Yarışmalar-Competitions

On 23rd October 2004, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation will present the International Bauhaus Award for the third time. Once again, young designers and academics, as individuals or in groups, will be awarded for their work.

“Transit Spaces” is a metaphor for new urban spaces: for forerunners and protagonists of globalisation processes, and laboratories marked by a new extent of abrupt change, uncertainty and insecurity. When cities become transit places, the urban space changes: flexibility and mobility become key qualities. A shift in the relation of space and society is the consequence. New spatial orders with a transnational range are superimposed on the familiar territorial lines.

Concepts and projects submitted for the International Bauhaus Award should relate to new concepts of urbanity, and have visions for shaping the described processes and changes as their core. We are therefore looking for urban development projects that address these new spatial relationships: transnational agglomerations without a city, diasporic public spheres, and areas where informal economies intersect.

The Bauhaus Award has taken place every two years since 2000, and has in the meantime become a highly acclaimed contemporary design competition.
A prestigious and international panel of judges will choose the recipients of the awards in a two-tier selection process.

A sum of € 6,000 will be awarded for the first prize, € 4,000 for the second and € 2,000 for the third.

Jury of the first stage
Regina Bittner, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau  Dr. Regina Bormann, Büro für Kultur und Stadtgestaltung, Beilstein  Prof. Ernst Hubeli, Technische Universität Graz  Dr. Werner Möller, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau  Alexey Muratov, Project Russia, Moskau  Prof. Scott Paterson, Parsons School of Design, New York  N.N.

Jury of the second stage
Prof. Dr. Omar Akbar, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau  Prof. Dr. Helmuth Berking, Institut für Soziologie, Technische Universität Darmstadt  Francesca Ferguson, Generalkommissarin Deutscher Pavillon, 9. Internationale Architektur Biennale Venedig  Prof. Dr. Susanne Hauser, Institut für Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften, Technische Universität Graz  Shaheen Merali, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin  Roemer van Toorn, Berlage Institut, Rotterdam  Dr. Ramesh Kumar Biswas, Atelier Biswas Vienna/Berlin/Kuala Lumpur

Designers and academics born after 23rd October 1964 can submit entries for the International Bauhaus Award. Projects can be entered individually or in groups. The closing date for entry in the competition is 20th August 2004. For further information, see www.bauhaus-dessau.de or apply by e-mail at [email protected].