{"id":13885,"date":"2015-02-24T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/architizer.wpengine.com\/van-alen-design-comeptition-survey\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T11:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T15:48:24","slug":"van-alen-design-comeptition-survey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/architizer.com\/blog\/practice\/tools\/van-alen-design-comeptition-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Van Alen Institute Asks: How Can We Improve Design Competitions?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The design competition can be a sensitive nerve in the architectural brain.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s hard to decry the notion of an merit-based way to award projects and showcase new ideas, design competitions, much like buildings, must be well-made. A poorly-built competition can fail just as surely as a poorly-built structure. That&#8217;s why the Van Alen Institute (VAI), in partnership with Architectural Record and support from the Graham Foundation, has launched a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveygizmo.com\/s3\/1985034\/The-Architectural-Record-Van-Alen-Institute-Competition-Survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">design competition survey for architects<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>With more than a century of experience holding design competitions, and a broad mandate to advance the design discipline, the VAI aims to use this survey as advocacy for architects and researchers everywhere. Acknowledging the growing number of design competition, as well as their increasingly complex and cross-disciplinary nature, VAI&#8217;s Director of Competitions Jerome Chou says &#8220;We feel it is important to highlight the interests of designers in these processes, as these are sadly not always fully considered&#8230; We want to hear how they would improve on the status quo \u2014 and we\u2019ll focus on other stakeholders in competitions (such as government officials and nonprofit advocates) in future surveys.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\n\t<img class=\"lazy\"\n\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/blog.architizer.com\/wp-content\/themes\/architizer\/assets\/images\/blank.png\"\n\t\tdata-src=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1424711521722Andrea-Marby-Future-Ground-Working-Session.jpg?fit=max&#038;w=1680&#038;q=60&#038;auto=format&#038;auto=compress&#038;cs=strip\"\n\t\t\t\t\tdata-srcset=\"https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1424711521722Andrea-Marby-Future-Ground-Working-Session.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1680&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1680w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1424711521722Andrea-Marby-Future-Ground-Working-Session.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=1080&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 1080w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1424711521722Andrea-Marby-Future-Ground-Working-Session.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=760&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 760w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1424711521722Andrea-Marby-Future-Ground-Working-Session.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=625&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 625w,https:\/\/architizer-prod.imgix.net\/media\/1424711521722Andrea-Marby-Future-Ground-Working-Session.jpg?fit=max&amp;w=368&amp;q=60&amp;auto=format&amp;auto=compress&amp;cs=strip 368w\"\n\t\t\tsizes=\"(min-width: 1680px) 1680px,(min-width: 1080px) 1080px,(min-width: 760px) 760px,(min-width: 625px) 625px,368px\"\n\t\t\t\talt=\"\u00a9 Andrea Mabry\"\n\t\titemprop=\"contentUrl\"\n\t>\n\t<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Andrea Mabry<\/p>\n\t<\/div>\n\n<p><b>The Van Alen Institute&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanalen.org\/elsewhere\/competition\/future-ground\/\">Future Ground<\/a> competition. All photos by Andrea Marby.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The survey, found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveygizmo.com\/s3\/1985034\/The-Architectural-Record-Van-Alen-Institute-Competition-Survey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, is anonymous and a few lucky participants will be awarded with gifts such as a $200 MoMA Design Store gift card or a Nespresso espresso maker. The survey is open until 5pm on March 2, 2015. Detailed rules and FAQ can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanalen.org\/survey\/Rules-FAQ.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here [PDF]<\/a>. Once the survey is concluded, the results will be announced and discussed at a Design Competition Conference to be held at the Harvard GSD, April 23\u201324, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute hosts a short survey quizzing architects and designers on the current state of design competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"architizer_featured_type":"projects","architizer_featured_image":"1098370","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[],"architizer_project":[],"architizer_brand":[],"architizer_firm":[],"architizer_product":[],"class_list":["post-13885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-practice","category-tools"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Van Alen Institute Asks: How Can We Improve Design Competitions? 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