Archinect - News

KRob 2012 Winners Announced

2012-11-16T17:16:00-05:00

The 2012 KRob competition has announced six winners, three jury citations, and twenty finalists this week. Now in its 38th year, the annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition is the longest running architectural drawing competition anywhere in the world.

Editor's Picks #238

2011-11-20T11:14:35-05:00

Finally, sameolddoctor wants to talk about architecture and the ethics of working in developing countries vs the ethics of vanity skyscraper projects. Citizen responds: We don't have to go overseas for ethical dilemmas! How about the shiny new project on theseshores... whose architect uses unpaid intern labor? with the bold, avante garde design that is opposed by all the neighbors? whose objective is to make more profit for an already-wealthy developer?......

In Part three of the Countours features, What Should Architecture Occupy?, Part Three, Sherin Wing, attempts to summarize the responses to Archinect’s OWS poll and since OWS itself is about giving people a voice, she contends "the best way to encapsulate the results is to quote some responses". VanillaBrice quotes Sherin and asks for the raw data "Now, there are many different approaches to summarizing the responses. One is to rely solely on statistics, but since many of the answers cannot be meaningfully summarized this way..." Yes, but completely ignoring the statistics changes this from a poll to an edited forum. These anecdotes are interesting but where's the data? Please publish the results" and poche backs him up with a two word comment "Statistics please”

News
Students at UC Merced are participating in an interesting, but perhaps inverse form of occupation, where thousands of college students, facing a shortage of dorm space have moved into hundreds of luxurious homes in...

KRob Competition 2011 - The winners are in!

2011-11-18T16:20:29-05:00

Eleven winners and eighteen finalists were announced this week at KRob 2011, the international Ken Roberts Architectural Delineation, Drawing and Illustration Competition. The prestigious contest is the longest running architectural drawing competition currently in operation anywhere in the world, hosted annually by the AIA Dallas chapter [...].

Together with fellow jurors, Julie VandenBerg Snow of Julie Snow Architects and Kevin Sloan of Kevin Sloan Studio, I had the great pleasure to also serve on this year's judging panel as part of the long-standing partnership between the KRob competition and Archinect & Bustler.