Call for Entries: International Architecture Graduation Projects Award 2024

Tamayouz Excellence Award warmly invites architecture, urban design, urban planning, architecture technology, and landscape design students from around the globe to participate in the prestigious 2024 International Graduation Projects Award. This is a unique opportunity to showcase your innovative projects and gain international recognition. An independent, international jury of experts will meticulously review all submissions to select the winners, ensuring a fair and comprehensive evaluation process.

The purpose of this architectural design award is to recognise the excellence in architectural design and education worldwide and showcase excellent architectural examples to promote and provoke architectural debate to share architectural experience and knowledge among young architects and academics.

Aims and Objectives of Tamayouz International Award

- Aims to recognise and reward excellence in architectural design and education.

- Showcase young talents and support academics’ efforts of advancing architectural education worldwide.

- Promote a culture of excellence at an early stage amongst young designers to advance the profession of architecture professionally and academically.

- Exchange architecture knowledge, ideas and thoughts by providing a platform for discussions, observation and healthy competition.

Eligibility and Exceptions

All architecture, urban design, urban planning, architecture technology and landscape design students are eligible to participate in the Tamayouz International Graduation Projects Award as long as they are expected to graduate during the specified time period in the brief.

Individual students and teams are eligible to compete, as long as the submitted entry is final year graduation projects, only the team leader is required to register. The team leader is required to provide the names of the rest of the team members.

This award is an open international student award: all final year architecture and architecture design technology students studying anywhere in the world are eligible to participate.

If the student is selected as a winner, we will check their information with their university to make sure their are eligible to participate and the information provided is correct.

** The organisers of the award do not require approval from the universities for their students to participate. All that is required is proof that the student is expected to graduate in the specified academic year.

Registration

Individuals and teams worldwide can register through our online REGISTRATION PAGE (https://tamayouz-award.com/register/) will receive an email containing their registration code and payment options.

Registration Fees

Registration Fee for the Tamayouz International is: $40 Early (until 31/05), $50 regular (until 31/07), $60 last chance (up to the submission deadline), and it is non-refundable.

Institutional Registration Fees (See a list of registered institutions)

 If an Institution is interested in covering registration fees for its students, The Registration Fee is $500 and it covers the registration fees for all the students studying in their course.

Submission Deadline

Submission deadline is the 1st of September [midnight]. Participants will be responsible for the arrival of their proposals within the corresponding deadlines and no proposals will be accepted after the deadline.

Award's Rules and Regulations

- The official language of the Award is English.

- This is an international anonymous, single stage award open to students worldwide, all award submissions are to remain anonymous throughout the process and will only be identified using a registration code assigned by Tamayouz International during registration process. No entry will be reviewed or evaluated that contains any mark, logo or other identification or the identity of the individual or any member of their team.

- The identification of the 3 winners and 7 honourable mentions awarded will only be revealed after the jury evaluation period and at the time the award results are published on the Tamayouz Excellence Award Website.

- Entries will not be reviewed if any of the rules or submission requirements are not considered. Participants must submit their graduation projects using Tamayouz Templates. 

-Tamayouz Excellence Award, as the award organiser, reserves the right to modify the award schedule if deemed necessary.

Disqualification

Award submissions will be automatically disqualified if:

- Any attempt of any form of communication regarding this award is made with a jury members or those involved with the preparation and organisation of this award

- Any submission is received after the deadline as stated on the award schedule

- Any submission panel includes any language other than English

- Any submission contains any mark, logo or other indication of the identity the author/s

- Any submission does not abide by the submission requirements and rules as stated in this brief

Assessment Criteria for 2024

We are looking for aspirational and transformative projects tackling local and global challenges informed by a holistic understanding of context.

RELEVANCE: A declaration of conditions that set the contextual parameters of the proposal. Clarity of research process.

RESPONSE: Aspirational, transformative and original projects with a programmatic response to existing environmental, social conditions and local challenges. Clarity of design process.

RESOLUTION: A clearly declared architectural/urban intent and design vision. Spatial, material and technical realisation.

Important Dates

2024 Cycle Launch: February/2024

Early Registration Period: Feb - 31 May

Standard Registration Period: 1 Jun - 31 Jul

Last Chance to Register Period: 1Aug - 30 Aug

Start of Submissions Period: 01/June

End of Submissions Period: 01/ September

Long-list Announcement: November/2024

Short-list Announcement: November/2024

Winner Announcement: December/2024

PRIZES & CEREMONY

First Prize:

- MSc Scholarship for 2 Years at the University Polytechnic of Milan.

- Tamayouz Medal, Certificate, and Invitation to the ceremony and international design workshop (travel and accommodation covered by Tamayouz)

Second Prize:

- Three-month paid internship with Dewan Architects + Engineers in Dubai

- Certificate and Invitation to the ceremony (travel and accommodation covered by Tamayouz).

Third Prize:

- Three-month paid internship with Dewan Architects + Engineers in Dubai

- Certificate and Invitation to the ceremony (travel and accommodation covered by Tamayouz)

Honourable Mentions (7 Winners):

- Certificate

- Invitation to the ceremony

Supervisor of the Year Award:

- Given to the supervisor of the winning project or the supervisor with most entries supervised in the Top 10 Tamayouz Medal + Certificate.

School of the Year Award:

- Given to the university of the winning project or the university with the most entries in the Top 10 Tamayouz Medallion.

The Shortlist and the Longlist:

Projects featured in online publications and social media pages

The World's Top 100 Graduation Projects Platform:

Showcasing the top 100 projects received worldwide.

Download the information related to this competition here.

https://tamayouz-award.com/international-graduation-projects-award/

Title: International Architecture Graduation Projects Award 2024

Type: Competition Announcement (Student Competitions)

Website: https://tamayouz-award.com/international-graduation-projects-award/

Organizers: Tamayouz Excellence Award

Registration Deadline: August 30, 2024

Submission Deadline: September 01, 2024

Price: $40 Early (until 31/05), $50 regular (until 31/07), $60 last chance (up to the submission deadline)