Schools’ Exhibition
The open call for TAB 2019 international Architecture Schools’ Exhibition IS CLOSED.
Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2019 Architecture Schools’ exhibition ”Terribly Beautiful!” investigates school as a facility for getting (terribly) lost and making (terrible) mistakes. The best school project is not necessarily the one rated with the top grade, but the one that restructures it’s author by taking them to unknown path prone to failure – a crucial part of creative process.
TAB International Architecture Schools‘ Exhibition is part of TAB Main Programme and includes the latest work of academic institutions that teach architecture in various parts of the world. TAB 2019 Architecture Schools’ Exhibition is curated by young Estonian architects: Merlilin Kaup, Margus Tammikand Ulla Alla and will be exhibited in September 2019 at Estonian Academy of Arts gallery.
What is a school project about?
Should one’s work find it’s finalisation through solving a problem set up by the professors? Or should it doubt the problem itself and the value systems constituting it?
Is there a space in the academia, above all, to really explore, or are we expected to diligently perform the task given with known methods?
In school at the evaluation usually the final result is considered by the committee of critics, not the process of the work. The most defining moments of the process – including emotional lows and production of ”junk” are often not seen even by the supervisor.. s are the moments that actually teach us the most.
A school project seeks to be acclaimed, compared to a mainstream practice. Just like diligence, work that does not fear failure, challenging the problem setup itself, also deserves acknowledgement.
What are we looking for?
We are mostly interested in projects that hide a sinuous process and tell a story in which we can see author’s state of mind, personality and value systems.
These can be projects that might be concidered as a failure by the academia, but have a strong core idea that meets the the author’s belief system; unfinished projects that have the potential and allure in them, evoking imagination to continue the open-ended story; completely random projects that you would not dare to show your professor; projects, that turned out in the end to be good..in the end.
Terms and Conditions
Open Call targets current students, practicing architects and everyone else who has ever studied in architecture school. DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF
Timeframe
The Competition consists of 3 stages:
1st Stage– we ask students to send
us their most explorational, wild works. We expect it digitally in a
format it was originally presented and accompanied by a short
personal statement (max A4) about the background of
the project.
Works to be submitted via e-mail to schools@tab.ee
Deadline: 18.03.2019
2nd Stage – A number of works will be
selected to the second round with whom the curators will continue to
work individually. The authors are asked to explore and analyse
meta-context surrounding the project, open up about their value
judgements and origins, work methods and thinking techniques.
Deadline: 01.06.2019
3rd Stage – workshop in Tallinn. The goal is to add a new layer to the project based on analysis and reflections from the stage 2. Workshop takes place in the beginning of September.
Exhibition opening: September 11 2019. In the final exhibition the initial work, analysis, reflections and
new layer will be presented as a continuous story.
Curators/Jury
Margus Tammik, Merilin Kaup, Ulla Alla
Q&A
Q&A Questions are to be submitted via email to schools@tab.ee by February 11 2019.
Q&As will
be published on the competition page www.tab.ee/schools-exhibition/