Just wanted to know if it is worth trying to win it. Even if you win, I don't think it gives a potential for getting projects from real world clients? Please keep in mind that I don't want to discuss about this competition on the ground of "generating idea."
Anon_grad2.0
Aug 18, 18 4:41 pm
it's not that type of competition...
If you only want to enter the competition because it could lead to potential client ( it won't), then you've already missed the point of it.
As much as you don't want to discuss it, it is an ideas competition, nothing else. Some gal pals and I entered it and were shortlisted, eventually our project was published. That's it, nothing else will come of it.
Some people will argue about the merits of pay to play type competitions, but at the end of the day, you always have a choice about competing or not
monosierra
Aug 18, 18 6:31 pm
You might get more traction with competitions that deal with pressing urban issues of our time e.g. housing, resilience. Such proposals, if rendered with imagination and integrity, could draw the attention of the mainstream press.
randomised
Aug 19, 18 2:52 am
First have to win it before you start worrying about follow-up projects and commissions ;)
appleoranges
Aug 26, 18 10:46 am
Thank you All for your inputs. So far no comments from first prize winners yet, which I intended to hear when posting this thread.
10974ks---
Aug 26, 18 11:12 am
I won the competition
10974ks---
Aug 26, 18 11:21 am
I have more clients than I know what to do with now.
Spoons
Aug 26, 18 11:25 am
Another winner here. Sorry we all get together just once a week to read archinect together in the hopes of someone posing a que
stion directly to us.
AlinaF
Aug 26, 18 5:07 pm
7/10.
appleoranges
Aug 26, 18 5:23 pm
In fact, I am a past winner of the competition. Hence the question. Surprisingly any of my clients never knew about my winning until I told them. Even then, I still have to tell them what the competition is about. I guess this is the end of my foraging for an answer about the competition.
10974ks---
Aug 26, 18 7:23 pm
Why didn’t you say so. We would have invited you to the group meetings
SpontaneousCombustion
Aug 26, 18 8:57 pm
Why would you expect clients to have heard of the competition or know what it's about? It's run by a journal that is geared toward architects, students, and academics. I have a box full of architecture awards, and have yet to hear mention from a client about of any of them, ever. It's like if your dentist expected you to know when he wins an award from the Journal of Dentistry. The client is never the target audience of industry-focused awards.
randomised
Aug 27, 18 11:30 am
I wouldn't trust a client that contacts you because of this particular competition, they would have unrealistic expectations and want you to build floating buildings exactly like the fancy renderings and diagrams :-)
Just wanted to know if it is worth trying to win it. Even if you win, I don't think it gives a potential for getting projects from real world clients? Please keep in mind that I don't want to discuss about this competition on the ground of "generating idea."
it's not that type of competition...
If you only want to enter the competition because it could lead to potential client ( it won't), then you've already missed the point of it.
As much as you don't want to discuss it, it is an ideas competition, nothing else. Some gal pals and I entered it and were shortlisted, eventually our project was published. That's it, nothing else will come of it.
Some people will argue about the merits of pay to play type competitions, but at the end of the day, you always have a choice about competing or not
You might get more traction with competitions that deal with pressing urban issues of our time e.g. housing, resilience. Such proposals, if rendered with imagination and integrity, could draw the attention of the mainstream press.
First have to win it before you start worrying about follow-up projects and commissions ;)
Thank you All for your inputs. So far no comments from first prize winners yet, which I intended to hear when posting this thread.
I won the competition
I have more clients than I know what to do with now.
Another winner here. Sorry we all get together just once a week to read archinect together in the hopes of someone posing a que
stion directly to us.
7/10.
In fact, I am a past winner of the competition. Hence the question. Surprisingly any of my clients never knew about my winning until I told them. Even then, I still have to tell them what the competition is about. I guess this is the end of my foraging for an answer about the competition.
Why didn’t you say so. We would have invited you to the group meetings
Why would you expect clients to have heard of the competition or know what it's about? It's run by a journal that is geared toward architects, students, and academics. I have a box full of architecture awards, and have yet to hear mention from a client about of any of them, ever. It's like if your dentist expected you to know when he wins an award from the Journal of Dentistry. The client is never the target audience of industry-focused awards.
I wouldn't trust a client that contacts you because of this particular competition, they would have unrealistic expectations and want you to build floating buildings exactly like the fancy renderings and diagrams :-)