About Pamphlet Architecture

Founded in 1977 as an alternative to mainstream architectural publishing, Pamphlet Architecture encourages architects and writers to put forth their ideas, theories and designs in modest, affordable booklets. Its success is legendary: Pamphlet Architecture helped launch the careers architects from Steven Holl and Lebbeus Woods to Zaha Hadid, and has had influence far exceeding the ad-hoc nature of these humble books.

Pamphlet Architecture 32: Resilience

By addressing the capacity to cope, the ability to bounce back, and the mitigation and management of risk, proposals are welcome that showcase a fresh understanding of the possibilities and opportunities of resilience in architecture, from the large to the small scale. Whether resilience stems from natural disaster, civil conflict, global warming, catastrophe, and so on, is the applicant’s discretion.

To Register for Pamphlet Architecture 32

Please register by the competition's submission date, August 2nd. Do not send in your competition entry until you have registered. If registering as a student, make sure to send in a photocopy of your valid student ID with your competition entry.

To Submit your Proposal

Before submitting your proposal, please register following the instructionson Registration section of the website and print out a copy of your registration receipt. Applicants cannot have published previously most or all of their submission in book form. Submissions must be postmarked by August 2, 2010. If postmarked with a later date, they will be disqualified.

In your proposal:
Please include an abstract (250 words) of your submission.
Submissions must be submitted on 8.5 x 11 inch paper and may not exceed 16 pages in length. In addition to the hardcopy, please also submit a disc with a pdf version (5 MB maximum size) of your project.
Submissions should be anonymous. Please include a separate sheet with your name, address, and email, in the form of your Paypal registration receipt. If you registered as a student, please staple a photocopy of your valid student ID to this page. We would like to make all submissions available to future researchers and students. If you do not want the PDF of your anonymous submission to be made available for research, please indicate so on this sheet as well.
If you wish your submission to be returned to you, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

Submissions may be sent to:

Competition
Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd.
37 E. 7th St.New York, NY 10003 USA