International networking and discussions with internationally highly esteemed architects and teachers. These are but some of the reasons why so many students of architecture each year sign up for the International VELUX Award (IVA).
The Light of Tomorrow, the theme of the Award, has this year inspired a record breaking number of students to register. Precisely 2114 students of architecture from 68 countries representing 484 schools have registered with the Award. This number surpasses the number of registered students from previous years.
- We are extremely pleased to receive the high number of registrations for the 2008 IVA. I’m looking forward to reviewing the submitted projects and I expect that there will be lot’s of inspiration and creative thinking! We are looking forward to the work, says project manager Anne-Marie Hasselbalch from VELUX.
And with the registration follows the real work. Over the next two months there will be drawn, calculated, thought and built for making it before the deadline for submission by 18 May. The jury meeting will be held In Torino, where the seven jury members of the Award will convene and during three days work intensively with evaluating all the submitted projects and finally elect the winners. All submitted projects will be exhibited online right after the jury meeting on www.velux.com/iva.
The jury for the International VELUX Award 2008 consists of Hani Rachid (US), Matthias Sauerbruch (Germany), Enrique Browne (Chile), Huat Lim (Malaysia), Eva Jiricna (UK), Francis Nordemann (France) and Michel Langrand (VELUX).
For all their hard work the reward is grand both for the winners and the participants as the Award presents great opportunities to work with internationally wide subjects relevant for architecture all over the world.
In November in Venice the winners will be announced and celebrated at the Award Ceremony. And it is not just the students who participate and get the chance to win. The Award recognizes students of architecture as well as their teachers. Student projects must be backed by a teacher from a school of architecture, and winning students as well as their teachers are awarded as a winning team. The total prize money of the Award is 30,000 Euros.