New architecture and design competitions: better housing in Los Angeles, smart city schools in Korea, greener urban spaces, and architectural housekeeping

For this week's curated picks of architecture and design competitions listed on Bustler, we have selected four challenges calling for the work of early-career practitioners, new housing concepts for L.A.'s low-rise neighborhoods, school ideas for the Korean Sejong National Pilot Smart City program, and academic proposals for greener and fairer cities.

For the complete directory of newly listed competitions click here. 

The Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers: Housekeeping
Register/Submit Deadline: Monday, Feb 8, 2021

"Young architects and designers are invited to submit work to the annual Architectural League Prize Competition. Projects of all types, either theoretical or real, and executed in any medium, are welcome. [...] Established in 1981 to recognize visionary work by young practitioners, the Architectural League Prize is an annual competition, lecture series, and exhibition organized by The Architectural League and its Young Architects + Designers Committee."

Low-Rise: Housing Ideas for Los Angeles
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Feb 12, 2021

"For much of the 20th century in Los Angeles, and particularly in the decades following World War II, architectural experimentation as well as efforts to boost household wealth and upward mobility focused on the same location: the single-family house. [...] That dream needs an update. With Los Angeles having run out of room to sprawl, and out of new empty parcels of land to conquer with single-family subdivisions, the standalone house has become more a place to protect wealth than to begin building it."

Sejong National Pilot Smart City Middle and High School Design Idea Competition
Register/Submit Deadline: Friday, Feb 19, 2021

"Sejong National Pilot Smart City would like to create a world-class Korean-style smart city based on the fourth industrial revolution new technology by designing it from the planning stage around the happiness of citizens. The Korea Education and Research Information Service has been designated as a specialized institution in the education field of Sejong National Pilot Smart City, and is striving to make Sejong National Pilot Smart City the best educational city in the world."

C40 Students Reinventing Cities Competition
Registration Deadline: Thursday, Mar 18, 2021
Submission Deadline: Thursday, May 27, 2021

"The C40 Students Reinventing Cities Competition is dedicated to transforming cities in the face of the climate crisis, by driving an active collaboration between cities and academia. The competition will ignite creative, imaginative, and tangible ways to decarbonise city neighbourhoods, as well as to support thriving and resilient life for local communities. Students entering the competition will be given live projects to work on in cities including; Athens, Auckland, Barcelona, Bogotá, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Dakar, Delhi, Dubai, Madrid, Melbourne, Montréal, Paris, Quezon City, Quito, Reykjavík, Seattle and Washington D.C. They will submit their entries designed specifically for the urban area in their chosen city - to help change the way we live in cities for the benefit of our wellbeing and of the climate."

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