The School of Planning & Architecture in New Delhi recently held a competition to design their new campus, located on a 20 acre site southwest of the city. We entered and, like the others, are anxiously awaiting the judging - scheduled for next week. It was so easy to envision the emense potential of the project and to empathize with the excitement they must feel now - opening all of these entries, hoping to find "the one." Of course, I hope we win or at least place, but in the end, I can only appreciate and hope for more "blind" competitions like this. Our name, isn't out there yet in most corners of India, so to be unknown is to be disregarded in many respects. Whether it's not trusting our design judgement or wanting that judgement at a substantially reduced fee, not being a 60 year old man or a large corporation has its liabilities.

So we wait. We hope. And start searching for the next opportunity.

Update: Dada Partners wins the SPA competition.

Published by Brook Louis Meier in design