Forgotten places

[i]International Students Competition[/i] [b]Organizers[/b] AEEA European Association for Architectural Education UAUIM “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism Bucharest, Romania [b]Sponsor[/b] LAFARGE, France [b]Competition schedule[/b] 30 January 2006 Theme launch and registration start 31 March 2006 End of registration 31 March -17 April 2006 Questions from competitors 25 May 2006 Deadline of Answers to questions 15 October 2006 Architectural Schools Jury deadline 25 October 2006 Projects arrival at organizers 1-7 November 2006 Final Jury and winners selection December 2006 Results announcement and layout projects exhibition [b]Prizes[/b] I – 6000 Euro II– 4000 Euro III– 3000 Euro 10 Mentions – 1000 Euro each [b]Theme[/b] Over the time, the way of cities development made interest zones to slide on the surface of human settlements. A prosperous place in a distinct time, seeked by people – a fashionable place in a given moment, - started to loose glamour, got shabby and had been forgotten. Maybe during time its structure and functions. Old factories, famous for their products, have been swallowed by the city in its impetuous development, the buildings were abandoned, getting to stand too much in the city center, living behind only pointless blind walls. Modern squares and promenades turned into places occupied exclusively by cars. Other places not even found other utility becoming simply dusted spaces. There are places that were made famous not by buildings but through their history; forgotten histories. Other places left outsides the ways of modern cities, but who may reach the lost position and status enriching, in the same time, the human settlement patrimony. The process of “museumfication” proved not to be a solution of positioning back these zones to public attention because the process fails in bringing life within. For Further details [url=mailto:competitionaeea2006@iaim.ro]mailto:competitionaeea2006@iaim.ro[/url]

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