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Editor's Picks #342

2013-11-19T12:40:00-05:00

The latest edition of Showcase; featured a complete redesign of the Law Faculties and Central Administration Buildings at the Vienna University of Economics and Business (WU), by CRAB Studio.

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Last week Bustler.net highlighted the winners from the 39th annual KRob Architectural Delineation competition, the longest running architectural drawing competition in the world. Six winners, three juror citations, and 21 finalists were selected this year.

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KRob 2013 Winners Announced

2013-11-14T21:45:00-05:00

The winners have just been revealed for the 39th annual KRob Architectural Delineation competition, the longest running architectural drawing competition in the world. Six winners, three juror citations, and 21 finalists were selected this year. The 2013 jury was comprised of Alex Hogrefe (founder of alexhogrefe.com), sci-fi and fantasy artist Stephan Martiniere, and Perry Kulper (architect and associate professor at University of Michigan).

Just Launched: the 39th Annual KRob Architectural Delineation Competition

2013-09-06T20:40:00-04:00

The annual KRob Architectural Delineation Competition is coming back for its 39th year. The competition was established in 1974 by the AIA Dallas Chapter and named after architect Ken Roberts who was recognized for his talent in ink perspective drawing. As the world's oldest architectural drawing competition currently in operation, KRob recognizes original works that best represent the artistic qualities of the medium in both hand-drawn and digital formats.

Click on the thumbnails below to see winning images from previous KRob competitions in recent years. You can also check out this article by Julien Meyrat, one of the KRob competition organizers at the AIA Dallas, for an insightful read on architectural drawing.

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”

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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.