Purpose & Background

Landscape architects are creating the framework for Australia’s future growth. The Unlandscaped prize, an initiative of Landscape Architecture Australia, is an opportunity to demonstrate the untapped potential of the profession.

The annual program is open to landscape architects, graduates, students and other built environment professionals and students who are invited to enter their unrealized projects, propositions and scenarios. A cash prize of $3000 is offered.

Entry Submissions

Entry submissions will be accepted from 17 January through to 10 March, 2011.

Eligibility

Landscape architects, landscape architecture graduates, landscape architecture students and other built environment professionals and students are invited to submit eligible projects. Eligible projects must demonstrate their contribution to Australian landscape architecture by being either:

a) a project that is for or about Australia, or
b) a project by an Australian-based practice, regardless of the location of the project, or
c) a project by an AILA member, regardless of the project or practice location.

Entries are encouraged from individuals, groups, partnerships and those working in larger practices. Entered projects must be unrealized as of 28 February 2011.

Entries can be proposals that are intended to be realized, or they may be theoretical explorations that exist on paper or in electronic format.

Entries can be for works of any scale or type.

Recognition

A cash prize of $3,000.

The jury may make honourable mentions at their discretion.

Winning projects will be published in the May 2011 issue of Landscape Architecture Australia, online at www.architecturemedia.com/unlandscaped/, and in other Architecture Media publications such as Architecture Australia and Architectural Product News.

Award winners will receive a certificate and use of the Unlandscaped logo for printed and promotional materials (on request).

Prize Presentation

Entrants will be invited to attend the announcement of the Prize at an invitation-only cocktail party in Sydney on 5 May 2011, after the announcement. A summary will be published on-line at www.architecturemedia.com/unlandscaped/.

CONDITIONS

Entry fees

$100 for the first entry, $50 for subsequent entries.

Publicity and Copyright

By entering, the applicant (if not the practice principal) confirms that they have obtained the authority of the principal (and the client, where relevant) to enter the program, including for any resultant publicity.

The organizer does not make any claims on copyright or intellectual property of the designs entered other than the rights outlined in the following paragraph. The applicant agrees to absolve the organizer from any liability relating to confidentiality or intellectual property issues that may be raised by any party.

The organizer reserves the right to exhibit or publish any or all of the entries. By entering, the applicant gives permission to the organizer to publish, exhibit and promote the content of the submission including by sponsors of the program, where their use of submission content is related to promotion of the program. In all promotion, the organizer will endeavour to promote the name of the designer/s and, where the organizer is made aware of their names and to the extent that the organizer can exert editorial control, photographers will be acknowledged. All finalists must be prepared to submit further material for exhibition and publication if required, such as additional photography, drawings and other information. The applicant acknowledges that the organizer has the right to reproduce materials in whole or part without payment of release or licensing fees to the holder of publication rights or copyright.

General conditions

An entry shall be excluded from the program:

a) if received after the advertised closing date for the receipt of entries (although submissions that have been commenced but not completed by the closing date may be included at the discretion of the organizer)
b) if it does not fulfil these Conditions of Entry
c) if it is incomplete or doesn't conform to the correct format as specified under Entry.

The organizer is committed to providing a quality awards program to the Australian architectural community and makes every attempt to ensure accuracy, currency and reliability of the information included in this document and elsewhere. However, changes in content and process may become necessary at the absolute discretion of the organizer. The organizer accepts no liability for any use of said content or reliance placed upon it.

Architecture Media

Architecture Media is the leading specialist publisher for the design industry in Australasia. An associate company of the Australian Institute of Architects, Architecture Media is a prominent supporter of the design community in both Australia and New Zealand. Through Architecture Australia (the national magazine of the Australian Institute of Architects), Artichoke (the official magazine of the DIA), Landscape Architecture Australia (the official magazine of the AILA), the suite of Houses magazines and Architectural Product News and similar publications under the AGM Publishing mark in New Zealand, Architecture Media presents the best Australian and New Zealand design to the world.