YAC is a association whose aim is to promote architectural competitions amongst young designers – no matter if graduates or students.
First YAC wants to propel research about design, by periodically suggesting tangible issues on Architecture and City planning. By so YAC wants to provoke reflections about physical places for human activities that everyday are becoming more and more unpredictable and dynamic. Second we want to endorse young designers’ creativity and talent by granting the best of them adequate prizes and good exposure amongst paper and web platforms. YAC wishes to revamp a design culture to pragmatically answer the issues on human action and territory comsumption. We wish many and different designers will join us in this challenge.
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Open Competitions
Meditation Mine
YAC launches a competition of ideas aiming to recondition an Irish industrial archeological masterpiece into a meditation destination immersed in nature.
Juries of excellence
During its years of activity, YAC has collaborated with some ot the most refined firms of the international architectural scene, that, from competition to competition, were asked to express their judgement on the project proposals received.
Read about our international jurorsEduardo Souto De Moura
Souto De Moura Architects
Kazuyo Sejima
SANAA
Michele De Lucchi
AMDL Michele De Lucchi Studio
Winy Maas
MVRDV
Kengo Kuma
Kengo Kuma and Associates
Patrik Schumacher
Zaha Hadid Architects
Manuel Aires Mateus
AIRES MATEUS
David Chipperfield
David Chipperfield Architects
Press review and publications
The results of YAC’s competitions are often the subject of designated editorial projects or articles in the most prestigious trade magazines.
YAC’s network includes some of the most renowned cultural institutions of the international scenario.
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Universities, companies, public and private institutions
With over ten years’ experience, YAC is a leading organizer of architectural competitions for high-profile partners.
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Calls for ideas and invited competitions
YACademy
From now on, YAC’s network is even more oriented to support to young designers. Discover how to increase your competences thanks to the teaching of the great Masters of our times !
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