9th International Arquine Competition

Rules:
The 9th International Arquine Competition, set out in the context of the Plaza de las Tres Culturas, in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, calls for proposals for a Metropolitan Infographic Center, an archive and permanent exhibition of the different graphic expressions of the Mexico City territory, including prehispanic codices, plans of the colonial, Porfirian, revolutionary, modern and contemporary city, as well as metro plans, graphics of seismic areas, maps of the usage and timing of urban transport, water and drainage infrastructures, and lot division.

The center should house a space for the exhibition of possible and ongoing city projects, with a clearly nformative vocation aimed at citizens. At the same time, it must be capable of incorporating new exhibition and information storage technologies, responding to the complexity of a places that unites prehispanic, colonial and modern architectures.

Registration:
Download the electronic registration form from and send it by e-mail together with the deposit receipt (as an attached file with a maximum size of 1 MB) to the address: concurso@arquine.com, with “CONCURSO ARQUINE” as the subject, otherwise the e-mail will go straight to spam. Arquine will confirm the registration via e-mail, indicating the code that must go on the back of the laminates and the envelope. If you do not receive this information within 5 days, please contact us.

Jury:

Humberto Ricalde (professor at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)

Rusell Rudzinsky (professor at the University of Arkansas)

Margarita Flores (finalist at the 7th International Arquine Competition)

Arturo Aispuro (Mexico City Government project director)

Carlos Ferrater (architect of the Cataluña Conventions Center)

Prizes:
1st place: Arquine – $100,000 Mexican pesos (US$10,000)
2nd place: Autodesk – $50,000 Mexican pesos (US$5,000)
3rd place: Editorial Cordillera – Colección DOMUS 1928–1999, Vol. I–XII, Taschen, 2006
Mention: HP invent – equipo HP Designjet 110 plus
Finalist: Funcionalismo – Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer
Final submission date
Monday, March 5, 2007, before 3pm.

Results:
The jury will meet in Mexico City during the 8th Arquine Congress (March 2007), where the awarding will take place and the winning projects will be exhibited. They will be published on the Arquine webpage and in issue 40 of the magazine (June 2007).

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