First Prize: Steps´n Slabs (Ralf Pasel, Frederik Künzel)
Second Prize: Sayama Flat (Jo Nagasaka)
Third Prize: Portraits From Above (Rufina Wu, Stefan Canham)
Recognition
- Husly (Vigdis Haugtro, Johannes Franciscus de Gier)
- Nomads of The City (Katja & Steffi Hoffmann)Yarışma Bilgileri
With the Bauhaus Award 2008, “Housing shortages - The minimum subsistence level housing of today ", the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation continues its research into “Updating Modernism”. In doing so, a central topic of the historic Bauhaus is taken up and introduced into a contemporary discourse: solutions are sought for the minimum subsistence level housing of today.
The second CIAM (International Congress of Modern Architecture) conference in Frankfurt am Main in 1929 took the title “The minimum subsistence level housing”. Here, new models and prototypes for small apartments were presented and
discussed by, among others, the Bauhaus directors Walter Gropius and Hannes Meyer.
Almost eight decades later, this subject is more pertinent than ever. Societies worldwide are confronted – in social, ecological and cultural terms - with housing shortages. Above all, living in urban poverty leads to existential housing problems. Around 50 % of the world population currently lives in cities. Approximately half of these again live in shantytowns or slums or are homeless, and that at a time when essential resources are becoming increasingly scarce.
In Western Europe, a critical housing problem, where a disproportionately high proportion of income is sometimes paid out in rent, currently affects at least 10 % of the population. The homeless, subtenants, residents and asylum seekers in emergency housing; long-term unemployed, young people without qualifications; emigrants, migrants, students, low-earners, retirees; single parents and families with many children all have difficulties finding housing in cities.
The Bauhaus Award 2008 will look at the social standards of the modern age in the field of housing and examine these in the light of the current housing crisis. The issue at the heart of the Award will be: poverty and housing shortages. Design-based plans or concepts and models or scenarios for housing policy are sought for minimum subsistence level housing. The focus will be on the development or design of affordable housing options in urban space. Candidates are expected to explore the existential standards and social requirements of the societies on which they base their Award entry.
Eligibility
Individuals or groups may enter work developed in the last five years - design outlines, plans, research projects, films, concepts, etc. Participants may include designers, artists and researchers who are under 40 years of age by the project completion date.
Criteria
For all entries, the reference to the subject matter of the competition, “Housing shortages: The minimum subsistence level housing of today” must be clear. The thematic relevance, contentual precision and conceptual realisation of the entry
must be of an exemplary standard. Further assessment criteria are the originality of the entry and its formal quality. All entries submitted must have been completed after 01 January 2003. The entries may contain deliverables, which have already been published:
- In the case of a realised architectural, urban development, art or design project, the date of its official completion or inauguration applies.
- In the case of a film or television production, the date of its first transmission applies.
- In the case of an Internet production, the fist day the project was accessible online applies.
- In the case of a publication, the year the first edition was published applies.
- In the case of an MA, doctoral thesis or post-doctoral thesis, the date of its submission applies.
Prizes
- 1. Prize: 6.000 Euros
- 2. Prize: 4.000 Euros
- 3. Prize: 2.000 Euros
1. Jury
- Regina Bittner (Culture Scientist, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation)
- Wilfried Hackenbroich (Architect, Berlin)
- Dr. Gerd Kuhn (Housing Historian, Stuttgart University)
- Dr. Walter Prigge (City Sociologist, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation)
- Stefan Rettich (Architect, Leipzig)
- Jörg Seifert (Architect, Konstanz University)
- Rainer Weisbach (Architect, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation)
2. Jury
- Prof.Dr. Omar Akbar (Bauhaus Dessau Foundation)
- Verena von Beckerath, Heide von Beckerath (Alberts Architects Berlin)
- Prof.Dr. Tilman Harlander (Stuttgart University)
- Dr. Robert Kaltenbrunner (Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung Berlin)
- Sabine Kraft (Archplus, Aachen)
- Prof. Philipp Oswalt (Kassel University)
- Prof.Dr. Eckhard Ribbeck (Stuttgart University)
Documents
- One-page biography, maximum 2.500 characters, including the exact date of birth (day, month and year), in English – 10 copies (Group entries: one page, maximum 2.500 signs per group member).
- One-page project description, maximum 2.500 signs, in English - 10 copies.
- Author statement, including statement of approval by co-authors if applicable, in English - one copy.
- A statement which confirms that the applicant, or in the case of a group entry one member of the group, is prepared and able if nominated to the second round to present the work to the second round jury on 21 June 2008 at the Bauhaus in Dessau, in English - one copy.
- A statement agreeing to the terms and conditions of the competition and the rules of procedure, in English - one copy.
- Either plan or presentation data or film production or text or publication - one copy respectively.
Schedule
24 - 25 April 2008: First Round Jury Meeting
20 - 21 June 2008: Second Round Jury Meeting
21 June 2008: Announcement of prizewinners and award ceremony
Deadline
Please send all documents required for submission to the following address by 31 March 2008 by post:
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
International Bauhaus Award / Application documents
P.O. Box 1405
D-06813 Dessau
If sent by courier service:
Bauhaus Dessau Foundation
International Bauhaus Award / Application documents
Gropiusallee 38
D-06846 Dessau
The date-stamp on delivery to post or courier service is applicable. Entries submitted after 31 March 2008 will not be considered and will be returned immediately. The electronic data transfer of submissions is not permissible.