[2007.06.28] Europan 9

[sigue2000]

Competition objectives

The objective of Europan is to bring to the fore Europe’s young architecture and urban design professionals, and to publicise and develop their ideas. Its objective is also to help cities and developers which have provided sites to find innovative architectural and urban solutions for the transformation of urban locations. EUROPAN 9 is a European federation of national organisations, which manages architectural competitions followed by building or study projects, launched simultaneously by several countries on common theme, objectives and rules. The open competitions are anonymous and public calls for ideas on a European scale.

Participants

Europan 9 is open to any team of young urban and architectural design professionals (architects, urban planners, landscape designers, engineers). Teams may also include young professionals from other disciplines. All candidates must be under 40 years old on the closing date for submission of entries.

Procedure

From Monday 5 February 2007, every entrant or team has free access to the European’s website www.europan-europe.com, where they can download and print the rules, the themes and the synthetic presentations of the 73 sites of the session, classified according to thematic families.

Schedule

Registration deadline: Thursday, May 31, 2007
Submission deadline for handing in or sending entries: Thursday, June 28, 2007

73 sites from 22 european countries

Sorted by location or topic. --> Link

[simon]

i always thought europan was exclusive to euro's.


can north americans enter it???

[A_Minima]

I was engaged in this competition two times. The only restriction seems to be you have to be maximum 40 at the date of the limit term of the competition and to be professionaly allowed to participate in the country site you're working in. Just ask if Canadian architects are allowed to work with their diploma in the country you choose to participate.

[sigue2000]

The rules call for no specific nationalities.

Originally Posted by Europan 9

1• RULES
1.1 Eligibility
1.1.1 Entrants
Europan 9 is open to any team of young urban and architectural design
professionals (architects, urban planners, landscape designers, engineers).
Teams may also include young professionals from other disciplines.
All candidates, whatever their profession, must be under 40 years old on the
closing date for submission of entries (see timetable).

PDF of the rules here --> Link

[makeArchitecture]

Does anyone understand what they are looking for?

They really need an editor....

The language is so dense...

I read the following:

2.2.2. Complete site folder
This document is in English (and possibly in the site language).
Each complete site folder contains all the information required (quantity,
analytical content and quality) so that the entrant or team can design their
project on the chosen site:

So the competition brief is in the folder you download.

But to find out you need to pay $100 euros or something. I don't competitions like this. I am spending a dime until I know what the brief is.

Anyone have one of the competition briefs?

Next question, can American Architects participate?

I am licensed in Illinois...

How does that work?

[gorgon]

Originally Posted by makeArchitecture

Does anyone understand what they are looking for?

Next question, can American Architects participate? I am licensed in Illinois...How does that work?

It is really hard to know, I've just finished downloading the briefs (short versions) The closer you come to the centre of europe the more difficult itis to get a straight answer!!

About your other question check out here:

Sample question:
I have a non European nationality and I am living and working outside Europe, can I participate to Europan?

The team leader have to be an architect or a person authorized under the national law of the country where the site is located to be responsible for the design and implementation of an architectural or urban project.

Whatever are the nationality and/or the place of leaving, only is taken in account the fact that the diploma is an European one or that the practice is already recognized in Europe, in accordance with competition rules in force in the participating countries

I think the answer might be no, but you should check with your national body AIA? There are often repricocity agreements - you can work in some countries and they can work in yours. Sadly though I think the US might not have these - I think they revoked the agreement with UK about 10 years ago, but check with each country.

[makeArchitecture]

The closer you come to the centre of europe the more difficult itis to get a straight answer!!

[gorgon]

Originally Posted by makeArchitecture

Anyone have one of the competition briefs?

I'd like to second that request. Does anyone have a competition download? It doesn't even have to be for this year - previous years info would be useful to see.

I have narrowed my interest down to 6 sites but am not sure how to proceed, obviously can't do all six also can't afford the 300euros to get all the briefs...

Also
Does anyone have one of these catalogues of previous competitions? Are they any good? Worth getting? or just a catalogue of barely readable drawings? at 65euros I need some convincing

[manc]

best and most organised competition in europe. Most countries offer the financial help and professional advice to set up a practice to build the winning competition. It is also the competition with the most prestige (i know a few people who have won in practice and academia who have great success)

Mccreanor Lavington in Nederlands is a good example of a v successful practice who have sucessfully used europan to get where they are.

I am currently thinking of putting together a team (i am meeting a few old uni friends and som people in practice in manchester thursday) to do the next one if anyone is interested in joining us? You never know if we won one of the sites we could have the first online architecttural parctice "pushpullbar associates" anyone?

There is more than enough talent on here to really do something v special.
Also never mind just europan, i think we should pick a competition every few months and collectivly enter.

[gorgon]

Originally Posted by manc

There is more than enough talent on here to really do something v special.
Also never mind just europan, i think we should pick a competition every few months and collectivly enter.

I agree loads of talent. If you could find a way of controlling it...
I would love to use ppb to crit my entry but can't see how that is going to work?

In terms of elligibility I called the Architects Registration Board in the UK who pointed out this pdf on the ARB website of european countries with repricocity - i.e. if your country is on the list you can automatically work in any of the others.

What sucks for me is that my favorite site is in Croatia and its not on the list! I know how you must feel makearchitecture