The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe. ID number: 22310338: "Urban Design Award international student competition 2023"
The Urban Design Award competition is announced annually by the FA ČVUT in Prague with the main partner of the Association for Urbanism and Spatial Planning of the Czech Republic. The competition is open to all full-time students of the co-organizing universities (except for the diploma project) from Visegrad 4 countries. The competition proposals are evaluated by an international jury composed mainly of architects and urban planning experts working outside the academic environment. The partners of the competition are national associations of urban planners (AUUP ČR, MUT, TUP, ZUUPS). Students, and at the same time their teachers, are confronted with the perspective of the practice. At the same time, it gives a valuable overview of the approach to teaching urban planning in various universities.
The main goals of the project supported by the grant is the presentation of the competition results, mainly in the form of public exhibitions at partner universities and the publication of awarded student works at new competition webpage.
Project contact person
Jiří Kugl (Association for Urban and Regional Planning of the Czech Republic)
E-mail: kugljiri@seznam.cz
Website: http://www.urbanismus.cz/
Project partners
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Architecture
E-mail: rezac@fa.cvut.cz
Czech Technical University in Prague, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Department of Urban Design
E-mail: jiri.kupka@fsv.cvut.cz
Brno University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture
E-mail: tomanr@fa.vutbr.cz
Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Faculty of Architecture and Design
E-mail: katarina.smatanova@stuba.sk
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Faculty of Architecture)
E-mail: szabo.arpad@epk.bme.hu
Faculty of Architecture, Gdańsk University of Technology (Gdańsk Tech)
E-mail: plorens@pg.edu.pl
Society of Polish Town Planners
E-mail: tomek@majda.com.pl
Slovak architects society – Association for Urbanism and Spatial Planning
E-mail: z_sas@sasarch.sk
The Hungarian Society for Urban Planning (MUT)
E-mail: mut@mut.hu