Dingbat 2.0 Competition

Result

Professional Winners:

FIRST PLACE:
CARMEN C. CHAM, JAMES BLACK & TYLER GOSS
Footprint, Los Angeles, CA

SECOND PLACE:
GARY PAIGE, NICK AHO, RICHARD LUCERO, PING PING TAN
GP/S [Gary Paige/Studio], Los Angeles, CA

THIRD PLACE [Shared]:
Liz Falletta, Los Angeles, CA

THIRD PLACE [Shared]:
CAROLINE FILICE SMITH
Neceth, Spotsylvania, VA

HONORABLE MENTION:
JOHN FERRI AIA, CAROLYN MATSUMOTO, WILSON RODAS, TAKAKO TAJIMA
Los Angeles, CA

HONORABLE MENTION:
BENJAMIN LUDDY & MAKOTO MIZUTANI
Scout Regalia, Los Angeles, CA

HONORABLE MENTION:
Ric. Abramson AIA, Daniel Ruiz, Van Pham, Chasen Rainey
Workplays studio*architecture, West Hollywood, CA

HONORABLE MENTION:
Jeeyong An, Sang Hwa Lee, Ji Yoon Oh
Ginseng Chicken Architecture P.C., New York, NY

Student Winners:

FIRST PLACE:
The Choripans: Ignacio Barrios, Ariel Gualtruzzi, Delfina Prause, Mauro Aparo
Universidad Nacional del litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina

SECOND PLACE:
Tim Norris
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ

THIRD PLACE:
Ryan Lovett
Columbia University, New York, NY

HONORABLE MENTION:
Margaret M. Fain
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

HONORABLE MENTION:
Tommy Pniewski
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK

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Overview

The competition asks designers to re-envision the Dingbat, and in so doing, offer a revised vision for L.A. itself. In order to redefine the Dingbat, it is essential to understand what has made it so successful (or at least ubiquitous) and determine what form of Dingbat-ness will best define a new identity for an emerging 21st Century Los Angeles.

Description
The Dingbat grew out of Los Angeles’ rapid postwar expansion period and defined a pervasive vernacular that still weaves through the space of the city’s neighborhoods and the decades of their development. For more than half a century, this idiosyncratic typology has been vilified, praised, studied, and often misunderstood – as much for being ugly and ordinary as for being innovative, iconoclastic, and distinctly “L.A.” As a housing type, the Dingbat has aided the sprawl for which L.A. is infamous while simultaneously creating a consistency of urban density achieved by few other cities. Beyond its role as an alternative to L.A.’s traditionally single-family planning focus, the Dingbat allowed waves of immigrants (many originally from middle America and later from farther afield) to arrive in Los Angeles and find their shared piece of paradise. The Dingbat offered the tropes of the singly family house minus the mortgage – a consolation prize to the American Dream.

Jury
Barbara Bestor (Principal, Bestor Architects / Chair, Graduate School of Architecture at Woodbury University)
Teddy Cruz (Principal, Estudio Teddy Cruz, San Diego / Associate Professor, UCSD, Visual Arts Department)
Dana Cuff (Director cityLAB / Professor, UCLA, Los Angeles)
Neil Denari (Principal NMDA, Los Angeles / Professor, UCLA, Los Angeles)
Additional jurors to be announced.

Prize
1st place: $4000 USD(Professional)/ $1500 USD(Student)
2nd place: $2000 USD(Professional)/ $500 USD(Student)
3rd place: $750 USD(Professional)/ $250 USD(Student)
Honorary Mentions: LA Forum individual membership + LA Forum gifts(Professional, Student)

Entry Fee
Student entry: $25 USD (must provide copy of Student ID)
Professional entry: $75 USD
Student entry + single annual membership: $45 USD (must provide copy of Student ID)
Professional entry + single annual membership: $100 USD

Entries
2 PDF digital boards (24” x 36”)

Timetable
Jury: June 12, 2010
Winners announced + Exhibition of selected projects: June 19, 2010

Organizer
The Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design

Official Website
http://www.laforum.org/content/competitions/dingbats