Villa Award 2023
CALL FOR SUBMISSION
The Villa Architecture Magazine are currently inviting submissions for the 2023 Iranian Built/Unbuilt Villa Award, which is one of the most prestigious distinctions for architecture and a barometer of the latest developments in the top segment of the field. The award is widely recognized as a seal of quality for outstanding architectural projects, positioning the award-winners at the forefront of the national as well as international architecture scene.
A panel of International architects will judge the entries on the basis of innovation, idea, sustainability, and aesthetics. Winners will be published in the coming up issue of online & printed Villa Magazine.
VILLA MAGAZINE AWARD 1402
The Villa Architecture Magazine currently inviting submissions for the 2023 Iranian Built & Unbuilt Villa projects, which is one of the most prestigious distinctions for architecture and a barometer of the latest developments in the top segment of the field. The award is widely recognized as a seal of quality for outstanding architectural projects, positioning the award-winners at the forefront of the national architecture scene.
AWARD
The Villa Magazine Award is conferred on built and unbuilt architecture projects in the categories single-family residential, solo houses, pavilions, experimental houses and villas that are distinguished by outstanding architectural quality and beyond.
WHAT PROJECTS ARE ELIGIBLE?
+ Works of any type—including new construction or rehabilitation—is eligible.
+ Built/Unbuilt/Interior design/Landscape design/restoration categories proposed for or about Iran and Iranian are eligible.
+ International projects are eligible if undertaken by Iranian practitioners, no matter where they are based.
+ Entries can be proposals for works of any scale: large-scale urban or landscape projects, architectural projects, interior projects, small interventions, etc.
+ Entries may be proposals that are intended to be built, or they may be theoretical explorations that exist as models, on paper or in digital format only.
JURY
An independent jury of prominent architects awards the Villa Magazine Award for exceptional quality.
HONORARY ADVISOR
The judging criteria for the Villa Magazine Award will be discussed and guided by a highly prestigious pioneer living architect.
WHO IS ELIGIBLE TO SUBMIT?
+ Iranian Architects, interior architects/ designers, planners, landscape architects, urban designers and other built environment professionals are invited to submit eligible projects.
HOW TO SUBMIT
Entries must send an email to award@villamagazine.ir and receive a unique submission code.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION
Two A3 Horizontal Sheets contain plans, section, facades, sketches, renderings, and project description text, which should be placed on the first sheet and it must be not more than 500 words.
Please include Villa Award 1400 in the subject line.
Please note that images must be submitted with your entry code.
Sheets must have the entry reference code on the right-top of them.
A hard copy of sheets does not need to be submitted.
Entries that do not fulfil these guidelines will not be considered for the award.
CONFIDENTIALITY
All material entered will be treated by the Awards Committee and judges as confidential.
DEADLINE
All entries works must be submitted by and not later than (To be announced soon...)
JUDGING PROCESS
+ The judging process is blind and based on peer review.
+ The identity of entrants is not revealed until jury decisions are finalized.
+ Jurors are required to declare any association or conflict of interest regarding an entered project and step down from the judging of that entry.
+ Jury decisions are final and no correspondence will be entered into.
+ Judging for this award will take place digitally (To be announced soon...)
+ Winners will be announced on villanews official website by ? November.
JUDGING CRITERIA
How the design brief was achieved including degree of difficulty and how difficulties were overcome design effectiveness and visual appeal design effectiveness including environmental sustainability
+ The degree of originality and innovation
+ Ecosystem-based approach
+ visual appeal
+ Resource efficiency
+ Material/product choices
+ Proportion and scale
+ Use of space/flow and Sightlines
+ Presentation drawings and specifications
The jury and the villa magazine editorial board may, at its discretion, make a number of honorable mentions.
PRIZE
Winners in each category will receive the villa magazine Honor.
Printed and online publication on villa magazine.
Villa award book publication.
IMPORTANT DATES
+ Deadline for entry submission: (To be announced soon...)
+ Deadline for submit the award material: (To be announced soon...)
+ Jury: (To be announced soon...)
+ Honorary advisor: (To be announced soon...)
+ Announcement: (To be announced soon...)
+ Ceremony: (To be announced soon...)
FEES
No submission fee.
All entries are free for the villa magazine award submission.
QUESTIONS
Email award@villamagazine.ir
Please include Villa Award 1402 / 2023 in the subject line.
STATEMENTS
+ Villas are utopian settings for conversations of ”Architectural Inventions”.
+ A house tends to be simple in structure and to conserve ancient forms that do not require the invention of a designer, while the villa is typically the product of an
architect’s imagination and asserts its modernity.
+ The villa is a paradigm not only of architecture but of ideology; it is a myth of fantasy generated by psychological rather than utilitarian needs.
It is not limited to any particular architectural type, culture, or the historical moment but rather is a social and ideological phenomenon discernible throughout history.
+ Villas can be regarded as experimental houses that allow architects to study a technical or functional aspect in concrete terms or to develop spatial ideas.
+ The tradition of villas has often included a return to the pioneer spirit; many architects view these buildings not only as a residence but as testing grounds for new ideas or the crystallization of concepts and theories. Villas provide an opportunity for architects in testing new concepts and serve as a prototype in future projects.
+ Common among ancient writings, the villa enjoys from the natural setting restorative powers (otium) in opposition to the excesses of city life (negotium).
REF
[1] Ackerman James S., The villa: form and ideology of country houses (Princeton 1990)
[2] Archer, John, Architecture and Suburbia: From English Villa to American Dream House, 1690-2000 (Minnesota 2005)
[3] Brothers, Cammy, Michelangelo, Drawing, and the Invention of Architecture (Yale 2008)
[4] Elet, Yvonne, Architectural Invention in Renaissance Rome: Artists, Humanists, and the Planning of Raphael’s Villa Madama (New York 2018)
[5] Glaire D. Anderson, The Islamic villa in early medieval Iberia: architecture and court culture (Farnham 2013) p.6-7
[6] https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/villa/hd_villa.htm
[7] Loudon John Claudius, An Encyclopedia of Cottage, Farm, and Villa Architecture and Furniture (London 1833) p.01
[8] Buildings by Vico Magistretti from the Domus archive
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