A crop of Australian firms are already lining up for the World Architecture Festival but if your studio hasn’t entered yet, you’ll be pleased to know the deadline has been extended until Saturday 4 July.
The awards, which will be held in Barcelona in November, will showcase every entry with the judges including Will Alsop, Bjarke Ingels, Sou Fujimoto, Kengo Kuma, Catherine Slessor and Rafael Vinoly.
Australian firms are populating the boards already, with Allen Jack+Cottier, PTW Architects, ARM, Choi Ropiha, 3XN, Woods Bagot, LAVA Laboratory for Visionary Architecture, Populous, BVN Architecture, Hassell, NHArchitecture and McBride Charles Ryan among the studios that have already entered projects.
The event focuses solely on the needs and tastes of architects, with over 75 per cent of the 2008 audience comprising of architects from over 73 different countries worldwide.
Less Does More is the title of this year’s WAF thematic exhibition, which will feature case studies presented by architects and seminar sessions expanding on their ideas.
The Cities stand explores the contribution architects are making in the context of governance, economics, and issues as diverse as diverse as population growth and depopulation, taxation, infrastructure, service provision and social housing. The sessions will explore what is happening in some of the world’s most vibrant cities, including Havana, Chicago, Berlin, Abu Dhabi, Seoul, Shanghai, Brisbane and Mexico City, and show the relationship between prevailing urban conditions and creative architectural responses.
