THE HOUSE OF PEACE

A large and important exhibition that travels now through Europe is called: THE MISSING PEACE. It originated in the United States, then traveled to Madrid, Spain, and on May 18th it will open in Sibiu, a city in Transylvania, Romania, The European Cultural Capital of Europe, 2007.

It was in Sibiu, too, that ICARCH originated, in 2003.

In conjunction with this exhibition, we invite you to design THE HOUSE OF PEACE, so it will complement the exhibition THE MISSING PEACE, whose works, if you are interested, you can see a virtual tour of this important exhibition through the following link: http://gallery.tmpp.org/gallery/en/virtual/tour.html

We will actually launch two competitions:

THE HOUSE OF PEACE

 &

A HOUSE FOR MILAREPA.

Why Milarepa…?

This exhibition, THE MISSING PEACE, is an homage to Dalai Lama, besides being a more general homage to peace. And Milarepa was a great Tibetan poet-mystic who lived for some time in a cave and who left us a great collection of poems, besides the message of his way of life. As an anecdotal fact, Constantin Brancusi felt he was a “reincarnation” of Milarepa… this only shows the prestige Milarepa had for artists like Brancusi… more than this, the actor Richard Gere (whom we want to invite to be part of the jury for these two competitions), an excellent photographer as well, published a book called: “Milarepa’s Cave,” besides publishing another beautiful book on Tibet.

We think that it would be beautiful and great if Architecture will also contribute to this theme, so important for human life (and not only “human”), though so neglected, unendingly in trouble.

Let’s contribute to THE MISSING PEACE with a similar plea, from the architects: for PEACE…!

Create a convincing, moving and mobilizing, HOUSE OF PEACE…!

Or / and show the wisdom derived from the virtues of a modus vivendi similar to the one Milarepa advocated in the later part of his life!

If previously we launched a competition for THE HOUSE OF WAR, with the same aim, of actually promoting peace, we invite you now to design:

THE HOUSE OF PEACE

 and / or

A HOUSE FOR MILAREPA

Both will serve the same purpose: to complement the exhibition THE MISSING PEACE, from the field of architecture, our field.