AAAI News and Events
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| Observational painting is now included in AIP27.
Detail, "Creek St, Brisbane flood, 2011" Jane Grealy
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| ASAI Call for Entries
AIP27 Competition
NEW!
| For the first time, this year, Observational Illustrations will be accepted for the AIP competition.
| By introducing this new category, ASAI acknowleges the contribution such work makes to the practice of architecure and art. Observational Illustrations are defined as drawings and paintings whose subject matter wholly exists at the time the illustration is created. In previous AIP competitions, entries have been restricted to Architectural Renderings: illustrations whose subject matter does not wholly exist at the time the illustration is created. To find out more click here
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 | Tokyo Tower. Photo Michael Keniger
|  | Detail from Ian Stantiall's Best of Show image
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| Fifteen images were chosen by our distinguished jury, Chris Grubbs, Jon Kletzien and Philip Follent, for inclusion in the AAAI Visualizing Architectural Design (VAD) Exhibition, which opened in Tokyo, 26th September, 2011 and later in Osaka.
Congratulations to those that were selected. The competition was tough!
We asked the jury to pick a "Best of Show" and comment on their own personal favourites.
To find out who was selected and what the jury said click here
| Check out photos of the opening in the Members area.
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| Best in Show 2010, James Thompson
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| 37th Annual Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition
RESULTS ANNOUNCED
| For 37 years, the Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition has celebrated the best in architectural drawing. It is open to all architecture students, professionals and architectural illustrators throughout the United States as well as abroad.
To view results, please visit www.krobarch.com
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 | Detail from "Drawing Shortcuts"
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| Book Review
| DRAWING SHORTCUTS
Developing quick drawing skills using todays technology.
| Reviewed by Nigel Gough
| "Drawing Shortcuts" reinforces the notion that the hand drawn line is still relevant and exciting in the practice of architecture, that the ongoing success of yesterdays purely ”traditional” architectural artists can be seen in their ability to reinvent themselves, applying well honed skills in new ways to address a changing market, and at the same time to be innovative and integrate new technology... essential reading in any architectural educational program... and for the practicing architectural artist it is a great grab bag of fresh ideas...
| click here to read more
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| ASSOCIATION MEMBERS SOFTWARE SURVEY 2010
| If you would like to network with other members using particular software,
If you are considering a new software acquisition and are seeking advise,
or if you need an illustrator with specific software expertise for workshops etc. just follow this link.
| While still a working in progress this survey provides links to members using specific software for modelling, rendering, and post rendering applications, as well as approximate software costs, pro’s and con’s of packages, and links to the various software websites.
| To access the survey
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