An international call for architects

Virserum Art Museum released an international call for an Architecture of Necessity in September 2009. The call is a demand for a new approach to architecture and construction based on sustainability, equality and responsibility. It is distributed to some 200 architectural publications worldwide, from Damascus to New York, as well as to various architecture organisations.

Virserum Art Museum has been arranging Sweden's biggest exhibitions on wood and wood architecture since 2004. The next exhibition is in 2010 - WOOD 2010. During the course of preparing for this exhibition the notion of sustainability has been an ever-present topic. The term has been so commonly used that it is in danger of losing any real meaning. So we launched the appeal for an Architecture of Necessity. We wanted to show the Architecture of Necessity, and we invited architects and schools to contribute. 143 projects from 28 countries were submitted. Out of them we chose to exhibit 42 of them. A jury of international architects will award three honorary mentions in August 2010 to the best submitted examples. After the exhibition period in Virserum it will go on tour in Sweden, Scandinavia and the rest of the world. The exhibition will be accompanied by a catalogue, written in both Swedish and English. Please help disseminate this call!

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