EVENT SPACE / ARCHIVE Video! Competition #5

As Bernard Tschumi argues that there is no space without event, perhaps the best way to show us your world is through the experiences within it. Film yourself, your colleagues, your school, and your world to show us your life in architecture. In three minutes or less, give us a video response to one of these subjects below and you could win $100 and be profiled in the final ARCHIVE exhibition.

ADay in the Life
Reviews, classes, studio life, and all nighters-- architecture students live an intense, collective, transformative experience that also makes them wear black and drink a lot of coffee. What is the unique experience of being in architecture school? Show us a day in your life. You can show us a whole day in three minutes or just the highlights. Submission tag: "Video Life"

My Summer/Winter Vacation
On break, some people go to the beach. Some people go to Disneyland. Architecture people are more likely to end up on an endless tram ride to explore an a eighty year old housing project. What did you do this summer: pedal through Rotterdam on study abroad? Build Habitat for Humanity at home? Visit the early work of Marcel Breuer? Slave on a competition because you just can't help yourself? Get as far away from the built environment as humanly possible? Show us your life outside of school. Submission tag: "Video Vacation"

In the Margins
While studios, classes and reviews are the core of architectural education, extracurricular events deepen the experience. Schools are full of lectures, exhibit openings, conferences, and field trips, as well as AIAS get-togethers, CSI's Canstruction, design build projects, late night TA queries, lounge area discussion, and solar decathlon. What experiences round out your education? What's it like to work in a group? Where does debate really happen? Show us the HIVE of your ARCH. Submission tag: "Video Event"

The Call
Renowned chef Anthony Bourdain has described eating a raw oyster when he was nine and discovering that food would be the center of his life. It seems often we don't pick architecture, it picks us. Describe the moment architecture grabbed you. Maybe it was a place, a person, a city or a building? Maybe it was a meaningful experience on a review or in class? Submission tag: "Video Call"

The Definition
Sometimes the simplest questions are the hardest to answer. Ask candidates why they want to be president. Ask reality stars what they do. Answer ours: what is an architect? Someone who designs pretty buildings that have two means of egress or algorithmically swarms co-citational systems? Describe what you want to do as an architect. Submission tag: "Video Definition"

Competition requirements:
The Event Space competition is open to faculty, students, or anyone affiliated with a school of architecture in the US and Canada. Videos must be no longer than 3 minutes in length and can only answer one of the five questions above. Entrants may answer more than one question, but they must be in separate videos. Videos can be submitted by individuals or groups. At the end of each video, entrants must say their name, school, and year or title straight to camera. Video format must be Quicktime at 640 x 480 pixels in size with high quality compression. To submit, you must upload your video to Vimeo or You Tube and submit it through ARCHIVE as an "Event." Make sure to include the subject tag in the tag line exactly as shown. ***REVISED DEADLINE! Deadline is midnight EST January 30, 2012.***

Winners:
Five to ten finalists will be selected by the ARCHIVE creative team and ACSA staff to win $100 and a copy of Joan Ockman's forthcoming book on architecture education as well as featured in the final ARCHIVE exhibition. A set of honorable mentions will also be selected and featured. Video entries will be reviewed and selected by the curator and creative team. For further questions, contact [email protected].

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UPDATE: The deadline has been revised to midnight EST January 30, 2012.