The UIA has announced new deadlines for the Celebration of Cities competition, and the AIA, therefore, has revised its timeline as follows:

• Deadline for receipt of registrations at the AIA national component headquarters is November 22
• Deadline for receipt of submissions at the AIA national component headquarters is January 5, 2004.

All other details, including regulations and submission guidelines, remain the same and can be found on the AIA.org Web site.

A Celebration of Cities is an international ideas competition to generate a global database of inventive architectural designs to repair and heal cities across the world. The AIA, along with a range of organizations affiliated with the profession of architecture, is sponsoring the ideas competition.

The project criteria call for small-scale, sustainable solutions that are simple and have an immediate effect while remaining economical. All types of housing and urban sites are targeted, including large housing complexes, shantytowns, historic cities, and modern suburbs. The competition is divided into two categories, one for architects and one for students of architecture.

The AIA will convene a national jury to select up to five professional and five student projects to be forwarded to the UIA for the international competition. Architects and architecture students whose projects have been selected in the international competition will receive special recognition from UIA. Their projects will be presented at the UIA World Congress in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2005.

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