Following the successful launch of Concrete Show India in February 2012, we are pleased to announce that the show will be returning in 2014 in Mumbai… Bigger and better!
Concrete Show India 2014 will provide a platform to the industry suppliers to showcase the best and new technologies in machinery, equipments, commercial concrete products, services and systems.
The format of the event has been designed to offer the best networking and business opportunities and provide an interactive platform for equipment, technology suppliers and end users. Visitors include engineers, architects, contractors, government officials, developers, investors and more.
Visit our website for more information and register to attend for FREE - http://www.concreteshowindia.com
Istanbul Technical University (ITU) announced today that new dates have been confirmed for the 2013 International Design Alliance Congress, which will take place in Istanbul (Turkey) from the 15-17 November 2013. Under the theme “Design Dialects”, the congress will encourage a dialogue about the value of design-based collaboration between the disciplines of industrial design, communication design, interior architecture/design with government leaders, INGO’s, business, science and technology, education and the social sciences.
The proposed theme is a metaphor for confrontation, conversation and collaboration to enable creation and exchange of discourses about, for and by design during the professional dialogues among its different agents. The unique culture and the congress theme will be weaved together to offer participants a stimulating programme and exciting social events.
When asked about the upcoming event, Dr. Alpay Er, Head of the Department of Industrial Product Design at ITU and head of the local congress organising committee stated, “Istanbul is a living design lab where the city is experiencing a ‘design renaissance’ characterised by increasing internationalisation, rapid expansion and the diversification of design education. We strongly believe that the IDA Congress will mark a milestone within the perspective of positioning Istanbul as a leading actor within the global design network.”
The visual identity of the 2013 IDA Congress is also being launched, which has been customised by prominent Turkish graphic designer Sadik Karamustafa. The event’s concept borrows from the main congress identity originally designed and developed by Pentagram, but sets itself apart by visually representing the signature cultural intersection of Istanbul where North meets South and East meets West. It is a “map within a map” that emphasises the paradoxical location of the city that is divided by a sea and unified by two bridges.
The key congress visual will be used in different colours, each of them referring to different events and sections of the former.
With less than a year until the congress, organisers are also launching the call for papers for the education conference, which will take place on 15 November 2013. The deadline for submissions is 7 January 2013. More information is available on the newly designed congress website at http://www.idacongress.com/2013istanbul.
2013 ACSA Administrators Conference: All Over The Place
November 14-16, 2013 in Providence, RI
Host School: Rhode Island School of Design
Co-chairs: William Morrish, Parsons The New School for Design; Pradeep Sharma, Rhode Island School of Design
Practice is changing, transforming and mutating into a polluted, messy and inventive process of disciplinary alliances and partnerships. Disciplines seemingly distant from architecture have thrown conventional pairings into a tailspin, by introducing push and pull forces of new knowledge from fields such as robotics, biology, electronics, climatology, fabrication, sociology, political science, digital information deliberation and social networks. Architecture has had to be inventive to capture these new opportunities while at the same time be promiscuous to survive this radical transformation of normative practice. It has to re-invent itself to generate next practices, future protocols and methods.
New students and the general public are seeking different objectives from the field of architecture than is typically addressed in practice. Architecture is seen as a potential vehicle to respond to resilient urban landscapes, social production of housing, sustainable supply chain material development, robotic assembly of building components and even health policies for building a healthy public realm.
As such architectural education has also had to adapt and invent within the folds of academia and professional licensure criteria. How do we educate, manage, administer and thrive in this new territory of alternative practices? What alternative practices have emerged? What is forecasted? How do we teach a messy and constantly fluctuating terrain? How do we prepare students to be alternative practitioners? Are these alternative practices mapping out a new and more expanded architectural territory of design, development and building production?
The 2013 ACSA Administrators conference will be structured as a think tank; a place to debate contemporary practice and discuss the potential of fostering and administering generative practices in architectural education within this fluctuating field. It will be a productive platform for discussion, innovation, speculation and forecasting. This creative design workshop will be a place for debate and discussion, with design as the instigator and agitator.
We cordially invite you to contribute to the
47th International ASA-Conference “Cutting Edge in Architectural Science”
13th – 16th November 2013
that is co-hosted by the School of Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong & the Architectural Science Association (ASA) by submitting your original research papers & posters on topics in architectural science, including but not limited to the following subjects:
Architecture & Environment - Buildings & Energy - BIM & City Information Modelling - Construction, Material & Technology - Design Education & Design Research
Environmental & Earth Science - Generative, Parametric & Evolutionary Architecture - Interactive Environments & Collaboration - Modes of Production & Mass Customization - Practice-Based & Interdisciplinary Design/Research - Simulation, Prediction, & Evaluation
Theory, Philosophy & Methodology - Thermal Comfort, Lighting & Acoustics
We are facing unprecedented challenges in our natural & human-made, cultural, social & built environments. Working at the intersection of human needs, creative innovation, education, critical thinking, computing, science, design & technology, Architectural Science Practitioners & Researchers are uniquely placed to engage with these challenges & frontiers. Architecture is no longer an organization of matter & space, but systems with multi-layered components & increasingly complex relationships.
Especially in the larger Australasian context, with its philosophical richness & its rising influence on the world stage, the 47th International ASA-Conference hosted by the School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong aims to present cutting edge developments, relevant discourses and, possibly, appropriate cures. It will explore & raise awareness to the need of overstepping disciplinary boundaries & reaching creative communities at all levels of expertise, by pooling resources, knowledge & practices, & integrating them into the discipline of applied architectural research & science.
The 47th International ASA-Conference presents state-of-the-art papers, posters, exhibitions, & postgraduate students’ research that highlight the recent development in applied research, education & praxis. Hereby the conference reaches out to intra-disciplinary & -professional research & practice. Original contributions from associated areas of knowledge or disciplines are recognized as bringing rich connections & are therefore particularly encouraged.
This year we will host a the ASA International Postgraduate Student Consortium to provide postgraduate students with an opportunity to discuss their research with experienced researchers and other students. Submissions are invited from current postgraduate students, who would benefit from constructive discussions of their research.
All abstracts & full papers will be double blind peer reviewed by the ASA International Editorial Board. Based on the quality of their full-paper selected authors will be invited for publishing in Architectural Science Review (ASR). The conference is supported byTaylor & Francis.
More info: http://www.arch.cuhk.edu.hk/asa2013/
Concrete Show South East Asia is the leading event in Indonesia for the concrete industry, unlocking business potential within the region for buyers and suppliers to experience and interact with a full range of products, services and technological solutions. Visitors include engineers, architects, contractors, government officials, developers, investors and more.
Do not miss your chance to take part in a region that is in the midst of an infrastructure boom with increasing international attention. Indonesia is South East Asia’s largest economy and growing, with emphasis placed on infrastructure and housing development. Concrete is at the heart of every construction project so a dedicated event in the South East Asia region is a must.
Visit the website for more information and register to attend for FREE - http://www.concreteshowseasia.com/
SUBTROPICAL CITIES 2013
October 17-19, 2013, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Host School: Florida Atlantic University
Co-chairs: Anthony Abbate, Florida Atlantic University; Francis Lyn, Florida Atlantic University; Rosemary Kennedy, Queensland University of Technology
THE 4th BIENNIAL SUBTROPICAL CITIES CONFERENCE
BRAVING A NEW WORLD: DESIGN INTERVENTIONS FOR CHANGING CLIMATES
OVERVIEW
Catastrophic weather events – including drought and flooding, fires and deforestation, hurricanes, and landslides - have recently affected major centers of population throughout the world’s subtropical climate zones. In coming decades, the world’s population faces the compounding problems of sea level rise and resource depletion, and the impacts of climate-related disruptions on the flow of people and resources, particularly, sustainable food supply. With the forces of climate change now acting upon us, the subtropical urban regions of the world are becoming the harbinger for “Braving a New World”, as the power of local knowledge and focused research is tested against global influences and our everyday engagements and actions reflect our position about the future we are designing for ourselves and for our future generations.
So how do the built environment design professions respond and intervene in the way the community engages with the complex problems of design of urban settlements generally, and public spaces and buildings particularly, for more powerful weather systems?
What paradigm shifts in design philosophy in practice and education are needed to design for a world that is likely to be 2-4 degrees warmer?
Is there a role in cultural knowledge and the place/identity agenda in design more for extremes and less for averages?
What do designers need to know in order to design for increased capacity to produce and store renewable energy or finite resources (water)?
How do we collaborate and with whom to design for shelter to provide greater protection for inhabitants and for their property without further exacerbating anthropomorphic climate change?
Why not design for centrality of urban hydrology and ecology?
How do we incorporate theoretical principles of adaptability to the changing climate and social environment, particularly in regard to urban settlements and food security?
How do we design for increasing population in our subtropical urban centers over the next 40 years to ensure a good quality of life and responsiveness to climate change?
TIMELINE
February 2013—Submission site opens
April 10, 2013—Submission deadline
May 2013—Accept/reject notifications sent to authors with reviewer comments.
Accepted Paper Abstract authors will be required to revise/prepare full-papers for publication in the conference Proceedings.
August 2013—Final revised papers and copyright forms due
October 17-19, 2013—Subtropical Cities Conference in Fort Lauderdale, FL
http://acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/fall-conference/2013-fall-conference
Designing | Education
7th International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia
3-5 October 2013
Monash University, RMIT University and University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
This conference will bring together academics and practitioners to speculate on the future of the design studio as a pivotal platform for architectural education and production, and to consider modifications required in response to the changing demands of society, pedagogy, research and practice.
The conference will be structured around three broad themes:
Provocative Studio Pedagogies
Studio nexus, design ‹ › research
The Future of Practice
3 June 2013 deadline for submitting abstracts
5 August 2013 deadline for submitting completed academic papers and practitioner submissions
For further information and procedures please see the website: http://monash.edu/mada/aasa2013/
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Join us for westedge™, premiering this fall in Santa Monica, CA at the Barker Hangar, a known venue with 90,000 square feet of exhibition space. The newest destination for design, the inaugural edition will feature a curated selection of 200 leading national and international brands offering design inspiration for interior and exterior environments.
westedge offers attendees a full design experience, complete with trade and consumer seminars, culinary demonstrations and samplings, thought-provoking exhibitions and special events all presented in a sophisticated yet accessible environment for architects, designers, collectors, and patrons of the design world alike to enjoy.
Home to internationally renowned museums, leading design schools, hundreds of contemporary galleries, and a prodigious number of leading architecture and design firms, Los Angeles serves as the perfect landscape for a progressive, international contemporary design fair.
Tent London is one of the largest design trade shows taking place during the London Design Festival and described as the most creative event in the design calendar.
Extraordinary interiors products are shown from over 200 established independents and undiscovered talents; accompanied by spectacular installations, inspirational talks, and presentations from country pavilions.
Over 20,000 international trade buyers, high calibre specifiers, opinion forming media and design savvy public from 52 different countries attend the four-day event. Now in its seventh year, it is regarded as the most cutting-edge and progressive trade exhibition internationally and a must attend for those who need to be seen with their finger on the pulse.
Find inspiration for your next project whilst sourcing and purchasing the next big thing.
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RELATED COMPETITION: Project Spaces, at Tent London & Super Brands London
First staged in 2003, the London Design Festival is one of the world’s most important annual design events. The Festival programme is made up of over 300 events and exhibitions staged by hundreds of partner organisations across the design spectrum and from around the world.
Our Mission Statement The London Design Festival is an annual event, held ‘to celebrate and promote London as the design capital of the world, and as the gateway to the International creative community.’
Over ten days in September, the London Design Festival featured hundreds of events which took place across London, showcasing the city’s pivotal role in global design.
Save the date: London Design Festival 2013 will take place on the 14th - 22nd September 2013.
A centerpiece of the Festival is our commissions, the Landmark Projects, created with the help of our generous supporters. For the Landmark Projects we commission some of the world’s greatest architects and designers to create pieces of work in some of London’s best-loved public spaces.
And then there are the Partner events; if anything is evidence of this city’s vitality, it’s the sheer scope and quality of the Festival events programmed by our Partners. From established businesses to emerging practices, from entrepreneurs to educators, from manufacturers to retailers, our Partners represent the heart of London’s design culture.
The Festival is both a cultural and a commercial event. The programme ranges from major international exhibitions to trade events, installations to talks and seminars, from product launches to receptions, private views and parties. The majority of events are free of charge - enabling visitors to participate, listen, learn, commission and make purchases.
The Festival is funded through a combination of public and private sources. The Mayor Of London’s office provides grant funding for the Festival; Arts Council England have been long term supporters of the Festival. Private funding (approx 60%) is raised through sponsorship of Festival projects alongside a small range of London Design Festival products and services delivered throughout the year.
Festival audiences are significant, with an estimated audience of over 350,000 people, from over 60 countries with a wider audience of over 1m people coming into contact with the major public commissions in 2012. Audiences at the V&A totaled 111,538 – which is the highest ten day figure recorded in the museum’s history. The Festival had a programme of 304 projects and events staged by 295 partner organisations including media partners. The Festival also attracts substantial press coverage, with 1,969 articles about the Festival appearing worldwide.
Vision Competition: Recycling Socialism from Tallinn Architecture Biennale on Vimeo.
Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2013: Recycling Socialism
September 4th-8th, 2013, Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn Architecture Biennale is an architecture and urban planning forum that continues the tradition of the Nordic-Baltic Architecture Triennale and brings together theory and practice, experience and innovation in order to spark fruitful discussion. This year’s biennale is curated by b210, a team of young architects (Karin Tõugu, Kadri Klementi, Aet Ader, Kaidi Õis, Mari Hunt) and organised by the Estonian Centre of Architecture.
The topic of TAB 2013 - Recycling Socialism - focuses on questions: What is there to recycle from the spaces, structures, projects, ideas, concepts and materials of socialist architecture? What is there to recycle for today’s life and new utopias of the future?
Main organiser
Estonian Centre of Architecture
Co-organisers
City of Tallinn, Estonian Academy of Arts, Union of Estonian Architects, Museum of Estonian Architecture
Curators
b210 (Aet Ader, Kadri Klementi, Karin Tõugu, Kaidi Õis, Mari Hunt)
Project manager
Lill Sarv
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Press and media
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Supporters
Cultural Endowment of Estonia, City of Tallinn, Union of Estonian Architects
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RELATED COMPETITION: Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2013 | Vision Competition: Recycling Socialism
As an International Event of contemporary architecture, Kaunas Architecture Festival (KAFe-2013) aims at to rise architectural awareness and understanding among different groups of audience – both professionals of architecture and design, and engaged and interested citizens and guests of Kaunas and Lithuania who simply enjoy good and inspiring architecture, and who want to know more about its international trends, and how surrounding physical and cultural contexts and realities affect contemporary architectural designs.
KAFe-2013 Dates and Event Theme
More information: http://www.kafe2013.lt
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RELATED COMPETITION: Kaunas Architecture Festival - International Student Projects Competition
Concrete Show South America is the leading exhibition and conference on concrete technology in Latin America. The 2012 event brought together more than 29,000 professionals from the concrete and civil construction production chains. Visitors include engineers, architects, contractors, government officials, developers, investors and more.
It is recognized by the worldwide market as the most important meeting point of the concrete production chain with the Latin American civil construction industry.
Visit our website for more information and register to attend for FREE: http://www.concreteshow.com.br/english/
The Integrated Landscape designed for the No Man’s Land Project workshop held in 2010, by students from the Dessau Institute of Architecture (Christos Passas Studio).
Agenda
The United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus, is a demilitarized zone patrolled by the UN Peacekeeping Force that spans the full length of the island from west to east and covers an area of around 350km². Although accounting for only around 3% of the island’s total area, the UN Zone has turned into a separate geopolitical entity of its own that will potentially play a vital political and economical role in a future reunification of the island’s north and south parts.
The Visiting School will draw from the results of the “No Man’s Land Project” workshop (held in 2010) and will be based on the hypothetical event of the return of the confiscated land and villages inside the Buffer Zone back to their former proprietors, following a 38-year period of abandonment.
The main agenda will be to explore how digital tools can address the conflicting nature of the Zone on an urban scale and explore non-linear scenarios of enabling its targeted rehabilitation. Intensive tuition by experienced tutors will be in the following software platforms: Rhino/Grasshopper for Rhino/Python scripting for Rhino and Grasshopper.
Eligibility
The workshop is open to current architecture and design students, phd candidates and young professionals worldwide.
Teaching Staff
Pavlos Fereos [Bartlett GAD RC2 Tutor]
Kostas Grigoriadis [AA Diploma Unit 2 Tutor]
Michail Georgiou [ARC University of Nicosia Lecturer]
Alkis Dikaios [Partner Dikaios+Associates]
+ Invited guests to be announced soon
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/cyprus
http://cyprus.aaschool.ac.uk/
IFAC2013 is the acronym of Internatioal Festival of Art and Construction, it takes place in August 2013 in Covarrubias, Burgos, (Spain) a medieval village of 627 people.
IFAC is a space where you can exchange ideas and knowledge, designed for 250 youngsters from all around the world with some kind of relation to art and architecture whom will live together for 10 days, in a creative and integrative space of different arts, where debate, work and exchange experiences, in a context of analysis and recovery of rural areas, establishing a balance between academic, practical, cultural and social.
IFAC2013 is an initiative started by the non-profit association “Movimiento a la Autosuficiencia” (Self-Sufficiency Movement), who’s aim is to:
- Support avant-garde artistic and technological creations.
- Reverse aggressive over-consumption tendencies.
- Spread and encourage self-sufficient practices.
- Experience alternative building methods.
- Exploring and research of ways towards self-sufficiency.
Photo from IFAC2012
The IFAC dynamic has three basic principles:
-Practical education: most part of the material will be used in a practical and experimental way. We encourage an empirical learning environment that will help the development of “collective thinking” through cooperation, integration and dialogue, creating a “horizontal atmosphere”.
-Creative freedom: free expression is encouraged by the rotation of participants through workshops, having the possibility of attending as many of them as desired, combining them. The presence of free time, with free access to all tools and material, reinforces this breaking of enclosed schedules, specific places or prejudice.
-Collective enrichment: IFAC is an exchange of knowledge and experience. IFAC does not believe in lineal transmission of knowledge, everybody actively participates in the decisions made in the workshops, fostering the emergence of parallel initiatives spontaneous and unpredictable.
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RELATED COMPETITION: Sunshade Competition
Set at the Cal Design Lab at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, this workshop will explore how to design natural user interfaces that are, in fact, natural. Physical interfaces are understood, learned and experienced through the body and should allow for more natural interactions that fit the way we think. Workshop participants interested in responsive environments, interactive displays, gesture, touch and haptics will learn how to prototype interfaces, design gestural languages, and test and refine designs with user testing. Participants will be given tutorials in gestural prototyping technologies, understanding the context of use, and user experience design. Workshop exercises include designing context-based gesture sets using the Kinect, and developing screen based gestures using the LEAP SDK. This workshop will be led by Jody Medich, a visual and sensory designer; most notably, she was the Global Designer Director at Cadillac.com as well as the former creative director at Yahoo!.
The 2013 Cal Design Lab will include the following workshops: Expressive Movement in Architecture and Design (July 15-19), Robotic Prototypes in Architecture (July 22-26), and Frontiers in Desktop Fabrication (July 29-August 2). Each one-week workshop is designed by an expert in the topic domain that is pushing the boundaries of making, and features a combination of informational lectures, structured hands-on learning activities and self-directed open-ended experimentation. For more info, please visit: http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/design-futures-workshop-series/.
Artforming’s Summer/Build is an experiential learning opportunity for students and working professionals, of art and design, sharing a passion for translating ideas. Coupling the acts of thinking and making you will explore, express and translate spatial thinking into built form. Summer/Build strives to consider the relationships between art, architecture and landscape through a combination of emerging technologies and engagement with materials and assemblies.
Program Details
Summer/Build will run from August 5th through August 15th and will be structured as an intensive two-phase workshop at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts (windhover.org) located in Rockport, Massachusetts. The workshop will run with a minimum enrollment of 10 and a maximum enrollment of 15. Participants will stay over at Windhover in the provided lodgings for the duration of the workshop. Phase One will involve a collaborative design exercise explored through digital processes and one to one scale experimentation. Phase Two will involve translating design thinking into built form and resulting in a temporary site specific installation. Prior experience with building or Rhino/Grasshopper is welcomed but by no means required. Work produced throughout the workshop will be shared and documented with a broader goal of exhibition and publication. Documentation will be made available to all participants following the conclusion of the workshop.
Program Costs
Tuition is $2,500.00 and includes lodging for the 11 days, local transportation, breakfast/lunch, construction/fabrication expenses, and a celebration gala. Participants will be responsible for transportation to and from Rockport, dinner and any additional meals, bedding, and laptop/software.
Additional Information
Please visit Artforming’s website (artforming.org) for additional information and examples of work designed and fabricated by the Artforming collaborative. For further information or if interested in a Summer/Build application please contact Program Director, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or visit the Summer/Build website.
Artforming Mission Statement
Artforming is a Boston-based collective of artists, educators and design professionals. Our mission is rooted in the conception, fabrication, and installation of multi-sensory public art and architecture intended to foster individual contemplation and open public dialog. Our interests focus the work on site-specific installations that are imbued with fundamental principles of architecture and art. Research and the resulting built work centers on environments, emerging technologies and the intersection of art and science.
OPEN CALL: Summer Studio 2013 - The Hunter and Artists Cabin
Design - Digital Fabrication + Milling - Farming - Hands On Construction - Landscape
Applications due Friday April 5th
Apply Today at +FARM website: http://www.plusfarm.org
Earn IDP + Elective Credits
Summer Studio Schedule: August 3 - 11, 2013
The project for this year’s week long intensive workshop is to design, fabricate, and build a cabin for a Hunter + Artist. During the week participants are introduced to site specific design processes, and will be instructed in all phases of building through hands-on construction. We will design directly on the farm, fabricate components at Rigidized Metals Digital Milling Shop, and construct the cabin with master craftsmen.
Working directly with experts we will engage architecture directly, living, working, and building at the farm. This year, the studio will explore the relationship between the farm and architectural technology through the construction of a cabin for a Hunter + Artist. Training will be provided to all participants for the digital and analog tools.
Seven applicants selected from the open call will work closely with experts in environmental design, digital fabrication, building, and practicing professionals on site, developing practical, technological, and ecological skills. We thank the Five Sisters Farm in Perrysburg, NY for their hospitality during the workshop.
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RELATED COMPETITION: OPEN CALL: Summer Studio 2013 - The Hunter and Artists Cabin
OVERVIEW
The production, reproduction, and transformation of urban space via social, economic, and environmental forces presents a complex challenge for architects, designers, engineers, planners and other professionals. There is an urgent need to use our professional capacities to critically reconsider and recalibrate our engagement with design and society to effectively respond to the challenges of a rapidly urbanising world.
The Msc Building and Urban Design in Development at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit is an innovative 12-month post-graduate course combining cultural, social, economic, political and spatial analysis in the effort to present a holistic response to the growing complexities within the design and production of cities.
Led by an internationally diverse faculty with vast experience in research and practice, the objectives of the MSc BUDD are to equip those interested in the development of urban areas with a political economy perspective of space and a nuanced comprehension of the unique needs, abilities, aspirations, and resistance of urban dwellers in various contexts - specifically in geographies of the Global South. Students are charged to critically challenge different morphologies and tensions that shape complex neo-liberal landscapes at different scales and to respond with strategically coordinated processes of urban design, architecture and urbanism.
The opportunity to acquire these relevant concepts and skills is achieved through a combination of theoretical investigations, writing, hands-on studio projects and extended field research trips working directly with local partners, communities and government representatives. This way of working calls for an innovative attitude in which design is reconfigured at the urban and the architectural scale. Urban practice becomes something more - it becomes an activator for change.
PARTICIPANTS
As a profoundly international and inter-disciplinary course, we welcome applications from individuals of diverse cultural and professional backgrounds spanning architecture, urban design and planning as well as parallel fields such as geography, sociology, anthropology, and philosophy.
WEB and CONTACT
More details on course structure/content, faculty, course output, and alumni profiles can be found on the MSc BUDD website at
http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/dpu/programmes/postgraduate/msc-building-urban-design-in-development.
If you have any questions about the MSc BUDD program at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit please contact Dr. Camillo Boano (Course Director) at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Set at the Cal Design Lab at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, this workshop will explore emerging technologies that push the bounds of what can be physically made using inexpensive and accessible desktop fabrication technologies. Workshop participants interested in advanced modeling, integrated electronics prototyping and physical fabrication techniques will learn how to hack 3D printers, vinyl and paper cutters to create origami-folding 2D to 3D models, interactive objects with integrated sensing and circuitry, and 3D models using experimental materials. Participants will be given tutorials in basic modeling, plotting, and fabrication programming. Workshop exercises include creating 3D jewelry from cement, actuated origami, and custom capacitive touch sensors. This workshop will be led by Bjoern Harmann, an Assistant Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley and Ronald Rael, who is an architect, author as well as an Assistant Professor of Architecture at UC Berkeley.
The 2013 Cal Design Lab will include the following workshops: Expressive Movement in Architecture and Design (July 15-19), Robotic Prototypes in Architecture (July 22-26), and Gestural and Natural User Interfaces (August 5-9). Each one-week workshop is designed by an expert in the topic domain that is pushing the boundaries of making, and features a combination of informational lectures, structured hands-on learning activities and self-directed open-ended experimentation. For more info, please visit: http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/design-futures-workshop-series/.
Never Built: Los Angeles will explore the “what if” Los Angeles. A thorough compendium of projects that only saw the drawing board, the exhibition asks: Why is Los Angeles a hotbed of great architects, yet so lacking in urban innovation.
Co-curated by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin and designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects, the show looks at visionary works that had the greatest potential to reshape the city, from buildings to master plans, parks to follies and transportation proposals any of which could have transformed both the physical reality and the collective perception of the metropolis. The stories surrounding these projects shed light on a reluctant city whose institutions and infrastructure have often undermined inventive, challenging urban schemes.
Many of these schemes—promoting a denser, more vibrant city—still have relevance today, and many could inspire future projects. The projects beg the question: Why were they never built?
The show will contain dozens of illustrations exploring the visceral (and sometimes misleading) power of architectural ideas conveyed through renderings, blueprints, models, and the lost art of hand drawing. Through these images, and accompanying narratives, the city is interpreted in a new light, with discarded projects understood as art. Never Built probes these schemes, setting the stage for a renewed interest in visionary projects in Los Angeles.
Calls open for ‘Adaptive and Evolving Design’ that will be held in the context of HCI International 2013 ( http://www.hcii2013.org ) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 21-26 July 2013.
‘Adaptive and Evolving Design’ will be one of the parallel sessions of the ‘Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions ’ Conference that will be held in the context of HCI International 2013.
Your paper will appear in the Conference Proceedings along with the other regular submissions that will be accepted for oral presentation, following a peer-review process.
The HCI International 2013 Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in a multi-volume set. Papers will appear in volumes of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Extended Poster abstracts will be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.
All volumes will be available on-line through the SpringerLink Digital Library, readily accessible by all subscribing libraries around the world, and will be indexed by a number of services including EI and ISI CPCI-S. For more information about the Conference Proceedings, please visit our website
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Friday, 1 March 2013 Submission through the CMS of the camera-ready version (full paper, minimum 6 pages long, maximum 10 pages long) of all papers
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Architectural Association (AA) Bedford Square // Hooke Park
22 July – 4 August 2013
DLAB experiments with the integration of algorithmic and generative design methodologies with large scale digital fabrication tools. DLAB will investigate natural growth processes in relation to innovative concepts of architectural tectonics and fabrication. We will carefully interweave these concepts with interaction and participatory design to create full-scale working prototypes. The programme will be formulated as a two-phase process. During the initial phase participants will benefit from the unique atmosphere and facilities of AA’s London home. The second phase will shift to AA Hooke Park campus and revolve around the fabrication and assembly of a full-scale architectural intervention.
Some of the most prominent features which the participants will be exposed to during DLAB include:
Applications
The deadline for applications is 8 July 2013.
An application can be made by completing the online application form or completing the PDF application form and emailing it to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Fees
The AA Visiting School requires a total fee of £1,660 per participant, which includes a £700 deposit and a £60 Visiting Membership.
Fees are non-refundable. Fees do not include flights. Train tickets between London-Hooke Park, accommodation, food in Hooke Park, and materials are included in the fees.
Students need to bring their own laptops, digital equipment and model making tools.
WEBSITE:
http://dlab.aaschool.ac.uk/
Set at the Cal Design Lab at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, this workshop will explore a new multidisciplinary approach to robotics. Interest in robotics has risen dramatically over the last fifteen years in the fields of architecture, engineering, industrial design, and art. Designers in the future will be called upon to create spaces that are computationally enhanced, interactive, responsive and artificially intelligent. Rather than designing traditional buildings and simply applying a computational layer, this workshop will explore a more integrative and synthetic approach. A review of the literature reveals a lack of established methodologies for designing architectural spaces as intelligent spatial systems. As such, it is clear that a new multidisciplinary approach is needed to bring together research in the fields of interaction design (IxD), architectural design, product design, human computer interaction (HCI), embedded systems, and engineering. Workshop participants will explore a range of emerging software and hardware tools and techniques for designing, programming, visualizing, fabricating and testing parametric robotic architectural prototypes well beyond the traditional domain of architecture or design education. This workshop will be led by Jason Kelly Johnson, a founding design partner of Future Cities Lab in San Francisco.
The 2013 Cal Design Lab will include the following workshops: Expressive Movement in Architecture and Design (July 15-19), Frontiers in Desktop Fabrication (July 29-August 2), and Gestural and Natural User Interfaces (August 5-9). Each one-week workshop is designed by an expert in the topic domain that is pushing the boundaries of making, and features a combination of informational lectures, structured hands-on learning activities and self-directed open-ended experimentation. For more info, please visit: http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/design-futures-workshop-series/.
Dear prospective student,
If architecture, and resulting urbanism, is one of the more tangible cultural manifestations of today’s economic, social, political and also technological realities, it is clearly essential to pose a reorientation of its practice at a time in which architecture lives uncomfortably with rapid changes to paradigms on which it is based.
Therefore, a more global approach to the profession and academic training is required, able to unite architectural thinking and the pragmatism of professional practice, and thus strengthen the two invariable elements of the profession: scientific-technological knowledge, and awareness of the underlying cultural base. Today, these abilities, as well as entrepreneurship, are clearly fundamental to being able to lead creative teams and understand the complexity and reach of the profession.
IE Master in Architectural Design, intends, to bridge the space between the existing fragmented post-professional architecture courses and the ever shifting reality of professional practice.
We propose an ambitious academic program for the IE Master in Architectural Design based on three parallel themes of praxis:
Thanks to a prominent international and Spanish faculty and industry leaders in each sector, those architects who gain the title of IE Master in Architectural Design be equipped with the most tailored and flexible criteria for the practice of architecture.
An outstanding environment for research, experimentation and professional relationships signal IE Business School and the IE University contribution, guaranteeing that IE Master in Architectural Design is infused with the entrepreneurial and leadership spirit of these institutions.
IE Master in Architectural Design will strengthen those aspects which we consider essential in architecture training and which have served to place Spanish professionals in the vanguard of architectural practice and education in the most influential cities and centers throughout the world. We emphasize the value of global training and the development of interdisciplinary teams with the capacity to materialize architectural projects based on an adherence to the contemporary discourse which the must bring into being.
Our interest is to enrich the experience of professionals as they move towards achieving the IE Master in Architectural Design, the program will be developed rotationally between Madrid and Barcelona, thus benefitting from the cultural, patrimonial and urban management paradigms which characterize both cities.
We believe the IE Master in Architectural Design to be the only program in Europe which strengthens architectural thought, pragmatism in professional practice and scientific rigour, all of which we regard as necessary for every committed architect to exercise their profession in the immediate future.
We invite you to play an active role in this stimulating challenge.
Javier Quintana
Dean
IE School of Architecture & Design
Jorge García de la Cámara
Director
IE Master in Architectural Design
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The Master in Work Space Design is an innovative post-professional program that addresses the implications of change in our contemporary work place. There are new complexities in the work place – including how we work, where we work, the technology we use, increased competitiveness, new forms of communication, globalization, stakeholders’ expectations, sustainability and more. The program has been designed to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to establish positive relationships between the design of the work space, business and the individual.
It is a comprehensive program that integrates design strategies, user needs and the organizational culture of businesses.
Through careful analyses of the complexities of the work place, business cultures, user requirements and perceptions, along with advanced design instruction, the program seeks to provide an innovative understanding of the relationship between organizational culture and architectural concerns; paying special attention to the interior design of the work environment and its relation with branding, efficiency and social responsibility.
The innovative and pioneering profile of this master course lies in the combination of IE’s business expertise in conjunction with the research knowledge of the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design at the Royal College of Art in London.
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The program is aimed at a wide variety of professionals involved in the design and decision-making process of the work environment such as:
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We are seeking for dynamic, motivated, creative candidates with excellent academic and professional backgrounds and the right interpersonal skills that are capable of bringing momentum to the learning process. If you think that the Master in Work Space Design is right for you, we encourage you to start your online application.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Admissions Department at (+34) 915 689 610 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .
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The Master in Architectural Management and Design is a 13 month program aimed to bridge the gap that exists between advanced design and the business in the architectural field.
The innovative and pioneering content of this master course lies in the combination of IE’s well known entrepreneurial spirit and business expertise in conjunction with the design approach of IE School of Architecture.
Its blended format allows students to meet their professional obligations while studying. The master combines online sessions with on-site periods.
The Architect’s Backstage lecture series will enrich the students experience through direct exposure to leaders of top architecture practices who will explain their work underlining the necessary back office to achieve excellence in design.
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The Master in Architectural Management and Design is conceived for a range of professionals within the field; from young independent, independent professionals willing to start their own practice and junior designers immersed in professional practices looking to take on management responsibilities, to partners in architectural firms willing to reinvent their practices.
Most architects are, in fact, entrepreneurs and vocational designers who face business responsibilities without adequate tools and training. This program addresses the design implications of business decisions and vice versa.
The combination of hands-on practice and teamwork with innovative online teaching methods creates a new, advanced, and culturally diverse platform, exposing you to an international network of professional contacts in your professors, corporate collaborators, and of course, your fellow students, equipping you with the up-to-date specialized skills that you will need as you embark on your career.
admissions
We are seeking for dynamic, motivated, creative candidates with excellent academic and professional backgrounds and the right interpersonal skills that are capable of bringing momentum to the learning process. If you think that the Master in Architectural Management and Design is right for you, we encourage you to start your online application.
If you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact the Admissions Department at (+34) 915 689 610 or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) .
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workshop at the Symposium on Smart Cities during the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments [IE’13], Athens, Greece
new deadline April 31, 2013
Access to the production of energy, food, knowledge, and objects are fundamental to the creation of self-sufficient habitats. The 2013 Edition of the IAAC GSS wants to address the challenges and opportunities which exist in our urban environments with regards to the production of these elements.
This year, 11 international institutions from five continents will participate simultaneously in the Global School Program July 15th - 26th, 2013.
Barcelona, Spain · Launceston, Australia · Brisbane, Australia · Shanghai, P.R.C. · Mumbai, India · Tehran, Iran · Istanbul, Turkey · New York City, NY, USA · Santiago, Chile · Lima, Peru · San Diego, CA, USA / Tijuana, Mexico
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McNeel Rhinoceros, Grasshopper 3D, Processing, Arduino
Application deadline is May 31st 2013.
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More information: http://www.iaac.net/globalschool/2013/
Set at the Cal Design Lab at the College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley, this workshop will explore the expressive possibilities of recognizing and using motion to build more “intuitive” systems in domains such as architecture, public art and industrial design. Workshop participants interested in modern-day applications of motion studies and social factors examine the current state of the art in sensing and actuation technologies that detect and perform motion, applying this knowledge to working prototype designs. This is useful in designing automated windows or doors, or reactive public displays. Participants will be given tutorials in basic computation, electronic, micro-controller, sensor and actuation technologies. Workshop exercises include the construction of simple automata, design of public-scale reactive displays, and improvisational video prototyping. This workshop will be led by Wendy Ju, the program coordinator for the Cal Design Lab.
The 2013 Cal Design Lab will also include the following workshops: Robotic Prototypes in Architecture (July 22-26), Frontiers in Desktop Fabrication (July 29-August 2), and Gestural and Natural User Interfaces (August 5-9). Each one-week workshop is designed by an expert in the topic domain that is pushing the boundaries of making, and features a combination of informational lectures, structured hands-on learning activities and self-directed open-ended experimentation. For more info, please visit: http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/design-futures-workshop-series/.
Below is a brief information about our workshop, for more info you can visit our page at http://www.kotorapss.me
Location: Old prison building in Kotor, Montenegro (UNESCO World Heritage site)
Mentors and lecturers at Kotor APSS 2013:
Dijana Vučinić, DVARP, Montenegro
Boštjan Vuga, SADAR+VUGA, Ljubljana
Simon Hartmann, HHF architecten, Basel
Saša Begović and Marko Dabrović, 3LHD Architects, Croatia
Andreas Ruby, Ruby Press, Berlin.
Hubert Klumpner and Alfredo Brillembourg, , Urban-Think Tank, Zurich
Ivan Milošević and Marko Stjepčević, AIM studio, Montenegro
There are two main parts of Kotor APSS:
Kotor APSS 2013 Topic
South Adriatic is used as a common name for a part of Adriatic coast that includes Montenegrin coast and southern Croatian regions. This space was merged by one of the first regional plans – “Regional plan for South Adriatic” proposed in the late sixties of the last century (1964-1968). The plan has been an initiative of the Government of SFR Yugoslavia, implemented together with United Nations Development Programme. As one of the last year mentors - Architect Branislav Gregovic pointed out - many perceive this plan as the beginning of an institutional approach to spatial planning in this part of former Yugoslavia and, at the same time, a plan that initiated the modernization of this part of the former country.
The plan itself has marked the beginning of the tourism as an economic branch in the region. Tourism has been considered as an addition and insurance to the existing economy and the way to bring leisure closer to working people of industrialization.
Fifty years later Tourism has a completely different role in our society. It is considered as the main development lane of Montenegrin economy and the greatest challenge for urban planning. While “Regional plan for South Adriatic” has measured tourism growth by the growth of infrastructure, culture, employment and production, we lost track at some point during the 90s and focused on the number of beds. Demand for leisure became equal to demand for occupied beds and the number of nights spent on the coast.
One of the key moments that have influenced urban chaos in Montenegrin coast seems to be the introduction of the apartment as a tourism unit. Apartment, or bed production has been much cheaper, faster and less demanding than hotel building. The unit itself has multiplied and shaped the architecture as well as the wider urban context and certain patterns in social behavior. During the 90s, the apartment unit has created the urban chaos in the city on the coast we are struggling to correct today.
The workshop will explore the question of “place” in wider urban context and its transformation under the influence of market demands and rapid development pushed by transition. We want to go back and examine the essence of the city and its architecture on one side, and residential unit as one of the fundamental elements of any urban environment on the other side.
The workshop will investigate new elements that will redefine relationship between architecture and the city, and improve urban background by changing architectural fundamentals such as tourism housing unit.
Register Now: we are taking between six to ten participants in open registration for Build Lightly Costa Rica. Students from all Universities, young architects, intern architects, and volunteers are encouraged to apply. If you are interested in joining us for the Costa Rica summer workshop, email your full name, university or program name, and your current year in school to info{at}buildlightly.com to receive an application form. The Costa Rica Design-Build Studio will be an intense two weeks of living, designing, and building together. Summer 2013 design-build Studio takes place in Costa Rica, read more below if you want to get in on the fun:
Instructor: Miriam Gee, AIA, LEED AP BD+C, Build Lightly co-founder
Guest Instructors: TBD.
Location: Turrialba, Cost Rica, Central America
Client: Finca Antigua – organic coffee farm
Project: Sustainability/Organic Learning Center and Casa, $8k budget
Site: San Juan Sur, hilltop location w/panoramic views
Language: Spanish is recommended, but NOT required. Course will be taught in English.
Build Lightly meets Pura Vida: Study abroad in Costa Rica! Costa Rica is the ecological oasis of Central America with its comfortable lifestyle, peaceful democracy and overwhelming natural beauty. It is host to numerous indigenous flora and fauna, from howler monkeys to toucans. The waves are prime, the beauty is staggering and the sluggish pace seductive. “Eternal spring” temperatures and microclimates of Turrialba contrast with heavy rains, or “aguacero.” Turrialba is a walkable town of 70,000 and is accessible by bus, about an hour from the Capital. It is known for world-class white water rapids, an active volcano, and agriculture. Students will be hosted by local families and immersed in the culture with optional Spanish classes available. Weekdays will be spent on site as the student team designs and builds collaborates with our instructors, volunteers, and the client to create a fully-realized structure. Educational trips or outdoor adventures may be scheduled on weekends.
Meet our client: Jorge Avendaño of Finca Antigua, one of the few organic coffee farmers in Turrialba, Costa Rica:
Finalized dates for the course are July 14th – July 28th, 2013. The total of the Costa Rica Summer Workshop will be US$1,400 per participant. A US$600 deposit is required to secure your spot as part of the application. Costs cover fourteen days of housing, laundry, food, ground transportation, construction materials, equipment and workshop instruction. Applications are due April 12th, 2013.
The bucolic Indiana landscape serves as our inspiration, our site, and our home for the week. You’ll live on the farm, collaborate to design and make meaningful space that you create with your own hands. This is a unique, immersive experience designed for discussion, collaborative design and investigation of ceremonial place-making in the landscape.
Live on-site, collaborate with a team of creatives, carpenters + celebrants.
Design charrette led by Honored Guest Host STEVE BADANES of Jersey Devil Design/Build + University of Washington!
Open to students, architects, landscape architects, artists, carpenters, celebrants, and others from related fields. Limited to ten participants.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
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IAAC Global Summer School Istanbul sessions is organized by SayaSaya and hosted at Istanbul Technical University Architecture Faculty Taşlışla Taksim.
Project site is the network of ITU campuses distributed amlong the city. Generative design workshop includes environmental mapping and design via Arduino sensors and prototype production for vehicular network interconnecting the campuses.
Date: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Venue: Cooper-Hewitt Design Center
Join landscape architect Elizabeth Kennedy as she presents her work on the Brooklyn Grange farm, located on a massive 65,000 sq ft roof towering eleven stories over the East River, atop Building no. 3 at the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard. Constructed as a Stormwater Management Tool funded by a NYC DEP Green Infrastructure Grant under PlaNYC, the project serves as an inspiring model of green roof possibilities.
About the Harlem Focus series:
John Reddick, architectural consultant and Harlem historian, will curate and lead a series of talks featuring designers, architects, and artists whose work engages and affects the local community. The Harlem Focus series will highlight design issues in Harlem, ranging from public art and landscape architecture, to rooftop farms and urban woodland restoration, and explore how design will affect this unique neighborhood as it continues to evolve, change and inspire.
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/events/harlem-focus-roof-farming-urban-rooftop
CUCR, Goldsmiths, University of London are pleased to announce that we will be hosting the International Visual Sociology Association 2013 Annual Conference from 8 to 10 July 2013.
Inspired by Michael Burawoy’s concept of “public sociology,” we dedicate the 2013 IVSA conference to the concept of the “public image”, and the ways that visual sociology can meet Burawoy’s challenge to bring a sociological understanding of social life to a vibrant, active and diverse public. Public and urban sociology endeavors to bring sociology into dialogue with audiences beyond the academy, an open dialogue in which both sides deepen their understanding of public issues in cities.
Information and submission guidelines can be found at:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr
http://www.visualsociology.org/conference.html
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RELATED: Call for Panel Proposals and Papers: 2013 IVSA Conference
The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley offers three introductory six-week summer programs in the study of architecture [IN]ARCH, landscape architecture [IN]LAND, and sustainable city planning [IN]CITY, as well as one advanced studio course in architecture [IN]ARCH ADV. This Summer [IN]STITUTE, July 8-August 16, 2013, gives students the opportunity to explore the methods and theories of these fields, experience the culture of the design and planning studios, connect with top faculty and professionals, and build a portfolio for graduate school application.
The introductory programs are designed for post-baccalaureate students or senior-level undergraduates with majors in other fields who are interested in learn more about environmental design. We will also consider exceptional students who will have completed their junior year of college by June 2013. The advanced architecture studio is open to students who have already obtained their undergraduate degree in Architecture or who will be entering their senior year in June 2013. Each program consists of a lecture series, a design or planning studio, and either a seminar or media course. The total cost for the program is $3,400 not including UC Berkeley summer session fees.
Apply now through April 26, 2013.
For more detailed information, please visit the Summer Institute website at http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/college/academics/summer-institutes/apply.
Marco Poletto and Claudia Pasquero on behalf of the Architectural Association in Milano are proud to launch the second spring/summer season with a renewed program of lectures and events leading to our International Summer School focused on the topic of alternative FOOD and renewable ENERGY for the Urban Environment.
In the end of March we will launch our first lecture series in Milano. The AA MILANO Spring Lecture Series is part of the AA Public Program, one of the most diverse and prestigious open lectures series in the world, and it will be stages in 3 different venues across the city: the Polytechnic, the NIL28 and the Stecca degli Artigiani.
This first round of talks will end with a dedicated exhibition in the Gallery SpazioFMGperl’architecttura, opening on the 23rd of May.
For updates visit: cybergardens2013.aaschool.ac.uk
Matteo Pasquinelli, a young Italian philosopher, will open the series with his Manifesto on Urban Cannibalism, setting the stage for the debate that will inform the main Summer School, the experimental design workshop taking place between the 6th and the 16th of July and involving international participants working on the theme of cyber-gardening the city; this year each team taking part to the design experiment will breed alternative urban food supply chains and renewable energy networks of algae, bacteria and urban insects; the key design instruments will be direct field work and a custom design twitter based real-time digital interface. Applications are now welcome.
Summer School Brief
As the world’s population grows at an ever faster pace and the effects of global warming threaten crops worldwide, the global reserve of food is reaching an historic low. Global metropolis like Milan will soon find themselves in a condition of shortage, perhaps not dissimilar to the one experienced in the past in periods of war or siege, where food and energy were either absent or unaffordable to the majority.
Philosopher Matteo Pasquinelli claims that it is in this periods that the culinary art has demonstrated its ability to expand the horizons of edibility by reinventing the urban landscape as a potentially productive one; in periods of shortages the art of cultivating the nutritious potentials of what Gilles Clement calls the “third landscape” elevated itself to a gastro-political art of resistance towards the enemy and of building a new collective identity.
Such practice posses a radical attitude that goes far beyond the current fashion for urban allotment and farmer markets in the sense that has the capability to reinvent our perception of those interstitial ecologies that are ubiquitous in our metropolis but that escape categorisations, as they are not part of the urban techno-sphere nor they belong to the agricultural layer; they exist within out of control, invisible or neglected strata where nature escapes human control and proliferates unchecked.
This year the AA Milan will set up its urban Lab in the Milanese borough of Nil28 and will embrace this radical attitude to propose scenarios of gastro-political resistance towards the tyranny of large multinational food distributions, the classism of organic gourmet food and the threat of global supply shortage.
Studio Structure
The teaching model of the AA Summer School in Milan is grounded on the experimental tradition of the Architectural Association and on the design philosophy of ecoLogicStudio, that will curate the event and run the design workshop.
In the first 3 days of workshop our explorations will take us on a trip across unnoticed landscapes of urban algae blooming on the Milanese Navigli, of mosquito hunting in Novara and of bacteria fermentations in Gorgonzola.
The design studio will than take its base in the Nil28 neighbourhood where the aspiring cyber-gardeners will be able to explore and invent new urban cultivation practices by combining Applets design and real-time urban mapping with 1:1 scale prototyping. Dedicated real-time mapping and prototyping design clusters will be interfaced and interrelated during the workshop giving to all participants the opportunity to experiment with multiple techniques and challenge different aspects of the brief.
The final outcome will be an urban cultivation digital interface involving the participation of the neighbourhood and a series of speculative prototypes testing novel cultivation practices or urban recipes.
The 10 days workshop will be supported by a series of seminars with invited specialists and dedicated algorithmic design and prototyping tutorials. The seminars will be held in the evening and will feature guests from the world of digital design and prototyping, agronomy and food science, landscape design and computational design, journalism and curatorial practices.
Enrollment
The deadline for applications is 30th June 2013. All participants travelling from abroad are responsible for securing any visa required. After payment of fees, the AA can provide a letter confirming participation in the workshop.
The AA Visiting School requires a fee of £695 per participant, which includes a £60 visiting Student Membership. If you are already a member, the total fee will be reduced automatically by £60 by the online payment system. Early enrollment and group discounts apply. for more info please visit our website: cybergardens2013.aaschool.ac.uk
Team
AA Milan Directors: Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto
Scientific committee: Luca Molinari and Simona Galateo
Computational Design Tutor: Andrea Bugli
Program Directors: H. Koon Wee & Darren Zhou
The University of Hong Kong Summer Program (SHA: Jul 5-18, HKG: Jul 19-26, SIN: Jul 27-Aug 2)
Visiting cities of Hangzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou and Shenzhen
Studio SHA-HKG-SIN is a three to four-week design and research studio organized by the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture in the cities of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. Taught by a diverse group of faculty members from the University of Hong Kong, and speakers from internationally renowned universities and independent research groups, the course offers participants a design studio experience within Asia’s most vibrant contexts.
The International Summer Program in Architecture positions Hong Kong as a launch pad to other Asian cities, linking strategically with the cities of Shanghai and Singapore this year. This summer program has the benefit of tapping into the vast wealth of expertise from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Future Cities Lab and Asian Urban Lab. A number of the urban sites and studies designed for this program will be linked to ongoing research undertaken by design studios at the ETH, NUS, SUTD and MIT. Since its inception in 2008, HKU academic programs in Shanghai have benefitted from exchanges and joint studios with leading universities such as Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, NYU, AA, ETH and EPFL, as well as regional universities such as Tongji, China Academy of Art, Tianjin and others.
Fundamental to the study of architecture and cities is the question of rapid urbanization and innovation on the multiple fronts of society, culture and the economy. For the purpose of this summer program, the three key cities in east China, the Pearl River Delta and Southeast Asia will serve as platforms for the understanding of such issues, in the current neo-liberal world of urbanization, where international corporations have grown far more powerful than sovereign governments. Saskia Sassen notes that it is precisely because cities are no longer within the realms of national politics, they naturally become the new frontiers where the “political informal” can thrive within the infrastructure and systems of cities without overt control.
Through this course, participants will focus on different architecture and building types that have emerged from the current state of rapid urbanization. These urban building types are unique in the way they resist and subvert, or become mutated or subsumed by the prevailing urban conditions of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. The design and research studio would be based on the examination and re-invention of a number of these building types.
Participants will have the benefit of visiting numerous cities under-going massive change, exploring broad-ranging issues such as identity, migration, cultural production, colonialism, nationalism and globalization through topics in architectural history and theory. This program will include study trips to the cities of Hangzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou and Shenzhen. In support of the design and research studio, a daily lecture and seminar program will further enrich the participants’ knowledge in these fields.
SITREP.at [New York] 2013
Where: The General Society, 20 West 44th Street, New York City
When: July 01 - 27, 2013
Website: www.sitrep.at
Applications to SITREP.at [New York] 2013 are now OPEN!
Apr 15, 2013
Early applications DUE (at reduced $25 application fee), for early decision & notification.
May 17, 2013
Regular applications DUE (at regular $40 application fee).
SITREP.at [New York] 2013 is a study program intended for advanced students and recent graduates of programs in Architecture and Urban Planning worldwide.
FACTORY FUTURES
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In July 2012, the Architectural School of Architecture - in partnership with the Adriano Olivetti Foundation and Gehry Technologies – launched Factory Futures: A THREE YEAR RESEARCH PROGRAMME exploring innovative architectural responses for the productive landscape of the future. Critical and technical in equal terms, the mission of Factory Futures is to connect the realms of CONTEMPORARY URBAN THEORY WITH COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN TECHNIQUES for the affirmative re-empowerment of the architectural practice within contemporary conditions of production. THE FORMER OLIVETTI HEADQUARTERS IN IVREA –the only UNESCO candidate site in Italy fully dedicated to its modern industrial architecture – constitute both the physical and cultural setting of our work. A growing NETWORK OF ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS, Factory Futures operates through highly focused symposia, visiting schools, exhibitions and publications.
AAVS IVREA 2013 - ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT HUMANS
Far from being invisible, the physical infrastructure supporting today’s need for DATA STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION is increasingly transforming the configuration of our productive landscape. In 2013 the Ivrea Visiting School will develop design tools and research concepts to confront this phenomenon, which is challenging the conventions of both architectural design and urban theory. Using the Olivetti design culture as the DNA of our design experiments, we will investigate TIME-BASED AND ASSOCIATIVE DESIGN STRATEGIES applied towards the creation of a speculative data storage infrastructure in relation to a former Olivetti industrial site in Ivrea. The course will be taught by AA SCHOOL AND GEHRY TECHNOLOGIES TUTORS, with support from the Adriano Olivetti Foundation, in a two weeks programme. Together with CRITICAL SEMINARS and FIELD TRIPS focusing on the local design culture, work will be articulated in sessions intertwining COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN and ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION: in reclaiming the rich Olivetti propaganda aesthetics, students’ proposals will be condensed in large scale individual posters to be published and exhibited through the Factory Futures network.
APPLICATIONS
The deadline for applications is 1 JUNE 2013. Applicants should submit a short written statement outlining the interest in the course, a CV and payment of the full tuition fees in UK Pounds Sterling. The cost for the twelve-days course is £695 which includes a £50 AA membership fee, payable online at: http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/ivrea It is highly recommended that students arrive to Ivrea on the 30 JUNE 2013 in order to sort out accommodation and logistics prior to the commencement of the course on 1 JULY 2013. A final exhibition of the students work will be held on 13 JULY 2013. The course is an intensive studio-based programme requiring full-time participation. The AA Visiting School Ivrea is open to all current undergraduate/graduate students and young professional in the field of design, engineering and architecture. No previous specific software knowledge is required. An AA Certificate will be awarded upon completion of the programme.
FACULTY
Tommaso Franzolini [Founder - Factory Futures]
Maria Shéhérazade Giudici [AA DIP14 Tutor – The City as a Project]
Pierre Cutellic [Digital Knowledge Dept., E.N.S.A.P.M. Paris]
Edmondo Occhipinti [Gehry Technologies Europe]
Lea Sattler [Gehry Technologies Europe]
Patrizia Bonifazio [Adriano Olivetti Foundation]
Fabrizio Bellabio [AA – Histories and Theories Tutor]
MORE INFORMATION
AA Visting School Coordinator
Priji Balakrishnan
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World Industrial Design Day (WIDD) is observed annually on 29 June in recognition of the profession of industrial design. First declared in 2007 on the occasion of Icsid’s 50th anniversary, World Industrial Design Day has been established with the aim of promoting awareness of the profession of industrial design and facilitating collaborations that help to highlight the impact of industrial design on economic, social, cultural and environmental quality of life throughout the world.
Not just for designers
Industrial design affects us all. It relates to the products that we use as much as to the services and processes we employ. It’s about finding solutions that make life easier and relates to function as much as to form. For these reasons and more, World Industrial Design Day is for everyone.
Through a series of events held around the globe, World Industrial Design Day provides designers and like-minded design enthusiasts with an opportunity to engage about industrial design. From sustainability workshops to exhibitions and symposiums about socially responsible design, to webcasts and citywide programmes that provide free admission to museums, the activities held to commemorate the day are as diverse as they are inspiring.
For the non-designer, it is a chance to become more aware of the benefits of industrial design and how it impacts ones daily experience. For design-focused cities and encourage more of them to make an official proclamation declaring 29 June as World Industrial Design Day.
As part of its mandate Icsid connects people from diverse backgrounds who, while perhaps from different cultures or religions, have at least one thing in common: a passion for industrial design. This bridging of the design community continues to be shown with the annual celebration of World Industrial Design Day; a day for the industrial design community to share ideas, celebrate their profession, spread knowledge and help create a better world in the process.
This celebration marks the culmination of the Pacific Standard Time Presents “L.A. Architecture Month” initiative. Noted architects, designers and thinkers will share their thoughts on the future through a series of fast-paced, back-to-back presentations. The event will be emceed by Frances Anderton, host of KCRW’s “DnA,” and will also include music, food and installations.
http://www.aud.ucla.edu/extreme-ideas
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RELATED EVENTS:
Earthwave, designed by Lebbeus Woods and Christoph a. Kumpusch
June 28 – December 1, 2013
June 28, 7pm: Earthwave Installation Opening
Traction Triangle at Bloom Square, At the intersection of Traction Avenue, Rose Street and East 3rd Street, Los Angeles, CA 90013
SCI-Arc Gallery
October 11–December 1, 2013
October 11, 7pm: Exhibition Opening Reception & Symposium
With Hernan Diaz Alonso, Christoph a. Kumpusch, Dwayne Oyler and Alexis Rochas
Lebbeus Woods is an Archetype, SCI-Arc, 2013, image via sciarc.edu
Earthwave was initially designed by Lebbeus Woods and Christoph a. Kumpusch in collaboration with Adam Orlinski for the Biennale of Architecture and Art of the Mediterranean (BaaM) in Reggio Calabria, Italy and is based on a Lebbeus Woods drawing from 1997. It is an installation that proves to a new generation that there is a fine line between “unbuilt” and “unbuildable.” It is an inhabitable drawing which allows one to move through the structure’s swarms at 1:1 scale.
Earthwave is a 3-dimensional embodiment of Woods’ ideals, a challenge to the perceived notion of what is considered architecture and a transcendental experience of inhabitation.
The site of the project—a busy walkable intersection in downtown L.A.‘s Arts Distric—will free it from being perceived as an object to be viewed from a distance and transform the structure into a metric of urbanity meant to be freely moved through.
The Earthwave installation precedes a SCI-Arc Gallery exhibition forthcoming in fall 2013, titled LEBBEUS WOODS IS AN ARCHETYPE. “In that house of shadows where Lebbeus Woods still plies his pen, all the architects, from the caves onward, follow each movement of Lebbeus’s hand that is drafting for us all a new lease on survival…”—Apologies to A. Malraux // “Not farewell, but fare forward, warriors.”—Krishna to Arjuna
Installation Team
CaK_LAB is the experimental arm of Forward Slash (/) the multidisciplinary, New York-based office headed by architect Christoph a. Kumpusch. Within this domain, the office investigates technology and material effects on form and tectonics. The office is both a design and publishing outfit, producing a number of essays, books, exhibitions, podcasts, and films. Kumpusch holds a Ph.D. in Architecture and Technology from the University of Applied Arts, Vienna. He is a Professor of Architecture at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) and at Pratt Institute. The recently completed Light Pavilion at the Sliced Porosity Block by Steven Holl Architects in Chengdu, China, is one of several projects in over a decade of collaboration between Kumpusch and Lebbeus Woods.
Project team
Adam Orlinski, Ryan J. Simons, Ali Fouladi, William Orlando, Cecil Barnes & Carlos Rodriguez
League Prize
Luis Callejas, Lcla Office
Marc Fornes, MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY
Bryan Young, Young Projects
The second evening of lectures by winners of the Architectural League Prize, features Marc Fornes of MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY, Luis Callejas of Lcla Office, and Bryan Young of Young Projects. The League Prize is one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects. This year’s theme for the portfolio competition, Range, reflects the perception of young architects’ careers as explorations of “potential boundaries with practices that are radical, that search the edges of the discipline to find its limits.”
A reception with the opportunity to view the exhibition will follow the lecture.
http://archleague.org/2013/06/league-prize-marc-fornes-luis-callejas-bryan-young/
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RELATED NEWS: 2013 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers
Date: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Venue: Cooper-Hewitt Design Center
Join the curator and gardeners from the Central Park Conservancy for a talk about the landscape design of the Central Park Conservatory Gardens and how it compliments and contrasts with Frederick Law Olmsted’s overall design for Central Park. Despite the garden’s formal planting structure, learn about how the elements of form and color are redesigned each year to offer the public unique views.
About the Harlem Focus series:
John Reddick, architectural consultant and Harlem historian, will curate and lead a series of talks featuring designers, architects, and artists whose work engages and affects the local community. The Harlem Focus series will highlight design issues in Harlem, ranging from public art and landscape architecture, to rooftop farms and urban woodland restoration, and explore how design will affect this unique neighborhood as it continues to evolve, change and inspire.
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/events/harlem-focus-garden-design-art-color-variety-and-form
Organised by UBM and the China Chamber of Commerce (CCCMC), Concrete Show China coincides with the Government’s plans for rapid urbanisation, with the creation of 260 new cities in the next 20 years.
The three day exhibition takes place from the 26-28 June 2013 at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre, providing the perfect platform to meet and network with concrete industry professionals, from engineers, architects and contractors to government officials and developers.
The event will bring together buyers and suppliers to experience and interact with a full range of products and services, learn about the latest innovations and experience firsthand new technologies in the market.
Visit the website for more information and register to attend for FREE - http://www.concreteshowchina.com
League Prize
Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee, Matter Design
Rafael Luna and Dongwoo Yim, PRAUD
Skylar J.E. Tibbits, SJET
The first evening of lectures by winners of the Architectural League Prize, features Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee of Matter Design, Rafael Luna and Dongwoo Yim of PRAUD, and Skylar J.E. Tibbits of SJET. The League Prize is one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects. This year’s theme for the portfolio competition, Range, reflects the perception of young architects’ careers as explorations of “potential boundaries with practices that are radical, that search the edges of the discipline to find its limits.”
A reception with the opportunity to view the exhibition will follow the lecture.
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RELATED NEWS: 2013 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers
Featuring work by 2013 League Prize Winners:
Luis Callejas, Lcla Office; Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee, Matter Design;
Marc Fornes, MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY; Rafael Luna and Dongwoo Yim, PRAUD; Skylar J.E. Tibbits, SJET; and Bryan Young, Young Projects.
On view: June 25 — August 1, 2013
On view at:
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue
The exhibition will be open daily 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and late Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m. The exhibition will also be open on the evenings of the lectures. Admission is free.
The League thanks the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design for co-sponsoring and hosting the League Prize exhibition and lectures.
http://archleague.org/2013/08/2013-architectural-league-prize-for-young-architects-designers-range/
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RELATED NEWS: 2013 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers
In 2013, Dual City crosses the Atlantic Ocean with an exciting new series of international short courses linking two world class cities and iconic institutions: Parsons The New School for Design and Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design.
New York City and London are vibrant urban centers that share in their abundance of learning opportunities in art and design. The existing industries of architecture, fashion, finance, and education, provide the student with exceptional models to study as well as experience, first hand.
Where better to plug into this energy, view the latest trends and collaborate with fellow students in art and design thinking while building a new network of contacts from around the world?
The Course Program:
email: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
official website:
http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/dual-city-courses/aboutdualcity/newyorklondon/
Dwell Home Tours allow design seekers to immerse themselves in “Dwell-like” domestic spaces. These unique homes are specially selected by Dwell to reflect the rich diversity of livable, innovative modern architecture and design found throughout Los Angeles. Join Dwell for what promises to be two nights and three days full of interesting architecture and people during the Dwell Home Tours. A portion of the Home Tour ticket proceeds will go to our non-profit partner, Architecture for Humanity.
On June 23, join us on this self-drive tour through Los Angeles’ Canyons & Valley. Self-drive or carpooling means you can set your own paceperfect for a laid back Sunday. The homes are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
http://www.dwellondesign.com/events/dwell-canyons-valley-home-tour
8000 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90048, (323) 761-7212
June 22, 2013
12-4pm
The Glass House
199 Elm Street
New Canaan, CT 06840
203.594.9884
http://philipjohnsonglasshouse.org
The Glass House continues its rich tradition as a cultural salon where leading minds across creative fields gather. Our annual gala, The Glass House Summer Party, will take place this year on Saturday, June 22 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. Presented by Alfred Dunhill with additional support from Swarovski, the Summer Party will include a festive lunch, cocktails, performance, and a silent auction — all set on our stunning, pastoral landscape with opportunities to explore the Glass House and new temporary exhibitions, along with our world-class collection of 20th century painting and sculpture.
Dwell Home Tours allow design seekers to immerse themselves in “Dwell-like” domestic spaces. These unique homes are specially selected by Dwell to reflect the rich diversity of livable, innovative modern architecture and design found throughout Los Angeles. Join Dwell for what promises to be two nights and three days full of interesting architecture and people during the Dwell Home Tours. A portion of the Home Tour ticket proceeds will go to our non-profit partner, Architecture for Humanity.
On June 22, join us on this self-driven tour through Los Angeles’ East Side & Downtown, then head to Dwell on Design at the Los Angeles Convention Center nearby. Drive yourself or carpool, and set your own pace perfect for a laid-back Saturday. The homes are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
http://www.dwellondesign.com/events/dwell-east-side-downtown-home-tour
Campaigning Architecture is an international design workshop that operates across a range of scales and disciplines to explore more effective ways to make thought-provoking changes to our urban environment. Join us in exploring new modes of urban intervention for a hedonistic reuse and reactivation of a fatigued site in London’s East End.
Campaign strategies engage the city like no other: from the London Cycling Campaign to provide a collective voice for the City’s cyclists; to the cross-party campaign to bring London’s air quality into compliance with World Health Organization standards; to London’s successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Executed as an amalgamation of military-like precision and haphazard logic, the effectiveness of campaigning lies in successfully navigating the social, political, and economic networks that make a city tick.
The two-week workshop will develop and deploy multiple ways for campaigning architecture—enabling participants to combine the potential of design intelligence with the strategic power of propaganda in order to get things done in the city.
Instructors:
Andrew Moddrell
Tatiana von Preussen
Emanuel de Sousa
Kirk Wooller
‘Early Bird’ 20% Discount Deadline: 1st March 2013
For more information: http://chicago.aaschool.ac.uk
http://www.facebook.com/aachicago
Program Director: Kirk Wooller, .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
About AA/UIC Global Workshop:
Established in 2011, the AA/UIC Global Workshop is an international design workshop initiative between the Architectural Association and University of Illinois at Chicago Schools of Architecture. Its aim is to develop and deploy thought-provoking changes to our urban environment. The Workshop attracts pragmatic idealists wishing to explore alternative forms of practice that creatively and collaboratively engage with our peers, our communities, and our world. These include students, recent graduates, and young professionals in the fields of architecture, landscape urbanism, graphic design, and related fields.
Dwell on Design, June 21-23, 2013, is America’s largest modern design event attracting more than 30,000 attendees during Dwell Design Week in Los Angeles, CA (June 14-23, 2013). The event, held at the LACC and produced by Dwell magazine, showcases new design ideas, products, and services in conjunction with world-class design speakers, exhibitions, & home tours. More than 400+ national and international exhibitors across all home design categories participate and over 200+ design leaders will present this year including distinguished keynote speaker Michael Graves. Participating organizations include the Getty Conservation Institute, MOCA, A+D Museum, Hammer Museum, & Architecture for Humanity. Dwell on Design’s partner this year is The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). The Presenting Auto sponsor is The Lincoln Motor Company, and Dwell, the Design Partner is JCP.
For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit http://www.dwellondesign.com.
James Turrell: Rendering for Aten Reign, 2013, Daylight and LED light, Site-specific installation, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © James Turrell, Rendering: Andreas Tjeldflaat, 2012 © SRGF
James Turrell’s first exhibition in a New York museum since 1980 focuses on the artist’s groundbreaking explorations of perception, light, color, and space, with a special focus on the role of site-specificity in his practice. At its core is Aten Reign (2013), a major new project that recasts the Guggenheim rotunda as an enormous volume filled with shifting artificial and natural light. One of the most dramatic transformations of the museum ever conceived, the installation reimagines Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic architecture—its openness to nature, graceful curves, and magnificent sense of space—as one of Turrell’s Skyspaces, referencing in particular his magnum opus the Roden Crater Project (1979– ). Reorienting visitors’ experiences of the rotunda from above to below, Aten Reign gives form to the air and light occupying the museum’s central void, proposing an entirely new experience of the building. Other works from throughout the artist’s career will be displayed in the museum’s Annex Level galleries, offering a complement and counterpoint to the new work in the rotunda. Organized in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, James Turrell comprises one of three of major Turrell exhibitions spanning the United States during summer 2013. This exhibition is curated by Carmen Giménez, Stephen and Nan Swid Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, and Nat Trotman, Associate Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/exhibitions/upcoming/james-turrell
Celebrate the opening of Resource Furniture’s brand new Los Angeles showroom - a former art gallery, filled with skylights and sunshine - with a cocktail reception and more. Stay tuned for more information!
About Resource Furniture
Since 2000, Resource Furniture has imported and distributed inspired, modern furniture from the finest and most innovative European designers. Every piece in the Resource Furniture collection is hand-selected for its ability to transform a space with both beauty and functionality. Resource Furniture continues to redefine the way consumers and designers think about space.
With showrooms in New York, Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal, Calgary, and now Los Angeles, Resource Furniture is now setting a global paradigm for living in multi-functional environments.
http://www.dwellondesign.com/events/dwell-toasts-resource-furniture’s-la-showroom-opening
reSITE calls all architects, politicians, urbanists, developers, landscape architects, planners, innovators, engineers, economists, financiers, community activists, transportation planners, scientists, artists, students and any individuals with an active interest in cities to attend the second annual reSITE Conference.
The world’s leading experts in urban design, architecture, planning, technology and finance will convene to debate sustainable planning strategies for modern, competitive and livable cities. We are bringing together diverse groups to discuss design and planning for public space, waterfronts and urban mobility.
REGISTER TODAY! http://resite.cz/en/registration/
KEY PARTICIPANTS: Winy Maas [MVRDV • Rotterdam] / Enrique Penalosa [Former Mayor of Bogota • Bogota] / Alexandros E. Washburn [City of New York] / Adrian Benepe [NYC Parks Commissioner • City of New York] / Cecil Balmond [Balmondstudio • Londýn] / Charlie Hughes [Urban Land Institute • London] / Maria Aiolova [Terreform ONE • NYC] / Tomas Hudecek [First Deputy Mayor • Prague] / David Chisholm [CMC Architects • Prague] / Stefan Rettich [KARO Architects • Leipzig] / Petr Palicka [Penta • Prague] / Rafal Dutkiewicz [Mayor of Wroclaw] / Boris Palmer [Mayor • Tuebingen] / Barbara Wilks [W Architecture and Landscape Architecture • NYC] / Greg Lindsay [Fast Company • NYC] / Allen Zerkin [New York University] / Michael Winfrey [Thompson Reuters • Prague] / Kees Christiaanse [KCAP • Rotterdam] / Jonas Norsted [Atelier Oslo • Oslo]
More information available on http://www.resite.cz
Norwich, VT. June 17-22, 2013
STUDIO NORTH is a six day intensive building workshop. The workshop offers students the opportunity to engage with the rural landscape and to imagine, develop and construct inventive design solutions. An architectural education is best experienced through engagement in all aspects of the building process. This workshop is a fully immersive design experience.
The workshop takes place on a 117 acre farm in Norwich, Vermont. Each session investigates a particular interest and responds with the design and construction of a complete prototype structure. The work shop is limited to ten students and led by architect Keith Moskow FAIA and Robert Linn AIA of the Boston based firm, Moskow Linn Architects.
STUDIO NORTH is currently seeking applicants for the workshop of June 17th - June 22nd, 2013. The workshop is open to interested students of all abilities. Previous construction experience is not required.
For more information visit http://moskowlinn.com/studio_north.html or contact Keith at (617) 292-2000 ext. 28 / .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret) with Pierre Jeanneret. Villa Savoye Poissy-sur-Seine, France. 1929–31. Wood, aluminum, and plastic, 16 x 34 x 32” (40.6 x 86.4 x 81.3 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Purchase. © 2012 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris/FLC
MoMA presents its first major exhibition on the work of Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), encompassing his work as an architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer, and photographer. Conceived by guest curator Jean-Louis Cohen, the exhibition reveals the ways in which Le Corbusier observed and imagined landscapes throughout his career, using all the artistic techniques at his disposal, from his early watercolors of Italy, Greece, and Turkey, to his sketches of India, and from the photographs of his formative journeys to the models of his large-scale projects. His paintings and drawings also incorporate many views of sites and cities. All of these dimensions are present in the largest exhibition ever produced in New York of his prodigious oeuvre.
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1321
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RELATED EVENT: Le Corbusier/New York
Terreform ONE is now accepting applications for:
ONE LAB 2013: PRODUCTIVE CITIES
http://www.onelab.org
Dates: July 1-26, 2013
Final Application Deadline June 15, 2013 (Updated!)
ONE Lab Summer 2013 on Productive Cities, in collaboration with IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia), will address the emerging discipline of global urbaneering by assembling a wide range of innovators from fields as diverse as, architecture, material science, urban design, biology, civil engineering and media art.
ONE Lab is designed for students who wish to engage with the crossover of design and science.
Each summer approximately 40 researchers gather in New York City for 4 weeks of intense creative and scientific exploration. ONE Lab provides a unique opportunity for students to learn from internationally recognized scientists and renown designers and artists: Dr. Dickson D. Despommier, Vito Acconci, Skylar Tibbits and a host of TED Fellows.
ONE Lab consists of Design Studio, Lectures and Workshops. The studio will be offered in two levels - one for professional designers and students enrolled in professional schools or departments of design; one for students and individuals of various experience and background. All workshops are beginner level and no previous knowledge or experience is required.
Frankenboyz (Frederic Fisher, Robert Mangurian, Eric Owen Moss, Coy Howard, Craig Hodgetts, Thom Mayne, Frank Gehry), 1980 │ Photo by Ave Pildas
Commonly understood today as a set of beliefs or practices in conflict with prevailing dogma, the word “heresy” derives from the Greek “heiresis,” meaning “choice.” In classical antiquity, the term also signified a period during which a young philosopher would examine various schools of thought in order to determine his future way of life.
These inflections neatly capture the ambitions and attitudes held by the architects at the center of this presentation. Some had grown weary with what they viewed as the stale orthodoxies of the establishment, and saw their work as a distinct challenge to the status quo. Others were less strident, and experimented with a diverse range of historical sources as potential platforms from which to develop their individual idioms. Others still struck out in bold new directions, drawing inspiration and techniques from the art world, literature, and other sources.
Such wide-ranging activities defy any attempt to portray these architects as members of a coherent group or “L.A. School.” More correctly, the Architecture Gallery constitutes one of many loose, temporary confederacies into which these architects entered during their formative years. Here, the heretics found strength in numbers, and the impact of their efforts was felt across Los Angeles and around the world.
Gathering an array of original drawings, models, photographic documentation, video recordings, and commentary alongside new assessment by current scholars, A Confederacy of Heretics aims neither to canonize the participating architects nor to consecrate their unorthodox activities. Rather, the exhibition re-examines the early work of some of Los Angeles’ most well-known architects in a contemporary context, charts the development of their most potent design techniques, and documents a crucial turning point in Los Angeles architecture, a time when Angeleno architecture culture shifted from producing local variations on imported themes to exporting highly original disciplinatory innovations to a global audience.
Taken together, the exhibition, symposium, and catalog that comprise A Confederacy of Heretics offer a unique lens through which to analyze a pivotal moment in the development of late 20th century architecture.
More information and symposium program on SCI-Arc’s website
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RELATED EVENT: Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A.: A Confederacy of Heretics…
Monkey Town 3
June 13 - August 11, 7 nights/week
Screenings: 7pm + 9:15pm
Monkey Town, the first experimental, completely immersive film and food experience, returns to NYC at Eyebeam this summer, June 13 – August 11, for a two month nightly pop up before launching a national tour.
The beloved Monkey Town, which lived for 7 years in Williamsburg until 2010, will once again pair visually captivating film and videos with top chefs creating meals and pairings to compliment the program. The event recreates its original and still unprecedented cinema-in-the-round by forming a floating cube from 4 massive projection screens and 8.1 surround sound. The new rendition will feature a single curated film and video program that replays every night for 60 days, featuring almost all multi-channel works by 21 extraordinary artists and filmmakers.
Eyebeam will host screenings nightly from June 13 through August 11, in our main hall/floating cube cinema. Each screening will accommodate intimate seatings of 32 people, and will take place twice nightly at 7pm and 9:15pm.
“One of the most intriguing restaurants and performances spaces in New York…Monkey Town is famous for serving multi-course meals choreographed to accompany exotic video mash-ups on four giant walls.” — Gothamist, 2010
Featured Artists:
Jack + Leigh Ruby (produced by Eve Sussman and Simon Lee), Shana Moulton, Tara Sinn, Errol Morris, Trisha Baga, Lily Sheng + Antonia Kuo and Petra Cortright, Zefrey Throwell, Kathy Rose, Peter Burr, Will Rahilly, Annie Pearlman, Brian Close, Ben Ridgway, William Strobeck, Alison Mennor, Bunny Rogers and Filip Olszewski, Chris Rice, Theo Angell, Montgomery Knott, Astrid Menze
Featured Chefs:
Wed/Thurs — Max Sussman w/ Katy Peetz (ex-Roberta’s)
Fri/Sat — Nacxi Gaxiola (ex-Pulqueria, La Superior)
Sundays — Fred Hua (Nha Toi)
Mon/Tues — Josh Cross + Montgomery Knott (ex-Gramercy Tavern, Alain Ducasse)
Visit http://www.monkeytown3.com/chefs/ for complete Menus and Pricing
About Monkey Town:
Monkey Town is the brainchild of founder Montgomery Knott who has curated the films in partnership with Maggie Lee. “Monkey Town started on an airplane with a delirious cocktail napkin sketch and a desire to create an experience bringing together my love of film and video with adventures in food and to share it with all my friends. Over the years, it blossomed into something way beyond my vision, where a community of artists shaped and designed the space into what it actually became.”
As I sat back picking my teeth, I mentally congratulated Monkey Town for reviving the idea of dinner theater. Or maybe just providing the kind of multivalent entertainment craved by hyperactives like me. — Village Voice, Robert Sietsema, 2004
Part video parlor but all restaurant, Monkey Town is nothing if not unique…it is heartening to see a good-humored arty project like Monkey Town put down roots, even more so on account of its adventurous and often rewarding cooking. — NY Times, Peter Meehan, 2005
History of Monkey Town:
The original Monkey Town ran from May 2003 – December 2004. It was located in a private loft at 222 Leonard St in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Emphasis was on video art showcasing works by Miranda July, Mika Rottenberg, and Golan Levin among dozens of other emerging artists; many of whom, years later, are thriving in Manhattan galleries. They also hosted live music shows from Black Dice, White Magic, Dead Texan, My Best Fiend, Sayyid and Priest (Anit-Pop Consortium) and Blood on the Wall.
Same set up: 4 projection screens and food. Chefs moonlighted from jobs at Gramercy Tavern, Esca and Chanterelle. There were 99 performances over 19 months.
The second Monkey Town ran from October 2005 – January 2010. It was located at 58 N. 3rd St in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Open nightly for 4 years and 4 months, a front dining room and bar were added, while the back dining room continued the original layout — 4 screens; communal seating; 6.1 surround sound; capacity of 50. A full menu was available every night. The back space showcased video art, short films, feature-length films and documentaries; as well as, live music, dance and other performance. Damo Suzuki, Sharon Van Etten, Tony Conrad, The XX, Dirty Projectors, Shilpa Ray and Excepter’s lengendary marathon shows were all illuminated in the cube, while a slew of talented filmmakers tested and stretched the definition of new cinema.
Port performance is also due to the success of its integration into the urban dynamic and on-going dialogue with citizens. Among the levers available to stakeholders in port-city development, the culture can participate in the development of effective tools for rebuilding and developing the relationship between the port, the city and the citizens. It will be necessary for stakeholders to define best suitable strategies to each port. The challenge is to put in place a real port city cultural policy. It must support the port city’s national and international ambitions and in the meantime play a part in the local, economic and urban dynamics. These AIVP Days, in Helsinki, will be an opportunity to look at the cultural experiences developed by cities, port authorities and their economic partners to understand better their role in economic and social success of port cities.
Date: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Venue: Cooper-Hewitt Design Center
The distinguished architectural and environmental photographer Albert Vecerka presents his photographic work, sharing insights and technical savvy in capturing the utility, spirit and beauty of the designed environment. Vecerka is currently listed on the roster of Esto Photographics, the premier photography studio of contemporary architecture.
About the Harlem Focus series:
John Reddick, architectural consultant and Harlem historian, will curate and lead a series of talks featuring designers, architects, and artists whose work engages and affects the local community. The Harlem Focus series will highlight design issues in Harlem, ranging from public art and landscape architecture, to rooftop farms and urban woodland restoration, and explore how design will affect this unique neighborhood as it continues to evolve, change and inspire.
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/events/harlem-focus-architectural-photography-imaging-design
MUNDANEUM is an architecture encounter that has been held in San José, Costa Rica every two years since 1999 up until its sixth edition and tenth anniversary in 2009 and in 2011in Mendoza, Argentina.
The next MUNDANEUM will take place in the beautiful colonial city of Granada, Nicaragua on 13, 14 and 15 June 2013.
Among the more than 100 speakers that have participated in the previous seven MUNDANEUM conferences we had great architects and academics such as Emilio Ambasz, Tatiana Bilbao, Teddy Cruz, Ming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Jorge Jáuregui, Charles Jencks, Carlos Jiménez, Rick Joy, Christoph Kapeller, Mathias Klotz, Lars Lerup, Jorge Francisco Liernur, Thom Mayne, Xaida Muxi, Enrique Norten, Eric Owen-Moss, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Carmen Pinós, Michel Rojkind, Michael Sorkin, Michael Rotondi, Federico Soriano, Ruth Verde-Zein, , CazúSegers, Stanley Saitowitz and James Wines.
http://www.facebook.com/Fundarq?ref=hl
http://www.visitanicaragua.com
Photo: Carlo Buscemi
We’re heading out for a sneak peek of the new Governors Island! Members are invited to join us on Tuesday, June 11 at 6:15 p.m. for an exclusive, behind-the-fence tour of the construction site soon to open as the heart of Governors Island’s new park and public space.
With the project’s first phase nearing completion, this extraordinary site in New York Harbor has been transformed into a visionary public landscape with 30 new acres of park, key visitor amenities, and 21st-century infrastructure. Led by representatives of the Trust for Governors Island and the West 8 design team, this after-hours tour will explore the new park space and provide insight into the collaborative design and construction process. We have just 30 spots available for this members-only event, so RSVP now to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Ferry departs from the Battery Maritime Building. Full event details available at http://ow.ly/lghDo.
Not a Van Alen member yet? Visit our membership page to join us today at http://www.vanalen.org/support
At Design Miami/Basel 2013, Heritage Gallery of Moscow unveils another sensational exhibition dedicated to Soviet interior design. The gallery will make the first-ever exhibition of unique one-off interior items of the Soviet Empire Style spanning the the Stalinist period, the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.
During Stalinist times, interior and architecture styles were unified by the Kremlin and, in fact, the Soviet Empire Style was marked by luxury and big sizes. However, with Nikita Khrushchev, this style was criticized and many interior items from the Stalinist period were thrown away and lost. Few items have been preserved, which makes this exhibition even more special.
Heritage Gallery will present unique decorative objects, lamps, and exquisite furniture. Most were single-copy items, made at great cost for the private apartments of the political elite, as well as for public spaces such as the Hotel Moskva, and the Red Army Theater in Moscow.
http://www.johnvarolipr.com/newsletter/heritage_gallery_may/
Aerial view of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, c. 1965. William L. Pereira and Associates, architects. Photo © 2013 Museum Associates/LACMA, photographic archives
As part of the Getty’s initiative, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., LACMA features The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, an exhibition about the proposed future of the museum’s campus. Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been commissioned to rethink the east campus, providing new insight into the meaning and function of an encyclopedic museum and the relationship of architecture to its site. The exhibition begins with a detailed examination of the museum’s buildings within the complicated history of Hancock Park. It then focuses on Zumthor’s preliminary plans for a new building to house the permanent collection, with several large models built by the architect’s studio.
The exhibition will also present key projects in Zumthor’s career that are most relevant to his vision for LACMA: the Therme Vals in Switzerland, Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, and the Kolumba Art Museum of the Cologne Archdiocese in Germany. These projects have resulted in Zumthor winning the highest accolades in the field of architecture, including The Pritzker Prize (2009) and the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal (2013). Together, these examples elucidate key aspects of Zumthor’s practice – his interest in the geologic history of the site; his passion for materials, craftsmanship, and sensory experience; and his commitment to an architecture of total integration.
Le Corbusier in front of the United Nations Headquarters holding a postcard of his UN design, United Nations Photos (Department of Public Information), © Fondation Le Corbusier
“Each city I visit appears to me under its own light. I feel certain needs.
I set myself an appropriate line of conduct for my public.” - Le Corbusier, “Precisions,” 1930
On June 8 and 9, the Center for Architecture and The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will present a two-day international symposium that will take an in-depth look at the illustrious French architect’s relationship to New York.
The program features an exclusive preview of MoMA’s upcoming exhibition Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes by its curator Jean-Louis Cohen. Engaging lectures at the Center for Architecture will follow.
Peter Eisenman, FAIA, Yale Professor Stanislaus von Moos, Columbia Professor Mary McLeod, MoMA’s Chief Curator of Architecture and Design Barry Bergdoll, Jean-Louis Cohen, and others will discuss how Le Corbusier’s ideas about New York influenced his work and how, in turn, Le Corbusier’s legacy impacted the city’s built environment.
The second day, Sunday, June 9, will be dedicated to a tour of the United Nations Headquarters. Led by Assistant Secretary-General Michael Adlerstein, FAIA, and Public Information Officer Werner Schmidt – both from United Nations Capital Master Plan – participants will explore the building’s architectural history, including Le Corbusier’s contentious collaboration with the project’s main architect Oscar Niemeyer. The guides will also highlight the recent restoration of the Secretariat, which houses the UN’s working spaces, and the historic renovation of the three Chambers of the Conference Building.
“Le Corbusier’s work made a tremendous impression on many architects’ educations and careers, including my own,” says Jill N. Lerner, FAIA, 2013 AIANY President. “We are therefore delighted to be working with The Museum of Modern Art and many distinguished architects and scholars on this symposium. The far reaching discussion, looking back on an individual of major consequence in the 20th century, will highlight an early example of global practice.”
Jean-Louis Cohen, the curator of Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, said, “Le Corbusier’s global practice of urbanism and architecture, along with his constant travels to places increasingly distant from Europe, resulted in a personal cartography assembled in the form of the thousands of postcards that both situated his projects and recorded his trips.”
To register for the symposium, visit http://bit.ly/YLu70F. All tickets include reserved seats to the symposium, and registration to MoMA exhibition tour and United Nations Headquarters tour, along with Saturday breakfast, lunch, and reception.
A program of MoMA’s exhibition Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes.
A complete schedule is available here.
Organized by: Center for Architecture and the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Co-sponsored by: AIANY Interiors Committee, AIANY Cultural Facilities Committee, and AIANY Historic Buildings Committee
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RELATED EVENT: Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes
The Head in the Clouds Pavilion will be installed this summer on Governors Island!
STUDIOKCA won the City of Dreams Pavilion Competition through FIGMENT (the community based art organization that has exhibitions across the US, including an art festival on Governor’s Island every summer). The competition asked participants to design a 50 person gathering space to imagine the city of the future in the most sustainable way while considering the entire life cycle of the building materials used in the submission. STUDIOKCA’s selected design- Head In The Clouds is composed of 40,000 empty water bottles on the inside and 13,780 empty gallon jugs on the outside. These bottle counts are based on the amount of plastic bottles thrown away in NYC in 1 hour!
Head In The Clouds is a place dedicated to dreaming, where visitors can lose themselves in both the cloud-like structure, as well as the clouds in the sky around them. Please join FIGMENT, STUDIOKCA, ENYA, AIANY, and SEAoNY to celebrate the 2013 City of Dreams Pavilion this summer on Governor’s Island!!
Check our Kickstarter campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/64242464/head-in-the-clouds-2
Architizer: http://www.architizer.com/en_us/projects/view/head-in-the-clouds/49009/#.UU-323e5CM8
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Accepting applications now.
Apply by June 8, 2013
Course dates: July 8 - August 2, 2013
Learn more and apply at:
http://cooper.edu/architecture/school-architecture-summer-programs
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• STRANGE CRAFT: Masterclass in Contemporary Digital Architecture
The qualitative responses of the strange or the weird opens contemporary digital techniques to the provocative explorations of aesthetics. For instance, craft, typically associated with manual material traditions, has mutated into a conversation regarding variable precision and controlled accidents in the digital fabrication of images, models, and objects. Cross media translations, such as collage, montage, and layered superposition have a rich material history in 20th century modernism. Contemporary digital design requires constant shifts between 2 and 3 dimensions, animated and still images, rendered and vector representation, objects and fields - to work in a digital environment is to be constantly shifting between technologies of mediation. It is in this space of the crossings between Digital Craft, Technologies of Mediation, and Aesthetic Theory that this Masterclass sets its agenda.
The Masterclass will consist of four one-week sessions focused on specific topics led by internationally recognized leaders in education and practice. The sessions will each have a different contemporary problem that will be taught, researched and explored, with all four sessions building upon one another, as the month-long Masterclass becomes a single project.
Masterclass Leaders include:
Michael Young, Cooper Union – Young & Ayata
Kutan Ayata, Pratt – Young & Ayata
and other leading scholars and practitioners in the field of digital architecture.
• INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE: Foundational Studies and Portfolio Development
The Cooper Union’s Introduction to Architecture is an intensive 4-week program that offers an immersive experience into the study of architecture as a discipline and profession. The program will familiarize the college-level student with architectural design, thought, and practice, in the context of downtown Manhattan - a vibrant neighborhood of art, music, culture and commerce.
The core of the program, the Design Studio, is taught by faculty of the School of Architecture and is supplemented by visiting critics and lecturers. Every morning begins in the studio spaces designed by renowned architect John Hejduk in the landmark Foundation Building . In the afternoons, students will participate in seminar and/or workshops that draw on what makes education at The Cooper Union unique, with its strong emphasis on design and making, and a close reading of architectural texts.
Over the course of the program, the students will be able to develop a body of work: projects, models, and drawings. The design faculty will work with each student, individually and as a group, to review and edit those accomplishments, culminating in a portfolio in book format.
http://cooper.edu/architecture/school-architecture-summer-programs
In nearly every industrial city around the world, rivers have been a defining feature of civic life. We built houses along their banks. Our roads hugged their curves. And their currents fed our mills and factories. But as cities grew, polluted rivers became conduits for disease and other urban ills, and—as we’ve explored in the case of Seoul’s Cheonggyecheon River—buried underground and merged with sewer networks.
The new documentary Lost Rivers retraces the history of these urban waterways by plunging into archival maps and going underground with clandestine urban explorers. In a film The Atlantic Cities called “mysterious, highly dramatic, and entirely compelling,” writer and director Caroline Bâcle takes a revelatory look into the disappearance and recent resurfacing of historic rivers. Venturing into vast underground museums of urban development, the film follows intrepid groups of subterranean scouts through hidden river networks including London’s River Tyburn, the Rivière Saint-Pierre in Montreal, Toronto’s Garrison Creek, and the Bova-Celato River in Brescia, Italy. Chronicling recent initiatives to resurface and revitalize once-forgotten waterways, including the Cheonggyecheon River in Seoul and the Saw Mill River in Yonkers, Lost Rivers draws on insights from visionary urban thinkers, activists, and artists around the world to bring to life new urban ecologies.
Producer Katarina Soukup of Montreal’s Catbird Films will join for a Q&A following the screening. This event is presented in conjunction with Van Alen’s current exhibition, Deconstruction/Construction: The Cheonggyecheon River Project in Seoul.
Learn more about the exhibition series at http://rivercity.vanalen.org
View the trailer below:
Lost Rivers - OFFICIAL TRAILER from Catbird Productions on Vimeo.
TERRA INSOLA KICK
We plan to make a film, with a DIY workshop/robotic fabrication lab. This is a groundbreaking way to make a film through architecture.
About the DIY/Computational workshop kickstarter event
Terra Insola is a scripting/fabrication and film workshop taking place this summer in Crete, Greece. This workshop will have four areas of development: theoretical, computational, material fabrication and film documentation. The daily experience of the workshop will be balanced between computation and hands-on work in situ (local knowledge, memories and know-how knitted with global tooling, computation and machinism) as exogeneous-endogeneous apparatuses. A machine will be designed dedicated to a non repetitive component which is able to be re-introduced as a non-standard process to create the geometry of a shell-ter (specific “agencements” and assemblage in the pursuit of the ceramic ornamentation of the Minos Castle, embedded in a computation procedure). This project (design, process, researches, documentation, construction, etc.) will entirely emerge from the collaborative work of our group, as a unique and engaged realization. Blurring the limits between students/instructors and filmmakers/designers, we will define together a strategy of co-responsibility and co-authorship. Check Out our website! TERRA INSOLA
About the Robot
Terra Insola will give birth to an on-site robot, designed by the team. Stephan Henrich is our in-house robotics designer! This robot will play an integral role in the shaping of the structure for the film. The mechanic process of this design will be developed during the workshop and will shape the material fabrication methods. (this is one of the groundbreaking aspects to the film and workshop!)
Location Location ..Location
The film and workshop will take place in the historic town of Chania, Crete in Greece. Wow this location is spectacular. Please google this place and find out for yourself, or visit our site to read the description of the site of the Film and the DIY workshop! (June 7th- July7th 2013)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1172742875/terra-insola
http://www.new-territories.com/blog/Crete/
After an absence from print for over a decade, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design announces the relaunch of the LA Forum Newsletter. The premiere issue features architect Frank Escher on the clinical restoration of the Eames house and The Retronaut’s Simon Reynolds on past futures, as well as an interview with Radio Iris author Anne-Marie Kinney and a centerfold by James Michael Tate. In celebration of the return to pulp and ink, the LA Forum will be in New York City at Van Alen Books for a panel discussion between editor Mimi Zeiger, architect John Southern, and graphic designer Neil Donnelly. A live interview with Hitha Prabhakar, author of Black Market Billions, follows the panel and will be published in the Fall 2013 Newsletter.
The University of Texas at Austin Center for Sustainable Development is pleased to announce its third installment of the award-winning Public Interest Design Summer Program. The primary aim of the Public Interest Design Program is to connect students from a myriad of disciplines interested in the relationship between public service and the built environment to projects that address real community needs. Through rigorous exploration of how each of these terms affects design, the program challenges students to develop theoretical and practical skills to respond to the ethical complications of engaging the public and its spaces. On top of the community-oriented design/build, the service-oriented seminar course, and the externship opportunities to the San-Francisco non-profit Public Architecture, this summer there will be a new addition to the program: the Design Futures student leadership summit! The UTPID program is selective and open to advanced architecture, planning, design, and other disciplines from universities in the United States and abroad. Thirty students will be admitted to the program and will be eligible for a variety of academic course credit. Interested students are encouraged to apply! The application deadline is March 1, 2013.
For more information, please visit: http://soa.utexas.edu/csd/PID/
Craig Hodgetts, a UCLA architecture and urban design professor and recipient of the Gold Medal Award from the American Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles, will lead a panel discussion on exploring new frontiers for architecture in extreme environments such as the Arctic, the desert and outer space. The panel will include Loretta Hidalgo Whitesides, a former astrobiologist and director of flights at Zero Gravity, and Christopher Ferguson, a retired U.S. Navy captain, former NASA astronaut and director of commercial crew interface for Boeing’s space exploration division.
http://www.aud.ucla.edu/extreme-ideas
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“Sacred Spaces” explores the interactive space and movement of the human body through architectural sculpture and gestural mark-making. Historically, the stories of a culture were told through paintings on the surfaces of sacred spaces such as caves, temples and churches. The hand of the artist remains unique to visual art, as does the visceral relationship of the art object to both the maker and viewer of the art. The human body is represented in its indexical evidence in drawings and in geometric markers of ourselves.
“Art-making is my primary spiritual action. Creating art allows me to express my unique manifestation as a body and as a conscious being. ‘Sacred Spaces’ explores the interactive space of the human body through architectural sculpture and gestural mark-making.”
“My artwork is relational. The work isn’t complete until there is someone interacting with it. Once I have made these artworks, it is very important to my process to have dialog with community about the art.”
Jennifer Chenoweth studied the evolution of historical sacred architecture – from Etruscan to Greek to Roman to Christian – to gain a better understanding of how sacred space is created through geometry and form. The shapes incorporated into these structures evoke gendered symbolism: the curved dome represents a feminine, mother-figure, for example, while the Catholic cruciform shapes represent the masculine, with vertical space representing the Trinity. Reiterating these symbols in her work allows Jennifer to explore both the personal space of one body and the interactive relationships between several bodies at once.
Family relationships and group dynamics are important themes of Jennifer Chenoweth’s work, but some works of art are simply the practice of making marks in space with her unique hand in a variety of materials.
http://www.fisterrastudio.com/jennifer-chenoweth-sacred-space-solo-show-julia-butridge-gallery/
insitu 2013 is a multi-city design-build workshop, lecture and public event series commencing in Caracas, Venezuela and travelling to Medellín, Colombia, stopping in Mérida and Maracaibo.
insitu is an initiative founded by uAbureau and Blokcad Lab in 2011 to implement projects that investigate the informal development of cities, its non-consolidated urban spaces and auto-construction processes. Its central objective is to explore how the ecological and the social environments of the City can be merged to create new and unforeseen landscapes.
Medellín + Caracas: 9day intensive workshops:
insitu is an intensive workshop where participants will be exposed to a cyclical process between design and fabrication, where both phases are continually interfacing in order to achieve a unique project addressing the needs of a local developing community. Participants will work with local community members to create small-scale urban interventions whilst learning and implementing innovative fabrication and participatory design techniques. The design process will explore advanced digital tools while the construction phase will focus on onsite material processes of a hybrid recycled construction waste aggregate developed by Blokcad Lab. Participants, working in tandem with community members will design and fabricate moulds, and cast onsite their projects with the hybrid aggregate.
Mérida + Maracaibo: Public Expositions / 3day introductory workshops:
Participants will focus on exploring mould design, 3D modelling, digital fabrication and Blokcad Lab’s hybrid aggregate. A public lecture and exhibition will open each exposition.
Dates:
Caracas - June 3-12
Merida - June 15-17
Maracaibo - June 20-22
Medellin - June 26 - July 04
Visit our website for more information and registration: http://www.insitu.uabureau.com
If you have any questions, please contact us at any time: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Walt Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry, 1987–2003. Image provided by Gehry Partners, LLP
A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California is the first extensive, scholarly examination of the radical forms that have become prolific in Southern California architecture during the past twenty-five years. The exhibition begins by focusing on work from the mid-1980s, a period when postmodernism was waning and buildings by Frank Gehry, Franklin D. Israel, Thom Mayne, Michael Rotondi, and Eric Owen Moss were expanding the possibilities of form. First identified by Charles Jencks as the L.A. School in the early 1990s, this loose cluster of practitioners evolved into a larger galaxy centered on common theoretical and technical approaches as well as Los Angeles’ unique urban landscape. The exhibition moves on to highlight the subsequent generations of expressive, experimental, and avant-garde architects in Los Angeles, while also exploring the influence of the city itself - its geography, schools, politics, and socioeconomic character on their work. In addition to showcasing a range of built work, A New Sculpturalism also presents four pavilions designed especially for the exhibition by younger Los Angeles firms. Celebrating the ideas, projects, and processes of major and emerging figures in contemporary Los Angeles architecture, the exhibition includes works by Arshia Mahmoodi, Atelier Manferdini, Baumgartner + Uriu (B+U), Ball-Nogues Studio, Belzberg Architects, Bestor Architecture, Brooks + Scarpa Architects, Coscia Day Architecture and Design, Coy Howard, Daly Genik Architects, Eric Owen Moss Architects, Franklin D. Israel Design Associates, Giovannini Associates, Greg Lynn FORM, Hodgetts + Fung, JOHNSTONMARKLEE, Lorcan O’™Herlihy Architects, MAKE Architecture, Mark Mack Architects, Michael Maltzan Architecture, Morphosis Architects, Neil M. Denari Architects, Patrick Tighe Architecture, P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, Predock Frane Architects, Randall Stout Architects, RoTo Architects, Saee Studio, Studio Works Architects, Tom Wiscombe Design, Touraine Richmond Architects, Warren Techentin Architecture, and XTEN Architecture.
A New Sculpturalism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern California is part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. This collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together seventeen local cultural institutions from April through July for a wide-ranging look at the postwar built environment of the city as a whole, from its famous residential architecture to its vast freeway network, revealing the city’s development and ongoing impact in new ways.
On the Road‘s first event will take place at Temple @ Alameda in downtown Los Angeles on June 2, 2013 from 12-6pm as a flotilla of U-Haul trucks turned impromptu galleries. This one day exhibition will present work by 17 studios and individuals, each invited to show-and-tell a project they are currently working on. Participants are exploring intellectually charged ideas through architecture and capturing the experimental spirit of Los Angeles. The projects presented exist in flux and are activated by a high level of conviction, critical thinking, and playful rigor. The intention is to unpack ideas, concepts, and tropes signaling a shift in attitude, conceptual framework, and introduce a new set of hinge points and methodologies that drive the present.
Participants include Andrew Kovacs, Bryony Roberts, Curt Gambetta, Foundation for Architecture and Design, First Office, House of Style, Joe Alguire Workshop, Jonathan Louie, Maxi Spina Architects, Michael Faciejew, Paul Stoelting, Studio Bonner + Stayner Architects, Rowen Studio, T8projects, Vacation Projects, Wedgeworthy, and WELCOMEPROJECTS.
Organized by Danielle Rago / Curator, Courtney Coffman / Editor, Jonathan Louie / Protagonist, and James Michael Tate / Instigator.
The International Association of Visual Urbanists (iAVU) is pleased to present the following workshop in conjunction with Fotosynthesis:
Developing Participatory Methods with Photography:Research, Design and Practice
This workshop will explore how to develop visual and sensory participatory research and pedagogical methods with photography. Participants will be introduced to a range of experimental action research methods, tools and media; they will examine ethical dilemmas in visual communication and literacy, and will consider elemental skills needed for project design, management and evaluation. In addition, the group will engage and collaborate in compositional techniques and reflective exercises that will enhance critical thinking, shared experiences and peer review.
Tutors: David Kendall and Ingrid Guyon
Venue: Fotosynthesis London: http://www.fotosynthesiscommunity.org.uk/
Booking for this workshop is available at: http://iavu.org/workshops.html
SYMPOSIUM
Friday May 31, 2013 9AM - 5PM
Free and Open to the Public
Intersections 2013: Interoperable Workflow | Innovative Practice is a symposium with lectures and panel discussions by industry leaders, educators, and innovators on the topics of:
TOOLS
Identifying them, teaching them, and ensuring that they play well together.
INNOVATION
Finding the conditions and opportunities for innovation in both established firms and small start-ups alike.
MAKING IT WORK
Translating innovative technology into high-impact practice using lessons from the field.
http://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/fuselab/event/intersections-2013/
The Graduate Landscape Architecture Program of the Spitzer School of Architecture, City College of New York, is launching Volume 2 of its student-edited journal, PLOT.
Featuring submissions by students, faculty, and friends of the Landscape Architecture program, Volume 2 explores the theme of PATCHWORK, developed by the second year MLA student editorial board in collaboration with faculty advisor Catherine Seavitt Nordenson and designer Isaac Gertman. Contributions to this issue explore ad-hoc and innovative assemblages, commensal species, and incongruous urban wilds. Come celebrate PLOT’s new issue and raise a toast to the 2013 graduating class of Master of Landscape Architecture students.
In recent years, designers in the architectural, engineering, and construction (AEC) community have embraced a new methodology using building information models as the basis for a collaborative design process to meet the challenges of today’s increasingly complex and demanding project requirements.
This event is tailored to look into the multi-disciplinary project team and their best practices for using building information modeling (BIM) as a basis for a collaborative design and construction process. We will hear from leading practitioners from architectural, engineering and construction perspective.
Have you adopted BIM in your firm yet? Do you need BIM standards? Intrigued in the use of BIM in Facilities Management? Whatever your level of experience or inexperience, join us at BIM Perspectives as we explore the new technology innovations and integrations in design and construction. Learn the latest from industry leaders and hear about the advanced modeling and production techniques.
WHEN
Thursday, May 30, 2013
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Eastern Time Zone
WHERE
McGraw Hill Auditorium
1221 Sixth Avenue (Bet 49th and 50th St)
Subway: 1 to 50th Street or N/Q/R to 49
New York, New York 10020
FEE
There is no cost to attend the event though you have to register to participate.
Earn 3.5 AIA LUs. Microsol Resources is an Approved Provider through the AIA/CES and will provide Certificate of Completion for 3.5 AIA LUs and PDH for this seminar.
For more information and registration, please click here: http://bit.ly/13vfHRG
Common Boston is a volunteer program of the Boston Society of Architects with the mission of bringing together designers and the public for dialogue that inspires a more sustainable, equitable, and creative urban environment. Join us for the city’s only free festival of design and architecture in our neighborhoods!
http://planning.commonboston.org/
Event schedule coming soon!
UCLA A.UD Professor Greg Lynn leads a panel discussion on the new interconnections within high culture, commercialism, art, media, and design. Panelists will include Scott Trowbridge, vice president of creative research and development at Walt Disney Imagineering, and Thomas Krens, founder and CEO of Global Cultural Asset Management and former director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (1988–2008).
Pre-reception and registration check-in at 6:30pm. Panel begins at 7:30pm.
http://www.aud.ucla.edu/extreme-ideas
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The Guastavino Company transformed the American architectural landscape with its versatile thin-tile vaults, creating expansive spaces that were simultaneously attractive, strong, and fireproof. Panelists discuss the history of these vaults and ongoing efforts to preserve, restore, and celebrate these unique architectural marvels. Panelists include Edmund Meade of Robert Silman Associates; Raymond Pepi of Building Conservation Associates Inc.; Baird M. Smith, FAIA, FAPT, of Quinn Evans Architects; and Chrysanthe Broikos of the National Building Museum (moderator). 1.5 LU HSW (AIA)
Opening night: Tuesday, May 28 from 5-9 p.m.
The Cooper Union End of Year Show has marked its students’ transition from studios, laboratories and classrooms to the gallery from more than 150 years. A time honored tradition, the first recorded exhibition took place in 1860 at the historic Foundation Building, now joined by 41 Cooper Square, Cooper Union’s LEED Platinum academic building. Works on view represent the culmination of each student’s unique experience in the institution’s top ranked programs. Admission is free and open to the public.
Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture
Foundation Building, 7 East 7th St., b/w 3rd and 4th Aves.
An exhibition of student works that explores the role of architecture in contemporary culture and society through conceptual and scaled drawings, detailed three dimensional models and digital renderings. The Cooper Union End of Year Show has become a significant New York City tradition that has consistently showcased innovative and visionary projects by emerging architects, helping to launch. This year’s projects include library designs for three sites in New York City, an architectural installation for OMI International Arts Center’s Fields Sculpture Park; projects for new architectures on and near the Bowery as part of the New Museum Ideas City festival; and thesis projects that include the re-envisioning of the infrastructure of the devastated Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta; and the restoration of the prairie to create a continuous urban forest in Houston, Texas.
The School of Art
Foundation Building, 7 East 7th St., b/w 3rd and 4th Aves. & 41 Cooper Square, 3rd Ave., b/w 6th and 7th Sts.
With a commitment to radical and experimental artistic exploration, the School of Art has long been an incubator of significant artistic talents. Alumni range from Alex Katz, Eva Hesse and Lee Krasner to recent graduates Art Club 2000, the Bruce High Quality Foundation, Sara VanDerBeek and Trisha Baga. A diversity of sculpture, painting, graphic design, photography, film and video from the current student body will be on view in gallery spaces in the Foundation Building and 41 Cooper Square.
Albert Nerken School of Engineering
41 Cooper Square, 3rd Ave., b/w 6th and 7th Sts.
Representing the different engineering disciplines, a dynamic array of projects will be on view for live demonstrations including a formula race car, several student made bridges, a series of mechanical arcade games, a balancing robot, and several unique musical instrument designs, among other things. The installation at 41 Cooper Square, Cooper Union’s LEED Platinum building, showcases the inventive and invaluable outcomes generated by the fields of mechanical, electrical, civil, and chemical engineering.
http://cooper.edu/events-and-exhibitions/events/exhibition-opening-show
Interior architecture and design, product design, lighting design and engineering
May 27-28, Bucharest, JW Marriott Grand Hotel
The third edition of GIS International Architecture Expo Conference continues to promote the recent innovative and sophisticated projects in architecture and interior design. GIS is addressed to all architects, designers, installation and lighting engineers, academics, hotel and restaurant owners and managers, developers of office and commercial building projects, fashion retailers, companies with innovative products and technologies, in short - to all those interested in interior architecture and design.
Structure: conference and exhibition.
General topics: interior architecture and design, product design, lighting design and engineering.
Program: plenary sessions, specialized sections, exhibition.
Special Guest: Arch. Giorgio Borruso, founder, Design Principal and CEO of GIORGIO BORRUSO DESIGN, USA.
Italian architect and designer, Giorgio Borruso is best known for his innovative experiential designs for famous fashion houses and major fashion retailers. To date, his designs have received over eighty international awards, have appeared in over a thousand publications and are exhibited in the collections of the Chicago Athenaeum and Red Dot Museum.
Giorgio Borruso won in 2012, with the Carlo Pazolini project, the great Red Dot Design Award, Best of the Best.
For Participantion Packages, Info and Registration please contact us at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
The event is part of a series of international architecture events organized by ABplus Events and the Order of Architects of Romania, alongside INGLASS (glass architecture and engineering) and RIFF (architecture and habitat).
Website: http://www.iegis.ro/index.php?ln=en
If you are young, energetic, have interest in architecture and urban development, and you do care about quality of urban public space, you are invited to participate in a 5 - day international workshop “FRUNZE 3 5 – Rethinking the Industrial Zone” that will take place in Kyiv on May 27 - 31, 2013 .
DESCRIPTION
This workshop is about an abandoned and deserted industrial area covering almost 15000 square meters and encompassing the site of a former brewery and malt extract manufacturer, located on Frunze Street 35 in one of Kiev’s oldest districts, the Podil.
The foundation of this area goes back to the late 19th century and was inextricably linked with the burgeoning industrialization of Ukraine’s capital at this ti me. For more than a century, the area was closely linked to the city‘s food industry until its decline and final shut down in the late 1990-s .
Today this area doesn’t fulfill any economic purpose; it is merely used as a parking lot or a warehouse from ti me to time, resembling a blank spot on the city map. If left as it is, the area will only see its further deterritorialization and will get more and more marginalized.
Despite its remarkable silhouette and rather untypical historic appearance, neither the factory building nor the surrounding area is recognized as a part of the urban environment by the local inhabitants. As many other industrial zones which were gradually moved out of the inner city, the former factory in Frunze Street 35 shares this destiny of decay, and it is very unlikely that it will ever get back its industrial function. Moreover, up to the present, not even a clearly defined social or cultural role for the future of this area is discernible.
The workshop’s main goal therefore consist s in initiating new co-operations between representatives of various social and professional communities, ranging from urban planners, architects, geographers, cultural scientists, sociologists, economists, municipal officials, private entrepreneurs and me mbers of the civil society working in the field of urban development and urban redesign. All participants are expected to cooperate closely working towards the goal – a concept of revitalization of the factory building and the surrounding area.
The partic ipants are free to experiment since they are not confined to any ‘final product’ determined in advance. The final outcome can be a residential complex, a playground, a park, a center for cultural encounters, a museum, a sports hall or even a parking lot if its necessity will be reasonab l y proved. Their choice is expected to be a result of internal discussions as well as consultations with external experts, however well grounded and reasoned
We also expect that the final outcome will meet the interests of different groups: professional, gender, social, cultural, age - related etc., be based on the principles of sustainability, be economically reasonable and realistic enough.
All potential participants will have to pass a selection process. They are asked to fill in an application form and send us a letter of motivation. Architects are asked to send us a short overview of two of their former projects. Application deadline is March 22, 2013.
All candidates must have good or (preferably) very good knowledge of English. Eligible are people aged from 18 to 35 from Kyiv , Ukraine and from abroad.
The duration of workshop is five days, starting on May 27, and ending on May 31st. A supervisor will be assigned to the group in order to oversee the creative process. This tutor will be an architect from abroad. The overall process will be supervised by a curator who will also be invited by the organizers.
Workshop description and requirements
Application form for architects
Application form for non-architects
St. Michael’s and All Angels Episcopal Church by A. Quincy Jones and Frederick E. Emmons, 1960–62. Photograph by Jason Schmidt, 2012. Courtesy Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.
A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living is the first major museum retrospective of the Los Angeles-based architect’s work and pays special attention to the unique collaborative nature of his practice. The exhibition is presented as part of the larger Getty-sponsored initiative Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. Archibald Quincy Jones (1913–1979), who was known as Quincy, practiced architecture in Los Angeles from 1937 until his death in 1979. A quiet modernist and dedicated architecture professor at the University of Southern California, Jones worked to bring a high standard of design to the growing middle class by reconsidering and refining postwar housing and emphasizing cost-effective, innovative, and sustainable building methods. In addition, Jones is among the first architects of this period to view developments as an opportunity to build community through shared green spaces, varied home models, and non-grid site planning. Jones is credited with over 5,000 built projects, most of which still exist today, as the clients and homeowners shared Jones’s compassion for ‘better living.’ Known by architects for designing from the inside out, Jones’s homes and buildings are celebrated for expansive interior spaces, thoughtful and efficient building layouts, and a reverence for the outdoors, which still resonates in contemporary design today. A. Quincy Jones: Building for Better Living is organized by guest curator Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher, Head of Department/Associate Curator of Architecture + Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Dear colleagues,
We are pleased to inform you about the Workshop “Thinking and Building in critical times” organized by Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona – UPC.
The workshop is going to be an academic experience between Barcelona and Mallorca. The practical exercise would consist into develop in group a pavilion like the access to the Archeological Park at the Puig de Sa Morisca, in Calviá, Mallorca.
In this Project: the ETSAB, the Cátedra Gaudí, the Calvià City Hall and IS ARCH take part.
The workshop is going to carry on in Barcelona and Mallorca from the 2nd of July until the 22nd of July 2013.
There are 30 places for participating: architecture students and architects. The workshop is going to be in English, Spanish and Catalan.
The reponsible teacher is Ramón Casanelles, in collaboration with Francesca Neus Frontera and Adriá Clapés, as executive members. Moreover, a team composed by Iker Alzola, Francesca Origa, Guillem Tomás and William Mathers is going to collaborate.
The inscription period for submitting candidatures is going to remain opened until the 24th of May 2013.
We would be grateful if you could provide editorial support in your platforms (web, social networks, etc.) to inform the maximum number of architecture students and architects that could be interested on the workshop.
Kind regards,
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona - UPC.
Register at Eventbrite: http://preservingthemodernhousela.eventbrite.com/
Strategies for Preserving and Maintaining the Modern House
As part of the Getty’s PST: Modern Architecture L.A., a series of exhibitions and public programs, Cal Poly Pomona and the Getty Conservation Institute is offering a one-day technical workshop on “Preserving the Modern House.”
This program stems from the exhibition Technology and Environment: The Postwar Southern California House being held at the Kellogg Gallery on the Cal Poly Pomona campus from April 11-July 12, 2013.
The day-long workshop will focus on two icons of Los Angeles modernism: Richard and Dion Neutra’s VDL Research House (1932-1966) and Ray Kappe’s own residence (1967). The program will bring to light strategies for preserving and maintaining these iconic works. Neutra’s VDL Research house was the architect’s residence and studio for most of his illustrious career. The original house dates to 1932, but after a devastating fire, the rebuilt house of 1966 was designed with flat roofs that could also function as shallow pools. This design innovation presented numerous conservation challenges, and their solution has been an ongoing project.
The architecture of the Kappe house, completed in 1968 is based on a bridge-like system of concrete towers spanned by beams of glued laminated lumber. Time, and exceptional design have been kind to the Kappe residence, whose innovative use of material and response to site and climate continue to make it one of the most important 20th century American houses.
A series of lectures by experts in the area of architectural conservation will be offered throughout the morning and into the early afternoon. These will be followed by tours of the VDL House. The speakers will be:
Following a box lunch (included in the price of the program), a coach will bring participants to the Ray and Shelly Kappe residence where world-renown architect, Ray Kappe, FAIA will answer questions about his residence. Tours of the Kappe house will allow participants to get a closer look at this masterwork of modern design.
Tentative Schedule:
9:00 Welcome to VDL Research House by Lauren Weiss Bricker, Ph.D, Cal Poly Pomona and Kyle Normandin, Senior Project Specialist, Getty Conservation Institute
9:10-10:10 Veronica Martin to discuss waterproofing of modern buildings (lecture and Q&A)
10:15-11:15 Leo Marmol to discuss roofing project (30 minutes) followed by Q&A (30min.)
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-12:30 Sarah Lorenzen, roof top presentation of VDL project
12:30-1:30 Box lunches distributed
1:30-2:30 Paul Gaudette on conservation of concrete
2:45 Leave for Kappe Residence
3:30 Arrive at Kappe Residence
3:45-4:45 Ray Kappe – Questions and Answers
5:00 Leave Kappes and return to Silver Lake
6:00 Arrive at Neutra VDL House
Please contact Johnny Tran for any questions or concerns:
Johnny Tran
Phone: 714.264.9897
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Neutra VDL House
2300 Silver Lake Blvd, Los Angeles, California 90039
Third Wednesdays, 7pm-8:30pm
Supported by A Blade of Grass, OurGoods.org, and Eyebeam
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From experimental restaurants to performative lectures, from social networks to public protests, cultural practices that focus on group work are gaining visibility. Whether contemporary enthusiasm for “social practice” comes from a desire for deep interaction in synchronous time, or from austerity measures and the poverty of the welfare state, the problems of possibilities of group work must be addressed. F**king Up is a conversation series that asks artists, educators, and curators to speak openly about struggles and desires in collaboration, documentation, narration, and commitment. Please join these free public conversations at Eyebeam on the third Wednesday of the month from March through June.
Series Schedule:
March 20th:
Who gets to speak up?
A candid conversation about collaboration and participation with Huong Ngo,Christopher Robbins, and Kerry Downey
April 17th:
Why are you taking so many photographs?
A candid conversation about documentation and ethics with curators Laurel Ptak and Natasha Marie Llorens
May 22nd:
How will you talk about what happened?
A candid conversation about narrative, exhibitions, and history with Larissa Harris and Eve Tuck
June 19th:
How long will you work on this?
A candid conversation about responsibility, commitment, and institutions with Denisse Andrade and Mimi McGurl
http://www.eyebeam.org/events/fking-up-learning-from-mistakes-in-art-and-education
Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 - 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Venue: Cooper-Hewitt Design Center
Architect Jack Travis will present his design for the Harlem Hospital’s Mural Pavilion and talk with John Reddick about this work and the juxtaposition between its historic inventory of WPA-era murals by African-American Artists, and the contemporary African-inspired color palette, pattern and philosophy.
About the Harlem Focus series:
John Reddick, architectural consultant and Harlem historian, will curate and lead a series of talks featuring designers, architects, and artists whose work engages and affects the local community. The Harlem Focus series will highlight design issues in Harlem, ranging from public art and landscape architecture, to rooftop farms and urban woodland restoration, and explore how design will affect this unique neighborhood as it continues to evolve, change and inspire.
http://www.cooperhewitt.org/events/harlem-focus-inspired-africa-wpa-art-unique-hospital-design
Gowanus by Design is proud to present the winning entries from Water_Works our second annual design and planning competition. The intent of the competition was to provide a new community resource that will occupy the site of the Douglas Degraw pool with a Combined Sewer Overflow [CSO] retention facility.
Location:
The Old American Can Factory Gallery
232 Third Street @ Third Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Time and Date:
6:30 - 9:00 pm
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
There were over 250 entries submitted from around the world and the jury was tasked to select nine winners in the areas of architectural design, community programming, and urban ecology. The award-winners along with other selected entries will be exhibited at the gallery.
Based on recent studies, it is likely that the Douglass and Degraw Street pool and the adjacent Thomas Greene Playground will be demolished in order to properly remediate the heavily contaminated soil below the pool, which is the site of the former Fulton Manufactured Gas Plant site. The competition focused on how the post-industrial development of this contaminated site in the canal watershed offers the challenge of rethinking how a new community resource can become an agent for the area’s continued renewal.
Free and open to the public. Reservations required.
Register at: http://www.aud.ucla.edu/extreme-ideas/index.html
UCLA Architecture and Urban Design (A.UD) presents a panel conversation on the implications of emerging “intelligent environments” and their corollary in transportation, manufacturing and urbanism. Neil Denari, renowned architect and UCLA A.UD Professor and Vice Chair, will moderate. Panelists include Joseph Kosinski, director of “Oblivion” and “Tron: Legacy,” and Greg Lindsay, contributing writer to “Fast Company” and author of “Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next.” This event is the first of four public events part of the A.UD series Extreme IDEAS: Architecture at the Intersection.
Extreme IDEAS is part of Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A. This collaboration, initiated by the Getty, brings together several local arts institutions for a wide-ranging look at the postwar built environment of the city as a whole, from its famous residential architecture to its vast freeway network, revealing the city’s development and ongoing impact in new ways. Major support for Extreme IDEAS has been provided by the Getty Foundation.
Registration opens with pre-reception at 6:30pm. Panel begins at 7:30pm.
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Learn the basics and possibilities of digital fabrication from NYC design experts! As part of Eyebeam’s Computational Fashion program, this workshop will demonstrate some of today’s most disruptive, innovative, and thought provoking technologies. Join Arthur Young-Spivey, Sabine Seymour, and Francis Bitonti to explore 3D software, scanning, and printing tools, and consider how they can be used, combined, and pushed in new directions.
Workshop participants will gain exposure to digital fabrication and its potential use within fashion, developing new ways to think about it as both a prototyping process and a creative medium. Presentations – including designer Francis Bitonti discussing his work on a fully articulated 3D printed gown – will be followed by hands-on demonstrations, where participants will be able to try out various aspects of the digital fabrication process using a selection of 3D printers, scanners, and software.
Participants are encouraged (but not required) to bring their own laptops installed with 3D modeling software in order to get insight and feedback from workshop experts. Recommended free or open source software includes: 3dtin.com, Tinkercad.com, SketchUp, OpenSCAD, Wings3D, Scupltris, Autodesk 123D, and Blender.
About the Presenters
Arthur Young-Spivey is an industrial designer and digital fabrication specialist versed in all of the various aspects of 3D software, 3D printing/rapid prototyping, 3D scanning and how they apply to different industries. Arthur has consulted with medical, architectural, product design and engineering firms to facilitate how they can bring their visions into the real world.
Dr. Sabine Seymour focuses on the intertwining of aesthetics and function in fashion and technology. Her company Moondial consults on fashionable technology to companies and institutions worldwide. Moondial Lab is the nexus between silicon and style. She is an Assistant Professor of Fashionable Technology at Parsons The New School for Design in New York. She has published extensively on the subject, including recent books, Fashionable Technology and Functional Aesthetics.
Francis Bitonti is a designer, researcher, and founding principal of Francis Bitonti Studio, an interdisciplinary design studio working across scales and disciplines ranging form innovative spaces and objects to wearables and wearable technologies. Bitonti is ushering in a new manufacturing paradigm through his innovative use of computational design techniques and emerging manufacturing technologies. The studio has been published in outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, V Magazine, Wired, and The New York Daily News and continues to garner global recognition.
http://www.eyebeam.org/events/workshop-3d-printing-for-fashion
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