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The Living Climate Change Video Challenge

Opening up the conversation to people of all ages, IDEO have partnered with DESIGN 21 on the Living Climate Change Video Challenge which invites you to imagine what life will be like in 20 or 30 years, as we move along a path toward reduced carbon emissions. ...

09.03.2010

AfH - Student Design Award 2010

Architects for Health invite architectural students to submit projects to be considered for the third annual Student Healthcare Design Award 2010. As in previous years any* project relating to the design of a healthcare building can be submitted, however the 2010 competition introduces a greater ...

08.03.2010

2010 Chicago Prize Competition: Mine the Gap

The Chicago Architectural Club is pleased to announce the 2010 Chicago Prize Competition: MINE THE GAP, a single-stage international design ideas competition dedicated to examining one of the most visible scars left after the collapse of the real estate market in Chicago: the massive hole along the ...

08.03.2010

Northern Design Competition 2010

The Northern Design Competition was developed to raise the profile of design talent in the North, by highlighting opportunities to employers and students. It is a competition that rewards talented students across the north of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland for their work in the ...

08.03.2010

PROJECT EARTH-TO-ART

A call is made to arts professionals, researchers and interested others for contributions addressing one or more of the symposium strands: Arts Education Practice, Studio Practice, Curatorial/Museum/Community Arts Practice, Art History/Criticism, Arts Administration/Management/Marketing Practice and ...

08.03.2010

International Conference

The Municipality of AJMAN is organizing from 29th t0 31st MARCH 2010 THE 4th AJMAN URBAN PLANNING COMPETITION.

This international conference will organized in SHEIKH ZAYED HALL at AJMAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY.

The topic of thi ...

05.03.2010

smart spaces - Residential Design and Construction

Residential Design and Construction Conference offers more than 50 workshops covering a wide range of residential design, technology and business issues. ...

04.03.2010

MIT Graduate Student Conference

The general perception is that intellectual and creative production outside of major cultural centers necessarily defines itself in relationship to there centers. However, the 2010 *research-in-progress conference proposes that this condition of dependence, generated by geographical distance, can be ...

04.03.2010

Competition - Safe Trestles

Safe Trestles is an open-to-all, two-stage design competition to create a safe pathway to serve surfers, the local coastal community and day visitors to San Onofre State Beach. ...

04.03.2010

Call for Papers - ACADIA 2010

looking at design activity and research in terms of their capability to stream, scream and information, the conference co-chairs seek paper proposals that reveal how todays digital designs are foremost responsive and evolving according to the conditions associated with information processing, conne ...

03.03.2010

Integrated Habitats Design Competition 2010

This is a competition to inspire industry and academia in the British Isles to design built environments for nature, with emphasis on ecosystem services and climate change. ...

03.03.2010

call for participants - urbanFAB (workshop)

urbanFAB (workshop) will engage in a close-up examination of the existing urban factors that drive new models of digital design and fabrication. These factors include physical, social and climatic influences (among others), but most importantly youll be observing what makes your city unique in globa ...

02.03.2010

Open Agenda

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

02.03.2010

Call for Entries - Constructed Territory

A call open to all U.S artists for a juried exhibition of work integrating the use of maps, cartography, or environmental and topographical explorations ...

02.03.2010

Student Design Competition - NTUTARCH WALL 2010

A call for entries for students which takes on an elemental perspective to architectural design and sustainability. Entrants are to imagine and produce creative proposals for an ecological WALL. The evaluation and definition of WALL are open to applicants imaginations. Entrants are free to choose or ...

01.03.2010

10up

The Young Architects Forum (YAF) of Atlanta is pleased to announce the 2010 competition entitled 10Up. We’re calling on young designers to step up to the 10Up challenge! ...

01.03.2010

Daylight Spaces 2010

The competition Daylight Spaces provides a platform upon which to raise awareness of planning with natural light. The announcement of two winning projects of the competition Daylight Spaces takes place in the course of Architekturtage 2010 in cooperation with ORTE, the architecture network of ...

25.02.2010

INTA34 Congress: Mobilizing your Urban Region

34th World Urban Development Congress in the City of Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain; 24-28 of October 2010.

INTA34 World Urban Development Congress | Mobilizing your Urban Region |
Donostia-San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain | 24-28 October 2010

INTA’s 34th World Urban De ...

24.02.2010

DVGBC Sustainable Design Competition

As an important part of the Education and Outreach Programs, DVGBC conducts an annual design competition to engage regional colleges and universities in the process of sustainable design. The goal is an interactive design competition that will expose participants to sustainable design strategies, US ...

24.02.2010

Competition - Building Conflict

To address the real issues like media - constructed incompatibilities, migratory movements, social barriers, Islam in Europe after the minaret incident in Switzerland, FAS calls for an open competition for a public Islamic Center in Zurich with a mosque where Muslims can gather and practice their re ...

23.02.2010

Structures for Inclusion 10

Structures for Inclusion (SFI) conference is a forum to present and discuss current architectural practices that are intended to reach a more diverse clientele. SFI is a forum to present, discuss, and seek new thoughts, strategies, and ideas for the future of the profession. ...

23.02.2010

Architectural History Conference/Turkey I

October 20-22, 2010 Ankara, METU Cultural and Convention Center Deadline: April 23, 2010 Graduate Program in Architectural History Middle East Technical University/ Architectural History Conference/Turkey is organized to form an academic platform that aims to share new and original research on ...

23.02.2010

Claiming Creativity

Columbia College Chicago, in partnership with The European League of Institutes of the Arts, will host Claiming Creativity, a joint international symposium specifically designed to place artists, designers, architects, other active creators and those who teach in teh creative disciplines squarely at ...

22.02.2010

Call for Papers

Theoretical Currents: Architecture, Design and the Nation. 14 - 15 September 2010- East Midlands Philosophy and History of Architecture Research Network

An international conference to be held at Nottingham Trent University, Burton Street, Nottingham, NG1 4BU United Kingdom

19.02.2010

International Architecture Competition - A House in Luanda: Patio and Pavilion

the metaphor of the patio and pavilion is clearly applicable to the ive of this design competition: to design a single family dwelling that is radically cheap to build for luanda, a city which is under extreme demographic pressure and is undergoing an intense process of transformat ...

19.02.2010

Competition - Project Greenway

A competition asking you, simply, to propose a sustainable accessory submissions which should identify an environmetal issue to address and define what an accessory is and elaborate on your accessorys strategy. ...

18.02.2010

Workshop - Cover the Ward

Cover the Ward invites students and professonals to attend 2 weekend workshops exploring the exciting world of Digital Design + Fabrication. The workshop will introduce participants to Parametric Design strategies and conclude with the fabrication and installation of a new canopy over the 3rd ...

18.02.2010

2010 ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition

The 2010 ResilientCity.org Design Ideas Competition is an exciting opportunity for architects, city planners, urban designers, engineers and landscape architects, including students, graduate students and interns of these disciplines around the world to contribute ideas about creating more resilient ...

18.02.2010

Most beautiful Minaret in Europe

COJEP International, IMCOSE (Muslim Initiative for European Social Cohesion) and the British Council are launching a contest to select the most beautiful existing Minaret in Europe through a photographic competition.

Mosques, with or without their minarets hav ...

17.02.2010

Le Corbusier and the Occult

Through exhaustive research that challenges long-held beliefs, this very book traces the structure of Le Corbusiers brand of modernist spatial and architectural ideas based on startling new documents in hitherto undiscovered family and local archives. ...

15.02.2010

JAKARTA RENOVATION & CONSTRUCTION EXPO

In the 9th year, Renovation and Construction Expo will focus on environment - friendly materials and designs to answer the market demand of green and sustainable building and construction products. ...

15.02.2010

SEAMLab - 2010 Scholarship Competition

A competition to encourage students to thoughtfully consider contemporary challenges and opportunities that exist in material design, architecture, engineering, science, and the built and natural environments. Students are invited to submit research, speculations, or design projects that operate as ...

15.02.2010

Design of a Science Center to Promote scientific temperament

A competition for students which encourages designs for the Science Center as a Creative Space with a volume of approximate 7500 cubic Meters and there will be maximum 200 users at a time. This design should house permanent and temporary exhibitions, laboratories and workshops, a conference ce ...

15.02.2010

February 2010 : Haiti

Participants in February s Spontaneous Architecture competition are invited to take the problem of emergency institutitons, only one of which is housing seriously and enacting a response onto the site included on the website. The site includes multiple institutions and social, economic, ...

15.02.2010

Restaurant Design Awards

The AIA|LAs Restaurant Design Awards (RDA) honor excellence in restaurant design. The competition is open to all individuals and practices with both restaurant owners and architects/designers invited to submit. Either the project itself must be located in the United States or the submitting individu ...

12.02.2010

Architectural Competition for the Conceptual Design of the Second World War Museum in Gdansk

The Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk announces a Competition which concerns the development of the architectural conceptual design of the building to house the Museum of the Second World War in Gdansk, intended to become a new identity landmark of the City of Gdansk, and the conceptual site ...

12.02.2010

Call for Submissions - Concrete Geometries

The Concrete Geometries Research Cluster at the Architecture Association School of Architecture in London is seeking submissions of work from the fields of art, architecture, sciences and humanities that explore the relationship between spatial form and social or aesthetic processes. ...

12.02.2010

Competition - Green Shed

Pandora Park Community Garden Society invites student and professional architects, landscape architects, builders, engineers, gardeners and designers of all kinds to take part in Green Shed Competition. The goal of this international competition is to generate buildable designs for a storage shed an ...

12.02.2010

The Heathrow Contest

Greenpeace is now inviting professional designers and design teams to consider how to fortify and enhance the airplot so that if necessary, a construction of a third runway can be prevented. ...

12.02.2010

output award is open for registration

Output Award is inviting submissions of student projects from all disciplines of design and architecture. ...

12.02.2010

SmartGeometry Conference

The SmartGeometry 2010 Conference is the premier event focused on innovative design tools, technologies, and methodologies that allow and encourage new forms of architectural and structural expression. The conference takes place March 23-24 in Barcelona, Spain, and explores new design agendas ...

10.02.2010

CFP: Nineteenth Century Photographs of Architecture

call for papers
documenting history, documenting progress
nineteenth century photographs of architecture
international symposium
october 3-4, 2010

held during the exhibition of snite collection photographs of nineteenth century architecture at the snite museum of art, university ...

09.02.2010

Control room shelter - Swidnica

„Control room shelter - Swidnica”

09.02.2010

ICSID Calls for Design Solutions In the Face of the Disaster in Haiti
In a global appeal following the devastation in Haiti, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) has launched a call to designers from all disciplines to unite in an open dialogue with international relief organisations to assess potential design-effective rehabilitation pr ...

04.02.2010

Open Call: Innovative Curtain Wall Design
The Center for Architecture is seeking innovative designs for curtain wall systems by AIA New York members. The selected design will be built at full-scale and featured for three months in the double-height space of the Center for Architectures storefront as part of our 2010 theme of the year exhibi ...

03.02.2010

Call for papers: AIEDAM Special Issue
Representing and Reasoning About 3D Space AIEDAM Special Issue, Fall 2011, Vol.25, No.4 Edited by: Sean Hanna & Bill Regli

This issue will survey the range of approaches to representing and reasoning about 3D space. It seeks practice-based contributions in spatial design doma ...

02.02.2010

DREAM HOME AWARDS
In the Dream Home Awards, there will be five finalists in each category selected on a point system created by a panel of industry professionals based in part on A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander, Sara Isihikawa and Murray Silverstein. ...

01.02.2010

Award-Winning Projects, 2008 The Omrania l CSBE Student Award for Excellence in Architectural Design
The Jury awarded first, second, and third prizes, as well as an honorable mention.

The winning projects are as follows:
01.02.2010

Call for Papers: Terrain Vague: The Interstitial as Site, Concept, Intervention
Submissions are invited from a range of fields, in particular literature, architecture, ecocriticism, urban studies, cultural geography, the visual arts, and film studies. On the websited it is indicated that a particular interest in responses to the idea, as expressed by Luc Lévesque, that “‘terr ...

29.01.2010

Student Competition - Rethinking Home
This design competition challenges students to investigate an existing Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) and develop an original set of design standards for renovation and new construction to meet todays use of nursing facilities while improving on aspects of living conditions and work environment. ...

28.01.2010