Europan

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Europan is a biennial competition for young architects under 40 years of age to design innovative housing and urban planning for sites across Europe. [1] It is considered the world's largest (and the smartest [2] ) competition in the field. [3] The competition encourages architects to address social, cultural and economic changes occurring in towns and cities and offers the opportunity for cross-cultural learning and networking for the architects and site promoters involved.

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Structure

The initiative was founded in 1989 and is supported by 19 European countries. The organizer of these competitions is the “Europan Europe” association, based in Paris, which forms the European umbrella organisation for a network of national European organisations. The President of the association is currently Manuel Blanco, and the General Secretary is Didier Rebois. The respective national organisations consist of representatives of public administrations, cities and municipalities, as well as representatives of the clients and architectural associations.

The initiative has a network of experts, architects, urban planners and around 250 European cities, who jointly develop and analyse the topics in one large forum held every autumn in a different European city. [4]

Goals

The aim of the competition is to find innovative and experimental approaches for locations proposed by European cities and to promote dialogue on architecture and urban planning locally and internationally, as well as to support talented young architects from the announcement to the realisation of their ideas. Furthermore, the competition is intended to help the participating municipalities and creatives to build up Europe-wide networks.

The participants must be under 40 years of age. They can join together to form working groups and make proposals for several locations in parallel. In each country, a national jury will select the winners for the respective locations. Europan offers young European architects the opportunity to make a name for themselves internationally outside the ordinary competition system, with extraordinary designs. This is favoured by the possibility of also working on locations outside the own national border, as well as the great attention that the competition and its publications enjoys in expert circles. Previous award winners include some well-known offices such as Riegler Riewe (Graz, Austria), MVRDV (Netherlands), NL Architects (Netherlands), Njiric & Njiric (Croatia) and nbundm* (Ingolstadt, Munich).

Topics of the competitions

Source: Europan Europe website. [5]

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References

  1. ↑ "Europan 17's Living Cities Competition". ArchDaily. 2023-05-17. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  2. ↑ Stratis, Socrates (2020-12-01). "Translocality as Urban Design Tool for the Inclusive City: The Case of Europan". Ardeth. A magazine on the power of the project (7): 25–45. ISSN   2532-6457.
  3. ↑ "Europan 14 – Competition launch | gat.news". gat.news. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  4. ↑ "FORUM OPEN CALL | gat.news". gat.news. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
  5. ↑ "Sessions Infos | Europan-Europe.eu". www.europan-europe.eu. Retrieved 2024-01-22.
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