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2nd Call for Design Projects, FEIDAD Award, extended deadline: Sep 30

The 2000 Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award (The FEIDAD Award) has received projects from 29 countries in America, Europe, Asia, Australia, and Africa. We would like to thank all the participants. The original deadline was August 31. However, because the first call-for-design announcement was spread in the beginning of summer vacation, many students did not receive the message. Therefore, several CAD studio teachers suggested us to extend the deadline so that more students could submit their studio works after returning schools. The committee has thus decided to extend the deadline to September 30, 2000. Please encourage your associates to submit projects and students to submit their studio works.

Best Wishes,
Yu-Tung Liu Chairman, Review Committee

Of the Second
Far Eastern Memorial Foundation Outstanding Architectural Design Award

Organized by
The Far Eastern Memorial Foundation of the Far Eastern Group, Taiwan

The Far Eastern Memorial Foundation of the Far Eastern Group in Taiwan arranges and implements a prize to be awarded for outstanding quality of architectural design.The prize aims to encourage talented designers and excellent design in both the international and domestic arenas, promote the redevelopment, and enhance communication between the global community and Chinese architects in Taiwan.

To encourage talented professionals to work in the field of architecture, the Foundation has organized two prizes: Outstanding Architectural Design Award (for Chinese architects in Taiwan) and International Digital Architectural Design Award.

The city can no longer hang together and function
as it could in earlier times…But long live the new,
network-mediated metropolis of the digital
electronic era.

e-Topia, William Mitchell 1999

Aims

The committee for the 2000 Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award (FEIDAD Award) is organizing this award with the aim of exploring and defining architectural design in the digital electronic age.

Participants are expected to submit a design project, finished or unfinished, which is related to "digital architecture".

The project should explore digital concepts such as computer, information, electronic, media, hyper, virtual and cyberspace to define and discuss architecture in the digital electronic age.

Awards

Outstanding Award: 10,000 US dollars and a trophy.

Design Merit Award (four awarded): 2,500 US dollars and a trophy for each recipient.

Qualifications for entry

This award is open to architects, designers, and students worldwide.

Participants must submit only one design project, either finished or unfinished, which is related to "digital architecture".

The project should explore digital concepts such as computer, information, electronic, media, hyper, virtual and cyberspace to define and discuss architecture in the digital age.

Registration and Submission

Participants must submit their design proposal as web pages accessible by Internet browsers and must register via the Internet by Sep 30, 2000.

The proposal as web pages should include the following:

There are no limitations on the total size, the style, or the building type of the project.

For the CD-ROM diskettes review in the second stage (see Review Process), all images must be submitted in either "tif" or "jpg" format. Animation must be in either "mov" or "avi" and virtual reality must be in "mov" format.

On-line Registration

On-line Registration

Review Process

First stage: a web-page review

1. Members of the review panel will review submitted works via the Internet.

2. Reviewers will send the results of their review via the Internet to the organizing committee. The organizing committee will accumulate data relating to the points given and order of merit into which the submissions have been placed.

3. 20 or 40 entrants will be selected (the exact number will depend on the number of submissions).

1. The twenty to forty participants will have two weeks to supply one CD-ROM diskette containing high-resolution images (each entrant should provide 8 copies of the CD-ROM diskette which can be in either Mac or IBM format).

2. The organizing committee will send the CD-ROMs to each member of the review panel. Reviewers will use the Internet to inform the organizing committee of the points awarded as well as for discussion. The organizing committee will collect all data concerning the points awarded as well as the order of merit in which they have been placed in and then select ten entrants for final review.

3. 10 entrants will be selected for the final review.

1. The organizing committee will send the CD-ROMs to the members of the final jury for review, and will hold a teleconferencing meeting two weeks later.

2. Chairman of the final jury will briefly state the comments of the ten final candidates.

3. A vote will be taken during a live tele-conference to determine the recipient Outstanding Award as well as those for the four Merit Awards.

Important Deadlines

September 30, 2000: Registration and web-page submission.

October 13, 2000: Announcement of the 20-40 entrants for the second review.

October 15, 2000: Submission of the CD-ROM diskette for the second review.

November 10, 2000: Announcement of the 10 entrants for the final review.

December 3, 2000: Announcement of the recipient Outstanding Award the four Merit Awards

Jury

Chairman of the Jury

Yu-Tung Liu, Vice Dean
College of Humanity and Social Sciences, NCTU, Taiwan

Final Jury

Peter Eisenman, President
Eisenman Architects, P.C., New York

Reed Kroloff, Editor-in-Chief
Architecture magazine

William Mitchell, Dean
School of Architecture and Planning, MIT

Bernard Tschumi, Dean
Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation, Columbia University

Bao-Teh Han, former President
Tainan College of Arts, Taiwan

Kris Yao, President
ARTECH, Inc., Taiwan

Peter Hsu, member of the board of director
The Far Eastern Memorial Foundation, Taiwan

The first and second Jury

Henri Achten, Eindhoven University of Technology
Mark J. Clayton, Texas A&M University, USA
Nancy Cheng, University of Oregon, USA
John Gero, University of Sydney, Australia
Jeffrey Huang, Harvard University, USA
Brian Johnson, University of Washington, USA
Alexander Koutamanis, Technical University Delft, Netherlands
Branko Kolarevic, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Thomas Kvan, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Bob Martens, Technical University Vienna, Austria
Tom Maver, University of Strathclyde, UK
Malcolm McCullough, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Mitsuo Morozumi, Kumamoto University, Japan
William Porter, MIT, USA
Rick Rosson, Eisenman Architects, New York, USA
Gerhard Schmitt, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Tsuyoshi Sasada, Osaka University, Japan
Jin-Yeu Tsou, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Jerzy Wojtowicz, University of British Columbia, Canada
Shigeyuki Yamaguchi, Kyoto Institute of technology, Japan
Chi-Yi Chang, National Chaio Tung University, Taiwan
Chen-Cheng Chen, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Ti-Nan Chi, Chi's Workshop, Taiwan
Sheng-Yuan Huang, Sheng-Yuan Huang Architects & Planners, Taiwan
C. David Tseng, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Joseph Wong, Ming Chuan University, Taiwan
Kwang Tyng Wu, Tamkang University, Taiwan

Frequently Asked Questions

When will I receive confirmation of my registration status?
Email confirmations should be sent out automatically as soon as we received your registration via WWW.

How many design projects I can submit for this award?
Only one project is allowed for one submission/registration and one person is allowed to involve in only one submission/registration.

I can not get registered online: the confirmation does not appear in the screen.
When this happens, please email us all the information you have to provide for the online registration via the "questions to the committee" button. We will then register for you and email you to confirm.

Is the submitted project must be a "real" project (which is going to be build) , or may it be an "idea" project (which is not going to be build at all)?
You are very welcome to join the award! As indicated in the "qualifications for entry", this award is open to architects, designers, and STUDENTS worldwide. Participants must submit only one design project, either finished or UNFINISHED... And as indicated in "Registration and Submission", the proposal as web pages should include the following: - a title page including the design topic and the name(s) of participant(s), - a description of the site location (or the criteria if there is NO SITE included),

I only need to know if my web presentation must have only 1 page or it is possible to construct some internal link to expand my show?
Of course you may provide some or even many internal links within your www submission.

Am I allowed to submit a project that has already been submitted to a previous competition?
Yes, you are welcome to re-submit a project.

Can the CD Rom be fully interactive or will it be only a recipient for high resolution documents?
The CD-Rom could be either interactive or non-interactive. It's your design!

Is it possible to change co-participants as the design work proceeds?
Yes, you may change the co-participants. Please email us when you have to do so.

Top 40 Projects

To be announced by October 13, 2000

Top 10 Projects

To be announced by November 10, 2000

Award Winners

To be announced by December 3, 2000

Organizing Committee