LA+ Interruption

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  • Type: Open Competition, Landscape Architecture Competition

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In 1979 in Rome an event titled Roma Interrota was held by the Italian Incontri Internazionale d’arte. It assembled 12 renowned architects, with each assigned a panel from Giambattista Nolli’s 1736 plan of Rome and invited to “interrupt” the plan with their own architectural intervention. The event is a landmark with regard to issues of contextualism; that is, questions of how, in the wake of modernism, the new fits in with the old or, as the case may be, doesn’t.

Some five decades later it is safe to say that urban designers pay much more attention to context than they generally did prior to 1979. Indeed, the raison d’etre of landscape architecture since then has been to fit in with and enhance the existing ecology and culture of a place – to consolidate “a sense of place.”

Instead of just a stage for 12 famous white male architects, LA+ is creating a platform for anyone to take an established city or place and design their own INTERRUPTION within it. You can site your interruption anywhere and, if necessary, remove anything to make way for it. It can be an artwork, a garden, a building, a space, a thing, a barrier, an ambience, an opening, a catalyst, a performance, a program, an institution, an intervention, a folly… It can be any scale and it can be anywhere.

All you need to do to enter your design is provide a plan, a concept image, and supporting imagery along with a short statement explaining the what, why, where, how, and benefit/s of your INTERRUPTION.

Requirements / Eligibility

Submission / Key Dates

ENTRY PLATFORM OPENS

January 10, 2022

SUBMISSION DEADLINE

July 1, 2022 at midnight (US Eastern Time)

WINNERS ANNOUNCED

August 31, 2022

WINNERS + SELECTED ENTRIES PUBLISHED

The LA+ INTERRUPTION issue will be published in Spring 2023.

For more details, visit LA+ Interruption.

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