In March 2006, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation will confer the International Bauhaus Award for the fourth time. The emphasis is on design projects that tackle the theme “Updating Modernism”. The International Bauhaus Award is directed at young designers and academics, irrespective of discipline and profession. Team entries are welcomed. Closing date for entries is 9th January 2006.

Conditions of entry
The competition is open to those born after 25 th March 1966, i.e., under 40 years of age at the time the award is presented. In team entries, this is applicable to all the members of the team.

Presentation of prizes
The prize giving will take place on 25 th March 2006 at the Bauhaus in Dessau. Prior to the final decision of the jury, the candidates chosen by the first round jury will give a public presentation of their work.

Further information: www.bauhaus-award.de, www.bauhaus-dessau.de.

Prizes
First, second and third prizes will be awarded. The first prize is € 6,000, the second € 4,000 and the third € 2,000.

Deadlines
Please send all documents required for submission to the following address by 9th January 2006:

If sent by post:

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
International Bauhaus Award / Bidding documents
P.O. Box 1405
D-06813 Dessau

If sent by courier service:

Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
International Bauhaus Award / Bidding documents
Gropiusallee 38
D-06846 Dessau

I don't get the age limit. It's 'aimed at young designers'. Are old designers too good or their ideas not 'fresh' enough for competition?

Really odd in my opinion. There is nothing on the site that I've found that explains this. Seems discriminitory.

I don't get the age limit. It's 'aimed at young designers'. Are old designers too good or their ideas not 'fresh' enough for competition?

Really odd in my opinion. There is nothing on the site that I've found that explains this. Seems discriminitory.

YES Yes & Yes

More & More competitions are restricted by age

Very discriminatory & Unfair .. if not illegal it should be.
(Supports an attitude of censorship)

Try announcing a competition open to anyone who is not black / only Christian / Not Gay / Only Carniverous Males over 1800mm Height / & see how far you get before being hauled up in court (or just simply murdered)

There should be less restrictions not more of them.

There again I could just lie about my age (wouldn't be the first time)

Keep in mind that that the client doesn't even need to choose to do a competition...there are many ways to hire an architect or even choose one. How are the choices that we make in who we do business with ever non-discriminatory?

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Keep in mind that that the client doesn't even need to choose to do a competition...there are many ways to hire an architect or even choose one. How are the choices that we make in who we do business with ever non-discriminatory?

tr

Well that's the same thought I had in the back of my head, but why restrict yourself to an age limit. What do gain from that restriction?

YES Yes & Yes

More & More competitions are restricted by age

Very discriminatory & Unfair .. if not illegal it should be.
(Supports an attitude of censorship)

Try announcing a competition open to anyone who is not black / only Christian / Not Gay / Only Carniverous Males over 1800mm Height / & see how far you get before being hauled up in court (or just simply murdered)

There should be less restrictions not more of them.

There again I could just lie about my age (wouldn't be the first time)

I think that the aim of the age cap is to keep out the superstar architects. Name one that is younger than 40. I think that in some ways this is good, it gives the opportunity for fresh ideas, but if you started your firm at 50, then this is an unfair policy. How else do you restrict who enters a competition? Do you want to compete against Gehry, Hadid, or Libeskind? I don’t think that I would want to.

Do you want to compete against Gehry, Hadid, or Libeskind? I don’t think that I would want to.

Why not? And if you win? :wondering

For me it's not about keeping the starchitects out, but to give more chances to the new ones show their faces (or maybe it's the same thing? :wondering Now I'm confused :confused: )

Well that's the same thought I had in the back of my head, but why restrict yourself to an age limit. What do gain from that restriction?

maybe they would like to give a young architect a chance in the spotlight.

an old saying: "architecture is an old man's profession". (not PC anymore)

it takes a lifetime to master all the spheres of architecture. so the project they pick, the architect, will look back when she/he are 80 and say what the hell was i doing?!

dp

Why not? And if you win? :wondering

I guess I meant because their work is so recognizable, not because quallity of work would be inferior.

If they are restricting it then they are taking a chance on the quality of the work being inferior. Why would they not want the best possible solution instead of the best possible solution under 40?

Doesn't seem like a very good way of doing it. Frankly, not that it's an absolute necessity, but how many of these under 40's are as familiar with the Bauhaus as the old guys. Do the design schools even discuss the Bauhaus anymore? Maybe what they want to avoid is an all too obvious solution or a superficial copy of the Bauhaus Style.

I still don't get it.

If they are restricting it then they are taking a chance on the quality of the work being inferior. Why would they not want the best possible solution instead of the best possible solution under 40?

Doesn't seem like a very good way of doing it. Frankly, not that it's an absolute necessity, but how many of these under 40's are as familiar with the Bauhaus as the old guys. Do the design schools even discuss the Bauhaus anymore? Maybe what they want to avoid is an all too obvious solution or a superficial copy of the Bauhaus Style.

I still don't get it.

OLIVIO FERRARI
1931 - 1994
An influential Swiss designer and educator, Olivio Ferrari came to teach architecture in the United States in the 1960s. After study and work with Bauhaus master Max Bill, and teaching in Zurich, Ferrari began his distinguished career at Auburn University in Alabama and later led the architecture program at Virginia Tech, where he engaged and inspired hundreds of American design students. By using materials in ways that express their nature in relation to function and by insisting on clarity of form, Professor Ferrari designed intriguing, useful, and instructive furniture. Prototypes were built by students.

Professor Ferrari designed intriguing, useful, and instructive furniture. Prototypes were built by students.

That's fine, but Ferrari did the designing. I guess I don't understand your point David.

That's fine, but Ferrari did the designing. I guess I don't understand your point David.

Jeff I'm not trying to change your mind.

you said, "Do the design schools even discuss the Bauhaus anymore?"

it made me think about college.

Ferrari pasted away in 1994 and I arrived 1995, but his presence stills carries on. The first two years was taught with a Bauhaus pedagogy. We would do color studies in the vane of Albers and other Bauhaus exercises. But you are probably right, everyone probably has a laptop now.

maybe someone might listen to the group bauhaus.

**singing Bela Lugosi's Dead**