d3 Housing Tomorrow 2012 Exhibition

The ‘d3 Housing Tomorrow’ exhibition opened on March 26th at the Mississippi State University School of Architecture Giles Hall Gallery. Running through April 20th, the exhibition features winning submissions and selected projects from the 2012 international architectural design competition. ‘d3 Housing Tomorrow’ invited architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, and students worldwide to envision alternative residential design solutions. The annual competition called for proposals that collectively explore, document, analyze, transform, and deploy innovative approaches to residential urbanism, architecture, interiors, and designed objects. The competition calls for transformative solutions that advance sustainable thought, building performance, and social interaction through study of intrinsic environmental geometries, social behaviors, urban implications, and programmatic flows. Concurrent with sustainable thought, the d3 Housing Tomorrow competition assumes that architecture does not simply form, but rather, perform various functions beyond those conventionally associated with residential buildings. The competition allows designers freedom to approach their creative process in a scale-appropriate manner, from large-scale master planning endeavors, to individual building concepts, to notions of the interior realm and industrial design. Although there are no restrictions on site, scale, program, or residential building typology, proposals should carefully address their selected context. The MSU exhibit was co-curated by Alexis Gregory, Assistant Professor at the Mississippi State University School of Architecture; and Gregory Marinic, Director of Interior Architecture and Assistant Professor at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture/University of Houston. d3 is a New York-based organization committed to advancing innovative positions in art, architecture, and design by providing a collaborative environment for artists, architects, designers, and students from around the world. Founded in 2008, its program of exhibitions, events, competitions and publications is focused on generating dialogue and collaboration across geographic, ideological, and disciplinary boundaries in art and the built environment. d3 extends its sincere appreciation to the Mississippi State University College of Architecture, Art, and Design; Mississippi State University School of Architecture, Enocente Bosques, Ted Hughston, Amanda Kroll, Javier Marcano, Pedro Martinez, Rigo Moreno, Scott Penman, and Matt Robinson.