AMD and Architecture for Humanity today announced the Open Architecture Prize, a $250,000 prize for designing a technology center in the developing world that can be adapted to meet local needs in underserved areas. Unlike traditional prizes in architecture the award will be used to build the winning structure and the competition is set to launch later this year.
The competition will be run through the Open Architecture Network and open to registered members of the network. Once selected the winning designer will fly to the selected site to meet with the community for implementing the structure.
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It's amazing how fast things can move now. This tech center could be operational in 21 months. Fifty percent of the world on the internet by 2015. What Cameron and Kate have done in 8 years is incredible.
The Wired article does use the term "blueprints" in that way that I find both adorable (for its innocent ignorance) and frustrating (for the same reason).
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