Press Release: 2019-12-06

BSA Space’s 8th Annual Gingerbread Design Competition and Exhibition explores your favorite world monuments.

BSA Space’s 8th Annual Gingerbread Design Competition and Exhibition explores your favorite world monuments.

(Boston, MA Decembers, 2019)— BSA Space’s 8th Annual Gingerbread Design Competition and Exhibition (Gingerbread) will display masterful sweet renditions by local architecture firms from Boston and elsewhere in Massachusetts. This year, 15 teams will explore the theme: "World Monuments” enabling participants to create Gingerbread structures inspired by their favorite monuments. Visitors can feast their eyes on the whimsical creations from December 7, 2019-January 2, 2020 at BSA Space, and then vote for their favorites at gingerbread.architects.org. The exhibition is free. BSA Space is open Monday through Friday, 10am-6pm, weekends and holidays 10am-5pm.

People who really love the delectable sculptures are also invited to vote with their dollars! Funds raised through the exhibition support community design initiatives of the Boston Society for Architecture. Tax-deductible donations of any size are welcome. All donations count.

A list of the participating firms (in alphabetical order):

Array Architects, designLab Architects, Finegold Alexander, Form + Place, HLB Lighting Design, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, LDa Architecture & Interiors, OverUnder, Perkins Eastman, Phase Zero Design, Prellwitz Chilinski Associates, P M Group, Slocum Hall Design Group, Studio 2112 Landscape Architecture, The Architectural Team

The 8th Gingerbread Design Competition and Exhibition Reception, free and open to everyone, will be hosted on December 10, 6:00-8:00 pm. For more details and RSVPs, visit https://www.architects.org/events/10421/2Q19/12/10/8th-gingerbread-design-competition-reception

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BSA Space

BSA Space, Boston’s leading cultural institution for architecture and design, is home to the Boston Society for Architecture (BSA), which supports activities that illuminate the ways in which design improves the quality of our lives. All exhibitions at BSA Space are supported by the BSA. Admission to BSA Space is free and open to the public. For more information, visit architects.org/bsaspace.

About the Boston Society for Architecture

The Boston Society for Architecture (BSA) brings leadership about the built environment to New England’s design profession and to communities throughout Greater Boston. The BSA keeps its 4,500 professional members working at the top of their fields while empowering children, communities, and municipalities to use design to create safe and healthy neighborhoods. Architecture can provide equitable solutions for housing, regional planning, and climate change. The BSA uses the expertise of architects, design and building professionals to democratize design for everyone who lives, works, and plays in Boston. We help architects thrive and communities flourish through design. We believe that architecture is for everyone.

For more information, visit architects.org.