IJAC COVER DESIGN COMPETITION

Five sibling CAD organizations, including eCAADe, have joined together to support the creation of the International Journal of Architectural Computing (IJAC). Every year, IJAC publishes four issues that feature the same cover design. For 2007, eCAADe conducted a competition to choose the cover image of IJAC in 2008.

The winning entry, selected by a blind voting process, with an international voting panel, was Edouard Marechal, Student at Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris Val de Seine

Software used: Cinema 4d, Photoshop.

Title: Algebricity

Concept: Nowadays, in most cases, architecture is informed by computational technologies. That is the reason why a computing metaphor was chosen: the cable at the top of the picture provides instructions (scripts), which transform the digits into forms, thus generating towns and cities to-be...

There were three equal Runners-up in the competition, Jiri Vojtesek, Philippe Marin and Robert Schaffer. Their entries are shown on the right. Click the images for a larger view.

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