EGE MİMARLIK DERGİSİ KAPAK YARIŞMASI 2026
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The Ege Mimarlık magazine cover competition invites architecture students to interpret Material for its January 2027 issue. This is a graphic-design opportunity within architectural publishing: the brief connects materials with spatial experience, labour, supply chains, craft, digital production and circularity. It does not commission a building.
Entry is restricted to architecture undergraduates studying in Türkiye who hold TMMOB Chamber of Architects student membership. Submitted designs cannot be withdrawn; credited reuse is permitted without further royalties, and use of the selected design on the cover remains discretionary.
Competition information
| Field | Details |
|---|---|
| Organiser | TMMOB Chamber of Architects, İzmir Branch |
| Type / location | Student magazine-cover design; İzmir, Türkiye |
| Eligibility | Architecture undergraduates in Türkiye; Chamber student members |
| Entry fee | Free |
| Prize fund | TRY 150,000 (approximately USD 3,027); tax treatment not specified |
| Registration | No separate competition-registration deadline announced. Chamber student membership must be completed by application |
| Submission | 16 November 2026; closing hour and time zone not announced |
| Results | 7 December 2026; exhibition arrangements to follow the jury’s assessment |
The status block uses the announced calendar date only; it cannot establish an exact UTC closing instant. Do not interpret a date-based countdown as confirmation of a submission hour.
Submission requirements
| Item | Required material |
|---|---|
| Cover artwork | PDF in the EK-1 template; full cover 24 × 32 cm including bleed, design area 24 × 29 cm; CMYK, 300 DPI; submitted file no larger than 20 MB |
| Supporting files | PDF explanation, maximum 300 words; student-membership card; current enrolment evidence for every team member; EK-2 identity form in Word; signed/scanned EK-3 AI-use declaration in PDF |
| Anonymous code | Five non-repeating digits, not a consecutive sequence. Use it for the folder, identity form and prescribed filename prefixes; place no code, name, signature or logo on the artwork |
| Delivery | One complete ZIP or RAR folder by email to egemim@izmimod.org.tr. Filename suffixes: _KAPAK, _METIN, _ODA, _OGRENCI, _KIMLIK and _UYZ |
| Entries / language | Up to three designs per participant; joint entries share one prize. The brief is in Turkish and does not explicitly establish another accepted submission language |
| Production | Four-colour offset on laminated 250 gsm matte coated paper; declare any proposed special print technique. Awarded entrants must later supply high-resolution files |
Awards and rights
| Award | Amount |
|---|---|
| First | TRY 75,000 ≈ USD 1,514 |
| Second | TRY 50,000 ≈ USD 1,009 |
| Third | TRY 25,000 ≈ USD 505 |
USD equivalents are indicative, using approximately TRY 49.55 per USD from European Central Bank reference rates on 19 October 2026. Awards remain denominated in Turkish lira; the rules do not state whether deductions apply. There is no entry fee to refund.
Work must be original, previously unpublished and unexhibited, and remain unpublished until results. Entrants are responsible for all image, font and other rights. AI assistance must be disclosed: transforming others’ protected work into the basis of an entry is prohibited. Undisclosed use or infringement can lead to exclusion or withdrawal of an award. The jury may request production evidence.
Organiser and jury
The call is issued by the İzmir Branch itself and published through its architectural journal, with a named editorial-board jury. The journal’s official notices also document a 2025 cover competition and its results; this establishes a previous edition without implying an independently audited delivery record. The present call names no separate commercial operator or building client.
| Jury member | Published affiliation |
|---|---|
| Feyzal Avcı Özkaban | Associate professor, Architecture, Dokuz Eylül University |
| Lale Başarır | Associate professor, Architecture, İzmir University of Economics |
| Gaye Birol | Professor, Architecture, İzmir Democracy University |
| Ülkü İnceköse | Associate professor, Architecture, İzmir Institute of Technology |
| Merve Ayten Kılıç | Doctoral-qualified research assistant, Architecture, İzmir Institute of Technology |
| Deniz Özkut | Professor, Turkish-Islamic Archaeology, İzmir Katip Çelebi University |
| Burkay Pasin | Professor, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Yaşar University |
| Mert Uslu | Mert Uslu Architecture |
| Ebru Yılmaz | Associate professor, Architecture, İzmir Institute of Technology |
Rapporteur: Ilgın Külekçi, the journal’s publication secretary. No weighted scoring matrix is announced; the brief asks the cover to communicate the Material theme.
✦ ArchUp Competition Review
This is a focused exercise in communicating architecture, with a manageable graphic deliverable and an identifiable professional institution behind the call. A strong response could make the relationships behind a material visible—its production, handling or reuse—rather than relying only on an attractive surface. That is ArchUp’s interpretation of the brief, not an additional judging requirement.
The published jury brings architectural education, practice, interior design and archaeology into the assessment. Its editorial role is relevant to selecting a journal cover, although the listed affiliations alone do not establish specialist graphic-design experience for every member. The absence of scoring weights leaves applicants less certainty about how conceptual clarity and visual execution will be balanced.
Free entry lowers the direct financial barrier, but the reuse and withdrawal provisions deserve attention before committing original work. Recognition and a cash award should be distinguished from a guaranteed publication commission. The competition is suitable for its defined student audience; its geographic and membership restrictions should be checked before design work begins.
Related competitions — editorial selection
For other ways of communicating architecture, see Moscow. Architecture of Time, a photography call. Students interested in spatial proposals can compare the future of Harem Bus Station; its eligibility and deliverables differ from this cover competition.
