The National Gallery of Victoria is accepting submissions for the 2022 edition of the NGV Architecture Commission Competition from Wednesday, 20 October.
The annual commission is selected via a two-stage national competition, in which architects or multi-disciplinary teams are invited to submit a design that is “thought-provoking, issues-led, relevant and resonant and that can, in a non-didactic way, facilitate or instigate conversations, dialogue, immersion, or reflection.”
The 2021 commission, a pink pond installation designed by Taylor Knights in collaboration with artist James Carey, will open in November.
The gallery said that design proposals “can be many things,” including a performance space, a work of speculative architecture, a landscape intervention, a place designed for playful interaction, or an immersive space for reflection.
“While titled an architecture commission, it is an important ambition of this annual site-specific commission that it continues to offer the opportunity for architecture to be enacted in the broadest sense,” a statement from NGV reads. “To this end the gallery specifically invites design proposals that promote collaboration and multi-disciplinary thinking. Proposals should demonstrate the capacity of design to actively engage the community.”
The first stage of the competition calls for anonymous “high level design proposals,” of which up to five will be chosen to proceed to a paid second stage.
The five shortlisted submissions will be further developed and refined in stage two, for presentation to the competition jury. The jury will select a winner, who will be commissioned by the NGV to complete the design development and delivery of the 2022 NGV Architecture Commission.
The 2022 jury comprises Don Heron (chair, assistant director exhibitions management and design, NGV), Amaia Sanchez-Velasco (lecturer at the School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney), Linda Cheng (editor, ArchitectureAU), Michael Banney (founding director, M3 Architecture), Mel Dodd (head of Department of Architecture, Monash University), and Rachel Nolan (founding director, Kennedy Nolan).
Registrations for the competition are now open.
Source: Architecture - architectureau
