these projects.

The projects and CD-s will not be returned to their authors, being the property of the competition organizers.

The organizers will enjoy every right of publication or exhibition of the competition projects.

Participation into competition involves the acknowledgment and acceptance of the current regulation by competitors.

COMPETITION SCHEDULE

• 1 September 2007 - Launching of theme and registration start
• 31 March 2008 - Registration deadline
• 17 April 2008 - End of question receiving
• 30 April 2008 - Mailing of answers
• 15 October 2008 - End of local judgment in the Schools of Architecture
• 25 October 2008 - Arrival of projects for final judgment
• 16-17 November 2008 - Final judgment and winners’ selection
• December 2008 - Announcement of results and project exhibition

CONTACT ADDRESSES

Secretariat address: competition-eaae-2008@iaim.ro

Address to which projects will be sent: