Art Alliance Austin continues a successful partnership with AIA-Austin and Austin Foundation for Architecture to solicit ideas for the Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space 3 (TOGS 3) competition in 2010.

Objective - The third annual Temporary Outdoor Gallery Space Ideas Competition (TOGS 3) enhances the global dialogue between art and architecture while offering emerging professionals in the fields of architecture and design the opportunity to garner international attention.

Purpose - This Ideas Competition generates innovative proposals for a temporary outdoor structure that will function simultaneously as an exhibition space and as an architectural exhibition.

Mission - TOGS™ challenges the visual and conceptual boundaries of the outdoor gallery space, transforming the open-air art fair experience into one that showcases the synergy between art and architecture and brings both to the public realm.

Through a juried process with 177 entries submitted from 20 countries, we are proud to announce the top 15 entries for the 2010 TOGS 3 competition:

First Place - Art Tent by Hyunil Oh, New York, NY, USA. Team: Keunbo Yang. Art Tent is designed to sympathize with neighboring surroundings. As an object, the exterior surface communicates with nature and urban context while the interior surface is intended to communicate with people passing by. The tent structure seeks lightness and can be constructed through pre-fabrication methods for simple installation.

Second Place - The Cloud by Joshua Beck, Los Angeles, CA, USA. The Cloud is a temporary portable outdoor exhibition space made from 600 helium filled balloons. The Cloud is a unique urban activator as it appears to hover above terra firma. To emphasize its gravity defying abilities one enters the cloud via a ramp on the backside. A multitude of art media could be exhibited in the interior of the 10' x 20' x 12' elliptical space.

Third Place - Transparence by Tetsuo Kondo, Shinagawa-Ku, Tokyo, Japan. Closely connected with ambient surroundings and art exhibitions, the structure is constructed of acrylic bars that reflect the exhibitions which are then projected onto the elevation. Side views are transparent as if it was air.

Remaining top entries:
Sung Goo Yang from Boston, MA US
Jessica Martin & Alexandria Vann from Charlotte, NC US
Ross Vogel & Rocksand Ham from Charlotte, NC US
Yo Oshima from Los Angeles, CA US
Rebecca Necessary & David Birge from Raleigh, NC US
Erin Keith & John Wheeler from Philadelphia, PA US
William Boden from Austin, TX US
Donguk Lee from Seoul South Korea
Ming Tang & Jonathon Anderson from Savannah, GA US
Dominique Cheng from Toronto, ON CA
Reynaldo Cedillos & Ery Yakushijin from Austin, TX US
Dave Kwon & Eric Tse from New York, NY US

Requirements - More Info

Requirements and deadlines for the 2010 competition have now been posted. Use link above to read online.

Awards - More Info

Each year the top three winning submissions receive cash awards, and the top 15 are recognized.

TOGS Jury - More Info

2010 Confirmed jurors include Dana Friis-Hansen, Executive Director of the Austin Museum of Art; Louise Harpman, Assoc. AIA, Associate Professor of Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin and co-founder of Specht Harpman; Megan Crigger, Public Art Administrator, City of Austin Art in Public Places, Sarah W. Newbery, RA and Lois Weinthal.

Past competition jurors include Goil Amornvivat, co-founder of Tug Studio and a designer on TLC's Trading Spaces; Deborah Berke, FAIA, Professor of Architecture at Yale University and founder of Deborah Berke & Partners Architects, LLP; Dana Friis-Hansen, Executive Director of the Austin Museum of Art, Wally Workman, Wally Workman Gallery, Lora Reynolds, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Elizabeth Dunbar, Curator at Arthouse, Andrée Bober, Director of Landmarks Department, University of Texas at Austin; and Louise Harpman, Assoc. AIA, Associate Professor of Architecture, the University of Texas at Austin and co-founder of Specht Harpman.

"Architecture and fine visual art have always had an important and significant interrelationship," said Deborah Berke, FAIA, a professor of architecture at Yale University and one of the jurors of TOGS 2. For Berke, the competition was a valuable exercise in accessibility, in bringing architecture to the "public realm" and "using it to help people, whether they know about art or not, engage in the fine arts. That will be better for everybody. It will be better for the artists, the architects, and the community."