YOUNG ARCHITECT CONFERENCE 2019

You may be wondering what is Young Architect Conference? This is a Conference that join future leaders in the profession of architecture and community to discuss and explore topics of Leadership, Connection, and Service within architecture. For four days, we will interact, engage, and inspire each other.
 The conference provides a platform for young architects, emerging professionals, architecture students, and architecture graduates mingle.

Young Architect Conference 2019

This will be  a 3-Day Conference with keynotes in the morning, workshops in the afternoon, and parties at night. This conference was created with Young Architect in mind. This years the events will take place from Friday 23th August to Monday 26th August 2019.

These Workshops will be offered in three “tracks”; Studying, Testing, and Practicing.  The tracks are meant to be of guidance and not required to follow. Feel free to select any of the workshops that you feel you would benefit most from.

Architecture Student:  Geared towards students starting out.

Emerging Professionals: Not a student and not a Licensed Architect.

Young Architect:  Within the first 10 years of licensure.

Venue for The Conference

The Young Architect Conference will be hosted at The Redd, 831 SE Salmon St., Portland OR 97214. The center of Portland’s bustling Eastside neighborhood, home to converted warehouses, mixed-use buildings, and some of the city’s best restaurants and hotspots. 

This is the "real" Portland. Where Portlanders live, work, and play. The conference will expand over several buildings, campus-style, with The Redd being the hub.

Please note you have to be registered to participate.

How to Register for YAC.

You can register by visiting the venue or you can also register online. 

To register online, CLICK HERE.

Project Igloo for the homeless by Iglou

Project Igloo is a attempt by Iglou to provide accommodation to the homeless. It is not a solution to the homeless problem because such a solution is multifaceted. Igloo however help.
The project is initiated by Iglou a Non governmental organization in France.
Many homeless faced the harsh whether of the winter. Some get sick and died. An Igloo is not a decent building a but a good chance to feel warm in the winter.

The igloo project is a meeting between a social challenge and a technical challenge.

What is an Igloo?

Different prototypes of Igloo.

The igloo is an innovative
insulated shelter , designed to protect homeless people in winter. 

You may wonder how how Igloo work. The Igloo works by using human heat as sole heating, it can raise the temperature up to 15 ° C for a single person, and up to 20 ° C for a couple , compared to the outside. When it's -5 ° C outside, a couple can sleep in at around 15 ° C. 

The Characteristics of the Igloo

1. It is fire resistant. 

2. It is foldable, it can be folded and unfolded in a matter of seconds.

3. Natural ventilation has been optimized to help renew indoor air without losing too much heat.

4. It is very hygienic, it is easy to clean.
5. It is very comfortable, large enough to fit two people.
6. Easily to move from place to place.

The origin of the Igloo

According to the originator, Igloo is a desire to solve a social problem using  technical measures. The maker said 

. I had the chance to study and learn the basics of heat in my engineering school. This allowed me to do modeling and thermal simulations of a shelter that can be heated passively. The choice of materials was also decisive: it had to be resistant, insulating and cheap. Other constraints were added during the meetings with associations: fire resistance, transportability, etc. The test phase of last winter allowed us to make adjustments thanks to the first feedback from users.

How to support The Igloo Project

The project is initiated by an NGO and it is supported by volunteers. However you can help build an Igloo for the homeless by donating to the project. To make a Donation CLICK HERE. The next distribution of Igloo will be in December, and your donations will help humanity.

The 2019 Wheelwright Prize is now accepting applications

Wheelwright Prize

The WheelWright  prize is design for “talented early-career architect to support travel-based research.”

This annual prize is dedicated to fostering new forms of architectural research informed by cross-cultural engagement.

The 2019 Wheelwright Prize is now accepting applications; the deadline for submissions is Sunday, January 27, 2019. 

The Wheelwright Prize is open to emerging architects practicing anywhere in the world. The primary eligibility requirement is that applicants must have received a degree from a professionally accredited architecture program in the past 15 years. An affiliation to the GSD is not required. Applicants are asked to submit a portfolio, a research proposal, and a travel itinerary that takes them outside their country of residence. Finalists will be asked to travel to the GSD for finalist presentations on March 14, 2019.

History 

In 2013, Harvard GSD recast the Arthur W. Wheelwright Traveling Fellowship—established in 1935 in memory of Wheelwright, Class of 1887—into its current form. Intended to encourage the study of architecture outside the United States at a time when international travel was difficult, the Fellowship was available only to GSD alumni. Past fellows have included Paul Rudolph, Eliot Noyes, William Wurster, Christopher Tunnard, I. M. Pei, Farès el-Dahdah, Adele Santos, and Linda Pollak.

Jury

An international jury will be announced in January 2019. In addition to Dean Mostafavi and Professors K. Michael Hays and Jorge Silvetti, previous juries have included Jose Ahedo, Edward Eigen, Frida Escobedo, Mark Lee, and Michelle Wilkinson (2018 jury); Gordon Gill, Mariana Ibañez, and Gia Wolff (2017 jury); Rafael Moneo, Kiel Moe, Jeannie Kim, Benjamin Prosky, and Eva Franch i Gilabert (2016 jury); Craig Evan Barton, Preston Scott Cohen, Sarah Herda, and Elisa Silva (2015 jury); Iñaki Ábalos, Sílvia Benedito, Pedro Gadanho, Linda Pollak, and Shohei Shigematsu (2014 jury); Yung Ho Chang, Farès el-Dahdah, Farshid Moussavi, and Zoe Ryan (2013 jury).

Application

Applicants will be judged on the quality of their design work, scholarly accomplishments, originality or persuasiveness of the research proposal, and evidence of ability to fulfill the proposed project. Applications are accepted online only, at wheelwrightprize.org. Finalists must be available to travel to Cambridge, Massachusetts, for finalist presentations on March 14, 2019, at the GSD. A winner will be named in spring 2019.

Benefits

The Wheelwright Prize is a $100,000 travel-based research grant that is awarded annually to early-career architects who have demonstrated exceptional design talent, produced work of scholarly and professional merit, and who show promise for continued creative work.

> The winner will be selected via an open call for proposals and a rigorous review process. The winner of the Wheelwright Prize will receive:

• $100,000 cash prize to support travel and research-related costs
• > invitation to lecture at Harvard GSD
• > possibility to publish research in a Harvard GSD publication

• How to Apply.
• The whole application process is done online. Please note you can only apply as an individual. To apply first you need to check if you are eligible. Click here to if you are eligible. If you are, you may proceed to apply HERE.

 Material from wheelwrightprize.org has been used in this article.