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The regional winners of International VELUX Award 2018 were elected after a jury review of all submitted projects in each of the two categories “Daylight in buildings” and “Daylight investigations”. The winners were elected from over 600 daylight projects submitted by students from 250 different schools of architecture in 58 countries.

The International VELUX Award is a biennial competition for students of architecture. We challenge students from all over the world to work with daylight as an ever relevant source of light, life and joy.

This Exhibition presents the nine regional winners of the International VELUX Award 2018:

Daylight in Buildings

Light Forms Juggler
Regional Winner Eastern Europe and the Middle East – Daylight in Buildings

Students: Anastasia Maslova
Teacher: Ilnar Akhtiamov and Rezeda Akhtiamova
School: Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering
Country: Russian Federation

Reaching the Light
Regional Winner Western Europe – Daylight in Buildings

Students: Joana Robalo, João Umbelino, Ana Ázar, António Lopes, Miguel Pedro
Teacher: João Soares
School: Universidade de Évora
Country: Portugal

Light Pavilion
Regional Winner Africa – Daylight in Buildings

Students: Fatai Osundiji, Emmanuel Ayo-loto
Teacher: Babajide Onabanjo
School: Obafemi Awolowo University
Country: Nigeria

Light Liquefaction
Regional Winner The Americas – Daylight in Buildings

Students: Ziqi Chen, Shuaizhong Wang, Zeyu Liu
Teacher: Earl Mark
School: University of Virginia
Country: United States

My Dead Relative in the Light
Regional Winner Asia and Oceania – Daylight in Buildings

Students: Qi Wang, Jingkai Chen, Peilin Yin
Teacher: Xuechuan Geng
School: Qingdao University of Technology
Country: China

Daylight Investigations

Cloud of the Polar Light
Regional Winner Eastern Europe and the Middle East – Daylight Investigations

Students: Anna Borisova and Kamilla Akhmetova
Teacher: Ilnar Akhtiamov and Rezeda Akhtiamova
School: Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering
Country: Russian Federation

Cover to Reveal
Regional Winner Western Europe – Daylight Investigations

Students: Brice Lemaire, Xiaolan Vandendries, Julien Obedia
Teacher: Gérald Ledent
School: Université Catholique de Louvain
Country: Belgium

Daylight to Water
Regional Winner The Americas – Daylight Investigations

Students: John Nguyen, Stephen Baik, and Abubakr Bajaman
Teacher: Mauricio Quirós Pacheco
School: University of Toronto
Country: Canada

Road to Light
Regional Winner Asia and Oceania – Daylight Investigations

Students: Yuhan Luo, Di Lan, Yuan Liu, Yusong Liu
Teacher: Shanchao Xin, Delong Sun
School: Tianjin University
Country: China

About IVA
Every second year since 2004, the VELUX Group has invited students of architecture to participate in the International VELUX Award. The award seeks to challenge the students to explore the role of daylight in architecture and inspire new thinking. The aim of the award is to engage with students of architecture about how to use sunlight and daylight as main sources of energy and light and how to ensure health and well-being of the people who live and work in buildings.
With the International VELUX Award 2018 for Students of Architecture, the VELUX Group wants to pay tribute to daylight and to strengthen the role of daylight in building design according to our vision of promoting daylight, fresh air and quality of life.
The award is global and open to any registered student of architecture backed by a teacher from a school of architecture. The total prize money is 30,000 Euro. The jury, comprising internationally renowned architects, will award a number of prize winners and honourable mentions.
Since the International VELUX Award for Students of Architecture was first launched in 2004, it has grown into what is probably the largest competition of its kind for the architects who will shape the buildings of our future. Since the first award, some 5,000 students from more than 80 countries have submitted close to 4,000 projects on the award theme “Light of Tomorrow”.
Over the ten years since the award was first launched, winners have been presented from: Norway, Denmark, China, Bulgaria, South Korea, Poland, Switzerland, the Netherlands, USA, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom and Croatia, as well as honourable mentions from: Poland, Germany, Norway, Hungary, Spain, United Kingdom, USA, Australia, Sweden, France, South Korea, Italy, Japan, Argentina, Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, Lithuania, China, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium, Portugal and Bulgaria.
International VELUX Award 2018 is arranged in close collaboration with the International Union of Architects (UIA) and acknowledged by the following educational organizations: The European Association for Architectural Education, The American Institute of Architecture Students, the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.

 

Regional Winners of the International VELUX Award 2018 for Students of Architecture
Exhibition
August 29th – September 28th
Exhibition Gallery Hall
10:00 – 19:00, Monday to Friday
(closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays)

Free admission.

Organization: Velux

Exhibition Regional Winners of the International VELUX Award 2018 for Students of Architecture © DR

 

Since its creation, in Porto, Architecture Teaching has been based on an eminently practical formation, in a desired and affirmed approach of the students to the exercise of architecture in real and professional context.

In 1936, five years after the publication of 1931 Reform, which reinforced an individual and artistic training in architecture, there was a reformulation of the model of conclusion of the course with the regulation of the CODA, Competition for Obtaining the Diploma of Architect. In a growing approach to real problems and contexts of intervention and in a moment of paradigm shift in the teaching of architecture, marked by the transition from a curriculum of formation of Beaux-Arts matrix to a Modern matrix curriculum, over four decades, several CODA were presented.

Under the direction of Marques da Silva and Carlos Ramos, three generations of architects formed architects in EBAP and ESBAP – Porto School of Fine Arts and Porto Superior School of Fine Arts – among which stand out Viana de Lima, Delfim Amorim, Mário Bonito, José Carlos Loureiro, Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza contributed, through their pedagogical and professional practice, to the renovation and prestige achieved by the Porto School.

In July 1941, Viana de Lima presented his CODA based on the development of a Public Library project. In 1947, in May and December, Delfim Amorim and Mário Bonito developed projects for a house and for an exhibition pavilion. In April and May of 1950 and in May of 1965, José Carlos Loureiro, Fernando Távora and Álvaro Siza also developed projects through which they explored new conceptions for housing program, along with a new architectural language.

The CODA was followed by the presentation and discussion of an Internship Report, which was eminently practical and was then followed by the presentation and discussion of an essentially theoretical Final Work. In 2008, in the context of the process of adaptation to the Bologna Declaration, the Architecture Course of the Porto School was renamed MIArq – Integrated Master in Architecture – and a new reformulation occurred. The course conclusion model started to be, from that moment until today, the elaboration and public presentation of a Dissertation.

In 2017, Ana Fontainhas, Fábio Santos, Flora di Martino, Francisco Ferreira, Francisco Pereira, Francisco Sá, Inês Beleza and Pedro Xavier presented and defended their MIArq dissertations, integrating the group of students who choose to develop a theoretical- practical dissertation, which is structured through the development of a project and a critical reflection that starts and develops around the project.

With this exhibition are placed side by side different models of conclusion of the architecture course at the Porto School, from the 1930s to the present, based on a selection of CODAs and MIArq dissertations that share in common the development and presentation of projects.

Diploma Project
Exhibition
August 29th – September 28th
FAUP Auditorium Lobby
10:00 – 19:00, Monday to Friday
(closed on Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays)

Free admission.

Curators: Raquel Paulino and Rodrigo Coelho
Organization: FAUP

Drawing: © Fernando Távora, A House over the Sea, 1950. Centro de Documentação FAUP

Registration is still open for participating in the EAAE 2018 Annual Conference + General Assembly, entitled “Design Studio as laboratory for interactions between architectural education and society”, to be held at FAUP, Faculty of Architecture – University of Porto, from August 29 to September 1.

To register, please follow this link: http://eaae2018porto.arq.up.pt/registration/.

 

General Information
The students’ workshop Designing the Design Studio held in the scope of 2018 EAAE Annual Conference & General Assembly, August 29th to 31st 2018, FAUP, Porto, intends to provide a platform for graduate and PhD students from EAAE school members to reflect upon the design studio and envision its challenges in the future.
Considering the conference topic design studio as laboratory for interactions between architectural education and society, students are invited to discuss their experience and aspirations in 4 multinational groups of 5 students (including 1 student from FAUP) leaded by 4 tutors.
For those selected and participating, FAUP will provide free accommodation and meals (breakfast and lunch) from August 26th to September 1st.

Tutors
Raquel Paulino
Martin Mackowitz
Tadej Glažar
Wannes Peeters

Application process
The application submitted must include the following documents (max. 5 MB).
– acknowledgment letter from your school (dean, PhD director, supervisor, or else)
– a motivation letter (max. 1 A4), and
– a brief CV (max. 1 A4).
Please submit your application to eaae-faup.secretariat@arq.up.pt

Important Dates
Launch: Monday, March 19th, 2018
Application submission deadline: Tuesday, May 15th, 2018 [new deadline]
Decision notification: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
Student registration deadline: Friday, July 20th, 2018
Workshop: Monday to Wednesday, August 27th – 29th, 2018

More information
Conference website: http://eaae2018porto.arq.up.pt
EAAE website: http://eaae.be

 

Photography: © Egídio Santos / Universidade do Porto

Design Studio has always been the backbone of architectural education, the driving force of architecture development and the nucleus of architectural debate.
Today’s society confronts us with demanding questions for which no preconceived solutions are available. This calls for socially aware design experimentation. Can the studio raise this new awareness, preparing future architects to become agents of transformation?
The EAAE Education Academy aims to uncover the richness and diversity of studio pedagogies among its member schools, to share good practices of architectural design studio education, that raises this awareness, and prepares their students to become agents of transformation in and through architecture.

This call invites studio teachers of all EAAE member schools that run convincing and inspiring design studio, to submit an abstract, and present their work at the EAAE Annual Conference by means of a PechaKucha* presentation, followed by round table discussions.

We are looking for studios that face the following challenges:

Responding to increasing complexity
– Design is not a matter of problem solving – architectural design behaves “wicked”
– Architecture as construction: the limits of techno-rationality
– Architectural design as a way of cunning of uncertainty

Taking positions through design
– The architect as empathic expert
– Agents of transformation
– Taking position, but the position of who?

Changing roles
– The architect is no longer alone in the act of creation and command: from creator to mediator
– Students do not longer expect to be trained for becoming the great Architect, but to (be able to) do something significant, something that matters, through and in (the broad field of) architecture
– An increasing number of graduates leave professional practice, to work elsewhere; apparently the design-driven education that they have been received, makes them competent in a broad range of occupations. Moreover, as educators, we have to be aware that many of them will actually work in professions that don’t exist yet

Application process
The application submitted contains an abstract (max. 250 words) and graphic material (3 images), up to 5MB, explaining the content of the studio, the pedagogic approach, and the argument why this studio should be considered as best-practice, regarding the conference topic and the theme of the session.
Please submit your application to eaae-faup.secretariat@arq.up.pt.

The PechaKucha presentation is handed in a few days before the conference, as a pdf of exactly 20 slides + one title slide, 300 dpi, with standard 4:3 screen ratio. The title page contains the name of the school, of the teacher(s) and a title of the presentation, or the name of the design studio.

Important Dates
Launch: Monday, March 19th, 2018
Application submission deadline: Tuesday, May 15th, 2018 [new deadline]
Decision notification: Tuesday, May 22nd, 2018
PechaKucha presentation submitted: Monday, August 27th, noon
Presentations: Thursday, August 30th 2018, afternoon

More information
Conference website: http://eaae2018porto.arq.up.pt
EAAE website: http://eaae.be

 

(*) PechaKucha 20×20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images (see http://www.pechakucha.org/)

 

 

Photography: FAUP © Luis Ferreira Alves