Annual theme
Think space
Programme Partner:
Lauba, People and Art House
Under the Auspices:
The President of Croatia
prof.dr.sc. Ivo Josipović
Supported by:
Republic of Croatia, Ministry of Culture
City of Zagreb, City Office for Education, Culture and Sports
Media Partner:
Oris Kuća Arhitekture
Competition
The Peak Leisure Club
Hong Kong, 1983
Juror
Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher
Zaha Hadid, founder of Zaha Hadid Architects, working with senior office partner Patrik Schumacher, is internationally known for her built, theoretical and academic work. She was was awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2004. Each of her dynamic and innovative projects builds on over thirty years of revolutionary exploration and research in the interrelated fields of urbanism, architecture and design.
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Hadid's interest lies in the rigorous interface between architecture, landscape, and geology as her practice integrates natural topography and human-made systems, leading to experimentation with cutting-edge technologies.
Annual theme
by Adrian Lahoud
Guest Curator of THINK SPACE 2012
PAST FORWARD
The last three decades saw significant change across social, political, and environmental registers. The conjunction of capital flows, mass urbanization and increasingly interconnected cultural and financial networks have reshaped the way we understand, produce and discuss architecture resulting in a breathless cycle of formal and aesthetic transformations. This restless appearance of change conceals an increasing sense of inertia or perhaps even of confusion, in that an intellectual project has yet to accompany the overiding sense of technical virtuosity.
This cycle of competitions aims to hold a mirror to the discipline to reflect the changes of the last thirty years by re-visiting three competitions that radically transformed architectural culture: The Peak (1982), Yokohama Port Terminal (1994) and Blur Building (1999). All three winning entries emerged under unique conditions to take up critical positions on the predominant tendencies of their time. Though they have radically different ambitions, these three projects continue to reverberate throughout contemporary architectural culture in some way, introducing new attitudes to the ground, surface and atmosphere.
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Competition
Yokohama Port Terminal
Yokohama, 1994
Juror
Alejandro Zaera-Polo
Alejandro Zaera-Polo is an architect, theorist, lecturer and founder of London and Barcelona-based Alejandro Zaera-Polo Architecture (AZPA). Together with Farshid Moussavi he founded in London Foreign Office Architects in 1995. Following FOA's demerger, he started AZPA in May 2011, whose practice has produced critically acclaimed and award winning projects for the public and private sector on an international scale.
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He favours a pragmatic approach, embracing technical rigor in a search towards a complex and organic architecture which unfolds through a broad variety of locations and typologies.
EVENTS
At the conclusion of the competition, a conference in Zagreb will bring together participating architects from both cycles. At the end of the competition phase, a further series of events will be organised including a series of international exhibitions that will display the original submissions alongside the winning competition entries from this Think Space cycle. Storefront for Art and Architecture will host the New York exhibition, with more events to be confirmed shortly.
CALENDAR
Each competition starts and ends on the same date, so competitors may make their choice and decide on participating in a single or more competitions.
Launching of the Cycle April 27, 2012.
Registration starts on May 5, 2012.
Deadline for early registration
June 26, 2012 at12:00 CET
Deadline for entry submission
July 17, 2012 at 12:00 CET
Awards Announcement in September, 2012
Awards
1st Award: 5. 000 EUR
2nd Award: 1. 000 EUR
3rd Award: 500 EUR
Possible changes in the awards, honourable and merit prizes will be defined upon the fundraising activities and at the discretionary right of the jurors.
SUBMISSION FEE
Early registration fee:
from 5 May to 26 June 2012
370 HRK / 50 EUR
Full registration fee:
from 27 June to 17 July 2012
555 HRK / 75 EUR
Competition
Blur Building
Yverdon-les-Bains, 1999
Juror
Charles Renfro & Ric Scofidio
Charles Renfro & Ricardo Scofidio are partners at Diller Scofidio + Renfro, an interdisciplinary studio that integrates architecture, publishing, visual and stage arts. Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofifio founded the studio in 1979, while Charles Renfro joined in 1998 and became a partner in 2004. Their influence stems as much from their contributions to the theory and criticism of architecture as from their built works,.
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These are sometimes expressed in the form of written work, but more often are in the form of installation art, video art or electronic art.
News
Past Forward - Registration Open
The registration for the three competitions in the PAST FORWARD cycle is now open.
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Three competitions The Peak (1982), Yokohama Port Terminal (1994), and Blur Building (1999) are now open for exploration.
JURY
The Peak: Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher (ZHA)
Yokohama Port Terminal: Alejandro Zaera-Polo (AZPA)
Blur Building: Ricardo Scofidio & Charles Renfro (DS+R)
Each architect will act as the sole juror for his or her respective competition, with assistance provided by the Think Space guest curator - Adrian Lahoud. The deliverables for the new competition cycle will match as closely as possible the original requirements for each competition. There is no limit to the number of competitions that can be entered.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE
17 July 2012 (Tue), 12:00 CET - Central European Time
RESULTS
Results will be published in September 2012 on the official Think Space website.
PRIZES:
1. prize: 5.000 EUR
2. prize: 1.000 EUR
3. prize: 500 EUR
Possible changes in the awards, honourable and merit prizes will be defined upon the fundraising activities and at the discretionary right of the jurors.
FEE
Early registration fee from 26 April to 26 June 2012: 370 HRK / 50 EUR.
Full registration fee from 27 June to 17 July 2012: 555 HRK / 75 EUR.
The briefs and details on submission requirements are available after the registration.
All of you who already registered for the Think Space 2011 - Borders cycle can use your account to login. Welcome again!
We invite you to participate in the competitions and explore together with the jurors, guest curator and other professionals from all over the world, how much have the last 30 years influenced the disciplinary transformation, looking back in order to discern how far we have moved and in what direction.
Past Forward Cycle Announcement
Dear Think Spacers,
At last we are happy to announce the launch of the new Think Space 2012 Cycle with its annual theme PAST FORWARD.
Think Space 2012 - PAST FORWARD cycle devised by this year's guest curator Adrian Lahoud, a former winner in the 2011 Borders Cycle, aims to repeat three competitions that radically transformed architectural culture: The Peak (1982), Yokohama Port Terminal (1995), and Blur Building (1999), with participating architects in the original competition acting as jurors in the current one: Zaha Hadid & Patrik Schumacher (jurors for The Peak), Alejandro Zaera-Polo (juror for Yokohama Port Terminal) and Ricardo Scofidio & Charles Renfro (juror for the Blur Building).
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At the conclusion of the competition, a conference in Zagreb will bring together participating architects from both cycles. At the end of the competition phase, a further series of events will be organised including a series of international exhibitions that will display the original submissions alongside the winning competition entries from this Think Space cycle. Storefront for Art and Architecture will host the New York exhibition, with more events to be confirmed shortly.
Think space 2012 announcement
Dear Think Spacers,
we are pleased to announce new Think Space cycle 2012 and the new annual theme: PAST FORWARD
After the first successful annual cycle of the Think Space programme, we continue with re-thinking space in the 2012.
We are proud to introduce a new guest curator for 2012, Adrian Lahoud, architect, urban planner and academic researcher who determined this year's theme PAST FORWARD.
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It is interesting that this year's guest curator comes among the winning participants of the 2011 Think Space cycle. It indicates the openness of the programme's structure and possibility of promoting quality contestants in the role of the curator for the entire programme.
Adrian Lahoud explores the disputed, conflicting and often paradoxical transformation of cities, through his private practice, teaching and doctoral research. His professional experience has moved across a broad range of scales and disciplines including architecture, art, urban design and landscape. Currently, he is teaching at the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths College London. In the Think Space cycle 2011. he participated with the awarded project Mediterranean Union within the Geopolitical Borders Competition.
This cycle of competitions 'PAST FORWARD' aims to hold a mirror to the discipline to reflect the changes of the last thirty years by re-visiting four competitions that radically transformed architectural culture. All four winning entries emerged under unique conditions to take up critical positions on the predominant tendencies of their time. Though they have radically different ambitions, these four projects continue to reverberate throughout contemporary architectural culture in some way, introducing unstable tectonics, multi-scalar superimpositions, urbanized modes of organization, and new formal genealogies. This competition cycle aims to uncover new possibilities in the recent history of architecture by returning to these singular moments of disciplinary transformation, looking back in order to discern how far we have moved and in what direction.
Jurors and individual themes will be announced before the launching competitions in March.
Hereby we announce the final event of the Think Space Programme - the Unconference, which will be held from 27 - 29 September 2012. in Zagreb. All interested in and all those who couldn't join us on the last year's Unconference - Beyond the Borders are warmly invited.