ULI/ Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition
ULI invites the participation of teams from accredited educational institutions in the United States and Canada. Teams must be made up of graduate students pursuing a graduate degree while fully enrolled for the entire period of the academic period during which the competition is conducted. Members of the jury; the competition advisers; all officials, current employees, and recent former employees of the Urban Land Institute (ULI); the employees, students, and immediate families of any of the aforementioned parties; and those who ULI deem to present conflicts of interest are ineligible to compete. All students from the previous year's finalist teams competitions are also ineligible.
Teams can be disqualified if:
• they do not have the proper number or mix of students;
• they do not have a faculty adviser;
• they do not have the endorsement of their school/department/program head;
• their application is late; or
• they have not included all the necessary documentation with the application.
ULI reserves the right to limit the number of participating teams and the advancing teams can be chosen based on geographic diversity, team statements, team makeup, university diversity, or any of the criteria listed above.
The ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition offers graduate-level students the opportunity to form their own multidisciplinary teams and engage in a challenging exercise in responsible land use. Student teams comprising at least three disciplines will have two weeks to devise a comprehensive design and development program for a real, large-scale site fraught with challenges and opportunities. Submissions will consist of boards that include drawings, site plans, tables, and market-feasible financial data. Please visit the competition archives to view previous submissions.
The ULI/Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition is part of the Institute’s ongoing effort to raise interest among young people in creating better communities, improving development patterns, and increasing awareness of the need for multidisciplinary solutions to development and design challenges. This competition is an ideas competition; there is no expectation that any of the submitted schemes will be applied to the site. The winning team will receive $50,000 and the finalist teams $10,000 each.
The following materials must be included in your team's application:
Part 1: General application form with
• Four-digit identifying team code
• Name of faculty adviser
• Name of professional adviser (if applicable)
• Signature of sponsoring school/department/program head verifying that all participants
are full-time graduate students enrolled for spring 2011
• Designated student team leader and team e-mail address
Part 2: Team Member 1â€â€Leader
• One-page curriculum vitae
Part 3: Team Members 2-5
• One-page curriculum vitae for each team member
You may download the application form in Word or PDF format. Part 1 must be signed by the head of the sponsoring school/department/program and then scanned to PDF.
The first prize of $50,000 will be distributed as follows: $5,000 to the sponsoring department or college as an unrestricted grant, and the remaining $45,000 divided equally among the student team members whose names appear on the final submission.
The remaining three finalist teams will receive $10,000 each, divided equally among the student team members whose names appear on the final submission.