Blue Award

[i]Building for an environment worth living in / International Award for Students[/i] From the Faculty of Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, the Department of Spatial and Sustainable Design is announcing for the first time the BLUE AWARD, an international student competition for sustainable architecture. Submissions will be accepted starting November 10 and is open to architecture students worldwide! "Sustainable development, with its economical, cultural and social dimensions in architecture and urbanism, should be given the same value and attention as the classical problems of technique and function. The language of contemporary architecture is to experience a fundamental change under this influence. The Blue Award Competition pursues the following objectives: - the Blue Award wants to recognize the commitment of students and tutors who have made the competition’s topic part of their teachings and education. - the Blue Award intends to organize a collection of student design work which addresses the issue of sustainability in architecture. - the Blue Award shall provide an impulse for improving teachings in the area of sustainability. - the Blue Award aims at making possible and intensifying the exchange between different faculties and architecture schools on an international level." Visit the official site: www.blueaward.at