Organized by
The Far Eastern Memorial Foundation of the Far Eastern Group, Taiwan
and
Graduate Institute of Architecture, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

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 2003 Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award (The 2003 FEIDAD Award) has created this award to encourage the exploration and definition of architectural design in the digital electronic age.

Awards
Outstanding Award: 20,000 US dollars, a certificate and a trophy.

Design Merit Award (four awarded): 2,000 US dollars, a certificate and a trophy for each recipient.

Award Ceremony
All award winners will be invited to attend the FEIDAD ceremony in November 29, 2003 in Taipei.

Publications
The committee will invite the top 80 projects to be included in the FEIDAD yearbook, which is published by prestigious magazines and publishers. For further information, please refer to the FEIDAD 2000, 2001 and 2002 yearbooks published by Dialogue and Birkhauser.

Qualifications for entry

The Outstanding Award and Design Merit Awards are open to architects, designers, and architectural and design students worldwide. Participants will submit a Web-page design project (only one project per entrant);
The projects should explore digital concepts such as computing, information, electronic media, hyper, virtual, and cyberspace in order to help define and discuss future spaces and 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 October 5, 2003.

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),
- design concepts,
- programs,
- plans, elevations, sections, perspectives, and
- visual representations.

The official language of this award is English. All texts in the on-line registration and web-page submission should be in English.

**Participants should carefully evaluate availability of downloadable plug-ins and should only consider esoteric sub-programs if these are absolutely essential to the design proposal. It is also highly recommended that all entries should specify whether JAVA script should be enabled.

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

On-line Registration
http://www.feidad.org/register/closed.htm

Question to the committee

Review Process
First stage: a Web-page review by the First-stage Jury
1. Members of the First-stage Jury will review submitted works via the Internet.

2. Thirty (30) entrants will be selected for the second review.

Second stage: a Web-page review by the Second-stage Jury
1. Members of the Second-stage Jury will review the 30 selected entries via the Internet.

2. Ten (10) entrants will be selected for the final review.

Final stage: a Web-page review by the Final Jury
1. Members of the Final-stage Jury will review the 10 selected entries via the Internet.

2. The recipient of the Outstanding Award and the recipients of the four Merit Awards will be determined.

Important Deadlines
July 7, 2003 to October 5, 2003: Registration and web-page submission.

October 20, 2003: Announcement of the 30 entrants for the second review.

November 5, 2003: Announcement of the 10 entrants for the final review.

November 20, 2003: Announcement of the recipient Outstanding Award and 4 Merit Awards

Jury

Chairman of the Jury
Yu-Tung Liu, Associate Dean
College of Humanity and Social Sciences, NCTU, Taiwan

Final Jury

Jacob van Rijs, Partner
MVRDV, The Netherlands
Gerhard Schmitt, Vice President
ETH Zurich, Switzerland
William Mitchell, Dean
School of Architecture and Planning, MIT, USA
Nobuyuki Yoshida, Editor-in-Chief
A+U magazine, Japan
Birger Sevaldson, Founder
OCEAN-north, Norway
Makoto Watanabe, Founder
Makoto Watanabe Architects office, Japan

Second Jury

Christian Bruun, Quantum Film, Digital Imaging Center, School of Visual Arts, NY
Mark Clayton, Texas A&M University, USA
Chi-Yi Chang, National Chaio Tung University, Taiwan
Richard Coyne, University of Edinburgh, UK
Dean Di Simone, k+d.lab, NY
John Gero, University of Sydney, Australia
Peter Hsu, member of the board of director, The Far Eastern Memorial Foundation
Edward Keller, Columbia University
Branko Kolarevic, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Thomas Kvan, University of Hang Kong, Hang Kong
Bob Martens, Technical University Vienna, Austria
William Porter, MIT, USA
Tsuyoshi Sasada, Osaka University, Japan
Gregg Pasquarelli, SHoP, Sharples Holden Pasquarelli, NY
Deborah Snoonian, Architectural Record, NY
Alfredo Andia, Florida International University, USA
Jin-Yeu Tsou, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Joachim Kieferle, University of Stuttgart, Germany

First Jury

Henri Achten, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
F Rodrigo Garcia Alvarado, Universidad del Bio-Bio, Chile
Felipe Assadi/Francisca Pulido, University Finis Terrae, Chile
Marc Aurel, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Michael Berk, Mississippi State University, USA
Anand Bhatt, TVB School of Habitat Studies, India
Andy Brown, University of Liverpool, UK
Chen-Cheng Chen, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Nancy Cheng, University of Oregon, USA
Maolin Chiu, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Jin Won Choi, Yonsei Univ, Korea
Araya Chougrajank, Rangsit University, Thailand
Bharat Dave, University of Melbourne, Australia
James N. Davidson, Corbis, USA
Wolfgang Dokonal, Graz University of Technology, AUSTRIA
Weimar Dirk Donath, Bauhaus University, GERMANY
Maia Engeli, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Thomas Fowler, Cal Poly Pomona, USA
Fabio Gramazio, etoy Zurich, Switzerland
Hannu Penttila Helsinki, University of Technology, FINLAND
Urs Hirschberg, GSD Harvard and Graz, , Austria
Wassim Jabi, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Adam Jakimowicz, Technical University of Bialystok, POLAND
Tay-Sheng Jeng, National Cheng-Kung University, Taiwan
Brian Johnson, University of Washington, USA
Tan Beng Kiang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Joachim Kieferle, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Kevin Klinger, Ball State University, USA
Mike Knight, University of Liverpool, UK
Alexander Koutamanis, Technical University Delft, Netherlands
Uffe Lentz, University of Aarhus, DENMARK
Gustavo Llavaneras, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Venezuela
Ganapathy Mahalingam, North Dakota State University, USA
Javier Monedero, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, IBERIA
Malcolm McCullough, University of Michigan, USA
Mitsuo Morozumi, Kumamoto University, Japan
Rivka Oxman, Technion, Haifa, ISREAL
Cristian Gomez Ribba, University of Uniacc, Chile
Ching-Yueh Roan, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Andy Roberts, University of Wales, UK
Carmina Sanchez-del-Valle, Hampton Univ, USA
Thomas Seebohm, University of Waterloo, Canada
Lisa Tilder, Ohio State University, USA
C. David Tseng, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Jerzy Wojtowicz, University of British Columbia, Canada
Kwang Tyng Wu, Tamkang University, Taiwan
Shigeyuki Yamaguchi, Kyoto Institute of technology, Japan
Tadeja Zupancic, University of Ljubljana, SLOVENIA