Antepavilion 2026 – конкурс экспериментального паблик-арта и архитектуры
конкурс
международный
открытый
deadline регистрации:
27.03.2026
deadline подачи проектов:
27.03.2026
дата объявления результатов:
24.04.2026
тема:
Архитектура
страна:
Великобритания
город:
Лондон
открыт для:
профессионалов и студентов
регистрационный взнос:
да
сумма:
20 фунтов стерлингов
награда:
Призовой фонд конкурса включает £10000 для победившего проекта. Дополнительно победителям предоставляется до £5000 на сопутствующие расходы: крепеж, инструменты, вторичные материалы, специализированный труд и иные необходимые закупки.
организатор:
Antepavilion
ссылки:
An initiative to develop, construct and display experimental structures
Участникам конкурса предлагается разработать проект временной архитектурной инсталляции, выполненной исключительно из вторсырья или переработанных материалов. В 2026 конкурс осмысляет возможную эпоху «пост-ИИ», когда архитекторы вновь сблизятся с художниками и ремесленниками, а повторное использование материалов станет повседневной практикой.
Конкурсные предложения могут соединять черты архитектурного сооружения, паблик-арта и инсталляции и демонстрировать выразительное взаимодействие формы, конструкции и доступных ресурсов.
Проект может быть реализован на одной из двух площадок в Лондоне – на территории Hoxton Docks или Pages Walk – и должен быть адаптирован к выбранному городскому или ландшафтному контексту.
For 2026, Antepavilion optimistically looks forward to a post-AI era in which craftsmanship finds a bigger place in the skill set of architects and re-use of materials becomes routine as they identify more with artists and craftsmen - leaving the drudgery of producing perfunctory buildings to the machines. This year the competition’s long-standing encouragement of the use of reclaimed and recycled materials becomes an imperative.
Open call
The Antepavilion competition is open to everyone; no qualifications are required. We make available some specialist skills, particularly metalworking and structural engineering support if necessary. But the overarching requirement is that entrants must be able to make and install their work essentially themselves.
Brief
Now in its tenth year, the Antepavilion competition takes stock of the passage of a decade: things haven’t got better. Overregulation proceeds apace and opportunities for public individual free expression in urban settings are increasingly few.
Antepavilion’s mission has always been to promote the place of grass-roots, self-build architecture and artistic free expression as a counterpoint to system-build, battery-farm architecture and building in cities. To defend its place as a career option for young architects: a place alongside craftsmen and artists. An alternative to the big architecture factories in which so many architects in Britain find themselves trapped.
But there are possible rays of hope in the coming changes to the labour market now being so confidently anticipated through the emergence of AI. There is no reason to think the swathes of middle-class occupations that seem set to be done better by machines will exclude factory architecture. So architects may yet be driven back to their historically closer connection with craftsmanship and hands-on construction to survive as a productive sector of the labour market.
History may turn out to be on Antepavilion’s side. This year’s brief is a vigorous nod to that possibility. For Antepavilion 2026 only reclaimed materials will be available to entrants to work with. For as long as the competition has been running the use of reclaimed materials has been encouraged. That encouragement has not been wholly disregarded by any of the winners. But neither has it been taken close to is logical conclusion: nothing new.
Antepavilion has access to a large array of materials, either reclaimed or surplus from other building projects. Many of these with the most obvious potential for creating a 2026 winner are listed and pictured below, but entrants will probably need to attend our open days to adequately understand the materials, their quantities and their assembly possibilities. Whilst use of the materials already available will be favoured entrants are also free to propose other reclaimed materials that Antepavilion would acquire for them.
The Full Reclaim brief will demand a high level of hands-on construction engagement from the winners, very likely including traditional craftsmanship skills: carpentry, masonry, metalworking, etc. The winning entry will ideally stand as an exemplar of the seamless fusion of the skills of construction and conception: a unified process more associated with the working methods of the sculptor than the architect. The installation may sit anywhere on the scale from functional, and even habitable, to fine art.
Counterbalancing the restrictive Full Reclaim brief in relation to materials there is no specific location either at Antepavilion’s Hackney site or its Southwark site that must be adopted for the installation. As with the materials to be used, the location selected for display of the work is the choice of the entrants. Again, assessment, discussion and selection of a particular location for a proposal will likely need the proposers to attend an open day for that purpose.
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