Archive in the Making

Over 17,000 teams of designers from across the world participated in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition between 1965 and 2020, but only those entries that made it into the pages of The Japan Architect and Shinkenchiku magazine are preserved. To make the history of the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition more complete, this exhibition calls on all designers who have participated in this competition to re-submit their competition entry and so ensure their voice is included in the history of the competition. To collect the lost competition entries, The Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition ARCHIVE, an openly accessible online archive was created. Did you ever participate in the Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition? Help us build an archive by submitting your entry at callforlostentries.com

Call for lost Entries

The research for this exhibition received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie grant agreement 797002, “Architecture as a Cross-Cultural Exchange: The Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition, 1965–2017.”

The exhibition was supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, the Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design, ETH Zürich and an ETH Career Seed Grant.

Graphic Design: Studio Joost Grootens, Web Development: F451,
Content Management: Annamaria Bonzanigo

Special Thanks to
Grégoire Bridel, Mathis Pante, Ling Xu, Luca Can, Friederike Merkel, students in the ETH Zürich seminar The City Represented – Visions of Urban Living (Spring 2020), and participants in the international ETH Zürich summer school Visualizing the Architecture Competition as Contact Zone (Summer 2019).

Contact: Cathelijne Nuijsink