The accelerating cycles of scientific and technical change in recent decades have disrupted the conventional rhythms of apprenticeship and entrepreneurship at the ages of the contemporary citizen, drawing young people more deeply than ever into transformative currents. Architecture is one of the most visible arenas of this shift. Me'mar magazine, in order to participate constructively in this current, will hold a series of student architectural competitions to bring to public view the creativity, innovation, and fresh modes of expression of young architects — and will publish the selected works.
This Issue's Competition: Iran 1400 Memorial
Where will Iran stand in the year 1400? Where will nearly half a century of efforts leading to the threshold of the fifteenth Hijri-Solar century place the Iranian people, culturally? How does the young architect look upon this horizon, and with the imaginative power of architecture, how do they envision it? Memorials are usually devoted to the past; the Iran 1400 Memorial goes out to meet the future.
- The siting of the memorial — anywhere in the country — and its function (purely commemorative, or for example administrative, commercial, or cultural) is at the designer's discretion.
- Required elevations, perspectives, and plans are to be presented on a single board measuring 100 × 70 cm.
- The jury consists of: Mr. Mehdi Alizadeh, Mr. Seyed Hadi Mirmiran, Mr. Bahram Shirdel, and Mr. Ali-Akbar Saremi.
- Entries must be submitted to the magazine's office by the end of Mehr 1377.
Selected works will be published in the magazine, and a Memar certificate of appreciation along with one year's free subscription will be awarded to their creators.
Announcement: 2nd National Student Congress
Esfand 1377 — The 2nd National Student Congress on Architecture and Urban Planning, convened for the broadest possible exchange of views among students from different faculties, will be held in the city of Shiraz.
According to the published announcement, this gathering — in collaboration with the country's architecture and urban-planning faculties — takes a particular interest in the problems of architecture in the contemporary era, organized along the following themes:
- Criticism: what methods and characteristics define the process of seeing, sensing, thinking, and evaluating?
- Architecture and People: a vision of Iranian architecture in the year 1400 (this entry is to be presented graphically on a single 100 × 70 cm board).
Special Competition: design of the Fars Cultural Complex in Shiraz.
- First Prize: commemorative plaque and 4 million rials
- Second Prize: commemorative plaque and 3 million rials
- Third Prize: commemorative plaque and 2 million rials
Submission deadlines: abstract by 1 Mordad 1377; full paper by 1 Mehr 1377; competition project by 1 Azar 1377.
The organizing committee comprises: the Governorate of Fars, the Fars Studies Foundation, the Young Architects' Society of Fars, Shiraz Municipality, Islamic Azad University Shiraz Branch, the Scientific Research Committee of the Architecture Faculty, the Department of Culture and Islamic Guidance of Fars Province, the Housing and Urban Development Organization of Fars Province, and the Construction Engineering Organization of Fars Province.
Secretariat of the 2nd Congress:
Shiraz, P.O. Box 71365-1315
Fax: 7143851
Tel: 0710-46020
Introducing the Works of Young People and Students
In a section of "New Seeds" in each issue, a selection of works and activities by young people and students — in architecture, industrial design, sculpture, photography, painting and other fields — will be introduced.
Projects submitted to domestic and international competitions, works in progress or completed, pieces shown in individual and group exhibitions, and research projects will be presented to readers on these pages.
Students and young people may send news of their activities, together with visual documentation, to the magazine's office; for further information, telephone 870-6576.
Volunteer Correspondent
The "New Seeds" section invites students from architecture faculties across the country to collaborate as volunteer correspondents.
Thesis Project Introductions
In each issue, in the "New Seeds" section, Me'mar will introduce selected theses from among the projects received at the magazine's office.
Graduates of architecture and industrial design programs who wish to have their thesis projects introduced in the magazine are invited to send images of their work, together with a brief description, to the office of Me'mar magazine.
