BIGFIELDS Students Prize 2026
Daegyeong Architects Association
📌About the Event
The BIGFIELDS Students Prize 2026 is an international architecture design competition inviting students to explore the relationship between architecture and “WAR.” Rather than treating war only as armed conflict, the competition encourages participants to examine its impact on cities, borders, communities, memory, displacement, survival, healing and post-conflict reconstruction. Students may develop architectural, landscape, urban, infrastructural or experimental spatial proposals without being restricted to a predefined site or programme.
ℹ️ Event Details
- Theme: WAR
- Category: International student architecture and spatial-design competition
- Mode of conduct: Online
- Registration, payment and project submission will be completed through the official BIGFIELDS competition platform.
- The jury assessment will be conducted online.
- The competition is open to architecture students worldwide, including eligible students from India.
- Participants may select:
- A real location
- A fictional site
- An urban condition
- A distributed spatial network
- A non-building spatial system
📅 Important Dates
- Competition announced: May 22, 2026
- Registration opens: June 15, 2026
- Registration deadline: August 31, 2026
- Project submission deadline: August 31, 2026, at 11:59 PM KST, or UTC+9
- Online jury review: September 1–20, 2026
- Result announcement: September 25, 2026
🎯 Eligibility & Rules
- Eligibility:
- Undergraduate and postgraduate students enrolled in architecture or architecture-related programmes may participate.
- Students can participate regardless of their nationality or age.
- Both individual and team participation are permitted.
- A team may have a maximum of five members.
- Each individual or team may submit only one project.
- Teams must nominate one member as the official representative.
- Participants may be asked to provide a student ID, enrolment certificate or equivalent proof of academic status.
- Jury members and people having a direct conflict of interest with the jury cannot participate.
- Participants may freely choose the project’s:
- Site
- Scale
- Programme
- Architectural typology
- Interpretation of the theme
- Every project must explain:
- Why the selected place or condition was chosen
- How it relates to the theme of war
- How its social, political, historical and environmental context influences the design
🏆 Benefits for the Participants
- First Prize: USD 10,000 for one team
- Second Prize: USD 1,000 for one team
- Third Prize: USD 500 for one team
- Honourable Prizes: USD 100 each for five teams
- Special Recognition: May be awarded when considered necessary, without a cash prize
- Total announced cash prize pool: USD 12,000