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The 28th European Architecture Students Assembly will be formally opened in the historic St. Patrick's Hall, Dublin Castle on Sunday evening 10th August 2008. Photo: Dublin Castle

Press Launch | Competition | Participation | Call for Tutors

400 Design students | 50 Nationalities Represented | 15 days

Royal Institute of Architects Ireland (RIAI) President Sean O'Laoire and Deputy Ruairi Quinn, Labour Party Spokesperson on Education and Science and Qualified Architect, will officially launch the European Architecture Students Assembly Ireland 2008 in the council chambers of the RIAI, No. 8 Merrion Square, at 1:15pm on Monday 10th March.

EASA (European Architecture Students Assembly) is an annual student-led assembly of 400 of Europes most exciting architecture students and young creative professionals which takes place over a two week period every August. This year is the first time that this celebrated and unique multicultural event will be held in Ireland.

The 28th annual assembly will take place in Ireland from 9th to 24th of August 2008. The assembly will be bi-located between Dublin and Letterfrack, County Galway. The theme for EASA Ireland 2008, Adaptation, is an intrinsic part of the Assembly which will unite and focus the explorations, thoughts and work of the participants under one common topic.

One of the flagship workshops of the Assembly is an International Design and Build competition, Green Room. The brief for the competition asks entrants to invent a new learning space where children can learn about sustainable and environmentally friendly living.

International Design & Build Competition | Green Room

European Architecture Students to address quality of learning space and sustainability in Irish Schools.

The organising committee of easa|Ireland|2008 have outlined a hands on experimental workshop that will result from an International design competition.The brief for this competition is to design a transportable pavilion that will function as a learning tool for school children. The aim of this brief is to create a space that embodies a lesson, and successfully explains and de-mystifies ecological and sustainable, architecture and principles.

This competition was launched on the 15th of January 2008 and the deadline for submissions is 1st April 2008. Entry to the competition is unrestricted. A full brief and full details are available online here >

The winning entry will be drafted for construction by an architectural office, and the winning design will be built on-site in Letterfrack during the 2008 summer assembly as a high quality built workshop.

The winning entrant will receive free entry to EASA 2008 and full accreditation in all publications regarding the competition or the pavilion. In addition, the finished pavilion will travel to University College Dublin and be exhibited at the PLEA International conference on Passive and Low energy architecture (October 22-24th).

Participant Numbers Announced

There will be 300 places allocated out to the 48 countries currently active in the EASA network. Iceland and Estonia are designated lost and as such, no places will be allocated out to those countries. However, if a National Contact is found for the countries between now and the application deadline on Friday, 4th April, priority will be put on this countries in the re-distribution of places on Friday 18th of April. We would encouarge National Contacts to use the Green Room Competition as part of their selection process for participants and would expect at least one entry per country as a gesture of solidarity towards the organisers.

Here is the quota allocation for easa|ireland|2008

COUNTRY QUOTA GROUP FEE (euros) ALBANIA 5 20% 60 ARMENIA 5 20% 60 AUSTRIA 6 100% 290 AZERBAIDJAN 5 20% 60 BELARUS 6 20% 60 BELGIUM 7 100% 290 BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA 6 20% 60 BULGARIA 7 40% 120 CLEA 5 100% 290 CROATIA 8 60% 180 CYPRUS 8 80% 240 CZECH REPUBLIC 6 60% 180 DENMARK 7 100% 290 ESTONIA 0 60% 180 F.Y.R.O.M. 7 20% 60 FINLAND 6 100% 290 FRANCE 8 100% 290 GEORGIA 6 20% 60 GERMANY 7 100% 290 GREECE 11 80% 240 HUNGARY 7 60% 180 ICELAND 0 100% 290 IRELAND 11 100% 290 ITALY 11 100% 290 KOSOVO 5 20% 60 LATVIA 6 60% 180 LIECHTENSTEIN 5 100% 290 LITHUANIA 6 60% 180 MALTA 5 80% 240 MOLDOVA 5 20% 60 MONTENEGRO 5 40% 120 NETHERLANDS 7 100% 290 NORWAY 6 100% 290 POLAND 6 60% 180 PORTUGAL 5 80% 240 ROMANIA 6 40% 120 RUSSIA 7 20% 60 SERBIA 6 40% 120 SLOVAKIA 5 60% 180 SLOVENIA 6 60% 180 SPAIN 8 100% 290 SWEDEN 6 100% 290 SWITZERLAND 7 100% 290 TURKEY 7 40% 120 UKRAINE 7 20% 60 UNITED KINGDOM 7 100% 290

The quota system was calculated using the quota excel system agreed at the INCM in Motovun last year.

Application forms are available to download here >

EASA Ireland are calling the architecture students of Europe to action.

Workshops will take place in Letterfrack Furniture College as the focus of the EASA Ireland summer Assembly during August next. Small, medium and large tutorpacks for running a workshop are available at here. Workshop submissions must be made by Sunday March 23rd.

EASA has an esteemed lineage of previous organisers, tutors and participants. Winy Maas, Wiel Arets, Kees Christianse and EM2N architects are amongst the notable attendees, while the inaugural event in 1981 was organised by Richard Murphy. We want to continue to provide this platform for exciting young architects and would appeal to those interested to visit our website. www.easa008.ie

EASA Ireland would like to thank our sponsors and all those helping to realise the EASA008 Summer Assembly;