We hope you, your students, firms, and colleagues will consider entering the design competition co-sponsored by ALI + CAF (see attached).

• There is a student and a professional track.

• The competition is open to multiple disciplines, from anywhere in the world.

• Sites are to be located in the US West.

• Submissions are due December 15.

• Winning entries will be awarded research grants + developed for presentation at the Drylands Design Conference, Burbank, March 22-24, 2012

The full brief + jury list will be posted by the AIA/California this week.

April 2011

CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURAL FOUNDATION
2011-12 WILLIAM TURNBULL COMPETITION

Drylands Design - An Open Ideas Competition for Retrofitting the American West

The California Architectural Foundation, in partnership with the Arid Lands Institute at Woodbury University and the AIACC Academy for Emerging Professionals, announces the 2011-2012 William Turnbull Competition: Drylands Design: An Open Ideas Competition for Retrofitting the American West. Design teams are invited to generate progressive proposals that suggest to policy makers and the public creative alternatives for the American west, ideas that may be replicated throughout the world.

Effective design strategies for sustaining the US West in the face of water scarcity and hydrologic variability brought on by climate change require reaching beyond traditional disciplinary and jurisdictional boundaries. Recognizing that the west requires new, integrated architectures, infrastructures, and urbanisms that promote adaptation and resilience, Drylands Design seeks innovation in architecture, urban design, landscape architecture, regional planning, and infrastructure design. Teams are invited to address water supply, water quality, water access, and the interdependency of water and energy. Drylands Design seeks visionary proposals from multidisciplinary design teams that anticipate science and policy perspectives as necessary dimensions of intelligent design response, and exploit beauty as an instrument of resilience and adaptation.

The competition brief and registration details will be available in mid April 2011. The competition will be conducted from August through mid-December 2011, and is open to all architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, engineers, educators, students and others interested in arid lands issues. Awards will include multiple prizes in two categories: Professional and Student Teams selected from the Professional category will receive research grants to develop and present their work at the Arid Lands Institute’s Drylands Design Conference in March 2012.

Bill Liskamm, FAIA, will serve as Competition Advisor you may contact him via email at turnbullcomp@gmail.com for additional information.

ARID LANDS INSTITUTE
Woodbury University
7500 Glenoaks Boulevard
Burbank, CA 91510
818. 394 3335 T
818. 767 8851 F

aridlands@woodbury.edu
www.aridlands.woodbury.edu
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