7th Biennale of Young Greek Architects

COMPETITION ANNOUNCEMENT 

1.GENERAL TERMS

The Hellenic Institute of Architecture, as part of its activities for the promotion of contemporary Greek architecture, is announcing competition to select projects for the 7th Biennale of Young Greek Architects, that will take place in December 2012 at the Benaki Museum. The aim of the Biennale of Young Greek Architects, is to gather a representative sample of the work of young architects, to prominence new creators and to exchange ideas regarding the development of architectural thought and the production of architectural work in Greece today.

The Biennale accepts entries from architects up to 45 years of age, which concern two sections: a) implemented projects and b) non-implemented proposals, provided that they correspond to actual design assignments (including projects that have been awarded to competitions). The submission of student work is not allowed. At the exhibition venue a series of open discussions will be organised, with invited speakers, aiming at a critical evaluation of all the works.

The selection of the proposals to be exhibited will be made by the architects: Katerina Giamalaki, Stavro Gyftopoulo, Pano Dragona, Niko Kalogera and Anastasio Kotsiopoulo. An alternate member of the committee will be the architect Panagiotis Pagkalos. The architect Elias Constantopoulos has been responsible for the curation and the design of the 7th Biennale.

2. ENTRY SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Each scholar or group of scholars may submit for evaluation a maximum of three (3) proposals, each in a separate folder with complete information. At the exhibition, each scholar may be represented with one or a maximum of two (2) works.

The following are required for each proposal:

Α. The details of the project and the scholar (or scholars)

Β. One A4 page, with the details of the study, that is to say a brief history (employer, award process if it is a public project, details of the competition if it is participation in an architectural competition, grade or prospect of implementation of the study), summary of the requested building program, analysis of the basic principles of composition.

C. Up to three A3 pages, with floor plans, elevations and sections, axonometric or perspective, photographs (maximum dimension up to 13×18), as well as any additional information that participants consider useful for understanding the proposal.

D. A cd or dvd with all the above material in the following format:

For A: in Word or Excel

For B: in Word

For C: in [.pdf] or [*.eps] for the drawings and in format [*.jpg] or [*.tiff] for the photographs in 300 dpi analysis.

3. TIMELINE

April 4, 2012: Announcement of the 7th Biennale
June 1, 2012: Deadline for submission of entries
July 2, 2012: Announcement of results
September 14, 2012: Submission of material by selected participants
December 2012: Exhibition and events of the 7th Biennale

MAJOR SPONSORS:
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SUPPORTERS:
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COMMUNICATION SPONSORS:
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*Photographs: L. Kourgiantakis