AA|FAB Awards

AA|FAB AWARDS 2009 “Designing Fabrication”

The FAB Research Cluster at the Architectural Association in London announces an open international call for submissions to the 2009 AA|FAB Awards. This year’s Award theme is ‘Designing Fabrication’ and the Cluster is interested in submissions documenting recently built projects that exemplify the innovative integration of design and fabrication processes through digitally driven design systems and protocols, and whose completion contributes to an international discourse on the use of emerging design and fabrication technologies.

The jury is interested in receiving submissions for projects that articulate how the designer is increasingly approaching the material fabrication and assembly of projects as an integral part of the design process and how the acquisition of these new forms of knowledge is changing the existing definitions of design professions.

Entries must be posted to the Architectural Association and postmarked no later than 01 June 2009. A total of six prizes will be awarded over three design categories. A prize fund of £6750 is available in addition to an invitation to participate in an exhibition and symposium at the AA, and inclusion in a forthcoming AA publication.

Full details are available from the attached Competition Brief or see www.aa-fab.net