New York CityVision Architecture Competition 2012

CityVision Architecture Competition is an annual competition held by the homonymous journal of architecture CityVision Magazine that invites architects, designers, students, artists and creatives to develop urban and visionary proposals with the aim of stimulating new ideas for the contemporary city.

CityVision is an architecture laboratory with the aim of generating a dialogue between the contemporary city and its future image. It’s a way to explore the reality and the future of architectural design thanks to an editorial project, CityVision magazine; the organization of international architecture competition, CityVision competition; events and lectures, CityVision events.

All through innovative ideas and methodologies that can improve the connection between the historical, contemporary and future city vocation, thus promoting a positive evolution of the critical architectural historiograph. Globalization, environmental concerns, new economic and cultural politics, adaptability to the existing context combined with the use of vibrant ideas, original technologies and new softwares for representation are some of the key elements that should be taken into account to formulate the most original project proposal.

New York CityVision Competition: Nature and Purpose of the Competition
If the future is gone, what past is expecting us? Try to imagine New York in its future if the manipulation of the urban context and its architectural objects, joined with its inhabitants, will be influenced by SPACE and TIME.

In the formulation of your project proposal, you can follow one of these two themes, or combine them:
1. From past to future
What went wrong? Imagine the city of New York from manipulation and time deviation of a critical phase of its past and rewrite a new and correct future with consequent changes to the natural ecosystem, social and architectural history of the city.
2. From future to past
An anachronistic future? Imagine New York City starting with the already compromised future – accepting the failure of our futuristic aspirations – and describe your idea of a city of tomorrow that will have to come to terms with the relentless advance of technology and the parallel regression of the social life of its inhabitants, but that has a great opportunity to really change the system by replacing all that is outsourcing into insourcing. More suggestions and special reports can be read and extracted from the PAST SHOCK project that you can find inside the editorial of this issue and through the website pastshock.tumblr.com.

Procedure of Participation
The architectural competition in a single phase. Participation in the competition is open to architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives worldwide. Individual or group entries are permitted. The indication of a group leader is required. Temporary groups are allowed especially if they are multi skilled. Being multi-skilled is an important characteristic because it can help to understand and to better represent a global vision of the city.

Language
The official competition language is English. CityVision will also provide a competition brief in Italian but the final proposal must be submitted only in English.

Registration
Architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives are invited to take part in this competition. Temporary groups are allowed especially if they are multi skilled. Being multi skilled is an important characteristic because it can help to understand and to better represent a global vision of the project.

More information > www.cityvision-competition.com