[Scpg] California Architectural Foundation 2011-12 William Turnbull Competition/Drylands Design

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

California Architectural Foundation 2011-12 William Turnbull Competition
Posted April 1, 2011 12:00 AM by Terrence Murphey    

CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION
2011-12 WILLIAM TURNBULL COMPETITION
Drylands Design - An Open Ideas Competition for Retrofitting the American West
The California Architectural Foundation, in partnership with the Arid 
Lands Institute at Woodbury University and the AIACC Academy for 
Emerging Professionals, announces the 2011-2012 William Turnbull 
Competition: Drylands Design: An Open Ideas Competition for 
Retrofitting the American West. Design teams are invited to generate 
progressive proposals that suggest to policy makers and the public 
creative alternatives for the American west, ideas that may be 
replicated throughout the world.

Effective design strategies for sustaining the US West in the face of 
water scarcity and hydrologic variability brought on by climate 
change require reaching beyond traditional disciplinary and 
jurisdictional boundaries. Recognizing that the west requires new, 
integrated architectures, infrastructures, and urbanisms that promote 
adaptation and resilience, Drylands Design seeks innovation in 
architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, regional 
planning, and infrastructure design. Teams are invited to address 
water supply, water quality, water access, and the interdependency of 
water and energy. Drylands Design seeks visionary proposals from 
multidisciplinary design teams that anticipate science and policy 
perspectives as necessary dimensions of intelligent design response, 
and exploit beauty as an instrument of resilience and adaptation.

The competition brief and registration details will be available in 
mid April 2011. The competition will be conducted from August through 
mid-December 2011, and is open to all architects, landscape 
architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, educators, students 
and others interested in arid lands issues. Awards will include 
multiple prizes in two categories: Professional and Student Teams 
selected from the Professional category will receive research grants 
to develop and present their work at the Arid Lands Institute's 
Drylands Design Conference in March 2012.

Bill Liskamm, FAIA, will serve as Competition Advisor you may contact 
him via email at turnbullcomp at gmail.com for additional information.

The Organizers
The California Architectural Foundation (CAF), the outreach arm of 
the AIA California Council, is dedicated to the advancement of 
sustainable communities through support of research and education. 
CAF is assisted in implementing this competition by the AIA 
California Council Academy for Emerging Professionals.

The Arid Lands Institute (ALI) at Woodbury University, Burbank, CA, 
is a self-sustaining education, research, and outreach center 
dedicated to issues of aridity, climate change, and the design of the 
built environment. The mission of ALI is to train designers, leaders, 
and citizens to be resourceful and inventive in employing integrated, 
low-carbon watershed planning and design strategies in the West. For 
more information, see: aridlands.woodbury.edu

CAF + ALI have joined together to provide leadership in an area 
critical to California's and the west's future. Through lectures, 
workshops, design competitions, exhibitions, and a major conference 
showcasing design excellence at the nexus of water, energy, and 
climate change, ALI and CAF are committed to promoting high-impact 
strategies for water- and energy-smart design at multiple scales: 
infrastructure, landscape, urbanism, and architecture.

For more information, visit the Competition website at 
http://www.caf-e.org/og.htm
Or contact:
Bill Liskamm, FAIA
Competition Advisor
turnbullcomp at gmail.com
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