Stanford joins several other Bay Area universities in reversing course on fall in-person instruction and housing plans, including the University of San Francisco and UC Berkeley. Santa Clara University last week became the latest to announce online fall plans and suspension of campus housing. In May, the California State University system was the first to announce it would cancel most in-person classes and begin the fall semester with distance learning at all 23 of its campuses, affecting about , students.
Stanford still intends to begin the fall quarter one week early, on Sept. It had invited only freshmen, sophomores and new transfer students to come in the fall, juniors and seniors in the winter and spring quarters, then freshmen and sophomores back in the summer.
Firstly, it is a rare opportunity for me to think in different ways from the normal work in school. Secondly, I am pretty interested in designing the flamingo observation tower. Min Liu from China!
Participating in conceptual architecture competitions offers the opportunity to escape from the strict limitations that a real commission carries and allow for exploring freely new ideas.
Furthermore, they often give architects the opportunity to expand their experience and portfolio on non-conventional projects that extend internationally beyond the regions of a country. Panagiotis Dimakidis and Rafail Gkaidatzis from Netherlands!
We target specific subjects that help us expand our portfolios and where we can implement our research in complex geometries and sustainable design. Bryan Fan and Shelley Xu from Australia! Hiroyuki Gondo from Japan! It is a perfect opportunity to let our imagination go, and to do research about cultures, architecture, materials, and so much more.
We probably want to be challenged a bit and feel the adrenaline of a short-term project. Moreover, vision competitions allow us to imagine a poetic vision for a project and gives us the opportunity to develop more theoretical ideas, which is mostly neglected in traditional competitions. They force you to explore different concepts and cultures and simply are an amazing experience in themselves.
Agata Mila from Poland! They are driven by concepts and vision, providing the freedom to experiment. They are refreshing, motivating and remind me why I started studying architecture. Margaux Loubser from South Africa!
Taking part in this competition was a great opportunity for us to explore a new typology, context and approach. Katharina Kocol and Olga Bialczak from Germany! It is a way for us to practice agile thinking, a chance to play, a way of developing a collective thinking and of connecting to a larger international architecture community.
We always enter with the goal of winning. It is also an excellent opportunity to re-evaluate yourself and compare your ideas with architects from all over the world with a much larger variety of design strategies and ideas than you could ever find in a single university or work environment. Daniel Brigginshaw from United Kingdom!
The work produced in these competitions is a good way to explore new ideas in a public forum which may go on to inspire others in their own design work.
Joseph Watkins from United Kingdom! For instance, Mandira has wanted to design and build a meditation cabin for a very long time. A prospective client with a site, a program of requirements with room for change, and a deadline challenges her out of her comfort zone to do it. Mandira Sareen from United States! Nicholas Horvath from United States! Competitions are to architecture as peer review is to other fields; a competition can be a testing ground for design ideas before they are implemented.
Andrii Koval and Olha Laktionova from Ukraine! In general, it is a good way to present your new ideas about the topical issues on architecture to a broader public. They provide the freedom for testing alternative ideas.
David Florez and Stefani Zlateva from Austria! It not only allows us to see other approaches to one single topic but also gives us a chance to work purely on our terms without any limit to creativity, which we find extremely stimulating as thriving architecture students. A simple question posed to a room of creatives will bring an abundance of different responses, all correct in their own interpretation.
By truly including nature and society in the question, projects can only be improved. And we discovered, the sky is our limit. It has always been important to me to participate.
I treat myself with a competition praline once in a while. It makes me happy! It is not just about to solve the task. Malin Persson from Sweden! Architectural design takes a long time. However, in the realm of competitions, our creative spirit can manifest much quicker. The competition challenges us to test ideas and rethink convention.
In most cases the topics are very interesting and most of the time there are no limits for your ideas and thoughts. So you can do nearly whatever you like and try the concept of your dreams. And of course because we like doing it. It is also a challenge to engage with a subject rarely encountered in everyday practice.
Likewise, we believe that being participants of this exchange of different points of view enriches the professional formation of those who dare to do so. The matter was interesting so we thought we should give it a try.
Additionally it was a great opportunity to practice the design process. Learning by doing, right? Jinsoo Kim and Dalya Ortak from Germany! Aleksandra Kubiak and Marta Buchner from Poland! This particular mindset challenges your ability to develop conceptual approaches and strengthen your ability to communicate your proposal.
Florent Sauvineau from France! In our day-to-day practice, we miss having the freedom to have a complete control over the vision. Competitions are a chance to show that we care about it and we want to show what our vision is. We also find it essential as a learning tool to look at how other architects face, and resolve the same problems. Brent Winburn and Lachlan Joseph from Australia! Vision competitions are the perfect place to test and build a conceptual model of organic design ideas that can influence research and real projects in future.
With utopia as a connecting line, it allows us to develop a discourse which is not dependent on time, allowing us to discuss pure shapes and spaces. Bastiaan Muilwijk and Paul Ouwerkerk from Netherlands! I love the freedom to push the boundaries of design and to explore futuristic concepts of form, space and technology. The majority of us will lose that vision when leaving school and entering the workforce, but these competitions allow us to rekindle why we wanted to be an architect in the first place.
Jon Carag from United States! This is a unique opportunity to question programmatic and contextual issues that are often complex. The variety of proposals put forward by the various candidates also allows them to see their own approach to the project in perspective, and learn from it. Alessandro Pupillo from United States! It educates designers to deal with different ecological and social problems through architecture. It is a learning process of framing complications and devising good solutions.
Experience from competitions help us grow as designers, in the words of Frank Lloyd Wright "talent is good, practice is better, passion is best. Shahrzad Nasiri and Ben Chang from Canada! We are always open for discussion and are ready to share our vision and experience with others. This particular one provoked us to answer questions such as: what is a shelter nowadays? What is the minimal area for living? What does it mean to share a space with others?
Architecture idea and vision competitions provide a unique opportunity to explore concepts between building and landscape in a more speculative context, and they can be a very effective way to allow younger architects and interns the chance to immediately impact the design process.
It is a way to pick a different architectural program or object, and try something you really wanted to do but you just never did before. Ana Rita Gomes from Portugal! We spend free time with a common passion, we do not only enjoy our time but also develop crucial skills like creative thinking.
Weronika Kogut and Karolina Toporkiewicz from Poland! Competitions allow you to work freely. Christian Schunke and Anna Bugoslavska from Germany! A place where we can try our creativity and brains to put together a powerful concept. A liberation of the constraints and time consuming day-to-day tasks. They offer possibility to challenge yourself, compete with others, familiarise yourself with different sites and communities, analyse other points of view on the same subject, while working together with your colleagues.
Also we like to have an area where we can express our interest in parametric design techniques. While daily practice is incredibly rewarding, competitions such as this offer a chance to exercise my mind and explore design problems that I might not otherwise have the opportunity to delve into. They provide me the opportunity to research and explore a place and context that I may not otherwise have explored.
I enjoy that. And I enjoy seeing other solutions to the same problem. Jeffrey Clancy from USA! To achieve this, each new project must be faced with accuracy, curiosity and the will to surprise and be surprised. It is a possibility for young architects to find our positions and communicate through well-articulated projects. James Mak from United Kingdom! These competitions stress the importance of conceptual design and research that challenges the profession to create more dialogue.
It's a journey through which we give our best, hopefully to contribute on the subject, and at the same time, it gives back to us. We improve ourselves, and we get even more motivated and passionate to prepare for the next journey.
I also firmly believe that each competition I have submitted to date somehow represents at least a step towards a learning curve, affecting my practice and teaching deeply. On another level, I do so in order to join conversations about what is possible through architecture and learn from the international architectural community.
Tien Chen from United States! Schools are training us for the professional world, so we will have a very certain theme and specific requirements which can be constraining sometimes. Competitions give me more freedom and control to think about architecture problems and it is fun. Zihao Wei from Canada! This can be both small design tasks, and large conceptual works, for example, the concept of territory development. Participating in contests brings up such important qualities for the architect, such as the ability to quickly switch from one task to another and the ability to complete work on time.
Gabdrakhmanova Ilsiyar from Russian Federation! It is an incredible chance to step away from conventional means of execution, and channel a different point of view to a broader audience. It facilitates the change in the profession through exposure and discussion, as well as one's professional growth. Competitions are the chance to take a pure functional or architectural thought and extrude, develop and test it in isolation from forces of the market place, community expectation and client requirements.
To exercise our creativity. To explore our creative identity in a space that is free of the constraints that we usually have to contend with. Competitions are where we have the freedom to implement what we believe without too many constraints. Besides, it give us the opportunities to expand our professional network and potential collaboration. Kevin Pham and Alex Hoang from Australia! We appreciate the democratic nature of competitions and the platform it offers to express ourselves and make us better architects.
Our designs are informed by research and the concerns of the context. However, we enjoy the flexibility vision competitions offer in flexing the creative muscle.
When I had some freedom to design, but at the same time respecting certain parameters of design, i had the opportunity to design from the other side of the world for a place that has been recognized worldwide for having great potential in every field, and was the gateway to the new look of architecture.
Banny Fabian Sandoval Salinas from Chile! It gave us the opportunity to test the tools we have learned during our degrees in the real world without the restrictions of a university assignment. These competitions are good exercises, to experiment but also to be aware of the reality of the demand. It's also a way to choose projects that really inspire us and develop a creative process with more liberty than your usual client. We view these competitions as a way to improve ourselves and to widen our knowledge.
It is also a great experience to work in a team and add to everyone's experience and background to the proposal. Julie Tse from New Zealand! Lanxin Zhong from China! We decided to do design competitions to allow the creative juices to flow and expose ourselves to a project that we would not find within our client base.
Katarzyna Formela from Poland! William Maddinson from United Kingdom! These competitions give us a site and context to visualise our ideas, put them to test and help us better understand the strengths and weaknesses of each iteration. We also use the competition format to test ideas, techniques, and various modes of representation - formal explorations, new software, image making and graphic representation. We understand competitions as a testing ground for new ideas and as a method to challenge preconceptions about our world.
We decided to enter this competition in particular because the housing crisis is a very palpable, very complex issue. Living in London and especially working in architecture, we see every day the tension the housing crisis causes in the city. It formed part of the collective research of the design unit I am studying with bartlettu13 and for somosaldea.
Robert Newcombe from United Kingdom! It gives opportunities to take another position and point of view which changes how we see things in a new way and boosts our creativity. But our motivation is not only intrinsic, at the same time we want to share our knowledge and our research by participating in vision competitions. The answers given to this typology are unfortunately based on simplified assumptions, repeated standards and uninspired architecture.
Medina Dzonlic and Daniel Andersson from Denmark! And vision competitions have exactly this kind of connotation. Moreover, it is also very important to confront what you are doing in your practice and research with what many other peers are doing. I wish I could have the opportunity to hear the voice from them, to receive all the comments and criticism from them, which is extremely essential to any architecture proposals. We are building for people.
Lianjie Wu from United Kingdom! A vision competition gives us the opportunity to embrace our creativity. Also, it is an opportunity to take over the challenge of dealing with a very unique site and brief.
Joana Correia and Guillaume Boitier from France! We believed it was a chance to create new culture by design for this project. Alex Kirschstein and Clemens Berresheim from Germany!
And a good idea for the concept which came at the very beginning gave us the motivation to participate. It also enhances our knowledge in assimilating and learning the new culture and development. Nathira Haja from Malaysia! Since I love nature, I try to pick competitions which allow me to show the impact of nature on architecture design and vice versa. I perceive such competitions as an important input in a professional career and a priceless contribution to my personal growth.
Fernando Alonso Tuero from Spain! Moreover, we believe that it kick-starts our careers and gives us exposure in the design and architecture world. Seeing other entries for the same competition allows us also to learn and grow by seeing other points of views and solutions designed for the same project.
Alessia Falcini and Christelle Maalouf from Italy! Participating in such a competition helps us reflect on issues that are crucial in the broader context, yet something we typically do not encounter in our daily lives in the metropolis. Kahara Mori from Japan! Participation in competitions allows us to be involved in the new history of architecture and to be in the context of its development. Jeffrey Clancy from United States! Guillem Roca Canals from Spain!
Perhaps most importantly they offer a fun excuse to practice how we illustrate and explain our ideas — both graphically and verbally — which is critically important for the success of a small firm. I have chosen to participate because I felt the urge to extend the ideas and interests that were aroused from my studies. This specific competition was appealing to me because it combines my interests of architecture and music, in a country I love. Robert Leslie Hillman from Australia!
We feel that competitions allow us to think in new ways, examine our process and explore alternative means of graphic communication. We spent a lot of time prior to entering the competition arguing about everything under the moon. The competition was a way to take our two different personalities and see what cohesive idea could come out of it.
It was a great way to put arguments on paper. Competitions are an opportunity to step away from external demands and rediscover what is important to us. Ideally this resonates with others, and we see how others responded to the exact same parameters. Cultural venues are a building typology that interests us deeply because of the clear connection between people, place, events history and identity.
Dealing with such interesting topics has a very refreshing effect on the everyday-work and on our community as well. Of course we are also driven by the opportunity to realize our ideas, but a competition provides freedom, both in research, design development, detailing and presentation techniques. It is also an interesting way to learn about the world.
Through this project for example, I discovered an array of fascinating facts about Iceland and its history, whilst also learning about state of the art construction materials and building technologies. Madina Zhazylbekova from Kazakhstan! It helps to facilitate the change in the profession through exposure and discussion, as well as one's own professional growth. I am sure that developing my imagination has improved the quality of my daily work in the office. We consider these opportunities unequalled chances to present our conversation with context as a pure manifestation as a designer could expect.
The challenge to be met is even bigger when you know that there are many young talents who participate. Moreover, it goes about a competition that enjoys great international visibility.
Beyond all this, the personal challenge is to excel while having fun. Francois Bodlet from Belgium! With this we concluded that every assignment, also within the profession, should be approached in this way. Keep a fresh mind on what architecture can mean or express. Marilu de Bies and Simon Wijrdeman from Netherlands! They test your understanding of various architectural challenges while at the same time offering you different narratives on different societies and places, and the impact design has on them.
The research process, collaboration and execution are a learning process. A fun one to be sincere. Joseph Mwaisaka from Kenya! Competition usually puts architects in a position of searching for questions before coming up with a solution.
These are interesting moments for experimenting. Besides everything else, it is a way to put in act new collaborations, like our team did. Guido Mitidieri and Venessa Mok from Finland! They offer a good platform to experiment new ideas and explore different approaches to architecture. Coetzee, a trained mathematician who worked for IBM. When you read his work—even though his subject matter is not mathematical—you can immediately distinguish his capacity for ordered, rigorous, and implacable thought.
Do you always write in a specific place? And do you think your geographical location has an impact on your writing process, or on the finished product? IM: Tangentially, yes. I was born in Mexico City, and after I moved with my parents to the state of Puebla, I always nursed a desire to go back. So I have two ways of looking at the Distrito Federal: with the eyes of a child and with the eyes of an outsider. Which do you prefer: the process of writing a novel or the process of writing a short story?
Do you think the two experiences can be compared? The experiences of writing one genre or another are radically different. Short stories and novels have incompatible genetic codes. Because of that difference, sometimes you have to escape from the novel to taste a different flavor. Do you think we need more novelists specifically, rather than more poets, short story writers, etc.?
Public backing is critical to the success of anticorruption reform efforts. Yet communications intended to mobilize the public against corruption often backfire, making audiences less engaged and less confident the problem can be solved. To better understand this problem, the Open Society Foundations recently sponsored an international research effort led by the Topos Partnership to better understand how residents of three countries—the United States, North Macedonia, and Brazil—think about corruption in the public sphere, and how best to engage them in efforts to combat the problem.
In each country, ethnographers spoke at length with roughly people, followed by internet surveys testing different kinds of messages. Not surprisingly, findings across the countries are distinct in various interesting ways. Macedonians, for example, often have a sense that their country lags behind other European countries, and they may also look back nostalgically at the Yugoslav era when things seemed to run more predictably. But despite these important differences, there are also important similarities across the three countries.
Criminals like to use cash because it is widely accepted, anonymous, and virtually impossible to track. Paying bribes in cash, for example, may be less risky than using more easily traceable electronic transfers. For this reason, many countries have enacted, or are considering, legislation restricting the use or possession of cash in large quantities.
The bill would leave the implementation and enforcement to the Brazilian Financial Intelligence Unit COAF , which would also have the power to adjust the threshold amounts. Back in , after Odebrecht admit t ed to paying millions of dollars in bribes in Mexico, a Mexican special prosecutor determined that in Lozoya, then the newly-minted Pemex director, awarded Odebrecht several lucrative contracts in exchange for bribes.
The parallels between Lava Jato and investigation into Pemex are obvious, and many anticorruption advocates, both inside and outside of Mexico, were hoping for something similar. Indeed, court-watchers now fear that Lozoya and those he named will escape any real consequences. While many factors have contributed to this disappointing result, an apparent lack of enthusiasm and commitment from AMLO and his government has played an important role.
There is no longer any doubt that corruption does enormous harm — to individuals, businesses, governments, and whole societies.
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