OVERVIEW
The AIAS is looking for members to share their sketches and renderings to showcase the work our members do and to provide inspiration for those looking to enhance their skill sets. This competition is open to all years and skill sets – show us what you’ve got!
HOW TO ENTER
- Share your sketches and renderings on your Instagram account between September 11 and December 14, 2018, to enter the competition
- Tell us (in 1-2 sentences) what your sketch/rendering is about
- Tag the AIAS National Office on Instagram – @aiasorg @vectorworks
- Use the following hashtags: #AIASInStudio and #InStudioRender
Each Wednesday during the competition the National Officers will select their top five (5) submissions and feature them in the AIAS InStudio Highlights on Instagram. At the close of the competition, the jury will select three winners from the submissions posted between September 11 and December 14, 2018.
Winners will be announced at AIAS FORUM 2018 in Seattle, WA.
*Note: You must be an active AIAS member to participate*
**You must have a public Instagram account to participate**
***There is no limit to the number of sketches and renderings you can submit, but please choose your best!***
**You must have a public Instagram account to participate**
***There is no limit to the number of sketches and renderings you can submit, but please choose your best!***
PRIZES
Three winners will be selected and their work will be showcased at AIAS FORUM 2018.
The winning cash prizes are as follows:
1st Place: $300
2nd Place: $200
3rd Place: $100
DEADLINE
You must have uploaded your sketches and renderings to Instagram by 11:59 pm on Friday, December 14, 2018.
Please Note: Acknowledging the collaborative tendency of architecture studios in academic settings, In Studio Competitions are open to both individual work as well as group work. If an AIAS member chooses to submit a project, image, model, or sketch to any of the AIAS InStudio Competitions that was the product of more than one individual, it is important that all participants are aware of the submission and that their names are included in the associated description. Prior to submission, all individuals that contributed to the work being entered must come to a consensus regarding the allocation of the potential prize funds. Ideally, group submissions would donate their winning funds to their AIAS Chapter or split the funds equally. If an entry is chosen as a competition winner, the prize funds will be issued to the individual that submitted said work to distribute in accordance with their pre-determined distribution plan.
The Forge Prize: Vision in Steel for Architectural Excellence
Sponsors: ACSA, American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC)
Type: Open, two-stage
Fee: None
Eligibility: Open to designers practicing in the U.S. and Canada. Team leader should be an emerging professional in the process of licensure or within 10-years of licensure.
Type: Open, two-stage
Fee: None
Eligibility: Open to designers practicing in the U.S. and Canada. Team leader should be an emerging professional in the process of licensure or within 10-years of licensure.
Challenge: Proposals for visionary design that embrace steel as the primary structural component. Projects can focus on Exposed Structural Steel (AESS), Modular Construction, Long-Span, Reuse Systems, Urban Density, etc., but are not limited in their scope or complexity.
Timetable:
16 January 2019 – Stage one submission deadline
February 2019 - Winners announced
May 2019 – Stage two submission deadline
Awards:
$10,000 (3) for shortlisted winners of stage one
$10,000 (1) Addition award for final prize winner
Jury: TbD
For information, go to:
Timetable:
16 January 2019 – Stage one submission deadline
February 2019 - Winners announced
May 2019 – Stage two submission deadline
Awards:
$10,000 (3) for shortlisted winners of stage one
$10,000 (1) Addition award for final prize winner
Jury: TbD
For information, go to:
Note: If you have difficulty opening this link, just google Forge Prize.
Runway Park Competition:
Nanjing Dajiaochang Airport Renewal Plan
Type: open international, student
Location: Nanjing, China
Fee: None
Eligibility: Open to those majoring in urban planning, architecture design, landscape design, and art design who are under 40.
Location: Nanjing, China
Fee: None
Eligibility: Open to those majoring in urban planning, architecture design, landscape design, and art design who are under 40.
Timetable:
15 November 2018 – Registration deadline
1 December 2018 – Submission deadline
Awards:
First Prize (1 team): Honor certificate + Bonus 100,000RMB (before tax, around 15,000USD)
Second Prize (4 teams): Honor certificate + Bonus 30,000RMB (before tax, around 4,500USD)
Third Prize (10 teams): Honor certificate + Bonus 10,000RMB (before tax, around 1,500USD)
Honorable Mentions (several teams): Honor certificate
Jury: TbD
Design Requirements:
1. Design Principle
(1)The design must be original;
(2)The design should be both creative and interesting, combined with the history, culture and natural environment of Nanjing South New Town.
(3)The proposal should remark the material, construction form and technique (or crafts), as well as the suggestions for its operation and usage in future.
(4) The proposal should fully consider different needs of diverse group of people and provide urban space to suit activities of Nanjing citizens and tourists
2. Design Categories
Categories of the design vary from landscape furniture, urban installation, lightening device design (on the runway or the public space on the both sides) to urban signage system, participants could design a single work or a series of work based on the runway park as the site. The work in a series should be the one guided by a theme, while irrelevant and repeated pieces are not encouraged.
For more information, go to:
http://runwaypark_renewal.chinabuildingcentre.com/en_index.html
15 November 2018 – Registration deadline
1 December 2018 – Submission deadline
Awards:
First Prize (1 team): Honor certificate + Bonus 100,000RMB (before tax, around 15,000USD)
Second Prize (4 teams): Honor certificate + Bonus 30,000RMB (before tax, around 4,500USD)
Third Prize (10 teams): Honor certificate + Bonus 10,000RMB (before tax, around 1,500USD)
Honorable Mentions (several teams): Honor certificate
Jury: TbD
Design Requirements:
1. Design Principle
(1)The design must be original;
(2)The design should be both creative and interesting, combined with the history, culture and natural environment of Nanjing South New Town.
(3)The proposal should remark the material, construction form and technique (or crafts), as well as the suggestions for its operation and usage in future.
(4) The proposal should fully consider different needs of diverse group of people and provide urban space to suit activities of Nanjing citizens and tourists
2. Design Categories
Categories of the design vary from landscape furniture, urban installation, lightening device design (on the runway or the public space on the both sides) to urban signage system, participants could design a single work or a series of work based on the runway park as the site. The work in a series should be the one guided by a theme, while irrelevant and repeated pieces are not encouraged.
For more information, go to:
http://runwaypark_renewal.chinabuildingcentre.com/en_index.html
Oriental Bay Pavilion Competition
Organizer: ADEDU, New Zealand
Sponsors: Victoria University of Wellington; The University of Auckland; WelTec – Wellington Institute of Technology; Resene Paints Ltd
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Type: Open, international, ideas, single stage
Eligibility: This Architecture Ideas Competition is open to students and young professionals (under 40) in areas related to architecture. No professional qualification is required. Design proposals can be developed individually or by teams (4 team members maximum). We also encourage and support the registration of architecture teaching institutions as this competition provides a realistic, compelling and challenging task for students.
Fees:
Early Birds (before 30.08.2018) – $20 /Team
Standard – $30 /Team
Entries From Developing Countries – $10 /Team
Teaching Institution Registration – $500
Awards:
1st Prize – 1,5000 NZD
2nd Prize – 1,000 NZD
3rd Prize – 500 NZD
5 Honorable Mentions
Timeline:
30 October 2018 – Design Proposal Submission
15 November 2018 – Results Announcement
Jury:
• Andy Thomson | President of Oriental Bay Residents Association (to be confirmed)
• Diane Brand | Professor at University of Auckland
• Harris Maragkos | Associate Director of AECOM
• Marc Aurel Schnabel | Professor at Victoria University of Wellington
• Pamela Bell | CEO of Prefab New Zealand
Design Challenge:
The site of this competition is the Band Rotunda which is located at the heart of Oriental Parade, one of the most beautiful and popular streets in Wellington. The area of the site is about 530 m2 with a semi-circular shape projecting into Wellington Harbour.
Sponsors: Victoria University of Wellington; The University of Auckland; WelTec – Wellington Institute of Technology; Resene Paints Ltd
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Type: Open, international, ideas, single stage
Eligibility: This Architecture Ideas Competition is open to students and young professionals (under 40) in areas related to architecture. No professional qualification is required. Design proposals can be developed individually or by teams (4 team members maximum). We also encourage and support the registration of architecture teaching institutions as this competition provides a realistic, compelling and challenging task for students.
Fees:
Early Birds (before 30.08.2018) – $20 /Team
Standard – $30 /Team
Entries From Developing Countries – $10 /Team
Teaching Institution Registration – $500
Awards:
1st Prize – 1,5000 NZD
2nd Prize – 1,000 NZD
3rd Prize – 500 NZD
5 Honorable Mentions
Timeline:
30 October 2018 – Design Proposal Submission
15 November 2018 – Results Announcement
Jury:
• Andy Thomson | President of Oriental Bay Residents Association (to be confirmed)
• Diane Brand | Professor at University of Auckland
• Harris Maragkos | Associate Director of AECOM
• Marc Aurel Schnabel | Professor at Victoria University of Wellington
• Pamela Bell | CEO of Prefab New Zealand
Design Challenge:
The site of this competition is the Band Rotunda which is located at the heart of Oriental Parade, one of the most beautiful and popular streets in Wellington. The area of the site is about 530 m2 with a semi-circular shape projecting into Wellington Harbour.
A bathing pavilion was built on the site in the nineteenth century. A second floor was subsequently added to the original art-deco structure in the late twentieth century which until recently accommodated a restaurant. After an earthquake in 2016, a crack in the foundation of the building indicated that the added floor was too heavy for the original design. City councilors and planners question whether we should bring the building back to its original design, or if we would be better off to create a new structure that expresses the spirit of our time. Creative and innovative proposals both the design of the new structure and for the use of the site are encouraged in this competition.
For more information, go to: adedu.co.nz/architecture-competition
2018 Steedman Fellowship Competition: Infrastructures
Sponsors: Sam Fox School of Architecture, St. Louis AIA
Type: Open, International, one-stage
Award: $50,000 Travel Fellowship
Type: Open, International, one-stage
Award: $50,000 Travel Fellowship
Language: English
Fee: none
Eligibility
The Steedman Fellowship is open to anyone, anywhere in the world, who has received an accredited degree in architecture within the last eight years. Fellows must be able to complete their proposed projects within 18 months of receiving the award.
Fee: none
Eligibility
The Steedman Fellowship is open to anyone, anywhere in the world, who has received an accredited degree in architecture within the last eight years. Fellows must be able to complete their proposed projects within 18 months of receiving the award.
Additionally, at the conclusion of their fellowship, Fellows must be available to travel to St. Louis to share their research with the Washington University and local AIA architectural communities. The exact presentation format will be decided between the Fellow and the Governing Committee, but it could take the form of a public lecture, exhibition, or collaborative design workshop.
Timeline:
15 August 2018 – Registration opens1 November 2018 – Submissions deadline
Jury
• Andrea Leers, FAIA, Leers Weinzapfel Architects, Boston (Chair)
• Marion Weiss, FAIA, Weiss Manfredi Architects, New York
• Lisa Iwamoto, Iwamoto Scott Architecture, San Francisco; Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley
15 August 2018 – Registration opens1 November 2018 – Submissions deadline
Jury
• Andrea Leers, FAIA, Leers Weinzapfel Architects, Boston (Chair)
• Marion Weiss, FAIA, Weiss Manfredi Architects, New York
• Lisa Iwamoto, Iwamoto Scott Architecture, San Francisco; Professor of Architecture, UC Berkeley
- Linda C. Samuels, Associate Professor of Urban Design, Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis
• Anna B. F. Ives, AIA, Managing Partner, patternhn ivesDesign Challenge
The Steedman 2018 jury seeks creative research proposals on the design impact and potential for infrastructures to positively contribute to a sustainable urban future.
For more information:
https://steedmanfellowship.wustl.edu/call-for-proposals-2018/
https://steedmanfellowship.wustl.edu/call-for-proposals-2018/
The Berkeley Prize 2019: Architecture & Climate Resilience
Sponsor: UC Berkeley
Type: Open, international, essay, multi-stage
Fee: none
Language: English
Awards: Fellowship
Type: Open, international, essay, multi-stage
Fee: none
Language: English
Awards: Fellowship
1 November 2018 – (Stage One) 500-word essay proposal due
1 February 2019 – (Stage Two) Essay Semifinalists’ 2,500-word essays due
1 February 2019 – (Stage Two) Essay Semifinalists’ 2,500-word essays due
Process:
The Berkeley Undergraduate Prize for Design Excellence endowment was established in the Department of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley College of Environmental Design to promote the investigation of architecture as a social art. Each year the PRIZE Committee selects a topic important to the understanding of the interaction of people and the built world that becomes the focus of the Essay Competition.
The Committee poses a Question on this website related to the topic. Students enrolled in any accredited undergraduate architecture program or diploma in architecture program throughout the world are invited to submit a 500-word essay proposal in English responding to the Question (see eligibility requirements). Undergraduate architecture students may team up with undergraduates from allied arts and social sciences programs.
From the pool of essay proposals received, approximately 25 are selected by the PRIZE Committee as particularly promising. The selected individual students, or student teams, become Semifinalists.
These Semifinalists are invited to submit a 2,500-word essay, again in English, expanding on their proposals. A group of readers, composed of Committee members and invited colleagues, selects five-to-eight of the best essays and sends these Finalist essays to a jury of international academics and architects to select the winners.
At the conclusion of the Essay Competition submittals, all Semifinalists are also invited to submit for a BERKELEY PRIZE Travel Fellowship. Details for the Fellowship will be announced in the Spring 2019. Past Travel Fellowship Competition requirements, winning submissions, and follow-up reports by the winners are available to read here on the website.
Essay Question: Architecture & Climate ResilienceWhat have architects done in the past and what can they do in the future to help reduce the negative effects of climate and climate change?
For more information, go to: http://berkeleyprize.org/competition/essay/2019
International Competition in Architecture 2018 – Jacques Rougerie Foundation
Organizer: Fondation Jacques Rougerie
Type: Open, international, ideas
Languages: English, French
Eligibility: Open to architects, engineers, scientists, designers, landscape designers
Awards:
Innovation and Architecture for the Sea Awards
Grand Prix – €7 500
Focus: Floating constructions from recycled plastics of the seas – €2 500
Type: Open, international, ideas
Languages: English, French
Eligibility: Open to architects, engineers, scientists, designers, landscape designers
Awards:
Innovation and Architecture for the Sea Awards
Grand Prix – €7 500
Focus: Floating constructions from recycled plastics of the seas – €2 500
Innovation and Architecture for Space Awards
Grand Prix – €7 500
Focus: Lunar village – €2 500
Grand Prix – €7 500
Focus: Lunar village – €2 500
Architecture and Sea Level Rise Awards
Grand Prix – €7 500
Focus: The African Coastline – €2 500
Grand Prix – €7 500
Focus: The African Coastline – €2 500
Architecture solar innovations by the sea Students Awards
Grand Prix Akuo SunStyle – €10 000
Grand Prix Akuo SunStyle – €10 000
Timeline:
9 November, 2018 – Registration & Submission Deadline
9 November, 2018 – Registration & Submission Deadline
Design Challenge:
The Foundation‘s primary action is to encourage a different vision of tomorrow‘s world linked to the universes of Space and the Sea. In this perspective, the Foundation rewards audacity and architectural innovation on an international scale, by inviting the transdisciplinarity of the candidate teams.
These architectural projects will have to be based on emerging progress, a forward-looking vision, well-known transversal skills, and respond to the major current and future environmental challenges for greater industrial and technical responsibility.
These projects should take into account the precepts of sustainable development and contribute to the integration of the sea and space in the development of our society (innovative materials, techniques and fundamental advances in terms of design and development, saving energy or natural resources, recyclability, etc.).
The Foundation‘s primary action is to encourage a different vision of tomorrow‘s world linked to the universes of Space and the Sea. In this perspective, the Foundation rewards audacity and architectural innovation on an international scale, by inviting the transdisciplinarity of the candidate teams.
These architectural projects will have to be based on emerging progress, a forward-looking vision, well-known transversal skills, and respond to the major current and future environmental challenges for greater industrial and technical responsibility.
These projects should take into account the precepts of sustainable development and contribute to the integration of the sea and space in the development of our society (innovative materials, techniques and fundamental advances in terms of design and development, saving energy or natural resources, recyclability, etc.).
For more information, go to: www.fondation-jacques-rougerie.com
