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
[email protected]
http://www.berkeleyprize.org |
 Changdong Station winner – image ©D & B Partners Architects
Whereas international competitions for real projects have become a rarity lately, Korea is a welcome exception. Among the plethora of competition announcements we receive almost weekly, several have ended with foreign firms as winners. But the history of welcoming international participants does go back several years. One notable early example was the Incheon Airport competition, won by Fentress Bradburn Architects (1962-70).
Among the more recent successes of foreign firms was the Busan Opera House competition, won by Snøhetta (2013-) and the Sejong Museum Gardens competition, won by Office OU, Toronto (2016-2023).
Read more… Preparation and Organization of Design Competitions 
[phase 1] Benjamin Hossbach / Christian Lehmhaus / Christine Eichelmann
210 × 230 mm, 192 pp.
over 600 images
softcover
ISBN 978-3-86922-316-2 (English)
ISBN 978-3-86922-240-0 (German)
Dom Publishers
€48 in EU (For price abroad, see below)
Founded in 1998 in Berlin, Phase 1 has been a principal player in the organization and facilitation of design competitions, not only in Germany, but abroad as well. The accomplishments of the firm have been well documented in three volumes—The Architecture of Competitions—beginning in 2i006. Whereas these books mainly focused on the results of the competitions they have administered, the present work, Fundamentals of Competition Management, takes one from the very beginnings of the competition process to its conclusion. The authors envisioned the publication as “three three books in one: one „blue book“ with example projects, one „yellow book“ with statements and the „white book“ with the actual guideline to competition management.”
Although there have been a number of handbooks covering the administration of designcompetitions a study covering the entire process in such detail is a welcome addition to the the literature in this field. As a contribution to this important democratic process that has yielded exceptional design for decades, this volume is not only valid for Europe, but a current overview of the process for those globally who wish to raise the level of design by virtue of a design competition. -Ed Foreign institutions wishing to obtain a copy of the book will recieve a discount to cover the cost of foreign shipping.
To obtain a copy for that offer, go to: [email protected] 
1st Place: Zaha Hadid Architects – night view from river – Render by Negativ
Arriving to board a ferry boat or cruise ship used to be a rather mundane experience. If you had luggage, you might be able to drop it off upon boarding, assuming that the boarding operation was sophisticated enough. In any case, the arrival experience was nothing to look forward to. I recall boarding the SS United States for a trip to Europe in the late 1950s. Arriving at the pier in New York, the only thought any traveler had was to board that ocean liner as soon as possible, find one’s cabin, and start exploring. If you were in New York City and arriving early, a nearby restaurant or cafe would be your best bet while passing time before boarding. Read more… 
Helsinki Central Library, by ALA Architects (2012-2018)
The world has experienced a limited number of open competitions over the past three decades, but even with diminishing numbers, some stand out among projects in their categories that can’t be ignored for the high quality and degree of creativity they revealed. Included among those are several invited competitions that were extraordinary in their efforts to explore new avenues of institutional and museum design. Some might ask why the Vietnam Memorial is not mentioned here. Only included in our list are competitions that were covered by us, beginning in 1990 with COMPETITIONS magazine to the present day. As for what category a project under construction (Science Island), might belong to or fundraising still in progress (San Jose’s Urban Confluence or the Cold War Memorial competition, Wisconsin), we would classify the former as “built” and wait and see what happens with the latter—keeping our fingers crossed for a positive outcome. Read More… 
2023 Teaching and Innovation Farm Lab Graduate Student Honor Award by USC (aerial view)
Architecture at Zero competitions, which focus on the theme, Design Competition for Decarbonization, Equity and Resilience in California, have been supported by numerous California utilities such as Southern California Edison, PG&E, SoCAl Gas, etc., who have recognized the need for better climate solutions in that state as well as globally. Until recently, most of these competitions were based on an ideas only format, with few expectations that any of the winning designs would actually be realized. The anticipated realization of the 2022 and 2023 competitions suggests that some clients are taking these ideas seriously enough to go ahead with realization. Read more… 
RUR model perspective – ©RUR
New Kaohsiung Port and Cruise Terminal, Taiwan (2011-2020)
Reiser+Umemoto RUR Architecture PC/ Jesse Reiser – U.S.A.
with
Fei & Cheng Associates/Philip T.C. Fei – R.O.C. (Tendener)
This was probably the last international open competition result that was built in Taiwan. A later competition for the Keelung Harbor Service Building Competition, won by Neil Denari of the U.S., the result of a shortlisting procedure, was not built. The fact that the project by RUR was eventually completed—the result of the RUR/Fei & Cheng’s winning entry there—certainly goes back to the collaborative role of those to firms in winning the 2008 Taipei Pop Music Center competition, a collaboration that should not be underestimated in setting the stage for this competition Read more… |
