Concrete Show India 2014 will provide a platform to the industry suppliers to showcase the best and new technologies in machinery, equipments, commercial concrete products, services and systems.

The format of the event has been designed to offer the best networking and business opportunities and provide an interactive platform for equipment, technology suppliers and end users. Visitors include engineers, architects, contractors, government officials, developers, investors and more.

Visit our website for more information and register to attend for FREE - http://www.concreteshowindia.com

Istanbul Technical University (ITU) announced today that new dates have been confirmed for the 2013 International Design Alliance Congress, which will take place in Istanbul (Turkey) from the 15-17 November 2013. Under the theme “Design Dialects”, the congress will encourage a dialogue about the value of design-based collaboration between the disciplines of industrial design, communication design, interior architecture/design with government leaders, INGO’s, business, science and technology, education and the social sciences.

The proposed theme is a metaphor for confrontation, conversation and collaboration to enable creation and exchange of discourses about, for and by design during the professional dialogues among its different agents. The unique culture and the congress theme will be weaved together to offer participants a stimulating programme and exciting social events.

When asked about the upcoming event, Dr. Alpay Er, Head of the Department of Industrial Product Design at ITU and head of the local congress organising committee stated, “Istanbul is a living design lab where the city is experiencing a ‘design renaissance’ characterised by increasing internationalisation, rapid expansion and the diversification of design education. We strongly believe that the IDA Congress will mark a milestone within the perspective of positioning Istanbul as a leading actor within the global design network.”

The visual identity of the 2013 IDA Congress is also being launched, which has been customised by prominent Turkish graphic designer Sadik Karamustafa. The event’s concept borrows from the main congress identity originally designed and developed by Pentagram, but sets itself apart by visually representing the signature cultural intersection of Istanbul where North meets South and East meets West. It is a “map within a map” that emphasises the paradoxical location of the city that is divided by a sea and unified by two bridges.

The key congress visual will be used in different colours, each of them referring to different events and sections of the former.

With less than a year until the congress, organisers are also launching the call for papers for the education conference, which will take place on 15 November 2013. The deadline for submissions is 7 January 2013. More information is available on the newly designed congress website at http://www.idacongress.com/2013istanbul.

Host School: Rhode Island School of Design
Co-chairs: William Morrish, Parsons The New School for Design; Pradeep Sharma, Rhode Island School of Design

Practice is changing, transforming and mutating into a polluted, messy and inventive process of disciplinary alliances and partnerships. Disciplines seemingly distant from architecture have thrown conventional pairings into a tailspin, by introducing push and pull forces of new knowledge from fields such as robotics, biology, electronics, climatology, fabrication, sociology, political science, digital information deliberation and social networks. Architecture has had to be inventive to capture these new opportunities while at the same time be promiscuous to survive this radical transformation of normative practice. It has to re-invent itself to generate next practices, future protocols and methods.

New students and the general public are seeking different objectives from the field of architecture than is typically addressed in practice.  Architecture is seen as a potential vehicle to respond to resilient urban landscapes, social production of housing, sustainable supply chain material development, robotic assembly of building components and even health policies for building a healthy public realm.

As such architectural education has also had to adapt and invent within the folds of academia and professional licensure criteria. How do we educate, manage, administer and thrive in this new territory of alternative practices? What alternative practices have emerged? What is forecasted? How do we teach a messy and constantly fluctuating terrain? How do we prepare students to be alternative practitioners? Are these alternative practices mapping out a new and more expanded architectural territory of design, development and building production?

The 2013 ACSA Administrators conference will be structured as a think tank; a place to debate contemporary practice and discuss the potential of fostering and administering generative practices in architectural education within this fluctuating field. It will be a productive platform for discussion, innovation, speculation and forecasting. This creative design workshop will be a place for debate and discussion, with design as the instigator and agitator.

http://acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/administrators-conference/2013-administrators-conference

Architecture & Environment - Buildings & Energy - BIM & City Information Modelling - Construction, Material & Technology - Design Education & Design Research
Environmental & Earth Science - Generative, Parametric & Evolutionary Architecture - Interactive Environments & Collaboration - Modes of Production & Mass Customization -  Practice-Based & Interdisciplinary Design/Research - Simulation, Prediction, & Evaluation
Theory, Philosophy & Methodology - Thermal Comfort, Lighting & Acoustics

We are facing unprecedented challenges in our natural & human-made, cultural, social & built environments. Working at the intersection of human needs, creative innovation, education, critical thinking, computing, science, design & technology, Architectural Science Practitioners & Researchers are uniquely placed to engage with these challenges & frontiers. Architecture is no longer an organization of matter & space, but systems with multi-layered components & increasingly complex relationships.

Especially in the larger Australasian context, with its philosophical richness & its rising influence on the world stage, the 47th International ASA-Conference hosted by the School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong aims to present cutting edge developments, relevant discourses and, possibly, appropriate cures. It will explore & raise awareness to the need of overstepping disciplinary boundaries & reaching creative communities at all levels of expertise, by pooling resources, knowledge & practices, & integrating them into the discipline of applied architectural research & science.

The 47th International ASA-Conference presents state-of-the-art papers, posters, exhibitions, & postgraduate students’ research that highlight the recent development in applied research, education & praxis. Hereby the conference reaches out to intra-disciplinary & -professional research & practice. Original contributions from associated areas of knowledge or disciplines are recognized as bringing rich connections & are therefore particularly encouraged.

This year we will host a the ASA International Postgraduate Student Consortium to provide postgraduate students with an opportunity to discuss their research with experienced researchers and other students. Submissions are invited from current postgraduate students, who would benefit from constructive discussions of their research.

All abstracts & full papers will be double blind peer reviewed by the ASA International Editorial Board. Based on the quality of their full-paper selected authors will be invited for publishing in Architectural Science Review (ASR). The conference is supported byTaylor & Francis.

More info: http://www.arch.cuhk.edu.hk/asa2013/

Do not miss your chance to take part in a region that is in the midst of an infrastructure boom with increasing international attention. Indonesia is South East Asia’s largest economy and growing, with emphasis placed on infrastructure and housing development. Concrete is at the heart of every construction project so a dedicated event in the South East Asia region is a must.

Visit the website for more information and register to attend for FREE - http://www.concreteshowseasia.com/

THE 4th BIENNIAL SUBTROPICAL CITIES CONFERENCE
BRAVING A NEW WORLD: DESIGN INTERVENTIONS FOR CHANGING CLIMATES

OVERVIEW
Catastrophic weather events – including drought and flooding, fires and deforestation, hurricanes, and landslides - have recently affected major centers of population throughout the world’s subtropical climate zones. In coming decades, the world’s population faces the compounding problems of sea level rise and resource depletion, and the impacts of climate-related disruptions on the flow of people and resources, particularly, sustainable food supply. With the forces of climate change now acting upon us, the subtropical urban regions of the world are becoming the harbinger for “Braving a New World”, as the power of local knowledge and focused research is tested against global influences and our everyday engagements and actions reflect our position about the future we are designing for ourselves and for our future generations.

So how do the built environment design professions respond and intervene in the way the community engages with the complex problems of design of urban settlements generally, and public spaces and buildings particularly, for more powerful weather systems?

What paradigm shifts in design philosophy in practice and education are needed to design for a world that is likely to be 2-4 degrees warmer?
Is there a role in cultural knowledge and the place/identity agenda in design more for extremes and less for averages?
What do designers need to know in order to design for increased capacity to produce and store renewable energy or finite resources (water)?
How do we collaborate and with whom to design for shelter to provide greater protection for inhabitants and for their property without further exacerbating anthropomorphic climate change?
Why not design for centrality of urban hydrology and ecology?
How do we incorporate theoretical principles of adaptability to the changing climate and social environment, particularly in regard to urban settlements and food security?
How do we design for increasing population in our subtropical urban centers over the next 40 years to ensure a good quality of life and responsiveness to climate change?

TIMELINE
February 2013—Submission site opens
April 10, 2013—Submission deadline
May 2013—Accept/reject notifications sent to authors with reviewer comments.
Accepted Paper Abstract authors will be required to revise/prepare full-papers for publication in the conference Proceedings.
August 2013—Final revised papers and copyright forms due
October 17-19, 2013—Subtropical Cities Conference in Fort Lauderdale, FL

http://acsa-arch.org/programs-events/conferences/fall-conference/2013-fall-conference

Designing | Education
7th International Conference of the Association of Architecture Schools of Australasia
3-5 October 2013
Monash University, RMIT University and University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia

This conference will bring together academics and practitioners to speculate on the future of the design studio as a pivotal platform for architectural education and production, and to consider modifications required in response to the changing demands of society, pedagogy, research and practice.

The conference will be structured around three broad themes:

Provocative Studio Pedagogies

Studio nexus, design ‹ › research

The Future of Practice

3 June 2013 deadline for submitting abstracts

5 August 2013 deadline for submitting completed academic papers and practitioner submissions

For further information and procedures please see the website: http://monash.edu/mada/aasa2013/

Contact Information: aasa2013@monash.edu

westedge offers attendees a full design experience, complete with trade and consumer seminars, culinary demonstrations and samplings, thought-provoking exhibitions and special events all presented in a sophisticated yet accessible environment for architects, designers, collectors, and patrons of the design world alike to enjoy.

Home to internationally renowned museums, leading design schools, hundreds of contemporary galleries, and a prodigious number of leading architecture and design firms, Los Angeles serves as the perfect landscape for a progressive, international contemporary design fair.

http://westedgedesignfair.com

Tent London is one of the largest design trade shows taking place during the London Design Festival and described as the most creative event in the design calendar.

Extraordinary interiors products are shown from over 200 established independents and undiscovered talents; accompanied by spectacular installations, inspirational talks, and presentations from country pavilions.

Over 20,000 international trade buyers, high calibre specifiers, opinion forming media and design savvy public from 52 different countries attend the four-day event. Now in its seventh year, it is regarded as the most cutting-edge and progressive trade exhibition internationally and a must attend for those who need to be seen with their finger on the pulse.

Find inspiration for your next project whilst sourcing and purchasing the next big thing.

http://www.tentlondon.co.uk

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RELATED COMPETITION: Project Spaces, at Tent London & Super Brands London

First staged in 2003, the London Design Festival is one of the world’s most important annual design events. The Festival programme is made up of over 300 events and exhibitions staged by hundreds of partner organisations across the design spectrum and from around the world.

Our Mission Statement The London Design Festival is an annual event, held ‘to celebrate and promote London as the design capital of the world, and as the gateway to the International creative community.’

Over ten days in September, the London Design Festival featured hundreds of events which took place across London, showcasing the city’s pivotal role in global design.

Save the date: London Design Festival 2013 will take place on the 14th - 22nd September 2013.

A centerpiece of the Festival is our commissions, the Landmark Projects, created with the help of our generous supporters. For the Landmark Projects we commission some of the world’s greatest architects and designers to create pieces of work in some of London’s best-loved public spaces.

And then there are the Partner events; if anything is evidence of this city’s vitality, it’s the sheer scope and quality of the Festival events programmed by our Partners. From established businesses to emerging practices, from entrepreneurs to educators, from manufacturers to retailers, our Partners represent the heart of London’s design culture.

The Festival is both a cultural and a commercial event. The programme ranges from major international exhibitions to trade events, installations to talks and seminars, from product launches to receptions, private views and parties. The majority of events are free of charge - enabling visitors to participate, listen, learn, commission and make purchases.

The Festival is funded through a combination of public and private sources. The Mayor Of London’s office provides grant funding for the Festival; Arts Council England have been long term supporters of the Festival. Private funding (approx 60%) is raised through sponsorship of Festival projects alongside a small range of London Design Festival products and services delivered throughout the year.

Festival audiences are significant, with an estimated audience of over 350,000 people, from over 60 countries with a wider audience of over 1m people coming into contact with the major public commissions in 2012. Audiences at the V&A totaled 111,538 – which is the highest ten day figure recorded in the museum’s history. The Festival had a programme of 304 projects and events staged by 295 partner organisations including media partners. The Festival also attracts substantial press coverage, with 1,969 articles about the Festival appearing worldwide.

http://www.londondesignfestival.com

Vision Competition: Recycling Socialism from Tallinn Architecture Biennale on Vimeo.

Tallinn Architecture Biennale 2013: Recycling Socialism
September 4th-8th, 2013, Tallinn, Estonia

Tallinn Architecture Biennale is an architecture and urban planning forum that continues the tradition of the Nordic-Baltic Architecture Triennale and brings together theory and practice, experience and innovation in order to spark fruitful discussion. This year’s biennale is curated by b210, a team of young architects (Karin Tõugu, Kadri Klementi, Aet Ader, Kaidi Õis, Mari Hunt) and organised by the Estonian Centre of Architecture.

The topic of TAB 2013 - Recycling Socialism - focuses on questions: What is there to recycle from the spaces, structures, projects, ideas, concepts and materials of socialist architecture? What is there to recycle for today’s life and new utopias of the future?

Main organiser
Estonian Centre of Architecture

Co-organisers
City of Tallinn, Estonian Academy of Arts, Union of Estonian Architects, Museum of Estonian Architecture

Curators
b210 (Aet Ader, Kadri Klementi, Karin Tõugu, Kaidi Õis, Mari Hunt)

Project manager
Lill Sarv
info@tab.ee

Press and media
press@tab.ee

Supporters
Cultural Endowment of Estonia, City of Tallinn, Union of Estonian Architects

http://www.tab.ee/

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RELATED COMPETITION: Tallinn Architecture Biennale TAB 2013 | Vision Competition: Recycling Socialism

KAFe-2013 Dates and Event Theme

• KAFe-2013 Event in Kaunas is organized for the first time, and is planned to become a biannual International Event of such scale and scope;
• Duration of the event: 8 weeks;
• Dates of the event: September-October 2013;
• Theme of the event: Historical City Centers and their Waterfronts.

More information: http://www.kafe2013.lt

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RELATED COMPETITION: Kaunas Architecture Festival - International Student Projects Competition

It is recognized by the worldwide market as the most important meeting point of the concrete production chain with the Latin American civil construction industry.

Visit our website for more information and register to attend for FREE: http://www.concreteshow.com.br/english/

The Integrated Landscape designed for the No Man’s Land Project workshop held in 2010, by students from the Dessau Institute of Architecture (Christos Passas Studio).

Agenda

The United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus, is a demilitarized zone patrolled by the UN Peacekeeping Force that spans the full length of the island from west to east and covers an area of around 350km². Although accounting for only around 3% of the island’s total area, the UN Zone has turned into a separate geopolitical entity of its own that will potentially play a vital political and economical role in a future reunification of the island’s north and south parts.

The Visiting School will draw from the results of the “No Man’s Land Project” workshop (held in 2010) and will be based on the hypothetical event of the return of the confiscated land and villages inside the Buffer Zone back to their former proprietors, following a 38-year period of abandonment.

The main agenda will be to explore how digital tools can address the conflicting nature of the Zone on an urban scale and explore non-linear scenarios of enabling its targeted rehabilitation. Intensive tuition by experienced tutors will be in the following software platforms: Rhino/Grasshopper for Rhino/Python scripting for Rhino and Grasshopper.

Eligibility

The workshop is open to current architecture and design students, phd candidates and young professionals worldwide.

Teaching Staff

Pavlos Fereos [Bartlett GAD RC2 Tutor]
Kostas Grigoriadis [AA Diploma Unit 2 Tutor]
Michail Georgiou [ARC University of Nicosia Lecturer]
Alkis Dikaios [Partner Dikaios+Associates]
+ Invited guests to be announced soon

http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/cyprus
http://cyprus.aaschool.ac.uk/

IFAC2013 is the acronym of Internatioal Festival of Art and Construction, it takes place in August 2013 in Covarrubias, Burgos, (Spain) a medieval village of 627 people.

IFAC is a space where you can exchange ideas and knowledge, designed for 250 youngsters from all around the world with some kind of relation to art and architecture whom will live together for 10 days, in a creative and integrative space of different arts, where debate, work and exchange experiences, in a context of analysis and recovery of rural areas, establishing a balance between academic, practical, cultural and social.

IFAC2013 is an initiative started by the non-profit association “Movimiento a la Autosuficiencia” (Self-Sufficiency Movement), who’s aim is to:

- Support avant-garde artistic and technological creations.
- Reverse aggressive over-consumption tendencies.
- Spread and encourage self-sufficient practices.
- Experience alternative building methods.
- Exploring and research of ways towards self-sufficiency.

Photo from IFAC2012

The IFAC dynamic has three basic principles:

-Practical education: most part of the material will be used in a practical and experimental way. We encourage an empirical learning environment that will help the development of “collective thinking” through cooperation, integration and dialogue, creating a “horizontal atmosphere”.

-Creative freedom: free expression is encouraged by the rotation of participants through workshops, having the possibility of attending as many of them as desired, combining them. The presence of free time, with free access to all tools and material, reinforces this breaking of enclosed schedules, specific places or prejudice.

-Collective enrichment: IFAC is an exchange of knowledge and experience. IFAC does not believe in lineal transmission of knowledge, everybody actively participates in the decisions made in the workshops, fostering the emergence of parallel initiatives spontaneous and unpredictable.

http://www.ifac2013.com

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RELATED COMPETITION: Sunshade Competition

The 2013 Cal Design Lab will include the following workshops: Expressive Movement in Architecture and Design (July 15-19), Robotic Prototypes in Architecture (July 22-26), and Frontiers in Desktop Fabrication (July 29-August 2). Each one-week workshop is designed by an expert in the topic domain that is pushing the boundaries of making, and features a combination of informational lectures, structured hands-on learning activities and self-directed open-ended experimentation. For more info, please visit: http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/design-futures-workshop-series/.

Artforming’s Summer/Build is an experiential learning opportunity for students and working professionals, of art and design, sharing a passion for translating ideas. Coupling the acts of thinking and making you will explore, express and translate spatial thinking into built form. Summer/Build strives to consider the relationships between art, architecture and landscape through a combination of emerging technologies and engagement with materials and assemblies.

Program Details
Summer/Build will run from August 5th through August 15th and will be structured as an intensive two-phase workshop at the Windhover Center for the Performing Arts (windhover.org) located in Rockport, Massachusetts. The workshop will run with a minimum enrollment of 10 and a maximum enrollment of 15. Participants will stay over at Windhover in the provided lodgings for the duration of the workshop. Phase One will involve a collaborative design exercise explored through digital processes and one to one scale experimentation. Phase Two will involve translating design thinking into built form and resulting in a temporary site specific installation. Prior experience with building or Rhino/Grasshopper is welcomed but by no means required. Work produced throughout the workshop will be shared and documented with a broader goal of exhibition and publication. Documentation will be made available to all participants following the conclusion of the workshop.

Program Costs
Tuition is $2,500.00 and includes lodging for the 11 days, local transportation, breakfast/lunch, construction/fabrication expenses, and a celebration gala. Participants will be responsible for transportation to and from Rockport, dinner and any additional meals, bedding, and laptop/software.

Additional Information
Please visit Artforming’s website (artforming.org) for additional information and examples of work designed and fabricated by the Artforming collaborative. For further information or if interested in a Summer/Build application please contact Program Director, or visit the Summer/Build website.

Artforming Mission Statement
Artforming is a Boston-based collective of artists, educators and design professionals. Our mission is rooted in the conception, fabrication, and installation of multi-sensory public art and architecture intended to foster individual contemplation and open public dialog. Our interests focus the work on site-specific installations that are imbued with fundamental principles of architecture and art. Research and the resulting built work centers on environments, emerging technologies and the intersection of art and science.

http://artforming-summerbuild.com

The 2013 Cal Design Lab will include the following workshops: Expressive Movement in Architecture and Design (July 15-19), Robotic Prototypes in Architecture (July 22-26), and Gestural and Natural User Interfaces (August 5-9). Each one-week workshop is designed by an expert in the topic domain that is pushing the boundaries of making, and features a combination of informational lectures, structured hands-on learning activities and self-directed open-ended experimentation. For more info, please visit: http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/design-futures-workshop-series/.

Never Built: Los Angeles will explore the “what if” Los Angeles.  A thorough compendium of projects that only saw the drawing board, the exhibition asks: Why is Los Angeles a hotbed of great architects, yet so lacking in urban innovation.

Co-curated by Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin and designed by Clive Wilkinson Architects, the show looks at visionary works that had the greatest potential to reshape the city, from buildings to master plans, parks to follies and transportation proposals any of which could have transformed both the physical reality and the collective perception of the metropolis. The stories surrounding these projects shed light on a reluctant city whose institutions and infrastructure have often undermined inventive, challenging urban schemes.

Many of these schemes—promoting a denser, more vibrant city—still have relevance today, and many could inspire future projects. The projects beg the question: Why were they never built?

The show will contain dozens of illustrations exploring the visceral (and sometimes misleading) power of architectural ideas conveyed through renderings, blueprints, models, and the lost art of hand drawing. Through these images, and accompanying narratives, the city is interpreted in a new light, with discarded projects understood as art. Never Built probes these schemes, setting the stage for a renewed interest in visionary projects in Los Angeles.

Support the exhibition on Kickstarter

A+D Museum

‘Adaptive and Evolving Design’ will be one of the parallel sessions of the ‘Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions ’ Conference that will be held in the context of HCI International 2013.
Your paper will appear in the Conference Proceedings along with the other regular submissions that will be accepted for oral presentation, following a peer-review process.
The HCI International 2013 Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in a multi-volume set. Papers will appear in volumes of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Extended Poster abstracts will be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.
All volumes will be available on-line through the SpringerLink Digital Library, readily accessible by all subscribing libraries around the world, and will be indexed by a number of services including EI and ISI CPCI-S. For more information about the Conference Proceedings, please visit our website
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Important deadlines:
Friday, 1 March 2013 Submission through the CMS of the camera-ready version (full paper, minimum 6 pages long, maximum 10 pages long) of all papers

The 2013 Cal Design Lab will include the following workshops: Expressive Movement in Architecture and Design (July 15-19), Frontiers in Desktop Fabrication (July 29-August 2), and Gestural and Natural User Interfaces (August 5-9). Each one-week workshop is designed by an expert in the topic domain that is pushing the boundaries of making, and features a combination of informational lectures, structured hands-on learning activities and self-directed open-ended experimentation. For more info, please visit: http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/design-futures-workshop-series/.

CALL FOR PAPERS

workshop at the Symposium on Smart Cities during the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments [IE’13], Athens, Greece
new deadline April 31, 2013

http://intelligentcitiesie13.orbitlab.gr/

This year, 11 international institutions from five continents will participate simultaneously in the Global School Program July 15th - 26th, 2013.
Barcelona, Spain · Launceston, Australia · Brisbane, Australia · Shanghai, P.R.C. · Mumbai, India · Tehran, Iran · Istanbul, Turkey · New York City, NY, USA · Santiago, Chile · Lima, Peru · San Diego, CA, USA / Tijuana, Mexico

SOFTWARE
McNeel Rhinoceros, Grasshopper 3D, Processing, Arduino

Application deadline is May 31st 2013.
Inquiries: applications@iaac.net
More information: http://www.iaac.net/globalschool/2013/

The 2013 Cal Design Lab will also include the following workshops: Robotic Prototypes in Architecture (July 22-26), Frontiers in Desktop Fabrication (July 29-August 2), and Gestural and Natural User Interfaces (August 5-9). Each one-week workshop is designed by an expert in the topic domain that is pushing the boundaries of making, and features a combination of informational lectures, structured hands-on learning activities and self-directed open-ended experimentation. For more info, please visit: http://ced.berkeley.edu/academics/summer-programs/design-futures-workshop-series/.

Location: Old prison building in Kotor, Montenegro (UNESCO World Heritage site)

Mentors and lecturers at Kotor APSS 2013:

Dijana Vučinić, DVARP, Montenegro
Boštjan Vuga, SADAR+VUGA, Ljubljana
Simon Hartmann, HHF architecten, Basel
Saša Begović and Marko Dabrović, 3LHD Architects, Croatia
Andreas Ruby, Ruby Press, Berlin.
Hubert Klumpner and Alfredo Brillembourg, , Urban-Think Tank, Zurich
Ivan Milošević and Marko Stjepčević, AIM studio, Montenegro

There are two main parts of Kotor APSS:


• Summer school workshop with final work exhibition and student presentation,

• Final conference ”APSS talk” and Panel discussion based on the workshop Topic and Conclusions. Final conference is open to wider public

Kotor APSS 2013 Topic

South Adriatic is used as a common name for a part of Adriatic coast that includes Montenegrin coast and southern Croatian regions. This space was merged by one of the first regional plans – “Regional plan for South Adriatic” proposed in the late sixties of the last century (1964-1968). The plan has been an initiative of the Government of SFR Yugoslavia, implemented together with United Nations Development Programme. As one of the last year mentors -  Architect Branislav Gregovic pointed out - many perceive this plan as the beginning of an institutional approach to spatial planning in this part of former Yugoslavia and, at the same time, a plan that initiated the modernization of this part of the former country.

The plan itself has marked the beginning of the tourism as an economic branch in the region. Tourism has been considered as an addition and insurance to the existing economy and the way to bring leisure closer to working people of industrialization.

Fifty years later Tourism has a completely different role in our society. It is considered as the main development lane of Montenegrin economy and the greatest challenge for urban planning. While “Regional plan for South Adriatic” has measured tourism growth by the growth of infrastructure, culture, employment and production, we lost track at some point during the 90s and focused on the number of beds. Demand for leisure became equal to demand for occupied beds and the number of nights spent on the coast.

One of the key moments that have influenced urban chaos in Montenegrin coast seems to be the introduction of the apartment as a tourism unit.  Apartment, or bed production has been much cheaper, faster and less demanding than hotel building. The unit itself has multiplied and shaped the architecture as well as the wider urban context and certain patterns in social behavior. During the 90s, the apartment unit has created the urban chaos in the city on the coast we are struggling to correct today.

The workshop will explore the question of “place” in wider urban context and its transformation under the influence of market demands and rapid development pushed by transition. We want to go back and examine the essence of the city and its architecture on one side, and residential unit as one of the fundamental elements of any urban environment on the other side.

The workshop will investigate new elements that will redefine relationship between architecture and the city, and improve urban background by changing architectural fundamentals such as tourism housing unit.

Live on-site, collaborate with a team of creatives, carpenters + celebrants.

Design charrette led by Honored Guest Host STEVE BADANES of Jersey Devil Design/Build + University of Washington!

Open to students, architects, landscape architects, artists, carpenters, celebrants, and others from related fields. Limited to ten participants. 

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
visit http://www.studio013.org!

http://www.productivecityistanbul.com

Join landscape architect Elizabeth Kennedy as she presents her work on the Brooklyn Grange farm, located on a massive 65,000 sq ft roof towering eleven stories over the East River, atop Building no. 3 at the historic Brooklyn Navy Yard. Constructed as a Stormwater Management Tool funded by a NYC DEP Green Infrastructure Grant under PlaNYC, the project serves as an inspiring model of green roof possibilities.

About the Harlem Focus series:
John Reddick, architectural consultant and Harlem historian, will curate and lead a series of talks featuring designers, architects, and artists whose work engages and affects the local community. The Harlem Focus series will highlight design issues in Harlem, ranging from public art and landscape architecture, to rooftop farms and urban woodland restoration, and explore how design will affect this unique neighborhood as it continues to evolve, change and inspire.

http://www.cooperhewitt.org/events/harlem-focus-roof-farming-urban-rooftop

CUCR, Goldsmiths, University of London are pleased to announce that we will be hosting the International Visual Sociology Association 2013 Annual Conference from 8 to 10 July 2013. 

Inspired by Michael Burawoy’s concept of “public sociology,” we dedicate the 2013 IVSA conference to the concept of the “public image”, and the ways that visual sociology can meet Burawoy’s challenge to bring a sociological understanding of social life to a vibrant, active and diverse public. Public and urban sociology endeavors to bring sociology into dialogue with audiences beyond the academy, an open dialogue in which both sides deepen their understanding of public issues in cities.

Information and submission guidelines can be found at:

http://www.gold.ac.uk/cucr
http://www.visualsociology.org/conference.html

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RELATED: Call for Panel Proposals and Papers: 2013 IVSA Conference

The College of Environmental Design at UC Berkeley offers three introductory six-week summer programs in the study of architecture [IN]ARCH, landscape architecture [IN]LAND, and sustainable city planning [IN]CITY, as well as one advanced studio course in architecture [IN]ARCH ADV.  This Summer [IN]STITUTE, July 8-August 16, 2013, gives students the opportunity to explore the methods and theories of these fields, experience the culture of the design and planning studios, connect with top faculty and professionals, and build a portfolio for graduate school application. 

The introductory programs are designed for post-baccalaureate students or senior-level undergraduates with majors in other fields who are interested in learn more about environmental design. We will also consider exceptional students who will have completed their junior year of college by June 2013. The advanced architecture studio is open to students who have already obtained their undergraduate degree in Architecture or who will be entering their senior year in June 2013. Each program consists of a lecture series, a design or planning studio, and either a seminar or media course. The total cost for the program is $3,400 not including UC Berkeley summer session fees.
 
Apply now through April 26, 2013.

For more detailed information, please visit the Summer Institute website at http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/college/academics/summer-institutes/apply.

Marco Poletto and Claudia Pasquero on behalf of the Architectural Association in Milano are proud to launch the second spring/summer season with a renewed program of lectures and events leading to our International Summer School focused on the topic of alternative FOOD and renewable ENERGY for the Urban Environment.

In the end of March we will launch our first lecture series in Milano. The AA MILANO Spring Lecture Series is part of the AA Public Program, one of the most diverse and prestigious open lectures series in the world, and it will be stages in 3 different venues across the city: the Polytechnic, the NIL28 and the Stecca degli Artigiani.
This first round of talks will end with a dedicated exhibition in the Gallery SpazioFMGperl’architecttura, opening on the 23rd of May.

For updates visit: cybergardens2013.aaschool.ac.uk

Matteo Pasquinelli, a young Italian philosopher, will open the series with his Manifesto on Urban Cannibalism, setting the stage for the debate that will inform the main Summer School, the experimental design workshop taking place between the 6th and the 16th of July and involving international participants working on the theme of cyber-gardening the city; this year each team taking part to the design experiment will breed alternative urban food supply chains and renewable energy networks of algae, bacteria and urban insects; the key design instruments will be direct field work and a custom design twitter based real-time digital interface. Applications are now welcome.

Summer School Brief

As the world’s population grows at an ever faster pace and the effects of global warming threaten crops worldwide, the global reserve of food is reaching an historic low. Global metropolis like Milan will soon find themselves in a condition of shortage, perhaps not dissimilar to the one experienced in the past in periods of war or siege, where food and energy were either absent or unaffordable to the majority.

Philosopher Matteo Pasquinelli claims that it is in this periods that the culinary art has demonstrated its ability to expand the horizons of edibility by reinventing the urban landscape as a potentially productive one; in periods of shortages the art of cultivating the nutritious potentials of what Gilles Clement calls the “third landscape” elevated itself to a gastro-political art of resistance towards the enemy and of building a new collective identity.

Such practice posses a radical attitude that goes far beyond the current fashion for urban allotment and farmer markets in the sense that has the capability to reinvent our perception of those interstitial ecologies that are ubiquitous in our metropolis but that escape categorisations, as they are not part of the urban techno-sphere nor they belong to the agricultural layer; they exist within out of control, invisible or neglected strata where nature escapes human control and proliferates unchecked.

This year the AA Milan will set up its urban Lab in the Milanese borough of Nil28 and will embrace this radical attitude to propose scenarios of gastro-political resistance towards the tyranny of large multinational food distributions, the classism of organic gourmet food and the threat of global supply shortage.

Studio Structure

The teaching model of the AA Summer School in Milan is grounded on the experimental tradition of the Architectural Association and on the design philosophy of ecoLogicStudio, that will curate the event and run the design workshop.
In the first 3 days of workshop our explorations will take us on a trip across unnoticed landscapes of urban algae blooming on the Milanese Navigli, of mosquito hunting in Novara and of bacteria fermentations in Gorgonzola.

The design studio will than take its base in the Nil28 neighbourhood where the aspiring cyber-gardeners will be able to explore and invent new urban cultivation practices by combining Applets design and real-time urban mapping with 1:1 scale prototyping.  Dedicated real-time mapping and prototyping design clusters will be interfaced and interrelated during the workshop giving to all participants the opportunity to experiment with multiple techniques and challenge different aspects of the brief.

The final outcome will be an urban cultivation digital interface involving the participation of the neighbourhood and a series of speculative prototypes testing novel cultivation practices or urban recipes.
The 10 days workshop will be supported by a series of seminars with invited specialists and dedicated algorithmic design and prototyping tutorials. The seminars will be held in the evening and will feature guests from the world of digital design and prototyping, agronomy and food science, landscape design and computational design, journalism and curatorial practices.

Enrollment

The deadline for applications is 30th June 2013. All participants travelling from abroad are responsible for securing any visa required. After payment of fees, the AA can provide a letter confirming participation in the workshop.

The AA Visiting School requires a fee of £695 per participant, which includes a £60 visiting Student Membership. If you are already a member, the total fee will be reduced automatically by £60 by the online payment system. Early enrollment and group discounts apply. for more info please visit our website: cybergardens2013.aaschool.ac.uk

Team

AA Milan Directors: Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto
Scientific committee: Luca Molinari and Simona Galateo
Computational Design Tutor: Andrea Bugli

The University of Hong Kong Summer Program (SHA: Jul 5-18, HKG: Jul 19-26, SIN: Jul 27-Aug 2)

Visiting cities of Hangzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou and Shenzhen

Studio SHA-HKG-SIN is a three to four-week design and research studio organized by the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture in the cities of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. Taught by a diverse group of faculty members from the University of Hong Kong, and speakers from internationally renowned universities and independent research groups, the course offers participants a design studio experience within Asia’s most vibrant contexts.

The International Summer Program in Architecture positions Hong Kong as a launch pad to other Asian cities, linking strategically with the cities of Shanghai and Singapore this year. This summer program has the benefit of tapping into the vast wealth of expertise from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Future Cities Lab and Asian Urban Lab. A number of the urban sites and studies designed for this program will be linked to ongoing research undertaken by design studios at the ETH, NUS, SUTD and MIT. Since its inception in 2008, HKU academic programs in Shanghai have benefitted from exchanges and joint studios with leading universities such as Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, NYU, AA, ETH and EPFL, as well as regional universities such as Tongji, China Academy of Art, Tianjin and others.

Fundamental to the study of architecture and cities is the question of rapid urbanization and innovation on the multiple fronts of society, culture and the economy. For the purpose of this summer program, the three key cities in east China, the Pearl River Delta and Southeast Asia will serve as platforms for the understanding of such issues, in the current neo-liberal world of urbanization, where international corporations have grown far more powerful than sovereign governments. Saskia Sassen notes that it is precisely because cities are no longer within the realms of national politics, they naturally become the new frontiers where the “political informal” can thrive within the infrastructure and systems of cities without overt control.

Through this course, participants will focus on different architecture and building types that have emerged from the current state of rapid urbanization. These urban building types are unique in the way they resist and subvert, or become mutated or subsumed by the prevailing urban conditions of Shanghai, Hong Kong and Singapore. The design and research studio would be based on the examination and re-invention of a number of these building types.

Participants will have the benefit of visiting numerous cities under-going massive change, exploring broad-ranging issues such as identity, migration, cultural production, colonialism, nationalism and globalization through topics in architectural history and theory. This program will include study trips to the cities of Hangzhou, Ningbo, Suzhou and Shenzhen. In support of the design and research studio, a daily lecture and seminar program will further enrich the participants’ knowledge in these fields.

http://fac.arch.hku.hk/summer/cities-in-asia/

In July 2012, the Architectural School of Architecture - in partnership with the Adriano Olivetti Foundation and Gehry Technologies – launched Factory Futures: A THREE YEAR RESEARCH PROGRAMME exploring innovative architectural responses for the productive landscape of the future.  Critical and technical in equal terms, the mission of Factory Futures is to connect the realms of CONTEMPORARY URBAN THEORY WITH COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN TECHNIQUES for the affirmative re-empowerment of the architectural practice within contemporary conditions of production. THE FORMER OLIVETTI HEADQUARTERS IN IVREA –the only UNESCO candidate site in Italy fully dedicated to its modern industrial architecture – constitute both the physical and cultural setting of our work. A growing NETWORK OF ACADEMIC AND INDUSTRY PARTNERS, Factory Futures operates through highly focused symposia, visiting schools, exhibitions and publications.

AAVS IVREA 2013 - ARCHITECTURE WITHOUT HUMANS

Far from being invisible, the physical infrastructure supporting today’s need for DATA STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION is increasingly transforming the configuration of our productive landscape. In 2013 the Ivrea Visiting School will develop design tools and research concepts to confront this phenomenon, which is challenging the conventions of both architectural design and urban theory. Using the Olivetti design culture as the DNA of our design experiments, we will investigate TIME-BASED AND ASSOCIATIVE DESIGN STRATEGIES applied towards the creation of a speculative data storage infrastructure in relation to a former Olivetti industrial site in Ivrea.  The course will be taught by AA SCHOOL AND GEHRY TECHNOLOGIES TUTORS, with support from the Adriano Olivetti Foundation, in a two weeks programme. Together with CRITICAL SEMINARS and FIELD TRIPS focusing on the local design culture, work will be articulated in sessions intertwining COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN and ARCHITECTURAL REPRESENTATION: in reclaiming the rich Olivetti propaganda aesthetics, students’ proposals will be condensed in large scale individual posters to be published and exhibited through the Factory Futures network.

APPLICATIONS

The deadline for applications is 1 JUNE 2013. Applicants should submit a short written statement outlining the interest in the course, a CV and payment of the full tuition fees in UK Pounds Sterling. The cost for the twelve-days course is £695 which includes a £50 AA membership fee, payable online at: http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/ivrea  It is highly recommended that students arrive to Ivrea on the 30 JUNE 2013 in order to sort out accommodation and logistics prior to the commencement of the course on 1 JULY 2013.  A final exhibition of the students work will be held on 13 JULY 2013. The course is an intensive studio-based programme requiring full-time participation.  The AA Visiting School Ivrea is open to all current undergraduate/graduate students and young professional in the field of design, engineering and architecture. No previous specific software knowledge is required.  An AA Certificate will be awarded upon completion of the programme.

FACULTY

Tommaso Franzolini [Founder - Factory Futures] 

Maria Shéhérazade Giudici [AA DIP14 Tutor – The City as a Project] 

Pierre Cutellic [Digital Knowledge Dept., E.N.S.A.P.M. Paris] 

Edmondo Occhipinti [Gehry Technologies Europe] 

Lea Sattler [Gehry Technologies Europe] 

Patrizia Bonifazio [Adriano Olivetti Foundation] 

Fabrizio Bellabio [AA – Histories and Theories Tutor]

MORE INFORMATION

AA Visting School Coordinator
Priji Balakrishnan
E: factoryfutures@aaschool.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)2078874014
W: ivrea.aaschool.ac.uk

Not just for designers
Industrial design affects us all. It relates to the products that we use as much as to the services and processes we employ. It’s about finding solutions that make life easier and relates to function as much as to form. For these reasons and more, World Industrial Design Day is for everyone.

Through a series of events held around the globe, World Industrial Design Day provides designers and like-minded design enthusiasts with an opportunity to engage about industrial design. From sustainability workshops to exhibitions and symposiums about socially responsible design, to webcasts and citywide programmes that provide free admission to museums, the activities held to commemorate the day are as diverse as they are inspiring.

For the non-designer, it is a chance to become more aware of the benefits of industrial design and how it impacts ones daily experience. For design-focused cities and encourage more of them to make an official proclamation declaring 29 June as World Industrial Design Day.

As part of its mandate Icsid connects people from diverse backgrounds who, while perhaps from different cultures or religions, have at least one thing in common: a passion for industrial design. This bridging of the design community continues to be shown with the annual celebration of World Industrial Design Day; a day for the industrial design community to share ideas, celebrate their profession, spread knowledge and help create a better world in the process.

World Industrial Design Day

http://www.aud.ucla.edu/extreme-ideas

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RELATED EVENTS:

• Extreme Intelligence: The Future of Thinking Environments
• Extreme Culture: The Intermix of Real and Virtual Realities
• Extreme Environments: Design for Unfamiliar Terrain

League Prize
Luis Callejas, Lcla Office
Marc Fornes, MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY
Bryan Young, Young Projects

The second evening of lectures by winners of the Architectural League Prize, features Marc Fornes of MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY, Luis Callejas of Lcla Office, and Bryan Young of Young Projects. The League Prize is one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects. This year’s theme for the portfolio competition, Range, reflects the perception of young architects’ careers as explorations of “potential boundaries with practices that are radical, that search the edges of the discipline to find its limits.”

A reception with the opportunity to view the exhibition will follow the lecture.

http://archleague.org/2013/06/league-prize-marc-fornes-luis-callejas-bryan-young/

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RELATED NEWS: 2013 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers

Join the curator and gardeners from the Central Park Conservancy for a talk about the landscape design of the Central Park Conservatory Gardens and how it compliments and contrasts with Frederick Law Olmsted’s overall design for Central Park. Despite the garden’s formal planting structure, learn about how the elements of form and color are redesigned each year to offer the public unique views.

About the Harlem Focus series:
John Reddick, architectural consultant and Harlem historian, will curate and lead a series of talks featuring designers, architects, and artists whose work engages and affects the local community. The Harlem Focus series will highlight design issues in Harlem, ranging from public art and landscape architecture, to rooftop farms and urban woodland restoration, and explore how design will affect this unique neighborhood as it continues to evolve, change and inspire.

http://www.cooperhewitt.org/events/harlem-focus-garden-design-art-color-variety-and-form

The three day exhibition takes place from the 26-28 June 2013 at the Shanghai World Expo Exhibition & Convention Centre, providing the perfect platform to meet and network with concrete industry professionals, from engineers, architects and contractors to government officials and developers.

The event will bring together buyers and suppliers to experience and interact with a full range of products and services, learn about the latest innovations and experience firsthand new technologies in the market.

Visit the website for more information and register to attend for FREE - http://www.concreteshowchina.com

League Prize
Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee, Matter Design
Rafael Luna and Dongwoo Yim, PRAUD
Skylar J.E. Tibbits, SJET

The first evening of lectures by winners of the Architectural League Prize, features Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee of Matter Design, Rafael Luna and Dongwoo Yim of PRAUD, and Skylar J.E. Tibbits of SJET. The League Prize is one of North America’s most prestigious awards for young architects. This year’s theme for the portfolio competition, Range, reflects the perception of young architects’ careers as explorations of “potential boundaries with practices that are radical, that search the edges of the discipline to find its limits.”

A reception with the opportunity to view the exhibition will follow the lecture.

http://archleague.org/2013/06/league-prize-brandon-clifford-and-wes-mcgee-rafael-luna-and-dongwoo-yim-skylar-j-e-tibbits/

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RELATED NEWS: 2013 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers

Featuring work by 2013 League Prize Winners:
Luis Callejas, Lcla Office; Brandon Clifford and Wes McGee, Matter Design;
Marc Fornes, MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY; Rafael Luna and Dongwoo Yim, PRAUD; Skylar J.E. Tibbits, SJET; and Bryan Young, Young Projects.
On view: June 25 — August 1, 2013

On view at:
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Parsons The New School for Design
66 Fifth Avenue

The exhibition will be open daily 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and late Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m. The exhibition will also be open on the evenings of the lectures. Admission is free.

The League thanks the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center at Parsons The New School for Design for co-sponsoring and hosting the League Prize exhibition and lectures.

http://archleague.org/2013/08/2013-architectural-league-prize-for-young-architects-designers-range/

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RELATED NEWS: 2013 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects + Designers

New York City and London are vibrant urban centers that share in their abundance of learning opportunities in art and design. The existing industries of architecture, fashion, finance, and education, provide the student with exceptional models to study as well as experience, first hand.

Where better to plug into this energy, view the latest trends and collaborate with fellow students in art and design thinking while building a new network of contacts from around the world?

The Course Program:

• Fashion Design and Marketing in New York & London
• Spatial Design in New York & London
• Strategic Design Management in New York & London

email: summer@newschool.edu or dualcitycsm@arts.ac.uk

official website:

http://www.csm.arts.ac.uk/dual-city-courses/aboutdualcity/newyorklondon/

On June 23, join us on this self-drive tour through Los Angeles’ Canyons & Valley. Self-drive or carpooling means you can set your own paceperfect for a laid back Sunday. The homes are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

http://www.dwellondesign.com/events/dwell-canyons-valley-home-tour

8000 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90048, (323) 761-7212

The Glass House
199 Elm Street
New Canaan, CT 06840
203.594.9884
http://philipjohnsonglasshouse.org

The Glass House continues its rich tradition as a cultural salon where leading minds across creative fields gather. Our annual gala, The Glass House Summer Party, will take place this year on Saturday, June 22 from 12 noon to 4 p.m. Presented by Alfred Dunhill with additional support from Swarovski, the Summer Party will include a festive lunch, cocktails, performance, and a silent auction — all set on our stunning, pastoral landscape with opportunities to explore the Glass House and new temporary exhibitions, along with our world-class collection of 20th century painting and sculpture.

On June 22, join us on this self-driven tour through Los Angeles’ East Side & Downtown, then head to Dwell on Design at the Los Angeles Convention Center nearby. Drive yourself or carpool, and set your own pace perfect for a laid-back Saturday. The homes are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

http://www.dwellondesign.com/events/dwell-east-side-downtown-home-tour

Campaigning Architecture is an international design workshop that operates across a range of scales and disciplines to explore more effective ways to make thought-provoking changes to our urban environment. Join us in exploring new modes of urban intervention for a hedonistic reuse and reactivation of a fatigued site in London’s East End.

Campaign strategies engage the city like no other: from the London Cycling Campaign to provide a collective voice for the City’s cyclists; to the cross-party campaign to bring London’s air quality into compliance with World Health Organization standards; to London’s successful bid for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Executed as an amalgamation of military-like precision and haphazard logic, the effectiveness of campaigning lies in successfully navigating the social, political, and economic networks that make a city tick.

The two-week workshop will develop and deploy multiple ways for campaigning architecture—enabling participants to combine the potential of design intelligence with the strategic power of propaganda in order to get things done in the city.

Instructors:
Andrew Moddrell
Tatiana von Preussen
Emanuel de Sousa
Kirk Wooller

‘Early Bird’ 20% Discount Deadline: 1st March 2013

For more information: http://chicago.aaschool.ac.uk
http://www.facebook.com/aachicago
Program Director: Kirk Wooller, kirkw@uic.edu

About AA/UIC Global Workshop:
Established in 2011, the AA/UIC Global Workshop is an international design workshop initiative between the Architectural Association and University of Illinois at Chicago Schools of Architecture. Its aim is to develop and deploy thought-provoking changes to our urban environment. The Workshop attracts pragmatic idealists wishing to explore alternative forms of practice that creatively and collaboratively engage with our peers, our communities, and our world. These include students, recent graduates, and young professionals in the fields of architecture, landscape urbanism, graphic design, and related fields.

Dwell on Design, June 21-23, 2013, is America’s largest modern design event attracting more than 30,000 attendees during Dwell Design Week in Los Angeles, CA (June 14-23, 2013). The event, held at the LACC and produced by Dwell magazine, showcases new design ideas, products, and services in conjunction with world-class design speakers, exhibitions, & home tours.  More than 400+ national and international exhibitors across all home design categories participate and over 200+ design leaders will present this year including distinguished keynote speaker Michael Graves.  Participating organizations include the Getty Conservation Institute, MOCA, A+D Museum, Hammer Museum, & Architecture for Humanity. Dwell on Design’s partner this year is The American Society of Interior Designers (ASID). The Presenting Auto sponsor is The Lincoln Motor Company, and Dwell, the Design Partner is JCP.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit http://www.dwellondesign.com.

About Resource Furniture

Since 2000, Resource Furniture has imported and distributed inspired, modern furniture from the finest and most innovative European designers. Every piece in the Resource Furniture collection is hand-selected for its ability to transform a space with both beauty and functionality. Resource Furniture continues to redefine the way consumers and designers think about space.

With showrooms in New York, Toronto, Vancouver,  Montreal, Calgary, and now Los Angeles, Resource Furniture is now setting a global paradigm for living in multi-functional environments.

http://www.dwellondesign.com/events/dwell-toasts-resource-furniture’s-la-showroom-opening

The world’s leading experts in urban design, architecture, planning, technology and finance will convene to debate sustainable planning strategies for modern, competitive and livable cities. We are bringing together diverse groups to discuss design and planning for public space, waterfronts and urban mobility.

REGISTER TODAY! http://resite.cz/en/registration/

KEY PARTICIPANTS: Winy Maas [MVRDV • Rotterdam] / Enrique Penalosa [Former Mayor of Bogota • Bogota] / Alexandros E. Washburn [City of New York] / Adrian Benepe [NYC Parks Commissioner • City of New York] / Cecil Balmond [Balmondstudio • Londýn] / Charlie Hughes [Urban Land Institute • London] / Maria Aiolova [Terreform ONE • NYC] / Tomas Hudecek [First Deputy Mayor • Prague] / David Chisholm [CMC Architects • Prague] / Stefan Rettich [KARO Architects • Leipzig] / Petr Palicka [Penta • Prague] / Rafal Dutkiewicz [Mayor of Wroclaw] / Boris Palmer [Mayor • Tuebingen] / Barbara Wilks [W Architecture and Landscape Architecture • NYC] / Greg Lindsay [Fast Company • NYC] / Allen Zerkin [New York University] / Michael Winfrey [Thompson Reuters • Prague] / Kees Christiaanse [KCAP • Rotterdam] / Jonas Norsted [Atelier Oslo • Oslo]

More information available on http://www.resite.cz

STUDIO NORTH is a six day intensive building workshop. The workshop offers students the opportunity to engage with the rural landscape and to imagine, develop and construct inventive design solutions.  An architectural education is best experienced through engagement in all aspects of the building process.  This workshop is a fully immersive design experience.

The workshop takes place on a 117 acre farm in Norwich, Vermont.  Each session investigates a particular interest and responds with the design and construction of a complete prototype structure. The work shop is limited to ten students and led by architect Keith Moskow FAIA and Robert Linn AIA of the Boston based firm, Moskow Linn Architects.

STUDIO NORTH is currently seeking applicants for the workshop of June 17th - June 22nd, 2013. The workshop is open to interested students of all abilities.  Previous construction experience is not required.

For more information visit http://moskowlinn.com/studio_north.html or contact Keith at (617) 292-2000 ext. 28 / KM@MoskowLinn.com

Dates: July 1-26, 2013
Final Application Deadline June 15, 2013 (Updated!)

ONE Lab Summer 2013 on Productive Cities, in collaboration with IAAC (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia), will address the emerging discipline of global urbaneering by assembling a wide range of innovators from fields as diverse as, architecture, material science, urban design, biology, civil engineering and media art.

ONE Lab is designed for students who wish to engage with the crossover of design and science.
Each summer approximately 40 researchers gather in New York City for 4 weeks of intense creative and scientific exploration. ONE Lab provides a unique opportunity for students to learn from internationally recognized scientists and renown designers and artists: Dr. Dickson D. Despommier, Vito Acconci, Skylar Tibbits and a host of TED Fellows.

ONE Lab consists of Design Studio, Lectures and Workshops. The studio will be offered in two levels - one for professional designers and students enrolled in professional schools or departments of design; one for students and individuals of various experience and background. All workshops are beginner level and no previous knowledge or experience is required.

The distinguished architectural and environmental photographer Albert Vecerka presents his photographic work, sharing insights and technical savvy in capturing the utility, spirit and beauty of the designed environment. Vecerka is currently listed on the roster of Esto Photographics, the premier photography studio of contemporary architecture.

About the Harlem Focus series:
John Reddick, architectural consultant and Harlem historian, will curate and lead a series of talks featuring designers, architects, and artists whose work engages and affects the local community. The Harlem Focus series will highlight design issues in Harlem, ranging from public art and landscape architecture, to rooftop farms and urban woodland restoration, and explore how design will affect this unique neighborhood as it continues to evolve, change and inspire.

http://www.cooperhewitt.org/events/harlem-focus-architectural-photography-imaging-design

The next MUNDANEUM will take place in the beautiful colonial city of Granada, Nicaragua on 13, 14 and 15 June 2013.

Among the more than 100 speakers that have participated in the previous seven MUNDANEUM conferences we had great architects and academics such as Emilio Ambasz, Tatiana Bilbao, Teddy Cruz, Ming Fung, Craig Hodgetts, Jorge Jáuregui, Charles Jencks, Carlos Jiménez, Rick Joy, Christoph Kapeller, Mathias Klotz, Lars Lerup, Jorge Francisco Liernur, Thom Mayne, Xaida Muxi, Enrique Norten, Eric Owen-Moss, Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Carmen Pinós, Michel Rojkind, Michael Sorkin, Michael Rotondi, Federico Soriano, Ruth Verde-Zein, , CazúSegers, Stanley Saitowitz and James Wines.

http://www.facebook.com/Fundarq?ref=hl
http://www.visitanicaragua.com

Aerial view of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, c. 1965. William L. Pereira and Associates, architects. Photo © 2013 Museum Associates/LACMA, photographic archives

As part of the Getty’s initiative, Pacific Standard Time Presents: Modern Architecture in L.A., LACMA features The Presence of the Past: Peter Zumthor Reconsiders LACMA, an exhibition about the proposed future of the museum’s campus. Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been commissioned to rethink the east campus, providing new insight into the meaning and function of an encyclopedic museum and the relationship of architecture to its site. The exhibition begins with a detailed examination of the museum’s buildings within the complicated history of Hancock Park. It then focuses on Zumthor’s preliminary plans for a new building to house the permanent collection, with several large models built by the architect’s studio.

The exhibition will also present key projects in Zumthor’s career that are most relevant to his vision for LACMA: the Therme Vals in Switzerland, Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, and the Kolumba Art Museum of the Cologne Archdiocese in Germany. These projects have resulted in Zumthor winning the highest accolades in the field of architecture, including The Pritzker Prize (2009) and the Royal Institute of British Architects Gold Medal (2013). Together, these examples elucidate key aspects of Zumthor’s practice – his interest in the geologic history of the site; his passion for materials, craftsmanship, and sensory experience; and his commitment to an architecture of total integration.

http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/zumthor