RULES AND REGULATIONS 2025-2026 - Prix Claude Parent (Claude Parent Prize)

 

PLEASE CAREFULLY READ THE FOLLOWING RULES AND REGULATIONS BEFORE ENTERING THE COMPETITION.

These rules are legally binding. By participating in the Claude Parent Prize and paying the registration fee, candidates fully and unconditionally accept all the terms and conditions of these rules. If you do not agree to the terms of these rules, you must not participate in the Claude Parent Prize.

 

ORGANISER

The CLAUDE PARENT ARCHIVES Association, a non-profit organization under the French law of 1901, is located at 14 rue du docteur Roux in Verrière Le Buisson, France, registered with the Hauts-de-Seine Prefecture under number W922020609

(hereinafter referred to as the “Organizer”)
 

Its purpose is to promote the work and philosophy of Claude Parent through exhibitions, publications, and the organization of or participation in conferences and events, particularly those aimed at promoting original artistic and architectural ideas and projects. With this in mind, it has created a competition (hereinafter referred to as the “Claude Parent Prize”).

 

OBJECTIVE

Article 1: The Prix Claude Parent has been created to reward an architect or team whose architectural practice and philosophy demonstrate a desire to rethink architecture in a transgressive, critical or pioneering manner.

 

CALENDAR

Article 2: Entries are open from December 1, 2025 and close on March 31, 2026. Selected entries will be presented to the jury on June 14, 2026, who will announce the winner at the awards ceremony on June 15, 2026.

 

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPATION

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Article 3: Who may enter the competition

Entries may be submitted by an architect (or an architectural firm) or a multidisciplinary team. Multidisciplinary teams must include at least one architect (or architectural firm) to be eligible.
 

Whether multidisciplinary or not, the architect (or architectural firm) alone submits the application and must first ensure that each member of their team fully agrees to the terms of these regulations. Failure to do so may result in the architect (or architectural firm) being held liable and bearing all consequences of any kind.

 

Article 4: Terms and conditions of participation

4.1. By registering and entering the Prix Claude Parent you accept the present rules and regulations, agree to comply with the conditions and obligations described in these rules and regulations.

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4.2. Each entry requires prior on-line registration on the Prix Claude Parent website via the following URLs: www.prixclaudeparent.org. Following registration, the participant will receive an identification number enabling them to submit their entry.

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4.3. Entries must then be submitted online on the above-mentioned site in accordance with the terms and conditions set out there. No other method of submitting entries will be accepted.

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4.4. Any application requires at a minimum the submission of graphic documents relating to (a minimum of) three previously designed projects (realized or not) accompanied by texts (the content of which must comply with the terms specified on the website dedicated to the Claude Parent Prize), the whole being intended to rethink architecture in a transgressive, critical or pioneering way as stated in article 1.

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4.5. If the same project is submitted by more than one architect or team, we reserve the right to select only one application that will be publicly recognised as the project carrier (through publications or existing documents) or not to select any of them.

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4.6. All written elements submitted should be in French or English only. If you submit a project in another language, the Organiser reserves the right not to accept it.

4.7. Participation in the Claude Parent Prize is free. In order to make the prize participation fair to candidates from all over the world, the organizer has decided not to charge an entry fee.

 

Article 5: Competition procedure

5.1. Once you have created an account, we reserve the right to send you further correspondence regarding the Prix Claude Parent procedure.
 

5.2. In accordance with the purpose outlined in Article 1, a selection committee chooses, from among the shortlisted applications, the architects or teams to be submitted to the jury for a vote. No correspondence will be exchanged regarding the decisions or the decision-making process of the selection committee.
 

5.3. Once selected, no architect or team may be withdrawn or withdraw from the competition without the agreement of the selection committee.

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5.4. Only the selection committee can decide whether additional documents can or should be sent in at a later date to enable the committee to make a more informed choice.
 

5.5. The Organiser will select the jury.
 

5.6. The jury will select a winner (or winning team) who will receive a prize. To this end, it will exclusively consider the architects (or architectural firms) or teams previously shortlisted by the selection committee. The jury will be responsible for making an impartial and unbiased decision. The jury's decision is final, and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the decisions or the decision-making process.

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5.7. The Award will be given in public, except in the event of a force majeure. The winner will be contacted by the Prix Claude Parent so that they may be present in person or by videoconference at the award-giving ceremony.

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5.8. The award will be sent by post if the winner is unable to attend the award ceremony in person.
 

5.9. The award winner will also be announced on the official website of the Prix Claude Parent.
 

5.10. The Organiser reserves the right to disqualify an entry if it appears to the Organiser that the entry is irregular or if the selection committee or jury has any doubts about the integrity of the entry.
 

5.11. If a member of the selection committee is faced with a potential conflict of interest, they must inform the Organizer. If a member of the jury has a potential conflict of interest, they must inform the Organizer. In any event, any change to the selection committee or the members of the jury for any reason whatsoever (in particular, due to absence, withdrawal, replacement, etc.) will not affect the validity of the competition.

 

GUARANTEE AND TRANSFER OF RIGHTS OF THE ENTRY FILE

Article 6: Guaranty

Candidates are entirely responsible for the data, information, and graphic or textual content of the Entry File that they submit to the Prix Claude Parent. Candidates declare that they own all the rights to the documents submitted in the Entry File and that they have the capacity to commit under these rules. Candidates declare that the entire Entry File submitted to the Prix Claude Parent does not infringe any third party rights, in particular copyright, intellectual property rights, social rights and/or confidentiality rights, and that it has not borrowed from another work of any kind whatsoever, nor included any erroneous and/or outdated information or any element that could fall under the laws and other provisions relating in particular to defamation, insult, breach of public decency, privacy and all personality rights, and counterfeiting, which would be liable to engage the Organiser's liability.
 

In this respect, candidates guarantee to the Prix Claude Parent the peaceful enjoyment of the rights conferred by these rules and regulations against any disturbance, claim or eviction whatsoever. Consequently, the Candidate undertakes to deal personally with any claim and/or proceedings of any nature whatsoever on behalf of another candidate, a member of his/her team or a third party, against the Organiser that is directly or indirectly related to his/her entry to the Prix Claude Parent. The guarantees provided by the Candidate cover any penalties imposed by the Organiser, plus, on the one hand, a guarantee of all interest, costs and incidental expenses incurred by the Organiser, including legal costs and lawyers' fees, and on the other hand, the payment of a minimum sum of 20,000 euros to cover loss of image and professional prejudice.

Any Candidate who fails to comply with this clause will be excluded from the competition..

 

Article 7: Use of the Entry file

By submitting an entry, candidates agree that the Prix Claude Parent may keep the documents (image, text, file, sketch, plan, etc.) contained in the entry file and forward them to the members of the selection committee, the members of the jury and the partners of the Prix Claude Parent.
 

All elements of the application (consisting of copies of documents and not originals) remain the property of the Prix Claude Parent without any compensation of any kind.

 

Article 8: Transfer of intellectual property rights

8.1. If one or more documents contained in the Entry File were to qualify as a work, i.e. be subject to copyright regulations (hereinafter the "Creations") the Candidate transfers, free of charge, to the Prix Claude Parent, on a non-exclusive basis, with all legal and factual guarantees, the related intellectual property rights, namely the rights of representation, reproduction, adaptation, exploitation, publication, display, broadcasting, compilation, translation and transcription in whole or in part.
 

8.2. The rights assigned do not include the right to create the Creation or have it created by construction, including its plans, sketches, drawings or projects.
 

8.3. The transfer is granted for the following uses, to meet the needs of the present and future Prix Claude Parent, for the purposes of professional or cultural communication by the Organizer, the Claude Parent Archives association, for publication and marketing purposes such as articles, books, films, audio-visual documents, etc., for exhibition purposes, etc.

9.4. All the rights transferred are done so for all countries, for the duration of the protection of the author's economic rights, for all media (digital, paper editions, film, in particular advertising, electronic editions, multimedia) and using all formats, and by all technical processes known to date or to be discovered (in particular, digitisation and downloading).

9.5. All the rights transferred are transferable, in particular to the partners and sponsors of the Prix Claude Parent, or any third party when this is done in association with the Prix Claude Parent.

 

REMINDER OF THE RIGHTS RELATIVE TO THE CLAUDE PARENT ARCHIVES

Article 9. The Prix Claude Parent and the Prix Claude Parent logo are registered trademarks and belong to the Claude Parent Archives association.
 

Article 10. The Prix Claude Parent website including, in particular, the domain name, database, and graphic elements belong to the Claude Parent Archives association. The content and information available on this site may be modified at any time. They may be deleted or updated.
 

Article 11. Any partial or total representation and/or reproduction and/or use of the contents of the name, logo or any of the elements of the Prix Claude Parent website by any means whatsoever, without the prior written authorisation of the Claude Parent Archives association, is strictly prohibited and may constitute an infringement of copyright under articles L 335-2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

 

PERSONAL DATA

Article 12. For the needs of the Prix Claude Parent, the Organizer needs to have, collect, process, communicate and store personal data, which the Candidate acknowledges and accepts.
 

Consequently, the Candidate expressly authorises the Prix Claude Parent to collect, process and store the following personal data: your first and last name, your e-mail address, your telephone number, your address, your nationality and your image.

This data is collected for the purposes of organising the Prix Claude Parent and for the dissemination of information on the Prix Claude Parent. The candidate acknowledges and accepts this.
 

The Candidate expressly authorises the Prix Claude Parent to communicate personal data concerning him/her held by the Prix Claude Parent to third parties if this communication is necessary for the organisation and communication of the Prix Claude Parent. or in application of the law.
 

Your data will only be accessible to people who have an interest in accessing it within the framework of the Prix Claude Parent.

The data controller is the Organiser identified above.
 

In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation no. 2016/679 and the amended Data Protection Act of 6 January 1978, you have the following rights with regard to your personal data: right of access, right of rectification, right of deletion, right to portability of your data, right to limit processing, right to object to processing, as well as the right to define directives relating to the processing, retention and destruction or transfer of your data after your death.
 

You may exercise these rights by writing to the Organiser (contact@prixclaudeparent.org) by enclosing a copy of your identity card or passport. The Organiser will endeavour to respond to your request within a timeframe that complies with the legal provisions in force. In the event of an unsatisfactory response, you may lodge a complaint with the Commission Nationale Informatique et Libertés (https://www.cnil.fr/fr).
 

In the event that the person who has entered the competition on his own behalf or on behalf of a team communicates to the Prix Claude Parent personal and nominative information concerning third parties, it guarantees that it has duly informed these persons in advance and obtained their consent to the collection, processing, communication, and storage of their nominative data as set out above.
 

APPLICABLE LAW AND JURISDICTION

The prevailing version of the rules and regulations is the French version. The English version of the rules and regulations is provided for information purposes only. In the event of any contradiction between the French and English versions, the French version shall prevail.

These rules and regulations are governed by French law.

In the event of disagreement on the application or interpretation of the regulations, the Parties give jurisdiction to the courts of first instance of Paris, without the Organizer being able to be summoned before any other jurisdiction, even in the event of multiple defendants or third-party claims.