The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 4th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of CITY-SENSE: Shaping our environment with real-time data.

The aim of the competition is to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.

The competition is open to architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and urban planning, with the purpose of balancing the impact real-time data collection might have on sensor-driven cities.

The competition jury, which is composed of architects, professionals in a wide range of fields and directors of some of the world's foremost architecture schools, is looking for outstanding proposals at any scale, for any city in the world. Competition entries should be submitted via the Internet on Smart Cities, Eco neighborhoods, Self-sufficient buildings, Intelligent homes or any other proposal that analyzes the phenomena of sensor-driven cities and intelligent behavioural systems.

The proposal should include whatever texts, videos, drawings and other images may be needed to make it fully understandable.

The competition prizes will consist of: Three scholarships for the IaaC Masters in Advanced Architecture program for academic year 2012-13, cash prizes, and an HP latest-generation printer. The selected projects will go on show in a major exhibition, opening in Barcelona in May 2012, which will travel to key cities around the world. The best projects will also be featured in a book to be published by Actar-Birkhauser, like in the three previous editions: SELF-SUFFICIENT HOUSING, SELF-FAB HOUSE and SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY.

http://www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org

Spark:Mobility is a Go. The first Call For Entry was live as of April 2.

We want to thank all our transpo friends for your encouragement! As one Chief Designer for a Korean automaker pointed out, this story needs to be about The Dream–of an efficient, sustainable and beautiful new transportation reality. We hope to help make it happen.

In this, one of our most exciting new competitions, we will explore and discover the rapidly expanding universe of transportation. Our focus will be on developments that are “green,” in the sense that they exemplify a commitment to using natural resources more efficiently. This unique perspective will shine a spotlight on audacious designs and technologies that challenge the current state of the art. We hope all participants in these many fields and disciplines will tilt their windmills into the wind and send us their Sparks!

http://www.sparkawards.com/call-for-entries/spark-mobility/

Exciting news–The Spark Awards, are now four competitions. “Spark:Communication,” is focused on 2-D design: Graphic, Package, Brand, UX and Interface, Advertising, Motion and Environmental/signage design, among others.–all for work that has been produced, printed, published, realized or in pre-production. This competition does not include design work in the idea or proposal stage, which now can be found in a dedicated competition called Spark:Concept. All competitions continue Spark’s core mission and Criteria.

Thanks for your interest in Spark. Please tell your friends—there’s a new home for Good Design!

OVERVIEW
The New Spark Awards will allow for greater focus and dedicated resources for each type of design. Spark is international in scope and accepts entries from all designers, everywhere.

TIMEFRAME
The New Spark competitions will continue on the annual schedule established in 2007, with a Call For Entry April 1, and final deadline and Jury in late Fall. The Celebration will follow in January.

PROCESS
The Competition will be judged along the same lines as earlier Spark events—same Criteria, Categories, website and branding. Spark is a two-phase competition. There are two pricing tiers–one for companies and professional designers, and a second for NGO’s, students and non-profit organizations (Status must be provable with to win a Spark).

http://www.sparkawards.com/call-for-entries/spark-communication/

Exciting news–The Spark Awards, are now four competitions. “Spark:Product,” is focused on 3-D, Product and Industrial Design–work that has been produced, built, is on the market or in pre-production. This competition does not include design work in the idea or proposal stage, which can be found in a dedicated competition called Spark:Concept. All competitions continue Spark’s core mission and Criteria.

Thanks for your interest in Spark. Please tell your friends—there’s a new home for Good Design!

OVERVIEW
The New Spark Awards will allow for greater focus and dedicated resources for each type of design. Spark is international in scope and accepts entries from all designers, everywhere.

TIMEFRAME
The New Spark competitions will continue on the annual schedule established in 2007, with a Call For Entry April 1, and final deadline and Jury in late Fall. The Celebration will follow in January.

PROCESS
The Competition will be judged along the same lines as earlier Spark events—same Criteria, Categories, website and branding. Spark is a two-phase competition. There are two pricing tiers–one for companies and professional designers, and a second for NGO’s, students and non-profit organizations (Status must be provable with to win a Spark).

Spark juries are new for each competition, international and come from across the spectrum of design disciplines, media, educators and experts.

http://www.sparkawards.com/call-for-entries/spark-product/

Exciting news – The Spark Awards, are now four competitions. “Spark:Space,” is focused on Architecture, Interiors, Urban Design and Landscape–work that has been built (produced, realized or in pre-production). This competition no longer includes design work in the idea or proposal stage, which now can be found in a dedicated competition called Spark:Concept. All competitions continue Spark’s core mission and Criteria.

Thanks for your interest in Spark. Please tell your friends—there’s a new home for Good Design!

OVERVIEW
The New Spark Awards will allow for greater focus and dedicated resources for each type of design. Spark is international in scope and accepts entries from all designers, everywhere.

TIMEFRAME
The New Spark competitions will continue on the annual schedule established in 2007, with a Call For Entry April 1, and final deadline and Jury in late Fall. The Celebration will follow in January.

PROCESS
The Competition will be judged along the same lines as earlier Spark events—same Criteria, Categories, website and branding. Spark is a two-phase competition. There are two pricing tiers – one for companies and professional designers, and a second for NGO’s, students and non-profit organizations (Status must be provable with to win a Spark).

Spark juries are new for each competition, international and come from across the spectrum of design disciplines, media, educators and experts.

http://www.sparkawards.com/call-for-entries/spark-space/

Entrants must create an original work of art or creative object, construction, experiment, video, concept or other creative presentation, using ONLY the Mystery Build Kit and its contents as the materials for the Entry.

The completed Entry must be submitted to the Mystery Build Contest by or before 09/16/12.

Entrants must complete a Submission Form at www.mysterybuild.com and upload photographs and/or video of the finished Entry as well as photographs or video of the Entry in progress.

Over $10,000 in cash prizes.

CSR Cemintel™ is calling for entries in its inaugural 9 Dots design competition.

Think outside the 9 dots and you could be travelling to Europe for a 17 day architectural study tour with award winning Architect, Malcolm Carver.

The competition is open to Australian architects, designers, building designers and students – your best qualification is that you can create a fresh and innovative design for a home, that is sure to get people talking.

The challenge is to prepare a residential design utilising some key Cemintel™ products. You must feature at least two of the Designer Series™ external facade range, PLUS either the Cemintel Residential Expresswall™ or the CeminSeal™ Barestone collection. (Find out more about these revolutionary new products at cemintel.com.au)

The design must meet the needs of today’s customer for an attractive, versatile and aspirational design where texture, colour and lifestyle is all important.

The judging panel consists of professional Australian architects and designers.

First prize: The 9 Dots Award

A place on Malcolm Carver’s 17 day tour of Europe studying Architecture and Urban Design. The primary focus is on Corbusier, Aalto and Gehry but you will see many more examples of outstanding architecture as you visit Helsinki, Jyvaskyla, Berlin, Luzern, Ronchamp, Paris and Bilbao. The trip covers airfares, travel in a first class coach and accommodation in 4 star hotels, as well as sightseeing and general admission fees and tour leadership by well-known architect Malcolm Carver.

Second prize: Mac Book Air

For more details on how to enter, please visit www.cemintel9dots.com.au

Entries accepted: May 30-Sept 15, 2012

SPACE announced opening of 2012 the 30th SPACE PRIZE for International Students of Architectural Design (SPACE PRIZE 2012). For its 30th anniversary, Ben van Berkel of UNStudio is invited as a judge for the competition, with the topic ‘Designing for the Inventive Economy’.

Architecture, whilst enjoying a beautiful and rich history, must of course also look towards and design for the future. What can the profession learn from the burgeoning companies and how they are organised? So how can we instrumentalise the systematic aspect of these organisations and adapt them to create an apparatus for architecture? And what will this apparatus mean for the production of architecture in the future?

SPACE PRIZE 2012 will have an open presentation for final judging and award ceremony on Oct. 31st, 2012.
The finalists will be on exhibition during Oct. 31st - Nov. 7th, 2012.

For more information, please visit http://www.space-prize.com, mail to spaceprize.a@gmail.com, and call the number +82-2-3670-3639.

SPACE announced opening of 2012 the 12th SPACE PRIZE for International Students of Interior Design (SPACE PRIZE 2012). With the topic ‘Convergence’, we are going to discover the extent to which design can converge and develop with different areas.

The fierce transitions that come with rapid informatization are today fundamentally changing humans, social forms, and even life itself. In order to cope with such changes, it is important to create innovative new knowledge, new culture, and new business methods which utilize convergence and expand new horizons beyond the boundary of existing learning such as natural science, social science, humanities, and business studies. An in-depth understanding of the society and culture of humans and the application of this in an integrated approach to design methods incorporating science and technology are, therefore, crucial.

SPACE PRIZE 2012 will have an open presentation for final judging and award ceremony on Oct. 30th, 2012.
The finalists will be on exhibition during Oct. 31st - Nov. 7th, 2012.

For more information, please visit http://www.space-prize.com, mail to spaceprize.i@gmail.com, and call the number +82-2-3670-3639.

"The history of humanity, preferring warm and temperate countries, has poorly prepared mankind to accept the diversity of the earth, especially in high latitude locations where hours of sunshine are sometimes scarce." Louis-Edmond Hamelin, geographer and founder of the Northern Studies Center of the Université Laval, Québec Canada.

"LIGHTITUDE" is the theme of the 2012 CLU foundation contest. This year’s theme invites participants to reflect on lighting the communities near the Polar Circle. Due to their high latitude these communities are subjected to particular lighting phenomena. Since light is an essential part of every living organism, it or its lack thereof has a profound effect on humankind. Can these isolated communities benefit from a more adapted artificial outdoor lighting solution to satisfy their particular Nordic needs and identities?

These are some of the questions that the CLU foundation members invite the participants from all walks of life to reflect and create upon.

http://www.lumec.com/company/fondation_clu.html

This is an International Competition (Free to enter) and is open to all architecture students Worldwide. We are accepting graduate architecture projects from students who have recently graduated or are currently graduating in the field of architecture (see Graduate Architecture's FAQs for further eligibility information) www.GraduateArchitecture.com. The deadline for submission is August 31st 2012 at 6pm (GMT+1). All projects submitted after this time will not be considered for the Graduate Architecture Prize of 2012, you will however be eligible for next year's competition in August.

Please follow the following guidelines in order to participate:
Submit in English Language: Please submit your final project in English in order for us to fully understand what you wish to portray. In the last edition, several projects were submitted in a different language and although we did our best to translate them ourselves, it was still very difficult for us to grasp the essence of those projects. We encourage you to provide text in your own language as well, to reach a larger audience. If you do submit a project written in your native language, please include a clear and concise summary in English.

Max. 10 Presentation Boards: Please do not exceed 10 presentation boards (scaled size approximately A4 in size, for an average computer monitor), either in portrait or landscape view to be submitted to Register@GraduateArchitecture.com. The total size may not exceed 10mb and should be sent as a single .PDF file.

Project Description included in presentation boards: A clear and and to the point description of your final project is necessary for us as well as other readers to understand your thoughts. All text should be included in your 10 presentation panels.

5-digit code: In addition you can make up your own 5 digit reference code (composed of either letters and/or numbers for organizational reasons). It can be any combination of letters and/or numbers (please keep in mind it is only for a reference so make up a code you can remember). This code does not need to be on your presentation panels but do name the .PDF with your code (example: John_Doe_ABC01.pdf).

Contact Information: Submit your personal or group contact information in the following format: 01. Project title 02. Names of all participants & e-mail addresses. 03. The university at which you attained your architectural degree 04. The names and contact information of the tutors at your University. Send us this information both in the text body of the email and in a separate .PDF file. Please disclose that you wish opt-out of having your information published, should this be the case. If you would like to have your contact info published, please include this information on the last page of your presentation boards.

Two (2) Project Thumbnails: Please also include an image that you would like to represent your project, this will most probably be your best rendering or most illustrative picture. (Dimensions height: 270 x width: 350 pixels for the first thumbnail and height: 390 x width: 780 pixels for the second). Click here to download the thumbnail template/ description (served as a guideline, its design is fully up to you as long as you include all necessary information and limit the dimensions of 270 x 350 & 390 x 780 pixels).

Send your digital presentation boards and project thumbnail to Register@GraduateArchitecture.com. As the email's subject, only only include your name and university at which you have done your final project. Please don't hesitate to contact us for any questions you might have, but please read our FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) first.

The jury will consist of Architects, Urbanists, Designers, Students and some of the previous winners of the Graduate Architecture Award. Winners will be based on all-round creativity, design concept, problem solving, sustainability and more (there is not one, but many aspect projects will be reviewed on).

For more information visit our website: www.GraduateArchitecture.com.

Beginning today, professional and student designers can submit entries to the 2012 Inspired Visions Global Rendering Competition. This annual competition, which is sponsored by Nemetschek Vectorworks, Inc. and MAXON Computer GmbH, recognizes today’s top architects and designers from around the world, and their abilities to visually render Vectorworks models with Renderworks or CINEMA 4D. Submissions will be accepted from April 17 to August 16, 2012, in the following categories:

• Rendering with Renderworks 2012
• Rendering with CINEMA 4D
• Monochromatic model (rendered in Renderworks or CINEMA 4D)

The panel of judges includes Daniel Jansenson, principal at Daniel Jansenson Architect and author of Remarkable Renderworks, from Santa Monica, Ca.; Tyler Littman, principal designer and owner of Sholight, LLC, from New York; Nicholas Dunand, freelance designer and sculptor, from Melbourne, Australia; Erik Recke, freelance architectural visualizer at Datenland, from Hamburg, Germany; and Alejandro Nogueira, CEO at DECC Arte 3D from Tecamachalco, Edo. de Mexico, Mexico.

Each category winner chosen by these judges will receive $2,500 USD and will be featured in an official media release and on Planet Vectorworks. Winners will also be promoted on the Nemetschek Vectorworks and MAXON social media channels, such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

In addition, the public will select their “Fan Favorite” from all entries, which will be posted on the competition’s website. Voting will take place directly on the site.

To enter, vote or learn more about the competition, visit
http://inspiredvisions.vectorworks.net

This new competition from anonymous.d wishes to challenge architects, Designers and Engineers from around the world to re-imagine the design of a spiritual space in the 21st century.

The design of a religious/spiritual building is a highly complex task. Different eras symbolize different architectural manifestations based on their spiritual affiliation. A Japanese temple and a Gothic Cathedral are both structures designed and built for man in service to his spiritual philosophy. But one is humanly scaled and harmoniously integrated in oceans of nature; the other is richly ornamented and heroically scaled structure showcasing power and technical genius.

Along history, religious spaces were always a place for architectural and structural investigations. A place where new aesthetics were born and new technologies were introduced. Some are known for their extraordinary structural performances , some showcase the balance between mass and void and others express their spiritual philosophy by a minimalistic use of light and shadows. Some of the world's most renowned structures are places of worship.

The task is to examine social, cultural, economical and historical aspects related to different faiths and societies and propose an architectural response that takes into consideration the effects of globalization, advances in technology and sustainability and other architectural and urban strategies. The proposed work should investigate ideas related to the technical complexity of the building, the symbolic expression of the space and the role of spiritual places in our society and implement them to current and future experiences, spatial organizations, functionalities and aesthetics.

Spiritual spaces - Where should we integrate them in our cities if at all? In what configuration? Should they be part of our homes or public infrastructures? should they be a vacation destination?...  The purpose of spiritual.(d) annual competition is to encourage creative individuals and teams from around the world to participate in an open architectural and philosophical debate, to nurture the architectural evolution of our environment and to redefine the role of the spiritual space in the contemporary world.

///the COMPETITION

Recently, New York’s state government has been trying to legalize non-Indian casinos throughout the state. Current proposals are asking for the construction of seven “Vegas”-sized casinos throughout New York. Although lawmakers have pushed to keep the casinos out of New York City, this ideas competition aims to investigate what a casino would do to New York City and, likewise, what New York City would do to a casino. The New York casinos are being pitched by their supporters as “regional revitalization” tools. Although Manhattan is arguably in no need of revitalization, it does have one clear zone that could use rethinking—Hudson Yards and the area around its neighboring convention center. The existing Jacob Javits Center remains an isolated structure surrounded by a no-man’s-land of parking and train tracks. Cut off from restaurants, hotels, and entertainment, it is hardly an inviting location for a large convention, nor does it allow for or engender connection to the city at-large. You might as well have your convention in Secaucus. There is talk of relocating the Center to Queens, to be sited next to the recently opened “racino” at Aqueduct Racetrack—a major financial success thus far, and example of the excitement people in the five boroughs have for gambling. The proposed convention center would be the largest in the United States. This competition asks entrants to leave the convention center at its current location on Manhattan’s West Side, but replace it and add a hotel and casino to the complex. Entrants are asked to rethink this zone so as to create a dynamic destination in the city for tourists, residents, and convention-goers alike. At the same time, the complex should become a draw for non convention-goers. If a Vegas-style themed casino clearly wouldn’t work in New York City, then what would bring New Yorkers out to gamble? Is it a family focused zone for tourists or an adults-only retreat? The proposed building should incorporate state-of-the-art facilities for both modern gambling and high-tech conventions. The convention center should be unique while remaining flexible, and the casino should shake off both cheesy Vegas aethetics and the dry desperation of Atlantic City to strive for something architecturally rich and complex—while simultaneously entertaining. The complex should also find a way to reconnect to Manhattan’s nearby entertainment districts. Madison Square Garden, Times Square, and the High Line seem cut off, despite their proximity. This complex should aim to recharge its surroundings in the same way the High Line did the Meatpacking District, bringing in pedestrians and cleaning up the area. On the western, waters edge of Manhattan, the site also includes a large pier that can be used for a portion of the program or turned into outdoor parks and recreation areas. The site includes the land the current convention center lies on, the space over the West Side Yard train yard, and the aforementioned waterfront pier. The West Side Yard was designed to accommodate an overbuild in its air rights, and space was left between the tracks for columns to support a platform above the tracks. The history of proposals for the very same site includes the ongoing Hudson Yards Redevelopment and the IFCCA “Competition for Manhattan’s West Side.”

///PROGRAM
Exhibition / Convention Space
2,000,000 square feet

Meeting Room Square Footage
200,000 square feet / 50 rooms

Ballroom
30,000 square feet

Theater
1500 seats

Lecture Hall
200 seats

Cafeteria / Restaurant / Lounge / Retail
60,000 square feet or 20 restaurants and 70 shops

Entertainment Area
40,000 square feet or 4 clubs and 1 large showroom

Gambling floor
120,000 square feet

Operational Facilities
200,000 square feet

Loading Docks
50 truck bays

Hotel
4000 suites

Service, Circulation and Support programs as required

This program is meant to be open and flexible. It should be used as a guideline but changes can be made at the discretion of each entrant.

This is an open, international ideas competition hosted by suckerPUNCH to generate progressive contemporary designs. There are no plans for the Casino/Convention Center to be built at this time. The site is not owned by or affiliated with suckerPUNCH.

///jury/AWARDS

kutan AYATA (YOUNG & AYATA)
ezio BLASETTI (Ahylo Studio)
david ERDMAN (SERVO)
marc FORNES (THEVERYMANY)
ferda KOLATAN (su11 Architecture & Design)
craig SCOTT (IwamotoScott Architecture)
marcelo SPINA (P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S)
mike SZIVOS (SOFTlab)
abigail COOVER (hume coover studio, suckerPUNCH)
nathan HUME (hume coover studio, suckerPUNCH)

$2500 in prizes will be awarded and the winning designs will be published on suckerPUNCH.

///entryREQUIREMENTS

This is an open ideas competition. entrants will be required to digitally submit two [2] boards at 18” high x 24”wide and 150dpi in tiff format with the provided 5 digit code in a 1”x1” square in the lower right hand corner of each board. Image requirements are as follows:

PLANS
all necessary site and floor plans to describe the project including at minimum a ground level plan describing the form, integration of program, and relationship to the site
*scale is at the discretion of the entrant
SECTIONS
one [1] north/south section
one [1] east/west section
*scale is at the discretion of the entrant
RENDERINGS
one [1] aerial view
one [1] street level view
one [1] interior view
*one rendering best describing the formal and atmospheric intent of the project must be rendered at 10” high x 13” wide and 150dpi in tiff format. This image is to be included on the boards as one of the above views.

///competitionSCHEDULE

14 May 2012 competition launch
11 June 2012 deadline for questions
18 June 2012 answers to questions will be posted on suckerPUNCH
25 June 2012 early registration deadline
13 August 2012 project submission deadline
3 September 2012 winners will be posted over the course of the week on suckerPUNCH

///registration/FEES

Entrants may register by submitting payment to suckerPUNCH via paypal and contact info to competitions@suckerPUNCHdaily.com. Once payment and contact info is received, an email will be sent containing all project documentation (including dimensioned CAD plan, 3-D model, aerial photo, site photos, and zoning information) and a 5 digit identification number to be placed in a 1”x1” square on the bottom right corner of each board. The submission procedure will also be outlined in this email.

early registration fee – $35
registration fee – $65
please email any questions to competitions@suckerPUNCHdaily.com

More more and to register, see: suckerpunchdaily.com/2012/05/14/new-york-city-convention-centercasino

Piraeus Port Authority and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism

ANNOUNCES

Architectural Competition Outline Design

The Competition task is the selection of the contractor who will carry out the final study of the project:

“Redesign of the existing cereals’ stock house building facilities (silo) and its surrounding open space into a museum for underwater antiquities

AND

Regeneration of part of the Piraeus Port Authority (PPA) Coastal Zone – transformation into an open public space for out door activities.

The competition will be held in accordance with the current legislation (Decree 26804/2001 (b’1427/11),L 3316/2005), the terms of this document and all the decrees existed on the date of the announcement’s postage for publication on the E.C. Newspaper and local press.

According to these terms every one who is interested is kindly requested to submit an architectural proposal.

1.    Project Owner – Contracting Authority – Competition Organizer

• The project owner is the Piraeus Port Authority (P.P.A . SA)
• The Competition Organizer is the Piraeus Port Authority (P.P.A. SA) and the Ministry of Culture and Tourism (MCT)
• The Contracting Authority is the Piraeus Port Authority (PPA sa)

2.    Competition Type
Open Architectural Competition Outline Design according to case b.2, paragraph 2, article 1 Decree 26804/2001 (b’1427/11). This project is very significant and constitutes a historical and cultural intervention to Piraeus Port.

3.    Awards
Competition jury will award the prizes with gross amounts €118.000,00 according to the article 11 of Decree 26804/2001 as specified in the following table:
1st prize:    €33.040,00
2nd prize:    €28.320,00
3rd prize:    €23.600,00
4th prize:    €18.880,00
5th prize:    €14.160,00

4.    Study fee determination
The study fee specified up to 60% of the final study fee. The estimated fee for the final design study is up to €585.095,00

5.    Terms
Eligible for participation are individuals or consortia formed of individuals or legal entities who throw recognition by the professional body in their country of residence and are entitled to use the occupational title of “Architect”. The submission verifies the applicant’s approval of the tender’s terms. The first prize-winner has to prove his eligibility to carry out the study in accordance with the current legislation. Otherwise he has to cooperate with the team that meets the eligibility requirements. This cooperation is subject to the competition organizer‘s approval.

6.    Submission deadline, registration and documents provision
In order to facilitate the possible participants, all competition data is available on the official site of the competition at the following address www.piraeusculturalcoast.org.gr, though any alteration to the contents of the provided data is strictly forbidden. All submissions must be delivered to P.P.A. Head office, by 20 September 2012 at 12.00 p.m. After this time no entry is going to be acceptable.

7.    Jury
The jury comprises 7 regular members and their corresponding deputy members. The selection of the jury members will be according to art.12 Decree 26804/2011

8.    Language of Competition
The competition documentation is available in Greek and most of it is also available in English.
The Greek language documentation is the original and takes precedence over the English translation.
The texts in the competition proposals must be written in either Greek or English

9.    Notices
The publication date of the Brief in E.U Publication Office is  30th March 2012.
The deadline for the applicants to receive the Brief and the Competition Documents is the 6th August 2012.
The deadline for the submission is on 20th September 2012 at 12:00p.m.
The deadline for the applicants to submit any queries is 14th May 2012.

ABOUT
The Fentress Global Challenge is an annual international competition created to engage students worldwide in the exploration of future design possibilities in public architecture. For the Second annual competition, students are invited to envision the Workplace of the Future. Workplace research confirms that space management is a powerful tool. Office environments designed to deliver optimal employee experience will, in turn, offer the greatest operational value. These returns are far beyond financial; they promote performance, productivity and innovation. Our economy relies on productivity, so it is important to evaluate the most cost-effective, space-effective and operationally-effective workplace.

INVITATION
All students presently enrolled in a recognized college level Architectural or Interior Design program are invited to participate. Graduates that are not employed may also enter the competition. Individuals and teams are both eligible.

SCHEDULE
Competition Announcement: Monday, April 2, 2012
Registration Deadline: Monday, August 6, 2012
Design Submission Deadline: Monday, September 3, 2012
Short-listed Notification: Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Winners Announced: Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Internship at Fentress Architects: Summer 2013

AWARDS
1st Place
US$10,000 prize and a certificate
(US$10,000 prize includes US$3,000 cash, 4-week paid internship at Fentress Architects , round-trip airfare and lodging )

2nd Place
US$1000 cash prize and a certificate

3rd Place
US$500 cash prize and a certificate

Honorable Mention
Certificate

Winning designs will be exhibited at Architecture and Design Museum in Los Angeles, California.  Exhibition dates are to be determined.

REGISTRATION
Register online at http://www.fentressarchitects.com/edge/global-challenge/ by Monday, August 6, 2012; registration is free. You will automatically be emailed a registration number to use for all references and your final submission.

More information and full competition brief is available at www.fentressarchitects.com/edge/global-challenge/{/field:body}

We hardly ever take notice of the time we spend waiting daily. Buses, trains, the tube, escalators, lifts - all these are spaces of waiting in order to reach a destination or continue a journey.

They are public places that change their quality and atmosphere at different times of the day. We are drawn to the view outside the bus window, on escalators we get glimpses of people’s faces going in the other direction or glances of countless advertisements lined up on the wall.

Can you recall having to wait for someone or something and visualise a memory of the place where it happened? We invite you to think of different kinds of places and reasons for waiting, and through the means of photography, present how you experience it. Are we conscious of it at all times? Do you stop to wait? How does it change your sense of time? Maybe it’s the place around you that is waiting or is it just a by-product of our daily life?

Requirements:

Every participant is entitled to upload one photograph per registration.
The photo has to be uploaded as a .jpg file and cannot be bigger than 5mb in size.

The document has to measure at least 2000x2000 pixels with a maximum of 5000x5000 pixels. The format (ratio height to width) can be chosen freely.

The document has to be named with the registration number only. (For example, “20134.jpg.”)

Competition:

It is a single stage competition. We’re looking to receive photos which surprise, enlighten and inspire, as well as present your intention and idea. The quality of the entries will be judged according to the depth of narrative and visual presentation.

Prizes and fees:

1st Prize: US$ 1,000 (ONE THOUSAND US DOLLARS)

1st Prize, 2nd Prize and 3rd Prize will be published in international art and design media as well as on the Homemade Dessert website

Registration: US$ 25

More information:

http://hdcompetitions.com/transition-7

FUTURE is launching, for second consecutive year, an international ideas competition to identify the best design concepts with the challenge to develop visionary urban proposals to stimulate contemporary cities, in this case 2 different locations: Chongqing, China and Seville, Spain

The open competition is single-phase and anonymous.

Participants taking part in the competition shall be architecture students or architects under 35 years old on the closing date for submission of entries (July 27, 2012).

Registration deadline July 27, 2012
Submission deadline July 27, 2012

National juries. Shortlist announcement (maximum 10 per location) Until September 17, 2012

International jury. Awards September, 2012, made up by

Cheng Taining
National Academician of China
Dean of China United Zhujing Architecture Design Co. Ltd, Hangzhou

He Jingtang
National Academician of China
Dean of Architectural Design Research Institute of South China University of Technology
Dean of School of Architecture, South China University of Technology

Wang Shu
2012 Pritzker Architecture Prize
Dean of School of Architecture and Art, China Academy of Art

Zhuang Weimin
Dean of Architectual Design and Research Institute of Tsinghua University

Carlos Ferrater
OAB Office of Architecture in Barcelona

Jose Morales
MGM Arquitectos

Alejandro Zaera Polo
Dean of Princeton University School of Architecture
AZPA

Rafael de La-Hoz
Rafael de La-Hoz Arquitectos

Robert Terradas
Director of Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura La Salle
Terradas Arquitectos

Benedetta Tagliabue
EMBT

Further details www.arqfuture.com/competitions

OPENGAP organizes this open ideas competition seeking for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary, proposals regarding a new concept for artistic inspiration spaces.

Participants are invited to design a place focused on the rental of spaces that motivate creativity and concentration, allowing users to focus, inspire and develop their artistic ideas.

Each participant or team will define the location of their project, however, the proposal must justify the choice of the location.

The competition is open to all architects, designers, architecture students and to people around the world interested in the topic. Competitors can subscribe individually or as a team of maximum of 5 people.

The proposal submission will consist of two digital images in .jpg format, not bigger than 5MB each.

Awards

• First Prize, 2000 Euro
• Second Prize, 700 Euro
• Third Prize, 400 Euro
• Mentions, Mentions will not have an economic prize.

Fees
1ST PERIOD: 29,00 euro
2ND PERIOD: 50,00 euro
3RD PERIOD: 65,00 euro
4RD PERIOD: 80,00 euro

More info
competitions@opengap.net
www.opengap.net

The aim of this two-stage  “winner of winners“ International ideas competition is to design a NEW Museum Of Architecture in London, on the site of the Iconic Old London Battersea Power Station on the bank of the River Thames. This Icon structure and prime site has laid derelict for number of years with plan after plan for re-developments, has posed a challenge for developers. It is a protected building, which means that the four chimneys would have to be incorporated into any design. ArchTriumph calls on architects to rise to the challenge provided by such an opportunity to be innovative and responsive to such a site and location with bold ideas for this Museum.

Organiser: ArchTriumph – “Triumph of Architecture + Design”

• Special Registration: from 2nd April
• Early Registration: from 16th April 2012
• Standard Registration:  from 19th June 2012
• Late Registration: from 19th July

Eligibility:
Architects, architecture graduates, architecture students, engineers, planners, designers or inter-disciplinary team (Maximum of 4 professionals) comprising of at least one architect.

Prizes / Awards:
Winning participants will receive cash prizes totaling US$ 17,000.00 distribution as follows:
Stage1: Total prize fund of US$ 6,000  + Shortlist for “Triumph” Showcase Sustainable Pavilion
Stage2: Total prize fund of US$ 11,00   + Shortlist for “Triumph” Showcase Sustainable Pavilion
Joining the overall winners will be an additional 10 Triumphant mentions

Website: www.archtriumph.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/archtriumph

Zagreb Society of Architects is pleased to announce the launch of the new Think Space 2012 cycle with its annual theme PAST FORWARD.

Think Space 2012 - PAST FORWARD cycle devised by this year's guest curator Adrian Lahoud, a former winner in the 2011 Borders Cycle, aims to repeat three competitions that radically transformed architectural culture: The Peak (1982), Yokohama Port Terminal (1995), and Blur Building (1999), with participating architects in the original competition acting as jurors in the current one: Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher (jurors for The Peak), Alejandro Zaera-Polo (juror for Yokohama Port Terminal) and Ricardo Scofidio & Charles Renfro (juror for the Blur Building).

At the conclusion of the competition, a conference in Zagreb, Croatia will bring together participating architects from both cycles. At the end of the competition phase, a further series of events will be organized including a series of international exhibitions that will display the original submissions alongside the winning competition entries from this Think Space cycle. Storefront for Art and Architecture will host the New York exhibition, with more events to be confirmed shortly.

Deadlines:

Each competition starts and ends on the same date, so competitors may make their choice and decide on participating in a single or more competitions.

Launching of the cycle on April 27, 2012.
Registration starts on May 5, 2012.
Deadline for early registration: June 26, 2012 at 12:00 CET
Deadline for entry submission: July 17, 2012 at 12:00 CET
Awards Announcement in September 2012

Awards:

1st Award:   5. 000 EUR
2ndAward:    1. 000 EUR
3rd Award:        500 EUR

Possible changes in the awards, honorable and merit prizes will be defined upon the fundraising activities and at the discretionary right of the jurors.

Submission Fee:

Early registration fee: from 5 May to 26 June 2012 - 370 HRK / 50 EUR
Full registration fee: from 27 June to 17 July 2012 - 555 HRK / 75 EUR

Jury:

The Peak: Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher (ZHA)
Yokohama Port Terminal: Alejandro Zaera-Polo (AZPA)
Blur Building: Ricardo Scofidio & Charles Renfro (DS+R)

Each architect will act as the sole juror for his or her respective competition, with assistance provided by the Think Space curator. The deliverables for the new competition cycle will match as closely as possible the original requirements for each competition. There is no limit to the number of competitions that can be entered.

We invite you to participate in the competitions and explore together with the jurors, guest curators and other professionals from all over the world, how much have the last 30 years influenced the disciplinary transformation, looking back in order to discern how far we have moved and in what direction.

More information on the competitions find on official web page: www.think-space.org

We are happy to announce the next competition in the Spark:Concept series–the only one for the remainder of 2012. We will be gathering the finest examples of concept design from around the world, and hope you will participate! After a resounding success with the 2011 Spark:Concept Awards, we look forward to a great event in the coming months. If you are an architect with a great proposal, a car designer with a bright idea or a brilliant student with a grand thesis– make sure you see the Spark! The entry system is open 24/7, so THIS is the time to Spark.

DEFINITIONS
The Spark Concept Awards are for work that is in the idea or proposal stage. For example, this would include architectural proposals, concept automobiles and design student work.

This competition does not include design work which has been built, produced, realized or is in pre-production, which can be found in our other dedicated competitions– Spark:Communication, Spark:Product and Spark:Space.

Spark:Concept is for any discipline of design. This includes graphic design, product, UX, motion, architecture, interiors, transportation and others.

All these competitions continue Spark’s mission, criteria and categories. All Design, and all designers are welcome at Spark.

Thanks for your interest in Spark. Please tell your friends–there’s a new home for Good Design!

TIMEFRAME
Because concept design entries are often student work, Spark:Concept events are timed to facilitate entries from the main school semester—the Spring term. All Spark events are international in scope and accept entries from all designers, everywhere.

PROCESS
The Competitions are judged along the same lines as earlier Spark events—same Criteria, Categories, website and registration system. They are multi-disciplinary and multi-level. They are two-phase competitions.

There are two pricing tiers—one for companies and professional designers, and a second for non-professionals, non-profits, students and recent graduates (i.e., in the past 24 months, with status provable via student ID or copy of degree to win a Spark).

Spark:Concept is entirely “virtual.” That is, it is entered and conducted online, over the Spark website. No materials, boards or designs are delivered to Spark:Concept. All entries are via the website and first phase judging takes place online as well.

All Spark juries are international and come from across the spectrum of design disciplines, media, educators and experts.

http://www.sparkawards.com/call-for-entries/spark-concept/

Applied Computer Online Services and Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco are hosting the Home for Humanity contest. We are calling all architects, engineers, designers, plumbers, urban planners, developers, house builders, and other visionaries to create cost-effective and innovative Habitat homes.

Our goal for the Home for Humanity contest is to produce dynamic discussions and innovative ideas that will inspire open thinking in Habitat for Humanity Greater San Francisco’s 2020 Vision. This contest also gives Applied Computer Online Services a chance to reach out and give back to the community.

Under the 2020 Vision, Habitat plans to build 400 more new houses by 2020 in Marin, San Francisco, and the Peninsula in the Bay Area, California, and renovate at least 200 more homes and 50 neighborhood facilities.

“Build for humanity with us”

For more information:
http://www.applied-computer.com/contest/overview.aspx

An international design competition was launched on April 15, 2012 expected to produce a design that will inform the reconstruction of Notre Dame de l’Assomption, the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Port-au-Prince, Haiti destroyed 2 years ago.

In an article appearing in the current issue of Faith&Form, a magazine dedicated to the architecture of places of worship, Mgr Guire Poulard, Archbishop of Port-au-Prince calls on architects of the world to offer their ideas for building a new cathedral. He writes that the “ideal design must engage the future and celebrate life.”  He continues in noting that a successful plan “must be mindful of the past and memorialize the thousands who died and were injured in the earthquake of January 12, 2010”

Details of the competition open to architects of the world are provided on the site at www.ndapap.org.  The site also contains historical information and other data on the destroyed structure and construction site.

For more information write to info@ndapap.org.

Exploration of natural systems from the microscopic to the universal unearths vast design potential for overlaying cultural, ecological, and life cycle flows toward determining new architectonic strategies.

Sponsored by New York-based d3, the annual d3 Natural Systems competition for 2012 invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, interiors, and designed objects.  The competition calls for innovative proposals that advance sustainable thought and performance through the study of intrinsic environmental geometries, behaviors, and flows.  By identifying, examining, and applying their structural order on form and function- -bottom-up, performance-based solutions for limitless building typologies, functional programs, and material conditions may be realized.

An architecture of emergence suggests that design expression requires purpose beyond formal assumption and aesthetic experimentation itself.  Concurrent with sustainable thought, the d3 Natural Systems competition assumes that architecture does not simply form, but rather perform various functions beyond those conventionally associated with buildings.  Design submissions must be environmentally responsible while advancing inventive conceptual solutions.  Although proposals should be technologically feasible, they may suggest fantastical architectural visions of a sustainable global future.

The d3 Natural Systems competition allows designers freedom to approach their creative process in a scale-appropriate manner--from large-scale master planning endeavors, to individual building concepts, to notions of interior detail.  Accordingly, there are no restrictions on site, scale, program, or building typology, proposals should carefully address their selected context.

Please visit the competition website for full details:  www.d3space.org/competitions

With successive declines on the financial markets, recent times have seen a growing interest in the theoretical debate about alternatives to the ongoing capitalist system. Gathering international thinkers from all walks of political life, the diagnosis on the ongoing economic crisis situation tends to demonstrate that the system as it is nowadays needs to be rethought and perhaps re-established globally.

The recent Wall Street protests and the associated developing movements around the world indicates the depth to which the inequality generated by the economic system and the demand for global change has penetrated the popular consciousness. – The financial crisis is no longer a matter for the decision makers and having reached the masses is transforming the political and national – or trans-national – spheres.

At the same time creative alternatives – in trying to deal with the growth of poverty amongst the population – propose new ways of living, celebrating an ideology based on trust, solidarity, community and action.
Cities… Their attractiveness was originally based on the economic opportunities they provided to their inhabitants: job opportunities created a massive influx from the countryside, contributing actively to their spatial transformation by means of increasing population density and growth. However, in a prospective future if attractiveness is no longer necessarily related to profit making – as the symbolic 99% idealized by the “Occupy” movements around the world claim – the question of the future of existing cities is wide open.

WHAT IF… ?
What if the change was tomorrow? What would be the characteristics of a system not based on profit making? What would be the consequences of a new system for the way in which we use urban spaces?
Would cities enter a transformation process, becoming specialized centres in a globalized system?
Would the global network of cities tend to erase borders or to affirm and reinforce them? What is (could be) the scale (the impact) of the change?

First competition cycle: #1Shop

LAUNCHING DATE April 1, 2012

In the last centuries we have discovered the advantages of global exchange of goods, but what if we would take a step back and see what we really need? Show us your ideas to re-think the shop, the way we consume and a city with another system of shopping culture. Everything is valuable from small interventions up to global concepts.

www.collagelab.org

In the perspective of a mutual collaboration to raise new opportunites in the field of fashion design, Néo presents “ Bag in Town”,  design competition in collaboration with IED and Eastpak,the authentic urban lifestyle brand.

Creative designers from around the globe are asked to take part in the new design competition Bag in Town - A bag for 24 hours. Held in collaboration with the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED), within the portal creativecontexts.com, this ground-breaking competition explores the relationship between the bag and the urban environment. Encouraging proposals from the worlds of fashion, design and communications, Bag in Town aims to redefine the aesthetic and functional basis underlying bag design, asking one clear and simple question: “What constitutes the perfect bag for 24 hours?”
EASTPAK has always had an eye for the creative and unconventional. Which is why the brand is teaming up with IED – the international network for advanced training in design, fashion, visual communication and management – to give young minds the chance to express their creativity and explore new avenues for engaging their environment.

The Bag in Town design competition is open to anyone over the age of 18. Interested participants are invited to visit the dedicated website www.bagintown.net. Design proposals are accepted by the portal up until July 1st, 2012. The six best projects will be selected on the basis of style and innovative point of view – three by a specialized jury and three by the wider public.

The prizes? The six selected designers will be treated to a once-in-a-lifetime experience at the IED Creative Factory in Milan. Over six intensive days, the finalists will receive expert guidance from EASTPAK product and marketing managers and IED design management specialists with the goal of manufacturing a prototype of each design and transforming their respective projects into reality. These prototypes will then be published on the Bag in Town website and once again subjected to public scrutiny. The design earning the most votes will be awarded a cash prize of €5000 and the opportunity to see the winning creation on the market in 2013, as part of the new EASTPAK collection.

For more info and the full competition rules, please visit www.bagintown.net

The contest belongs to the Creativecontexts.com   lab:got an idea? So, now you have the opportunity to really challenge your creativity, make new projects for brands that want to turn them into products, win prizes, scholarships, money  and even a job!

You know that it’s not easy for a young designer to have direct access to production and prototyping. Now your talent has a space to be expressed with Creative Contexts the community promoted by the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) aimed at aggregating creative and passionate people from more than 90 countries, that are involved in fashion, design, visual arts and communication, with the demands of most brilliant and innovative brands.

Creative Contexts publishes all contests offered by IED and their brand partners all around the world, which allows the participants of the community the opportunity to compete on creativity.

Within creativecontexts.com, IED gathers the creative community taking part in contests in the production of ideas i.e. concepts, that may be shared and voted on, and which may eventually become products manufactured and marketed by the brand sponsors in the e-commerce area.

Visit www.creativecontexts.com and find more about all scholarships contests and opportunities promoted by the Istituto Europeo di Design.

At this link you can see the web spot creativecontexts.com. Stay tuned!

This year, we are seeking integrated design, planning, environmental restoration and engineering responses that address border, gateway and edge/fringe conditions in cities worldwide. Proposals should address urban sites currently facing chronic liveability challenges that are largely the result of a city’s location on a physical, political, cultural or economic border. Proposals should be implementable. In addition to a cash prize for the winning team, we will be engaging a local organization to help advance the proposed project. Responses can range from a strategic framework to a surgical micro-response, from a whole landscape system to a single piece of architecture. Entrants should demonstrate a holistic and sustainable approach. Judges will value creativity and innovation, but your response must be fundamentally feasible.

The competition is open as of 16 April to students worldwide. Students may work as individuals or in teams of up to four. The deadline for final submissions is 31 August, and pre-registration must occur by that deadline any time prior to the final submission. Finalists will be announced by 1 October. During the week of 12 November, finalists will present their submissions to a panel of judges in Shanghai, and a final winner or winners will be announced. At stake is USD$15,000 as a cash prize, as well as USD$25,000 to help see the winning scheme implemented. For full submission requirements and competition details, download the competition brief.

You can find more information here:

http://aecom.com/Careers/Student+Connections/Urban+SOS+Frontiers

We are very pleased to announce that, in partnership with New York City's Department of Parks & Recreation, the 2012 Land Art Generator Initiative design competition will be held for a site within Freshkills Park (the former Fresh Kills landfill) in Staten Island.

The design brief, to be released January 2012, will be similar to that of the 2010 edition. LAGI 2012 is an ideas competition to design a site-specific public artwork that, in addition to its conceptual beauty, has the ability to harness energy cleanly from nature and convert it to electricity for the utility grid.

The expansiveness of the design site at Freshkills Park presents the opportunity to power the equivalent of thousands of homes with the artwork. The stunning beauty of the reclaimed landscape and the dramatic backdrop of the Manhattan skyline will provide an opportune setting from which to be inspired, and it offers the perfect environment for a showcase example of the immense potential of aesthetically interesting renewable energy installations for sustainable urban planning.

The monetary prize award ($20,000) will not guarantee a commission for construction; however, LAGI will work with stakeholders both locally (NYC) and internationally to pursue possibilities for implementation of the most pragmatic and aesthetic LAGI designs.

Jury members include:
-Bjarke Ingels, BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group
-Dr. Henry Kelly, Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy at the U.S. Department of Energy
-Jean Gardner, Associate Professor of Social Ecological History, Parsons New School, School of Constructed Environments
-Public Design Commission of the City of New York
-Patricia Watts & Amy Lipton, ecoartspace
-Melanie Cohn, Executive Director, Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island
-Staten Island Economic Development Corporation

About Freshkills Park:
"At 2,200 acres, Freshkills Park will be almost three times the size of Central Park and the largest park developed in New York City in over 100 years. The transformation of what was formerly the world’s largest landfill into a productive and beautiful cultural destination will make the park a symbol of renewal and an expression of how our society can restore balance to its landscape.

In addition to providing a wide range of recreational opportunities, including many uncommon in the city, the park’s design, ecological restoration and cultural and educational programming will emphasize environmental sustainability and a renewed public concern for our human impact on the earth." - FRESHKILLS PARK

About The Land Art Generator Initiative
Founded in 2009, LAGI is a project of Society for Cultural Exchange, a 501(c)(3) organization committed to providing a forum for local and international communities to engage with the arts and the environment through interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collaborations (http://societyforculturalexchange.org/). LAGI is a multifaceted project that is focused on expanding public awareness of and support for renewable energy.

http://landartgenerator.org

NOVA External Venturing - the Saint-Gobain team of analysts that identifies start-up companies that are a good strategic fit with Saint-Gobain businesses - will reward innovations in the fields of construction products, advanced materials, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability with cash prizes and consideration for partnership opportunities with Saint-Gobain.

Press release

Start-ups from all over the world can participate. Final selection will take place at the Saint-Gobain booth at Greenbuild in San Francisco on November 15, 2012, where the most promising 8-12 start-ups will take part in a "speed-dating" session. Three winners will be chosen.

The competition's winners will benefit as follows:

• The top three cash prizes are: $50,000 (first place), $25,000 (second place) and $10,000 (third place).
• The NOVA External Venturing team will work with the most promising start-ups to assess the possibility of partnerships with Saint-Gobain (joint development, license, financing, etc.).

Time line :

• Submission deadline (in English only): June 30, 2012
• Selection of finalists: early September 2012
• Speed-dating session for the finalists with Saint-Gobain representatives at the Greenbuild International Conference and Expo in San Francisco: November 15 2012

Download the competition rules

Download the registration form

Submit your proposal: externalventuring@saint-gobain.com

More information

ONE Prize 2012: BLIGHT TO MIGHT is a call to put design in the service of disenfranchised communities, to reinvigorate deindustrialized and depressed urban areas, and to repurpose spaces for economic growth and job creation.  Situated in the context of a struggling U.S. economy and the tension of stagnant unemployment, ONE Prize 2012 aims to explore the socially, economically, and ecologically regenerative possibilities of urban transformation and design. The competition is powered by the idea that social, ecological, and economic struggles can simultaneously be addressed through collaborative action and innovative planning.

The ONE Prize seeks architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, scientists, artists, students and individuals of all backgrounds:

• Can we rework the skeletons of 20th century manufacturing for 21st century innovation?
• Can former plants in Detroit become greenhouses, schools, theaters?
• Can mill towns be revamped as digital fabrication hubs?
• Can vacant parking lots become farms or parks?
• Can abandoned strip malls be reinvented?
• Can we reboot the American economy?

The ONE Prize winner will receive a cash Award of $5,000, press coverage by One Prize media sponsors, presentation of designs at lectures and exhibitions, and prominent year-long exposure on the competition website.
THREE Honorable Mentions will receive a cash award of $500 each.

ONE Prize 2012 Jury:

• Carlo Aiello, Editor-in-Chief, eVolo Magazine; 
• Julie Bargmann, Founding Principal, D.I.R.T. Landscape Architecture;
• David Belt, Founder and Executive Director, Macro Sea; 
• Dan D’Oca, Partner, Interboro Partners; 
• Evan Douglis, Dean, RPI School of Architecture; 
• Jason Goodman, Founder and Executive Director, 3rd Ward;
• Robert Hammond, Co-Founder, Friends of the High Line; 
• Andrew Kimball, President and CEO, Brooklyn Navy Yard Developing Corporation; 
• Leslie Koch, President, The Trust for Governors Island; 
• Jonathan Marvel, Partner, Rogers Marvel Architects; 
• William Moggridge, Director, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum; 
• Mahadev Raman, Chairman, Americas Arup

All participants are asked to register and submit competition entries online.
The early registration deadline is May 31, 2012.
The late registration AND submission deadline is June 30, 2012 by midnight EST.

The ONE Prize Award is an international competition and it is open to everyone. The teams can have one or more members. The proposals can be for a real or speculative project, for one or more real sites, and located either in the U.S. or abroad, but applicable to the U.S. Further, the proposals need not be generated exclusively for this competition, provided that they address the intent of the competition.

Visit www.oneprize.org to register, submit, and receive more information.

Best,
The ONE Prize Team
info@oneprize.org

The Annual Religious Art and Architecture Design Awards program is co-sponsored by Faith & Form Magazine and the Interfaith Forum on Religion, Art and Architecture (IFRAA), a knowledge community of the American Institute of Architects. The awards program was founded in 1978 with the goal of honoring the best in architecture, liturgical design and art for religious spaces. The program offers five primary categories for awards: Religious Architecture, Liturgical/Interior Design, Sacred Landscape, Religious Arts, and Unbuilt Work.

Awards and Recognition 

Award recipients receive significant recognition including printed and framed citations, recognition at an IFRAA awards presentation, full-page coverage in Faith & Form's Annual Awards Issue and project board exhibition at the AIA National Convention.

Award Categories 

Entries are welcomed and encouraged from architects, landscape architects, designers, artists, students, and consultants.

The 2012 Jury Panel     

• Chair/Architect: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk / Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. / Miami, FL    
• Architect: Susan Jones / Atelier Jones / Seattle, WA    
• Artist: Erling Hope / Hope Liturgical Works / Sag Harbor, NY    
• Liturgical Designer: Rolf Rohn / Rohn & Associates Design / Pittsburgh, PA    
• Clergy: Rev. W. Joseph Mann / Duke Divinity School / Durham, NC

CLOSING DATE IS JUNE 30 AT MIDNIGHT.

www.faithandformawards.com

A Contemporary Art Museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. Paintings and scupltures are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, drawings, collages, prints, photographs and installation art including other artistic activities, such as performance art, land'art, web art to name a few are also regularly shown.

Contemporary art can broadly be defined as art produced at this point in time (now) or after World War II.

Buenos Aires is the capital of Argentina and is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata. It has a population of approximately 13 million (thirteen million), which makes it one of the biggest cities in South America - a cosmopolitan metropolis, known for its rich cultural life and is considered the capital of the tango.

Being an important economic center, its architecture is a combination of different styles which gives it a unique architectural beauty.

AIM OF THIS COMPETITION
The aim of this International Competition is to design a New Contemporary Art Museum in the Heart of Buenos Aires. The architecture of this new building should reflect contemporary design tendencies.

The proposal must not only attend to the specific function but the design should also take into consideration the urban insertion and its impact. This Competition hopes to achieve the following:
_Encourage and reward design excellence which integrates function and structure within the art world.
_Research, respond to and highlight the unique aspects of designing an original Contemporary Art Museum.
_To generate the discussion of ideas regarding the functionality of an art exibition space.
_Encourage the employment of sustainable design in all aspects of the proposal.

COMPETITION STRUCTURE
This is a single stage Competition with the aim of identifing the most appropriate proposal, which best satisfies the general and specific objectives of the contest.

For more information, please visit www.ac-ca.org

HOME International Design Competition:

Building Trust international have just announced a new open design competition, which seeks to find well designed homes for the elderly or homeless within some of the World’s richest countries. The growing rate in single occupancy households has led to increased numbers of young and elderly people affected by poverty being forced to live in substandard living conditions and in the worst cases sleeping rough. We are asking designers, engineers, architects and house builders to provide a solution to the housing crisis by offering sustainable, affordable small homes that give those that are alienated or marginalised within society a safe place to live. Building Trust international ask contestants to site their proposals in an urban area of a developed country, develop single occupant designs that are sensitive to the local context and keep to a budget of £20,000 ($30,000). Building Trust international will work alongside local government and community groups to seek funding and planning for the winning design. The design competition has the support of Habitat for Humanity and the YMCA.

Announcement of Winners:
To be posted on www.buildingtrustinternational.org - 15th August 2012

Prize:
Professional Category
1st prize: We will pursue funding and planning for the winning design. There will also be 9 honourable mentions.

Student Category
1st prize: $500. There will also be 4 honourable mentions.

Brief:
Download from:

http://www.buildingtrustinternational.org/competition.html
http://www.buildingtrustinternational.org/HOMEbrief.pdf

Good Luck!!

CALLING FOR ENTRIES!

Jointly organised by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) and Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC), this design competition is into its second year after a successful inaugural in year 2011 which attracted close to 60 entries from the Asia Pacific and South Asia regions.  This year, it will be held in conjunction with the International Green Building Conference from 10 to 12 October 2012.

THEME:

This year’s competition is themed as ‘Building a Sustainable Community for a Greener Future’.

Designs should take into consideration how end-users can continue to develop behaviours or actions that will keep the buildings green in the tropical climate. Projects should also focus on climatic adaptive building skins suitable for the locality identified, integrating landscape into the building design, incorporating passive and active design strategies, renewable energy (if any) and other ecological design features.  Entries can be of an entire building or a detailed study and it must include a degree of feasibility based on today’s available resources.

ELIGIBILITY:

It is open to students currently enrolled in Institutes of Higher Learning (IHL) in Asia Pacific, South Asia regions and beyond. Interested participants can submit as an individual or as a team of 5 (maximum). Refer to rules and regulations for more details.

FEE:

Participation is free.

REGISTRATION:

Step 1:
Email the completed the registration form, declaration form and scanned copy of each student’s ID by 29th June 2012 to Ms. Claryce Ng at Claryce_Ng@bca.gov.sg

Step 2:
Students to submit their entries by 16th July 2012 to the following address:-

Attn: Mr Subramaniyam / Ms Claryce Ng
International Tropical Architecture Design Competition
BCA Academy, 200 Braddell Road, Singapore 579700

SUBMISSIONS:

Students can submit their existing university projects to this competition if it meets the above theme and design criteria.
Entries must be received by 16th July 2012.

Required documents:

• A project brief (max. 5 pages)
• max. 2 x A1-sized Design boards
• CD with e-copies of the submission
• Optional: model

For submission details, please refer to rules and regulations.

REVIEW & SELECTION:

All entries will be reviewed and the top 5 entries will be selected. One person from each of the top 5 entries will be invited to Singapore in October 2012 to present their projects to the Jury and receive their awards. For more details, please refer to rules and regulations.

AWARDS:

The Top 5 winners will be rewarded with the following award categories:

1st prize: $3,000 SGD
2nd prize: $2,000 SGD
3rd prize: $1,000 SGD
2 Merit prizes: $500 SGD (each)

Details:

The registration form, competition flyer, declaration form and rules and regulations are available for download at;

http://www.sgbc.sg/index.php/green/events/international_tropical_architecture_design_competition_2012_for_institutes_/

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT:

Mr Subramaniyam
Tel: +65 6730 4506
Email: Subramaniyam_Jekanathan@bca.gov.sg

Ms Claryce Ng
Tel: +65 6730 4505
Email: Claryce_Ng@bca.gov.sg

The purpose of the re:THINK Housing Ideas Competition is to create a way for outside-the-box, game-changing ideas to spark a public conversation on how we can make substantial gains in delivering affordable housing choices in Vancouver.

Two Categories:

1. Building Bold
   This category is geared towards bold, innovative ideas for creating large amounts of affordable housing in Vancouver. Utilizing land within 800m of an existing or proposed rapid transit line, or land and properties owned by a public body such as the City or another level of government
2. Vibrant Neighbourhoods
   This category aims to generate ideas and concepts that create flexible affordable housing options at a neighbourhood level that are on a smaller scale than the other competition category. These ideas should create more choice, connection and belonging within our communities.
   Each category is further divided into either public or private developments (P3's should be entered in the public category). Prizes are $3000 each for the two building bold entries, $1000 each for the vibrant neighbourhoods.

Jury:

Alan Boniface, MAIBC – Architect & Principle at Dialog
Mark Guslits – Architect & Principle at Mark Guslits & Associates, Toronto. (Former Chief Development Officer of Toronto Community Housing)
Olga Ilich - Former BC Cabinet Minister with extensive experience in the real estate sector
Kenneth Kwan – S.U.C.C.E.S.S. Foundation
Nathan Edelson - Former Senior Planner at the City of Vancouver

Sponsor:

The City of Vancouver

website: www.vancouver.ca/rethink
email contact: seanruthen@hotmail.com & rethink@vancouver.ca

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) is pleased to announce its 2nd Annual International Student Tall Building Design Competition to be held in conjunction with the CTBUH 9th World Congress Shanghai 2012.

The goal of the competition is to shed new light on the meaning and value of tall buildings in modern society. As noted by the 2011 Competition Jury Chair, William Pedersen of Kohn Pedersen Fox, “There has been a major transition in the sense of the value of the tall building and what it can contribute to the urban realm, and society in general. This transition moves the tall building away from just an instrument of financial exploitation and toward a development highly concerned with its impact on the city, the environment, and the urban habitat.”

http://competition.ctbuh.org

L.A. is an online journal of writing and building for Lebanon and the immediate region with the aim of creating a constructive discourse about the state and realities of its architecture and the related design disciplines. From theoretical/historical anxieties to technological development to pure building details L.A. is first and foremost grounded in the production of architecture.

L.A. accepts submissions of projects, essays and response essays to articles published on its site.  All materials are subject to editorial review and an external mediation.  All articles and projects shall relate to LA’s mission statement.  L.A. also welcomes essays and projects by natives practicing around the world.

www.lebanon-architect.com

The goal of CONSTRUIRE LA PRÉVENTION DU PALUDISME: Building Malaria Prevention, ARCHIVE's Open Innovation Campaign, is to retrofit 24 housing units in the community of Minkoaméyos in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The design of the housing units should combine the use of common sense principles and innovative ideas to minimize the transmission of malaria. Our campaign is unique in that we not only seek design excellence, but design that truly integrates architectural construction with community health improvements.

Please visit our website: http://www.archiveglobal.org/cameroon

PERU LONDON PAVILION
Peruvian Stand on World Travel Market, London

OBJECTIVES:

1. Propose a new, contemporary, attractive, functional and easy-to-remember image, ensuring that the Peru Pavilion will reflect Peru’s attractions and encourage the general public to learn more about this country’s many and varied tourist destinations.
2. Increase visitor numbers in a decentralized and sustained manner, promoting the diversification of the country’s tourist attractions.
3. The objective of the competition is the design of the Peru Pavilion (for the World Travel Market – WTM). The proposals presented will be referential and able to accommodate adjustments before the WTM commences. These adjustments will be made jointly with PROMPERU and will be the result of an evaluation of the specific requirements of each travel market.
   It should be understood that the design proposals chosen as winners will be used by PROMPERU not only in the WTM, but also in all the presentations mounted by Peru in tourism fairs in Europe, Latin America and Asia, beginning in November 2012 and continuing throughout 2013.
4. The design of the pavilion should be based on a flexible and graphic architectural system, capable of being adapted to different needs.

THE PROJECT:
PARAMETERS OF THE PROPOSAL:

The area to be occupied by the pavilion measures 400 square meters, in the form of a rectangle located in the middle of the Fair, composed of 42 meters by 9.5 meters with four open sides that will accommodate a series of stands and communal areas for information, a gastronomic bar, an area for events, a meeting point, and rooms for gatherings and interviews, in accordance with the specifications given below. These stands must meet the minimum requirements and technical specifications detailed in this document, and it is essential that the following aspects be precisely defined: materials to be used, textures, qualities, functionality, furnishings, spatiality, color scheme, lighting design, distribution and utilization of institutional graphics.

PRIZES:
The prizes awarded will be:

1st PRIZE: US$ 20,000 (TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS) for the development of the project, 2 plane tickets to London (from Peru or anywhere else in the world), as well as accommodation, meals and transfers during the 4 days of the WTM.

2nd PRIZE: Luxury travel package for 2 persons x 4 days in Peru (destination of choice).

3rd PRIZE: Luxury travel package for 1 person x 4 days in Peru (destination of choice).

and 9 honorable mentions.

SCHEDULE

• START OF COMPETITION    March 20th, 2012
• ANSWERING OF QUERIES Answers will be updated at the F.A.Q for the entirety of the Competition
• SPECIAL REGISTRATION    From March 20th until April 16th 2012
• EARLY REGISTRATION From April 17th until May 14th, 2012
• LATE REGISTRATION    From May 15th to June 18th, 2012
• REGISTRATION DEADLINE    June 18th, 2012
• SUBMISSION DEADLINE    until June 25th, 2012
• JURY EVALUATION    From June 26th until July 16th 2012
• ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WINNING PROPOSAL    July 17th 2012

EVALUATION
For ARQUITECTUM:
Karin Chaman Arch. : www.karimchaman.com
Jordi Puig Arch.: www.jordipuig.com.pe
Enrique Bonilla Arch. : Dean, University of Lima´s School of Architecture

For PROMPERU:
Maria del Carmen de Reparaz: Director of Tourism Promotion PROMPERU
Andrea Martinez: Subdirector of Receptive Tourism PROMPERU

Further Information www.arquitectum.com

EWNS Art Project is organizing a group art exhibition and is looking for talented artists who want to expose their work in Paris.

Exhibit Dates: October 1st - 31st, 2012

Location: Gallery / Art Space - Paris + Online @EWNS Gallery

Title: "International ContemporaryArtists Exhibition"

Theme: Artist's choice/No Theme

Deadline for Submission: June 15th, 2012. (No exceptions).

Eligibility:

• Open to all artists from around the world, 18 yrs of age and older.
• Eligible media : Paintings, photography, sculpture, textiles, ceramics, glass, etc. Media not accepted : Giclee prints, video/film and live performance pieces.
• All work must be original.
• Coherent set of artworks, executed in a contemporary way.
• Artists must submit a minimum of 3 images per medium that best represents their work and pay a non-refundable entry fee of 30 euros minimum (via PayPal)
• Each artist can participate in multiple categories, with a maximum of 10 pieces/category (to be submitted separately).
• The work must be recent, preferably made in last two years prior to the starting date of this exhibition.
• All artworks must be for sale.
• Maximum size limitations 40" in or 100cm in any direction, Maximum weight limitations 150lbs / 68 kg.
• EWNS will not accept items for hanging using saw-tooth hooks or inadequate wiring. All framed works must be properly wired for display.
• Publishers, galleries, agents, and collectors may not submit artwork on behalf of artists.
• Entries must be submitted via email.

Submit online at website : www.ewnsartproject.eu

The Architecture Foundation and Scarcity and Creativity in the Built Environment (SCIBE) - a trans-European research project led by Jeremy Till with teams in London, Oslo/Reykjavik and Vienna - are looking for innovative strategies to address conditions of scarcity in London. Based on the understanding that architects and designers hold the capacity to intervene in existing social, cultural, political, economic and environmental systems in ways that may exceed the production of objects alone, teams are invited to develop a future vision for Bromley-by-Bow, the area where SCIBE London primarily works, by proposing the devices and approaches that would be needed to achieve this vision, starting now.

The process is open to anyone, and we welcome proposals from beyond the fields of architecture and design, in particular those engaged with creative approaches to socio-economic scenarios. The AF and SCIBE will be holding two events in July 2012, from which collaborating teams will emerge. During stage one participants will be issued with the briefing document and will prepare first responses to the issues raised. Prospective participants should register their interest by completing the registration form and returning it before the registration deadline on 14 June 2012. Further information regarding all remaining registration formalities will then follow.

For more information and to download the full competition brief please visit our project page: http://www.scibe.eu/category/staf

CityVision Architecture Competition is an annual competition held by the homonymous journal of architecture CityVision Magazine that invites architects, designers, students, artists and creatives to develop urban and visionary proposals with the aim of stimulating new ideas for the contemporary city.
All through innovative ideas and methodologies that can improve the connection between the historical, contemporary and future city vocation, thus promoting a positive evolution of the critical architectural historiography.

Globalization, environmental concerns, new economic and cultural politics, adaptability to the existing context combined with the use of vibrant ideas, original technologies and new softwares for representation are some of the key elements that should be taken into account to formulate the most original project proposal.

New York CityVision is the fourth international ideas competition launched by CityVision. The competition wants you to imagine New York in its future if the manipulation of the urban context and its architectural objects, joined with its inhabitants, will be influenced by SPACE and TIME.

The New York ideas will be judged by an international jury which will have as president Joshua Prince-Ramus, founder of the office REX and again Eva Franch i Gilabert, Roland Snooks, Shohei Shigematsu, Alessandro Orsini and Mitchell Joachim, all of whom are distingueshed by the large experimentation willingness in their work. Inside this issue you will have the opportunity to virtually meet some of them, their ideas and their philosophies and to have a look to their work’s images.

Now, we officially launch New York CityVision Competition!

Let’s start with the proposals, we expect only to be surprised by your creativity!

www.cityvision-competition.com/newyork

Announcing the SLANT AWARDS SPRING 2012 Competition and this competition is open to all, with the challenge being to design a concept plan for a city sector which is undergoing urban renewal.

As in our previous competitions we want participants to have as free a hand as possible when designing this project; therefore we are keeping the brief and the entry requirements to a minimum.

The city in question is not a real city, it has been designed solely for this competition, and its location is not being specified.

It is a generic city that could be almost anywhere in the world and participants are free to choose the country in which you would like this imaginary city to be located.

This is a worldwide competition open to all those who have an interest in landscape design and urban planning, and students are especially encouraged to enter.

Prize 1      Euro 1,000
Prize 2      Euro    600
Prize 3      Euro    400

Jury:

• Steve Martino FASLA (USA)           
• Teresa Moller (Chile)                           
• Prof Paolo l Bürgi (Switzerland)           

Closing date for submissions 11 June 2012

Contact:
Emily V Black,
Competition Administrator,
mail@slant.eu
www.slant.eu

ParticiPlace, an international design competition, was just launched.

In 2012, ParticiPlace’s challengers will design an off-grid living-culture center for the Pinoleville Pomo Nation (PPN), a Native American nation in Northern California. The emphasis will be on a zero-energy building which is sensitive to the local culture and place.

Prizes:
First Prize: $3,000
Second Prize: $2,000
Third Prize: $1,000
In addition:
Sustainable Engineering Innovation Prize: $3,000
Social and Cultural Integrity Prize: $2,000

For more details check our website http://2012.participlace.org/
or email: participlace at berkeley dot edu

If we are to tackle this problem head-on and create a more intelligent, more creative way of organizing the increasingly expensive seats on a commercial airplane, we can take one step closer to a compromise that will let airlines keep their profit margins while customers can comfortably kick back, relax, and enjoy their ride through the sky.

The Goal

We believe the on-flight experience could be greatly improved by applying a smarter layout for seats in the coach and economy class sections of commercial aircrafts.

The seat layout that most airplanes use today is the same design that was brought into style when airplanes were first becoming popular. That is a big problem. When airplanes were first becoming popular the engineers and designers focused solely on the logistics of getting a certain amount of bodies from point A to point B without having to seriously consider a customer's comfort on the journey.

The goal of this competition is to propose a new seat layout for the coach and economy class sections of commercial airplanes that will make the flying experience more pleasant and comfortable. The new layout should be able to accommodate at least 95% of the actual proposal (and why not even more!).

http://rivalation.com/competitions.php?comp=178

This competition asks you to illustrate how the life of your building will unfold through time – over an hour, day, year, decade, or perhaps a century. Your submission should demonstrate the integration of time in your design proposal by highlighting how it will accommodate the different types of change described in the competition brief.

We seek innovative design proposals that challenge existing orthodoxies about adaptability in the built environment. The awards comprise of cash prizes (1st prize UK £1,500, 2nd Prize  £1000, 3rd prize £500); publication of the top entries in the upcoming Adaptable Futures book and an opportunity to present at our autumn conference in London. Outstanding submissions will also be published at www.adaptablefutures.com

The site can be anywhere – thus you are encouraged to ‘adapt’ your studio project to this competition – but the submission must meet the three criteria described in the brief. Entries can be at a building or neighbourhood scale, but should explain how your design (whether spatially,  structurally or in terms of building services) responds to the brief. Submissions will be accepted in two formats  – A0 boards (maximum 2) and/ or a film (maximum 3 minutes). Entrants may choose to submit one or both – all submissions should be digital.

The deadline for submissions is Sunday, 10 June 2012 (extended!) at 23:59 GMT.   For registration, submission and to download the competition brief please go to www.adaptablefutures.com/competition and follow us on Twitter for updates @adaptablefuture

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended to June 10, 2012.

SIGN UP NOW!
Sunday, June 10th, 2012 | 11am-1pm
Governors Island
$5 entry fee per person required (see below)
Registration Closes: June 8, 2012

Jury includes: Vito Acconci (Acconci Studio), David Benjamin (The Living), Scott Hughes (Robert Silman Associates), Cassim Shepard (Urban Omnibus), Mabel Wilson (Columbia GSAPP) and more.

SUPERFRONT is happy to announce that on Sunday, June 10th, 2012 SUPERFRONT will host a 2-hour design charrette for PUBLIC SUMMER: LIBRARY OF IMMEDIACY on Governors Island, in partnership with FIGMENT. SUPERFRONT’s PUBLIC SUMMER program offers young designers the opportunity to produce a temporary installation for public programming. PUBLIC SUMMER: LIBRARY OF IMMEDIACY will be open to the public on weekends from July 21st through September 23, 2012.

Unlike most competitions, the juried competition for the design of PUBLIC SUMMER: LIBRARY OF IMMEDIACY does not privilege designers who are able to dedicate more time or more resources to their competition entry. Designers only have the 2 hours on site at the charrette to draft their proposal. The goal is to hone in on concept and strategy, and to level the playing field for designers with minimal time to devote to unpaid competitive endeavors or with less sophisticated software or rendering tools.

On the day of the competition, participants will be handed a detailed brief for the LIBRARY OF IMMEDIACY, a semi-outdoor space to support a curated set of public activities on Governors Island. The selected team will have the opportunity to construct their design on Governors Island, in collaboration with SUPERFRONT and FIGMENT. Construction will be supported through donated materials from Materials For The Arts, other partners, and novice construction volunteers. Winners will be given an honorarium of $500 and a budget of $1500 for materials and construction. The temporary outdoor installation will open on July 21st and will run until September 23rd.

The charrette is aimed at (though not limited to) young designers five years or less out of school or under age 35. You may participate as an individual or as a team of up to four people. Please note that on Saturday, June 9, 2012 there will be a Public Summer site visit on Governors Island from 10am-2pm. SUPERFRONT staff will be there to answer any questions. All directions and detailed information will be emailed to registrants prior to June 9th.

To Register, click here

Sonic Trace, a new media project and radio series, a direct result of KCRW’s Independent Producer Project, is bringing you stories that explore the three age-old questions about community and immigration — ¿Por qué te fuiste? ¿Por qué te quedaste? ¿Por qué regresaste? (Why did you leave? Why do you stay? Why do you go back?)

Which begs the next question: Why YOU?

A large part of Sonic Trace is recording stories. But, in order to record stories, we need a Sound Booth. And that’s where you come in to play! In partnership with KCRW program DnA and Producer/Host Frances Anderton, Sonic Trace is launching a Sound Booth Design Challenge! We need your help spreading the word about our challenge. We’ve got a tight budget, but that doesn’t mean we aren’t looking to build something special. We’re challenging designers, architects, builders… visionaries to create an intimate, inviting and innovative sound booth.

The booth will be traveling all over Los Angeles — to churches, food fairs and schools. To rock, jazz and cumbia concerts. We will be at the park, at the coffee shop and hanging at the tamale hot spots. We’ll be setting up and closing shop alongside food trucks and observing public transportation from bus stops and corner shops. You get the idea? These places will be noisy and hectic. So we’ll need a space of intimacy, reflection and “border-less-ness” for broadcast quality story-telling.(Think Story Corps with a KCRW edge, an angelino accent and a tale that starts or ends in far-off land).

The deadline for entry submissions is June 8^th. More details on the design challenge can be found here!

Call for Abstracts : Diagramming in urban design process

Kent State University’s Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC) invites writers, designers, artists and thinkers to submit abstracts for Volume 5 of our annual publication, Urban Infill. Urban Infill examines themes in contemporary urban design, architecture, and planning. Past volumes have addressed shrinking cities, temporary urbanism, urban hydrology, and storytelling in an urban context. These can be previewed here:(http://www.cudc.kent.edu/publications/urban_infill/index.html)

Volume 5 is focused on diagrams. We invite examples and perspectives on diagramming and its place in urban design practice and processes. We are particularly interested in the intents and agendas behind various forms of diagramming within the following framework. Submissions may correspond to any of these six (6) themes:

DEFINING THE DIAGRAM
(historical / theoretical evolution of diagramming, diagramming in design thinking and processes, conventional and unconventional approaches to diagramming in / for urban design)

MEANING | FUNCTION
(diagrams as a way to represent meaning; to clarify / communicate with accuracy and specificity)

TRANSLATION | INTERPRETATION
(diagrams used to reveal, explore, analyze and represent information and ideas)

VAGUENESS | SUGGESTION
(diagrams used to hint, suggest, obfuscate, subvert, conceal or lie)

COMPOSITION | NARRATIVE
(diagrams that simulate and present composite perspectives, juxtapositions of ideas and objects, and communicate processes and narratives)

EXCHANGE | ENGAGEMENT
(diagram as process and tool for engagement)

Submission Requirements:
Abstract / Description (text) : 500 words or less
Images: no more than 5 thumbnails - total file size under 5MBs.
Please send abstracts and/or images via email to cudc@kent.edu no later than Friday, June 8th 2012. We welcome new, in-progress or pre-published, original work.

Relevant Dates:
Abstracts due:    Friday, June 8th 2012
Notification to selected contributors:    Monday, June 18th 2012
Final entries due:     Friday, July 27th 2012
Expected publication:     September 2012

http://www.cudc.kent.edu/
http://www.cudc.kent.edu/blog/

PARK(ING) DAY INSTALLATIONS in Port Credit, Mississauga

COMPETITION OPEN TO: ARTISTS, ART GROUPS, DESIGNERS, ARCHITECTS, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS

The Port Credit BIA and the City of Mississauga is seeking artists, art groups, architects, designers and/or engineers to submit proposals to temporarily transform an on-street parking space in Port Credit into a public space this fall as part of the international event Parking Day (Sept 21) and Culture Days 2012 (Sept 28-30).

Up to four Parking Day Installation proposals will be selected with a $500 prize for each winning proposal and a budget of $7,500 for each winning team to design and construct the structure. We are looking for imaginative ideas to create a vibrant streetscape. The installations are intended to be both public art and street furniture and shall aesthetically enhance the overall streetscape, providing space for people in a place usually reserved to park a car.

JURY
A maximum of four winning entries will be selected by the following jury:

• Marion Klinnert, Port Credit BIA Board & Beautification Committee Chair
• Marion Morewood, Port Credit BIA Chair & Parking Committee Chair
• Helena Grdadolnik, Public Art Coordinator, Culture Division, City of Mississauga
• Steve Barrett, Manager, Transportation Asset Management, City of Mississauga
• David Anselmi, Senior VP, Development and Sustainability for Parc Downsview Park Inc & Mississauga Urban Design Panel member
• Stuart Keeler, Artist & Curator, Art Gallery Mississauga
• Joseph Rumi, Director, Rumi Galleries

LINKS
www.mississauga.ca/publicart
www.portcredit.com
www.parkingday.org

Original PARK(ing) Day concept by Rebar. www.rebargroup.org

For the full competition details visit:
http://www.mississauga.ca/file/COM/parking_day.pdf

Architectural Competition: “InstantHouse – Temporary Housing”

InstantHouse Temporary Housing launches the 4th edition of an ideas competition created by FederLegno Arredo, the Politecnico di Milano and MADEexpo.

Designers are invited to envision environmental, social and economic opportunities in temporary housing, which specifically address the scientific community within Politecnico di Milano’s Sustainable Campus project.

The competition explores potential innovative solutions derived from using new technologies in sustainable design, and which respond to the evolving typologies of city users and inhabitants. InstantHouse aims to combine temporality and mobility with both social interaction and ecological values, resulting in powerful new possibilities for temporary housing.

The competition welcomes applications from all students and young professionals in the field of architecture, engineering, industrial design, and urban planning worldwide.

Entries will be judged by a panel of judges from Region of Lombardy, Politecnico di Milano, Federlegno Arredo, MADEexpo, Triennale di Milano and Expo 2015.

InstantHouse winning projects will be featured as part of an exhibition hosted by the MADEexpo Milan fair 2012, an event which attracts over 250,000 visitors.

Please visit our website http://www.instanthouse.it for additional information.

COMPETITION SCHEDULE:

• March 5th 2012: competition launch
• May 15th 2012: deadline for submitting questions
• June 4th 2012:  application form submission deadline   
  All forms should be emailed to instanthouse@federlegnoarredo.it
• July 2nd 2012:  final project submission deadline
  All proposals should be mailed to:
  Federlegno Arredo S.r.l.
  Foro Buonaparte 65 - 20121 Milan
  And addressed to the attention of: Concorso INSTANTHOUSE
• July 16th 2012: jury deliberation
• July 23 th2012: notification of the results
• October 17th – 20th 2012: award ceremony and exhibition of the winning projects at MADEexpo Milan Fair 2012

AWARDS:

• First  Prize: 1500 €
• Second Prize: 1000 €
• Third Prize: 750 €

The Jury reserves the right to award honorable mentions to any projects determined to be particularly merit-worthy entries.

WEBSITES: (for information and application details)

• www.instanthouse.it
• www.federlegnoarredo.it

CONTACT:

• instanthouse@federlegno.it

EXHIBITION.01 A competition for the design of an architecture exhibition is an open, anonymous one-stage design challenge for the creation of an architecture exhibition in the gallery space. The participants must propose a design for an exhibition of architecture. The winners will receive a budget to create their proposal in the gallery later in the year.

The competition is open to any participant, regardless of field of expertise, experience, gender, nationality, etc. Participation by groups is allowed.

The jury is comprised of architects and designers who have previously exhibited at the gallery, and includes Lars Spuybroek, Manuelleg Gautrand, Tagit Klimor, Yosi Cory, Dafna Greenstein, Gad Halperin and Noga Lasser.

The Call For Participation can be downloaded in PDF format at http://bit.ly/Idfnvq, or read on our website at http://bit.ly/IJ63mB.

For any question regarding the call for participation or the competition, please contact the gallery by email or telephone.

ZEZEZEZ ARCHITECTURE GALLERY
Hangar 21 Tel Aviv Port
www.zearchitecture.com
info@zearchitecture.com
+972.3.5444261

OVERVIEW

Within the field of architecture, exploration involving parametric modeling and digital fabrication – what we will call computational fabrication – is both wide and varied. There is no standard of how the technology is developed or no singular focus on how it will impact the design process or the construction of buildings. And yet there is growing evidence the application is quickly evolving in a variety of unique directions. From novel geometries and innovative structures to improved material and environmental performance it is clear there is a focused agenda towards a more rigorous implementation of the digital toolset.

The impetus for this development is coming simultaneously from three positions that collectively provide a critical nexus in the field of computational fabrication: First, the professional demands for buildings to have greater performance capacity, stylistic coherence, and economic efficiency; second the academic realm where experimentation, research, and theory, continue to push technological exploration forward; and third, industry where innovative development is both an economic imperative and a generative vehicle for technical application and testing. From each of these positions, applied research is gaining traction as a critical and vital part of connecting the design process into a deeper knowledge base of information that is raising the intelligence and thus efficacy of architectural design. Whether following traditional models of research or pioneering new forms of hybridized working models between these three categories, those working within this field are now able to activate a broader and more fully coordinated spectrum of information about the design decision making process.

We seek research proposals that actively connect academia, the profession and the fabrication industry. As a center of gravity the proposals must illustrate work of designers who are forming an integrated relationship between disciplines in the area they practice and build. As this is a “design to fabricate” competition, TEX-FAB will match our network of fabricators and consultants with the projects that best manifest research through computational fabrication and apply it toward more intelligent integers of materiality and construction. Through a panel of experts we propose to identify projects that warrant a higher degree of realization and exhibit them to foster a discussion that engages an audience in our region and beyond. From this selection a final project will be selected and optimized with a team of experts for the purpose of full-scale production.

APPLIED is a two-stage international design competition established to foster the deeper developments within the field of computational fabrication. We are soliciting design proposals that further existing research, by enabling prototyping at a larger scale or full scale, and proposals to jumpstart new research and design concepts

CRITERIA

You are encouraged to submit your design proposal in either of two categories: Continuing Research or Speculative Proposals.

Continuing Research is a category that seeks to enable a more specific and regimented design research project already underway. Encompassing all works that are at a significant stage within their development that warrant a substantial shift in the scale and or material usage to further the research. This includes any and all previously funded work at any stage of development.

Speculative Proposals is a broad based category with the intent to kickstart a design research project. It is an open category and freely interpretable. New ideas, or concepts are welcome and present the entrant an opportunity to further develop their ‘flash of genius’. Furniture, structures, products or any other project qualifies for this category with or without a specific site. No previously funded research work may be submitted.

WINNERS + MENTIONS

APPLIED is a two-stage competition. In the first stage a total of 4 selections that will be awarded a 1000 USD stipend to further develop their project in a scale model (2 selections from the Continuing Research category and 2 from Speculative Proposals category). For the second stage, the models with revised boards will be juried in Dallas, Texas August 2012 (a shipping fee stipend of 250 USD will be provided) with the announcement of a winner made public in August 20.

The final winning entry will be built, exhibited in Dallas/ Ft. Worth, Texas for the 4th annual TEX-FAB event and subsequently given to the Winner. The design and fabrication of the piece will be commissioned by TEX-FAB with the support of our competition sponsors. No additional design fee will be paid, however a 1,500 USD stipend will be awarded for travel to Dallas/ Ft. Worth to partake in the installation of their work, present the design on the day of the opening. Approximate value of winning proposal in materials, fabrication and labor is set at 10,000 USD.

Honorable mentions will be awarded at the discretion of the Jury. All mentions will be exhibited at the APPLIED exhibition in San Antonio, Texas in April 2012 and the following year in Arlington, Texas February 2013.

REGISTRATION FEE

Continuing Research 100 USD per design proposal Speculative Proposal 100 USD per design proposal

REGISTER - http://tex-fab.net/category/compete-applied/

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UPDATE: The deadline has been extended to June 2nd, 2012.

Sukkahville 2012 Design Competition

Reimagining the Sukkah

Kehilla Residential Programme invites architects, students, artists, builders and allied design professionals to submit design proposals for the second annual Sukkahville Design Competition. The aim of this open competition is to design a temporary, free-standing Sukkah to be built in Mel Lastman Square in Toronto on the eve of the holiday of Sukkot. We encourage you to re-imagine the traditional notion of Sukkah, with a contemporary design language and approach.

Challenge

A Sukkah is a temporary structure constructed for use annually during the week-long Jewish festival of Sukkot. It is described in Leviticus as a symbolic wilderness shelter, symbolizing the frailty and transience of life. While building a Sukkah is a particular Jewish ritual observance, it represents many conceptual themes surrounding the essential nature of dwelling, which are universal in nature. Proposing an innovative Sukkah design which delicately balances the inherent dichotomies of new / old, open / closed, temporary /permanent is the challenge inherent in this competition. The temporary structure must adhere to the following traditional constraints:

• The footprint of the sukkah must be no smaller than 27”x27”, but no larger than 100 square feet
• The height of the Sukkah must be taller than 38” high, and no taller than 30’0”
• The Sukkah must have a minimum of two walls, with a partial third wall at least as wide as a single hand span.
• The roof of the Sukkah must be made of some form of natural materials. During the day it must provide more shade than sunlight. During the evening, the stars must be visible at night from within the Sukkah. Large roof openings are inconsistent with the sheltering quality of a Sukkah.
• The roof must not be comprised of and must be fully detached from any living tree, branch or plant.
• Roof material may not be tightly secured with wire. Metal roof supports may not be used to support the roof material.
• Wall materials are not limited, and pieces of the wall can be spaced up to a maximum of one foot apart.
• Walls must be sturdy enough to withstand a steady wind.
• While the Sukkah must be built anew each year, a sustainable design approach, which minimizes the
• waste and disposal of the Sukkah materials is strongly encouraged.
• The Sukkah may not be anchored to the site, but must be stabilized or weighed down without penetrating or damaging the hard surfaces or exceeding the maximum permitted footprint.

Recognition

Five winning designs will be chosen by a select high profile jury to be constructed in a visionary village on Mel Lastman Square from September 29 to October 1, 2012. Finalists will be notified by August 15, 2012 and will be responsible for obtaining construction materials and constructing their designs. A stipend of $3,600 per winning design will be awarded to assist with construction, materials and transportation costs.

Submission

Sukkahville Competition submissions must be received by 12:00:00 EST on August 1, 2012 to the office address listed below. One single board size ARCH D (36" x 24") per entry will be accepted. The presentation layout and technique is absolutely open and at the discretion of the entrant. The presentation should clearly document the proposed design as well as the approach to the construction. Presentation boards should be completely anonymous. Please tape a single, sealed, letter-sized envelope to the back of the board containing the name and contact information of the entrant. Entrants must register by June 1, 2012; please send an email with your name or names of team members to info@sukkahville.com.

Timeline

June 1, 2012            Registration Deadline
August 1, 2012            Deadline for Submissions
August 15, 2012        Finalists will be notified
September 28 to 29, 2012    Construction Period
September 30 to Oct 1, 2012    Public Display
September 30, 2012        Awards Presentation

Background

Kehilla Residential Programme is a non-profit housing agency whose mandate is to identify and champion housing initiatives responsive to the needs of the Jewish community in the greater Toronto area. Established in 1982, Kehilla is an affiliate agency of UJA Federation of Greater Toronto. Under its mandate, Kehilla has been both a leader in the development of many affordable housing initiatives as well as in offering property management services for community housing projects. With the goal of raising awareness to support Kehilla and its initiatives, the Sukkahville competition has been instituted to bring focus to the many significant affordable housing issues that are prevalent in our own community.
Feel free to send us any question or concerns you have by email or phone!

Kehilla Residential Programme
262 Ridley Boulevard
Toronto, ON M5M 4N6
Tel: 416 932 1212
Fax: 416 932 1214

www.sukkahville.com

email: info@sukkahville.com
facebook: www.facebook.com/kehillaresidentialprogramme
twitter: @kehillarp

Creative Minds challenges you to explore multiple options for documenting and presenting your response to a design concept. Each month’s concept can be answered with ANY kind of design response – architectural design, product design, landscape design, entertainment design, or any creative response.  You are not limited to any medium.  We encourage the use of multi-media.

This is a charette-style competition, so all drawings do not need to be fully developed, but should convey your design ideas succinctly. Be as creative as you want!

Prizes: $150 + other prizes

May’s Submission Deadline: June 1st, 2012 8PM EDT

For More Information and to Register and Submit, visit:
www.vectorworks.net/creativeminds

Mary Porta’s Review of British High Streets spells out the crisis point that Britain’s town centres have reached and the urgency by which we have to act if this social and cultural asset is to be protected from irreperable decline. Whilst Portas report was being written, a new culture started to emerge in the shadows of Europe's largest indoor shopping centre, in East London. Waltham Forest Council commissioned a group of forward-thinking designers to revive the local high streets. 2 years on, the spiral of decline has been reversed. Here, amongst shopkeepers, pavement cafes and family-run businesses, Waltham Forest Council are investing to breath new life into the heart of the local retail community. So far we have seen the installation of jolly new shopfronts, colourful facades, magic animated lighting and elegantly paved trottoirs as a backdrop to the lively bustle of the high street. Businesses have started to invest in their retail outlets again and locals have a renewed sense of civic pride. In a final push to prepare the neighbourhood for the London Olympics, we are now looking for some aspirational young designers to help us complete the task.

See www.brandinglab.co.uk

Sukkah Arbor is be a regional ‘Design-Build’ competition, open to anyone, and expressly reaching out to architects, architectural students, builders and ecologists.

Sukkah Arbor will have three phases:

All submitted designs must be built in accordance with Halacha (Jewish Law). Designs will be judged by a select Jury of experts and based on criteria including: (sustainability, portability/reusability, beauty/inspiration/awe and innovation). Five winning designs will be selected to be built for Part 2 of the competition.

The top five winning designs will be commissioned for construction at Liberty Plaza in Ann Arbor on September 23, 2012. The Sukkah’s will be constructed by a collaborative team consisting of the original designer and a supporting group of experienced volunteer crafts-people. A building stipend ($1,000 minimum) for the purchase of construction materials will be provided. Public voting will be conducted to determine winning entries from among the built Sukkahs. Prize money and recognition will be awarded to the winning designs.

The built and unbuilt designs will be on display at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor during the week of September 30 - October 9, 2012. An open house and design award presentation will be held for the general public during which the grand prize winner will be announced.

www.sukkaharbor.com

Call for Papers: Terrain Vague: The Interstitial as Site, Concept, Intervention

This collection of essays will focus on terrain vague�marginal, semi-abandoned space in or along the edge of the city�as abstract concept, specific locale, and subject of literary, architectural, or otherwise artistic intervention.

Ignasi de Solà-Morales defines terrain vague as land in a �potentially exploitable state but already possessing some definition to which we are external,� or �strange places� that �exist outside the city�s effective circuits and productive structures� (119, 120). Gil Doron similarly defines �landscapes of transgression� as derelict sites where �nature has started to reconstruct the built or (now) �ruined� environment. . . . space[s] that opened in the dichotomy of what we perceive as city and nature� (255).

We are particularly interested in responses to the idea, as expressed by Luc Lévesque, that ��terrain vague� offers a counterpoint to the way order and consumption hold sway over the city. Offering room for spontaneous, creative appropriation and informal uses that would otherwise have trouble finding a place in public spaces subjected increasingly to the demands of commerce, the �terrain vague� is the ideal place for a certain resistance to emerge, a place potentially open to alternative ways of experiencing the city.�

We invite submissions from a range of fields, in particular literature, architecture, ecocriticism, urban studies, cultural geography, the visual arts, and film studies. Suggested topics may include:

Site and situation
Forms of documentation
Contextual definitions/theorizations
Urban wilds
Transgression and recreation
Urban natural history
Environmental justice
Interventions

Please send abstracts of 300 to 500 words, accompanied by a brief bio, to site.situation@gmail.com. Inquiries are welcome.

The deadline for abstracts is 1 June 2010.
Completed essays will be due on 1 February 2011.

Manuela Mariani, The Boston Architectural College
Patrick Barron, University of Massachusetts, Boston
�That zero panorama seemed to contain ruins in reverse, that is�all the new construction that would be built. This is the opposite of the �unromantic ruin� because buildings don�t fall into ruin after they are built but rather rise into ruin before they are built.� Robert Smithson, �A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey�

References
Doron, Gil. �The Dead Zone and the Architecture of Transgression.� City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy, Action 4.2 (2000): 247-63.
Lévesque, Luc. �The �Terrain Vague� as Material�Some Observations.� http://www.amarrages.com/textes_terrain.html
Solà-Morales, Ignasi. �Terrain Vague.� Anyplace. Ed. Cynthia Davidson. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995. 118-23.
Smithson, Robert. �A Tour of the Monuments of Passaic, New Jersey.� Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings. Berkeley: U of California P, 1996.

Bike Rack Design competition:

Open call for artists, architects, designers, engineers, students and fans of cycling, residents of Puerto Rico, for urban bicycle parking proposals. This Bike-Rack contest was born out of the effort to promote cycling as a sustainable mode of transportation and healthy activity for common citizens.

There will be prizes for the first three places and the winning proposal will be built and installed.

For more information please visit: http://www.bicirack.com/

Did you design a brilliant, life-changing device? Did your firm create an inspiring tool for tomorrow? Enter our inaugural Innovation By Design Awards, honoring the year's best designs. This award program offers entrants an unmatched opportunity to reach entrepreneurs and executives looking to find fresh talent.

Categories for the Innovation By Design Awards include: Spaces, Consumer Products, Services & Systems, Interactive Experiences, 2-D Designs, Industrial Equipment, Transportation, Concepts, and Student Design

Entries will be judged on their business impact, beauty, originality, functionality, social impact, and depth of user insight—six necessary ingredients for any great innovation. Online submission ends June 1st and finalists will be determined by a stellar line-up of design experts.

Together, Fast Company and Co.Design offer a reach and influence that’s unique—Fast Company reaches 2.9 million readers every issue. Co.Design reaches another 1.5 million readers a month, serving over 6 million page views.

Finalists will be published in a feature package in Fast Company's October design issue. Winners will be announced at a gala in New York City on Tuesday, October 16 and will then be published and announced on Co.Design.

fastcodesign.com/section/innovation-by-design

Urbanite Project 2012: Healthy Food Challenge seeks ideas for transforming Baltimore into a healthy city. Specifically, we’re seeking creative, innovative, non-traditional ideas that address one or more of the barriers to affordable, healthy food for Baltimore City residents living in food deserts.

Barriers to healthy food for people living in food deserts include, but are not limited to:

• Transportation
• A lack of healthy food at nearby stores
• A lack of healthy food options at such charitable organizations as soup kitchens, food pantries, etc.
• Education—a lack of knowledge about which foods are healthiest, how to prepare them, etc.
• A lack of food preparation appliances, equipment
• Time—for example, a single parent working multiple jobs has limited time to shop for and prepare healthy food.
• Cost of healthy food

Baltimore City Food Policy Recommendations

In 2010, the Baltimore City Food Policy Task Force came up with the following guidelines to work toward increasing access to healthy food in food deserts:

1. Promote and expand farmers markets
2. Support community gardens and urban agriculture
3. Expand supermarket home delivery program
4. Develop a targeted marketing campaign to encourage healthy eating among all Baltimoreans
5. Support street vending of healthy foods
6. Promote and expand community supported agriculture
7. Support a central kitchen model for schools
8. Support research on food deserts and collaboration with policy makers
9. Improve the food environment around schools and recreation centers
10. Create healthy food zoning requirements or incentives

Urbanite Project 2012: Healthy Food Challenge is open to any individual, group, organization, or company. This is a blind competition. Professional qualifications are not required; anyone with an engaging, creative, and unique idea for increasing access to healthy, affordable food in Baltimore’s food deserts is encouraged to submit a proposal.

Submissions must adhere to the following guidelines:

• Proposal must be mounted on a single 24” x 30” board (foam core, chipboard, or similar material). Applicants should use a combination of text and no fewer than three images (renderings, drawings, photographs, diagrams, etc.) to convey their concept. Text must not exceed 500 words and must include as many details as possible about the project, including time frame for implementing the proposal, materials, dimensions, etc.
• Include names, affiliations, and a short biography of team member(s), along with team contact email, address, and phone number, on the back of the board. This information should not be visible on the front of the board.
• Mail or hand-deliver board to:
  Urbanite
  2002 Clipper Park Road, 4th Floor
  Baltimore, MD 21211

Urbanite Project 2012: Healthy Food Challenge www.urbaniteproject.com

Hof - Horizontal Farm in New Delhi wants to focus on finding a solution that integrates the culture and traditions of Indian society with improved living conditions of slums inhabitans.

The competition proposes the design of a multifunctional structure for different types of emergencies involving a large part of Indian society.  A Horizontal Farm, which contains a range of services and functions that improve the quality of life of residents. At the same time should not be changed customs, traditions and cultural roots of people who live in this way by hundreds of years.

The aim of the present architecture students competition Landscape, Architecture & Wine is to contribute innovative ideas to the, increasingly common, strategy of opening wineries to tourism and to their immediate surroundings, thus providing new experiences for the visitor.

Schedule:

Registration period: March 1st, 2012 to May 31st, 2012
Deadline for Submissions of Proposals: July 2nd, 2012
Publication of the Results: August 6th, 2012

Prizes:

5100 euros in cash + Publication of awarded projects in WA Wettbewerbe Aktuell magazine  + 1 year free subscription to WA Wettbewerbe Aktuell magazine + 1 year free subscription to EL CROQUIS magazine + 1 year free subscription to 2G magazine.

The winner or person that represents the winner team will take part of the Jury in the next academic competition.

All the projects will be exhibed in www.arquideas.es

Jury:

• Mrs. Martha Thorne  Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
• Mrs. Benedetta Tagliabue Director of the architecture office Miralles Tagliabue-EMBT
• Mr. Fernando Marquez Cecilia Editor in chief of the internacional architecture magazine EL CROQUIS
• Mrs. Maria Urrutia Ybarra Board Member and Marketing Director of Bodegas CVNE
• Mrs. Sara Ouass Chemlal Winner of the Coworking Building (COB) Madrid academic competition

More information and Bases here.

The Trieste Contemporanea Committee is pleased to announce DOUBLE TRACK, the tenth edition of its International Design Contest organised under the patronage of C.E.I. (Central European Initiative). The contest represents an interesting opportunity for all the young designers and the students from 23 Central Eastern European countries who can show their own ability and promote their works in an international context. Please for your information find the announcement attached.

The candidates are asked to submit a new project for a functional object using as its source an object demonstrating design skill singled out from the recent collective memory of objects of their country by midnight (Italian time) of the 31st May 2012.

An international jury presided by Gillo Dorfles will select a number of projects to be exhibited in Trieste. The best projects will be awarded a first prize (4000 €), a CEI prize (the best designer from one of the CEI countries not part of the EU: 3000 €) and a BEBA prize (the youngest selected designer: 1000 €).

There is no charge for the participation and the competition notice is available on http://www.triestecontemporanea.it/designcontest/

For further information please contact the Trieste Contemporanea Committee: e-mail tscont@tin.it, phone +39 040 639187.

Reality Cues is about making architecture in digital, interactive, and social media, where ownership is communal and subject matter changes as quickly as users can click the 'share' button. Within this culture of reposting, reblogging, and retweeting is the opportunity to modify and subvert prevailing tendencies. Combine this with the ease with which anyone can alter images to create virtual worlds, and you are left with an increasingly fuzzy area between the so-called virtual and real. The !!!!!!!!! Competition looks to accelerate this process to see just how fuzzy we can get.

For more examples visit: Graffiti Lab

The Proposal: Use one of the eight provided images (see Reality Cues for images) and redefine the architectural content or insert architecture of your own.

Prize for Best Overall Image: Hacked version of Hasbro's skill game Operation
Prize for Best of Each Image Group: Custom Reality Cues Lego Pack Extra awards may be granted by the jury. See Le Cor(nudie)r Competition.

Submissions due by: May 31 2012 Winners will be announced: June 15 2012

Jury: Juergen Mayer H. - J. Mayer H. Architecture Shelly Johnson - Graffiti Lab Kelsey Keith - Dwell Magazine Sammy Medina - Architizer Kelsey Campbell Dollaghan - Fast Company Chris Barley - Future Predictor

Image Submission Requirements: Please email your submissions to the Reality Cues Librarian (librarian@realitycues.com) in JPEG or GIF formats, maintain the pixel dimension and resolution of the original. Include a title and your name to be posted along with your image. One entry per person per image group. Images will be published at www.realitycues.com and www.graffitilab.tumblr.com.

Please email inquiries to the Reality Cues Librarian (librarian@realitycues.com).

RealityCues.com

For the fourth year, Marvin is proud to showcase some of the architectural community’s most inspired work in our annual Architect’s Challenge.

Submit your best designs featuring Marvin Windows and Doors by May 31, 2012 and get a chance to showcase your work as well as see how it measures up against your peers.

Marvin products span a broad range of styles from Traditional to Contemporary, so be sure to enter whatever project makes you most proud.

Our esteemed judging panel will evaluate each entry for excellence on a number of attributes in the categories of both Residential and Commercial.

Winners will be featured in our permanent Winners Gallery.

ENTER THE CHALLENGE

Background

Tablet was founded in the year 2000 by Laurent Vernhes and Michael Davis, a pair of new-media veterans who were tired of predictable chain hotels and faceless hotel search engines. On the principle that today’s traveler needs fewer choices, not more, they set out to create a tightly curated list, showcasing only the hotels that matter — hotels with personality, hotels that obsess on the details, hotels where experience beats economy. That list, after a decade of evolution, makes up the selection of TabletHotels.com, the trusted source for extraordinary hotels around the world.

The natural next step, of course, is to open a hotel. Tablet’s hotel would be up for a conceptual challenge, tackling what might be hospitality’s hardest problem: creating a hotel that brings people together — where experience is shared, friendships are born, business contacts are established, and real human connections are made, all under the hotel’s roof.

Objective

Create a hotel that connects travelers and locals.

We are proposing an architectural challenge, but also an experiment in human psychology. While entrants need not confine their solutions to physical space alone — there are technological ways of making connections as well — the focal point should be the place (or places) where hotel guests and city residents are brought together.

Think beyond the typical lobby bar, restaurant or pool deck, and draw inspiration from your own travels to design a space with the potential to revolutionize the ordinary hotel experience.

http://www.tablethotels.com/en/feature-rethink-hotels

This competition is held by POSCO, a multinational steel producing company headquatered in South Korea, along with its affiliated companies POSCO E&C and POSCO A&C architecture and construction firms.  It aims to study new possibilities for designing with steel and discover talented young architects and designers.

This 2012 POSCO Desing Festa's theme is a question about Steel for the Homo Hundred era.  Homo Hundred is a pharse used by the UN in its 2009 World Population Aging Report to describe humans whose lifespans will reach 100 years on average in the future.  In this new era, how can steel contribute to rest and leisure while creating a new type of production?  The answer can be a structure or place or it can be a piece of equipment or a device.  To find the answer we need a joyful and persuasive imagination.  What does this new world look like?

 [Key Points]

*Competition Registration: open until 28th May (no registeration fee)

*Eligibility : International students (including graduate students, any major)

*AWARD & Recruitment

• 1st Prize (1 team) : 10,000,000won ($8770 USD) Each, POSCO E&C, POSCO A&C recruitment
• 2nd Prize (2 teams) : 4,000,000won ($3500 USD) Each, POSCO E&C, POSCO A&C recruitment
• 3rd Prize (3 teams) : 2,000,000won ($1750 USD) Each
• Honorable Mention (multiple) : 300,000won ($260 USD) Each
• Popularity Award (1 team) : 300,000won ($260 USD)
• Team with most Facebook ‘LIKES’ at www.facebook.com/poscofesta on public judgement day.
• Exhibition & Online Gallery : All winners
• Publication : Architecture Magazine; Concept

you can visit the competition's website at www.poscofesta.com for more detailed information.

LAUNCH CALL FOR ENTRIES
ARCHITECTURE+DESIGN
STUDENT WORK

This is an open invitation to any current Northern California student: we would like to show your work at the upcoming Launch festival. Launch provides a platform for emerging artists and designers to share their inspiring work. This music, art, fashion, design and architecture festival will exhibit a selection of student design projects in gallery spaces at the main event at Cesar Chavez Park in downtown Sacramento.

How it works: your initial PDF submittal will be entered into a blind review of judges. Those who make the cut will need to deliver their final submittal to Launch by July 15, 2012. The full event runs July 23-28, 2012.

Along with bragging rights, those whose work is selected will receive two complimentary tickets to the 2012 Launch event.

REQUIREMENTS:
Initial submittal due May 28, 2012, by 3PM:
Format: PDF at 18x24” or 24x36” size, (10MB max) emailed to architecture@launchsacramento.com. Do not include your names on the PDF submission. Acceptable subjects include: architecture, urban design, interior design or product design and entries that include spatial installations or physical models are encouraged (photographs of these are okay). Group or individual work welcome.

Final submittal (for the chosen padawans) due July 15, 2012, by 3PM:
Format: 18x24” or 24x36” mounted presentation board, color or black & white with foam core backer board. Include your name/school/instructor and course/semester at 18 point font or smaller on board. You will also need to include your spatial installations or physical models. Launch makes no guarantees that entries will be returned and/or not damaged, however they may be picked up after the event.

http://launchsacramento.com/

Open Agenda is an annual competition aimed at supporting a new generation of experimental architecture. Open to recent graduates, Open Agenda is focused on developing the possibilities of design research in architecture and the built environment.

This national competition is intentionally broad in its scope, and dedicated to fostering new discussions on architecture in the public realm. An initiative of the School of Architecture at UTS, past winners have been graduates from Australian and New Zealand universities including, Sydney University, RMIT, Canberra University, UTS and Victoria University in Wellington, exploring a broad range of topics relevant to current Architecture discourse in Australia.

The Opportunity

Open Agenda will award seed funding to three exceptional design research proposals that explore new positions in architecture for critical consideration.

We are looking for text and graphic based proposals that seek to develop research through architectural design. Proposals will be evaluated on the strength of their research topic, their innovative approach to design as research, design quality and their potential for development as a public exhibition, lecture and publication. Proposals that explore new forms of media and communication in this context are welcome.

Graduates from a professional Australian or New Zealand degree in architecture in the last ten years (including and after 2002) are invited to submit a proposal.

The Reward

Three proposals will be awarded seed funding of $2000 for development of their research proposal towards a publication and a public exhibition in Sydney in 2012 at Sydney Customs House to coincide with the Sydney Architecture Festival. The three teams or individuals will also have the opportunity to present a public lecture on their work in Sydney as part of the Sydney Architecture Festival events.

http://www.utsarchitecture.net/openagenda

In July 2012, 72 Hour Urban Action is coming to Stuttgart to work together with local cultural activists. The world's 1st real-time architecture competition will be the kick-off of a series of major urban interventions. All around the site of the largest urban redevelopment in Europe - Stuttgart 21 - the center of a 30 year heated public debate.

The world's first real-time architecture competition offers selected teams only three days & three nights to design and build interventions in public space in response to local needs.

The competition is defined by an extreme deadline, a tight budget and limited space and will challenge participants to rapidly leave a lasting impact on the city's urban fabric. They will be battling the clock, the restrictive conditions and each other, to envision and realize projects in response to the spatial and social challenges the sites and missions offer.

The international teams will include of architects, designers, artists, craftspeople and students, and generally nice people. Teams will come to stuttgart armed with a passion for action, and ready to volunteer their time and expertise to help with community needs.We believe change shouldnt take long, and is up to all of us.

All participants will live together on site, in an old disused train-repair hanger converted into a sleep/work center, thus enriching the neighborhood with a multi-cultural intense experience.
Teams will receive a budget for materials, a central prefabrication camp, a team of 'Angels' (construction and safety engineers) and a truck(!).

The missions and sites will be assigned randomly on take off day. An International panel of jury will include prominent leaders, architects and curators. The winning team will gain a prize of 4000$.

http://72hoururbanaction.com/stuttgart.html

The Art Directors Club, the premier organization for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind, announces the launch of the ADC Young Guns 10 competition for creative professionals age 30 or younger.

ADC Young Guns is the industry’s only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creatives, and is open to both ADC members and nonmembers.  Last year’s competition drew entries from 43 countries, with 41% of entries coming from outside the U.S. (this year’s call for entries will be available in English, Chinese, Korean, Italian, Dutch, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish).  A total of 50 winners are selected each year by a jury of past ADC Young Guns.

The program is open internationally to creatives age 30 and under who have been working for at least two years, full-time or freelance.  Eligible entrants can submit a combination of professional and personal work in graphic design, photography, illustration, advertising, art direction, environmental design, film, animation, motion graphics, interactive design, typography, architecture, copywriting, product design, package design, fashion design, furniture design, interior design, sound design and industrial design.

Online entries through http://www.adcyoungguns.org/ will be accepted starting on March 13, 2012 (entry fee: 135USD, 99USD if submitted by the early bird deadline of April 17, 11:59 pm EST), with a deadline of May 8, 2012, 11:59 pm EST.  Late entries will be accepted through May 22, 2012, 11:59 pm EST, with addition of a 40USD late fee.

Circle:

The Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles described the nature of God as a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere, a sentiment echoed two millennia later by French mathematician and physicist Blaise Pascal in his depiction of nature as an infinite sphere. Indeed, the notion of circle has been everpresent since the dawn of recorded history and in the dark unknown preceding that dawn. It can be expressed mathematically and utilized technologically, but conceptually its ecumenical nature touches the spiritual, the poetic, the atavistic. As Helena P. Blavatsky states in Secret Doctrine:

“…the primordial form of everything manifested, om atom to globe, om man to angel, is circular, spheroidalhaving been with every nation the emblem of eternity and infinity— the serpent swallowing its own tail. To realize the meaning, however, the sphere must be thought of as seen om its center. The field of vision or of thought, is like a sphere whose radii proceed om one’s self in every direction and extend out into space, opening up boundless vistas all around.”

The editorial staff of Lantern has chosen “circle” as the theme for our second issue, to be released on the Summer solstice. The circle is a form, but when taken as thematic undertone, quite formless. The idea of circle as theme could be, and in fact is encouraged to be, taken in as many directions, through as many mediums, and as many nuances as possible. We do not mean to imply nuance as edict, but rather as an encouraged permissiveness made express. As in art and literature, theme may be express or implied, and we do not require submissions to be images of circles or direct discussions of such. Although your interpretation of “circle” may be direct, abstract, or in-between, your contribution may be just the connection we are seeking.

We encourage you to submit your work to Lantern: poetry, short fiction, essays, images, music, academic pieces, we want it all. We are interested in thought and expression and connection, and we don’t much care what forms those things come in. We will value your work for its strength of character and for its contribution to something better. Please view the theme of circle as you wish—creatively or destructively, literally or figuratively—and feel free to wander off om its center point as we walk beyond the lantern’s glow to the endarkened places where academic and other such publications stop. Ultimately we hope Lantern will challenge its readers to find the common thread among the images, words, and thoughts, and that its contributors will, as Salvatore Quasimodo penned, challenge “the existing cultural order by attempt[ing] to break through the circle of artistic castes to reach the center.”

To submit visit: http://lanternjournal.org/submissions/

Editors of Lantern,
www.lanternjournal.org

Kingspan Benchmark has joined forces with the AJ on a 'Sketch a Facade' Competition, to get Chartered Architects and Student Architects sketching.

The AJ invited Alan Dunlop to talk about sketching on 21st March at Kohn Pedersen Fox's new gallery on Langley Street, London. Alan's lecture was truly inspiring, showcasing Paul Rudolph, Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Kahn, Ed Ruscha and many more. All fantastic pieces of work with their own interpretation, whether it was showing the whole landscape, a focused area, in black and white or full colour. In case you missed it, please feel free to download the presentation here.

Now it's your turn! It can be any facade, building - iconic, industrial, shed, tower. We want to see what buildings inspire you - whether it's the shape of the building, the textures, the landscape, you show us.

To enter the competition, please email your sketches and drawings to aj.competitions@emap.com, titling your email 'Benchmark sketch', or post them to: Stephanie Geisler, Emap, Greater London House, Hampstead Road, London, NW1 7EJ. The deadline for entries is Friday 18^th May.

The best will feature in the AJ and the winning sketch will receive £500. The best sketch by a student will win an annual subscription to both the AJ and the Architectural Review.

We wish you the best of luck!

http://www.kingspanbenchmark.com/news-and-events/news/sketch-a-facade-competition

To showcase the new Andersen® Exterior Trim System, the company is launching a contest for architects and designers to render and submit an original building design using Andersen exterior trim as a building component.

Now through May 18, 2012, applications are being accepted. Entrants must submit an original building design with four (4) elevations rendered in color, and may submit one (1) additional drawing of their choice. The project must include the exterior trim system specified for Andersen A-Series or 400 Series products.  See the official rules for details.

Up to five (5) designs will be selected. Contest winners will receive a trip to Minnesota for an architectural tour of the Twin Cities and a facilities tour of Andersen Corporation. Each winning design that is built on or before May 30, 2013 will also receive Andersen exterior trim (up to 700 linear feet); an approximate retail value of $7,000.

Find official contest rules here: http://www.andersenwindows.com/exteriortrimcontest

Announcing the Andersen® Exterior Trim Design Contest

To showcase the new Andersen® Exterior Trim System, the company is launching a contest for architects and designers to render and submit an original building design using Andersen exterior trim as a building component.

Now through May 18, 2012, applications are being accepted. Entrants must submit an original building design with four (4) elevations[MD1]  rendered in color, and may submit one (1) additional drawing of their choice. The project must include the exterior trim system specified for Andersen A-Series or 400 Series products.  See the official rules for details.[MD2]

Up to five (5) designs will be selected. Contest winners will receive a trip to Minnesota for an architectural tour of the Twin Cities and a facilities tour of Andersen Corporation. Each winning design that is built on or before May 30, 2013 will also receive Andersen exterior trim (up to 700 linear feet); an approximate retail value of $7,000. Find official contest rules here [MD3] and view the wide variety of trim styles and colors[a4]  at www.andersenexteriortrim.com.

Andersen’s new Exterior Trim System makes installation a snap. Can you imagine installing finished trim on an average house in just half a day and never touching it again? Sound too good to be true? Not anymore.

The Andersen trim system saves time on the jobsite because it can be ordered along with the windows and arrives ready for installation. Available completely assembled and finished for most windows and in pre-cut kits for patio doors, the Andersen Exterior Trim System makes measuring, cutting, filling nail holes and painting a thing of the past. Installation takes as little as five minutes for an exceptional fit and lasting finish. It’s made of Fibrex composite material, which is highly sustainable, low maintenance and virtually impervious to water. In addition, it installs independently of the window or door’s water management system. Trim is available in 11 colors and a range of architectural styles.

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN.  VOID WHERE PROHIBITED AND IN PUERTO RICO.  The Andersen® Exterior Trim Design Contest (this “Contest”) starts on 1/19/2012 at 12:01 AM Central Time (“CT”) and ends on 05/18/2012 at 11:59:59 PM CT (the “Contest Period”). Open only to eligible architects or designers, who are legal residents of the United States and 18 or older at the time of entry. During the Contest Period, enter by submitting an eligible building design, online at http://www.andersenwindows.com/exteriortrimcontestentry or by mail to Andersen Exterior Trim Contest, Andersen Corporation 100 4th Ave. N., Bayport, MN, 55003.  Sponsor will award 5 Prizes. Prize is a 3-day, 2-night trip to Minneapolis, MN (ARV: $3,000) and up to 700 ft of Andersen® Exterior Trim for constructing winner’s design (ARV: up to $7,000). Trim must be redeemed on or before 05/30/2013. Odds of winning depend on the number of eligible entries received. See Official Rules for all details, including eligibility, design submission, determination of winners, prize details, etc. at http://www.andersenwindows.com/exteriortrimcontestrules. Sponsor: Andersen Corporation 100 4th Ave. N. Bayport, MN 55003[MD5] .

Can you design a chair worthy of a gala dinner with materials that cost less than your average night out?

Design a chair with materials of $50 or less.  Build the chair.  Drop the chair off at 20 Jay St. from Friday May 18th – Sunday May 20th.   Total material cost must be at or below $50.  (You will need to attach your materials receipts to the chair for verification.)  Finalist designs will be used to seat esteemed guests practicing in art and architecture during the SUPERFRONT gala dinner May 22nd.

Winner receives $500 prize.   Chaired by architect and theorist Keller Easterling, the competition jury includes architect Mark Gardener of Jaklitsch / Gardener Architects, Paul Miller (DJ Spooky), and other visionary artists and designers.

The chair competition winner will be announced at the SUPERFRONT gala at 9pm Tuesday 5/22 and online the following day (Wednesday 5/23).

Register via gala[at]superfront.org with “$50 chair” in the subject heading and your name in the body of the email to receive further details, including the studio number and hours of access for your entry drop off. There is no fee to enter for this competition.  You must register by Friday May 18th.

http://newyork.superfront.org/2012/04/dining-chair-competition/

Proposal

At ArchMedium we would like to propose a project that will help us rediscover our primitive instincts. We want to create a bond again with Mother Nature. We want to reestablish the ancient connection between Man and the glories of His planet. This is an experience that too frequently eludes us in our contemporary, urban lifestyles.

What we want to create is a Northern Lights observatory located in one of the most extreme latitudes inhabited by Man, surrounded by lush, endless forests and nature in its purest form. A place where one can retreat for a few days to completely disconnect from the daily routine and plunge headfirst into a world of observation, relaxation, and learning.

The Site

Rovaniemi is the ideal location for such a project. Located in the icy curls of the Arctic Circle, this capital of the Finnish Lapland is not only the final stop north on the Finnish railway system, but is also the supposed hometown of Santa Claus! And best of all…the Northern Lights are visible in Rovaniemi up to 200 nights per year.

Jury

• President – Josep Llinás
• Design Studio – Pere Joan Ravetllat (Ravetllat Ribas)
• Young architect – Mara Partida (MX-SI)
• History and composition – Celia Marín (ETSAB/UPC)
• Local Architect(Finland) – Philip Tidwell (Aalto univ.)

Prizes

5000euros+publication in architecture magazines+exposition in ETSAB Barcelona and Aalto university

Calendar

15 May  2012.…..……..........…............…..End inscriptions

31 May 2012………...................……Submission Deadline

www.archmedium.com

Le Journal Spéciale'Z, a twice yearly publication on architecture, art and urbanism published by the École Spéciale d'Architecture in Paris, invites propositions for its 4th issue.

Themes for the upcoming issue are : Co-opting Art, Diagram, the Spatial Turn and Perform.

For more information on guidelines and themes, please visit the Journal website @ www.specialez.fr/journal

Submissions will be considered as they are received until May 15, 2012.

Where: New York City, USA
When: Monday, July 9, 20120 – Friday, August 3, 2012

New York School for Design + Science
ONE Lab: Future Cities Summer 2012

Socio-Ecological Exploration of the Future Metropolis

ONE Lab Summer 2012 on Future Cities will address the emerging discipline of global urbaneering by assembling a wide range of innovators from fields as diverse as architecture, material science, urban design, biology, civil engineering and media art.

ONE Lab provides a unique opportunity for students to learn from internationally recognized scientists, renowned designers and artists. This summer approximately 40 researchers will gather in New York City for four weeks of intense creative and scientific exploration.

ONE Lab: Future Cities Summer 2012 will feature a Design Studio, Future Cities Seminars and Future Cities Workshops to rethink the possibilities for urban life in our metropolis hereafter. The studio will be offered in two levels, one for professional designers and students enrolled in professional schools or departments of design, the other for students and individuals of varied experience and background. All workshops are beginner level and no previous knowledge or experience is required.

Design Studio

Four weeks and 100 hours of intense exploration of the future of the city. Using New York as a laboratory, the studio will rethink what is salubrious about the city, in both its forms and its life. We will base our investigations on one illuminating hypothesis: in the future New York will grow to be self-sufficient in its critical necessities.

Future Cities Seminars

40 hours of TED style talks given by distinguished architects, engineers, biologists, ecologists, industrial designers, physicists and artists offering radically new responses to the real needs and aspirations of future cities.

Future Cities Workshops

In four workshops participants will learn the processes of biotechnology (including technologies such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning), growing materials, grafting trees and plants, scripting and computational modeling for controlled growth.

Terreform ONE is now accepting applications for ONE LAB: Future Cities Summer 2012. All candidates are asked to submit their application materials on-line. To review material requirements, visit: www.onelab.org/apply

The top ten candidates will receive scholarships up to 50% of the tuition.

The deadline for applications is Thursday, May 31, 2012 (UPDATED!). Students attending the seminars series only do not need to apply.

Visit ONE Lab for more information regarding program and workshop details, research, faculty and tuition: www.onelab.org

UPDATE: Deadline extended until May 31st, 2012. Additional scholarships available. Apply NOW!

Urban areas are quickly becoming the densest concentrations of human life on the planet and with that comes the well documented positive and negative impacts to local biodiversity and ecologies. But humans are not the only urban animals - squirrels, pigeons, mice, rats, crows, raccoons, beetles etc... are all species identified as synanthropes - animals that “live near, and benefit from, an association with humans and the somewhat artificial habitats that humans create around them.” These are highly-urbanized non-human animals and our potential design partners. Expanded hetero-cultures, urban agriculture, and a flexible, more resilient urbanism are all potential benefits of cross species collaborations. What other benefits exist?

SUBMIT YOUR PROJECT!

Animal Architecture wants your ideas about how synanthropic design can reshape, expand and redefine the context of urban thought and space. Submissions can include past work, current research and built or unbuilt projects. Projects should focus on solving, addressing or proposing urban issues and must actively incorporate at least one, if not more non-human design partners. Winning entries will be announced mid summer 2012 and will be eligible for publication and exhibition. Details to follow.

Register: May 13th 2012
Submissions: June 11th 2012
Cost: $35.00 USD for currently enrolled students, $100.00 for Professionals.

JURY COMMITTEE:

• Ned Dodington, Director, Animal Architecture
• Simone Ferracina, 2012 An.Arch Awards Laureate
• Fritz Haeg, Artist
• Christopher Hight, Assoc. Professor, Rice University RSA
• Jonathan LaRocca, Editor, Animal Architecture
• Kate Orff, Asst. Professor, Columbia GSAPP, Founder of SCAPE
• Susan S. Szenasy, Editor in Chief, Metropolis Magazine

http://www.animalarchitecture.org/2012-awards-urban-animal

The next installment of THE DESIGNATED SKETCHER contest series is on its way!  To keep it simple, we are asking for something you’re already working on: A Shot of your Model!

For initial registration, this is limited to a single shot of a model you’re currently working on and should be what you consider your “Money Shot”.  We say initial here, because there are multiple ways to increase your chances of winning.

For Stage I, all you have to do is Tweet your “Model Shot” over Twitter, follow & mention @design8dsketchr, and then tell your friends about it.

If we like your Model Shot, we will Retweet it.  If we really like it, we will invite you to post it to The DS and include up to 5 additional follow up
images.  The top 10 entries will be seen under the “CONTEST” tab on the DS.  From there, the editors of the DS will select a winner.  The Overall Winner will be based partially on the number of views/likes/comments that a particular entry gets, in addition to our own critical eye for design intent.

Other winners will include:

The Most Viral.  Virality will be based on a social media rubric that includes the number of Retweets/favorites, Facebook Likes, and views/likes on The DS.

(2) Finalists.  Runners Up to the Overall Winner

Most Influential Juror.  A DS staple, this represents the most active & most constructive participant.

Registration Opens: April 9th, 2012
Submittal Deadline*: May 11th, 2012
Jury Deliberation: May 12th  – May 18th, 2012
Winners Announced: May 21st, 2012
*By midnight of the submittal deadline

Awards
Overall Winner: $300 (US$) and all entries are published on The DS.
Most Viral: $100 (US$) and all entries are published on The DS.
(2) Finalists: $50 (US$) and all entries are published on The DS.

Most Influential Juror: $50 (US$)

Eligibility
Any student currently enrolled in a design curriculum.  We want to keep it open to anyone who is building a model as part of a final presentation, so if you think you’re on the edge, simply drop up a line to confirm info@thedesignatedsketcher.com

As long as you are a student with a current model, entries from all countries and all disciplines/majors are encouraged.

Speculative narrative and the potential of imagination are important factors in creative production.  It is considered that a multitude of small stories are the “quintessential form of imaginative invention¹”.

Speculation through narrative offers an apparatus through which we may investigate the concept of ‘reality’. Immersed within our current understandings, speculation is influenced by our contemporary condition. In these fictional dispositions, the variables and constraints of ‘reality’ can be controlled, omitted completely or utilized as key motives for the foundations of new territories.

Speculative Narrative can be an exploration of idealistic scenarios, the fossilization of information, or the creation of fantastical realms.

This allows the model of design to move beyond problem solving, crisis management and project liberation from the constraints of our existence. The augmentation through speculative narrative, enables the reshaping of current processes, understandings and disciplines.

Speculative Narrative makes it possible to redefine ‘present’ and ‘future’.

Kerb is an annual cross-disciplinary design publication produced by the RMIT University School of Architecture and Design in Melbourne, Australia. Kerb is a progressive design journal focused on contemporary landscape architecture issues from an international and national perspective.

¹Lyotard, The Postmodern Condition. 1979

Kerb 20 is seeking submissions of essays/projects/ artworks/ stories etc to:

kerb@ems.rmit.edu.au
by 4 May, 2012

For more information regarding submission requirements please visit our website

www.kerbjournal.com
www.facebook.com/kerbjournal

Communication changes according to the epoch. This means, today, a constant need of innovation, ideas and believes, for any kind of Business Company. That’s why it exists a design driven for business, with a more problem setting approach rather then solving.

Domus Academy through the new competition “Design Innovation” invites you to select a company of your home country, which you find innovative, and to analyze the reason why you consider it so, what’s the innovation about, how it shows.

PRIZES
3 scholarship  (70%, 50%, 30%) of the total tuition fee of the Master Program.

http://www.domusacademy.it/site/it/home/master-programs/business-design/introduzione/articolo2429.html

Have you ever rethought the ways of hosting and accommodating people? What is the most important thing? The hotel building, the reception, the retail services offered, the spaces inside the structure or the rooms? Hotel design represents the most intimate experience for any customer, recalling the idea of ‘home’ that everybody shares. Domus Academy through the new competition  “Degrees of Intimacy“ invites you to develop a project focusing on the topic of the room and the furnishing/objects contained in it.

PRIZES
3 scholarship  (70%, 50%, 30%) of the total tuition fee of the Master Program.

http://www.domusacademy.it/site/it/home/master-programs/interior-and-living-design/introduzione/articolo2435.html

What is going to be the next generation of services? Would you be able to promote human-driven innovation, design better environments and relationships, and create new platforms enabling service improvement and innovation? Domus Academy through the new competition “Service Dreams” invites you to think about in the perspective to improve the services that permeate our daily lives.

PRIZES
3 scholarship  (70%, 50%, 30%) of the total tuition fee of the Master Program.

http://www.domusacademy.it/site/it/home/master-programs/service-and-experience-design/dream-services-ita.html

We live in a world surrounded by a multitude of objects. Is their design to shape our world, or is our world to design the objects?

Domus Academy through the new competition “ReaDesign” invites you to choose a renown product you consider significant to the history of design and “read it again” through sketches and drawings, investigating the original identity of the product within its economic, historical, and social context.

PRIZES
3 scholarship  (70%, 50%, 30%) of the total tuition fee of the Master Program.

http://www.domusacademy.it/site/it/home/master-programs/design/introduzione/articolo2431.html

Have you designed an outstanding interactive installation? Have you ever tested your skills at conceiving mobile applications for tablets or smart phones? If you think you have a brilliant solution for next-generation web services, or any other digital media, Domus Academy through the new competition “Pay Attention” invites you to send us your best project, or research!

PRIZES
3 scholarship  (70%, 50%, 30%) of the total tuition fee of the Master Program.

http://www.domusacademy.it/site/it/home/master-programs/interaction-design/introduzione/articolo2434.html

London 2050: What Would You Do? is an architecture and urbanism publication investigating the future of the capital in terms of social, political and environmental issues in 2050.

We are interested in written pieces, images, maps and photographs that predict or speculate upon London in 2050.

Please send submissions to london2050@mail.com including personal bio document with name, contact details and occupation.

Please send pdf/jpeg or doc files and ensure your attachments are under 10mb.

All successful entries will be published in London 2050: What Would You Do?  in May 2012 and will be sent a free copy.

Modern Atlanta (MA) is pleased to announce the second annual MA Prize competition. The 2012 MA Prize entries will be carefully selected by a prestigious international jury of practicing designers and scholars and will be displayed at this year's MA12 “Design in Human Week” in Atlanta.

This year the prize calls for designers to submit projects that critically consider today’s notions of sustainability as applied to the modern dwelling. This award aims to highlight projects of all scales, that showcase a critical investigation into sustainable design practices in the home as well as projects that thoughtfully deal with the unique geographical, social, political or cultural conditions.

All entries will be reviewed by an international jury panel and winners will be announced in May. The first prize winner will be awarded $1000 USD and the second prize winner $500 USD. In addition to the prize winners twelve honorable mentions will be selected. Prize winning entries and honorable mentions will be exhibited during the Design is Human Week 2012 event to be held from 1st to 10th June 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia.

Please visit www.maprize.org for additional information and www.modern-atlanta.org to learn more about MA and the annual Design is Human Week event.

Animation Foudation is proud to announce a partnership with Copernicus Science Center for an art contest like no other! Starting from February 1, 2012, contestants have three months to submit an original collectible TOY. The objective of the Contest is the selection of designer 3D objects, such as:  Paper/Vinyl/Plush/Felt Toys, tableware, watches, office accessories, pop-up books, etc.

The works must refer to soccer themes, especially: matches on grass pitches, soccer rituals, and the general image of players, referees, and fans. The winner will be decided by jury and by public vote. Works commended by the Jury will be presented at the ETNO 2012 SOCCER DESIGN exhibition. The exhibition will be stationary and temporary, and will take place in June 2012 at the Copernicus Science Centre (Warsaw, Poland).

Prizes: Grand Prix 2500 € & Audience Award 1250€.

See details: www.etno2012.com

Architecture Studio Sinestezia is pleased to welcome architects worldwide to participate in the  International Architecture Competition for Boka Artist Residence.

On the Coast of  Montenegro in a Mediterranean ambience inspiring for art, science and culture, Boka Artist Residence is conceived to provide an opportunity for people with similar interests from all over the world to meet and work in one place without any formal constraints, requests, demands or project proposals required in similar institutions.

It  will be a place  in which interaction and cooperation   is based on the self-determination of visitors, the principle of self-organization and an informal environment.  A place  in which visitors can create their conditions of work, generate contacts with other visitors, and develop their projects without any formal constraints.

The competition site is located on the Adriatic Bay of Kotor in Montenegro. Advantages of the location include proximity of two international airports: the International Airport Tivat, 17 km and Dubrovnik, 32 km from the site.

The project should address the concept of Boka Artist Residence, aimed to create a space which will stimulate and inspire all forms of artistic activity, dynamic interactions, exchanges, dialogue and cooperation.

The spatial matrix of the competition site should satisfy the project vision demands, namely small housing units, the Boka Artist Residence facility, garden, and pedestrian route.

Competition website: http://artinboka.com/

Dotting the global landscape, decommissioned military installations are leaving their mark – symbols of triumph, pride, pain and the unforeseen consequences of military aggression. These abandoned structures and ghost towns disrupt neighborhoods and split entire communities.

Architecture for Humanity is hosting the 2011 Open Architecture Challenge – [un]restricted access – a design competition that will re-envision the future of decommissioned military space. This is an open invite to the global design and construction community to identify retired military installations in their own backyard, to collaborate with local stakeholders, and to reclaim these spaces for social, economic, and environmental good.

Learn More and Register

• Competition Requirements
• Competition Resources

The Challenge

The Open Architecture Challenge reaches beyond traditional bounds of architecture by challenging designers and architects to partner with community groups and to develop together innovative solutions that improve the built environment.

The 2011 Open Architecture Challenge invites architects, designers and creatives around the world to re-design retired military sites. This competition asks designers to partner with communities surrounding these former places of conflict to transform hostile, and oftentimes painful, locations into sites where groups can create civic change.

How Many Decommissioned Sites are There?

Good question. Help us build a global count of decommissioned military sites. Click here to add a site to the map. They can be any kind from any place.

The only rule is: It must be an abandoned, closed or decommissioning military site.

We are asking you to work on a site near you but it you can't find one, you can choose one of the following:

Site 1: Guantanamo Bay Detention Center, Guantánamo Bay (Cuba)* Gitmo Here
Site 2: NSA "East Bank", New Orleans, LA (USA)
Site 3: Johnston Atoll, Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument
Site 4: Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS), Tustin, CA (USA)
Site 5: Flak Towers, Vienna (Austria)

*Currently not decommissioned yet scheduled for closure.

Schedule

*Dates subject to change. All registered teams will be notified, and promotional documents and media channels will be updated to appropriately reflect updates.

Why This Challenge

Every other year, Architecture for Humanity's Open Architecture Challenge brings international attention to issues in the built environment affecting the health, prosperity and well being of under-served communities. The Open Architecture Challenge will focus on helping communities reclaim abandoned, closed and decommissioned military sites.

Few places on earth are void of defense infrastructure. Military bases have been identified in more than 100 countries and territories worldwide. Even Antarctica is home to at least three military installations. Built in the service of public protection, when these spaces become inactive and no longer serve their intended use, how can they be re-enlisted for civilian purposes?

This year marks a milestone: In the United States alone more than 235 military sites are scheduled for closure or realignment. The U.S. military is under orders to downsize 5% of its entire infrastructure on or before September 15, 2011 in accordance with the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) ruling. The ruling will force the relocation of more than 125,000 military personnel and their families.

Base closures have a huge adverse affect on the surrounding community. In addition to complex environmental remediation, civilians must address the consequences of unemployment and disinvestment. According to the final report submitted to the President of the United States, BRAC estimates that 12 million square feet of leased space will be vacated resulting in the loss of an estimated 18,000 civilian jobs in this round of closures alone. Interestingly, many of these same sites are for sale.

Decommissioned military sites have tremendous potential if impediments to access can be overcome. This open, international competition will invite designers to identify an inactive military installation in or near their community and develop a design concept and plan for it’s remediation and re-use.

Three designs will place and one design will be awarded the prestigious Founders Award. All of the entries will be available for download on the Open Architecture Network, an online community developed by Architecture for Humanity to provide open source access to design solutions. By sharing design solutions—including CAD files—freely, we aim to give communities around the world the ideas and tools they need to make decisions where it matters most—locally.

'Take Your Base' and Sponsorship Opportunities

We're continuing our recruitment of individuals and organizations who are ready to accept the mission of sponsoring the complex yet rewarding task of successfully transforming previously conflicted sites into civic spaces. If you are ready to enlist your financial resources in service of this greater good, please give us a call at 415.963.3511 or send us an email to challenge_at_architectureforhumanty.org

About the Open Architecture Challenge

The Challenge is hosted once every two years on the Open Architecture Network, an open-source community developed by Architecture for Humanity. Design teams from all over the world compete to design and build the winning scheme. Support from sponsors and implementing partners funds the construction of selected designs. All of the designs are shared freely via the Open Architecture Network and made available for future use.

Past Challenges

2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom of the Future

2007 AMD Open Architecture Challenge: Digital Inclusion

About Architecture for Humanity

Architecture for Humanity is a charitable organization that seeks architectural solutions to humanitarian crises and brings design services to communities in need.

For more information, please visit: http://architectureforhumanity.org

Logo by Habi Girgis, winner of the [un]restricted access Identity RFP

[un]restricted access Identity RFP

For the purpose of conservation and development of the territory system of Moscow Natural Complex, creating favorable conditions of life of Moscow citizens and improvements of ecological situation in the city, Government of Moscow organizes the International Contest for the concept development of Mnevniki area — natural site of preferential protection of the Natural-Historic Park "Moskvorezky".

Objectives which the developed concept is to solve:

• Conservation of the environment, natural landscapes and historical-cultural sites;
• Conservation of plant and animal life;
• Creating conditions for leisure time activities (including mass leisure), conservation recreational resources and organizing rational organized use;
• Development and implementation of effective methods of nature protection and maintenance of ecological balance in conditions of recreation use of the territory.

During the contest the best site development concept will be chosen. Prize money of the contest amounts to 3,5 mln rubles and presupposes not more than three prizes, the amount of each is to be approved by the contest commission. The winner will be able to participate in the development of the Master plan of the territory.

http://www.mpcontest.ru/en

Design Challenge

In today’s world creative ideas are becoming crucial to success of all populations especially when social, economic and technological issues are becoming more complex.  How can “innovative minds” be invigorated by an architectural design to promote solutions for our complex problems?
An architectural design needs to become a catalyst for the innovative mind within physical and or virtual environments.  This design needs to promote the human condition by inspiring the minds of the intended users to an unprecedented level.  This may be accomplished on any scale; micro or macro.  The designer will decide how to inspire users to develop or use their innovative minds directly or indirectly as a result of the architectural design.

Awards

Innovative Minds Competition – Winner Gurroo Award

$1000 + (10% of registration fees) to winning project.  Personal Profiles will be created on the Gurroo website promoting the authors of the winning project.  The winning project will also be showcased on Gurroo website for an extended period of time.

Honorable Mentions – 10 Projects will receive this award.  These awards will be determined by the preliminary judging conducted by Gurroo LLC and the Official Judging Panel with no association with Gurroo LLC.  Honorable Mention projects will be showcased on the Gurroo website.  Candidates will also be involved in the judging of the winning project.

Open Source Design Tools Donation
10% of Registration fees will be donated to an open source design programming organization to ensure the development of open source design programs.  These tools are encouraged to be used in the development of competition submissions.  A list of several programs may be found on the Gurroo website.

Registration

Registration must be completed by May 1, 2012.  Individuals or teams must pay a $30 fee.  The registration fee will be collected through Google Checkout.

Definitions

Innovative: The introduction of something new. A new idea, method or device.
Mind: The part of an individual that feels, perceives, thinks, wills, and especially reasons.

Site Selection

Any site may be chosen for the design competition.  Open site selection.

Eligibility

Open to all individuals and teams of up to 4 members.  Students and Design Professionals are encouraged to register.

Dates

January 2012 – Competition Requirements Announced
February 1, 2012 – Registration Begins
May 1, 2012 – Registration Deadline
June 15, 2012 – Submission Deadline
June 16- June 22, 2012- Preliminary Judging Evaluation by Gurroo LLC.
May 23-May 29, 2012- Official Judging Panel Evaluation
June 30-July 6, 2012- Honorable Mention Judging
July 9, 2012 Winner of the Innovative Minds Competition Announced.

Submission Requirements

Boards must be submitted electronically by June 15, 2012 to Gurroo LLC to qualify for the competition.  Registration must be completed prior to project submission.

1. Project Statement (300 words) .doc file format.
2. Two (2) boards, 24″ x 36″ 300 dpi submitted electronically in PDF format. Horizontal orientation.

Board Requirements

1. Renderings evoking an emotive quality using unique techniques.
2. Section, Elevation and Plan drawings, which best describe the project.
3. Diagrams describing how the project addresses the competition challenge statement.
4. Registration number located clearly in the upper right corner of both boards.
5. Correct spelling and punctuation in all text.
6. Text must be at least 12 point font.
7. English is the official language of the competition.  No other languages may be used.

Judging Process

Preliminary judging will be conducted by Gurroo LLC to verify projects meet required competition rules and requirements.
Secondary Judging will be conducted by an appointed panel of 3-5 judges.  These judges will not be associated with Gurroo LLC.  This judging panel will nominate a select number of honorable mention projects.
A final winner will be decided by the group of honorable mentions selected by the Judging panel.
Honorable Mention Candidates will be required to vote for the top projects based on a point value system.  The candidates cannot vote for their own projects but will be required to evaluate the other projects to decide a winner.

Judging Criteria

Minimum Criteria

1. How well does the project answer the Design Challenge with a successful architectural solution?
2. Overall quality of the presentation boards.
3. Graphic quality of drawings clearly display the essence of project.

www.gurroo.com

Purpose

Founded to encourage student journalism on architecture, planning and related subjects, and to foster regard for intelligent criticism among future professionals. The award is not intended as a prize for individuals, but is intended to support the ongoing publication of student-edited journals whose subject matter could include architectural design, history, and theory.

Award

Single or multiple awards up to $2,000.

Eligibility

Any journal (online or print) published by a school of architecture, landscape architecture or planning in the United States that is edited by students is eligible. The publication must have been produced in the current or previous school year.

Deadline

Applications must be received on Tuesday, May 1st by 5:00 pm EST. No exceptions.

Visit www.cfafoundation.org/haskell for more information and application form.

In memory of John Chase, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design will grant an annual award for the creation of an event or publication in his name that will tackle the urban issues he believed in by bringing new voices to light as critical voices of today. We are thrilled to keep the celebration of John alive with this endeavor.

Applications for the 2012 John Chase Memorial Fund will be accepted through May 1, 2012.  Proposals are open to the public and may take any creative form such as a written article, digital video, graphic exhibit, a talk or walking tour.  Through this endeavor we hope to tackle the urban issues John Chase believed in by bringing new talking heads to light as critical voices of today.

http://laforum.org/jcmf

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thing founded; thing created

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The second issue of KTISMAjournal calls for submissions that investigate architecture as an appropriate interface.

How does architecture act as an interface between seemingly disparate environments, social structures, and contextual anomalies? In what ways is, ‘interface’ challenged or guided by the concept of ‘appropriateness’? What are the systems at play? Can architecture, in fact, nurture environments?

Submissions are due by May 1, 2012 to ktismajournal@gmail.com. Please visit ktismajournal.com for additional information.
KTISMA is an independent Architecture Journal published by students of the Architecture Department at the University of Oregon.

http://ktismajournal.com

FORWARD Call for Papers
SPRING ISSUE THEME:  'PROCESS'

FORWARD and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) National Associates Committee (NAC) invites article submissions for FORWARD, the Architecture and Design Journal of the National Associates Committee.  FORWARD, the bi-annual design journal of the National Associates Committee, is distributed to AIA leadership, 85,000+ members, non-members and educators.  The journal is a research-based publication that presents articles from the perspective of the designer or artist.  We also strive to extend our focus beyond architecture towards multidisciplinary discussions incorporating art and technology.

FORWARD EDITORIAL BOARD

• Olivia Graf Doyle, Director
• Christina Noble, Senior Director
• C.A. Debelius, Assoc. Director
• Meg Jackson, Assoc. Director
• Joseph Lawton, Assoc. Director
• Cindy Louie, Assoc. Director
• Gregory Marinic, Assoc. Director
• Janice Ninan, Assoc. Director
• Ife Vanable, Assoc. Director

SPRING ISSUE THEME: 'PROCESS'     CALL FOR PAPERS
FORWARD 112 will explore the design process.   Designers often look outside our own profession to technology, literature, culture, science and engineering to find inspiration.  We invent, innovate, and challenge the status quo.  In this issue of Forward we would like to understand the possibilities for discovery.  We will explore how designers balance intuitive inspiration and rational analysis, how we recognize patterns and points of connection.  FORWARD 112 will include architectural, artistic, and scientific discussions as well as historical and critical analyses. Topics can consider scales from environmental explorations, urban approaches, buildings, façades, and details.  Project-specific discussions should bridge the practical and abstract by describing the conceptual framework and how it translates into a project’s planning, form and details. Research, as well as artistic and scientific discussions may move between a variety of discourses including contemporary art, journalism, history, economics, politics and culture.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please email a final article to the FORWARD Senior Director and FORWARD Director.  Please attach a resume or curriculum vitae and Include images.  Submit your article as a text document in MS Word (.doc) format and related images in .tiff or .jpg format.
Forward requires that all authors provide their own line-edits.  Authors are also responsible for proper documentation of citations and research as endnotes.  All images permissions are the responsibility of the author.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF TEXT ARTICLES
Forward encourages researchers, designers, artists and scientists to discuss their scholarly research.  Articles focused on research should have a strong, original thesis related to the issue theme.  We encourage multidisciplinary discussion and collaboration and actively seek broad perspectives from those outside the architecture profession.  Text documents should be in MS Word (.doc) format, images in .tiff  or .jpg format.

1. Please submit an article of 700-3500 words.
2. Articles without images are accepted, however images are preferred.
3. Please use italics (no underlining) when appropriate and follow the Chicago Manual of Style for grammar and references.
4. Please include a short biography in 3-5 sentences, including your credentials, recent experience, and a headshot (1” x 1” 300dpi).
5. We highly encourage the submission of images.  The author is responsible for obtaining permissions for the use of images.  Images are preferred in .tiff  and .jpg  format with 300 dpi and at least 3” x 5” in size.  Include captions that clearly identify the related images in a document file referencing the image’s file name.
6. Please include all your attributions in a “REFERENCES” section located at the end of your document.  Use document endnotes with attribution in the REFERENCES section.  Number your references beginning with 1.  Reference the Chicago Manual of Style for format questions.

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION OF DESIGN WORK
FORWARD encourages design professionals to discuss their recently awarded, in progress or completed projects.  Articles focused on design work should discuss your design intent and how this translates into the final project. Please describe the conceptual ideas, development process, project intent and project type or program.  Also include edited documentation of plans, sections and relevant conceptual sketches, diagrams, model photos and construction photos.  The materials should represent the conceptual intent of the project rather than an exhaustive representation. Text documents should be in MS Word (.doc) format, images in .tiff  or .jpg format.

1. Please submit an article of 450-1500 words.  Text should explain the project conceptual development and intent.
2. Images are critical.  Include images that convey your project’s conceptual development and document how the concept translates into the final design.
3. The author is responsible for obtaining permissions for the use of images.  Images are preferred in .tiff format (.jpg format is also acceptable) with 300 dpi and at least 3” x 5” in size.  Include captions that clearly identify the related images in a separate document file referencing the image’s file name.
4. Please use italics (no underlining) when appropriate and follow the Chicago Manual of Style for grammar and references.
5. Please include a short biography in 3-5 sentences, including your credentials, recent experience, and a headshot (1” x 1” 300dpi).
6. Please include all your attributions in a “REFERENCES” section located at the end of your document.  Use document endnotes with attribution in the REFERENCES section.  Number your references beginning with 1.  Reference the Chicago Manual of Style for format questions.

In addition, submitting authors will have the opportunity to be selected as part of the FORWARD Peer Review process.  Appointments will be made based on the quality of an author’s submission and alignment with FORWARD’s journalistic objectives.

FORWARD welcomes the submission of essays, projects and responses to articles. All FORWARD issues are themed, so articles and projects are selected relative to the issue’s specific subject. Please contact the FORWARD Director, Olivia Graf Doyle, if you have any questions about the direction of your article.

SUBMISSION METHOD
Please send your final documentation to:
Olivia Graf Doyle, Director: olivia.graf@hmcarchitects.com
Christina Noble, Senior Director: christina.noble@gmail.com

DEADLINE
Deadline: Monday, April 30th, 2012

 If you anticipate any difficulties meeting this deadline, please contact Ms. Graf Doyle as soon as possible.  Articles will be selected through a peer-review process followed by an editorial review by the FORWARD Director, FORWARD Associate Directors, FORWARD Advisory Board, and AIA Staff.