MURRAY & MURRAY COMPETITION 2025

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Maupassant

September 4 – September 11

The Murray & Murray Competition is a seven-day drawing competition that takes place in the first week of the fall term and celebrates the start of a new school year. The competition challenges students to develop and present an architectural idea through hand-drawn or hybrid (hand-drawn and digital) drawings.

TRANSITION

The theme of this year’s competition is ‘Transition’.

Transition in time
Transition in space
Transition in states
Transition in materials
Transition in life, in cities,
from inside to outside,
from ground to building,
land to water,
from below to above,
from..

Sometimes, transitions are spaces, like thresholds or waiting rooms. Sometimes, transitions are details, connecting a wall to a roof, or a building to the ground.

Transitions can be passages and links; they can take us to what is transitory and intermediary. They are typically slow, gradual, or progressive. Always, a transition acknowledges and negotiates two distinct conditions or states, bringing them together or holding them apart. In all cases, transitions mark change.

This year’s Murray & Murray drawing competition is asking students to pay attention to in-between moments, states, or spaces, capturing ways in which these transitions manifest in details, buildings, rooms, cities, lives, or communities. Your drawings can be based on observations and capture material or spatial transitions, or they could be more interpretative and offer windows into other transitions — between life and death, stillness and movement, hot and cold, old and new, here and there.

Paper size: 8” x 24” (you can get a sheet from your studio professor). Include your name, year, and your student number on the back of the paper.

Medium: hand-drawn or hybrid (hand-drawn and digital) drawings i.e. drawings must have a hand-drawn component. You might consider giving your drawing a title and a brief (one or two-line) description.

Deadline: 11:00 am on Thursday, September 11

Finalist drawings are identified and pinned up in the Pit. The awards announcement will take place at 4:00 p.m. Winners receive cash prizes.