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AUA opens the way to the future of Asian Architecture. We conduct businesses on the projects of architectural design and education for the student in ASIA.

02/05/2025

The 14th ACARA 2025
We are pleased to announce the TOPIC of the 14th ACARA 2025.
The organizers of DOMESTIC ACARA in each country wish to share this topic widely.
This year's Topic is intended to bring out the creativity and flexible thinking of students by respecting the diversity of each university's design assignments, but with a common issue of “architecture's ability to adapt to change”.
Through this topic, participants will be asked to consider how architectural design can proactively address future uncertainties and keep the built environment functional, appropriate, and in harmony with its surroundings.
We expect many students studying architecture in Asia to apply.
Because ACARA is the largest contest, with approximately 5,000 students studying architecture at universities in Asia.
Join ACARA and try out your architectural work.
ACARA is building a network of architectural education in Asia.
ACARA further promotes the mobility of architectural education internationally.
ACARA is a contest for fair judging and open critique by a large number of judges.
Join ACARA and try out your architectural work.
ACARA is a gateway to success for students studying architecture in Asia.
Join ACARA and try out your architectural work.
Dr.LEE, YOUNG.IL (President of AUA)
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TOPIC
Architecture Resilient to Change
Modern society faces unpredictable changes such as climate change, demographic shifts, technological innovation, and increasing social diversity. Architecture must also respond flexibly to these changes and create sustainable spaces. In other words, ‘Architecture resilient to change’ refers to buildings that can adapt over time—to shifts in usage, technology, environment, or society. It goes beyond just being physically durable; it’s about being flexible, adaptive, and future-ready.
This year's ACARA will explore this possibility through a variety of design projects being undertaken at various universities in Asia under the common topic of “Architecture Resilient to Change.
We look forward to proposals that draw out the creativity and flexible thinking of students, such as spatial configurations and design methods that adapt to changes in use and the environment, and ways in which architecture can coexist in harmony with local communities.
Let us envision together the future of architecture that anticipates change, embraces it, and evolves accordingly.　
(Text by LEE, YOUNGIL: President of AUA)

19/12/2024

The 13th ACARA, Danang Architecture University, Vietnam
Dec.6~8, 2024
The 13th ACARA(Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie’s Award) was hosted by the Da Nang University of Architecture from December 6 to 8.　
The first day was spent touring the site of the workshop, followed by the workshop on the second day. Then, on the third day, 19 students gave presentations at the open jury. This year's topic was “Can architectural design be replaced by AI?”. Many of the contestants answered no. Some said yes with conditions.
The reason why ACARA has started to submit topics is because ACARA targets university assignments, so there are a variety of building types and their concepts. Therefore, a topic was necessary to bring them all to one stage for judging.
After the presentations, the seven-member jury began voting: eight were selected in the first round of voting. After second round of voting, the number was narrowed down to four, and two students competed in the final round of voting, with the Taiwanese contestant winning the Best Rookie’s Award by a vote of 4 to 3.
One thing that became clear from the Q&A session between the jury members and the contestants was the following. AI cannot replace humans in the design process, but AI can do OUTPUT of design a lot.
In particular, I noted that AI works well where there is an 'implicit pattern'. I believe that the Taiwanese student's work was selected for the Best Rookie’s Award based on whether or not it fits this 'implicit pattern' as one of the criteria.
I hope that next year's 14th ACARA will be held in Nanjing, China.
Dr.LEE, YOUNGIL (Ph.D)
President of AUA Association

26/10/2024

Glad to announce the 13th ACARA, 2024.
The 13th ACARA will be held December 6-8 in Da Nang, Vietnam, hosted by the Da Nang Architecture University.
On the first day, all participants will go on a tour of the area that will be discussed in the workshop. The location is on the east side of the Tran Thi Ly bridge over the Han River and is very beautiful. On the second day, a workshop will be held on the theme of “Architecture Intelligence” to discuss the renovation of the Tran Thi Ly area. On the third day, there will be an open jury where representatives from Asia will compete with each other on their university assignment designs.
This year's topic is “Can AI Replace Architectural Design? >.
I have already attended domestic contests in several countries, and this topic seems to be a lot more exciting than in previous years.
I'm already exciting to have the 13th ACARA.

17/12/2023

The 12th ACARA
The 12th ACARA was held over two days at the Nangang Exhibition Hall in Taipei. This year, The National Architects Association of R.O.C. and AUA co-organised the competition, which was sponsored by Bio Architecture Formosanna. It was unfortunate that China did not participate this year for political reasons.
On the first day, the participants visited Taipei 101 with the topic given by Prof Huang from National Taipei University of Technology, and the students and contestants from five universities discussed and presented in teams.
On the second day, 20 carefully selected contestants from 13 countries exhibited models and panels and made presentations at the open jury. This year, the jury members and the contestants were unprecedentedly friendly with each other and with each other and with both sides of the jury.
The topic was 'Naturally Circular', and the jury reviewed the work of architectural solutions that responded to the students' university assignments, as well as discussions on architecture in general.
As someone who has seen different jury members and contestants every year, I have enjoyed the diversity of Asian architecture. This year, too, I was exposed to more than enough cultural diversity in that sense.
In the first round of judging, students from Cambodia, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam were selected as the Top 6. This was a very interesting combination, with the Cambodian and Vietnamese works being selected for their strong traditional elements, while the remaining four were chosen for their modern themes, ranging in scale from the urban context to the smaller residential unit of a room.
In the second round of judging, the remaining works were from Japan, South Korea and Vietnam, and in the final deciding vote, the Vietnamese work won by a vote of 2:2:4.
ACARA is not just a competition to select a winner, but to provide a forum for serious discussion of architectural design and education in Asia by allowing participants to share ideas and information accumulated through collective intelligence.
In this sense, this year's ACARA was another good one, with meaningful discussions and a wide range of opinions on the possibility of the works.

Dr.LEE, YOUNGIL
Professor architect
President of AUA Association

10/05/2023

Announcement of The '12th ACARA'

The 12th ACARA will be held December 7-9, 2023, in person for the first time in three years. This year, the "The National Architects Association of R.O.C" will be the host organizer, and the venue will be the Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei, along with various architectural events.
This year's topic, "Naturally Circular," was presented by "Bio-architecture Formosana," the organizer of the Taiwan Architectural Rookie's Award.
With the participation of many countries this year as well, we would like to bring everyone together for the first time in a long time and bring excitement to this face-to-face contest.
Dr.LEE, YOUNG IL
President of AUA (Asia United Architecture)

Topic：Naturally Circular
Subtitle：Circularity is the key step to sustainability
The network of life consists of many loops, big and small, all the information and materials are circulated, exchanged in these loops when everything is connected through these loops, the need for resources and waste are diminished; all the raw materials are assembled into something and disassembled afterwards within the loop. This is the formula to life’s self-sustainability on this planet, and with limited resources for billions of years. Architecture is also a network that uses materials from this planet and constructs built forms. These built forms should also be designed with a recyclable application: to deconstruct, disassemble, and reduced to its raw materials, to flow through the loop. A circular architecture embeds the principles of life’s loops in all of its functions, establishing a system that is regenerative and restorative by design. In such architecture, the idea of waste is eliminated, with assets maintained at their highest levels of utility at all times and the use of digital technologies as a vital process enabler. A circular architecture aims to generate prosperity and economic resilience for itself and its inhabitants, while decoupling valuable creation and the consumption of finite resources.

25/09/2022

To students studying architecture in Mongolia, Nepal and Sri Lanka

AUA will hold the 11th ACARA. Students who want to test your works in college assignments should challenge it. (Except for the year of graduation) We will judge fairly and invite excellent works to 11th ACARA as representatives of Asia.
Please lay out your work in the attached format (2 B5 vertical sheets) and send it to the following email address until the end of October. We are waiting for everyone's application.

https://www.aua.world/acara2022.html

[email protected]

18/07/2022

Myanmar Domestic Contest for 11th ACARA 2022

I had good news from Myanmar. Myanmar will also participate in the 11th ACARA this year. Since the participation was cut off due to the Myanmar coup, the VSoA (Virtual School of Architecture), an organization created by former ACARA representatives of Myanmar and those who are enthusiastic about architecture, will organize the domestic contest which selects the representative of Myanmar. Hope the democratic citizen will soon defeat the vicious and sinful military dictator.

All students studying architectural design in Myanmar can apply for participation at the following VSoA.
https://www.facebook.com/vsoa.myanmar/

Dr.LEE, YOUNGIL(Ph.D)
President of AUA

11/06/2022

11th ACARA (Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie's Award)
Topic : Architecture after COVID19
This year's 11th ACARA will be hosted by KMTIL(King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang) in Thailand from November 19th to 20th. Unfortunately, due to the influence of Corona, the 11th ACARA will not be held offline and will be held online for the three year straight.
This year's topic is 'Architecture after COVID19'.
The world is finally recovering from this unprecedented event of COVID-19. In such a current situation, we would like to think about what architecture after Corona should be.
Architectural design is also facing changes due to the influence of corona, but there are various ideas related to changes in architectural programs and how to use space. Definitions of what changes and what do not change, and concepts such as concentration and decentralization, liberation and closure will be key.
Regardless of the building type, whether it's a house, school, office or museum, cultural center etc., we look forward to students' innovative works on post-corona architecture.
Dr.LEE, YOUNGIL
President of AUA
https://www.aua.world

25/11/2021

The two-day ACARA event ended last Sunday. A workshop was held on the first day with participation from three countries (Indonesia, China, India), and the open jury was held on the second day.
This year, 19 representatives from 12 countries participated in the open jury. PCU (Surabaya, Indonesia), this year's host, and AUA, had held numerous online meetings and prepared for the ACARA.
ACARA was not just a decision on the winner, but was judged by evaluating the student's work and including the content of the assignments behind it.
For the first time, I invited Martin as a non-Asian jury member. I thought it would be better to have various opinions when evaluating the works of Asian students. It was proved in this contest, so I was glad to call him. Martin who is an architect from Switzerland had worked at the design office of Vann Moly Vann, a great Cambodian architect. And he is currently opening a design office while teaching architecture in Cambodia.
This year, works of various issues such as reinterpretation of tradition, spatial context, urban publicity, spatial composition, tectonic, and the way the architecture and urban design should be after the pandemic were selected.
The topic of this year was "Contextual Design: Creating Space, Re-interpreting tradition". There were many student works on this topic, so we were able to fully discuss it. For example, Indonesian work　(Meizzhan hady), Vietnamese work (Tran Du), etc.
And we had stimulating discussion on the work of post-pandemic by Chinese work (Yang Siyi).
This theme is that we should consider in architecture and urban design after the pandemic in the current Corona disaster.
I think it's time for ACARA to take up such a topic.
After the presentation of 19 students, the first round of voting began. Seven students who received two or more votes from eight judges advanced to the second round.
＜Top7＞
Tran Du (Vietnam)/
Liao Chia-Chi (Taiwan)/
Ito Kanon (Japan)/
Meizzhan hady (Indonesia)/
Tran Long (Vietnam)/
Yang Siyi (China)/
Ryan Quah Kun Hao (Singapore)/
In the second round of voting, three students remained and proceeded to the final round.
＜Top3＞
Tran Du (Vietnam)/
Yang Siyi (China)/
Ryan Quah Kun Hao (Singapore)/
It was the last vote after giving one minute of the last appeal time.
As a result, the two students were tied for three votes, another vote was taken, the student from Singapore was selected for the best rookies award, and the other two students were awarded the excellent rookie's award.
We were able to discuss architectural education in Asia through ACARA. I would like to continue this kind of discussion in ACARA.
The 10th ACARA, which started at 9am, ended around 7:30 pm. It was a long day.
Thanks to every contestant and 8 jurors, and ACARA members of executive committee in Indonesia.
See you next year.
Terima kasih
Dr.LEE, YOUNG IL
President of AUA
https://www.aua.world

19/11/2021

The 10th ACARA (Asian Contest of Architectural Rookie’s Award) will finally be held this Sunday. It will be hosted by the PCU (Surabaya, Indonesia), but this year as well as last year, it will be held online due to the influence of COVID19. This year, 19 students from 13 countries will participate. The contents of the work is diverse and interesting. There are lots of issues such as the way the community should be after the pandemic, the interpretation of tradition, the context of space, the spatial composition, tectonic, publicity of the city, and life-form etc,.. Can't wait for the 10th ACARA.

Dr.LEE, YOUNG IL
President of AUA
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