Eye Line 2

When RIBA J launched Eye Line last year, 250 of you entered, from all over the world. Clearly their idea – that this award should recognise the pure art of architecture, as distinct from functionality or buildability – struck a chord.  And  it was notable that everyone from well-known practitioners to as-yet-unknown students entered.Of course: the one thing that unites all architects of all persuasions is the depiction of a concept. And if that depiction takes on a life beyond its subject matter, so much the better.
 
Last year’s overall winner was Tom Noonan, part 2 graduate at Hawkins\Brown, with his extraordinarily detailed and intriguing work ‘Reforestation of the Thames Estuary’  a manifesto design which verged on both the obsessive and sublime. Tom joins us as a judge this year.  Also on the panel are artist Susanna Heron, artist and architect Narinder Sagoo of Foster + Partners, architect and visiting professor Alan Dunlop and  RIBA Journal Editor Hugh Pearman.

Rules
The rules are very straightforward. As last year, RIBA J want to find the best representations of a building design or concept through visual means. Any medium is allowed – hand-drawn or via keyboard, collage or any combination or overlay of methods. It can be ultra-detailed, close to abstraction or photo-realistic, whatever: it’s up to you. The work must have been produced within the three years up to April 2014, and must not previously have been entered for Eye Line. Entries should be two-dimensional artworks – They will not consider movies, photographs of models or strong relief – but within that constraint we will judge all methods and media equally. There is a maximum of three individual pieces  per entry. Size of the original work is irrelevant, but we cannot handle originals and so require a digital version of the work in medium-resolution JPEG form for entry.

Send via a file-sharing service such as Dropbox, Hightail or similar. 
Do NOT send email attachments and do NOT send original artwork. Please make sure you include your email and postal addresses and phone number with your file transfer message.
 
They shall devote the August issue of the RIBA Journal to this, in which we will publish the winners.

Deadline for submissions: Monday 9 June 

Late June: Judging and shortlisting.
August: Special issue of RIBA Journal, winners published, celebration party.

Get sending in your work right away, don’t wait until the last minute.
 
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