Vera W. de Spinadel Award 2018 FREE ARCHITECTURE COMPETITIONS

Vera’s Mathematic World invites undergraduate and postgraduate students world-wide to discover

and interpret new applications to design based on the proportions proposed in the Metallic Means

Family developed by Dr. Vera W de Spinadel.

VMW’18 invites all those who understand that the application to design of the proportion system

resulting from the Golden Mean, the Silver Mean, the Bronze Mean, the Copper Mean and / or

the Nickel Mean helps to create shapes that increase the beauty and harmony of the product.

The creations sought may belong to any discipline that is dedicated to design in an inclusive and

comprehensive sense as understood by Dr. Spinadel. We use the word Design in its broadest

sense, that is, a Design is a project resource that constitutes a basic element in interdisciplinary

communication between human beings, be it architectural, graphic, visual or sound, as well as any

other simple or combined interaction.

The Vera W. de Spinadel International Award will be given to the project that achieves the greatest

creative innovation in its discipline and will allow the creative artist or designer who proposed it

to entry an Internship in the Global Studio of Zaha Hadid Architects in London with all expenses

covered by Vera’s Mathematic World Movement.

With great pleasure we share with VMW ‘18 Friends the inspiring words of the

Architect Patrik Schumacher , who will generously open the doors of the Studio Zaha Hadid Architects and Zaha Hadid Design to the winner of this international event: “The role of  Mathematics within Architecture started since the inception of architecture in particular in the Renaissance and continues to be a cutting egde element to empower Architecture and Design.”

Open call: 6 May 2018

Mathematical questions: until 15 June 2018

Registration: until 31 July 2018

Project deadline: 22 August 2018

International jury: October 2018

Award ceremony: November 2018 and Exhibition Opening

All submitted works will be displayed in the Journal of VMW Blog individually; one day, one creative. Likewise the 50 best works will be locally and globally publish in massive media channels of architecture and design. The Vera W. de Spinadel 2018 Award has the support of the architecture section of the Clarín newspaper and the Architecture Magazine summa+

Martha Fajardo – Bogota, Colombia

Landscape designer, Activist Cofounder of Grupo Verde

Initiator of LALI The Latin American Landscape Initiative

Mina Marefat – Washington, USA

Designer, Historian, Researcher, Lecturer

Design Research Director

Lecturer at Georgetown University

Paola A. Zellner Bassett – Blacksburg, USA

Architect, Researcher, Lecturer

International Archive of Women in Architecture (IAWA)

School of Architecture + Design, CAUS Virginia Tech College of Architecture and Urban Studies

Mariana Renjifo – New York, USA

Architect

National University of Colombia – Pratt Institute

Associate architect at/in Grimshaw Architects

Gina Urazan Razzini – London, United Kingdom

Architect, Designer, Artist

National University of Colombia – University College London

Lisa Schmidt-Colinet – Vienna, Austria

Architect, Filmmaker, Lecturer

Cofounder Partner of schmidt-colinet • schmoeger

Lecturer & Deputy Director of the Institute for Art and Architecture of the Academy of Fine Arts

Mª Auxiliadora Gálvez Pérez – Madrid, Spain

Architect, Artist, Lecturer

Lecturer at the EPS Faculty of Architecture San Pablo C.E.U-Madrid

Director of Platform of Somatics for Architecture and Landscape (PSAAP(L)