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Submission: 5 July, 2023
Registration: 30 June, 2023
Language: English
Prizes: Please see the details below
Type: Essay

 

Archiol has organized this first edition of the Building Material essay competition to understand the various types of building material used in architecture.

“The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Continue reading

Submission: 5 May, 2023
Registration: 30 April 2023
Language: English
Location: Mars
Prizes: Please see the details below
Type: Open

 

Archiol has organized this second edition of the Sensory architecture essay competition to understand the impact of architectural spaces on human senses.

“The elements of architecture are not visual units or gestalt; they are encounters, confrontations that interact with memory.” -Juhani Pallasmaa Continue reading

Submission: February 28, 2022
Registration: February 28, 2022
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Writing competition

 

Essay Writing Contest, 3rd Cycle is the Nineteenth initiative of the Architectural Journalism & Criticism Organization founded by architect Pappal Suneja to spread awareness about this subject and sow the seeds of inspiration to explore and write about Architecture and allied fields from an explorer’s perspective. Theme for the Series in this cycle is ‘Travel & Photography’.

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essay writing travel and photography

Submission: October 30, 2021
Registration: October 30, 2021
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open, Writing

 

Essay Writing Contest, 2nd Cycle is the Seventeenth initiative of the Architectural Journalism & Criticism Organization founded by architect Pappal Suneja to spread awareness about this subject and sow the seeds of inspiration to explore and write about Architecture and allied fields from a thinker’s perspective. Theme for the Series in this cycle is ‘Architectural Precedents’

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architecture precedents

Submission: June 27, 2021
Registration: June  27, 2021
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Essay Writing Competition

 

Theme for the Series in this cycle is ‘Design Interpretations’. A fundamental portion of architecture constitutes design interpretation: the art of conveyance of the basic ideology and theme behind the development of a design form, rather eloquently. So too in poetry, the spine of a theme branches out into its many abstractions, extrapolations embellished with nuance in eloquence. Even though poetry is a string of one breath, one exhalation, it embodies subconscious designing.

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Call For Entries Architectural Poetry Competition, 4th Cycle Design Interpretations

Submission: July 04, 2021
Registration: July 04, 2021
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Essay Writing Competition

 

Essay Writing Contest, 1st Cycle is the Sixteenth initiative of the Architectural Journalism & Criticism Organization founded by architect Pappal Suneja to spread awareness about this subject and sow the seeds of inspiration to explore and write about Architecture and allied fields from a thinker’s perspective.

Theme for the Series in this cycle is ‘Reimagining Architecture as a Cognitive Space’ – from Product to Process.

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Essay Writing Contest Reimagining Architecture as a Cognitive Space Open Call

Submission: March 24, 2021
Registration: March 22, 2021
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

The Healing Power of Art is a 2021 art and writing competition organized by booksolt. Art enhances the well-being of the individual, this essay and design competition aims at understanding art therapy and the process of creating art that transforms our mind. Booksolt is looking for a conceptual artwork and write-up submission on the healing power of art. Continue reading

healing power of art

Submission: February 01, 2016
Registration: February 01, 2016
Language: English
Location: Essay
Prizes: to be announced
Type: Open

 

“Spatial immensity beggars designation. Immensity itself fails, vastness and other common terms fail… Five hundred years into the settlement of…America by Europeans and Africans, intellectuals, and designers especially, lack words for bigger than big. An unwholesome, stubborn refusal to confront the immensities of the continent, indeed the immensity of the continent itself…” –John R. Stilgoe, “Wuthering Immensity” Continue reading