NHW Award
The NHW Award (formerly Paul Bode Prize) promotes experimental and future-oriented concepts and ideas of students of the institutes of architecture, landscape architecture and landscape planning as well as urban and regional planning at the University of Kassel. Besides that, the award enhances the contemporary discourse of the housing question in Hesse, with a focus on the city of Kassel and its region.
Current issues as well as innovative and international trends in housing will be addressed and explored through design projects. The student competition is held every two years.
The award honors experimental, visionary housing and hybrid concepts as well as the associated open spaces with a total award sum of 10,000 euros.
All Bachelor and Master students of the Faculty of Architecture - Urban Planning - Landscape Planning (ASL) of the University of Kassel are eligible to participate. Interdisciplinary cooperation of at least two courses of study is particularly welcomed. Other students of the University of Kassel and the School of Art and Design Kassel are eligible to participate in cooperation with students of the ASL faculty.
Project work between students from A, S and L is recommended — best in groups of two. Individual projects, such as master's theses, are possible. In the case of interdisciplinary projects, larger groups can be formed. However, these groups should not include more than two students per program.