Spark Design Awards' is an open international design competition to recognize and inspire designers from various sectors of design from a paper-weight to a high-rise building. Almost anyone can participate in the competition, designers, art directors, architects, design firms, manufacturers, institutions, ad agencies, students and novices may enter.
Phase 1 entry fees are US$ 175 for professionals and US$ 50 for students and none professionals.
Submission deadline: Phase : August 15, 2009, (Late Deadline: September 10)
Visit :
http://www.sparkawards.com/ for details.
You may register on the website now (CLICK HERE to register). The first phase (virtual jury) final deadline is September 10. An international jury will carefully review the entries. Phase I entrants chosen by the Jury will then have the option to participate in Phase II, as a Spark "Challenger" candidate, with payment of a second fee of $250. Phase II deadline is October 12, 2009. Jurists will judge the actual, physical works of design in Phase II, so you'll need to ship your design to the Jury site by October 16th.
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP are pleased to announce the 3rd
Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of THE SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY: Envisioning the habitat of the future.
Registration Deadline: 28th September 2009.
The aim of this architecture competition is to promote on-line 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 should be like.
The contest is open to architects, 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, socialization and globalization, with a view to enhancing the connected self-sufficiency of our cities.
The prize (Total value: 60.000, 00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme.
This Architecture Competition Jury, which is composed of architects, directors of some of the world’s foremost architecture schools, and mayors of prominent cities around the globe is looking for outstanding proposals for any city in the world, at any scale, and within any timescale.
The Registration is FREE, and the competition entries should be submitted digitally in PDF files via Internet
www.advancedarchitecturecontest.orgCLICK HERE to download the brochure of the competition.
The Society of Architectural Historian is itself a historic organization. Its the organization of great architectural historians for those we got to learn about all those ancient and contemporary masterpieces.
The 63rd SAH Annual Meeting will be held in Chicago (April 21-25, 2010). If you are interested in presenting a paper, the deadline for submitting an abstract is August 15, 2009. You have to write about Architectural-ized Asia, Starlets and Starchitecture, Couter histories of Sustainability, etc.
For details visit SAH website:
http://www.sah.orgOr download the PDF
CLICK HERE
