2011 Think Brick Awards

Entries are open for the 2011 Think Brick Awards:
About Face Award (invited competition)
About Face Student Award (open student competition)
Open Face (open competition) - new category this year!
Horbury Hunt Award (built work)

The invited architectural practices are:
Trent Woods and Jennie Officer - Officer Woods of WA
Adrian Spence - Richards & Spence of QLD
Olivia Hyde - BVN of NSW
Chris Bosse - LAVA of NSW
Ian McDougall - ARM of VIC
Thomas Bailey, Nathan Crump, Aaron Roberts and James Wilson - Room 11 of TAS and MEL


Here is a snippet from the program and setting for the open competition:

'The brief calls for the design of a model dwelling to accommodate 4 people. The dwelling should incorporate up to a maximum 12,000 bricks – half the number of bricks used in the average interwar suburban bungalow on a typical quarter acre lot. The dwelling should be considered within its context, and like the humble brick, designed to be enduring. Participants will select their own site based on a specific suburban location, or else describe a setting in generic terms. Significantly, the project should demonstrate a shift in thinking about the suburban house and encourage innovative approaches to the densification of our suburbs.'

See About Face Student / Open Face brief PDF.