A Windshield Perspective: The Framing of LA Architecture and Urbanism will look at the way the experience of driving has shaped the architecture and physical geography of Los Angeles.  The show will examine the notion that buildings are billboards for drivers and delve deeply into how seeing and absorbing the city through the windshield shapes the frontiers of design and city planning.  The city streets are engaged in a continuous dialog with drivers, for good and for bad.  A Windshield Perspective will dissect the language that emerges from a city whose fabric is a daily digest of images gathered through a moving vehicle. The romance and terror of the streets are the subject, which can only be fully understood at 35 miles per hour.

http://aplusd.org/exhibitions-future/windshield-perspective

Never Built: Los Angeles will explore the “what if” Los Angeles. The exhibition investigates the values and untapped potential of a city still in search of itself. A thorough compendium of projects that only saw the drawing board, the project asks: Why is Los Angeles a mecca for great architects, yet so lacking in urban innovation?

Co-curated by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, 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.

Large-scale visions include Olmsted and Bartholomew’s groundbreaking 1930 “Plan for the Los Angeles Region,” which if it hadn’t been upended by business groups would have increased the amount of green space in the notoriously park-poor city fivefold; the Maguire Group’s 1980 plan for Grand Avenue, which would have injected unity and architectural exclamation into the placeless spine of downtown; and Frank Lloyd Wright’s Doheny Ranch, which would have replaced the monotonous suburban housing model with a collection of unique buildings clustered in a landscape of dramatic terraces and ravines.

Unrealized buildings include Rem Koolhaas’s 2001 plan for LACMA, which would have united the disjointed complex under a giant plastic roof; Jean Nouvel’s 2008 Green Blade, a condominium tower entirely clad in cascading plants; and John Lautner’s Alto Capistrano, a series of spaceship-like apartments hovering above a mixed-use development. There were low- to moderate-income housing projects, 150-story towers, and plans for over 100 miles of subway tunnels. The list goes on, decade after decade.

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? Unlike most great cities in recent and ancient history, in Los Angeles nearly 100 years of booming prosperity has yielded little architectural or urban greatness. Think of Chicago’s skyscrapers and New York’s downtown and midtown grids. Think of St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and the bridges of Paris. Even small cities, bursting with civic energy, produce masterpieces. Seattle commissioned Rem Koolhaas to build a library. A small town in rural France generated the world’s greatest modern bridge, the viaduct at Millau. Ambition is written in the stone and steel and streets of cities. But in Los Angeles a genius for public architecture is largely missing.

Never Built examines what it is about Los Angeles that causes grand architectural schemes to flounder. Is it the political power too highly concentrated in unelected and usually invisible commissions, from the airport to parks to public works – an unintended consequence of Progressive era government reforms? Is it the inheritance of meritocracy, which puts vast bureaucracies of engineers ahead of visionary architects, without portfolio? Is it the sheer size of the region, which often discourages consensus around any one vision? Or has this problem more to do with the siphoning of cultural talent and drive into Hollywood, where ideas and ambitions are closely held and rarely converted into public gestures or endowments?

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.

http://aplusd.org/exhibitions-future/neverbuilt

The exhibiting galleries are among the world’s most respected art dealers, offering exceptional pieces by both renowned artists and cutting-edge newcomers. Special exhibition sections feature young galleries, performance art, public art projects and video art. The show will be a vital source for art lovers, allowing them to both discover new developments in contemporary art and experience rare museum-caliber artworks.

Top-quality exhibitions in the museums of South Florida and special programs for art collectors and curators also help make the event a special time for encountering art. And every year, a greater number of art collectors, artists, dealers, curators, critics and art enthusiasts from around the world participate in Art Basel Miami Beach - the favorite winter meeting place for the international art world.

We look forward to welcoming you at Art Basel Miami Beach 2012.

http://www.artbaselmiamibeach.com

This year’s Miami edition of the fair, December 4 – December 9, 2012, will present 80 international galleries upholding SCOPE’s unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows presented alongside museum-quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events. The unique SCOPE experience expands this year in partnership with local and international cultural organizations, featuring: film, music, installation and performance. “This season we want to highlight SCOPE’s lead role as creative R+D for a wider audience of taste makers who make art their business,” says SCOPE President & Founder Alexis Hubshman. “Introducing artists, curators, and cutting-edge galleries to new international audiences has made SCOPE the most comprehensive destination for the emerging art world.”

In over thirty five fairs spanning the past ten years, SCOPE has solidified its position as the premier show-case for international emerging contemporary art. With art fairs in Miami, Basel, New York, London and the Hamptons, SCOPE Art Show has garnered critical acclaim, with sales of over $100 million and attendance of over 350,000 visitors.

http://www.scope-art.com

The third edition of RIFF continues to promote performant materials and solutions used in architectural projects which are representative for the building field.

RIFF is part of the series of architecture expo conferences organized by ABplus Events and Architects Order from Romania, along with GIS and INGLASS.

http://www.ieriff.ro

hosted by the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, 15-17th November 2012.

Keynote speakers include Keller Easterling, Felicity D. Scott, Alexander Brodsky, David Crowley and Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss.

Conference Director: Dr Ines Weizman

Conference Synopsis:
This conference aims to reflect on the relevance of the concept of dissidence for architectural practice today. Although dissidence has been primarily associated with architectural practices in the Eastern Bloc at the end of the Cold War period, contemporary architectural and other aesthetic practices have in recent years developed a host of new methodologies and techniques for articulating their distance from and critique of dominant political and financial structures. Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence asks how we can conceive of the contemporary political problems and paradoxes of architecture in relation to their precedents? Devoid of the agency of action, Cold War dissidents articulated their positions in drawings of fantasy-like paper architecture, while contemporary forms of architectural practice seem to gravitate towards activism and direct-action in the world. The political issues – from interventions in charged areas worldwide to research in conflict zones and areas undergoing transformations – currently stimulate a field of abundant invention in contemporary architecture. Both, Cold War dissidents and contemporary activists encounter problems and paradoxes and must navigate complex political force fields within which possible complicities are inherent risks. This conference seeks to map out and expand on the methodologies of architectural action and reinvigorate the concept of dissent within the architectural/spatial field of the possible. …

Dr Ines Weizman
Senior Lecturer
London Metropolitan University
Department of Architecture & Spatial Design
Spring House
40-44 Holloway Road
London N7 8JL

http://www.dissidence.org.uk/
info@dissidence.org.uk

More information about Greenbuild 2012 to follow soon. In the mean time:

The 2012 Call for Proposals and Call for Reviewers are now open! The deadline to submit an education session proposal and apply to become a volunteer reviewer is Friday, January 13 at 4:59 pm EST.

Visit the Call for Proposals and Call for Reviewers pages to view the timeline, submittal guides and new features of the 2012 program.

The BSA has recently unveiled ambitious plans to help building-industry professionals broaden their networks and opportunities. These initiatives include moving into expanded quarters at the Atlantic Wharf complex on Fort Point Channel. In addition to conference rooms and staff offices, the new BSA Space features a 6,000-square-foot gallery that, beginning in January 2012, will be open to the public seven days a week.

ABX will be held November 14–16, 2012, at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

Visit http://www.abexpo.com to learn more.

The setting for this symposium is Taliesin West, the desert campus of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, an inspirational context in which to explore the relationship between the mind and designed space. Discussion will address such questions as the implications of neuroplasticity on lifelong learning, how the environment changes the structure of the brain, how the imagination functions, how to best nurture it, and what is important for the designer to know and how best to teach it. This event also celebrates the 75th anniversary of Taliesin West and the 80th Reunion of the Taliesin Fellows.

For more information: http://www.taliesin.edu/md/md.html

Clearly an exclusively scientific and materialistic approach towards an encompassing explanatory model is insufficient to explicate the complex phenomenon of the relationship between human (and self) and world.

Complementing the experimental strand followed by empirical research, a philosophical school of thought aiming for a new epistemological debate has evolved. Neurophilosophy integrates neuroscientific data and furnishes its philosophical theories with empirical results. Does the neurophilosophical approach hold value for an architectural context and what can cognitive neuroscience contribute to architectural discourse?

Spatial Thinking 2 aims to discuss both theoretical philosophies and empirical experimentations.

Our perceptive systems rely on the fluctuating reciprocity of perception and apperception, interoceptive and exteroceptive attention, wakefulness and rest. Architectural design aims to address all facets of the perceptive spectrum. How do automated developments elicit change in the perception of space and in which way will architecture as a discipline respond?
Theoretical occupations however only address one aspect of this highly complex topic. Possible modes of technical and experimental real-space implementations of the aforementioned need to be investigated, which is why our interests focus on the following:
The rapid evolution of technology does not only determine methods available for observation and assessment, but also influences and changes the relationship between human user and architectural space as such, by introducing a constantly growing assortment of factors and parameters. Do technological virtualities and interactive, reactive, and responsive systems present potentials (and equally dangers) for architectural creation or does their merit merely lie in their being tools for experimentation and evaluation?

Key note speeches will be given by

Prof. Thomas Metzinger, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz
Prof. Deborah Hauptmann, Delft School of Design
Prof. Robert Brown, University of Plymouth
t.b.a.

Paper submissions are invited to present both theory and practice-based novel epistemological approaches, exemplifying their significance in relation to architecture.
Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, as well as a short CV to spatialthinking2@uibk.ac.at

Submission deadline for abstracts: 31st May 2012
Notification of acceptance: 29th June 2012
Symposium: 9th November - 10th November 2012, Innsbruck, Austria

More information
http://www.uibk.ac.at/gestaltung/spatial-thinking2/

40th Anniversary Celebration
October 18 - 20, 2012
Westin Book Cadillac Hotel
Detroit, Michigan

Born in Finland, Eero Saarinen (1910 – 1961) is recognized today as one of America’s most influential architects of the 20th Century. The exhibition at the Architecture and Design Museum will highlight his short but brilliant career beginning with the Smithsonian Gallery of Art Competition in 1939 and culminating with Dulles Airport in 1962 and highlighting his influence on design in mid-Century America.

Saarinen is recognized today as one of the America’s most influential architects of the 20th Century. He has built numerous corporate, educational, cultural public and private buildings with such recognizable icons as the St. Louis Gateway Arch, the TWA terminal at JFK, and Dulles Airport.

This exhibition is a tribute to Saarinen’s short and brilliant career which was bookended with two iconic buildings: the Smithsonian Gallery of Art, a museum of modern art on the Mall which remained unbuilt and the nation’s first jet airport, Dulles International Airport which was completed one year after his death.

The much-publicized national competition of 1939 catapulted Saarinen into the architectural limelight at the age of 29, marking a triumph for the modernist camp.  Opposition to the cutting edge modernist vocabulary was strong in the pre- World War II era and even though it would influence museums built throughout the world for decades to come, the Smithsonian Gallery of Art remained an unbuilt icon. Lost for 50 years, the discovery of the drawings twenty years ago and their secure place at the Smithsonian Institution confirms that architecture even when unbuilt can be influential, provocative and groundbreaking.

Shedding light on Saarinen’s secret professional life

Saarinen’s association with Washington continued throughout the war years when he volunteered for the OSS (Office of Strategic Services), the precursor to the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency). Recognized for “his outstanding capacity” for original design work in any field, Eero quickly excelled in his service to the OSS to became the chief of the Presentation Division responsible for all exhibits work.

The exhibition at A+D Architecture and Design Museum>Los Angeles is unique in shedding light on this little known chapter of Eero Saarinen’s secret professional life. While still in his 30’s Eero established himself as one of the most creative product designers with recognizable furniture broke technological and aesthetic boundaries with such icons as the tulip chair and the womb chair.

(Exhibition dates subject to change)

http://aplusd.org/exhibitions-future/eero-saarinen

An all-day program on Friday the 28th and half Saturday the 29th will feature projects and plans that have received “Excellence on the Waterfront” Honor Awards selected by independent, interdisciplinary juries beginning in 1987. 
Preceding the Conference is an all-day study tour and workshop featuring the multiple waterfronts of Washington, including Georgetown and Washington Harbour, plans for a totally new Southwest waterfront, early developments in the Southeast along the Anacostia River plus the historic Navy Yard.

Conference presentations will feature “the best and brightest” in urban planning, design and development plus grassroots citizen efforts. The broad subject areas are The Artistic and Cultural Waterfront, The Commercial and Mixed-Use Waterfront, the Environmental Waterfront and the Public Realm on the Waterfront.

http://www.waterfrontcenter.org
On line-registration available.

The EUSS is a call to arms to develop new ways of thinking about emerging issues of scarcity in the context of the built environment. How and by whom is scarcity generated, engineered, constructed and perceived? What are we – as architects, planners, designers or policy makers in an urban context – to do under conditions of scarcity? Young Planning Professionals are invite to reclaim the possibility of making the city. Apply now by sending an email to scarcetimeseuss[at]gmail.com, containing your response to the following task:

Identify one instance of ‘scarcity’ in the context of the built environment and propose a physical or process-related response.

The participation fee is £200 and the deadline for applications is 31 May 2012. Selected participants will be notified by 30 June 2012. Visit the EUSS website for more details and to learn about the possibility to win the International Young Planners Ward!

Now in its sixth year at the Old Truman Brewery, Tent London presents over 200 international exhibitors, showing the very latest in contemporary interior products - furniture, lighting, ceramics, textiles, materials and accessories.

Over 19,000 international trade buyers, high calibre specifiers, opinion forming media and design savvy consumers from 44 different countries attend the four-day event. It is regarded as the most cutting-edge and progressive trade exhibition during the London Design Festival and 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.

http://www.tentlondon.co.uk

Over nine days in September, the London Design Festival features hundreds of events that take place across London, showcasing the city’s pivotal role in global design.

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 practies, 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.

http://www.londondesignfestival.com

To get things done in the city requires a successful campaign. And while architects are never shy to proclaim, and often quicker to disdain, architecture has yet to learn how to campaign.

Campaigning Architecture is a 10-day design workshop that combines the potential of design intelligence with the power of propaganda, to enable participants to invest in the development of ideas for the future of Chicago.

chicago.aaschool.ac.uk
facebook.com/aachicago

Interested? Read on…

Oregon has nearly 30 million acres of forestland covering nearly half the state. The forest, thick with meaning, holds as many interpretations as contemplators. For some it is a natural refuge, a place to get away from civilization, a habitat for wildlife and endangered species, even a place of protest. It conjures images of living off the land and of the noble savage. If treated badly it represents man’s disregard for nature, ignorance of our effect and skewed priorities. For others it represents an important resource and export, a source of income, a versatile crop that provides material for building our homes and products that make our lives easier. The forest is all of these things as well as an absorber of carbon dioxide and off-setter of our polluting activities; it is a barometer of the planet’s health.

Marking the Forest is a Visiting School through the Architectural Association School of Architecture which will run from the 11th to the 20th of August 2012 with the support of the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon, U.S.A.

The Visiting School is an opportunity to experience the methodology and ideas developed at the Architectural Association in a short and intense full time studio for eight days with tutors from the AA within the context of the Oregon forest.

Please visit our facebook page for more info or our website:

http://eugene.aaschool.ac.uk/

Construction today is overwhelmingly industrial. Buildings are assembled from components that are prefabricated, standardised and usually made from synthetic materials. At the same time, our awareness of manufacturing processes, material life cycles and embodied energies is on the increase, and technologies for forming, cutting, gluing, bending, moulding, pressing and more have advanced tremendously. New opportunities for architectural design are opening up and a renewed attention to architecture as a material practice has begun to emerge.

The 12th International Alvar Aalto Symposium will discuss the many ways in which architecture today is crafted through the careful consideration of technology, environment and human skill. Designers, builders and thinkers from a wide range of international practices will present buildings and projects that emphasize the specificity of the contexts in which they work. Our aim is to explore the potential of an architecture that carries the particular properties, practices and techniques of its location through to the smallest detail.

Together we will address the complex relationship between material, craft and culture not simply as a matter of professional practice but also as a sociological and pedagogical imperative.

Pekka Heikkinen
Professor, Architect

http://www.alvaraaltosymposium.fi

Havana workshop will be structured in two 1-week segments. In the first part (tools and conceptual-scheme), students will learn new software to represent innovative political arguments by experimenting with the relationship between everyday activities and particular material organizations. These experimental propositions are meant to define new models of interaction between the individual and the collective in the public arena. In the second part (fabrication-construction), students will work collaboratively on the implementation of one of the schemes that has been selected from the first proposals. Fabricated on site, this temporary prototype will evaluate in real life the achievements of previous designs.

http://havana.aaschool.ac.uk

MEDS – Meeting of design students – is an international association developed by and for design students from different European countries. It was founded in 2010 with an aim to bring together European students of architecture, interior architecture, industrial design, graphic design, etc. to work on the same project on an international level and explore practical world of designing.
With this idea MEDS organizes an annual event, usually lasting ten days, which takes place each summer in a different European city.

The main goal of MEDS is to share international experiences and knowledge to generate new and fresh ideas, to enrich the city in which the workshop takes place, and as a participant to become part of something bigger; an exciting and dynamic design community.

Every year organizers choose a theme of workshop that is related to the hosting city. Event’s workshop, exhibition, lectures and social events are designed around the theme, allowing participants to gain a deeper understanding of the ideas driving the projects.

WORKSHOP 2012:
sensABILITY – LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA (5.-17.8.2012)

The five senses are fundamental to our everyday perceptions of the world. Designers strive to stimulate feelings and emotions based on people’s reactions to their senses in a particular environment. Unfortunately, in contemporary culture we are sensually biased: visual qualities predominate.
sensABILITY aims to free the participant from this visually driven world.
Workshops will strive to liberate our sense of touch, sound, smell and potentially even taste, to give us a richer understanding and appreciation of the designed world around us.
There are many accessories designed to help and guide us through the city, causing us to become passive in attitude and less aware of the space that surrounds us. Traffic lights, zebra crossings and pavements have made it almost unnecessary for pedestrians to observe each other. Let’s change this and regenerate our senses!

ELIGIBILITY

MEDS workshop is available for all students of design across Europe and beyond. MEDS 2012 in Ljubljana is limited to 7 students per country; participants will be chosen based on a poster competition before the workshop and tutors are chosen based on a project competition.
The capacity of MEDS 2012 workshop will be increased to 250 students from 30 European countries. Students will be accommodated in the center of Ljubljana, where workshop will be held.

TUTOR

A tutor is the author of one of the workshop proposals selected for realization by the MEDS Team.
We have 2 types of tutors:

• students of architecture and design
• graduated architects or designers – normally they are invited to be the tutors by MEDS team

Each student or graduated architect/designer can apply as a tutor.
Tutor has to make a proposal based on selected theme and send it to slovenia@meds-workshop.com by April 23rd 2012.
MEDS team will choose the best ideas and announce them as winning projects.
Tutor’s obligation is to make a presentation of his project and represent it at the conference at the beginning of the workshop. After that other participants will split into groups, on the basis of the project they like the most.
Proposal could be anything which contains design disciplines and would take two weeks of working. The main aim is to produce an installation in open space, through which participants will familiarize themselves with new materials and skills, constructing real project.
Meanwhile there will be also small workshops not based on construction, like graphic design, photography, multimedia, fashion, etc. You can propose a workshop which will offer new skills in other design disciplines.
MEDS team will choose approximately 15 installations projects and 3 non construction-based workshops.
What we are interested in, is your idea of potential project, which will be developed during the workshop in co-operation with participants.

PARTICIPANTS

If you would like to participate in MEDS 2012 in Ljubljana as a participant representing your country, or as a tutor, we ask you to submit an image reflecting upon the theme of sensABILITY.
Through the making of this image you will grasp the essence of MEDS 2012 and become even more excited and impatient about the moment when you will find yourself in Ljubljana, surrounded by hundreds of students of a similar thinking, all itching to begin their workshops and explore new ideas and concepts with you, a fellow participant.
If you want to become a tutor or participant, please read more information in Participation and Tutor pack.
meds-workshop.com/applicationinformation

NATIONAL CONTACTS

MEDS operates in countries all over Europe with a help of National Contacts. They are the ones, who are responsible for every year’s selection of participants. You will send all required files to the National Contact of the country where you study.
National Contacts will also help you with all the information about MEDS workshop that could be useful to you.

ENTRY FEE

The cost of the workshop is €200 and it includes:

• accommodation
• breakfast and dinner
• construction materials
• lectures
• trips, entrance fees…

Participants and tutors will need to pay the registration fee of €50 by June 15th 2012. The rest of the fee has to be paid before the beginning of the workshop.
If for some reason the participant decides not to collaborate on a workshop, registration fee will not be returned!
All information about the process of payment will be announced after the results of poster competition, that is after May 21st 2012.

TIMETABLE

23.4.2012 – deadline of project competition for becoming a tutor
30.4.2012 – announcement of the winning projects and their tutors
14.5.2012 – deadline of poster competition for becoming a participant
21.5.2012 – announcement of poster competition winners
15.6.2012 – tutors and participants have to pay registration fee, €50
5.8.2012 – the beginning of the workshop – the rest of the fee has to be paid.

For more information, go to:
meds-workshop.com
medsslovenia.tumblr.com

The International Festival of Art and Construction is focused on 200 young and dynamic people from the world of art and architecture from different parts of Europe. They will live and work together for 10 days in August 2012, in a creative and integrated space of different art programmes, to debate, work and exchange experiences, through the participation of 20 different workshops, establishing a balance between academic, practical, cultural and social networking.

It is located in a remote village, called “Villarino de los Aires” where it is one of the most beautiful and mesmerizing landscapes of the Spanish territory.
The event’s theme is “SELF- SUFFICENT RURAL FURURE” It open up debates, in a globalized environment, proposing self-sufficiency as a possible future model that taps into the rural past.
If you want to join, you should register sending a small motivation letter in the website.

More info: http://www.ifac2012.com

“Do you like spending your holidays traveling and seeing new places?
Are you a student passionate about architecture, urban design, interior design, freehand drawing and art in general?
Would you like to follow your passion, strengthen your career abilities and also see new places and meet new interesting people?

Then, you should not miss The International Summer School Sibiu 2012, Romania!”

The International Summer School Sibiu is a recreational study programme, which takes place in August 2012 in Sibiu, Romania. During the summer school weeks you will have the possibility to study courses related to art, take part at workshops and you will also have the holiday opportunity of a lifetime by visiting fascinating historical sights in Romania completed by a wide range of recreational and social events.

If you like combining fun with work, then The International Summer School Sibiu 2012 are definitely the perfect working holidays for you!

For further information please visit: http://www.summerschoolsibiu.eu

Associated with the concepts of regeneration, emergence, and growth through its broad existence in nature, Green will serve as the inspiration for observing natural and biological structures, followed by their abstraction and interpretation into elaborated design proposals. In this manner, Green|02 will take on the design approaches and outcomes of Green|01 and continue to elaborate on them through the emphasis on precise scale, performance, and form related criteria. This phase will be highlighted with the extensive use of digital design and analysis tools towards the generation of a working one-to-one scale prototype. During the second phase, participants and tutors will be located at the AA Hooke Park facilities for the remainder of the workshop, working on the fabrication and assembly strategies of the prototype, finalizing with the assembled piece. Being an independent workshop as well as the second part of DLAB’s two-fold agenda, Green|02 will give the participants an
  opportunity to test in real life the profound formal, structural and performative attributes of the design outcome by accentuating the qualities of delicacy, detail, and elegance in the architectural realm.

Participants have full access to the AA Digital Prototyping Lab (DPL) for the fabrication of prototypes/models in various mediums and materials, including laser-cutting, CNC milling, 3d-printing, and other forms of physical outputs. The main fabrication phase of Green|02 will take place at the AA facilities in Hooke Park, AA’s rural campus in Dorset in the South West UK. 

For more information:
http://dlab.aaschool.ac.uk/

The lectures (in English language) will be held by members of Izmo (experts, doctoral candidates and PhD holders), and will address issues relating to the semi-public space, with the aim to provide insights as broad and multidisciplinary as possible. In addition, students will have the opportunity to experience firsthand methods of participation and field research that will enable him or her to observe the space and interact with citizens and stakeholders.
The training offered will be further enhanced by a meeting with esterni [Italy] and Bureau Detours [Denmark] that as special-guests will show their projects and approaches to the semi-public space.
At the end of their lessons, participants will intervene effectively on the semi-public space of Cecchi-Point: a multicultural hub of a neighborhood located in Turin, near Izmo’s office. Students will design and realize a series of installations and furnishings to help redevelop the courtyard of Cecchi-Point that represents the heart of the aggregative neighborhood space. Each student will have all the materials and work tools necessary and will be mentored by Izmo staff in every phase of the project.
Participants of the Summer School will be awarded 3 credits, recognized by the Politecnico di Torino, transferrable at any other university (in Europe with ECTS).
In addition, we will provide constant support in logistics, housing research, mobility, and tourism.
For any further information, please visit the web site: http://goo.gl/vckMe

Izmo - made to gather
FitzLab - Via Aosta, 8 - 10152 - Torino - Italy
associazione@izmo.it
Contact person: Alessandro Grella - tel: +39 328 4838858

In this scenario, Factory Futures sets itself as investigative agency researching new relationships between these continental mutations and the built environment through innovative design processes.

The twelve-day, intensive AA Visiting School programme will be based in Ivrea (Turin) and structured around the partnership between the Architectural Association and the Adriano Olivetti Foundation with the technical support of Gehry Technologies.

As the now defunct headquarter of the Olivetti productive facilities, Ivrea offers an unparalleled insight both on the unique industrial and cultural project of Adriano Olivetti and on the current territorial repercussions of post-fordist economy – abandonment of industrial sites, demographic shrinking, urban sprawl, precariousness.
While former Olivetti factories are being transformed in call centres and generic workplaces for the knowledge economy, students will explore their experimental re-use through the design of a prototypical live/work environment.

Prototypes will be developed using a custom-written application of Digital Project led by Gehry Technologies tutors to enable participants to engage with BIM/parametric thinking and relate this back to prototyping techniques through a dedicated digital fabrication workshop.

The experimental design workshop will introduce industrial methodologies and manufacturing processes with the aim of familiarising students with the use of PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) technologies to conceive, design and manufacture an architectural product.

Alongside design and software tutorials, a series of interdisciplinary seminars will offer exclusive insights on the Olivettian culture, contemporary theories and advanced technological applications.

Students’ works will be collected into a publication and also exhibited in London, Ivrea and Rome.

The intensive twelve-day workshop is open to current architecture and design students, PhD candidates and young professionals. Fee discounts will be offered including early applications and group applications.

The deadline for applications is 1st July 2012. All participants traveling from abroad are responsible for securing any visa required. After payment of fees, the AA can provide a letter confirming participation in the workshop. A portfolio or CV is not required, only the online application form and payment.

ivrea.aaschool.ac.uk

Now Boarding will be on view through October 7, 2012.

Denver Art Museum

Socio-Ecological Exploration of the Future Metropolis

ONE Lab Summer 2012 on Future Cities 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 provides a unique opportunity for students to learn from internationally recognized scientists, renowned designers and artists. This summer approximately 40 researchers will gather in New York City for four weeks of intense creative and scientific exploration.

ONE Lab: Future Cities Summer 2012 will feature a Design Studio, Future Cities Seminars and Future Cities Workshops to rethink the possibilities for urban life in our metropolis hereafter. The studio will be offered in two levels, one for professional designers and students enrolled in professional schools or departments of design, the other for students and individuals of varied experience and background. All workshops are beginner level and no previous knowledge or experience is required.

Design Studio

Four weeks and 100 hours of intense exploration of the future of the city. Using New York as a laboratory, the studio will rethink what is salubrious about the city, in both its forms and its life. We will base our investigations on one illuminating hypothesis: in the future New York will grow to be self-sufficient in its critical necessities.

Future Cities Seminars

40 hours of TED style talks given by distinguished architects, engineers, biologists, ecologists, industrial designers, physicists and artists offering radically new responses to the real needs and aspirations of future cities.

Future Cities Workshops

In four workshops participants will learn the processes of biotechnology (including technologies such as genetic engineering, tissue culture, and cloning), growing materials, grafting trees and plants, scripting and computational modeling for controlled growth.

Terreform ONE is now accepting applications for ONE LAB: Future Cities Summer 2012. All candidates are asked to submit their application materials on-line. To review material requirements, visit: http://www.onelab.org/apply

The top ten candidates will receive scholarships up to 50% of the tuition.

The deadline for applications is Thursday, May 31, 2012 (UPDATED!). Students attending the seminars series only do not need to apply.

Visit ONE Lab for more information regarding program and workshop details, research, faculty and tuition: http://www.onelab.org

UPDATE: Deadline extended until May 31st, 2012. Additional scholarships available. Apply NOW!

The course introduces the culture of daylight both as an expressive device, and as a technical tool for a sustainable design approach. Artificial light is presented not as an independent topic, but both in its integration with daylight and its increasing capacity as a key component for a positive impact on human well-being. Alongside these studies, the course encompasses a full programme of lectures, seminars and conferences, delivered by a varied body of experts and professionals, as well as a series of tutor-led workshops encouraging innovation and experimentation within these themes.

Set in the town of Vicenza, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the course includes guided tours to experience the play of light in architecture, from Renaissance masterpieces by Palladio and Scamozzi, to Carlo Scarpa’s works, and provides access to contemporary buildings by Piano, Fuksas, Ando, and to the recent Traverso-Vighy daylight experiments.

The course philosophy stresses the necessity of analyzing daylight strategies as part of the basic concepts of an architecture project; using the circadian system in both natural and artificial lighting to positively influence our experience, and sharing a new consciousness of the importance of the influence of darkness on the built environment.

The course is open to lighting designers and architects, both student and professional. For more information, and details on how to submit an application, please visit our website, http://www.daylightthinking.com

• Tine Bernstorff Aagaard,
• Ben and Sebastian,
• Stuart Blazer,
• Laura Genes,
• David Gersten,
• Alberto Perez Gomez,
• Kristin Jones,
• Kyna Leski,
• Maximilian Lauter,
• Aida Miron,
• Bill Morrison,
• Sarah Oppenheimer,
• Che Perez,
• Louise Pelletier,
• Chris Rose,
• Jessie Shefrin,
• Anthony Titus,
• Uri Wegman.

www.artslettersandnumbers.com

The teaching model of this Summer School is grounded on the experimental tradition of the Architectural Association and on the design philosophy of ecoLogicStudio, that will curate the event and co-run the design workshop.

After setting up our Urban LAB in the Frigoriferi Milanesi Art Complex, we will embark in a series of exploration trips and “gardening” experiments around the emergent bio-farming network of Milano Parco Sud, site to 2015World Expo; inspired by the achievements of the Slow Food movement, we will radicalize their efforts through the deliberate contamination of the traditional and the futuristic, the natural and the bioengineered.

Our ambition with AA Italy ‘cyber-GARDENing the city’ is to enjoy 10 intense days within the country with the highest concentration of culinary traditions and learn new cutting edge design techniques to manifest the possibilities of a radical interpretation of such traditions as new global bio-lifestyles. The aspiring cyber-gardeners will be able to explore and invent new hybrid design practices by combining Applets design with distributed urban sensing and mapping, computational parametric design with hydroponic cultivation, and cutting edge digital animation with journalistic and critical narrative.  These tree 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.

This final outcome will be a single 1:1 prototypical space to be set up within the lobby of our urban LAB; a space embedded with biological life, sensing potential, ecosystem narrative and real-time social networking interface; a space for the discussion and re-definition of urban agricultural services and supply chain.

http://cybergardens.aaschool.ac.uk/

There are two things everybody knows about glass: it is transparent… and it breaks! Those properties constitute the challenge of glass. Transparency is just the beginning. Playing with light, reflections, images and shadows poses endless possibilities in architectural design. Breaking, on the other hand, is the end…or is it? Brittleness calls for sophisticated structural designs to ensure safety. Using glass is accepting the challenge.

Challenging Glass is a two-day conference which aims at gathering world class designers, engineers and researchers on the architectural and structural use of glass. A specific goal is to get PhD researchers from around Europe and the world in contact with each other and practice.

Five inspiring keynote speakers: James Carpenter, Tim Macfarlane, Christoph Timm, Erick van Egeraat, Rogier van der Heide. More than 100 papers in parallel sessions.

28-29 June in Delft, the Netherlands.

More information on http://www.challengingglass.com.

TEDGlobal 2012 takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 25-29, 2012.

Dual City Courses - London Barcelona

Julika Gittner and Suzanne Strum

London: a sprawling megalopolis or a collection of villages? Barcelona: the heart of Catalan architecture juxtaposed with Gaudi and Olympic grandeur. Exploring the 2000 years of London and Barcelona’s expansion through their architecture, you will look not only at the great monuments but also at the everyday life of the cities. Focusing on the key periods of urban development and architectural styles in comparison with other European cities will reveal the unique qualities and problems of London and Barcelona’s architecture.

Who should attend?
This course is open to people of all levels and experience, whether absolute beginners or professionals from anywhere in the world, with a passion for architecture and history.
London (9 day course)

Monday 25 June to Thursday 5 July

The course in London will take a broad view of the history of London’s architecture from the formation of early London through the transformation from Renaissance to Baroque right, past pre- and post-war planning and beyond to London’s new architecture. You will discuss the relevant social, political and economical conditions of the cities’ development in a series of introductory lectures will form the background to city walks and talks from local historians and architects. You will visit churches and shipyards, highways and alleys, palaces and petrol stations, stately homes and housing estates to experience the different stages of London’s expansion. A critically informed understanding of the urban surrounding will allow you to develop your own historical map of the cities’ architecture. During the course there will be opportunities to sketch and guidance on how to record architecture, analysis of urban plans and plenty of debate about controversial architectural theories. You will never look at London in the same way again.

University of the Arts London Central Saint Martins

Dwell on Design, the West Coast’s largest Design Show, returns to the Los Angeles Convention Center June 22-24, 2012. Curated by the editors of Dwell Magazine, the three-day celebration brings together the best and brightest products, services, and thought leaders in modern design today for a series of conversations, demonstrations, tours, and much more. In addition to featuring over 350 exhibitors on the show floor, Dwell on Design encourages an ongoing design dialogue, showcasing over 70 presentations on three separate stages. This year, the show goes beyond the urban dwelling to encompass all aspects of the modern lifestyle, seeking out a new definition for modern beyond expectations.

“Design is driven by exploration and touches every aspect of our lives from the technology and products we use, to the way in which we communicate, to the spaces in which we live,” said Dwell Media President Michela O’Connor Abrams. “Without exploration, there would be no innovation. This year at Dwell on Design, we’re exploring beyond the boundaries of expectation to get a first look at the people, products, and ideas that will redefine the very notion of modern.”

Among the many highlights for 2012:

[NEW] Design Installations
Dwell on Design will feature original design installations by local creatives. Featured designers include Oyler Wu Collaborative. More artists to be announced soon.

[NEW] Modern Marketplace Pavilions
A curated mix of smaller and independent brands will be showcasing their wares in new marketplace pavilions dedicated to the Modern Family, Modern Home, Design Materials, and Modern Artisan. Dwell on Design attendees will be able to peruse, source, and shop throughout the course of the three-day design celebration.

[NEW] Demonstration
In addition to the Sustainability and Design Innovation stages which feature over 70 presentations by the best and brightest from all walks of design, Dwell on Design is adding a third stage this year. The Demonstration stage will be dedicated to hands-on demonstrations for the DIY design enthusiast throughout the weekend of Dwell on Design and on Friday during the Business of Design Talks and Trade Day.

[NEW] Dwell Home Venice
Dwell Home Venice is Dwell Media’s latest show home. Scheduled for completion in summer 2012, the home is a showcase of modern design and architecture and will be open to the public for tours during Dwell on Design. Designed by Sebastian Mariscal, the house blurs the boundary between indoor and outdoor, transforming a modest Venice lot into a modern urban sanctuary.

[NEW] Dwell Modern Home Tours
The ever-popular Dwell Modern Home Tours return this year. Get a peek inside some of the most memorable modern homes on the Westside (Saturday, June 16th) and Eastside (Sunday, June 24th) of Los Angeles. Homes will be announced shortly and tickets will go on sale in April. New this year: Dwell will be adding a third modern home tour on Sunday, June 17th. Details to be announced soon.

Green Car Ride and Drives
In their second appearance at Dwell on Design, Green Car Journal will offer test drives of some of the latest and new-to-market hybrid and electric vehicles. Last year, the new Fiat was a huge hit. This year, the slate of new green cars could range from compacts to SUVs, station wagons to road hugging sports cars. Featured cars include the Infiniti M Hybrid and the Fisker Karma.

Dwell Outdoor
A perennial hit on the show floor, Dwell Outdoor brings the best of the outside in (including chickens!). The pop-up village will showcase the latest and greatest in outdoor furnishing, accessories, and materials. Dwell Outdoor will feature several new prefab structures, including Airclad by Inflate, Connect Homes, LivingHomes, and Sustain Design Studio’s miniHome.

Modern Family
Dwell on Design is also a hit among the kids. Budding modernists are invited to check out the latest in modern playground architecture, painting, photography, toys, and other pint sized accoutrement for the modern lifestyle.

Dwell on Design Awards
Dwell on Design will host the 2nd Annual Dwell on Design Awards, recognizing the best exhibits on the show floor. The jury will be announced soon.

AIA/LA Restaurant Design Awards
The 8th Annual RDAs recognize top toques and great design. Jury winners and People’s Choice favorites will be announced on Friday, June 22nd at a special reception. The esteemed jury this year includes Chef Michael Voltaggio, architect Mark Rios, and KCRW’s Host of Good Food Evan Kleiman.

Dwell Design Week
Dwell Design Week is a series of special events leading up to and in conjunction with Dwell on Design, and which encourages both design professionals and consumers to experience the best of Los Angeles design. Dwell hosts a series of engaging conversation-based events between Dwell Editors and select design innovators that rotate throughout L.A. design districts, including the popular “Meet the Architects” Nights. This year, the events start on Friday, June 15th.

Regular tickets go on sale April 1st, 2012. To register to be the first to find out when tickets are available, register here: http://dod.dwell.com/tickets-registration.

Asian American Architects/Engineers Association (AAa/e) is committed to the empowerment of design professionals through personal growth, professional excellence, business development, and leadership. In an effort to enrich our student community, the Asian American Architects and Engineers Foundation was created in 2004 to provide networking opportunities and scholarships for students in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction.
 
Since its creation, Aaa/e Foundation has awarded over $100,000 in scholarships. The scholarship awards we are able to provide are a direct result of the continued support we receive from the Architecture, Engineering, and Construction industry.

Event webpage: http://www.aaaesc.com/foundation-fundraiser

From the time of Heraclitus’ saying, “The only thing constant is change itself”, we have sought to make sense of our changing world.  It can be argued that architecture in both the academic and professional realms is experiencing pressures as never before, and is shifting due to multiple factors.  These forces include globalization, the expanding roles of technology, rapid urbanization, new energy policies, and regulatory agencies, among many others.  What are the forces for change being exerted on our academic institutions and where do they come from?  Are we still teaching in a way that is relevant to the contemporary practice of architecture, or perhaps we wish that practice would change?

The relationship between schools and the profession can be very permeable and often imprecise. Each informs the other, at times leading to greater relevance, at other times leaving disconcerting gaps.  What role should schools and academics play in the face of our changing world?  Will we be leaders or followers?  The 2012 ACSA International Conference will focus on CHANGE, and will explore these issues in relation to seven themes, Civic Engagement, Academia, Practice, Technology, Cities, Globalization, Sustainability and one flexible open category.

For more information please visit:
http://acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/international-conference

Call for Abstracts:

Abstract Submission Deadline: January 11, 2012

Eligibility: Everyone is eligible to submit and non-members can sign up for a limited-time only, complimentary Introductory Membership.

The 2012 ACSA International Conference will focus on CHANGE, and will explore these issues in relation to seven themes, listed below, and one flexible open category. Selected abstracts will be documented in a digital proceedings (with a printable option) and delivered in fifteen minute presentations in their respective sessions. Submitted abstracts should be no longer than 500 words and prepared for blind review.

Academia
Sharon Haar, University of Illinois at Chicago
Luis Rico-Gutierrez, Iowa State University

Cities
Yung Ho Chang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jeffrey Johnson, Columbia University

Civic Engagement
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona
Murray Fraser, Bartlett

Globalization
Hitoshi Abe, University of California, Los Angeles
Pascal Berger, University of Hong Kong Shanghai Study Center
Marc Schmidt, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Practice
Louisa Hutton, Sauerbruch Hutton
Felipe Correa, Harvard University

Technology
Branko Kolarevic, University of Calgary
Peter Wiederspahn, Northeastern University

Sustainability
Belinda Tato, ETSA Alicante
Andy Backer, IE Madrid

Open
Elie Haddad, Lebanese-American University
Jorge de la Camara, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona

http://acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/international-conference/call-for-abstracts

The Summer Programs at GSD Exec Ed
June-August 2012

Every summer, design and real estate professionals from around the world convene in Cambridge, Massachusetts to attend Harvard University Graduate School of Design’s (Harvard GSD) renowned Executive Education programs. The Summer Programs explore industry’s most pressing issues and provide groundbreaking insights into the key trends that are shaping the future of the design and real estate fields.

With programs ranging from design and planning to ideas, tools, and technologies, popular offerings include:

• Daylighting Buildings
• Transformations: Reusing, Renovating, and Expanding Existing Buildings
• Public Interest Design Training Program
• Master Planning: Moving Toward a Sustainable City
• Urban Retail: Essential Planning, Design, and Management Practices
• Residential Universal Design and Aging in Place

Most Executive Education programs qualify for continuing education credits with the AIA, ASLA, and AICP. Many programs also qualify for HSW and SD credit.

Visit our website at http://execed.gsd.harvard.edu/

In bringing together in Nantes and Saint-Nazaire the stakeholders of port cities from all over the world, AIVP intends to incite them to open the time of the urban, entrepreneurial and citizen port.

http://www.citiesandports2012.com

GIS Architecture Expo Conference combines the projection stage with interior and exterior design.

GIS is part of the series of architecture expo conferences organized by ABplus Events and Architects Order from Romania, along with INGLASS and RIFF.

http://www.iegis.ro

New Practices New York, a biennial competition since 2006, serves as the preeminent platform in New York City to recognize and promote new and innovative architecture and design firms. The juried portfolio competition is sponsored by the New Practices Committee of the AIA New York Chapter and honors firms that have utilized unique and innovative strategies, both for the projects they undertake and for the practices they have established.

Seven promising and pioneering new architecture and design firms working in New York were chosen as the New Practices New York 2012 competition winners. To qualify for the competition, practices had to be founded since 2006 and be located within the five boroughs of New York City. This is the second year that the New Practices New York competition has been open to multidisciplinary firms, widening the field of entrants to designers and young professionals in the process of becoming licensed architects. The distinguished panel of jurors selected the competition’s winners from fifty-one entries.

The New Practices New York 2012 competition winners are: Holler Architecture, Tobias Holler, AIA, LEED AP; The Living; Abruzzo Bodziak; SLO Architecture; Formless Finder; Mark Fornes & THEVERYMANY; and Christian Wassman.

Jury members were: Stan Allen, FAIA, Principal, Stan Allen Architect ; Kit von Dalwig, AIA, Principal, Manifold (winner of New Practices New York 2010); William Menking, Editor-in-Chief, The Architect’s Newspaper; Mahadev Raman, P.E., Chairman, Americas, Arup; Billie Tsien, AIA, Principal, Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects.

The Center for Architecture

The world’s premier international art show for Modern and contemporary works, Art Basel features nearly 300 leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and Africa. More than 2,500 artists, ranging from the great masters of Modern art to the latest generation of emerging stars, are represented in the show’s multiple sections. The exhibition includes the highest-quality paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations, photographs, video and editioned works.

65,000 people attended Art 42 Basel, the last edition of this favorite rendezvous for the global artworld, including art collectors, art dealers, artists, curators and other art enthusiasts.

With its world-class museums, outdoor sculptures, theaters, concert halls, idyllic medieval old town and new buildings by leading architects, Basel ranks as a culture capital, and that cultural richness helps put the Art Basel week on the agenda for art lovers from all over the globe. During Art Basel, a fascinating atmosphere fills this traditional city, as the international art show is reinforced with exhibitions and events all over the region.

Located on the banks of the Rhine, at the border between Switzerland, France and Germany, Basel is easily navigated by foot and trams. On this website you can find practical information about visiting Art Basel, photos of past shows, press releases, and information concerning participating galleries and artists. To stay current on developments for the 2012 show, join our mailing list and you will receive updates as information becomes available.

We look forward to welcoming you at Art 43 Basel.

http://www.artbasel.com

The Graham Foundation is pleased to present the first solo exhibition in the United States by the Swiss-American graphic designer Zak Kyes. The exhibition brings together a range of works by Kyes, as well as works by a host of collaborators that includes architects, artists, writers, curators, editors, and graphic designers, presenting contemporary graphic design as a practice that mediates, and is mediated by, its allied disciplines.

Kyes, who lives and works in London, is known for his critical approach to graphic design, which encompasses publishing, editing, and site-specific projects for and in collaboration with cultural institutions. In 2005, Kyes founded the design studio Zak Group, and, in 2006, he became Art Director of the Architectural Association (AA), London. Under the auspices of the AA, he organized the seminal touring exhibition Forms of Inquiry: The Architecture of Critical Graphic Design, and later cofounded Bedford Press, an imprint that seeks to develop new models for contemporary publishing. By broadening the highly specialized role of the designer, Kyes challenges and further develops today’s graphic design practice.

While this work constitutes the exhibition’s point of departure, its focus is on the conceptual, visual, and economic intersections that link Kyes with his collaborators, revealing and further unfolding the designer’s multivalent practice. These intersections vary in form from idealistic to pragmatic, urgent and time-sensitive to abiding and long-lasting. Rather than presenting a chronological overview of Kyes’s work, the exhibition highlights the designer’s relations with partners, clients, and institutions, and the creative potential of these collaborations to evolve traditional understandings of graphic design, art, and architecture.

EXHIBITION CATALOG

Zak Kyes Working With… will be published by Sternberg Press in early 2012.

CURATION

Zak Kyes Working With… is curated by Barbara Steiner, director and curator of the Museum for Contemporary Art Leipzig. The Chicago presentation is organized by Sarah Herda, Graham Foundation Director, with Ellen Hartwell Alderman, Program Coordinator.

EXHIBITION TOUR

Zak Kyes Working With… will originate at the Museum for Contemporary Art Leipzig on December 9, 2011. It will travel to the Architectural Association, London from April 28 - May 26, 2012. It’s first and final destination in the United States will be the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

FUNDING

The exhibition Zak Kyes Working With… has been organized by Airi Triisberg and realized with the support and collaboration of the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, and the Architectural Association, London. This project is also supported by the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia.

Graham Foundation

This year’s Basel edition of the fair, June 12 -17, 2012, will present 80 international galleries upholding its unique tradition of solo and thematic group shows presented alongside museum-quality programming, collector tours, screenings, and special events. The unique SCOPE experience expands this year in partnership with Kaserne’s cultural organizations, featuring: film, music, theatre and performance. “This season we want to highlight SCOPE’s lead role as creative R+D for a wider audience of taste makers who make art their business” says SCOPE President & Founder Alexis Hubshman. “Introducing artists, curators, and cutting-edge galleries to new international audiences has made SCOPE the most comprehensive destination for the emerging art world.”

Founded in 2002, SCOPE has grown extensively in both volume and stature. Alexis Hubshman, President of SCOPE explains, “We’ve evolved from an industry niche to an influential global contributor, with ongoing events, educational programmes, and the SCOPE Foundation 501(c)3. SCOPE is the dynamic presence in the expanding global art market.” With art fairs in Miami, Basel, New York, London, and the Hamptons, SCOPE Art Show has garnered critical acclaim, with sales of over $150 million and attendance of over 350,000 visitors.

http://www.scope-art.com

Join noted designer and collector Michael Boyd Tuesday, June 12 at 6:30pm as he discusses the reconciliation of the role of the homeowner with that of a guardian, in the rehabilitation of modernist domestic architecture. Founder of BoydDesign, a design firm with an emphasis on furniture, interior, and garden design, as well as a consulting firm for the restoration and preservation of modernist architecture, Michael Boyd has supervised the restoration of homes designed by Craig Ellwood, John Lautner, Paul Rudolph, Oscar Niemeyer, Richard Neutra, and R.M. Schindler, among others.

The lecture will address the exhibition PLANEfurniture: types + prototypes, and how the designer seeks invisibility and transparency with new design, exactly as he does with his modernist architectural conservation work. Boyd has insights into the adaptability and timelessness of modernist design philosophy; as well as modernism’s role as a model for continuing design solutions. Boyd appeals for the need to be mindful as a designer of the balance between a purist approach and a pragmatic approach—a dual goal—a truthful convergence between art and life.

Michael Boyd is a Los Angeles based designer, writer, and collector of vintage modern design. Boyd curated and designed the installation of the architecture and design section of the exhibition, Birth of Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury at the Orange County Museum of Art, and his personal collection was featured at SFMOMA in an exhibition entitled, Sitting on the Edge: Modernist Design from the Collection of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd. He regularly contributes essays on the subject of Modernism for International publications. He serves as an advisor to several museums and institutions regarding modern design and architecture.

Where: A+D Museum
When: Tuesday June 12, 6:30pm
Reception to follow at Edward Cella Art+Architecture at 6018 Wilshire Blvd.

Admission: $10 General, $5 Students w/ valid ID, A+D Members and LACMA Decorative Arts and Design Council FREE

http://aplusd.org/incollaboration

2X8 is an annual exhibition sponsored by the AIA|LA, showcasing exemplary student work from architecture and design institutions throughout California. Each of the participating academic programs select two projects that exemplify its core vision. The students’ design work will be judged by a noteworthy panel
of architects and designers who will then announce the winners at the exhibition opening and convene in a forum to discuss the award-winning work.

“This year marks 2X8’s 10th anniversary and we wanted to shake things up a little and involve not only the students, but also a great deal of the faculty,” said Ryan Gobuty, Assoc. AIA and the 2012 2X8 Committee Chair. “Last year we sent a request for proposals to all architecture and design schools statewide, received
many submissions and after careful consideration and interviews, designated Matthew Gillis, a teacher at SCI-Arc, Woodbury and Otis, as the designer to
create this year’s exhibition. We are very excited about his design as well as its visual and emotional impact.”

The jury commented that Gillis’ submission was an original concept that had the flexibility to fit in many different spaces. More importantly, the design supports
— rather than takes away from — the student’s work.

OPENING RECEPTION

TUESDAY, JUNE 5 | 6:00PM - 9:00PM

http://aplusd.org/exhibitions-future/2x8-taut

Workshop Topics:

Automation: 
Increase your efficiency by programming Rhino to complete tedious drawing and modeling tasks.

Optimization: 
Create a better design product by testing and improving your models against physical conditions like light and circulation.

Generative Design:
Work through complex geometric ideas using simple Python scripts.

Classes will be Monday and Thursday Evenings from 6:30-10pm in DUMBO, Brooklyn.  Please visit http://www.pointcrowd.com for details.

It’s back! Get ready for our annual Design-n-Dim Sum bike ride with Flying Pigeon on Sunday, June 3rd for another day of studio visits, biking and bao. This year, if it’s open, we’ll be stopping by Caine’s Arcade to play a couple of Caine’s handmade arcade games. We’ll be meeting at bike shop Flying Pigeon in Highland Park at 11am and will be on the road by 11:30am. Our itinerary for the day:

Start: Flying Pigeon LA
3714 N. Figueroa St. Los Angeles, CA 90042

1st Stop (If it’s open): Caine’s Arcade
3538 N. Mission Rd Boyle Heights, CA 90033

2nd Stop: Artist Zoe Crosher’s Studio
970 N Broadway Los Angeles, CA 90012

3rd Stop: Preen Inc.
931 Chung King Rd. Los Angeles, CA 90012

Final Stop: Golden Dragon Restaurant for dim sum

The logistics:

If you have a bike, please bring it. We have about 15 bikes available for rental from Flying Pigeon, for $15 for the day. Bikes are on a first come, first serve basis via RSVP.

Please bring water and sunscreen. It can get hot out there!

Please bring CASH only for the dim sum. We estimate the cost will be about $20 per person.

RSVP here: http://designndimsum2012.eventbrite.com/. We need a headcount to reserve the restaurant so if you need to cancel your reservation, please as soon as possible.

And finally, if you want to join us for part of the day, follow us on twitter. We’ll be updating our location throughout the day.

http://www.vanalenbooks.org

We are pleased to announce Young New York: A Silent Art Auction & Fundraiser, Tuesday May 29, 2012 at White Box in the Lower East Side.  This one night event will benefit Young New York (YNY), an art focused social justice program working with 16 and 17 year olds who, legally classified as adults, have been thrown into New York State’s adult criminal justice system.

The funds from the silent auction will help build the first stage of the program - a series of cutting edge creative workshops with fifteen young New Yorkers. The young New Yorkers will work closely with a team of successful artists, designers, teachers and social workers to responsibly and creatively develop their message around their own experiences with, and hopes for, the treatment of youth in New York State’s criminal justice system.

The evening will feature the works of Steven Holl and Steve Powers ESPO along with many other established and emerging international artists whose work touches on the realm of the social in urban space, thereby creating a dialogue with the work being developed in the YNY workshops.

The space for the event has been provided by White Box, food provided by Maimonide of Brooklyn, and drinks provided by Bomb Lager.  Additional support has also been provided by Loci Architecture and gopro.

Young New York is supported by the Goodman Fellowship at Columbia University and Brooklyn Defender Services.

For more information visit http://www.youngnewyorkers.org.

YNY SILENT ART AUCTION & FUNDRAISER
Featuring Artists: Steven Holl, Steve Powers ESPO, NohjColey, Joe Iurato, Miguel Ovalle, Overunder, Gaia, Rudie Diaz, Marissa Paternoster, Ian Kuali’i, LNY, Blackmath, Doodles, Feral Child, Cake,ND’A, QRST, Sean 9 Lugo, Radical!, C215 from the Vandalog collection, Gilf, Rachel Hays, SUE works, Clown Soldier, Jill Cohen, Yulia Pinkusevich, Alyse Dunn, NEVER,Shane Nash, Jesse Hazelip, Sheryo,the YOK, ASVP, Labrona,Then One,Tom Smith, Day Le, Danielle Riechers,  Jon Burgerman, Darnell Scott, Nathan Pickett, Joseph Grazi, John Breiner, Anne Grauso, ONE 9, SMURFO, Beau Stanton, Chris Cycle, Jamie Bruno, Luna Park, Sam Dylan Gordon, Fay Ku,Michael Bilsborough, NANOOK, Felipe Baeza, Sam Fleichner and more!

Curated by Natalie Trainor & LNY

Auction & Reception: Tuesday, May 29, 2012, 6-10 PM

Auction called at 9 PM
At White Box, 329 Broome Street NY, NY
Supporter Tickets: $50.00
General Admission: $25.00                                                      
Purchase Tickets here: http://youngnewyork.eventbrite.com

Graphic design has broadened its reach dramatically over the past decade, expanding from a specialized profession to a widely deployed tool. Today, graphic design is the largest of the design professions in the U.S., with more than a quarter-million practitioners. The field is shifting and expanding in unexpected ways as social media and other technologies have changed the way people consume information. As design tools have become more widely accessible, designers‟ roles have expanded: more designers are becoming producers—authors, publishers, instigators and entrepreneurs.

On view:Oct. 22, 2011 – Jan 22. 2012
Location: Walker Art Center

On view:May 26, 2012 – Sept 3, 2012
Location: Governors Island

Presenting Sponsors: Cal Poly, HMC Architects
When: Thursday May 24th, 6.30 - 9.00pm
Where: A+D Museum
Admission: $10 General, $5 Student w/ valid ID, A+D Members, Cal Poly SLO Students/Alumni FREE

http://aplusd.org/incollaboration

http://www.vanalenbooks.org

A three-day international symposium by and for live project educators, live-project community participants, live project students, practice architects involved in community co-design, University management involved in community partnership projects, and live project practitioners and participants from associated fields and disciplines.

Themes include:
Problem-based learning, community-engaged scholarship, co-design, peer-based learning, tacit knowledge, threshold concepts, practice-ready skills, professionalism and ethics, diversity, critical citizenship, education futures, deep and surface learning, live project methodologies and paradigms, architecture curriculum, assessment and validation.

Weblink:
http://architecture.brookes.ac.uk/events/240512.html

Call for abstracts:
Deadline for abstracts: 8pm (GMT) Monday 28th November 2011
The following types of submissions are encouraged:
Research Papers
Extended Abstracts
Student Papers
Case Studies
Work in Progress
Reports (Proposals for Future Research or Issues Related to Teaching)

Clerkenwell Design Week also features all the elements you would expect from a festival, including exhibitions, installations, street entertainment, music, food, parties and receptions. It is the ideal opportunity for the creative design community to meet new and existing clients in a relaxed yet inspiring environment.

Last year the design community flocked to Clerkenwell with over 24,000 registered to attend! 2012 is set to be our biggest event yet.

CDW 2012

22nd- 24th May
10 am - 9pm

Various venues around Clerkenwell, London

http://www.clerkenwelldesignweek.com

TUESDAY MAY 22 | 8pm - 11pm
Cocktail party and silent auction w/ music by DJ Spooky & DJ Wicz

$40 for entry, including chance to bid at silent auction. All drinks included (SUPERFRONT special cocktails, Brooklyn Brewery beer, IZZE natural soda).

BUY YOUR TICKETS HERE - http://superfrontgala.eventbrite.com/
This event is likely to *sell out*

DJ Wicz: 8:00pm - 9:00pm
DJ Spooky: 9:00pm - 11:00pm *
* Silent auction closes at 9:00pm

Silent auction til 9pm w/ original works from:
Gail Peter Borden
Neil M. Denari
Keller Easterling
Peter T. Lang
Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky)
Ada Tolla
Michael Webb
Allan Wexler

Hosted by the SUPERFRONT Board:
ISABELLA BRUNO, MARK GARDNER, ANNE GUINEY, JOHN HARTMANN, ERSELA KRIPA, MITCH MCEWEN, SARAH MILLSAPS TOWLES

SUPER sponsors:
Master Concepts, Ltd.
Andy Berheimer
Phyllis Lambert

SUPER supporter circle:
Margit Detweiler
Paul Miller (aka DJ Spooky)
Sienna Shields
Studio 207
Ada Tolla

Media sponsor:
Origin Magazine

Please pay $40 via http://superfrontgala.eventbrite.com/

All proceeds support SUPERFRONT’s 2012 programming, including PUBLIC SUMMER 2012. In partnership with FIGMENT, PUBLIC SUMMER 2012 will support jury-selected emerging designers in the construction of a temporary public library on Governors Island.

ORMS Architecture Design and lighting solutions company Zumtobel invite participants to submit smartphone images of ‘Hidden Clerkenwell’. The competition aims to expose Clerkenwell’s unseen and unheard and reveal its hidden gems.
All entries will be displayed by live digital projection at an exhibition party on Tuesday 22nd May at the The Clerkenwell Kitchen.

Entry requirements:
Competitors should email shots to cdw@orms.co.uk by midnight 20th May, along with their name, contact details and a small description of the image. File size should be 2MB maximum, the competition is open to smartphone images only and Instagram images are accepted.

Event details:
Tuesday 22nd May
5.30pm – 10.30pm
The Clerkenwell Kitchen
27 Clerkenwell Close
London, EC1R 0AT
http://www.theclerkenwellkitchen.co.uk/

ORMS look forward to receiving your entries and seeing you at The Clerkenwell Kitchen on 22nd May.

YAF Philly, WIA and Roche Bobois would like to cordially invite you to attend our latest Creative Portfolio Review.  Whether you are armed only with a handful of images, your newly minted degree and youthful exuberance or are a seasoned professional looking to impart your knowledge – this event is for you.  We have opened up the floor to anyone who would like to present their work to their fellow creatives, in a peer to peer environment.  It’s all happening on May 22nd from 6-9 PM at the Roche Bobois showroom – 313 Arch St. Philadelphia.  The doors will open at 6, with reviews starting at 6:30.

We do ask that you please RSVP through one of the following mediums as a potential Reviewer or Presenter: EMAIL - yafphilly@gmail.com

Facebook Invite: http://on.fb.me/L6hPoz