2012 Photography Competition – Call for Entries

The 7th Annual AIA West Jersey Photography Competition  

The 2012 competition has opened for submissions.  Winning entries will be used in the AIA West Jersey 2013 Calendar that will be distributed to members and affiliates. Images of the winning entries will shown at AIA-WJ events including the Annual Inaugural Gala to be held in January, 2013. From the winning entries, three cash awards will also be presented.

ELIGIBILITY:
Competition is open to all AIA members and affiliates, students and the general public.

CATEGORIES:
Color
Black & White

AWARDS:
A minimum of 13 winners will be chosen for inclusion in the calendar, in addition the three following awards will be presented with cash prizes:

Best Overall Entry   – $ 250 prize
Best Color   – $ 150 prize
Best Black & White  – $ 150 prize

CONDITIONS OF ENTRY:
• Entry Fee is nonrefundable for up to (5) prints per entry:
$25.00 members & affiliates, $15.00 for students, and $40.00 non-members

• FEE and completed Entry Form MUST accompany all images entered.

• Unlimited number of entries.

• Subject must have an architectural theme or contain an element of the human-made environment. Photographic interpretation will be judged, not the architecture. Location of images is unrestricted.

• Entries must have been taken and owned by the participant.

• Entries may be submitted in either mounted print or digital format.
Print entries MUST still include submission of digital images.
Digital Only submissions MUST include additional $10 per entry (each entry includes up to 5 images).

• Mounted prints are to be 8×10 images mounted on 11 x 14 presentation quality white mat boards (No Foam Core), attach a sealed envelope with the following information taped to the back of each mounted print: name, address, phone number, print title, location of image or description.

• Digital images must be on CD. Photographs may be originally shot in digital format or may be high resolution scans of 35 mm (4 x 5 or 2 1/4” formats ). Images should be scanned at 300 dpi (ppi) at the final output size and saved as a JPG or TIFF file, maximum size 10 MB.

• Participants grant reproduction rights and permissions to AIA West Jersey to use all submitted images (in either print or electronic form) for organizational calendar, website, exhibition, publications, fundraising and promotional purposes. All mounted print entries become property of AIA West Jersey.

• Submission of entry implies acceptance of all above conditions.

ENTRY DEADLINE:
Entry(s) must be received by August 8, 2012

MAIL ENTRIES TO:
AIA-WJ Photo Competition
c/o Ignarri-Lummis Architects
601 Chapel Avenue East Cherry Hill, NJ 08034

ADDITION INFO or QUESTIONS –
photo@aiawestjersey.org   or  856-234-7367

Click Here to Download Entry Form

See article on the 2011 competition winners.

AIA-WJ Photography Competition Selections Announced

Serpentine Movement by Ben Nicolson

The top selections of the 2011 AIA West Jersey Photography Competition were announced at our annual meeting tonight.

Congratulations to the Top Selection photos and photographers –

 Overall Best Photo: Serpentine Movement by Ben Nicolson

–

–

–

Best Black & White Photo:  Chesapeake Barn by Robert Auld, AIA

 Best Color Photo:    12000 Horizon Way by Nevin Kishbaugh

Top Selections:  Train by Night by Adrienne Lattuca, Assoc AIA

Barberini Stairs by Sarah Davis, Assoc AIA

St Peter’s Dome, Vatican City by Jacob Goldman

Inner Workings by Steven Cohen, AIA

Reptile House by Kimberly Bunn, AIA

Skydome British Museum by Robert O’Reilly, AIA

Chrysler Building by Frank Cunha III, AIA

Eastern State Penitentary by Sean Edwards

Homes and Color by Glenn Goldman, FAIA

Inside the Bell Tower by Amy Nowak-Palmerini, AIA

Merit Selections for the 2012 calendar included:

Hampton Court Castle London by Robert O’Reilly, AIA

LaPedrera- The Sentinels by Amy Nowak-Palmerini, AIA

Monoma Magnified by Emily Savoca

A Touch of Green by Adrienne Lattuca, Assoc AIA

Red Stairs by Victor Rodriguez

Schloss Neuschwanstein by Glenn Goldman, FAIA

Eye to Yahweh by Daniel Campbell, AIA

Sachs Bridge by Sean Edwards

Commerce University, Nevin Kishbaugh

Florence Landscape by Jacob Goldman

Soaring Canopy by Kimberly Bunn, AIA

SOM’s Freedom Tower Under Construction by Frank Cunha III, AIA

Photography Competition Voting

AIA-WJ 2010 Best Overall award winner by Peter Kubilus - Westside Presbyterian Church, Ridgewood, NJ (Designed by Newman Architects)

Vote for your favorite image in the AIA West Jersey 6th Annual Photography Competition.

There are lots of great photos this year in the finalists list, your votes will help choose the competitions top award winners, and the final top 13 images that will make the 2012 AIA-WJ Calendar.

Please go to the following website to vote for the one you think is the Best Overall photo and which one should make the cover of our printed calendar.

Only one vote per person –

A click on any picture will cast your vote so click carefully –

If you want to view all finalist images in a full screen slideshow go to our Flickr site,

If you are a Flickr user feel free to mark any of the entries as “Favorites” – only one vote is allowed on the main voting page but on Flickr you can have as many Favorites as you like!

Voting will be open until October 29, 2011

Thanks to the 2011 juror’s who narrowed all of the entries to the top finalists that are included in this round of voting:

Robert Bennett, AIA  –  2009 Best Overall Awardee

Peter Kubilus  –  2010 Best Overall Awardee

William Cohen, AIA  –  2010 AIA-WJ President

David Lummis, AIA  –  AIA-WJ Past President

Please share the word with your friends and family, we encourage everyone to vote.

– AIA West Jersey

Canstruction 2011 – Looking for Teams

A reminder for those who would like to contribute to the competition!

Call for Entries!
For further details, click here.

Added incentives:
– Goya has been generous enough to offer donating ALL cans to one team! If interested, send Call for Entries form and entry fee check, as well as schematic sketch and/or description of your sculpture to the Canstruction Committee Chair by August 30. The recipient will be chosen shortly thereafter.
– Goya will also allow teams to buy cans at discounted price. Again, if interested or for further information, contact the Canstruction Committee Chair.

Sponsorship Initiative
If you’re interested in sponsorship of the event, click here for to view the Sponsorship Initiative information. All cans and monies contributed will ultimately go to the Community Food Bank of NJ to help feed the homeless.
Your generous contributions are greatly appreciated not only from AIA Newark & Suburban, but from the Community at large who needs your help!

2011 AIA NJ Design Competition Winners Announced

AIA New Jersey announced the winners of the 2011 Design Awards. Congratulations to all the winners.

Centra Iselin c. 2011 Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

HONOR
Architectural – Non‐Residential
Centra – Iselin, NJ
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, PC

The Aspen Institute c. 2011 Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects

HONOR
Architectural – Non‐Residential
The Aspen Institute – Walter Paepcke Memorial
Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, LLC

MERIT
Architectural – Non‐Residential
Ikon.5 architects
Campus Commons, State University of New York at New Paltz

MERIT
Architectural – Non‐Residential
KSS Architects
Warch Campus Center, Lawrence University

MERIT
Architectural – Non‐Residential
Payette Architects*, (Project Team Executive Architect)
Princeton University Frick Chemistry Laboratory

*Updated 8/4/2011: Payette Architects in collaboration with Hopkins Architects, Design Architect for project

MERIT
Residential – Built
Minivernini Vandermark Architecture
33 Willow Terrace

MERIT
Unbuilt
HDR
Royal Medical Services –Jordan

MERIT
Interior Architecture
Clarke Caton Hintz Architecture Firm
Offices for Clarke Caton Hintz

HONOR
Historic Preservation
Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects, LLC
Kahn Bath House & Day Camp Pavilions

Kahn Bath House c. 2011 Farewell Mills Gatsch Architects

More information on each of the winners to follow.

AIA-NJ COTE Top 10

For the first time, AIA New Jersey Committee on the Environment will be holding a COTE Top 10 Award competition recognizing outstanding built work in the area of sustainable design.

The Top Ten Green Projects program seeks to identify and recognize the benefits of a high performance, sustainable design approach; to educate the architectural community and the public at large on the increased value that sustainable design provides for developers, building owners and occupants; and to acknowledge architects as experts in the creation of energy conscious and environmentally responsible design solutions endeavoring to meet the Architecture 2030 goals.

April 11, 2011 — Registration opens
May 31, 2011 — Registration deadline and project submittal deadline

For more information and submission guidelines:
www.aia-nj.org/COTEtop10

National Park Service Starts Architectural Drawing Competition

Sharpen your pencils, the National Park Service has a $1,000 prize at stake in a new competition for architectural artists who create drawings of historic buildings.

“Drawings from the hands of skilled craftsmen are valuable tools when it comes to the protection of America’s treasured historic structures,” said National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis. “They are a permanent record of our nation’s built environment, created with the precision needed to restore or repair these places of our past. This competition will reinvigorate this specialty and encourage the development of the talents it requires.”

The Historic American Buildings Survey, called HABS, began in 1934. The National Park Service has been its only home. The architectural drawings, large format photographs and written histories HABS uses to document historic structures are housed at the Library of Congress and are available to the public online. More than 40,000 historic structures and sites have been documented.

The competition and its prize are named for Leicester B. Holland (1882-1952), the co-founder of the Historic American Building Survey program and head of the Fine Arts Division of the Library of Congress.

Catherine Lavoie leads the Historic American Buildings Survey today. “The Holland Prize is intended to increase awareness, knowledge, and appreciation of historic sites, structures, and landscapes throughout the United States while adding to our permanent collection. By requiring only a single sheet, the competition challenges the student or professional to capture the essence of the site through the presentation of key features that reflect its historic and its architectural, landscape architectural or engineering significance,” Lavoie said.

Drawings of historic buildings are a crucial component of architectural education. Lavoie said they provide opportunity for young architects to gain an understanding of the principles of design and construction and in addition to their use for restoration work, contribute to new design projects.

The competition will be administered by the National Park Service’s Heritage Documentation Programs. Entries of an historic building, site, or structure including engineering sites and historic landscapes must be prepared by an individual or individuals to standards established by HABS or its sister programs the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER), or the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS).

In addition to the cash, the winning drawing will be published in Architectural Record magazine.

May 31 is the deadline for entry form submissions and June 30 is the deadline for submission of completed entries. To download the Holland Prize entry form, competition rules and recommendations visit: http://www.nps.gov/history/hdp/competitions/holland.htm

The prize is supported by the Paul Rudolph Trust, Architectural Record, a magazine of the American Institute of Architects (AIA); and theCenter for Architecture, Design & Engineering in the Library of Congress, and the National Park Service.

The Holland prize joins the Peterson Prize in drawing competitions. Each year the HABS/HAER/HALS programs offer students employment and training opportunities. Please visit http://www.nps.gov/hdp/jobs/summer.htm for student employment information andhttp://www.nps.gov/hdp/jobs/peterson.htm for information about the Peterson Prize.

And be sure to visit us on Facebook with professionals, friends, alumni, project sponsors, and others interested in our work of recording America’s architectural, engineering and landscape heritage through measured drawings, written historical reports and large-format photography.”

Reminder – IDEAS Competition

Reminder – The AIA Young Architects Forum (YAF) and the AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international 2011 YAF/COD IDEAS Competition.

In this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore the principles of Universal Design as well as their overlap with values of social and environmental sustainability.

Winners will be announced and will have their work exhibited at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2011 National Convention and Design Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 12-14, 2011. Selected entries will be displayed on the AIA website.

For Complete Submission Details, Download the 2011 Ideas Competition Call for Entries (PDF) http://lyris.aia.org/t/1260623/2450492/16869/0/
Entries may be submitted anytime between January 14, 2011 and March 14, 2011

Before beginning your submission, please visit the 2011 YAF/COD Ideas Competition Walkthrough to familiarize yourself with the online submission process. (PDF) http://lyris.aia.org/t/1260623/2450492/16870/0/

Visit the Submission Site to Submit Now!
http://lyris.aia.org/t/1260623/2450492/16871/0/

IDEAS Competition 2011

The AIA Young Architects Forum (YAF) and the AIA Committee on Design (COD) invites architects, students, and allied design professionals to submit sketches to the international 2011 YAF/COD Ideas Competition.

In this unique sketch competition, submitters are asked to explore the principles of Universal Design as well as their overlap with values of social and environmental sustainability.

Winners will be announced and will have their work exhibited at the American Institute of Architects (AIA) 2011 National Convention and Design Exposition in New Orleans, Louisiana, May 12-14, 2011. Selected entries will be displayed on the AIA website.

For Complete Submission Details, Download the 2011 Ideas Competition Call for Entries (PDF)Before beginning your submission, please visit the 2011 YAF/COD Ideas Competition Walkthrough to familiarize yourself with the online submission process. (PDF)Visit the Submission Site to Submit Now! 

High School Design Competition

NJIT is resurrecting their High School Design Competition for submissions by the end of March 2011. It is an open competition encouraging creativity in the design profession (both architecture and design). They will have awards that include paid tuition for their summer architecture and design program.

AIANJ is helping to get the word out about the competition throughout NJ encouraging students to enter. If you are an AIA-NJ member, please contact all people (principals, architectural drawing teachers, graphic design & industrial design teachers, art teachers, etc) you know who may be affiliated with high schools or high school students to encourage their participation.

If you are a student, and interested in participating in the competition, please tell your teacher and school.

All of the information on the competition as it becomes available will be posted on the website, the address is: design.njit.edu/ddc2010