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Home > Journal > Issue Nine > In Praise of Competitions In Praise of Competitions - 1996 Nissan Art Project - Dermot Boyd The inner chamber is made of white stretched plasticized fabric, held on metal rods making a surface for display and projection with a semi translucent quality. This allows for the play of both artificial and natural light across its surface. The open rooflight is formed with vertical polycarbonate sheets defining the void to the vertical axis of spiritual and creative inspiration. Competitions are part of your intellectual development in this long and creative life, a basis of research for any architectural practice. If you have any self-belief or suffer from self-delusion, enter competitions; win or lose, one may change your life. Dermot Boyd graduated from Dublin Institute of Technology in 1990. He is a principal in Boyd Cody Architects and teaches Theory and Design of Architecture at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He was the President of the Architectural Association of Ireland in 1997-98. Boyd Cody Architects have won various AAI and RIAI Awards for the their work. They won the Monaghan County Council Offices Competition in May 2002. Architectural Association of Ireland |