International Architecture Competition 2025 – Jacques Rougerie Foundation , Paris / Frankreich

 

JACQUES ROUGERIE FOUNDATION

Péniche Saint-Paul - Port des Champs-Elysées

75008 Paris

France

 

Every year, the international competition organised by the Jacques Rougerie Foundation - Académie des Beaux-Arts rewards architects, designers, engineers, artists and town planners from all over the world who come up with bold and disruptive current or future architectural projects focusing on coastlines and rising sea levels, the sea and space, in order to build new resilient and desirable living ...

 

The Earth and all its wonders are masterpieces in which we evolve. We cross territories, littorals, oceans, skies, stratospheres, and each time, we discover the richness of their bodies, their structure, and the diversity of their forms, from the infinitely small to the infinitely large.

 

We've opened our eyes to the treasures that fill our planet, their strength and elegance. In this era of tumultuous change, where climate, societies and the rights of living beings are constantly evolving, it's time to act with imagination. Let's observe, anticipate, act and reenchant our world!

 

Thinkers, artists, architects, engineers, you are the artisans of tomorrow!

 

Thanks to your boundless energy and burning passion, you are ready to shape a resilient future.

 

In this 15th edition of the Prix de la Fondation, let’s push back the frontiers of audacity. Dare to dream, because today more than ever, your ideas can shape a better world.

 

Take your inspiration from nature, that inexhaustible source of innovation. Biomimicry, fruit of 3.8 billion years of evolution, opens up unsuspected horizons to imagine current and future living environments. As Leonardo da Vinci said, "Take your lessons from nature: that's where our future lies".

 

Your projects need to be bold, current or forward-looking and enthusiastic! Based on biomimicry, they must be rooted in the preservation of our ecosystems and their biodiversity. Designed in a multidisciplinary and multicultural way, they demonstrate that inspiration, when combined with form, function and environment, can reach unsuspected heights.

 

Let’s provide answers to the challenges of our century through the development of artistic, architectural, technological and bio-inspired, in line with the major coastal, climatic, and environmental issues relating in particular to coastlines and rising water, as well as projects linked to the submarine, marine and spatial worlds.

 

Open up new horizons, encouraging us to change paradigms and reconcile Humanity and Nature.

 

The competition is open to students, professionals, researchers, creators, artists, etc. A candidate can only participate once in the 2025 competition submitting a single project. Multiple applications will result into an automatic disqualification be it individual or collective participation.

 

Tuesday, February 25, 2025: opening of the competition registration at 11:59 GMT+1 France

Thursday, September 25, 2025: closing time for submitting projects at 23:59 GMT+1 France (end of download)

October 2025: Jury

End of October 2025: Individual notification to the winners

End of November 2025: Award ceremony

 

Competition languages: French, English