Flip a strip - architectural competition

Overview
The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art [SMoCA], Arizona, is organizing a design competition and public exhibition, Flip a Strip. This innovative project hopes to foster creative, yet pragmatic new visions for the renovation of the small-scale strip shopping plazas that line the streets of this metropolitan area—and virtually every suburban zone in the country. (Note: this is an idea-generating competition, not a design/build project.)

About the Competition
The competition is a hybrid, both open and invitational, with a nominal registration fee of $60.

Participants must be professional architects with at least five years professional experience. Teams of architects and developers may submit.

Participants can select one of three model sites (which have been submitted by city planners from the municipalities of Scottsdale, Tempe and Phoenix, Arizona) for their design proposal.

Submissions will first be reviewed by a Technical Jury of area experts and advisors, who will send its scoring on to the Design Jury.

Jury
Aaron Betsky, Director, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Julie Eizenberg, Principal, Koning Eizenberg Architecture, Santa Monica, CA
Merrill Elam, Partner, Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects, Atlanta, GA
Richard E. Eribes, former Dean of the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture at the University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Grady Gammage, Jr., partner, Gammage & Burnham, Phoenix, AZ

Prizes
First Prize $8,000
Second Prize $4,000
Third Prize $2,000

Timeline
Registration ends 03.17.2008
Question & answer period ends 03.17.2008
Submissions due 03.31.2008
Jury meets 04.13.2008
Finalists notified 05.01.2008
Exhibition opens; awards announced 10.04.2008