by: Camila Schaulson Frenz
2015 Oculus Editorial Calendar
The Oculus 2015 Editorial Calendar has been set. If you are an architect in practice or by training, or see yourself as an astute observer of New York’s architectural and planning scene, Oculus wants to hear from you! You may submit projects/topics from anywhere, but architects must be New York-based. Please submit story ideas/projects by the deadlines indicated below to Kristen Richards, Hon. AIA, Hon. ASLA: kristen@ArchNewsNow.com.
Spring 2015: President’s Theme: “Dialogues from the Edge of Practice” A look at how innovative practices are boldly enlarging the purview of the architect, expanding beyond the traditional scope of practice with new services and revenue models, new modes of collaboration with other disciplines, designing new computational tools to better create design, etc.
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 11.07.14
Summer 2015: AIANY 2015 Design Awards
Submission deadline: 02.06.15
Fall 2015: “Home” (In conjunction with the Housing Exhibition + Archtober)
Housing progress report/report card: whether market rate or affordable, is it living up to our expectations for design, community integration, environmental responsiveness? For affordable and low-income housing, is innovation helping us hit the number of units New York City needs? Continuing controversy about “inclusionary” housing (80/20 and such). Off-site/modular construction. BSA Housing Awards. (To include input from social scientists, urban anthropologists, psychologists, etc.)
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 05.22.15
Winter 2015: “Makers in a Digital World” or “Architecture & the Digital World”
How we present and build what we do: 21st-century visual representation, mapping, big data. Life-cycle of a building: an idea, draw it, digitize for CNC milling machines, construct, share via Instagram, etc. Cooper-Hewitt tech “pencils”; etc.
Deadline for story ideas, projects: 08.14.15
10.30.14: Request for Qualifications: Van Alen Institute’s National Parks Now: Designing the 21st Century National Park Experience
10.31.14: Call for Nominations: The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation’s Built by Women NYC (BxW NYC)
10.31.14: Call for Submissions: Architect’s 62nd Annual Progressive Architecture Awards
10.31.14: Call for Papers: 52nd International Making Cities Livable Conference on Achieving Green Healthy Cities, June 29-July 3, Bristol, UK
10.31.14: Call for Entries: ArchMedium’s Lisbon Open Room Competition
11.01.14: Call for Essays: 2014 Berkeley Prize Student Essay Competition – Architects Confront Poverty
11.01.14: Call for Entries: Dead Prize – To recognize the bad, honor the failures, and hopefully do something to rectify designs against humanity in engineering, architecture, and design that have had a negative impact on the planet
11.01.14: Call for Applications: The American Academy in Rome’s 2015 Rome Prize
11.03.14: Call for Applications: The Center for Architecture’s Stewardson Keefe LeBrun Travel Grant
11.03.14: Call for Entries: 2014 AIA Small Projects Awards
11.03.14: Call for Entries: The Architect’s Newspaper 2nd Annual Best Of Design Awards
11.10.14: Call for Entries: 2014 AIANY Committee on the Environment (COTE) Awards
11.14.14: Call for Entries: Knight Cities Challenge: idea must focus on one or all of three key drivers of city success: attracting and retaining talent, expanding economic opportunity, and creating a culture of robust civic engagement
11.18.14: Call for Entries: eVolo 2015 Skyscraper Competition
11.30.14: Call for Entries: Architecture for Humanity Toronto/LifeCorps Food Share Hub Ideas Competition
12.03.14: Call for Entries: AIA COTE Top 10 for Students: 2014-2015 AIA COTE/ACSA Student Design Competition
12.09.14: Call for Entries: The Bruner Foundation’s Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence (RBA)
12.12.14: Call for Entries: Blank Space’s Fairy Tales 2015: Second Annual Architecture Storytelling Competition
12.15.14: Call for Entries: US Department of Energy 2014 Race to Zero Student Design Competition
11.20.14: Call for Entries: Design Corps and the Social Economic Environmental Design Network’s Fifth Annual SEED Awards for Excellence in Public Interest Design
12.05.14: Call for Entries: Winter Stations – Reimagine Toronto’s Winter Waterfront
12.20.14: Call for Entries: Livable Cities’ International Making Cities Livable Design Awards Competition: Designing for Green, Healthy Cities
12.31.14: Call for Entries: Villeroy & Boch and ArchDaily North American Designer Bathroom Challenge