To list a conference or competition open for participation by architectural educators and students, please email Kevin Mitchell at kmitchell@acsa-arch.org.
Now - 6/25/2012
embARC Summer Design Academy
The College of Environmental Design (CED) at the University of California, Berkeley is offering a summer program for high school students who are interested in exploring the fields of architecture, urban design, and sustainable city planning. The program allows students to explore the fields of environmental design, experience the culture of the design studio, connect to top CED faculty and professionals, and build a portfolio for their college application.
§ embARC Summer Design Academy is an intensive three week summer program that begins on Monday, July 16, 2012 and ends on Friday, August 3, 2012. The program fee is $2,900. Under the mentorship of CED faculty, graduate students, and experienced professionals, students will participate in a series of lectures, design studios, and field trips. All classes are held in Wurster Hall on the UC Berkeley Campus. The embARC Summer Design Academy is open to high school students entering their senior year and exceptional junior year students who are interested in testing their enthusiasm for the material culture of environmental design. Applications are available online at: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/college/academics/embarc
6/1/2012
Integrated Communities: A Society for All Ages International Student Design Competition 2012
The Competition invites architecture students around the world to apply their creative talents in developing solutions, which integrate older persons into the fabric of the community and fully include them in all social, cultural, and productive activities. While some of the needs of older persons are universal, other needs vary by culture, region and community. In order to accommodate the variety in needs and possible planning and design responses, the program for the competition is fairly general. This will allow instructor and students to tailor the competition guidelines to the specific situations they encounter in communities in their respective regions. The program is aimed at answering the following questions:
• Is it possible to design successful, diversified and multi-generational communities for older adults within either rural, suburban or urban contexts, may even include aspects of information and communication technology (ICT).
• How are older adults fully integrated, connected to and fully engaged in their communities?
For more information and to register electronically visit: www.international-iccc.org
6/1/2012
Designing for Adaptable Futures 2012: An Open Student Competition
Adaptable Futures is an international research group based at Loughborough University in the UKwww.adaptablefutures.com. Together with our industry and academic collaborators we are currently developing and testing ‘tools’ that can be used in practice to help communicate and design for a more long-term understanding of architecture. The research is focused on adaptability - the capacity to accommodate change - from both a physical and social perspective of our built environment. The competition serves as a platform for interested students to visualise some of the research’s core elements within their design proposals and to recognise the top submissions for their creative application and appropriation of those concepts.
Time can be perceived as a regular set of intervals which measures, records and organizes temporary experiences. Time-based architecture views buildings as being on the ‘move’ - the notion of a large static and monolithic object is replaced by a series of transient events that constantly shape and reshape both the building and its surroundings. 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 in your design proposal by highlighting how it will accommodate one or more of the six types of change described in the brief (framecycle ). This year‘s student-orientated competition builds upon the success of last year’s Adaptable Futures practice-orientated design competition and is open to students at all levels of study and from any design discipline. We seek innovative design proposals that challenge existing orthodoxies about adaptability in the built environment. The 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 on our website. For more information, please visit: www.adaptablefutures.com/competition/
6/1/2012
Call for Papers: Society of Architectural Historians, Annual Conference
Describing Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc’s Dictionary of French Architecture from the 11th to the 16th Century, Frank Lloyd Wright wrote, “That book was enough to keep, in spite of architects, one’s faith alive in architecture.” Yet what was the nature of the architectural books produced in Wright’s own time, when faiths of all kinds were put to the test and when conventional media were under assault? How did architects and theorists reconcile the traditions of architectural literature with what they perceived as a wholly new social landscape, demanding both innovative built forms and novel modes of communication? What visual experience did they believe inhered in
the form of the book that made it indispensable to the development of the new architecture?
This panel will investigate the use of the book to document, describe, promote, and critique modern architecture from its inception at the end of the nineteenth century to its alleged death in the late twentieth century. Despite the apparent conflict between modern design and the conservative traditions of bookmaking, publications from Antonio Sant’Elia’s Futurist Architecture to Nicolas Pevsner’s Pioneers of the Modern Movement to the Bauhausbücher sought to capture the dynamism of the modern visual experience. Making use of incipient visual
technologies—in particular, photography—and new principles of typography and graphic design, these books not only taught their readers what counted as modern architecture, but also instructed them in how to look at it. Papers may address the ways in which authors transform the book format; how such publications experiment with the
visual and cognitive processes of viewing a book; or the nature of the audiences they sought to reach. For more information, visit: http://www.sah.org/index.php?src=gendocs&ref=Call%20for%20papers%202013&category=Annual%20Conference%202013&submenu=1
6/30/2012
WAN: Furniture & Interior Accessories
The WAN Furniture and Interior Accessories Awards showcase the best from within the design industry including pioneering, original and forward-thinking work in furniture and interior accessories design of all kinds.
The award has two distinct categories:
FURNITURE: This category will showcase cutting edge design and innovation including workplace seating, outdoor furniture, chairs, tables, cabinets, desks, stools, sofas and beds that were not available on the market prior to 1 January 2009.
INTERIOR ACCESSORIES: This category is an opportunity for manufacturers and designers from around the world to compete for the internationally recognised series of WAN AWARDS. This category will showcase contemporary design and originality ranging from soft furnishings, floor and wall coverings, ceramics & glass, fixtures & fittings including bathrooms, kitchens, doors and door furniture, not available on the market prior to January 1, 2009.
For more info, visit: http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.furnitureenter12&y=2012
7/1/2012
2013 AIA National Convention & Design Exposition: Leadership for Architecture…Leadership Beyond Architecture
The Convention theme will address questions and advance the discussion within the profession of the value of architecture and the important role architects play as stewards of the built environment. We will take up the challenge to be the vocal and thoughtful advocates to advance our vision and explore why and how we as leaders must broaden the public awareness of how architecture influences the natural and built environment to make people’s lives better. For a list of questions, submission details and other information, please visit:
http://www.aia.org/aiaucmp/groups/aia/documents/document/aiab094080.pdf
7/2/2012
CALL FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS: The NEW Mexico: Third AULA Latin American Architecture Symposium
Sponsored by the University of New Mexico, School of Architecture and Planning and AULA: Architecture and Urbanism in Las Américas
13-15 September 2012, Albuquerque
Important changes are underway in both Mexico and those parts of the United States that were once part of Mexico. Thirty years ago, Joel Garreau identified MEXAMERICA as one of the nine distinct cultural regions of North America. Since then, the Latino population in the USA has exploded and significant scholarship is emerging on the fast-growing Latino built environments in the USA. The word AMEXICO describes the considerable changes that have taken place in large parts of Mexico since the ratification of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Contemporary Mexican cities offer ample evidence of increased American mercantile presence. While in the cultural realm, the most prominent Mexican artists and architects have reacted to 70 years of introspective work with an enthusiastic embrace of international currents. Following the success of the first two AULA conferences at Harvard University (Import/Export: Latin American Urbanities) and Tulane University (En el AULA), The NEW Mexico: Third AULA Latin American Architecture Symposium provides an excellent opportunity to reflect on the built environments of AMEXICO and MEXAMERICA bringing together prominent scholars and practitioners from both disciplines to the University of New Mexico. For more information and submissions, please CONTACT@AULAJOURNAL.COM
8/10/2012
CAMPUS 2015: Open international architectural design competition at Aalto University, Finland
Aalto University Properties Ltd. in Finland is arranging a competition for designing Aalto University’s Otaniemi central campus and its main buildings. The competition is arranged in two phases. Phase 1 of the competition takes place between 5 April and 10 August 2012. It focuses on producing a functional, overall plan of the central campus of the university. The competition jury will select approximately six entries for further development in Phase 2. Phase 2 competition task is to produce a more detailed design. The competition jury announces Phase 2 of the competition in early 2013. The competition is conducted following the rules of the Finnish Association of Architects. The objective is to find new concepts and create a lively and interactive environment for research and learning activities wherein work, studies, leisure, and living are interwoven in a natural way and create the foundation for a university city of the future. What is sought is a new functional model: the university’s and the whole Otaniemi science and research community’s ’mental core’, a dynamic centre which allows people to move freely in and out, stops and attracts them, awakens curiosity, and – most importantly, - inspires to study. The campus shall communicate a dynamic approach and orientation towards future as well as incorporating novel technical and ecologically sustainable solutions. The purpose of the competition is to find a high-quality urban landscape solution in which the new buildings in the urban structure engage in a dialogue with the existing buildings. For more information, visit: http://campus2015.aalto.fi/en/about/
10/21 - 24/2012
2012 Biannual Conference of the Design Communication Association
School of Architecture, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, Oklahoma
Oklahoma State University School of Architecture will be hosting the 2012 Biannual Conference of the Design Communication Association. This international conference will bring together world class academics, practitioners, and experts in the fields of Design and Design Communication. The conference is scheduled for October 21-24, 2012 with its academic and enrichment activities taking place in the newly renovated Donald W. Reynolds School of Architecture Building in Stillwater, Oklahoma challenges. The theme for the 2012 DCA conference is “Graphic Quest: the Search for Perfection in Design Communication”. It aims to generate meaningful dialogues, disseminate new knowledge, and a sharing of pedagogy among the conference attendees and participants. Activities will include notable keynote speakers, juried paper sessions, juried design competitions, graphic workshops, gallery exhibitions, and other activities. The School of Architecture at Oklahoma State University in association with the Design Communication Association is committed to fostering a spirit of professionalism, sharing of knowledge, and life-long learning. Expect to receive a call for papers/ exhibition submissions at the beginning of the fall semester 2011. We look forward to welcoming you to our school and will do our best to make this event a joyous and productive gathering of colleagues and scholars who wish to explore diverse interests in the exciting areas of graphic communication. For more information, contact the conference chair: Professor Moh’d Bilbeisi, 101 DWR Architecture Building, Stillwater, OK 74078 mohd.bilbeisi@okstate.edu 405-744-9496; http://www.designcommunicationassociation.org
12/26/2012
CAUMME 2012 International Symposium: Global Impacts and Local Challenges
Contemporary Architecture and Urbanism in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
Since the beginning of the new millennium, it was apparent that a new phase inuencing the development of architecture and urbanism in the Mediterranean and the Middle East had begun, when rulers, decision makers, and top government ocials developed stronger interest in architecture and development. With such a sturdy interest many cities in this region are experiencing rapid growth coupled with fast track urbanization processes, and marked by large scale work, learning and residential environments, and mixed use developments. This is witnessed from Istanbul’s intensive urbanization process to Abu-Dhabi’s Saadiyat Island Development to Bahrain Financial Harbor, and from Kuwait’s City of Silk to the future city of Qatar, Lusail. Notably, some cities have acquired a geo-strategic importance. Through the shift of global economic forces, they have developed to central hubs between old economies of Western Europe and the rising economies of Asia. In the context of international competition between cities new challenges are emerging. For more on the symposium theme, deadlines and topics, please visit www.caummeyildiz.blogspot.com.
1/12 - 11/2012
Socio Design Foundation--Multiple Ongoing Competitions
For more information, visit: http://www.sociodesignfoundation.org/