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.
]]>Proposals in English of no more than 500 words including a title should summarize the subject and the premise. Please include name, professional affiliation (if applicable), address, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address, and a current CV. Proposals and short CVs should be submitted by e-mail, including the text in both the body of the e-mail and in the attachment.
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. …
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>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
]]>TEDGlobal 2012 takes place in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 25-29, 2012.
]]>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
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>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.
]]>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
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)
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An event dedicated to the 120th anniversary of “Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Design.
An event that celebrates the latest developments in architecture and design through:
ROCAD 2012 will be supported by strategic partners that will ensure an efficient promotion within their members:
Romanian partners:
At ROCAD 2012 Mr. Gottfried Bohm (winner of The Pritzker Prize in 1986) and Mr. Eduardo Souto de Moura (winner of The Pritzer Prize in 2011) already confirmed their presence at the event as Main Speakers, and many other are expected to follow them.
]]>This workshop will consist of a series of instructional lectures, open work sessions, and guided exercises, beginning with an introduction to Computational Geometry and Grid-Based Modeling. The workshop is structured to allow each participant time to iteratively develop design prototypes, moving quickly from digital design environments to material artifacts and back again throughout the weekend. As part of a larger online infrastructure, modeLab, this workshop provides participants with continued support and knowledge to draw upon for future learning. Attendance will be limited to provide each participant maximum dedicated time with instructors.
Workshop Details and Registration: http://modelab.nu/?p=5274
]]>- The impact of regional regulations and rating standards on building envelopes
- Efficient envelopes as a tool of ensuring ROI for developers
- Combining aesthetics, function and form in complex façade geometries
- Best practices to improve stakeholder coordination
- Integrating renewable energy components into envelopes
- Green vertical claddings and roofing systems
- New materials – media facades and ambient-reactive glass facades
- Envelope engineering for very tall towers
For more info or to register, please contact us at +65 6722 9388, drop us an email at enquiry@iqpc.com.sg or visit us at http://www.buildingenvelopesasia.com/Event.aspx?id=657098&MAC=DL
]]>The second edition of INGLASS Architecture Expo Conference envisages the appliance of glass in original and daring projects that question the limits of architecture.
INGLASS is part of a series of events organized by ABplus Events and the Architects Order of Romania, together with GIS and RIFF.
]]>The design parameters and embellishment of Jewish sacred spaces follow millennia of precedent; from the actual dimensions of Solomon’s Temple to liturgical symbolism of Ark, Bimah and Menorah. This panel will look at ancient worship places in Israel and discuss the relationships with contemporary architectural practice including projects in the North Central Texas area.
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This year TEX-FAB 3.0 looks at the role of research in architecture. Entitled APPLIED: Research through Fabrication the conference examines growing and diverse platforms of architectural exploration. These platforms are heterogeneous in expression yet are similar in a commitment to push for a more legitimized use of research to impact the way architecture is defined and constructed. Bound by a common understanding that the previous divisions of Academic and Professional are no longer relevant, new fertile organizations are developing research agendas that satisfy a larger discourse of the contemporary architectural debate.
CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
FRIDAY APRIL 13th 2:00 - 4:00pm - SPEAKERS AND ROUNDTABLE
Billie Faircloth, Research Director
Kieran Timberlake, Philadelphia
Jonathan Mallie, Managing Director
SHoP Construction, New York
Jason Vollen, Associate Director
Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology (CASE), New York
FRIDAY APRIL 13th 5:00 - 6:00pm - CLOSING LECTURE
Marc Fornes
THEVERYMANY, New York
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
SATURDAY APRIL 14th 9:00 - 6:00pm
SUNDAY APRIL 15th 9:00 - 1:00pm
FEES
Friday conference is free and open to the public
Workshops are paid
- Educator/Professional pricing
- Student pricing
MORE INFORMATION - http://tex-fab.net/
TEX-FAB 3.0 APPLIED: Research through Fabrication is hosted and sponsored by the College of Architecture at University of Texas and San Antonio. Additional support from the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and the University of Texas at Arlington School of Architecture.
]]>This workshop will consist of a series of instructional lectures, open work sessions, and guided exercises, beginning with an introduction to Algorithmic Processes and Computational Geometry. The workshop is structured to foster open discourse surrounding design applications as well as to allow each participant time to iteratively develop design vignettes. As part of a larger online infrastructure, modeLab, this workshop provides participants with continued support and knowledge to draw upon for future learning. Attendance will be limited to provide each participant maximum dedicated time with instructors.
Workshop Details and Registration: http://modelab.nu/?p=5272
]]>In today’s world of amplified social interaction and connectivity there is a need for the built environment to evolve beyond its current relatively static state. In 2012, Cipher City takes place in one of Europe’s most historical and ever-changing cities, Athens, offering a direct engagement with design models characterized by action. In the capital of Greece, where innovation has been always a force of creativity, the workshop will be hosted by the NTUA School of Architecture.
In its urban context, Athens presents a challenging mixture of historical diversity and current developing territories in the outskirts of the city. The act of reaching from one place to another in a continuous and fluid way therefore becomes the starting point in developing working kinetic prototypes energized by motion on horizontal planes. The workshop aims to bring out the dynamic qualities of the seemingly inanimate urban surroundings, such as urban paths, sense of orientation, topography, and bridge these with the animate qualities of the human body. During this process, participants will have the opportunity to experience the historical, contemporary, and geographical diversity of Athens during studio trips, while challenging the conventional design approach in order to break the dichotomy between the building and the urban realm. Capable of responding to external stimuli, the proposed structures will apply the concepts of motion and real-time reaction to various parameters.
In this seven-day computational workshop, design teams will experience a diverse range of digital fabrication systems from CNC routers to 3D printers. The final archetypes will then be related to the proposals produced by the AA Istanbul Visiting School, which is exploring the contrasting agenda of verticality. The end results of one school will become the design counter-arguments for the other. Participants are encouraged to join both workshops in order to experience the transition between the two spatial extremes.
The workshop is open to architecture and design students and professionals worldwide. Fee discounts will be offered including early applications, group applications, and for those interested in taking part in the Visiting Schools in both Athens and Istanbul.
The deadline for applications is 18 March 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.
A 40% discount is available to anyone who takes part in both the Athens and the Istanbul Visiting Schools. See the APPLY section for each Visiting School for more information on offered discounts.
Further information:
http://ai.aaschool.ac.uk/
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/athens
Applications can be submitted to: visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk
]]>At the core of the exhibition will be a unique exploration of Louboutin’s design process, taking the visitor through every stage of the design journey, revealing how a shoe is constructed, from the initial drawing and first prototype through to production in the factory. Looking beyond design and production the exhibition will also explore the company’s innovative store design.
]]>The new AT&T Performing Arts Center, Margaret Hunt Hill bridge by Santiago Calatrava and Perot Museum of Nature and Science by Thom Mayne, establishes Dallas as an architectural patron that’s ready for the next question. If Dallas were to grow an architectural culture that is exportable, what would it be? Setting aside their own interests and personal ambitions, panelists will speculate on what Dallas already has that could form the underpinnings of an offering to architectural culture.
]]>Additionally it has become clear that our contemporary societies are in need of a new future project. We need to critically think about our current society and envisage a future -more inclusive and equal- one. One in which people value other human beings, one were the importance of equality and equity is understood and were the importance of collective responsibility and action is obvious
The Sint-Lucas school calls for an architecture that goes beyond excellent design, it calls for a way of designing and working that takes into account the permanent effects of the design and the building on its inhabitants and the community at large.
Fragile provides the lense to look into this complex interrelation. It is a way to support to think about the issues mentioned above and to become more aware of the role architecture and the architect as a person have to play in all this.
As such this year’s edition will develop some of last year’s topics further and additionally it calls for a new utopian project, which cannot be the tabula rasa one of the modernists but which should be an activist utopian attitude that stimulates a continuous search for future promises of a better world.
We invite students and recent graduates (up till 5 years after graduation) from a broad range of spatial disciplines and greatly appreciate input in different formats. Paper topics are open to all relevant fields and scholarly approaches. Abstracts might consider, but are not limited to theoretical approaches, project presentations, case studies, architectural and urban approaches.
We will have parallel paper sessions and parallel project presentations, poster sessions and art exhibitions.
Additionally we invite students to put forward thematic sessions in addition to the ones listed below:
We encourage proposals for papers and panels from as many disciplines as possible.
For PhD students we have created the opportunity to present in separate PhD sessions with discussants (names to be announced).
http://www.sintlucasconference.be
http://www.sintlucasfragiles.be
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fragiles-2011-2012/153311484761236
The second edition of AA Istanbul Visiting School 2012, “Connected Tower”, in collaboration with Istanbul Technical University (ITU), will act as a continuation and augmentation of its first version, “Crafted Tower”. The school will amplify the concept of verticality in a city which is continuously being populated by towers, altering its skyline and urban fabric.
“Connected Tower” will tackle the challenge of radically decomposing the tower in order to liberate it from its current fixed typology dominated by the repetition and segmentation. Istanbul presents itself as a crucial model in this challenge, due to the increasing high-rise construction during recent years in specific parts of the city. Therefore, taking the existing architectural characteristics of the high-rise buildings and their urban implications in Istanbul, “Connected Tower” aims to set the tower free from its existing binary axioms - building and city, circulation and habitation, structure and skin. The tower here becomes an extreme testing ground where it can evolve from being a solitary type to a novel vertical system described with the qualities of adaptation, integration, and fluidity. The design process highlights learning from the integrated nature of biological systems in order to infuse vertical systems with adaptive, multi-functional qualities. The generation of differentiated verticality is carried out by algorithmic design processes in various computation platforms. The creations in the digital world are tested and realized with digital fabrication processes involving various CNC methods, leading to the production of physical prototypes of various scales. In relation with the agenda, a series of lectures by leading academics and professionals will be organized as part of the public events of the School.
The extreme spatial dimension of verticality will be put to the test through an online platform linking the workshop with another AA Visiting School, AA Athens, which is taking horizontality as its agenda. Participants are encouraged to join both workshops in order to experience the transition between the two architectural limits.
The workshop is open to architecture and design students and professionals worldwide. Fee discounts will be offered including early applications, group applications, and for those interested in taking part in the Visiting Schools in both Athens and Istanbul.
The deadline for applications is 10 March 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.
A 40% discount is available to anyone who takes part in both the Athens and the Istanbul Visiting Schools. See the APPLY section for each Visiting School for more information on offered discounts.
Further information:
http://ai.aaschool.ac.uk/
http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/istanbul
Applications can be submitted to: visitingschool@aaschool.ac.uk
]]>Guiding one of the leading design schools through our problematic times demands experience and knowledge. Mohsen Mostafavi brings both, as former dean at Cornell and chair at London’s Architectural Association, and as a scholar of urbanism and architecture. His books include Structure as Space, On Weathering (with D. Leatherbarrow), and most recently Ecological Urbanism. His research and design projects have been published widely in major international journals.
]]>The exhibition is that part of the initiative which extends beyond specialized audiences to reach a general public of all age and education levels. Design leadership in a critically important issue of integrated, low-carbon water strategies in the face of climate change will be showcased and will travel to other venues in the United States and abroad following its A+D stay. The results of the larger initiative will form the basis of a series of integrated publications that advance the discussion around water and energy smart global strategies for resilient drylands.
]]>He taught at the AA School of Architecture as Studio Master of the Emergent Technologies and Design Graduate Program from 2002 to 2009 and as Unit Master of Diploma Unit 4 from 2003 to 2006. From 2005 to 2008 he was Professor for Form Generation and Materialisation at the HfG Offenbach University for Art and Design in Germany. In addition he has held visiting professorships in Europe and the United States.
Achim Menges practice and research focuses on the development of integral design processes at the intersection of evolutionary computation, algorithmic design, biomimetic engineering and computer aided manufacturing that enables a highly articulated, performative built environment. His work is based on an interdisciplinary approach in collaboration with structural engineers, biomimetic engineers, computer scientists, material scientists and biologists, and his institute is part of the German Competence Network for Biomimetics and the German Competence Network of Computer Science in Architecture.
His research projects have been published and exhibited worldwide and received numerous international awards. Achim Menges has lectured widely and published more than 100 papers and articles and 10 books on his research in recent years.
Lectures are free and open to the public. They are located in the Gin D. Wong, FAIA Conference Center, Harris Hall, on the University Park campus. No reservations are required. Parking is available on campus at Gate 1 off Exposition Blvd.
]]>Moderated by Janet Foster, Historic Preservation Program, Columbia University GSAPP
A conversation on the revitalization of the Park Avenue Armory, featuring its key architectural and programmatic players. Attention will be paid to the preservation of activity in the Armory’s public spaces and period rooms.
Free and open to the public
arch.columbia.edu
Leaders in architectural education discuss the future of design and pedagogy in New York, London, and beyond.
Free and open to the public
arch.columbia.edu
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Emma Filipsson, David Kendall, Ben Elwes
Centro Cultural Manuel Gómez Morín, Av. Constituyentes esq. Luis Pasteur S/N Col.
Villas del Sur, C.P.76000. Santiago de Querétaro, México, open Mon - Fri 9am - 9pm,
Sat - Sun 9am - 8pm. Private View: 16 March 6.30 - 8:30pm
En tránsito explores how visual, historical and transnational processes and locations intersect as mobile, shared spaces around the globe. International economic patterns and geographical flows of labour, products/commodities and visual media provide conceptual frameworks involving us, by default, as constant participants in a Capitalist cycle tracing themes of the past and considering resemblances today. Walking is elemental in allowing the re-conception of spatial and social possibilities that may manifest in world cities. Journeys made within a city can reveal or hide societal differences, processes of commercial exchange, embodied practices, hidden maps and visual boundaries, opening up new lines of critical and artistic enquiry.
http://central.queretaro.gob.mx
http://museodelaciudadqro.org
http://www.emmafilipsson.com
http://www.david-kendall.co.uk
http://www.benelwesphotography.com
Its principal activity is an annual 10-day festival held in montreal, the most important event of its kind in the world, which presents the finest productions from around the globe.
The competive festival, whose prizewinners are selected by an international jury, is a mecca for artists and artisans working in the fields of art and cinema, as well for art and film enthusiasts.
Art On The Big Screen
FIFA is a non-profit organization devoted exclusively to promoting and increasing the visibility of films on art on an international scale. While the festival, which is held every spring, is the central focus, FIFA pursues its activities throughout the year.
The quality and originality of its selected works have made FIFA a fixture on the cultural landscape, and a major player in the international artistic and cinematic communities.
A Unique Organization
The experience, expertise and renown the festival has gained since its inception have made FIFA the most important event of its kind in the world. It has captured the attention of a growing number of countries, professionals, and art and film enthusiasts. Over the years it has reached an increasingly loyal and diverse public.
International Networks
With its full-time delegates in Paris, London and New York constantly on the lookout for new talent, as well as its long-standing affiliations with renowned production houses from here and abroad, FIFA has developed solid relationships with the artistic and cinematic communities throughout the world. It has thus become a focal point for creativity, discoveries, exchanges, and meetings with professionals, artists and journalists of all nationalities.
FIFA Year-Round
Beyond promoting the festival itself, which attracts tens of thousands of people over a ten-day period every spring in Montreal, FIFA strives to raise public awareness of films on art throughout the year by means of various activities and events.
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This is the third in a series of Architecture Centre Network talks exploring community engagement in the built environment.
Sophia de Sousa, Chief Executive of The Glass-House Community Led Design will focus on ‘Can community led design enhance sustainability?’ With the emerging Localism Act, there are both new opportunities and challenges for community engagement and leadership in planned development and regeneration. She will explore how community led design and planning can support locally informed, inclusive and creative steps toward a more sustainable built environment.
Robert Offord, Planner & Urban Designer, Kent Architecture Centre will present on ‘Partnering Perspectives - the role of local people and professionals in delivering neighbourhood design’. Calling on the centre’s experience of working with local communities Robert will explain how the managed use of high level professional expertise can get the best from local volunteer and community resources. Exploring how pairing the two outlooks and approaches can enhance each other and lead to high quality, locally responsive design/planning solutions. He will illustrate the benefits of this approach with reference to current projects with Design Council Cabe and local communities across the South East.
David Tittle, Chief Executive of MADE will explain MADE’s approach to working with communities under the banner of ‘raising aspirations for people and place’. He will describe some projects they are currently delivering with support from Design Council CABE, the Skills Funding Agency and Locality.
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]]>We’ll stay in the heart of Oaxaca City, the state capital and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and experience its rich architectural, cultural and culinary traditions. During the workshop we will visit local archeological and architectural sites and meet with community leaders. Armed with a rough schematic of the project and a stack of pre-ordered materials, we will begin at the site, determining the nuanced conditions that will influence design development. Lightning quick design work and investigations into construction techniques will morph into hands-on construction as we complete the project in one week.
Check out last year’s El Mirador project and video, learn more about our workshops, and apply now!
Oaxaca 2012
Dates: March 10-18, 2012
Application deadline: January 1, 2012 (Maximum of 15 participants)
$100 discount for applications received by Dec 1st, 2011!
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The greater Tokyo Area is one of the most densely inhabited areas in the world with a population of approximately 36 million people. Yet the city is also a patchwork of many small villages that have been integrated into a poly-centric metropolis by infrastructure such as the train and subway system. Tokyo is in constant change: It has been devastated by earthquake, fire and war several times in the first half of the 20th century. In the second half, its building stock changed two to three times due to the frantic industrial and economic post-war development. Exorbitant land values, zoning laws and the traditional small building plots have resulted in a very heterogeneous mostly high-density and low-rise urban fabric. After the burst of the real estate bubble in 1990, the rate of redevelopment slowed down. Architects had to rethink their approach. One line of inquiry was concerned with the reinvention of architectural language. Diagrammatic clarity, formal reduction and structural and material innovation led to some of the aesthetically most interesting projects in contemporary architecture.
The other line of inquiry was involved in researching the urban context of Tokyo and aiming for typological innovation. Architects learned to exploit every possibility of the building perimeter and zoning law while creating rich and diverse spaces for living and working. The collective effort of the post-bubble generation of architects resulted in new typologies for innovative buildings in a dense urban context.
Zurich
The Zurich metropolitan area with 1.2 million inhabitants is much smaller than Tokyo. But currently the region is growing rapidly with a projected population increase of 200’000 inhabitants until 2030 in the Kanton of Zurich alone.
Infrastructural projects such as the «Bahn 2000» and the S-Bahn system enabled the region of Zurich to react elastically to the global burst of urbanization over the last ten years. The polycentric urban region allows for a high quality of life. Yet, traditional areas of growth – green fields in the suburbs and industrial brown fields in the city – are limited. Continued urban growth might lead to an increase of sprawl and further burden the region’s infrastructure – rail as well as road. Possible answers are to promote urban infill and urban renewal. But how can this be achieved? What incentives are necessary? Will the resulting projects be attractive and adopted by their users? And are the potential and the market large enough to have a palpable effect? Currently, planning is being complemented with new formats, from the agglomeration program by the State to the Metropolitan Conference Zurich and experimental projects such as a masterplan for a city in the Glatt Valley. In architecture, Zurich has a diverse housing culture with high quality, innovative typologies and development models. But are Zurich and the region around it able to think of themselves as metropolitan, a self-image which would allow to plan strategically and build innovatively – to experiment with city? Maybe it helps to show how a global village like Zurich seen as a region is also a metropolis and a metropolis like Tokyo looked at in detail is also a village.
Learning from Tokyo
The exhibition and symposium look at the intersection of urban policy and architectural projects. The comparison of strategies and solutions from Tokyo and Zurich highlights the potential to produce spaces and places which are meaningful, enjoyable and sustainable and yet more dense and diverse than what we are used to today.
Symposium and Exhibition
The exhibition at the Architekturforum Zurich opens in March 2012 for two weeks and will be launched by a symposium of two days (March 9 and 10, 2012). Leading practitioners and academics from Japan and Switzerland will address the questions raised and examine in four sessions four specific topics. Each session features two keynotes which will be discussed by a distinguished panel. The symposium is held in English and the documentation and proceedings will be published with select media partners.
«Learning from Tokyo» Symposium
Friday, March 9, 2012
Topic 1 : Relationship with the City
Presenters:
– Riken Yamamoto, Architect, Yokohama
– Go Hasegawa, Architect, Tokyo
Panelist:
– Roger Diener, Architect, Basel
Topic 2 : Housing Typology
Presenters:
– Sou Fujimoto, Architect, Tokyo
– Piet Eckert, Architect, Zurich
Panelists:
– Frank Argast, City Planner, Zurich
– Matthias Heinz, Architect, Zurich
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Topic 3 : Economy and Policy
Presenters:
– Ryuji Fujimura, Architect, Tokyo
– Daniel Niggli & Mathias Müller, Architects, Zurich
Panelists:
– Marc Angélil, Architect, Zurich
– Wilhelm Natrup, Cantonal Planner, Zurich
Topic 4 : Structure and Materials
Presenters:
– Akihisa Hirata, Architect, Tokyo
– Christian Kerez, Architect, Zurich
Panelists:
– Mitsuhiro Kanada, Structural Engineer, Tokyo
– Fabio Gramazio, Architect, Zurich
Moderators:
Markus Schaefer and Hiromi Hosoya, Architects, Zurich
«Learning from Tokyo» Exhibition
Riken Yamamoto & FIELDSHOP, Kazuyo Sejima & Associates, Taira Nishizawa Architects, Contemporaries. inc., aat+makoto yokomizo, architects Inc., Sou Fujimoto Architects, akihisa hirata architecture office, ON design partners, ryuji fujimura Architects,
GO HASEGAWA & ASSOCIATES, Tsukamoto Lab. at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Hosoya Schaefer Architects
Team
Hiromi Hosoya (Hosoya Schafer Architects AG / Partner),
Markus Schaefer (Hosoya Schaefer Architects AG / Partner),
Ryoko Ikeda (Hosoya Schaefer Architects AG / Architect),
Sasha Cisar (Bob Gysin + Partner BGP Architekten / Architect and Theorist),
Mitsuhiro Kanada (ARUP Japan / Structural Engineer)
More info at www.learningfromtokyo.ch or on Facebook
]]>It is difficult to exaggerate the chilling effect of the economic slowdown on architecture. A panel of female developers, architects, and design experts examines how the building industry is responding to profound challenges created by the current recession and how the building industry is responding to the prolonged economic downturn. Mara Liasson, Fox News and NPR, provides opening remarks and then moderates a discussion among the following panelists:
This is the seventh annual Women of Architecture program presented by the National Building Museum, in collaboration with the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation (BWAF). The series celebrates women in the building industry during Women’s History Month.
BWAF is a national research and educational non-profit organization that is working to change the culture of the building industry so that women’s work, whether in contemporary practices or within historical narratives, is acknowledged and valued.
Continuing Education Credits: 1.5 LU (AIA)
Members: $12.00
Students: $12.00
Public: $20.00
Today, pattern design is a flourishing industry with textile designers, artisans and crafters producing a multitude of work. Within this contemporary context, the exhibit will also showcase work by the installation artist Amanda McCavour, as well as the pieces by some leading German, Australian and Canadian pattern designers.
]]>Donald Judd’s unique understanding of art and architecture has left a significant and enduring set of distinctions between the two disciplines, as well as a formal vocabulary almost instantly recognized as singularly his. Join us in this dialogue with his son Flavin Judd, a founding board member of Judd Foundation, as he discusses his father’s ideas and legacy with Dr. Colpitt, who knew his father and has written extensively on his work.
]]>Who’s listening, and what’s being said? This conversation between New York Times architecture critic Michael Kimmelman and PBS History Detectives co-host and architectural historian Gwendolyn Wright will cover audiences, reception, architecture criticism, and media.
Free and open to the public
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Join us to celebrate 100 years in architectural education at the 100th Gala!
Location: MIT’s Media Lab
Date: Saturday March 3, 2012
Time: 8pm to 11pm
Featuring: Musical performance by Bluebrain
Price: $50 (*one complimentary ticket included with a full conference registration); $35 student ticket.
This workshop will consist of a series of instructional lectures, open work sessions, and guided exercises, beginning with an introduction to Computational Geometry and Grid-Based Modeling. The workshop is structured to allow each participant time to iteratively develop design prototypes, moving quickly from digital design environments to material artifacts and back again throughout the weekend. As part of a larger online infrastructure, modeLab, this workshop provides participants with continued support and knowledge to draw upon for future learning. Attendance will be limited to provide each participant maximum dedicated time with instructors.
Workshop Details and Registration: http://modelab.nu/?p=5260
]]>New York experienced an eruption of technological and cultural change during the early decades of the 1900s. Movements ranging from the artistic to the avowedly political (unionism, cubism, communism, anarchism, imagism, capitalism, etc…) embraced, participated in, and reacted against the complex forces that converged in those years. New York City was the setting of cultural touchstones ranging from the 1913 Armory Show to the 1919 victory parade of the African American 369th Battalion, from Margaret Sanger’s birth-control clinic (opened 1923) to the Depression-era Hoovervilles in Central Park, from anarchist rallies in Union Square to the 1929 Wall Street crash. This conference will examine such instances and developments, asking whether modernist New York should be considered a participant in an Anglo-European transatlantic cultural sea-change or whether the New York version of modernism should be articulated with a new set of coordinates and definitions (e.g., emergent globalisms and transatlanticisms, the impact of the Great Migration, the expanding consumer culture, the rise of the Harlem Renaissance).
Speakers, panelists, performers, and exhibitions from a variety of disciplines will address questions such as: What was “modernist” about New York City 100 years ago? What does “modernism” mean now? Does it still reverberate, and if so, how so? How did New York create or contribute to paradigms about modernism, or how does looking at New York undermine and challenge those paradigms?
]]>“Built Ideas” is curated and designed by Christoph a. Kumpusch, adjunct assistant professor, Pratt Institute. The exhibition includes 19 mostly realized works, which demonstrate the interweaving of four primary architectural idea themes: Ground/Topio, Precedent/Proigoumeno, Symbolism/Symvolismos, and Art/Techni. The Built Ideas exhibited include significant works of the architect in Cyprus such as sports stadia and arenas, private residences, urban housing, educational facilities, and hybrid corporate structures. David’s New York projects include recognized religious buildings and a proposal for a Greek Orthodox Church at the World Trade Center site.
“Ideas can become buildings and buildings can sponsor ideas. The exceptional thing about Theo’s work is that he works in both directions—simultaneously,” said a. Kumpusch. “The show is about authorship, tangibility, and genius,” he added.
Also on view will be the work of David’s students, which date from the start of his teaching career in 1969 at Pratt and in Nicosia, Cyprus; Athens, Greece; Barcelona, Spain; and Rome, Italy and have been developed in parallel with his own work.
“Built Ideas” will travel to Cyprus, Greece, and will be accompanied by a 80-page catalog with text contributions by Woods, a. Kumpusch, and Pratt School of Architecture Dean Thomas Hanrahan.
March 2-30, 2012
Hazel and Robert H. Siegel Gallery
Higgins Hall, 61 St. James Place
Lecture: March 1 at 6 PM
Opening Reception: March 1, 7-9 PM
Gallery Hours: 9 AM-5 PM Daily
Time: Drinks from 6.30pm, talk from 7 to 8pm
Venue: The Gallery, 77 Cowcross Street, London EC1M 6EJ
Speakers: Crispin Truman and Peter Aiers, The Churches Conservation Trust;
Heather Hilburn, Shape East
Tickets: £5 / £3 for students & concessions, inc. a glass of wine
Booking: http://www.eventelephant.com/goodcontemporarydesigninhistoricchurches
Join us for a discussion on how to achieve high quality contemporary design in historic contexts.
Crispin Truman and Peter Aiers of The Churches Conservation Trust will talk about their work bringing new use to historic churches at risk. They will provide case studies and examples of the churches they care for and how they work with local communities to bring them alive again. They will also talk about their wide range of projects and events to promote tourism, volunteering, education, arts and community use.
Heather Hilburn, CEO of Shape East will discuss the design support that they are providing to create a cultural hub in a church and its surrounding town square.
Crispin Truman joined The Churches Conservation Trust as Chief Executive in 2003. Crispin is a trustee of Heritage Alliance and chairs the national Heritage Open Days committee. He led the setting up of a new European network, Future Religious Heritage, which he now chairs. Crispin is also a trustee of The Building Exploratory; a secondary school governor in Hackney; and was formerly trustee of mental health charity Rethink and chair of the London Cycling Campaign.
Joining the Trust in 2007 Peter Aiers has a specific role to find sustainable solutions to complex urban churches within the Trust as well as running the Regeneration Taskforce to enable more community involvement in the care and maintenance of our wonderful portfolio.
Heather has an extensive background in architecture and commercial development and has worked in the UK’s built environment industry for over 15 years. She has successfully delivered landmark Arts, Education and Leisure projects across Europe. She is a Trustee of London Spitalfield’s City Farm, sits on the RIBA Building Futures Advisory Panel, as well as on the committee for Cambridge University Entrepreneurs, as Director for Social Enterprise.
Further information: http://www.architecturecentre.net
TEDActive will recommend a course of activities for each intellectual explorer based on their personal goals, creative style and passionate interests. Central community members are there as Guides, helping every attendee navigate the myriad of opportunities to find their perfect path.
]]>We’re in the midst of a dramatic reinvention of the ancient art of the spoken word. The surprising spread of talks online and the explosion of TEDx events around the globe are testament to that. At TED2012 we plan to celebrate this phenomenon and nudge it a further step forward. Full Spectrum is a term we’ve adapted to mean the rich use of multiple technologies, formats and approaches for the most powerful possible impact on an audience.
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• Cathleen McGuigan, Editor in Chief, Architectural Record
• James Russell, FAIA, Editor, Bloomberg
• Justin Davidson, Architecture Reporter, New York Magazine
• Paul Goldberger, Architecture Critic, The New Yorker (Invited)
Where: Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012
http://www.aiany.org
When: Monday, February 27, 6 pm – 8 pm
Cost: $10 for member and students, $20 for non-members; or purchase a ticket for the 4-part series at $25 for members and students, $50 for non-members
What: In the first of a four-part series, architecture critics discuss the role of criticism in the field of architecture and how it informs the general public’s understanding of design. They also answer a vital question: as a project comes to life, at what point(s) should critics weigh in? In this panel discussion, prominent editors and writers will discuss the overall trends and shifts in architecture criticism today.
The discussion is co-sponsored by the AIA NY Marketing and PR Committee and the Oculus Committee.
ARCHITECTURE & THE MEDIA SERIES: This four-part series will explore today’s media landscape, with panels featuring leading architectural and real estate writers, critics, and editors. The panels will address the differences between design criticism and reportage, how architecture is portrayed to the public, and how architects present themselves. The panels will consider how the digital revolution is radically changing the landscape of publishing.
]]>Curator: Hassan Radoine, Ph.D
Exhibition Design: Rumors
Opening Reception
Wednesday, February 22, 2012, 6-8pm
London-based Canadian architect Alison Brooks looks at the current state of architecture from a European perspective and questions what is going on Brooks contends that the field gains new relevance and formats, typologies, and hybrids as the continent’s design culture continues to evolve from the dogma of 20th-Century Modernism into more pluralistic practices ones that include social anthropology, relationships and networks, and politics and iconography. She will describe how these notions have informed Alison Brooks Architects’ work in urbanism and the arts, including her Folkstone Performing Arts Centre and plans for a third quadrangle for Exeter College at the University of Oxford, scheduled for completion for the college’s 700-year anniversary in 2014.
Free and open to the public
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