Submission Guidelines

The open call solicits single-image submissions for inclusion in a juried image exhibition. Individuals and collaborative teams are encouraged to apply. The call is open to practitioners working across architecture, landscape, art, design, and related spatial fields, independent of professional licensure.

Provocations

Submissions may engage the White House through any of the following lines of inquiry, or propose others:

• Preservation as an active political practice
• Adaptive reuse as institutional reprogramming
• Democratic deep retrofit of spatial and procedural systems
• Unbuilding, subtraction, and architectural refusal
• Proto-constitutional architectures and draft forms of governance
• Ritual and protocol reconsidered beyond spectacle
• Architectures for plural, distributed publics
• Ecological and infrastructural recalibration
• Pedagogical architectures of civic reorientation
• Pop reinterpretation and mediated form
• Iconoclasm without substitution
• Architecture as capital display, development instrument, and spectacle economy

Deadline: Tuesday, September 15, 2026 (11:59 pm EDT)

Image: One image per submission

Format: JPG or PNG

Resolution: 18 inches × 12 inches (or equivalent) at 300 dpi minimum

Text Statement (max. 150 words)

Images should function as complete visual propositions—capable of standing alone as arguments rather than illustrations.

Submissions may operate at the scale of the building, the landscape, the campus, the city, the territory, or the diagram. We welcome speculative, critical, poetic, and rigorously architectural approaches alike.

Questions may be directed to: info@whitehouses.us