World Architecture Community Launched
 Mar
25, 2008 - World Architecture Community, launched on March 1, with 200
honorary members including Hans Hollein, Mario Botta, and Fumihiko Maki, is
probably the first interactive database created to provide an opportunity
for all local practices to become internationally recognized. Unique
features of this portal enable all members to contribute in the making of
the future of architectural thought by submitting, discussing, editing,
rating, sharing their work.
While there are many channels that promote architecture, WA will probably
be the first interactive database created to provide an opportunity for all
local practices to present their work to the international audience and
become internationally recognized.
It is evident that content capacity in printed media is very limited that
only a few can access. Appearing in international or even local media is
highly competitive and requires grand projects; therefore local practices
rarely have the chance to be criticized and the agenda of architecture
concentrates on a few names. On the other hand, there are many young,
talented architects, passionately designing buildings in the different parts
of the world. Unfortunately, as they cannot appear on the media, they are
solely criticized by their customers. Impetus for creativity, however, is
criticism. WA realizes the dream of local practices to be discussed by
prominent scholars and academicians from different countries via the
platform offered by the internet.
Architects and scholars from ALL countries of the world are invited to
submit their buildings and writings freely. The aim of WA is to highlight
the different quests of local practices in the global agenda and initiate a
new definition for architectural media. WA Community Portal also aims to
present the work of all contemporary masters of architecture in a concise
form eventually with their support of the educational premises of the
project.
Another unique feature of the portal is that Issue Pages can be created
by all members as a collaborative effort to create connections across the
individual resources on the internet. For instance, an architect being
inspired from local culture, can create an issue page to define his
theoretical discourse that has guided his design, and relate his buildings
to this issue page so that theory and practice in architecture can come
together within the same context. This independent global forum and
extensive database will be also a big occasion for theorists. They will be
able to access examples, works, and efforts from most diverse regions and
cultures of the world and will have the chance to get in touch with practice
at a global scale.
All members will be able to submit links, articles, projects (even
unrealized or projects under construction can be submitted) to this
completely free international portal. Contributions from all members will
have equitable chances to be represented, promoted, reviewed and criticized
at this international arena.
About WA Community
The WA Community initiative has over 150 Honorary Members who have
accepted the invitation to collaborate. Complete list of Honorary Members
include important architects and scholars like Joseph Rykwert, Eric Owen
Moss, Bart Prince, Fumihiko Maki, Udo Kultermann, Dennis Sharp, Farshid
Moussavi, William Lim, Hans Hollein, Michael Sorkin, Arata Isozaki, Mario
Botta, Kenneth Yeang, and Renata Holod among many others...
For the complete list of Honorary Members click
here.
"The potential of this forum could be enormous, and your concept has that
hallmark of all truly great ideas, which is to say something that seems so
brilliantly simple that only after it becomes a reality does one wonder how
it could not have always existed? There is so much good that can be done if
certain ideas in our field of experience could only be shared more easily,
and though the technology to do this has been available for quite some time
now, it clearly has not been used to anything approaching its full
potential, which your initiative promises to expand." Martin Filler, Editor,
House&Garden, USA.
For more information, visit
www.worldarchitecture.org.
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