The Department of Architecture Fundamentals, Theory and Art of Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VILNIUS TECH) invites students and 2023 graduates of Lithuanian higher schools of architecture to participate in the annual drawing competition.The theme of the 2024 competition is "Reincarnated Architecture". The deadline for submission of entries is 12 April.

This year's drawing contest invites to imagine and draw an architecture and urban images that has not just one, but many life cycles, each taking on different forms and functions. 
It is imaginary architecture based on the idea of reincarnation. Reincarnation presupose the continuity of the substance of the "thing" or a „living species“, which is independent of the change of its shell, envelop, volume. The "belief" in the reincarnation of architecture opens up a world of fluid, gostly forms, in which all living and non-living species are the result of a constant and all-encompassing METAMORPHOSIS. 

The following thematic approaches to topic of reincarnated architecture are proposed: 
- Imagine the reincarnation of disused, ruined, abandoned, extinct buildings, linked to the reintroduction of new functions and new forms in an old structure or its remains;
- construct a world of reincarnated architecture by exploring the multifaceted ways in which architecture relates to the earth and its geological materiality, to different species inhabiting our planet, and at the same time, to man-made technologies. Because all organics, vegetation, fauna and humans, as well as technologies and artificial materials, eventually become (technologised) earth, sedimentary geological layers, fossils. All of these are then involved again in new cycles of creation of life and artificial environments;
- Or maybe reincarnation is about changes in materiality, climate, collision of elements and volumes? 

The theme of reincarnation proposes to imagine architecture not only as ultimate objects –but rather as an open structures of interconnection and encounter of all types of life. Interfaces between living and non-living species, materials, forms and technologies.
What kind of species the architecture you draw is designed for, can it be shared by different species?
How do nature and technology intertwine in architecture?
Is it possible to have an architecture that is constantly changing shape?
What happens when an essence, an idea, is reincarnated from animal, stone, human into architecture?

Organisers:
VILNIUS TECH Department of Architecture Fundamentals, Theory and Art. The author and curator of the idea of the competition is the artist and lecturer of the Faculty of Architecture of VILNIUS TECH, Dr. Prof. Audrius Novickas. Assisted by Assoc. Prof. Lilija Puipienė and lecturer Arūnas Gudaitis.

Participants:
The competition is open to students of all levels of Architecture studies at Lithuanian higher education institutions and Architecture graduates of 2023.

Judging of the competition drawings:
The entries will be judged by a jury of professional artists and architects. The aim of this jury is to select the three artists who have submitted the most interesting and best drawings from among all the entrants and to award them.
VILNIUS TECH Architecture Faculty students will also receive digital badges for their participation.
The competition evaluation criteria are: relevance of the drawings to the theme of the competition, originality of the idea, conceptuality and clarity of the concept, harmonious use of drawing tools and aesthetic quality of execution, harmoniousness of the artistic idea and the graphic image as a whole.

Awards
Winners and participants will recieve prizes from ART INN, Artseria and Lithuania National museum. The winner will get a special offer from VILNIUS TECH library and an opportunity to exhibit work at international art fair Art Compensa!

Methods and means of drawing execution:
The works must be drawn on paper by hand or by combining hand drawing with other graphic representation techniques such as collage or digital drawing.
Works may be created using a variety of drawing media: graphite, charcoal, ink, marker, rapidograph, brushes, feathers, etc.
Drawing size:
The maximum size of a drawing is 1x1m. This means that the size of the drawing can be smaller.


Deliver your drawings to:
Department of Fundamentals of Architecture, Theory and Art
VILNIUS TECH Faculty of Architecture
Pylimo g. 26/1 Vilnius 01118
(or hand-delivered to the art lecturers, Faculty of Architecture, VILNIUS TECH, 4.15/4.16)
The parcel must be marked "For the Architectural Drawing Competition"

Drawings must be delivered by 12 April 2024.

Exhibition: 
The drawings submitted to the competition will be exhibited at the exhibition on the 4th floor of the Faculty of Architecture, VILNIUS TECH.

If you have any questions, please contact: crypt:YXVkcml1cy5ub3ZpY2thc0B2aWxuaXVzdGVjaC5sdA==:xx
Call: +370 683 20159

2024 Drawing Competition poster by Robertas Barkauskas