The Jury of the Competition TOTEM, composed of Magda Hosam Eldin Mostafa (Egypt), Wolf Tochterman (Germany), Jose Luis Cortes (Mexico) and Yang Yi (China), has met on 11-12 April in Torino and examined 435 projects (105 for info-ecology, 231 for info-metropolis and 99 for info-poverty), coming from 34 countries, and awarded the prizes.


::: View the full list of winners and participants.


This ideas competition, in a single stage, has been organized in the framework of the UIA Congress Turin 2008. Based on the congress theme, Transmitting architecture, competitors was invited to design a TOTEM, an architectural object for communication, information and exchange to be located in one of the following three types of environment: a social context: poverty; a natural context: ecology; an urban context: metropolis.

This ideas competition, in a single stage, has been organized in the framework of the UIA Congress Turin 2008, illustrating the theme: Transmitting architecture, in order to create a UIA information point in the city of Turin, a place, dedicated to urban democracy where people can meet, relax. To be designed as a public house for architecture, info point will be usable both day and night, when open and closed. Of a maximum surface of 100 m², it will be built of recyclable eco-friendly materials and be equipped with communication technologies.