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26. Mai 2023
BDA YOUNG TALENTS AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURAL THEORY
CALL FOR ENTRIES
Every three years the BDA Berlin supports young theoreticians, architects and urban planners with two endowed prizes. The Daniel Gössler Award, endowed with €1,250, will be conferred for the fifth time in 2023. It honours outstanding work in the field of architectural theory.
The Hans Schaefers Prize, which will be conferred in parallel and is endowed with €5,000, recognises outstanding achievements in urban planning. The competition for the Daniel Gössler Award is organised and the prize awarded by the Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA, Landesverband Berlin e.V. (the Berlin branch of the Association of German Architects).
The prize money of €1,250 for the Daniel Gössler Award is provided by the Hans Schaefers Stiftung.
PRELIMINARY REMARKS
Daniel Gössler, born in 1959, founded the architects’ office Architekten Gössler together with his brother Bernhard Gössler and Martin Kreienbaum in 1987, opening branches in his native Hamburg as well as in Berlin and Erfurt. His work includes the new Hanover trade fair station built for Expo 2000, Humboldt University’s Erwin-Schrödinger-Zentrum in the Berlin district of Adlershof, and the central coach station in Erfurt. Daniel Gössler was appointed to the BDA in Berlin in 1998. As spokesperson for the Working Committee of Young Architects in the BDA he was highly committed to supporting early-career architects.
He was also editor of the book Positionen junger Architekten in Deutschland, which was published in 2002. Following his death in 2003, Daniel Gössler’s family and friends endowed the Daniel Gössler Award in order to continue his great commitment to young architects. The prize was awarded for the first time in 2007 and has been a fixed component of the efforts of the Hans Schaefers Stiftung and the BDA Berlin to support young architects ever since.
DANIEL GÖSSLER AWARD 2023
The Daniel Gössler Award is conferred for an outstanding work of architectural theory. All theoretical works that address relevant issues in current architecture and urban planning debates are eligible. The works should make a serious contribution to the current discourse and should reference the socio-political context. Entries must have been published since 2017 and may not have previously been submitted for the Daniel Gössler Award. Works concerned primarily with architectural history are not eligible. Non-German entries must be submitted in German or English translation.
ELIGIBILITY
The competition is open to all architects and urban planners or graduates in these and other disciplines of any nationality who are younger than 40 in the year when the award is conferred (2023). This applies to all the members of teams entering the competition. Only one project per author is permitted. There is no entry fee.
AWARD AND COMMENDATIONS
The Daniel Gössler Award is endowed with €1,250. The award will take the form of a certificate conferred at the prize ceremony for young architects in autumn 2023. The winner is requested to present his/her work in a brief talk.
Following the conferring of the award by the Hans Schaefers Stiftung, the prize money will be transferred to a bank account named by the prize-winner.
Documentation required to enter the competition
All documentation submitted must bear the name(s) of the author(s).
1. To be submitted in writing:
• A copy of the original work (this will be retained by the awarding authority)
• A comprehensive summary of the work no longer than 1 page in DIN A4, submitted as a printout
• Medium and year of publication
• Application form together with a copyright notice and a declaration regarding the use of the works of third parties, completed and signed in the original (see separate form)
• Proof of age (e.g., copy of ID card)
2. To be submitted to anmeldung@bda-berlin.de on an electronic data carrier or via a download link:
• Application form together with a copyright notice and a declaration regarding the use of the works of third parties (if possible as a filled-out PDF, otherwise as a scan)
• PDF of the complete work
• Summary of the work as a Word document (as specified above)
PROCEDURE
Awarding authority:
Bund Deutscher Architektinnen und Architekten BDA Landesverband Berlin e.V.
Contact/BDA Berlin:
Mommsenstraße 64, 10629 Berlin,
Petra Vellinga, T. + 49 (0)30 886 83 206, vellinga@bda-berlin.de, www.bda-berlin.de
Type of competition
The Daniel Gössler Award is application-based.
The competition is not anonymous. The jury’s decision is final.
Jury
Dr. Ursula Baus, architecture researcher and critic, Stuttgart
Julia Dahlhaus, BDA architect, DMSW Architekten, chair of BDA Berlin
Almut Grüntuch-Ernst, BDA architect, Grüntuch Ernst Architekten, Berlin (requested)
Prof. Claudia Kromrei, architect, Berlin, Professor of Architectural Theory and Architectural History Hochschule Bremen
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Angela Million, TU Berlin, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Andreas Krauth, architect, Teleinternetcafe, Berlin
Announcement of the results
The awarding authority will announce the decision of the jury publicly in a press release and on its website. The Daniel Gössler Award will be conferred together with the Hans Schaefers Prize at a festive evening event. The results of the TIBESSTIPENDIUM 2021/22 awarded by the BDA Berlin will be presented at the same event.
Liability
The BDA Berlin undertakes to treat submitted documentation with due care. It can, however, accept no liability for damage or loss.
Return of documentation
The author may arrange by written request to collect his/her documentation by a date set by the awarding authority. After expiry of this deadline the awarding authority can no longer guarantee the safekeeping of the work.
Publication
Entrants are to grant publication rights free of charge for all purposes connected with the prize.
Timetable
Call for entries: 3 May 2023
Deadline for submission of documentation: 12 July 2023, 12pm, to the office of the BDA Berlin, Mommsenstraße 64, 10629 Berlin, Germany
(Opening hours: Monday–Thursday, 10am–3pm)
Meeting of the jury: 1/8 September 2023
Awarding of the prize: autumn 2023
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