| SCARCITY:ideas competition for architecture students |
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son
başvuru tarihi:
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17.05.2001
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teslim
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17.05.2001 |
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Registration
deadline:
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Submission
deadline:
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Yarışma Özeti(Summary):
Tank Magazine invites architecture students to send them their ideas about
the condition of the city based around the notion of alleviating it's
conditions, practices and ubiquity through observational study and
investigation. The submissions should concentrate on using the pages of Tank
magazine to convey your intent.
Tip
(Type):
Açık, fikir yarışması (Open, ideas)
Kimler katılabilir (Open to):
The competition is open to all architectural students and those graduates
with less than one year post RIBA part 2 experience (or equivalent).
Katılım ücreti (Entry Fee):
Ödüller (Awards):
first: £5000
special mention: £1000
Juri (Jury):
Rem Koolhaas, Saskia Sassen, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Micheal Landy, Paul Smith
and Damon Almond
İletişim Bilgileri (Contact):
Jenny Jones
COLLABORATIVE OFFICE
95 Redchurch Street
London E2 7DJ
t: +44 (0)20 7739 4523
f: +44 (0)20 7613 2181
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.tankmagazine.com
As the premise of the city is increasingly ubiquitous, it
becomes difficult to find that which constitutes its minimal identity. Proposed
here is a definition that qualifies the city not as a thing, but rather an
action. That action would be the alleviation of scarCITY. The city then is a
mechanism that attempts to address the frustration of scarCITY: of food and
water, of resources, of amenity and of potential. This observation, in its
vagueness, accounts for all urban transformation as the city attempts to
calibrate itself to emerging need. scarCITY then is never in a moment of stasis;
the perfect equilibrium of plentitudes never an achievable state. The momentary
adequacy of one quality simply presupposes the lack of another. scarCITY, sits
in-between the fatigue of past attempts, and the possibility of future change,
but is always pressed with the urgency of the now.
Understood as a transformation to address ever-shifting desires, scarCITY is the
engine of change, but it is an invisible engine, not conducive to overt
formalization. scarCITY, in its development is increasingly less susceptible to
being understood by geometric means. To avoid this consistent futility, and in
the face of quantitative and qualitative flux, we ask the architect to surrender
a belief in the last remaining trope of the profession: the proposal. Continuing
the logic of the Tank brief from last year, we suggest another negation of
mastery, last year was "space", this year "form."
Application
forms can be obtained by a faxed request from: +44.20.79165264
Attach the completed registration card with number to the back of your
submission and either bring it or mail it to the address supplied. (this applies
also to joint submissions)
Entries must never have been made public in any form previously.
Applicants retain copyright on submissions, but Tank and the sponsor of the
competition retain all rights relating to the publications and exhibition of the
prize-winning entries.
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