10th Annual Berkeley Prize10th Annual Berkeley Prize: Essay Competition, Travel Fellowship, and Architectural Design Competition Open, international, student, writing Mid Dec 2007 – Stage 1 Essay Proposal Deadline Mid Feb 2008 – Stage 2 Essay Submission Deadline May 2008 – Stage 3 Travel Fellowship Entry Deadline SPONSOR: UC Berkeley TYPE: Open, international, student, essay LOCATION:
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LANGUAGE:
English
TIMETABLE:
Mid Dec 2007 – Stage 1 Essay Proposal Deadline
Mid Jan 2008 – Stage 2 (25) Semifinalists Invited
Mid Feb 2008 – Stage 2 Essay Submission Deadline
Apr 2008 – Stage 3 (5-7) Semifinalists Invited to Compete for Travel Fellowship
May 2008 – Stage 3 Travel Fellowship Entry Deadline
May 2008 – Essay and Travel Fellowship Winners Announced
ELIGIBILITY:
All currently registered undergraduates majoring in architectural design in accredited schools of architecture worldwide.
JURY:
Essay Competition Jury:
Lynne Elizabeth, Director, New Village Press (Architects and Planners for Social Responsibility). Oakland, California
Marielle Richon, UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Paris
Daves Rossell, Professor of Architectural History, Savannah College of Art, Savannah, Georgia
Hasan Uddin-Khan, Distinguished Professor of Architecture and Historic Preservation, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island
Travel Fellowship Jury:
Budoor Bukhari American University of Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (2007 Berkeley Prize Travel Fellow)
Raymond Lifchez, Professor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley, California
Tony Schuman, Associate Professor of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, New Jersey
Adi Shamir, Executive Director, Van Alen Institute, New York, New York
AWARDS:
Essay Competition Winners – Total prize of USD$7,500.00, minimum USD$3,500.00 first prize. Remaining purse to be allocated at the discretion of the Jury.
Travel Fellow – Round-trip airfare and a stipend to attend a major international architectural event in the summer of 2008.
FEE:
None
THE COMPETITION:
In Stage 1, write a 500-word proposal for an essay on this year’s Question, as posted. The 2008 PRIZE Question revolves around the role competitions can play in promoting a more social architecture. The proposals are due in mid-December.
Approximately 25 student semifinalists are invited to expand their proposal into a 2500-word essay due in mid-February, 2008. From this pool, 5-7 Finalist essays are forwarded to the 2008 BERKELEY PRIZE Essay jury, who will select First, Second, and Third place winners.
The top Semifinalists are also offered the opportunity to compete for the 2008 BERKELEY PRIZE Travel Fellowship award. This year’s destination will be announced late in the fall. In past years, Travel Fellows have participated in the Global Studio in Johannesburg, South Africa; attended the United Nations Habitat Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; the International Union of Architects Congress in Istanbul, Turkey; and FORUM BARCELONA in Barcelona, Spain.
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the BERKELEY PRIZE, there will be a third competition sponsored this year: the Architectural Design Competition. This competition is held to generate ideas about how architects can find solutions to what they feel are the most important social issues in their country. Semifinalists will be invited to submit proposals for a design competition to be held at their school towards this end. The BERKELEY PRIZE will select the proposal that seems to have the most chance of success and support the winning student’s school with funds to encourage the school to actually hold the competition.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Thea Chroman, Administrator, Berkeley Prize
Tel: 415-385-9214
Benjamin Clavan, Ph.D., Architect, AIA
Tel: 323-933-5426
info@berkeleyprize.org
http://www.berkeleyprize.org |
Vilnius Railway Station and Public Square Competition 
Vilnius Station competition Image: ©Zaha Hadid Architects
How do you find a common thread that can connect an eclectic collection of buildings, visually as well as physically, all located within a one-block site, located just across from Canada’s Parliament building in Ottawa. To identify this common thread that could tie everything together, the client turned to a design competition for answers. With the aid of consultants, [phase eins] from Berlin and experts from Canada’s’ own Université de Montréal’s School of Architecture, the client turned to an invited international format to finally settle on six teams that could rethink the site. Read More… Ottawa Parliamentary Precinct Renewal Competition 
Culminating in a year’s long process, the winner of the Ottawa Parliamentary Precinct was David Chipperfield Architects, one of the six shortlisted firms designated to participate in the competition. An April 10th viewing of the public presentation of the six finalists was viewed by scores on Facebook. From the impressions gained from that event, it was apparent that Chipperfield and Behnisch were the probable frontrunners. Chipperfield’s presentation emphasized the materiality of their design as a design strategy intended to embrace the architectural context of the precinct. Together with a very straightforward circulation plan, in the end, this had to be a major factor in the jury’s decision. Read more… 
After narrowing the field to three finalists and reviewing their presentations via ZOOM, the competition jury gave the nod to KUTONOTUK of Charlottesville, VA as the winner. The winning team is led by principals, Leena Cho and Matthew Jull, faculty members at the University of Virginia’s School of Architecture. Second place went to FORMA from New York City, and third place was awarded to Lewis Williams with Hudson Architects from Norwich, England. Presentations of all three finalists can be seen here:
https://competitions.org/2022/03/atlantic-beach-nc-boardwalk-design-competition/ Young Architects in Competitions When Competitions and a New Generation of Ideas Elevate Architectural Quality 
by Jean-Pierre Chupin and G. Stanley Collyer
published by Potential Architecture Books, Montreal, Canada 2020
271 illustrations in color and black & white
Available in PDF and eBook formats
ISBN 9781988962047
What do the Vietnam Memorial, the St. Louis Arch, and the Sydney Opera House have in common? These world renowned landmarks were all designed by architects under the age of 40, and in each case they were selected through open competitions. At their best, design competitions can provide a singular opportunity for young and unknown architects to make their mark on the built environment and launch productive, fruitful careers. But what happens when design competitions are engineered to favor the established and experienced practitioners from the very outset? This comprehensive new book written by Jean-Pierre Chupin (Canadian Competitions Catalogue) and Stanley Collyer (COMPETITIONS) highlights for the crucial role competitions have played in fostering the careers of young architects, and makes an argument against the trend of invited competitions and RFQs. The authors take an in-depth look at past competitions won by young architects and planners, and survey the state of competitions through the world on a region by region basis. The end result is a compelling argument for an inclusive approach to conducting international design competitions. Download Young Architects in Competitions for free at the following link: https://crc.umontreal.ca/en/publications-libre-acces/ AL_A Prevails over a Star-studded Cast 
After over a year of planning, the choice of a site, and the establishment of criteria for the staging an international competition for a new concert hall, the process recently culminated in the choice of an architect for the design of the new Philharmonic in Belgrade, Serbia. Once a rather drab, nondescript city under the Tito regime, Belgrade has been reimagining itself to take its place as a major European city, including cultural attractions one might attach to such a claim. Read more… 
Boardwalk photo: Courtesy Atlantic Beach
Boardwalks, especially on oceanfront locations, have a pretty universal look. But how they fit into their local context is another matter. Topography, real estate and commerce all play a role in their function, and to some extent, design. In the case of Miami Beach, it’s primarily a promenade; Brooklyn’s 2.7 mile Coney Island boardwalk stretching all the way to Brighton Beach is a mixture of promenade and commerce, with the latter at both ends. In the case of Atlantic City, it’s mostly about retail.
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Winning entry – Hyunjoon Min Architects Office
National Library of Korea Data Preservation Center Competition
Retrofitting existing buildings is nothing new. The abandonment of old factory structures, especially in the northeast of the U.S., has been occurring at a rapid pace ever since those businesses ceased to be profitable in the face of foreign competition. However, in North America, retrofitting those structures has seldom been the subject of a design competition. In Korea, the recent plethora of design competitions for all types of projects has also included several for providing a new life for abandoned buildings. Read more… Countryside Dilemmas – New Rural Planning 
1st Place – ©Tianjin University Team
Planning used to be at the bottom of Chinese students’ lists of design priorities. One western architect, whose firm was at the forefront in the design and implementation of numerous planning projects in China, surmised that planning was an area that received little attention in the university curricula. So when planning for a major metropolitan area has occurred, the Chinese have almost always turned to outside international firms for ideas and implementation. Read more… |
