Architecture Competition
2026 BIGFIELDS Students Prize is an international architecture competition for students that explores the theme of “WAR.”
This competition views war not merely as military conflict, but as a complex spatial condition involving urban destruction, severed memories, reshaped borders, displacement and survival, mourning and healing, and reconstruction and coexistence.
Participants are invited to respond to the theme through their own interpretations and architectural languages. No specific site, program, or scale is prescribed, allowing proposals to range from buildings and landscapes to urban strategies, infrastructure, memorials, shelters, research facilities, community spaces, and experimental concepts.
BIGFIELDS understands architecture not as mere formal production, but as a cultural practice that reads societal crises, analyzes the human condition, and imagines new possibilities. Through the profound theme of WAR, participants are invited to propose their own visions for recovery after destruction, memory and borders, survival and community, and the future potential of space.
Category
Architecture Ideas Competition
Organiser
BIGFIELDS COMPETITIONS / Korean Institute of Architects, Daegu–Gyeongbuk Branch
Location
International / No Specific Site
Awards
1st Prize: 10.000 USD
2nd Prize: 1.000 USD
3rd Prize: 500 USD
Honorable Prize: 100 USD (5 Teams)
Special Recognition (No Cash Prize)
Registration Fee
100 USD per submitted project
100 USD per submitted project
More Details
Eligibility
This competition is open to students currently enrolled in architecture-related undergraduate or graduate programs worldwide, including students on an approved leave of absence, regardless of nationality or age. Both individual and team participation are permitted. Teams may consist of up to five members. Jury members and individuals with a direct conflict of interest with the competition are not eligible to participate.
Jury
Jungwoo Ji (Co-Founder / Principal, EUS+ Architects)
Jo Noero (Partner / Director, Noero Schwalbach Architects)
Elvira Bakubayeva (Co-Founder, NAAW)
Aleksandr Danielyan (Founder, DAAP Architecture Studio)
Khaled Malas (Co-founder, Sigil Collective / Professor, Cooper Union)
Submission Requirements
6 sheets in A3 landscape format (PDF).
Please refer to the Competition Brief available on the official competition website for detailed submission requirements and guidelines.
Upload
Submissions must be uploaded through the participant’s personal account page on the official competition website. After completing registration, participants will receive access to a personal dashboard (My Page), where submission files can be uploaded before the submission deadline.
Clarification Requests
info@bigfieldscompetitions.com
Calendar
Competition Launch
June 12, 2026
Submission Deadline
August 31, 2026
Winners Announcement
September 25, 2026
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