Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest: 2012 Winners
Check out the 2012 winners, runner-ups, and a few of the most creative entries from the annual Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Winner, Registered Architect - Geoff Parker, Architect, 308 Design Collaborative, Oklahoma City, OK
Geoff Parker, 38, an Oklahoma City native who recently joined 308 Design Collaborative, teaches first- and second-year studio art courses to undergraduates at the University of Oklahoma, where he received his B.Arch. and M.Arch. Parker spent about 10 minutes on his sketch, which he says is a quick doodle of an imaginary cityscape. “I was playing around with perspective and trying to generate some depth,” he says. The architect drew the sketch using a fountain pen and colored pencils and explains, “I was intentionally trying to see how fast and loose I could draw it and still make it read.” With a father who is also an architect, Parker says he’s known from childhood that architecture was his calling.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Winner, Non-Registered Architect - Brian Droste, Intern Architect, Wight & Company, Marina City, Chicago/Bertrand Goldberg
The winning sketch by a nonprofessional was drawn by Brian Droste, 25, an intern at the firm Wight & Company. While enrolled in the five-year architecture program at Notre Dame, Droste studied in Rome, where a professor introduced him to light-and-shadow drawing studies, the inspiration for his sketch. Droste says he has always been fascinated by the work of architect Bertrand Goldberg, and his Marina City (1964) in particular, because of the way light bounces across the buildings, emphasizing petal-like forms. Droste completed his sketch in about 10 minutes using a fountain pen. “The pen bleeds so quickly—it makes you go so much faster,“ he says. “You have to commit and not go back, almost like a watercolor.”
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Runner-Up, Registered - Hany Hassan, Architect, Beyer Blinder Belle, Washington, DC
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Runner-Up, Registered - Chad Alexander Smith, Architect, CAS Architecture, Grayson, GA
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Runner-Up, Registered - Christian Ceci, Architect, Los Angeles, CA
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Runner-Up, Registered - Bruce Ball Allen, Architect, Allen Milo Associates, Salt Lake City, UT
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Runner-Up, Registered - Tony Costello, Architect, Costello + Associates; Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Runner-Up, Non-Registered - Subhojit Sinha, Design Staff, RTKL Associates, Dallas
Napkin Sketch Title: Colosseum, Rome
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Runner-Up, Non-Registered - Eduardo Pintos, Designer, Loisos + Ubbelohde, Alameda, CA
Napkin Sketch Title: Dancing House, Prague/Frank Gehry
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Runner-Up, Non-Registered - Kerri Ferrara, Designer, Mufson Partnership, New York City
Napkin Sketch Title: Saint Mark's Square, Venice
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Runner-Up, Non-Registered - Lalima Chemjong, Designer, bKL Architecture LLC, Chicago
Napkin Sketch Title: Aqua Tower, Chicago/Jeanne Gang
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Runner-Up, Non-Registered - Maksin Koloskov, Designer, Gensler, Houston
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Best Firm - Rich Cogburn, Architect, Cooper Carry, Atlanta, GA
Napkin Sketch Title: View from Punta della Dogana, Venice
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Best Firm - Marina Michael, Designer, Cooper Carry, Alexandria, VA
Napkin Sketch Title: Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA/Louis I. Kahn
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Best Firm - Tanna Stephens, Marketing Assistant, Copper Carry, Alexandria, VA
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Best Firm - Jason Albers, Architect, Cooper Carry, Alexandria, VA
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Best Firm - David Kitchens, Architect, Cooper Carry, Alexandria, VA
Napkin Sketch Title: Washington, D.C. Monuments
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Antoine Predock, Antoine Predock Architect
Napkin Sketch Title: American Heritage Center, Laramie, WY
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Antoine Predock, Antoine Predock Architect
Napkin Sketch Title: UNM School of Architecture and Planning, Albuquerque, NM
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Antoine Predock, Antoine Predock Architect
Napkin Sketch Title: Arizona Science Center, Phoenix, AZ
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Antoine Predock, Antoine Predock Architect
Napkin Sketch Title: Canadian Museum for Human Rights, Winnipeg, Manitoba
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Antoine Predock, Antoine Predock Architect
Napkin Sketch Title: The Pantheon, Rome, Italy
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Napkin Sketch Title: New York City
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Napkin Sketch Title: New York City
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Napkin Sketch Title: New York City
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Napkin Sketch Title: New York City
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Napkin Sketch Title: New York City
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Napkin Sketch Title: New York City
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Napkin Sketch Title: New York City
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Napkin Sketch Title: New York City
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
Specially Invited Entries - Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox
Napkin Sketch Title: New York City
RECORD solicited cocktail-napkin sketches from two well-known architects, just to show that leaders in the field still draw. Eugene Kohn, chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox, largely submitted sketches of various New York cityscapes, while Albuquerque-based Antoine Predock drew various iconic buildings, including his own.
Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest - 2012
AIA Convention Winner - Alvin Oei, Designer, Randall/Baylon Architects, Los Angeles, CA
RECORD hosted a mini Cocktail Napkin Sketch Contest in May at the AIA Convention in Washington, D.C. We received submissions from 30 entrants and selected one winner: Los Angeles-based designer Alvin Oei of Randall/Baylon Architects.