How I won 20+ Architecture Competitions

Here are 5 essential rules you should follow in order to maximize your chances of winning any architectural competition. I have been lucky enough to win dozens of competitions, and receive almost $25,000.00 in prize cash, and almost a quarter million dollars for realizing my concepts. I've distilled some of my favorite tips and tricks I learned over the years into this video. Hope you enjoy!

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[DonSkarbeck]

1. Do the research - Choose competition carefully
2. Overdeliver - Double volume, amount of work required
3. Understand their (previous winners’) style
4. Research the juries
5. Enter more competitions - with the same entry/school project

[angvietthai]

I was always afraid of joining competition cause i think i wasn't good enough. But thank to your videos, i am now ready and really having much more confidence. Thank you.

[sarcoffeegusphotonlab]

Design competitions are essentially mind games. The deeper you go the more convincing your entry becomes. Thats where you elicit originality. I think a winning entry is far from being architectural, so to speak. If an architectural creation can be presented without visuals or form but can be explained clearly that it elicits vivid imaginations, then that would be sure win imho ;)

[kevaantaya]

Thank you brother. We had Thom Mayne at my school Las year and the biggest thing je told me is to fui us on learning as much as possible, then apply to an office to get experience all while designing your own project at the side. Til you connect the dots

[abhijeetyadav]

hacks which can help in winning competition are-
1. choosing the competition very carefully according to your priorities, interests etc.
2. Analyze the behavior of winners.
3. do some research on juries .
4. catch the pattern of design that wins.
5. do something more than the minimum requirement.
thank you for the tips .😊❤

[nisanttana]

I just loved to find your chanel so much

[RodrigoHernandez-tnxw]

As always, amazing video! My university always opens the second semester with a competition, so we can't escape from them even if we want to lol, yesterday was the delivery deadline, so this is useful in many circumstances. I used many things that I learned from you, so thank you very much. I really enjoy competitions, even if they are a little stressful sometimes. (btw, you are right about only us, architects, wanting to live in concrete masses lmao)

[yogeshmsingh]

Do you have any recommendations for books or other sources for understanding basic construction techniques because all that is taught in my school is basic RCC column beam structures. I am a second year student and I feel clueless about how to check the feasibility of my ideas. Also thanks for the informative content as always!

[juliawladysiak]

Well, I do a lot of competitions in my office for Germany and once someone does an extended amount of work or give drawings that were not required, they will hide them from the jury view so that all of the competitors have equal chances to win. Also, visualizations are not allowed cuz they never show the REAL 'reality'. They are always overdone and its hard to judge the concept by looking at the beautiful visualization. I think, for competitions that mean to build sth afterwards (not an abstract ones) its really fair.
(I am not from Germany, so Im not biased over here haha ;) )

[islandersean]

Great to see enthusiasm young architect, great share 👍

[Youtubewatcher]

Bro, you really are great. A real inspiration, thanks for everything you're sharing.

[GeoCreationsarchitectur]

4:41 Yeah bro... that the major thing to consider 🙌😊. Thanks for sharing this.

[nicolekislanova]

that's a really helpful video, thank you!

[b_pranjalvyas]

I just found the perfect channel. Thanks brother 😊

[kavandachipoya]

When are the 2024 challenges going to be uploaded on your site?

[bbybby]

№3 is a little tricky? If they are looking for just one style like concrete blocks I'll feel somehow limited and makes me question why they didn't put it in the description of the competition. Also I can't be sure if they won't like something new, so I'll feel very confused and that's why I'll try to not take it too seriously what the previous winners have in common. That's my personal opinion.

[kaycheng]

The audience is like an objective dimension to consider if you are trained even be a literature writer!

[patrickispeppa]

Puh yeah. So Austrian architect here who also won a lot of competitions for bigger offices as head of competition. Can‘t agree on all of your tips. Some of them are trying to brute-force success, like delivering more than asked or use the same draft on multiple competitions. Instead ask yourself what‘s most important and boil it down to the core. Every drawing should be on point. No questions left. If you need double the sentences to get on point you‘re bad at articulating.

[SuperNat]

great video and very informative. Thanks

[vinng]

Could you share something about what happened after you won a competition? Thank you!