I was wondering what people's thoughts were on this years awards.
As far as I'm concerned this is the only reason architecture exists anymore. They didn't break their new 100 page limit on the magazine, and made a good choice to not include anything else in this issue.
I thought the L.A. Now project was worthy of an award, and I actually liked the idea of using that project as a framework on which to base the rest of the awards.
I'm not convinced that the jurors really held the citations to that standard though. I think the Neil Denari project was an interesting project, but I'm not convinced it really fit into the guidelines the jurors set up for themselves. Is it really that hard to admit a project was cited because it was an interesting formal excercise in temporary architecture?
I don't have the magazine in front of me, and god forbid that piece of crap magazine ever update their website, but there was one award that was for an architecture/urban design project called L.A. Now (3) ( I guess there were two previous phases, I hadn't heard about it) that was headed partly by Thom Mayne.
There were 5 or 6 citations.. As I mentioned above Neil Denari got one, but I don't recall the other offices.. maybe someone has it in front of them??
i dont get it anymore. it was really is a piece of shit. i couldnt even find creative uses to recycle it unless i guess if i was camping in the woods. dual use then. william mcdougagh would be proud.
Award
L.A. Now : Volume 3 | UCLA Dept. of Arch. and Urban Design
Citations
2:1 House | Iwamoto Scott Architects
Perth Amboy High School | John Ronan Architect
Troia | Neil Denari Architects
Intergenerational Learning Center | Office DA
8 Container Farmhouse | Loo: Linoldhamoffice
In the Margins | Urbanrock Design
i don't even know where to get the goddam magazine anymore (in LA).
i went to henessey & ingalls yesterday to get it so i could see the p/a winners only to find out they don't carry it anymore. the lady working was just as suprised as me. what the fuck?
I'm not sure, but it really is a shame that was once a pretty high honor from a respected publication (Progressive Architecture) is now being sullied by a low-grade trade journal. I think the award still has some weight, but the magazine really is horrible.
Actually it's really difficult to find the magazine anywhere nowadays. I was actually shocked to find out that there was STILL a magazine around. I thought that Archit just "stopped".
it looks like they ran out of good projects. the umbrella of the LA plan was a huge mistake. it has nice enough graphs but requiring that the other winners fit in was counterproductive.
they are not anonymous at all; the winning projects rarely haven't been seen by the public yet. the same people who win them every year all know the jury, the jury already knows all of their projects....
some one very important and very connected to the 'inner circle' explained to me after he won how he already knew he was going to get it....
It seems like the magazine just died once Reed Kroloft quit. The new layout is just incredibly difficult to follow, and most people I know thought it was a different magazine altogether until the P/A issue came out.
Also, I thought P/A Awards had to be given to projects that have a real client and that are going to be built eventually. I guess they bent the rules?
joe bloggs...
i think more suspect is the fact that typically there
are at least three or four harvard-related projects...
(either went there or teach there)
i know morphosis, office da, kennedy violich etc are
good firms, but it seems odd to me that they win so
consistently...and many of the jurors in the past seemed
to have a harvard association as well
P/A Awards 2005
I was wondering what people's thoughts were on this years awards.
As far as I'm concerned this is the only reason architecture exists anymore. They didn't break their new 100 page limit on the magazine, and made a good choice to not include anything else in this issue.
I thought the L.A. Now project was worthy of an award, and I actually liked the idea of using that project as a framework on which to base the rest of the awards.
I'm not convinced that the jurors really held the citations to that standard though. I think the Neil Denari project was an interesting project, but I'm not convinced it really fit into the guidelines the jurors set up for themselves. Is it really that hard to admit a project was cited because it was an interesting formal excercise in temporary architecture?
who won? didnt see the mag yet.
I don't have the magazine in front of me, and god forbid that piece of crap magazine ever update their website, but there was one award that was for an architecture/urban design project called L.A. Now (3) ( I guess there were two previous phases, I hadn't heard about it) that was headed partly by Thom Mayne.
There were 5 or 6 citations.. As I mentioned above Neil Denari got one, but I don't recall the other offices.. maybe someone has it in front of them??
i dont get it anymore. it was really is a piece of shit. i couldnt even find creative uses to recycle it unless i guess if i was camping in the woods. dual use then. william mcdougagh would be proud.
LA Now 2
the winners...
Award
L.A. Now : Volume 3 | UCLA Dept. of Arch. and Urban Design
Citations
2:1 House | Iwamoto Scott Architects
Perth Amboy High School | John Ronan Architect
Troia | Neil Denari Architects
Intergenerational Learning Center | Office DA
8 Container Farmhouse | Loo: Linoldhamoffice
In the Margins | Urbanrock Design
i don't even know where to get the goddam magazine anymore (in LA).
i went to henessey & ingalls yesterday to get it so i could see the p/a winners only to find out they don't carry it anymore. the lady working was just as suprised as me. what the fuck?
so what does it say about the winners when the mag is so shitty?
I'm not sure, but it really is a shame that was once a pretty high honor from a respected publication (Progressive Architecture) is now being sullied by a low-grade trade journal. I think the award still has some weight, but the magazine really is horrible.
Actually it's really difficult to find the magazine anywhere nowadays. I was actually shocked to find out that there was STILL a magazine around. I thought that Archit just "stopped".
it looks like they ran out of good projects. the umbrella of the LA plan was a huge mistake. it has nice enough graphs but requiring that the other winners fit in was counterproductive.
that rag is on its deathbed.
It smells like the monday sushi special!!!!!!! Watch your guts!
p/a awards hold no value anymore....
they are not anonymous at all; the winning projects rarely haven't been seen by the public yet. the same people who win them every year all know the jury, the jury already knows all of their projects....
some one very important and very connected to the 'inner circle' explained to me after he won how he already knew he was going to get it....
It seems like the magazine just died once Reed Kroloft quit. The new layout is just incredibly difficult to follow, and most people I know thought it was a different magazine altogether until the P/A issue came out.
Also, I thought P/A Awards had to be given to projects that have a real client and that are going to be built eventually. I guess they bent the rules?
joe bloggs...
i think more suspect is the fact that typically there
are at least three or four harvard-related projects...
(either went there or teach there)
i know morphosis, office da, kennedy violich etc are
good firms, but it seems odd to me that they win so
consistently...and many of the jurors in the past seemed
to have a harvard association as well
i agree with you. i hate the layout of that scrawny little rag .
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