The Best Graduation Projects of 2021: Open Call

After at least five years of study, the time comes for Architecture and Urbanism students to complete their final graduation projects—often called TCC, TFG, or Final Graduation Projects. By choosing their topics, students highlight civic, urban, or theoretical projects of great importance, sparking debate about the future of our cities, the built environment, urban infrastructure, mobility, and many other fundamental topics to discuss and develop how we inhabit space.

Completing these projects requires extensive data collection, research, and design development to solve major challenges. Because they are not always recognized as they deserve to be, we host an annual open call to showcase the best projects by students from Portuguese-speaking countries, allowing them to reach a broader audience and inspire the public.

If you believe your graduation project is relevant and deserves to be seen by other students and professionals, please review the guidelines below and submit it using the form below.

Take the opportunity to discover the selected projects from previous years—2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020—to get even more inspired!

Awards

ArchDaily Brasil and the {CURA} course have partnered once again to award the projects selected in this call with scholarships for the full Método {CURA} course*, which will be taught online.

• All authors of projects selected in this open call will receive a 40% discount on the designated course;
• In the event that the authors are Black, transgender, refugee immigrants, or scholarship recipients (full Prouni or FIES), a 100% full scholarship will be provided for the designated course.

How to Participate

Fill out the form at the bottom of this article with the following materials:

• Photographs, renderings, and/or collages of your graduation project, up to a maximum of 10 files;
• Drawings of your project (plans, sections, elevations, maps, etc.), up to a maximum of 10 files;
• A brief description (in Portuguese) of the project in up to 200 words.

Our editorial team will evaluate the submissions and publish the selected projects.

Submission Deadline

Projects must be submitted by November 26, 2021, at 11:59 PM (Brasília time).

Any project received after this deadline will be automatically disqualified.

Submission Format

• Photographs/renderings and drawings in .jpg, .jpeg, or .png. Images must be at least 2,000px on their shortest dimension and no larger than 10MB. PDF files will not be accepted;
• Project description and image credits in .doc, .docx, or Google Docs.

Guidelines

• Projects must be by individual authors or teams, completed at architecture schools in Brazil, Portugal, or any other Portuguese-speaking country, within TFG and TCC courses (or equivalent final graduation project studios);
• Submissions must be made via Google Drive. Under no circumstances will other formats or submission methods be accepted;
• Before sharing your project with us, make sure to set the Google Drive folder to "Anyone with the link can edit" and make it accessible to anyone;
• Do not upload compressed files (.zip, .rar, etc.), as submissions will be reviewed online without downloading content;
• Each participant may submit only one project;
• This is not an architectural competition, nor will there be any ranking among the selected projects. However, to streamline the review process, proposals that do not meet these conditions will be automatically disqualified;
• Unless specifically indicated, submitted images will be credited as "Courtesy of author's name". If the credits belong to someone else, please include this information in a document in the Google Drive folder;
• By submitting material to this open call, you authorize any use of any content, with proper credit, on ArchDaily and the platform's social media channels;
• Once published on ArchDaily, the project cannot be removed from the site;
• Projects completed between June 1, 2020, and November 26, 2021, are eligible to participate;
• Selected projects will be announced by December 17, 2021.
  
  * The awarding of scholarships and discounts for the "Curso completo Método {CURA}" is the sole responsibility of {CURA}, which will oversee course content and class scheduling.