This may interest some students out there, providing you meet their
criteria.
marcus
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Elaine B
Ostroff
Sent: 19 December 2000 21:56
To: Annette Pedersen; Jaye Johnson; Polly Welch; Wolfgang Preiser;
Universal Design Educator's Network
Subject: Student essay opportunity - architecture as a social art
Dear colleagues,
I have just learned of this architecture student opportunity that may
interest you or your colleagues. The website has all this information as
well as good background. I pulled out a few paragraphs to give you the
intent of this process. FAQs below answer many basic questions. It's
about ideas and words - not form. Other disciplines may be involved,
but the primary author must be an architecture undergraduate student.
Ray Lifchez, Department of Architecture, University of California,
Berkeley and a name known to many of you, is the Committee Chair.
Please forward this email to other interested friends and associates.
Apologies in advance is the form of this message gets messed about in
transmission. Web extracts do that!
Elaine Ostroff, Director
Global Universal Design Educator's Network
-------WWW.BERKELEYPRIZECOMPETITION.ORG-------
ANNOUNCING THE
THIRD ANNUAL
BERKELEY UNDERGRADUATE
PRIZE FOR
ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN EXCELLENCE
2001
FULL PROGRAM AVAILABLE
http://www.berkeleyprizecompetition.org
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The Berkeley Prize undergraduate essay competition was
established in the
Department of Architecture at the University of California,
Berkeley to promote
architecture as a social art through writing and criticism,
two traditionally
underrepresented aspects of the architecture curriculum.
Architectural history,
theory and practice are rich with concepts and realizations
of building that
signify architecture as a social art. In addressing the
questions posed by the
Berkeley Prize 2001 essay competition, you will consider
this legacy and its
relevance to you as future architects.
This year's competition is dedicated to the memory of Aldo
Van Eyck, architect
and teacher, whose writings as well as buildings are
persuasive evidence
that architecture, theoretical and realized, can be
conceived as social art.
STAGE 1: TO ENTER THE COMPETITION
- Meet the eligibility requirements
- Write a brief Essay on this question:
Considering what has been and comtemplating what must be, what
principles and objectives should guide architects committed to the
concept that architecture is a social art?
SUBMIT YOUR ENTRY
Online Submission system active December 20, 2000
COMPETITION PROCEDURE
CALENDAR:
STAGE ONE: Opens December 20, 2000; closes midnight, California time,
January 31, 2001
STAGE TWO: Opens February 21, 2001; closes midnight, California time,
March 15, 2001
Winners Announced: May 1, 2001.
ELIGIBILITY
The 2001 competition is open to undergraduate students enrolled in
schools of architecture in Australia, Canada, the Republic of Ireland,
New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Students may
compete individually or in teams.
There are two stages to the Berkeley Prize Competition. In Stage One
entrants will submit a brief first draft (250 words) of an essay and a
list of ten relevant sources to the above question.
>From these, 25 semifinalists will be selected and asked by email to
return to the web site for Stage Two, where they will have the
opportunity to provide a response in greater depth that will build upon
the original question.
The Berkeley Prize Committee will read these and 5-7 finalists will be
selected, at which stage the Prize Jury will be convened to select the
winner(s).
LIMITED ENTRY
The web site will accept only the first 300 entries and only one entry
per individual or team.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Q. What length are you looking for? Not in the sense of words or page
numbers, but in the analysis of the subject.
A. In STAGE 1 the writer should be able to reveal the depth of her/his
understanding of the question and its implications. This response should
be the inspiration for STAGE 2.
Q. Can faculty give feedback to their students on their essay (and help
with editing)? This seems similar to providing input during the design
of a competition project.
A. Yes. Faculty may advise students but are asked to neither compose
themes nor edit written texts. The Prize is intended to encourage
students to think creatively on their own. But faculty are encouraged to
recommend relevant sources that students may consult in considering
their responses to the question posed.
Q.If a team competes, may students who are not majoring in Architecture
be part of the team?
A. Yes. In fact, the Prize Committee encourages team work, especially
among students of other disciplines. However, the primary author must be
an architecture student.
Q. What form should the required list of relevant sources to the
question posed, take?
A. The list should be annotated in order to give Reviewers a sense of
the literature (historic and/or current) that the author finds useful in
shaping a response to the QUESTION posed.
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