archaos_competitions

more news from ZAP architecture on the 'Pavilion of Protest'.

Calling talented Architecture students...?

The news is good. We have secured the majestic Florence Hall at the RIBA, 66 Portland Place, London for a 6 week exhibition kicking off in October. We have secured a team of highly skilled master’s students to help design and build the centrepiece ‘pavilion of protest’ manifested from metaphysical discontent at the exclusivity and hardship associated with studying architecture.

 

 

ZAP are looking for artwork rather than dry architectural drawings but can be as abstract/ montagey / line weighty / Texty as you want. The point being they’re all created by architecture students about how they feel about architectural education (can be the design of a ‘pavilion of protest’ or someone ‘drawing at a drawing board’ or else an oil painting of a very sad / happy face :( up to you). The deadline is 30th August 2011, so plenty of time to do a great piece. We have been approached by many passionate UK students offering to contribute so we feel a competition is the best arena for this exhibition, to both maximise the standard exhibited and also generate publicity. The climax will be the opening night of the exhibition with a 6 week viewing and the publicity generated will reach the architectural press. We are currently in talks with publishers about publishing the selected works in a ‘compendium of architectural defiance’.

More info including the details of how to apply can be found at the ZAParchitecture website, click here....

Think Space - Geopolitical Borders

The Zagreb Society of Architects is launching the second of four architectural competitions for this year’s Think Space cycle. For this year’s annual cycle, the main theme connecting all four competitions isBorders.

In order to establish the inquiry of space as projection, but also as denunciation and identification of local conditions within a global context, Mrs Eva Franch i Gilabert - programme's Guest Curator and Director of Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York - proposes to go back to the conceptual space for the establishment of difference: the Border.

Devised by Teddy Cruz, Gvatemalan born architect and director of San Diego-based practice estudio teddy cruz, whose work emerges out of research-framework conceptualized in The Political Equator, the second competition challenges architects and designers to re-think -The New Global Border - by exposing conflict of border regions as operational tool to re-imagine new models of possible coexistences.

''This competition calls for critical observations of border regions as laboratories from which to imagine new paradigms of urbanization and democratization. These critical thresholds amplify the politics of migration and citizenship, labor and surveillance, the tensions between sprawl and density, formal and informal urbanisms, wealth and poverty and the collisions between natural systems and political jurisdiction, exposing conflict as operational tool to re-think artistic practices.''

Teddy Cruz

Submission deadline is on April 26th, 2011(Tue), 23:59, Central European Time.

Results will be published on the official Think Space website on May 10th, 2011(Tue).

to enter visit www.think-space.org/competitions

RIBA Portland Place Model Competition

ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS: 66 Portland Place – model competition

A competition for all students of architecture on RIBA validated courses in the UK.

Open to individuals or teams.

(no limit on team numbers but the majority must be architecture students)

Portland Place is the headquarters of the RIBA and therefore an important showcase of Architecture and Architects.

Portland Place is a grade 2 star listed building and as such is protected inside and outside.

We would like to commission a model that allows visitors to the building (the general public, architects, and students of architecture) to orientate and understand the spatial qualities of the building. It should allow the observer to see the main spaces of the building at one time. We envisage a physical model but this may also be a digital model made physical or vice versa.

The model will be positioned in a prominent position within the entrance foyer of Portland Place, but the exact location and size of the model can be determined as part of the submission. It will need to be mounted on castors for temporary relocation. Depending on the proposed location a 13amp power supply may be available. It will need to be durable enough to last for at least 10 years.

For more information and details on how to enter then please contact ;

Martin Pascoe RIBA House Architect,

martin.pascoe@inst.riba.org