The 2007 Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award

The 2006 Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award

2007 FEIDAD Award

Organized by

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

Aims
The committee for the 2007 Far Eastern International Digital Architectural Design Award (The 2007 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 and Animation Festival
All award winners will be invited to attend the FEIDAD ceremony 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 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005 yearbooks published by Birkhäuser.

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 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 December 31st, 2007.
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.

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

Online Registration
» Go to the Online Registration Form

Review Process
First stage
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
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
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 Dates
October 15, 2006 to December 31, 2006: Registration and web-page submission.
February 3, 2007: Announcement of the 30 entrants for the second review.
March 10, 2007: Announcement of the 10 entrants for the final review.
April 15, 2007: Announcement of the recipient Outstanding Award and 4 Merit Awards.

Jury
Chairman of the Jury
Yu-Tung Liu , Professor
Graduate Institute of Architecture, NCTU, Taiwan

Final Jury

(to be confirmed...)

Second Jury

(to be confirmed...)

First Jury

(to be confirmed...)