I'm just curious about the role competition work figures in your life - if you participate. (not only arch, but design etc) do you play to win, use it as an opportunity to develop a personal tangent but with a purpose, or is it just for a challenge?
finalist once. honorable mention once. won three. built one of the 3.
not at all a waste of time but clearly i only enter to win. was going to do the guadalaja lib but estimate 700 picked up package [lets say 400 enter], fee to do the project is not enough to do it, and for other reasons, decided the program is far to presciptive. this one would enter only if all i would break all the rules as the master plan sucks but decided with all the stuff they wanted, i wasnt willing to play the odds.
not actually winning is clearly ok as i learn so much in doing it.
we typically play to push our research agenda, and hope that the product resonates with the jury. sometimes 'winning' can happen beyond the sphere of the competition. in one case a project made the cover of a magazine a couple years after the competition. to this day i stll meet people who think we won.
the competitions are productive because the research tends to affect the built work.
we are doing the guadalajara library now.......ted, i agree the program, with its strict division of departments, is very prescriptive. i have had a difficult time getting into the project until recently.
the odds are very long, but we are interested in chasing library projects. if you have no experience, a competition can be an important component of a marketing package or an interview.
"a competition can be an important component of a marketing package or an interview. "
are you referring to personal marketing/interview portfolio? I will be graduating at the end of the month (from your undergrad alma mater, if this is who i think it is...we interviewed you when you lectured/did the gallery thing a year or so ago), and although I have little experience, I have participated in a handful of competitions (including winning a recent local competition).
My curiosity is how to market this experience, and others, to prospective employers. Having an atypical background has so far seemed more hindering than helpful in my entry-level job search.
how about you?
i guess this is not so much a question about winning, so much as process, intent, and getting into the head of those of you that do this kind of work.
re: libraries, they seem to have reached fetish status, in the wake of digital information, no? i read somewhere 'libraries are the new black' which was pretty funny. whatever.
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Have you ever won competition work?
I'm just curious about the role competition work figures in your life - if you participate. (not only arch, but design etc) do you play to win, use it as an opportunity to develop a personal tangent but with a purpose, or is it just for a challenge?
or do you think they are a silly waste of time?
finalist once. honorable mention once. won three. built one of the 3.
not at all a waste of time but clearly i only enter to win. was going to do the guadalaja lib but estimate 700 picked up package [lets say 400 enter], fee to do the project is not enough to do it, and for other reasons, decided the program is far to presciptive. this one would enter only if all i would break all the rules as the master plan sucks but decided with all the stuff they wanted, i wasnt willing to play the odds.
not actually winning is clearly ok as i learn so much in doing it.
and how do you find the time to do this? do you work on your own?
honorable mention twice.....won one.
we typically play to push our research agenda, and hope that the product resonates with the jury. sometimes 'winning' can happen beyond the sphere of the competition. in one case a project made the cover of a magazine a couple years after the competition. to this day i stll meet people who think we won.
the competitions are productive because the research tends to affect the built work.
we are doing the guadalajara library now.......ted, i agree the program, with its strict division of departments, is very prescriptive. i have had a difficult time getting into the project until recently.
the odds are very long, but we are interested in chasing library projects. if you have no experience, a competition can be an important component of a marketing package or an interview.
plexus:
"a competition can be an important component of a marketing package or an interview. "
are you referring to personal marketing/interview portfolio? I will be graduating at the end of the month (from your undergrad alma mater, if this is who i think it is...we interviewed you when you lectured/did the gallery thing a year or so ago), and although I have little experience, I have participated in a handful of competitions (including winning a recent local competition).
My curiosity is how to market this experience, and others, to prospective employers. Having an atypical background has so far seemed more hindering than helpful in my entry-level job search.
did you work on projects of that scale (or gound up) before competing?
anotherquestion........who are you asking?
how about you?
i guess this is not so much a question about winning, so much as process, intent, and getting into the head of those of you that do this kind of work.
re: libraries, they seem to have reached fetish status, in the wake of digital information, no? i read somewhere 'libraries are the new black' which was pretty funny. whatever.
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