Dear ARCH-E community,

Welcome to this issue of the ARCH-E newsletter! ARCH-E's main objective is to promote high-quality architectural solutions for the built environment by boosting the use of Architectural Design Competitions (ADCs) throughout Europe.

In this edition you will find news on:

1. The ARCH-E Architect’s Needs Survey

2. The ARCH-E Glossary

3. Our related EU projects and initiatives

   
   

We wish you a pleasant reading,

The ARCH-E project team

Participate in our Architect’s Needs Survey

On the way to a more accessible ADC landscape, ARCH-E has launched a survey to learn more about the obstacles architectural offices face when participating in international ADCs and how to lower existing access barriers. The ARCH-E Architect’s Needs Survey aims to bring together professionals such as European architects and ADC experts to analyse, evaluate, and reshape ADCs with their valuable feedback.

ARCH-E’s main objective is to promote high-quality architectural solutions for the built environment by increasing the use of Architectural Design Competitions (ADC) in Europe and by helping architects overcome cross-border barriers, especially for small and/or female-led practices.

Why participate in the ARCH-E survey?

• Let us know if and what kind of transnational ADCs you are interested in

• Share your needs, experiences and insights concerning your participation in ADCs

• Let us know how the ARCH-E project and we, as European and national professional organizations for architects can support your further professional development

The survey will take only 12 minutes to share your experiences, insights and thoughts and help us advocate for a competition culture focused on fair access and quality-oriented decision processes.

Please take part in the online survey until 21 October. Your data will only be used anonymously for statistical purposes.

The ARCH-E Glossary

The ARCH-E Glossary brings together 11 country-specific perspectives on architectural competition procedures in Europe. A total of 190 terms explain the regional characteristics of this linguistic landscape of competition culture. Because the language mutations are not mere translations, but original descriptions of the local practice in the subject areas, the terms can be compared with each other in the function below and examined for similarities and differences. This compendium currently contains around 1,000 definitions.

As the project - its studies, the collaboration between the involved partners, know-how transfer with other cooperation partners and projects - evolves, also the online tools are refined constantly. For this reason, the ARCH-E glossary is a work in progress, return soon to explore more terms and even more extensive information on architectural design competitions (ADCs).

Making ADCs more accessible - workshop in cooperation with anotHERVIEWture

ARCH-E is undertaking research in the form of fact finding and analysis, expert interviews and a large survey conducted by Eva Álvarez and Carlos Gomez (both Universitat Polytècnica València), that will gather data focusing on the status of ADCs in Europe. On a longer timescale, ARCH-E hopes to influence the legal frameworks for ADCs and raise awareness among clients of the importance of fair and accessible ADCs.

To reach these goals anotHERVIEWture and ARCH-E are joining forces. Eva Álvarez and Carlos Gomez (engaged in both projects) will conduct a workshop on gender-specific aspects of the ARCH-E survey. At the time of the event the survey’s findings won’t be published yet, participants of the workshop will get a preview on the most interesting findings.

Join the workshop on Thursday, 24 October 2024, 09:00 a.m. at (MESZ) Bundeskammer der Ziviltechniker:innen, Vienna (Austria).

“Towards a New Co-existence”

Rebuilding to Last final event

The ARCH-E-related project “Rebuilding to Last” is reaching the final stage and is organising its final event in Helsinki, Finland titled ‘Towards a New Co-existence’ on 1-2 October 2024.

This event will be a moment for sharing the project findings and research during the three hands-on architecture interventions in Denmark, Greece, and Slovakia. Also, the RtL team will present their final BOOK, a four-dimensional publication with a manual for cultural professionals.

This event is free and open to the public.

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