Young architects are competing in the Young Architect Award

The 7th edition of the Young Architect Award competition gives a chance to students and young architects under 33 to showcase their talent and provoke discussion on sustainable environmental development. The theme of this year's assignment is "New Life for Old Places." The competition is under the patronage of Ladislav Lábus, the dean of the Faculty of Architecture at Czech Technical University in Prague. Students can submit their work until July 2, 2015. The results of the competition will be announced at the 26th International Building Fair FOR ARCH.

This year's theme offers competitors many possibilities on how to approach their project. “New Life for Old Places” includes abandoned, neglected, unused, and even forgotten places. There are numerous ways to work with such environments. It is up to the competitors to deal with the assignment as they see fit. The resulting works will thus offer various perspectives on the new use of old places and objects in the context of the landscape, rural settlements, and cities.

“The competition showcase of works by young architects and architecture students not only helps young architects and schools but also the public. The public benefit assignment offers comparison, visibility, and potentially recognition of the interest in the live, everyday lived, and perhaps therefore already overlooked and obscured problems of architecture and the environment in which we live,” says Ladislav Lábus, the patron of the competition.

The expert jury will work under the chairmanship of Michal Šourka from the MS architekti studio, consisting of: Jaroslav Wertig, A69 - architects, Adam Gebrian, a promoter and critic of architecture, Marie Petrová, a member of the Committee for Municipalities of the Government Council for Sustainable Development, Ministry of the Environment, and Josef Pechar, Foundation "Nadání J., M. a Z. Hlávkových."

General partner: Beton Brož
“At BETON BROŽ, we create unique concrete products that provide creators of public spaces with possibilities they have not even been able to imagine. We are very pleased that, thanks to our general partnership with the Young Architect Award, an opportunity arises for young architects to apply their ever-new, bold, and fresh creative abilities,” says Libor Brož, owner and director of BETON BROŽ.

Main partner: CPI Property Group
Partners: Foundation "Nadání J., M. a Z. Hlávkových," Center for the Support of Computer Graphics CR, FOR ARCH
Patronage: Czech Chamber of Architects, Czech Chamber of Authorized Engineers and Technicians, Association of Municipalities of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports, Ministry of Culture, Ministry of the Environment, Ministry of Regional Development, statutory cities: Brno, Ostrava, Liberec
Partner schools: Czech Technical University in Prague, FUA TU in Liberec, FA VUT Brno, FAST VŠB-TU Ostrava, ZF Mendel University in Brno, VŠUP in Prague, ARCHIP, FA STU in Bratislava
Main media partners: Moderní obec, archiweb.cz
Media partners: ARCHITEKT – KABINET publishing, ERA21, ASB, Střechy-Fasády-Izolace, Stavitel, EARCH, PROPAMÁTKY

The project is realized with financial support from the capital city of Prague and the statutory city of Ostrava.

More information can be found at www.yaa.cz.