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日本“水晶宫2001”国际建筑设计竞赛
CENTRAL GLASS DESIGN COMPETITION 2001
Shikenchiku-sha Ltd.
Type: Open
Registration Deadline: July 23, 2001
Submission Deadline: July 23, 2001
Open to: All
Entry Fee: None
Awards: Yen 3.000.000 Total
Jury: Toyo Ito, Tetsuo Naito, Masaru Okamoto, Itsuko Hasegawa, Riken Yamamoto,
Kengo Kuma and Norihisa Yamamoto
This year's competition theme, "Glass House 2001", was also the theme
for the 25th competition in 1990. In 1990, the Japanese economy was at its pinnacle,
showing no signs that foreshadowed the collapse of the "Bubble Economy",
which began to take place in November 1991. It was believed that the 21st century,
ten years ahead, would be a bright and prosperous era. The United States had
just emerged from a long economic depression, and was beginning to experience
new prosperity. In Europe, the decade, which started with the fall of the Berlin
Wall in 1989, was a time of turmoil, struggling with various problems of the
EC Unification.
In the midst of this, we asked to recall how Philip Johnson's "Glass House"
had pioneered the path of current architecture, and to propose a "Glass
House" that was appropriate for the upcoming century, taking into consideration
technological developments in structure, mechanics, and plumbing, as well as
environmental problems that were finally becoming addressed.
However, the situation changed abruptly. On one hand the state of our civilization
and culture is being questioned in light of the time span of one thousand years,
a millennium. In the scope of global environmentalism, problems caused by the
existence of mankind are surfacing from various angles. Most importantly, the
variety in family types has increased due to changes in the social environment
to an extent that was not anticipated ten years ago. In addition to the growing
diversity in living arrangements, such as the nuclear family, the extended family,
and living alone, the degree of variations in types of lifestyles has also grown
so that standards and prototypes are becoming useless. Moreover, the future
no longer appears to be bright, but is considered even to be uncertain.
However, because we exist in such an era, is it not the role of an architect
as a specialist of the field to examine and to propose a lifestyle and dwelling
in anticipation of the new century? In "Glass House 2001", we are
looking for proposals that focus on "forms" of living arrangements
and their "containers" of the future that follows these years of upheaval.
This year is 2001. It is most likely that this is the first time for the same
theme to be repeated in a series of a competition within the span of ten years.
We would like you to study, with an understanding of the intent of this year's
theme, a "Glass House 2001" that evokes the path towards a prosperous
tomorrow.
Announcements:
Winners will be notified by mail; results of the competition will appear in
the Volume 44 (YEAR BOOK 2001) issue of quarterly JA.
Additional Information:
-No registrations are necessary for this competition.
-Entries must never have been made public in any form previously, nor should
it be submitted simultaneously for any other competitions.
-Copyrights on the winning entries remain the property of their designers, but
the sponsors of the competition retain the all rights on the announcement of
these entries.
-No entries will be returned.
-Entries will be admitted only if it appropriately observes all rules.
-Questions will not be answered by the sponsors. All matters not covered in
the regulations listed above are left to the discretion of the entrants.
Data for Application and Entry
Drawings: Plan (in any scale), section (in any scale), site plan (in any scale),
and perspective. Photographs of models may be used. You are free to append detail
drawing, other charts or descriptive texts that make your design clearer. Descriptive
texts must be limited to less than 100 words in English.
Paper and Media:
-Complete all drawings, illustrative matters, and texts on the sheet of thick
drawing paper (600 by 840mm).
-You may use blue prints, pencil, ink, color, or photographs; but do not use
panels.
-On the back of your entry attach a piece of paper bearing your name, address,
age, home and office telephone numbers (or fax numbers), place of occupation.
All of these have to be 'typewritten' for the sake of legibility.
Mail entries to the address listed below.
For more information or to register, contact:
Dept. of Central Glass International Architectural
Design Competition 2001,
Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd.
2-31-2 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku
Tokyo 113-8501, Japan
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