The Department for Spatial and Sustainable Design,
Vienna University of
Technology organizes the BLUE AWARD.
The Blue Award is a biennial, international student competition
and
awards projects addressing the topic of sustainability in the
academic
fields of architecture, regional planning and urbanism. The
economical,
cultural and social dimensions of sustainable development should
be equal
in significance to the classical problems of technique and
function. The
competition is an open invitation to future-oriented and
sustainable
solutions.
The Blue Award 2012 is making its second appearance as an
anonymous,
international, single-phase competition, and is intended for
students of
architecture, regional planning and urbanism. 163 projects from 86
faculties and architecture schools spread across 49 countries were
submitted for the first edition, Blue Award 09.
The Blue Award 2012 will be handed out in three categories.
Category 1 - Urban Development and Transformation, Landscape
DevelopmentCategory 2 - Ecological Building
Category 3 - Building in Existing Structures
The prize sum of 20,000.- Euros will be divided by the jury among
the
three categories of the competition. The jury may decide upon a
number of
honourable mentions.
Kick Off and Start of Registration: May 31, 2011
Submission Deadline: February 2nd, 2012
www.blueaward.at
office@blueaward.at
