Jury Members:
– Santiago de Molina
Architect, Ph. D , Professor at San Pablo CEU University of Madrid
– Areti Markopoulou
Architect, Academic Director at IAAC
– Chitra. K. Vishwanath
Architect, Director of Biome Environment Solution
– Francisco Burgos
Architect, Partner Founder of “Burgos & Garrido Arquitetos Asciados”, Spain
– Benjamin Lborra Wicksteed
Architect, Partner founder of MESURA, Spain
Head of Organizing Committee & Director of 2ACAA 2019
Ahmad Zohadi
Hosted by:
Polytechnic University of Madrid in October 18th, 2019
Organized by:
2A Magazine
Categories for Completed Projects
For completed projects, the award will be presented in the following categories. All categories are open to practices of all sizes and there is no limit to the amount of categories you can enter, however one project cannot be entered in two different categories. Please see How to Enter for more details on entries.
1) Residential
2) Commercial
3) Public
4) Urban Projects, Rural Projects, Landscape
5) Old and New (Reuse and adaptation, Renovation, Restoration, Regeneration)
6) Interior Architecture
7) Future Projects/Innovative Designs
This category is a celebration of excellence design-only, future or uncompleted projects including entries of regional/ international competitions, that meet the following conditions. We will be looking to champion creation and concept that has pushed its specific typology forward and proven a holistic and effective approach. Also:
• The site of the project is located in Central & South America, having rich ecological, cultural, historical or physical characteristics and features.
• Has Focused on responsive design, having addressed, challenged or responded to an architectural-related issue (physical, ecological, sociocultural, contextual, technical and..).
• It is based on local or regional studies.
• Introduces or represents an innovative design vision / approach.
The projects in this category will be divided in four subcategories:
A- Large-Scale Architecture
B- Medium-Scale Architecture
C- Small-Scale Architecture
Please note that:
• Future project category covers all eligible entries, regardless of the project program and subject.
• Except for the date of completion, this category covers and follows the same regulations and procedure for submission as built project categories.
Rules, Conditions and the procedure of the 2A Central & South America Architecture Award
• 2A Central & South America Architecture Award is a one-stage entry/ two-stage judging award.
• The First Stage Entry is open to all professional entrants, i.e., Individual architects, urban designers, urban planners, landscape architects, multi-professional teams and Architectural firms and offices.
• Other associated bodies, e.g., clients, developers, contractors, may also enter on behalf of the architect, with their consent.
• Join projects between universities and industry are eligible to participate in the competition.
• The Entries include two Sheets, introducing the project, in A3 size (Maximum 10 MB Each File of the Panel).
• The candidate projects of The First Stage Entry will be notified by email as well as will be announced in the 2A magazine website.
• The sheets of candidate projects will be printed out and the jury members will choose the winners of each category in a meeting held by 2A Magazine in Polytechnic University of Madrid.
• All projects should have been completed on or after 01 January 2010. For Future Projects/Innovative Design category entries, the design dates should not be older than 2010.
• Future project category covers all eligible entries, regardless of the project program and subject.
• All Projects should have been built /located in one of the Central & South American countries. As for Future project category, the site of the project must be located in Central & South America.
• Participants can submit multiple projects under one website account, and there is no limit on the number of submitted projects.
• Each project can be applied only to a single category of the Award. In another words, one project cannot be submitted under two different categories.
• Winner projects of the previous 2ACAA are not eligible to participate in the 2ACAA 2019.
Note: Further submission [of the projects] would be also available from the panel of participant, please click Submit Your Project at your own panel.
If you have any problem submitting your project to our website please contact us at: info@2aincorp.com
Vision
By the 1920s the influence of modern architecture reached Latin America when many specialized magazines, national and international, invaded the region. Brazil and Mexico were the main drivers of modern architecture in the region. This situation came together with cultural questioning European and Central & South American supremacy as the unique source of development, which led to an anti- imperialist feeling which has characterized the region up to the present.
The Mexican Revolution ( 1910-1917), marked the first step by stating the need for modernization. The muralist first created a modern expression with a national accent, which was the first Latin American expression influenced by European pictoric elements, but at the same time totally independent, since it was rooted on local ideas.
Afterwards, architecture played its role, trying to awake in people an innate knowledge based on their historical and cultural richness.
As a result, architecture in that time, intended to search in its past in order to create a proper style fulfilling the needs of modern society.
However, the influence of European pictorial trends and incorporation of modern trends such as Cubism and Surrealism, gave to this architectural expression an avant – garde sense adapted to the site, its landscape and climate.
The idea of regionalism has gained strength in architecture aimed at recovering marginal and even lost local differences. Critical Regionalism appears as a strategy to counteract the lack of significance of today’s architecture. Therefore, it calls on globalization to become the resource for exploration of the latent creative potential that exists in every one of the regions, and to integrate this potential within a new global context.
The issue of architecture in the age of globalization is that, given the increase of foreign influences in a culture, these influences end up being adopted, but not adapted to the context of each region, this creates , in effects, a destruction of what is considered authentic and traditional.
Since every culture has always depended on its intrinsic development of certain cross fertilization through the contact with other cultures, this fertilization creates the essence of Latin American modern architecture, which in response to Europe’s cultural domination, became a way of resistance and encouraged the whole region to take the initiative.
Latin American architecture 60 years ago became famous due to its rooting and identity, despite being faithful expression of modernity, the rules of which were against all legacy of the past and autochthonous values. Unfortunately, its sudden success vanished as a result of the political, social and economic circumstances of an unstable period for the region.
However, the sense of post modernity today leads the region to a more pluralist view which values these lost local connotations aiming at the same time to recover its essence by reinterpreting it. The internationalization of Brazilian architect Roberto Burle Marx’s works is a proof, which has been mimicked in other countries. Likewise, the influence of Mexican architect Luis Barragan is evident on foreign architects such as Japanese Tadao Ando. This is how the new concept of Critic Regionalism appears by calling today’s architects to take the same approach before used in this region : to obtain a better relationship with topography, climate and culture, to develop a sense of a place through being aware, to respect local conditions, and to appropriate modern technology and its practices. This is the reach of Latin American modern architecture: it has the bases for a true regionalism or an intelligent Latin Americanism, creative and without racism which took the best the world imposed up until then, but then proceeded to assimilate and reinterpret it to produce a style in its own right in order to recreate a local identity rooted in tradition.
Criteria
The following criteria will be considered to recognize and honor a built project/ future project in Central & South America that has produced significant contributions to humanity and built environment.
• Design Achievement including Concept, Strategy and Proceedings.
• Technical advancement includes engineering achievements (structural, mechanical, etc.) and innovative use of materials.
• Reflection of sense of place and of cultural identity and ecology; environmental sustainability (including ecological, and sociocultural sustainability)
• Social responsibility and community and urban connectivity.
• The effects of economical condition on the project.
• Transcendent Dimensions of Architecture
2A Central & South America Architecture Award 2019
2A Magazine is pleased to announce 2A Central & South America Architecture Award 2019, with the theme “Innovative Contextual Architecture in Central & South America”. Accordingly, the Award is for the recognition of an individual’s or group’s substantial contribution to today’s architecture in terms of contemporary challenges of the field and region and the projects that can have a lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture. This gathering is a profile of the diversity of cultures, identities, themes, ideas, and experiences in architecture and a platform to share, explore and discuss in a professional environment.
The program includes:
• The Award Ceremony
• The exhibition of the candidate projects
• The selection of the “Innovative Project of the Year”
• The Interaction Forum
Candidate Project
1) The projects that pass the first stage of scrutiny are regarded as “Candidate Project.”
Note 1: The project submission has to be done from May 15th to August 05th
Note 2: The consideration of the first step to select the qualified projects will be done by organizing committee.
2) The message of qualification of the candidate projects will be sent to you as the participants [via email] In 72 hours after their participation and asks to pay the candidate fee of 295 USD.
Note: Please send to us the receipt on the same place of the participant own panel or email to us.3) The list of candidates projects of 2ACAA 2019 will be declared at the website on August 05th,2019.
3) The list of candidates projects of 2ACAA 2019 will be declared at the website on August 05th, 2019.
4) All the candidate projects will be published in a special edition of 2A Magazine.
5) All the candidate projects will receive a qualification letter, representing that their project has been nominated by the organization of 2ACAA.
6) Architects of the Candidates projects are welcome to the award ceremony and interaction forum in Polytechnic University of Madrid.
Note: their invitation card will be sent to them maximum one month before the event.
7) one day exhibition of all the candidate projects will take place at Polytechnic University of Madrid, 18th October 2019.
Prizes
• The top two winners in each Award category will receive Gold and Silver medals and the award certificate (from 2A Magazine), respectively.
• The award sculpture will be given to the first places in all the categories.
• Upon Jury’s approving decision there might also be some special mentions in each category.
• The special mentions will receive certificates of recognition.
• All the candidate projects will be published in a special edition of 2A Magazine and extra pages will be allocated to the winners and special mentions.
• The winners of 2ACAA will be registered in the new facility of our website, “ Architectural Encyclopedia”, which is a platform for the introduction of the architects and their projects.
• Clients, developers and investors of the winner projects will receive a Letter of Appreciation. If winners send us the request for providing this letter.
Note: To receive the prizes and certificates, it’s mandatory to participate in the award ceremony.
Award Calendar
Submission:
Asia – Oceania: The entry opens on May 15th, 2019 and closes on June 30th, 2019 , 4.00 pm CET.
Jury meeting will be held in October 16th, 2019 and judgment of the printed panels at Polytechnic University of Madrid :
Award Ceremony:
October 18th, 2019
Exhibition of The Candidate Projects:
October 18th, 2019
Judgment
– First Stage of consideration: After the Entry Deadline, representation of the award organization award database and will rate the projects bsed on the judging criteria. The qualified projects will be chosen.
– Second Stage of Judgment: In a meeting held by 2A Magazine in Polytechnic University of Madrid, the winners will be selected.
Submission Fee
The 2ACAA entrance is free of charge.
The candidate projects will be charged 295 USD (375 CAD ) to be considered for the next stage of judgment.
Note: This fee is to cover the costs of printing the presentation sheets, transferring the sheets to the location of the second stage of judgment, keeping the sheets until the exhibition of the candidate projects, publishing the candidate and winner projects in 2A Magazine, participation in the award ceremony and a plus-one.
Interaction Forum
2A Magazine Interaction Forum will take place alongside the award ceremony of the 2A Continental Architectural Award on October 18th, 2019
If you are interested in participation please contact us with sufficient info about your speech via email at
pr@2aincorp.com
Note: The introduction of the speakers and abstract of their lectures will be published in the 2A Magazine and its website.
Copyright Policy
By submitting your projects to the award website [www.2aincorp.com] you will give us (2A Magazine) the permission to publish and share your project in our website and display in the award ceremony, on the other hand, All the information at the projects submitted to 2ACAA have been provided by the competitors (Designer and Director) and they are the copyright holder in this regard.
If there is any miscount, mistake or lack of credits regarding the project team and designers, 2A Magazine has NO obligation and the issue concerns the participants directly.
Note: All the information submitted to the magazine have been provided by the competitors- participants or architect [designer], hence, the responsibility of the third part liability lies with the competitors.
Award Venue
Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura (ETSAM) Technical University of Madrid / Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM) Av. Juan de Herrera, 4
E- 28040 Madrid