PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITIONS with the SCALAE app and the companies FIGUERAS, CRICURSA, LAMP and GEZE

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FIGUERAS, CRICURSA, LAMP and GEZE, companies which participate in the editorial and industrial board of the SCALAE international e-book collection are holding photography competitions on the photoLab of the scalae app. They will allocate assistance grants and travel expenses to go to the Congress of «Necessary Architecture» organised by the Architecture and Society Foundation to the winners.

SCALAE makes an official announcement of four photography competitions, particular but also simple in their requirements*. which in a participatory manner will assign assistance grants (entrance valued at 300 euros) and travel expenses (200 euros for travel and accommodation expenses) to the photographers of the 4 top rated photographs in different sections,** to go to the Congress of «Necessary Architecture» organised by the Architecture and Society Foundation from 11 to 13 June 2014.

FIGUERAS INTERNATIONAL SEATING is an independent company, international in scope from its origins in Catalonia, from family and craftsmanship roots which directs its research, production and trade to seating solutions for public use projects through innovation and design.

CRICURSA is an independent company, international in scope from its origins in Catalonia, from family and craftsmanship roots which directs its research, production and trade to architectural glass solutions, curved and flat for indoor and outdoor use, in architecture and construction.

LAMP is an independent company, international in scope from its origins in Catalonia, from family and craftsmanship roots which directs its research, production and trade to the integration of lighting throughout the architectural process, providing guidance and technical advice to architects and specifiers to find the solution best suited to each project; designing, producing and marketing the right products for each solution.

GEZE is an independent company, international in scope from its origins in Germany, from family and craftsmanship roots which directs its research, production and trade to construction systems for door, window and security technologies.

FIGUERAS, CRICURSA,  LAMP and ROCK have participated since 2013 and GEZE since 2014, in the industrial and editorial board of the Scalae international e-book collection and thereby contribute to a collective work based on the commitment to the internationalisation of the industries and its work on the intelligence of construction products, in the configuration of an architectural project based on cultural exchange and open technical, industrial, professional, artistic and social debate.

(*) view details of the basics of the announcement in the original announcement document (PDF, in English)

(**) The four sections of the competition are: entrances, voids (hollows and windows) in-between (thresholds) and wide open (open landscape)

Summary of the basics:

Periods: until 21 May, photos uploaded to the app [http://scalae.mobapp.at]: until 28 May, voting with «likes» on the scalae facebook page [https://www.facebook.com/scalae.architecture]

Requirements: scalae app, facebook, maximum of three images which are the property of the person who submits them to the competition 

[english text courtesy of Figueras International Seating]