Coinciding with the 2013 Sydney Architectural Festival, the next generation of architects will showcase their visions and ideas as part of this year’s Open Agenda competition.
Open to recent Australian and New Zealand graduate architects, the competition is being sponsored by Sydney architectural studio Scott Carver for the second year running.
“‘It’s a chance to look up from our desks and look over the horizon,” said Scott Carver Director, Bob Perry, who is also one of the judges of the Open Agenda competition.
“Recent graduates are not yet streamed into a particular practice, yet are qualified to think deeply and have the time and the passion to do so. Some of the things young architects are thinking about are quite shocking!”
“Because the competition is not about a particular project, it stretches the thinking, and new streams of activity come from that. It also helps nudge the graduates towards who they want to become as architects,” said Mr Perry.
The three winners of the 2013 Open Agenda competition include an Iranian Australian currently in London, Samaneh Moafi, whose entry examines the architecture of encampments, from refugees to nomads.
Lucy Warnock’s Architectural Espionage and the Panopticon reflects on the impacts of digital surveillance in the city, while David Neustein’s Self-Obliterating Architecture featured as one of its images an erased drawing of the Sydney Opera House, fitting given the three winners presented their ideas at a Design Symposium held there as part of the Opera House 40th Anniversary celebrations.
Each of the winners received $2,000 seed funding to further develop their design research proposals, with a view to public exhibition and publication.
An exhibition showcasing the winners runs from Saturday 2nd – Friday 8th November, at the Former Paramount Pictures Building in Surry Hills, Sydney.
