Europe 40 Under 40® Awards
Selecting Europe's Most Promising Young Architects and Industrial Designers for 2023 – 2024
The deadline for the 2023-2024 program is December 15th, 2023.
The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design are pleased to announce the initiation of selection of this year’s most promising and emerging design talents in Europe.
Forty architects and industrial designers will be selected this year by a jury of architecture and design practitioners, academics and publishers invited by The European Centre’s advisory committee.
The program is initiated to spotlight and identify the next generation of architects and industrial designers who will impact future living and working environments, while providing an insight of the architectural and design scene in Europe.
The program is open to architects, landscape architects, interior design architects, urban planners and industrial designers, who are up to 40 years old. Europe 40 Under 40® is an annual awards program that celebrates the next new talented generation of European architects and designers. The program is directed to support new and emerging design talents that will influence the near future of European design, thinking, and theory with the direct consequence of impacting future environments and future European and international cities. The key is to bring wider recognition to 40 of the most promising emerging professionals working in the European Union and other countries inside Europe.
The key is to bring wider recognition to 40 of the most promising emerging professionals working in the European Union and other countries inside Europe, fostering and encouraging new talent and new creative thinking at the forefront of tomorrow’s profession.
Award Categories
• For architectural projects (built or conceptual) may include residential, commercial, institutional, educational, civic, religious and transport buildings, urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, interior architecture and industrial design.
• For industrial design projects (manufactured or conceptual) may include furniture, appliances, utensils, accessories, tools, electronics etc.
Winners's Pack
Awarded architects and industrial designers will receive the Europe 40 Under 40® Awards Certificates.
Awarded architects and industrial designers may use the Europe 40 Under 40® Awards logo for marketing, merchandising, and promotional use by The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.
Special newsletter of all award winners to our Museum Contacts.
Awarded architects and industrial designers bios and projects will be included in the edition entitled “Next New Talented Generation of European Architects & Designers” by Metropolitan Arts Press Ltd.
Official awards ceremony together with an architectural exhibition titled “40 Young European Architects with New Visions” of awarded projects will open in Athens in June of 2024 at European Centre-Contemporary Space Athens in Athens, Greece.
Jury Criteria
Projects are judged on the merit of design innovation with the emphasis of pushing the envelope beyond conventional methods and exploring new theories, ideas, and approaches to contemporary design. Additional criteria for evaluation include the use of the latest technologies, the investigation of new materials, the incorporation of energy conservation and environmental consciousness in design and a forward-thinking respect for green design as mandated by the European Union. The jury will select individual participants based on submitted work and the potential of their impact on the future of the profession.
Submission Requirements
ELIGIBILITY
Every year, architects, and industrial designers under the age of 40 (as of December 31, 2023) are invited to submit projects (built or unbuilt, manufactured, or conceptual) to be judged by a panel of distinguished architectural and design practitioners, developers, architectural journalists, educators, and critics.
Important Notice: Participants either working as individual practitioners or collaborating inside an established firm as the principal lead designer of the projects submitted, can only apply as individuals, no firms allowed.
In addition to all European Union member countries, architects and industrial designers from the following European nations are invited to participate: Either be a citizen of one of the 28 countries that are part of the European Union (Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom) or be a citizen of Albania, Andorra, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Canary Islands, Faeroe Islands, Georgia, Lichtenstein, North Macedonia, Iceland, Moldavia, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Russia, San Marion, Serbia, Switzerland, Turkey and Ukraine.
Eligible architectural projects (built or conceptual) may include residential, commercial, institutional, educational, civic, religious and transport buildings, urban planning, urban design, landscape architecture, interior architecture etc.
Eligible industrial design projects (manufactured or conceptual) may include furniture, appliances, utensils, accessories, tools, electronics etc.
Programm Results
The results of Europe 40 Under 40® Awards will be announced in spring of 2024 and will be presented as an exhibition together with the Awards Ceremony in June of the same year, at The European Centre-Contemporary Space Athens in Athens, Greece.