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all competitions #contest #competition - Internationally acclaimed architect Craig Dykers will chair the jury for Washington University in St. Louis' 2012 Steedman Fellowship in Architecture International Design Competition.

Dykers is co-founder of Snøhetta, an architecture, landscape architecture and interior design firm with offices in Oslo, Norway, and New York City. Major projects include design of Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet in Oslo, and the recently opened National September 11 Memorial Museum Pavilion at the former World Trade Center site in New York.

The Steedman Competition, sponsored biennially by the College of Architecture in the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts at Washington University, is open to young architects from around the world. Winners receive a cash prize to support study and research abroad. For 2012, the first place award will be $50,000 — up from $30,000 in 2010 — making it one of the largest competition prizes in the United States.

Dykers, who will serve as the Sam Fox School's Ruth and Norman Moore Visiting Professor of Architecture next spring, will be joined on the Steedman jury by Brad Cloepfil, principal of Allied Works Architecture in Portland and New York; and by Sarah Dunn and Martin Felson, principals of Urban Lab of Chicago.

Registration for the competition will begin January 16, 2012. The program will be announced February 17, with competition entries due April 2.

Applicants must be graduates of an accredited school of architecture, and must currently be employed in — or have completed at least one year of practical experience in — the office of a practicing architect. Applicants are eligible to compete for up to eight years after receipt of their professional degrees, regardless of age.

Fellowship in Architecture International Design Contest website: http://www.steedmancompetition.com/2012_Competition/