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Professional Area / Calls

Scholarships 2019

Edition 2019

20th ARQUIA/GRANTS CALL FOR TENDER

24 grants for professional internships in European architecture studios
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3 grants for professional internships in the civil service, the Ministry of Public Works, Department of Architecture, Housing and Land
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2 grants for professional internships in the Metrópoli Foundation
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1 grant for cultural management internships at the Royal Academy of Arts
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1 grant for cultural management internships at the Arquia Foundation
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2 tuition grants for participation in the Campus de Ultzama 2019, organised by the Arquitectura y Sociedad Foundation

 

  • Requirements
  • The Arquia Foundation, taking into consideration the educational value that practical knowledge of the profession and geographical mobility imply, has opened the 20th edition of the Arquia/grants tender, through which it awards 24 grants to students in the final years of their degree and to young, recently-graduated architects, so that they can undertake internships at European architecture studios.

    • Candidates
    • Architecture students and young architects who have Spanish or Portuguese nationality, or a Spanish or Portuguese residence permit and who meet the following requirements on the closing date of applications will be eligible for the grant:
      Students
      a) Must have achieved at least 60% of the credits necessary to obtain the qualification in architecture permitting them to exercise the profession of architect in a school of architecture in Spain or Portugal,
      b) Be enrolled for the 2018/2019 course at a Spanish or Portuguese School of Architecture.
      Architects
      Who have obtained the qualification permitting them to exercise the profession of architect in a school of architecture in Spain or Portugal, or have obtained the qualification outside of these countries and it has been approved in either of them, after 30 April 2018.

    • Destinations. Participating studios
    • The studios were selected, as the ones at which they preferred to do their internship, by students at Spanish Schools of Architecture according to the results of the 7th On-line Architecture Student Survey carried out by the Arquia Foundation in 2017. Studio destinations are updated every 3 years via an online survey.
      The studios participating in this call, with which the ARQUIA Foundation has agreed to collaborate for the internships, are as follows:

      Barcelona
      Barozzi Veiga
      Carme Pinós
      EMBT. Miralles Tagliabue
      Flores Prats Architects
      H-arquitectes
      OAB Carlos Ferrater


      Madrid
      Alberto Campo Baeza
      amid.cero9
      Emilio Tuñón arquitectos
      Estudio Herreros
      Nieto Sobejano, Arquitectos
      NoMAD
      Rafael Moneo


      Olot
      RCR. Aranda Pigem Vilalta

      Pamplona
      Patxi Mangado

      Seville
      Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos

      Basel
      Herzog & de Meuron

      Berlin
      Kéré Architecture

      Lisbon
      Aires Mateus e Associados

      London
      AZPML. Alejandro Zaera-Polo Maider Llaguno Architecture
      Foster and Partners

      Porto
      Álvaro Siza

      Paris
      Lacaton & Vassal Architectes

      Rotterdam
      MVRDV

    • Calendar
    • Opening of call: 2 January 2019
      Registration period: 2 January to 30 April 2019
      Results: July 2019
      Awards ceremony: October 2019

    • Participation modes
    • There are two ways of applying: academic transcript and tender. You can opt to participate in one or both simultaneously. 12 grants are awarded for each mode. To ensure adequate geographic distribution of the grants, the number of valid entries will be weighted proportionally by school and application mode.
      Academic transcript
      Candidates will be selected according to their academic transcript. This is assessed by the average mark obtained in degree subjects passed, as well as by the average mark obtained in design project modules passed (for this purpose, all modules that come under the department of architectural projects shall be taken into consideration). These average marks will be calculated by the applicant as specified in Annex I of the requirements.
      2019 tender
      Students will be selected according to the material submitted to the tender.

    • Documentation and submission
    • The information can be edited until the day and time that the registration period closes: 30 April 2019 at 12 noon (CET).

      Academic transcript

      Once registered, access the private user area by entering the email and password and enter the aforementioned average mark in the appropriate box (grants section, 'edit participation' option)
      Later, the shortlisted candidates will have to send a PDF of their academic transcript.

      Tender 2019: ‘Second-hand: A discrete house’

      Once registered, access the private user area by entering the email and password and add and complete the mandatory fields.
      Submission of a PDF file in DIN A1 with 72 dpi, format .pdf and a maximum size of 12 MB that includes the following materials:
      • Photographs

      • Meticulous drawings

      • Sketches that illustrate the proposal

  • Registration
  • Registration for the Arquia/grants tender can only be done via the on-line registration system by completing the form provided for this purpose.
    To facilitate the registration process, you can save the registration at any time and continue later.

  • Registration deadline
  • Tuesday 30 April 2019 at 12 noon (CET).

  • Deadline for sending documents
  • Tuesday 30 April 2019 at 12 noon (CET).

  • Jury
  • The jury will be composed of:

    João Luís Carrilho da Graça

    João Luís Carrilho da Graça was born in Portugal in 1952 and has been an architect since 1977. He lives and works in Lisbon.

    He has won a number of prizes and awards for his work, most notably the International Association of Art Critics' Award (1992), the Secil Architecture Award, Portugal (1994), the Valmor Award, Portugal (1998, 2008, 2010), the FAD Award, Spain (1999), the Order of Merit of the Portuguese Republic (1999), the Luzboa Biennial International Award of Light (2004), the Pessoa Award, Portugal (2008), the Piranesi Award - Prix de Rome (2010), a Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of The French Republic (2010), a Medal from the Académie d'Architecture, Paris (2012); the International Sacred Architecture Award - Frate-Sole (2012), the Ibero-American Biennial Award for Architecture and Urban Planning (2012), an International Fellowship from the Royal Institute of British Architects (2015), an Honorary Member of the Order of Architects, Portugal (2015), the Buenos Aires International Biennial Architecture Award (2018), the Leon Battista Alberti Award from the Politecnico di Milano, Mantova Campus, Italy (2018) and the arpaFIL Award, Guadalajara, Mexico (2018).

    He has been shortlisted for the Mies van der Rohe European Award for Architecture on several occasions.

    He officially represented Portugal in the 12th, 13th and 16th Venice Biennales of Architecture and in the main exhibition at the 15th Biennale.

    He was a Professor in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Lisbon between 1977 and 1992 and, subsequently, between 2014 and 2019; at the Autonomous University of Lisbon between 2001 and 2010; at the University of Évora between 2005 and 2013; at the University of Navarra between 2005 and 2015; at Cornell University, New York in 2015. He is currently a Professor in the Leon Battista Alberti UNESCO Chair in the Mantova Campus of the Politecnico di Milano.

    He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon.
  • Topic of the 2019 tender
  • 'Segunda mano: Una casa discreta'

    Ponte Visconteo
    Valeggio Sul Mincio, Itália

    Programme:
    A few weeks ago, I went to an architecture exhibition in Paris, very interesting, on the work of the young Japanese architect Junya Ishigami. In a video interview accompanying the exhibition, he states (quote from memory) that the architect is a "tour guide". This statement shocked me at first. Then, thinking about it, I thought it was an interesting idea: to imagine that architects travel and get to know the world that little by little they then reveal!
    We ask that you show us a built or natural site that, with a minimum of intervention, can configure a discrete house.
    "... the old gesture of the Platonic speculum, that of dividing the real, not between the false and the true, but between what it actually is, and the virtualities it contains, which are invisible. A tree, this tree, if it is not photographed, continues to send its images; as Bergson states: "how can we not see that photography, if it exists, is already taken, taken inside of things and for all points of space? No metaphysics, no physics even, can escape this conclusion. " (Henri Bergson, Matière et mémoire, París, PUF, 1939, p. 22)”
    José Bragança de Miranda, ph.01 – Jorge Molder: A fotografia como incisão. Lisbon, Imprensa Nacional-Casa da Moeda, 2017, p.9

  • Ministry of Public Works grants
  • The Arquia Foundation, with the collaboration of the Ministry of Public Works, Department of Architecture, Housing and Land, awards 3 grants for architecture students and young architects so that they can undertake internships in the civil service, the Ministry of Public Works, Department of Architecture, Housing and Land.

  • Metrópoli Foundation grants
  • The Arquia Foundation has agreed the admission of 2 recently-qualified architects from schools of architecture in Spain and Portugal, with an interest in urban planning, innovation and development of the city with the Metrópoli Foundation, so that they can undertake internships at their facilities in Madrid.

  • Cultural Management Grant at the Royal Academy of Arts
  • The Arquía Foundation, in consideration of the educational value attributable to practical knowledge of the profession, awards 1 grant to architecture students and young architects from schools of architecture in Spain and Portugal so that they can undertake an internship in cultural management, not a working internship, at the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

  • Cultural Management Grant at the Arquia Foundation
  • The Arquía Foundation, in consideration of the educational value attributable to practical knowledge of the profession, awards 1 grant to architecture students and young architects from the schools of architecture in Spain and Portugal so that they can gain practice in cultural management, not working practice, at the Arquía Foundation head office in Barcelona.

  • Ultzama Campus tuition grants
  • The Arquia Foundation, with the collaboration of the Arquitectura y Sociedad Foundation, awards 2 tuition grants for architecture students and young architects from schools of architecture in Spain and Portugal, for participation in the Campus de Ultzama 2019.