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With a decade-long experience and 9 Pritzker laureates in its juries, YAC is the most prestigious organizer of international architectural competitions in the world.

With a decade-long experience and 9 Pritzker laureates in its juries, YAC is the most prestigious organizer of international architectural competitions in the world.

YAC is an organizer of design and architectural competitions for young architects and designers, recent graduates and students.

YAC is an organizer of design and architectural projects for young architects and designers, recent graduates and students. YAC pursues several goals: firstly, the organizer aims to encourage design-related research by regularly providing tangible architectural or urban planning projects to inspire stakeholders and generate solutions to support and provide physical places for increasingly volatile and dynamic human activities.

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According to YAC, architecture is the discipline that creates and shapes the places of human action.

It meets numerous and diverse needs through diversified expressions of the intellect and creativity of each architect.
We strongly believe the architectural problem cannot be solved with a mere formal research, functionalism, the budget or technology of the building. The solution is rather the combination of such elements according to the architect’s personality and taste. The projects YAC wishes to award are highly contemporary projects that enable temporariness and customization of the use of the architectural space.  

 

Our history

YAC is one of the most long-established and active organizers of competitions in the world. Hereby follow the key events that consolidated its leadership and notoriety:

2013

The Establishment

2014

University partnerships

2015

YAC in Bologna

2016

Lamborghini’s landmarks

2018

YACademy was founded

2020

The Tresoldi Academy was founded

2021

Record year in realizations

YAC’s figures

A few figures are enough to prove YAC’s leadership in the contemporary architectural scenario and to explain the importance of its activities in supporting young architects.

Organized competitions

+50

Countries involved

+140

Prizes to young architects

+1 mln €

Realized projects

+12

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