Secret Life Competition, The University of Texas at Austin Design Contest, UTSOA Architecture, Building
Secret Life Competition
School of Architecture, The University of Texas at Austin Architectural Contest, USA – open to architects + designers
28 Apr 2016
update:
Submission Deadline: extended to May 20, 2016
1 Mar + 29 Feb 2016
Secret Life Design Competition
The Secret Life of Buildings – Architecture Competition
Title of Competition: The Secret Life of Buildings: A Call for Objects
Registration Deadline: May 2, 2016
Submission Deadline: May 2, 2016
Description: This is a call for works of art or design that (i) might fairly be called ‘objects’ by the nascent philosophies of Speculative Realism and Object Oriented Ontology, and that (ii) will throw light on architecture as a peculiar set of objects, phenomena, ideas, relations, connections, skills, materials, obligations, and operations.
A selection of twenty of these Objects—all physical and all, whether singular or configurations of smaller objects, falling within the four Parameters set out below—will be exhibited for two weeks around a three-day symposium to be staged by the Center for American Architecture and Design (CAAD) at The University of Texas at Austin in October 2016 called “The Secret Life of Buildings.”
OBJECTS …
Parameter 1 …that need nothing else and no one else; that are oblivious to where they are or what is made of them or how they were made, or what is done with (or to) them…OR that depend for their sense, and perhaps very existence, on exactly where they are, the company they keep, what is said about them, how they were made, and what is done with (or to) them;
Parameter 2 …that have secrets, capacities, tendencies, or desires; that are “tips of icebergs;” that “listen to different drummers;” that receive or send feeds to other places, people, objects, dimensions…AND/OR that have evident, unique, and remarkable qualities all their own…OR that have no qualities at all and ask who you are;
Parameter 3 …that point to or exemplify peculiarly architectural components, elements, phenomena, and processes without themselves being fragments or models (i.e. abstract miniatures) of them;
Parameter 4 …that weigh less than thirty pounds and occupy less than fifteen cubic feet shipped, AND can be drilled into and/or be mounted (specify indoors or outdoors) by clamps that are themselves clamped to a steel pole (specify orientation). The support for each Object will be custom provided by the organizers.*
School of Architecture
The University of Texas at Austin
310 Inner Campus Dr., B7500
Austin, TX 78712
512.471.9890
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Address: 310 Inner Campus Drive, Austin, TX 78712, United States
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Location: The University of Texas at Austin, 310 Inner Campus Dr., B7500, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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