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Europe 40 Under 40 Awards Deadline Approaching

The awards are open to all architects and urban planners who are under the age of 40 as of December 31, 2008.

Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 7/18/2008 12:00:00 AM

Architects fortunate enough to meet the namesake criteria for the 2009 Europe 40 Under 40 Awards have until September 1 to submit their applications to the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies.

The awards are open to all European architects, including those in landscaping, interiors and urban planning, who work independently, with a firm, or on a specific project as lead designer. Participants must be citizens of the European Union or Switzerland, Norway, Iceland, Russia, Turkey, Liechtenstein, Albania, Monaco, Andorra, Serbia, Montenegro, Georgia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, Belarus, Azerbaijan, the Canary Islands, the Faeroe Islands, and San Marino. And, of course, each applicant must be under the ripe old age of 40 as of December 31, 2008.

The competition, sponsored by the Kone Corporation and presented with The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, requires applicants to submit one-to-three projects, built or unbuilt, to be judged by a panel of architects, developers, journalists, educators and critics. The results will be announced in early 2009 and the 40 winners will take part in a exhibition that will travel throughout Europe.

"The key is to bring wider recognition to 40 of the most promising emerging architects working in the European Union and other countries inside Europe, fostering and encouraging new talent and new creative thinking at the forefront of the profession today," says Chicago Athenaeum vice president Ioannis Karalis.