Open Studio is an interactive project run by the School of Architecture + Cities at the University of Westminster to make its design, research and practice-based work available online while it is happening. The site acts as a real time teaching and learning environment in which the work of both students and staff is curated and documented – the work of its design studios, or its other teaching and research groups and workshops. Read more in Blog, follow us on Twitter and like us on Instagram.
This new international ideas competition launched by the Landscape Institute will be of interest to students and/or professionals.
The aim of the competition is to respond to the current debates on the design and use of our urban landscape in light of the COVID-19 crisis. Deadline 4th December.
https://competitions.landscapeinstitute.org/transforming-the-urban-landscape/
HomeTown is a new stay-home international drawing challenge!
A free, open-to-all, collective drawing challenge that aims to create a giant tessellated isometric drawing from creatives around the world!
Draw your insight into staying at home during lockdown and join this international collaboration!
The challenge aims to show how we can remain connected in these unprecedented times and that whilst we’re all ‘only a room away’, regardless of the country or distance apart, we are united by creativity.
Using the template provided, we want you to get creative and show us something about your experience working from/ staying home. Archisource will then piece the individual drawings together live on their website archisource.org to collectively build HomeTown.
Website: https://archisource.org/
Instagram:@archisource
Play is an essential part of all our lives, whether child or adult. Be it playing sports, a board game or simply sharing jokes with friends, play is just as important to adults as building a den or playing dress-up is to a child.
The Coronavirus outbreak has left many of us having to spend extended periods of time at home in lockdown, restricting the opportunity to socialise and play in ways that we are used to.
How can we use creativity to encourage play in these unique times?
To download full brief and submit your entry please go to: https://www.playhouse-competition.com/
First wave of submissions by 6pm Friday 24th April 2020 to be featured in May, and second wave by 6pm Friday 22nd May 2020 to be featured in June.
Two cash prizes of £1000 and up to ten awards of £300 for runners-up.
Deadline for entries: 17.00 (GMT) 19 June 2020.
The Drawing Matter Trust is delighted to announce the Drawing Matter Writing Prize. The competition invites a coming generation of writers to consider what drawings reveal about the process of design, and the buildings or objects they represent. We hope to make this an annual event.
Entries to the competition may approach drawing as shorthand for describing any process of design. In this context the word ‘drawing’ is as much a verb as a noun, implying that a purpose exists – perhaps a building or an object – for which it is being made. Certainly, the ‘drawing’ itself may be something other than paper and pencil, a plan or section; it may encompass a sequence or series (such as a sketchbook), and a broad range of techniques, such as collage, photography, models, paintings and, of course, digital media.
Designers or artists are welcome to submit an essay on a drawing of their own. If you are writing about your own work, we are interested in hearing about a specific approach to drawing that you have incorporated into your own practice.
Above all else, we want everybody to write about what they are seeing, and to consider the act of looking itself.
The competition is open to anyone between the ages of 18–40, with or without a background in architecture or design. We welcome a broad range of approaches towards writing, and voices from art history, the sciences and humanities, alongside practitioners – architects, designers, photographers, artists, students and writers.
Entrants to the Writing Prize should submit two texts:
Each text must address a different architectural or design drawing, or sequence of drawings; one of these texts must be on a work from the collection of Drawing Matter. For the long-form text, entrants may choose to include up to 3 additional illustrations.
Two prizes of £1000 each will be awarded, for the best single long- and short-form texts.
In addition, a minimum of five runners-up will each receive £300 – this may be for an entry in either category.
The winners, and other writers with outstanding entries, will be invited to publish their texts on our website. We also plan to incorporate many of the winning texts as an early volume in a series of printed publications, based on material published on drawingmatter.org.
In addition to the drawings published on our public website, drawingmatter.org, entrants can find more material from the Drawing Matter collection through our closed-access catalogue. To look at the collection, register for catalogue access here, stating ‘Writing Prize’ in the ‘company name’ field of the form. If you require a high-resolution photograph of a drawing in the collection, please request one from image.requests@drawingmatter.org. (Entrants should note that our public website, drawingmatter.org, publishes drawings not only from within the collection but also from other sources, which are clearly captioned as such. Drawing Matter material can be verified on the collection website).
The Writing Prize will be judged by a panel of distinguished writers, scholars and practitioners, with a broad range of interests and experience. The judges will blind-read the texts; their decision will be final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the judging process.
All winners will be notified by email before the end of August 2020.
See the list of judges here.
Drawingmatter.org is a growing collection of texts that explore the role of drawing in architectural thought and practice. The majority of the drawings on the website are held in the physical archive of Drawing Matter, based in Somerset, UK. The website also publishes work from other collections, and by practitioners for whom drawing is part of their design process. New writing is published online every week with a selection of articles included in a monthly digital newsletter. Alongside digital projects, Drawing Matter has a robust print publishing programme.
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Purchase an entry ticket → Entry Ticket
You will receive an order number with your purchase (can’t find it? See advice here). Please make a note of this as it will be needed for your entry form and will allow us to circulate entries anonymously to the prize judges.
All proceeds from the entry tickets will be applied directly to student scholarships for our annual Architectural Drawing Summer School.
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Download and complete the Writing Prize entry form → Drawing Matter Writing Prize 2020 Entry Form
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Email your completed entry form, long-form and short-form text, and images to editors@drawingmatter.org. Texts and images should be formatted as follows:
Texts:
Images:
Featured image: Rem Koolhaas (*1944), Elia Zenghelis (*1937) and Zoe Zenghelis (*1937), Collage for Exodus, or The Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture, 1972. Pen, ink, photo-collage in colour and black-and-white, on silver backing, 295 × 420 mm from drawingmatter.org.
KEY DATES
Deadline: Monday 8 June 2020, 23:59.
Judging: end June.
Winners and commendations announced: August issue of RIBAJ and online.
Exhibition opens: August/September.
Correspondence: eyeline.ribaj@riba.org
It’s back! The 2020 edition of Eye Line, our international free-to-enter competition for drawing and rendering skills, is now open for entries. As ever we ask for images in two categories – student and practitioner – that brilliantly communicate architecture, in any medium or combination of media. It’s the pure art of architecture we’re interested in: ‘New Imagined Worlds’ is the subtitle this year.
We are especially pleased this eighth year of Eye Line to be partnering with Delta Light, the international architectural lighting company. Themselves committed to the art of architectural illustration, they are kindly hosting our judging event.
We are looking for images of all kinds, from hand-drawn concept sketch to technically proficient layered render. For us, ‘drawing’ includes any method by which the power of an architectural idea is communicated. This includes depictions of existing buildings as well as works of the imagination.
Practitioners and students enter in different categories:
• Student category – images made by those in architectural education or who are submitting images made before final qualification.
• Practitioner category: images made by those fully qualified and working in practice, whether for real-life projects or to explore ideas and experiences.
We will exhibit winners and commendations at the RIBA following a winners’ party there, and will publish them in print and online. And our colleagues at the RIBA’s Drawings and Archives Collection, based in the Victoria and Albert Museum, will inspect our winners for potential inclusion in the collections.
Last year’s practitioner winner was Ed Crooks for his series of pen-and ink fantasias on Lutyens’ Castle Drogo commissioned by the National Trust: student winner was Theo Jones from the Bartlett with his series ‘Unfolding Julian Assange’s Home of Diplomatic Containment’ made in Photoshop and Illustrator. Commendations in all media ranged from sparse elegant line drawings via watercolour on cardboard.
Every year we are gratified by the originality, wit and talent represented in Eye Line: a truly international, free-to-enter award conducted online. Practitioners and students – show us your best drawings!
Hugh Pearman, The RIBA Journal
For more details and how to apply please go to: https://www.ribaj.com/culture/enter-eye-line
Featured image: RIBAJ
LFA and Network Rail (NR) have announced ‘Sitting Pretty’ – an open call for new ideas for seating for the capital’s mainline train stations, to be installed next spring ahead of the London Festival of Architecture 2020.
As the Festival strives to promote positive change in our everyday open spaces, this design competition seeks an engaging new solution to transform station seating, and to brighten the experience of London’s stations for Londoners, commuters and visitors alike. Architecture and design students, recent graduates and emerging practitioners are invited to submit proposals that showcase a creative vision for these seating provisions and can inform a prototype for how a future of station seating might look.
For more information and to submit entry please click here.
DEADLINE: midday on Monday 11 November 2019
Featured image: City Benches 2018 – Studio Yu x tomos.design © Agnese Sanvito
This international award is a proven opportunity for exposure and career advancement – for both practitioners and students.
Winners and commendations will be exhibited at the RIBA for a month and will be published in The RIBA Journal and online at RIBAJ.com. Our colleagues at the RIBA’s world famous Drawings and Archives Collections (DAC), based in the V&A Museum, will study the winners for potential inclusion in the collections. You will also be invited to the winners’ event at the RIBA attended by leading architects.
Judges are Patty Hopkins, founding partner of Hopkins Architects; Wen Quek, partner, Cullinan Studio; Anne Desmet RA, artist; Tszwai So of Spheron Architects, last year’s winner; Neil Spiller, architect, academic and editor of AD magazine; and Hugh Pearman, editor of the RIBA Journal.
There is no distinction between ‘hand drawing’ and computer rendering skills but you can find out all the entry details in the RIBA Journal article.
Deadline: Monday 10 June, 23:59
Judging: end June.
Winners and commendations announced: August issue of RIBAJ and online.
Exhibition opening: August.
Correspondence: eyeline.ribaj@riba.org
Featured image: last year’s winner Tszwai So (Spheron Architects, SA+C DS2.6 tutor)
The COINS Grand Challenge is a global competition to uncover students, innovators and leaders with ideas that have the power to positively impact the built environment, and our society. We are searching for viable ideas that use a new or emerging technology to radically reduce costs, to increase efficiency or to improve sustainability, quality or compliance during construction or throughout the built life cycle.
To win cash prizes and gain exposure to influential leaders, all your students need to do is write an essay or create a short video to please describe their idea and its potential impact, and enter it on the Grand Challenge application website.
Entries should be submitted before 12 Apr 2019. Apply here: https://coins.secure-platform.com/a/
Take a look at some of the 2018 Grand Challenge finalists and their winning ideas and get inspired to submit and complete your application.
If selected as a finalist, undergrads will present their idea to the judging panel in Manchester, UK on Wednesday 12th June 2019. And COINS will get them there expenses paid.
We are calling on urban visionaries, whether individuals, groups or companies, to submit ideas – strategies, projects, experiments and solutions – to reinstate Grosvenor Square as one of London’s leading squares. The best ideas will form the detailed brief for a design competition next year in preparation for delivery.
We would love to hear from you.
An independent panel of experts convened by Grosvenor and chaired by Yana Peel, CEO, Serpentine Galleries, will oversee the call. The panel will offer challenge and insight to help us shape our thinking and select the ideas we wish to develop further.
Grosvenor Square should be a defining public space for London. However, from our research we know it has a low profile and that as a more welcoming and engaging space it would better reflect the capital’s character and appeal to a broader range of locals, visitors and Londoners.
Following our public polling last year, and with the return to Grosvenor of management responsibilities for the square, we see a chance to gather the best ideas from around the world.
The call’s simple brief can be found here and a short overview of our call here. To find out more, visit cornertocorner.london or watch the short film here.
The results of last year’s crowdsourcing for ideas and poll of Londoners can be viewed here.
This professional call for ideas closes on 26 October 2018.
The RIBA’s Traditional Architecture Group (TAG) will be awarding a prize at the end of the year to encourage classical and traditional architecture in students projects.
A prize of £1,000 will be awarded for the best classical or traditional scheme designed by a student studying architecture at a university in the UK.
The rules are as follows:
1. The applicant must be a student (or recent student) studying architecture at a university in the UK.
2. The applicants can only submit one scheme.
3. The work must have been designed and drawn after 1st January 2017.
Work is to be emailed to info@ftanda.co.uk titled TAG BEST SCHEME COMPETITION by 30th September 2018.
Entries must include:
1. Full name of applicant,
2. Name of University / school,
3. Address of applicant (email and/or postal),
4. Phone number of applicant
From these, a winner will be selected by members of the TAG committee. Discretionary commended schemes will also be chosen by the committee. The prize will be given out in November at a TAG awards evening or as part of the Georgian Group Award, to be confirmed.
For further queries, contact Francis Terry on info@ftanda.co.uk
