UrbanResearchTV
03-05-2006, 23:44
Registration is free and open until the submission deadline. Participants' questions will only be answered on the open web forum at
http://www.urbanresearch.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17#17
Brief can be found online at http://www.urbanresearch.tv/OfficeRepublik.htm
Announcement: Cross-Disciplinary Ideas Competition Seeking Student and Professional Submissions
请! Please forward!
OFFICE OF THE REPUBLIK: OPEN IDEAS COMPETITION Discourse around the Palast der Republik provokes not just debate about how to situate a specific building within an architectural analysis—the building as ugly or beautiful, for example— but, conflict in the very notion of the value of architecture, itself. Does the failure of architecture to function as aesthetic object erase its value? Does architecture carry and promote the values of the political systems that create it? Can the use value of a building evolve as the structure, itself, depreciates?
Ideas Competition
Take the site of the Palast as a starting point to reconsider the office building - Office of the Republik. You may approach this from any scale or practice in built space. Think as an urban designer: contest Berlin's status as (not) a global city. As an architect, embed your concept of publicly accessible office space into the building's design and systems. Or present a feasibility study, exploring the possibility of the Office of the Republik in the global economy. Submittals by artists or other researchers also welcomed.
Urban Research TV initiates research, hosts public events and provides an intensive forum for discourse and analysis of urban space. The URTV think tank develops and tests direct actions and new modes of communication in spatial systems.
Submissions due May 31, by email to competition@urbanresearch.tv or open forum at www.urbanresearch.tv only. Submit any media at any scale. Total must be less than 10 megabytes of information. (Render images for screen.)
Prizes:
First prize = $150.
Second prize = $50.
Third prize = $50.
Download site models, find related links on the competition forum. Questions will be answered in the forum only, not via email.
Jury:
Paul Davis (Principal, Salazar Davis Architects – New York)
Laura Forlano (Board Secretary, NYCwireless – New York, Ph.D. candidate in Communications at Columbia University)
Ed Keller
(Principal, a|Um studio – New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP)
Mitch McEwen
(Principal designer, Tricky ink. – New York, founder of URTV)
Judith Siegmund
(Artist and philosopher – Berlin, Freie Universität, Universität Mainz)
http://www.urbanresearch.tv/forum/viewtopic.php?p=17#17
Brief can be found online at http://www.urbanresearch.tv/OfficeRepublik.htm
Announcement: Cross-Disciplinary Ideas Competition Seeking Student and Professional Submissions
请! Please forward!
OFFICE OF THE REPUBLIK: OPEN IDEAS COMPETITION Discourse around the Palast der Republik provokes not just debate about how to situate a specific building within an architectural analysis—the building as ugly or beautiful, for example— but, conflict in the very notion of the value of architecture, itself. Does the failure of architecture to function as aesthetic object erase its value? Does architecture carry and promote the values of the political systems that create it? Can the use value of a building evolve as the structure, itself, depreciates?
Ideas Competition
Take the site of the Palast as a starting point to reconsider the office building - Office of the Republik. You may approach this from any scale or practice in built space. Think as an urban designer: contest Berlin's status as (not) a global city. As an architect, embed your concept of publicly accessible office space into the building's design and systems. Or present a feasibility study, exploring the possibility of the Office of the Republik in the global economy. Submittals by artists or other researchers also welcomed.
Urban Research TV initiates research, hosts public events and provides an intensive forum for discourse and analysis of urban space. The URTV think tank develops and tests direct actions and new modes of communication in spatial systems.
Submissions due May 31, by email to competition@urbanresearch.tv or open forum at www.urbanresearch.tv only. Submit any media at any scale. Total must be less than 10 megabytes of information. (Render images for screen.)
Prizes:
First prize = $150.
Second prize = $50.
Third prize = $50.
Download site models, find related links on the competition forum. Questions will be answered in the forum only, not via email.
Jury:
Paul Davis (Principal, Salazar Davis Architects – New York)
Laura Forlano (Board Secretary, NYCwireless – New York, Ph.D. candidate in Communications at Columbia University)
Ed Keller
(Principal, a|Um studio – New York, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Architecture at Columbia GSAPP)
Mitch McEwen
(Principal designer, Tricky ink. – New York, founder of URTV)
Judith Siegmund
(Artist and philosopher – Berlin, Freie Universität, Universität Mainz)