📌About the Event

CartesianForms: Architecture Reimagined is a global AI-powered architecture and design competition organized by FORMAS.AI and PAACADEMY. The challenge invites architects, designers, students, researchers, and creative professionals to select a 50 × 50-metre site anywhere in the world and rethink how its architecture could evolve across generations.

Participants explore the site through three stages—2030: Inherit, 2055: Alter, and 2080: Pass On—considering what should be preserved, transformed, and eventually passed forward. Instead of focusing only on an impressive final AI-generated image, the competition emphasizes the complete architectural process, including research, experimentation, iteration, spatial development, decision-making, and the use of AI in design.

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ℹ️ Event Details

• Mode of Conduct: Online
• Geographical Scope: Global / Open worldwide
• Competition Type: AI-powered architecture and design competition
• Categories: Student and Professional
• Participation: Individual or teams of up to 5 members
• Age Requirement: 18 years and above
• Core Challenge: Select an existing building, structure, or 50 × 50 m site and develop an architectural intervention showing its evolution across three generations.
• 2030 – Inherit: Understand the existing architecture or site and determine what should be preserved or reconsidered.

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📅 Important Dates

• Competition Launch: September 25, 2026
• Early-Bird Registration: September 25 – October 20, 2026
• Regular Registration: October 21 – November 15, 2026
• Late Registration: November 16 – December 6, 2026
• FORMAS Workshop: November 22, 2026
• Registration Deadline: December 6, 2026, at 23:59 UTC
• Final Submission Deadline: December 13, 2026, at 23:59 UTC

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🎯 Eligibility & Rules

• Eligibilty:
• Open to participants 18 years of age or older from anywhere in the world.
• Participants can enter individually or form a team of up to 5 members.
• Student Category: Open to students currently enrolled in architecture, design, urbanism, landscape architecture, and related disciplines.
• Professional Category: Open to architects, designers, studios, researchers, and other professionals working in architecture, design, and the built environment.
• Student and Professional entries are judged separately.

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🏆 Benefits for the Participants

• Total Prize & Participant Benefit Value: More than $120,000.
• The prize package includes cash awards, OpenAI sponsorship/credits, FORMAS.AI access, ChatGPT access, PAACADEMY Pro benefits, and potential international editorial exposure through Parametric Architecture.
• Total Cash Prize Pool: $5,000.
• OpenAI Sponsorship: $75,000 in stated value.
• FORMAS.AI Access: More than $34,500 in stated value.