In its second year, organisors at the
Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building, University of Technology, Sydney, have extended their call for submissions to New Zealand, so get cracking on an entry for the most experimental and well-rewarded competition in architecture in these parts.
They say:
"Open Agenda is an annual competition aimed at supporting a new generation of experimental architecture in Australia. Graduates from a professional Australian or New Zealand degree in architecture in the last ten years are invited to submit a proposal for an architectural design research project, to be developed, exhibited and published in 2011.
We are looking for text and graphic based proposals, and will award $6000 seed funding to three exceptional submissions. Registrations close 27th May 2011, with final PDF Submissions due on the 30thMay 2011. For information contact see http://www.utsarchitecture.net/openagenda/ or contact openagenda@uts.edu.au"
Myself and Barnaby Bennett were lucky enough to be one of the awarded projects last year in the inaugural event, and I found the competition, its organisors, and associated events and outcomes (exhibition and publication), incredible. They are enthusiastic and keen to make this even better than it sounds.
Check out the briefing details here, as well as the original submissions to last year's competition which were eventually awarded.
www.utsarchitecture.net/openagenda