Houses for Change

Sponsor: IE University School of Architecture and Design, Madrid

Type: Open, ideas, international

Eligibility:  Students and young professionals

Fee: none

Awards: A prize equivalent to 20,000 €  applicable towards the tition fees of a master program at IE + construction of the winning prototype.

Registration Deadline: 10 December 2013

Submission Deadline: 16 December 2013

Jury:

• Bijoy Jain, Founder of Studio Mumbai Architects, Mumbai, India
• Hubert Klumpner, Co-director of Urban Think-Tank
• Yung Ho Chang, Atelier FCJZ, Beijing
• Samia Nkrumah, President of the Kwame Nkrumah Pan African center
• Kimberly Holden, Founding Principal, SHoP Architects

Design Challenge: The purpose of the competition is to consider housing as an urgent and basic component of improving urban environments for the poor and at risk, and to propose viable housing alternatives for those often neglected or left out.

For more information, go to: http://www.housesforchange.net/competition/houses-change