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reTHINKING competitions: Lençóis Maranhenses Kitesurf School

Rethinking Architecture Competition, Nuevo Concurso, Spanish Architecture Contest

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Lençóis Maranhenses Kitesurf School Design Contest – Concurso 2021

9 Apr 2021

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Lençóis Maranhenses Kitesurf School international architecture competition

# 024 KITESURF SCHOOL LENÇÓIS MARANHENSES

INFORMATION

The Lençóis Maranhenses Kitesurf School contest proposes a space where you can experience the relationship between sport, nature and the human being. The project must highlight the uniqueness of the place and that it becomes a space where there is comprehensive respect for the entire landscape, culture and atmosphere of the place.

This last point is important since tourists from Europe or America come to the place constantly interested in knowing the place and in fact it is such an inaccessible place that it is normal to make small camping in the area. That is why this kitesurfing school has to allow itinerant accommodation of people, but without excessive contamination of the place.

PRIZES – 5000 Euros

A special recognition will be made for the 13 best proposals, awarding a prize of a total of € 5,000 distributed as follows: First prize – € 3,500 (€ 1,500 cash + € 2,000 MArch programs) Second prize – € 1,000 Third prize – € 500 + 10 Honourable mentions

CALENDAR

APRIL 5, 2021: Early Registration Start MAY 4, 2021: End of Early Registration MAY 25, 2021: End of Medium Registration JUNE 15, 2021: Late Registration End JUNE 15, 2021, 6:00 p.m. (Madrid time): Delivery limit JULY 2021. Winners Announcement

JURY

Pablo Camarasa – MArch Research Vicent Molins – Director of Agència Districte Carmen Moreno Álvarez – Doctor Architect Ana Gea and Victor Palau – Gràffica.info Team

9 July 2020

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Vietnam Ricefield Lodge international architecture competition, South East Asia image courtesy of architects Vietnam Ricefield Lodge architecture competition The Vietnam Ricefield Lodge competition presents a space where the relationship between nature and human can be experienced.

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6 Apr 2018 Ibiza Artist House Architecture Competition

For the 3rd time, MArch Valencia has relied on reTHINKING competitions to organize a competition where, in addition to the prizes, a scholarship is awarded for one of its Architecture programs.

This new architecture contest is # 016 Ibiza Artist House.

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Site – Pirate Tower

The pirate tower, in Ibiza, is one of the most famous defensive constructions on the island, which every year attracts hundreds of tourists who want to visit the well-known defense tower. Its true name is the Torre de Es Savinar or Cap d’es Jueu, and it is the highest tower in Ibiza, although its main attraction is that from the top of the tower you can enjoy a unique view of the islet of Es Vedrà and It is Vedranell, and you can even see the massif of Montgó de Denia on the clearest days.

Being a defensive construction, the area has cliffs, areas with a softer slope and last areas in direct contact with the sea in its lower part, exactly the lower bay. That is why the place of intervention to develop the proposal will be totally free where the contestant must choose how to settle their architecture and get the most out of the place by choosing what kind of strategy to follow.

Program

It is the fact that this place is one of the most inspiring that we can find on the island, the reason why it has been decided that it is an ideal point to develop a home conceived as a space of relaxation, of inner peace where culture, passion, art can flow thanks to the architecture that is proposed. Being a point of visual, musical or physical creation for an artist (architect, musician, poet, painter, ..).

The proposal can be conceived as an occasional refuge-house or as a permanent home for its inhabitant. That is why the contestant will decide on the one hand the profession of his tenant, then decide the exact location of the house and finally the program, taking into account that they must develop at least the following spaces: 1 room – studio – living room – dining room, 1 viewpoint, 1 bathroom

PRIZES – 5000 Euros

2000 Euro Grant for the International Master’s degree MArch First prize 1.500 € 3 Accésits: 3 x 500 € 10 Honourable Mentions

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17 Feb 2018

Rethinking Competition in 2018

PIAM Architecture Competition

After the success of participation in previous editions, Matimex announces another year of PIAM, the International Architecture Prize dedicated on this occasion to the Contemporary Commercial Spaces.

Architecture has always been linked to trade: from the first ephemeral stores that were settling in squares forming souks to the current large commercial spaces. Our society, always in continuous evolution, is increasingly demanding.

It is not only about acquiring the product, but also about living an entire shopping experience. That´s why we are looking for a global design that goes beyond the product and that understands it as a whole with the brand, the space and the sensations experienced.

This change of focus entails an evolution of the commercial space linked to these new needs of the consumer. New commercial spaces for new user needs.

We propose to design a space or recover an existing one, whose design revolves around the main theme of the contest: “ComerciARQ. Contemporary Commercial Spaces “.

The company, from Iris Ceramica Group, wants to show its support to environment with the contest. The use of products with finished ACTIVE Clean Air & Antibacterial Ceramic will be consideredan advantage. And the use, in the projects, to the certification LEED or BREAM; the jury also will evaluatein the projects the quality, originality, creativity, and the correct use to the products from the Iris Ceramica Group.

This prize is addressed to professionals and students associated with the architecture, technical architecture, design, interior design, engineering and with similar profiles with this characteristics. The jury is composed withinternational professionals associated with the architecture, the design and the sustainability:

1. Enric Batlle. Bachelor Architect, Director of University Master of Lanscape UPC- MBLandArch. Partner of Batlle i Roig Arquitectura. 2. Margarida Caldeira. Architect. Board Director EMEA Chair. Broadway Malyan 3. Lucia Ferrater. Partner Architect OAB 4. Diego Gronda. Architect and designer. Partner of Studio Gronda 5. Josep Piñot. Industrial Engineer. Director Retail Development Services CBRE 6. Juan-Luis Grafulla. Matimex CEO and General Manager. 7. Dottoressa Federica Minozzi. Iris Ceramica Group CEO, Italy.

The prizes, in net amount:

• Professional category: 1st prize: 3.000 € 2nd prize: 1.000 € 1st Honorable mention: no cash prize 2nd Honorable mention: no cash prize

• Students category: 1st prize: 1.000 € 2nd prize: 500 €

The inscription and delivery: from 29 January – 7 May

PIAM’s web site: www.premiosmatimex.com

reTHINKING competitions José Laguillo, 21 Sevilla, Se 41003 Spain

Dec 27, 2017

Rethinking Competitions – Lanzarote Dynamic Square

# 015 Lanzarote Dynamic Square

The Cabildo of Lanzarote has been trying since 1989 to reactivate and enhance the cultural attractiveness of Arrecife. The main objective of this project is to convert the El Almacén plaza (Arrecife) into an urban point of culture and social meeting. And with this contest it is intended to take an important step for it since the proposal will be built.

Lanzarote Dynamic Square Competition

29 Sep 2017

Rethinking Competitions – Sahara Eco House

Rethinking Competitions – Sahara Eco House Contest

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We are happy to inform you that reTHINKING has launched a new competition: Sahara Eco House. This is an architecture competition where a new concept of housing must be projected that maximizes the passive systems to achieve the necessary comfort in houses in extreme climates such as deserts and in particular in the Sahara.

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This is a novel contest that can encourage reflection on issues that are growing in current architecture thinking such as zero consumption and passive consumption as a whole. Please see below the most relevant information:

PRIZES First Prize 1.500 € + Member of the jury for the next competition 3 x Accesits: 500 € + 10 Honourable mentions • Magazines publications • Publication in blogs/ architecture web

CALENDAR September 14th 2017: Early registration starts December 4th 2017 Submission deadline

JURY Guillermo Rubio Boronat (Editor – Coordinator TC Cuadernos) Beatriz Pérez Doncel (Terral Arquitectos) Victor Moreno Jiménez (Professor at the ETSAS) rubial-Sánchez. Architecture and design studio You can check all the information in our website: https://ift.tt/1LM1Lc0

Spanish text:

Rethinking Nuevo Concurso

RETHINKING_#014 NUEVO CONCURSO

Septiembre 2017 – Desde reTHINKING competitions nos complace anunciaros nuestro nuevo concurso: “#014 SAHARA ECO HOUSE”.

Se trata de un concurso donde se debe proyectar un nuevo concepto de vivienda que aproveche al máximo los sistemas pasivos para logar el confort necesario en viviendas en climas extremos tales como los desiertos y en particular en el Sahara.

Consideramos que es un concurso novedoso que puede hacer reflexionar sobre temas que son crecientes en la arquitectura actual tales como la viviendas de consumo cero y pasivas en su totalidad.

A continuación os dejo los datos más relevantes:

PREMIOS

Primer premio 1.500 € + Jurado del próximo concurso rethinking 3 x Accésits: 500 € + 10 Menciones de Honor

• Publicación en revistas • Publicación en blogs/ webs de arquitectura • Publicación oficial de reTHINKING

CALENDARIO

14 de Septiembre 2017: Inicio Inscripción Temprana 4 de Diciembre 2017 Límite de entrega

JURADO

Guillermo Rubio Boronat (Editor – Coordinador TC Cuadernos) Beatriz Pérez Doncel (Terral Arquitectos) Victor Moreno Jiménez (Professor Proyectos arquitectonicos ETSA Sevilla) rubial-Sánchez. Oficina de Arquitectura y diseño

Una vez más os pedimos que difundáis la noticia para animar a los estudiantes y jóvenes arquitectos a participar. Para cualquier duda o solicitud quedamos a vuestra disposición,

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Rethinking Competitions 2019

Location: Seville, Spain

Architecture Competitions – Selection

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7th Advanced Architecture Contest image courtesy of architects Advanced Architecture Competition

Adelaide Contemporary International Design Competition photo © davidwallphoto.com Adelaide Contemporary International Architecture Competition

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Museum Of Architecture Competition

Rethink Hotels Competition

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Austrian Architecture

Hungarian Architecture

Vienna Building image © COOP HIMMELB(L)AU

Comments / photos for the Rethinking Competitions – Sahara Eco House Architecture Contest page welcome

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Butta B-Rocka Robinson Sang “So Will I” At City Gala/City Summit Fundraiser in Burbank, CA On February 24, 2019, Oscars Night At The Academy Awards, A Performance That Deserves An Oscar

https://authoritypresswire.com/?p=27596 Oleathia “Butta B-Rocka” Robinson, International Touring Artist, Songwriter, Best Selling Author on Amazon for her book “Fear Of Failure Fear Of Not Trying”, Contributing Writer, Model, Actress, Playwright of the stage play “I Cheated So What,” Humanitarian, CEO/Founder of 501c3 non-profit “Artists Rock the MIC Foundation.” Robinson has been diligently putting in work across markets and borders. Butta has redefined the term “versatility” by showcasing her vocals and composed pieces for ears in the US, UK, Germany, Holland, Japan, Canada, Portugal, St Lucia, St Thomas, St Kitts, Barbados, Chile, Puerto Rico, Antigua, Africa and across genres from pop, rock, gospel, country and rap. 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City Summit invited proven business leaders, strategists, and business owners to teach our community how to increase revenue, generate leads, diversify income, establish authority, raise the value of a business, elevate brand awareness and concentrate on hyper-growth. The topics of the event ranged from Leadership, Innovation, Marketing, Business Fundamentals, Operations, and Inspiration. The ultimate goal of the City Summit was to fund the City Gala on February 24, 2019, which took place on the evening of the Academy Awards from 7 pm-midnight. City Gala is a fundraiser for non-profit organizations that have a mission to solve global challenges. Each year, the Gala raises funds for organizations that are feeding the hungry, sheltering homeless, liberating and rehabilitating young people that have suffered from human trafficking, providing education and mentorship programs, and promoting health and wellness initiatives. 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Ren Hang, Whose Photos Stirred Passion and Controversy, Dead at 29—and the 9 Other Biggest News Stories This Week

Catch up on the latest art news with our rundown of the 10 stories you need to know this week.

01 Chinese photographer Ren Hang has died at the age of 29.

(via Time)

The self-taught artist and poet was known for his beautiful, provoking, and explicit images of the human body and its form. Making friends and even fans the subject of his work—in which nude bodies take on a statuesque and stirring presence—Hang began to take pictures in order to get away from the monotony of a university classroom. Though he amassed a beloved following during his brief career, Hang’s erotic work earned the ire of Chinese authorities, who arrested him multiple times and confiscated his work. But throughout his life, Hang continued to work in defiance of attempts to silence him. The cause of death has not been confirmed, but Hang had made his battles with cyclical depression the subject of his poetry in the past. Alexander Öberg, a longtime collaborator, told TIME that Hang was a “lovely person and an incredibly creative artist who had so much more to share with the world.”

02 Established Chelsea gallerist Andrea Rosen announced in an email Tuesday that she will no longer represent living artists and will “no longer have a typical permanent public space.”

(Artsy)

Rosen said the transition will take place over the coming months. Her announcement was buried deep within a letter in which Rosen first explained that she would be joined by David Zwirner in co-representing Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s work, which has formed a centerpiece of her gallery’s program for decades. Rosen opened her eponymous gallery in 1990, when she was just 27, with an exhibition of Gonzalez-Torres’s work. Today, her stable also includes the rigorous, sometimes baldly political practices of biennial favorites like David Altmejd, Josephine Meckseper, Mika Rottenberg, Andrea Zittel, Ryan Trecartin, and more. Given Rosen’s lasting relationships with artists and the admiration with which her peers have viewed her approach as a gallerist, the closure of her gallery is surprising. Rosen herself noted that it’s not entirely as she would have imagined, “My wish would have been to try to incorporate the depth of my growing intentions within my current immersive and beloved structure,” she wrote.

03 A group of senators signed a letter in support of the NEA and NEH after the agencies were confirmed to be on the “hit list” of programs targeted for elimination by President Trump.

(Artsy)

Roughly a month after reports first emerged that the National Endowment for the Arts was potentially on the chopping block, the New York Times confirmed that the NEA is almost certainly being targeted for elimination. The list of agencies considered a “misuse of taxpayer dollars” by the administration will be finalized by March 13th. In response to this news, 24 senators (all Democrats, save two Independents and two Republicans) penned a letter to President Trump affirming their support for the NEA and the role it plays in American society. “Federal support for the arts and humanities is essential to our education system, economy, and who we are as a nation,” the letter stated. “We hope you will keep this in mind as you consider proposals that support these fundamental American institutions.”

04 A drawing and a painting from Cornelius Gurlitt’s collection have been returned to the heirs of their initial Jewish owners—bringing the total number of restituted works to four.

(via the Art Newspaper)

The German minister of culture delivered the painting, by Impressionist Camille Pissarro, to the descendants of Elsa Helen Cohen on Monday. Cohen had sold the work in 1938, using the money to flee to the United States. The second restituted work, a drawing by German realist Adolph Menzel, had been returned to the heirs of French-Jewish businessman Max Heilbronn a few days earlier. The late Gurlitt inherited nearly 1,500 artworks from his father, Hildebrand, an art dealer for the Nazi party. Kept hidden for decades, the trove was discovered by authorities in 2012 and revealed to the public the following year. Since then, a German government task force has attempted to determine ownership of the art in a process that has garnered criticism for its extended timeline. Although researchers have determined that 91 works from the collection were likely looted or sold under duress—by artists such as Chagall, Cézanne, Dürer, and Degas—as of this week, only four have been restituted.

05 Protesters gathered in MoMA’s lobby last Friday, demanding that a trustee with ties to President Trump be dismissed from the museum’s board.

(via Hyperallergic)

Larry Fink, who sits on the museum’s board, is also CEO of BlackRock, the largest asset management corporation in the world. He has served as Trump’s economic advisor, attending a policy meeting with the president and other leading CEOs in early February. On February 17th, at the museum, protesters carried a banner that read “Resistance Against Fascism Is the Best Art”; artist Coco Fusco read a statement from arts collective Occupy Museums that detailed Fink’s affiliations with Trump and called for the museum to sever ties with him. “To advise this regime is to normalize White Supremacy,” one line read. The protest eventually moved outside to 53rd Street where statements including “MoMA Don’t Normalize Trump” were projected onto the museum’s facade. Last year, MoMA awarded Fink with the David Rockefeller Award, which recognizes an “individual from the business community who exemplifies enlightened generosity and effective advocacy of cultural and civic endeavors.” The institution has not yet issued a response to the protest.

06 A Michigan dealer of modern American art was sentenced in New York to 41 months in jail for selling forgeries.

(via the Associated Press)

Eric Spoutz was also ordered to pay back $1.4 million in ill-gotten gains and $154,100 in restitution. Among the artists whose works he claimed to be selling were Robert Indiana, Willem de Kooning, and Joan Mitchell. In order to fool buyers into thinking that he had either purchased or inherited these works, the 33-year-old Spoutz produced fake bills of sale, receipts, and even letters from deceased attorneys and others. He also operated under assumed names, at times going by “Robert Chad Smith,” “John Goodman,” and “James Sinclair,” according to artnet News. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said Spoutz “used the full palette of deception to complete his decade-long work of fraud, swindling art collectors out of more than a million dollars.” The case was investigated by the FBI’s Art Crime Team.

07 A London gallery has come under fire after displaying neo-Nazi artworks and organizing a conference of publicly racist speakers.

(via the Guardian)

Last summer, LD50 gallery hosted a series of talks that featured white supremacist Brett Stevens and anti-immigration activist Peter Brimelow, among others. Titled “Neoreaction,” the conference was meant to establish “a dialogue between two different and contrasting ideologies,” according to gallery owner Lucia Diego. However, a recording of Brimelow’s talk revealed that most participating audience members were in favor of his views. LD50 also mounted a concurrent exhibition called “Amerika,” which displayed artworks containing Nazi and alt-right imagery and text. In response, a group calling themselves “Shut Down LD50” has written an open letter noting that the gallery “has acted as a platform for a cross-section of the most virulent advocates of contemporary extreme-right ideology.” They plan to hand out 2,000 leaflets in the area this weekend, informing the public of the gallery’s activities.

08 Andy Warhol’s death was the result of years of health problems, new findings show.

(via the New York Times)

The pop artist’s untimely demise in 1987, at age 58, has long been attributed to a routine gallbladder operation gone wrong. Now, new research by medical historian and retired surgeon Dr. John Ryan indicates that Warhol suffered genetic gallbladder problems for almost 15 years, a condition that contributed to his rapidly declining health in the month prior to his death. It was so severe that when the artist’s surgeon operated on him in 1987, he found his gallbladder full of gangrene; the organ fell apart as he removed it. Dr. Ryan’s research further reveals that Warhol had been addicted to speed, had barely eaten in the month before his death, and was suffering the long-term effects of a gunshot wound from 1968 at the hands of an angry groupie. Following the gallbladder operation, Warhol’s heart gave up, and he suffered ventricular fibrillation hours after he appeared to be recovering from the surgery. Dr. Ryan has been researching Warhol’s death since he retired four years ago, encouraged by his brother-in-law Hal Foster, a prominent art historian who has written on Pop Art.

09 A gallery in the L.A. neighborhood of Boyle Heights has shut down, in response to long-running protests by anti-gentrification activists.

(via ArtForum)

PSSST, a non-profit arts space which opened last June, said it faced “constant attacks” from groups including Defend Boyle Heights (DBH) and Boyle Heights Alliance Against Artwashing and Displacement (BHAAAD). In one instance, protesters posted mock eviction notices on gallery doors in the area; in another, a nearby gallery was vandalized with expletive-filled graffiti referencing “white art.” As PSSST’s cofounders explained, the drawn-out controversy “made fundraising an impossibility.” PSSST was one of more than a dozen galleries that had moved into Boyle Heights during the last three years, an alarming trend for residents who feared rising property values that would eventually force them out of the area. Activists have called for all art galleries to leave the neighborhood, replaced instead by services like grocery stores or child care that would benefit locals. In a joint statement, DBH and BHAAAD called the news about PSSST’s closure a “victory” for the “296 families living in Pico Gardens, fighting against the privatization of their public housing and the thousands of Boyle Heights tenants that are struggling against harassment and rent increases.”

10 A congressman has filed a federal lawsuit contesting the removal of a high school student’s controversial painting from the walls of a Capitol Hill tunnel.

(via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch)

The work, painted by former St. Louis high school student David Pulphus as part of the annual Congressional Art Competition, alludes to the Ferguson protests and depicts several police officers with animal heads. Originally approved for display by the Architect of the Capitol (the office in charge of the contest), the painting hung for seven months before it was taken down following disapproval by Republican congressmen. Now, Representative William Lacy Clay—a Democrat from Missouri—has sued, stating that its removal constitutes a violation of free speech. “This case is truly about something much bigger than a student’s painting,” Clay said. “It is about defending our fundamental First Amendment freedoms which are currently under assault in this country.” The outcome of the case will depend on whether or not the competition is considered a public forum, experts noted. Previous rulings have established that it is illegal for government officials to censor opinions they disagree with in the context of a public forum. The Architect of the Capitol has a week to respond to Clay’s suit; a federal hearing is expected within three weeks.

Cover image: Ren Hang, Untitled 21, 2012 courtesy of Blindspot Gallery.

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