OpenAI-sponsored AI architecture competition CartesianForms opens with $120,000 prize pool
carlosbannon · x · 2026-10-19
- The global AI design competition CartesianForms: Architecture Reimagined, organized by FORMAS.AI with PAACADEMY and Parametric Architecture and sponsored by OpenAI, offers over $120,000 in prizes.
- The brief: pick any 50×50 m site worldwide and reimagine an existing structure through a three-generation lens—Inherit (2030), Alter (2055), Pass on—with AI as part of the design process, not a replacement.
- Professional and student categories, solo or teams of up to 5; registration closes December 6, winners announced December 23. Jury includes Mariana Cabugueira, Michel Rojkind, and Arturo Tedeschi.
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