Chad Warner

It seems to me that having the competitor come up with the design for the architecture presents a problem in judging the competition objectively. I always think that great architecture makes for great renderings, while bad architecture does the reverse. Granted, it is our job to make whatever architecture we are given to look as good as possible.

In a competition setting though, I think that someone who is a good designer will be able to come up a better rendering than someone who has no design skills and designs a box with a window or two. My point is, I think if you do this next year, a better solution for this and the following challenges would be to provide a base model that the challengers have to make look good. That would be the way to test someone's rendering skills.