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Title: 361 Degree – Design & Informal Cities
Location: Rangsharda, Bandra, Mumbai
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Description: 361 Degree – Design & Informal Cities

The Conference offers dialogue opportunities satisfying the information needs of all segments of the design and construction fraternity from business to academic scopes, from the professional to the enterpreneur. It has completed 3 cycles since its launch in 2005 [More info after the break]

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Title: AA Berlin Laboratory 2010 / EXPERIMENTS IN DWELLING
Location: Aedes Network Campus Berlin (ANCB)
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Description: Post-wall Berlin has emerged as a major player in contemporary cultural production. As a laboratory of lifestyles and modes of production, it attracts an influential community of highly creative people from around the globe. The AA Berlin Laboratory continues to explores the role of experimentation and interdisciplinary ways of working, harvesting this exceptional energy. Now in its second year, this intense workshop explores tools and systems of experimentation, focusing on the idea of dwelling.

No other city has been as enthusiastic as Berlin in experimenting with modes of living. From mass housing to highly individualistic visions of living and extreme communal regimes, Berlin has long pushed the boundaries of what it means to live together. New organisational forms of dwelling, combined with alternative implementation methods, are currently challenging the roles of both architect and local authority in the process of delivering dwellings for the city.

During this intense nine-day workshop participants will work both in the laboratory/studio and the field/city, revisiting existing experiments in dwelling and the social ideals that shape them. In search of new logics of living, students will use emerging computational and rule-based design systems to develop prototypical forms of dwelling relevant to the city of Berlin. The workshop will be led by AA and Berlin-based tutors and hosted by Aedes Network Campus Berlin (ANCB). In addition, a public programme of visits, lectures and seminars with speakers from different disciplines will provide a stage for debate.

The laboratory is open to anyone interested in experimental design in the context of this vibrant city and will take place between September 3-12, for more info click here.
Start Date: 2010-09-03
End Date: 2010-09-12

Title: Docomomo International Conference Mexico City 2010
Location: Mexico City
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Description: During the first part of the 20th Century the city became the favored environment for Modern Architecture. The advancement of technology and the introduction of new materials that brought about a new form of expression were not the only triggers for transformation. Concerns of wellbeing such as hygiene, education, health and the right to work and recreation were also fundamental in shaping the new architectural design. As a response to these novel conditions, new architectural genres emerged within the framework of a diverse urban structure. The analysis of the elements that transformed the city and its architecture, evolve from this starting point, and the proposed program will include several sessions:

1. Modern Living
2. Civic and Social Infrastructure
3. The Modern City
4. Technology for a Modern Habitat
5. The University City

REGISTRATION FEE
Before May 15, 2010: US$400
Docomomo Members: US$350
Reduced registration fee: US$150

You can pay by credit card through Paypal at:

http://docomomo2010.eventbrite.com

Payments can also be done at Docomomo 2010 Bank Account.
Account: Congreso Docomomo México, A.C.
Number: 4045775277. CLABE number: 021180040457752776
Bank: HSBC. ABA Register: 026003052. SWIF Register: BIMEMXMM
Address: Copilco esq. Av. Universidad 164, Col. Oxtopulco, C.P. 04310, México, D.F.

IMPORTANT: Add your name on the “voucher”, scan it and send to Docomomo Mexico 2010: docomomo2010reg@gmail.com

More info:
http://www.esteticas.unam.mx/docomomo2010/
Start Date: 2010-08-24
End Date: 2010-08-29

Title: Traveltime international workshop
Location: Imvros/Gökçeada
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Description: traveltime is an international summer workshop that will take place in the island of Imvros/Gökçeada between 7-15 August. The intensive 9-day design workshop is open to all architecture students who are interested in relationships between theory and practice. Participants will investigate ways of understanding a place with its history, memory, geography, nature and culture through travels, readings, and performances on the island in order to develop individual and group design work.

traveltime refers to the spatiotemporal character of travel which we aim to explore in this workshop. Throughout history, Imvros/Gökçeada has been a place of traverse as a result of migration, exile, and tourism. For example, the Greek population in the island fell dramatically after the 1960s. The half-open prison on the island caused another population flow until the 1990s when the prison was closed. In the summer, there happens another community circulation on the island as visitors search experiences and emotions as diverse as relaxation, pleasure, remembrance, and exploration. Some spend the summer in their seasonal home; others visit the island for the yearly celebrations of the Panagia Festival; some stay at the numerous hotels on the island for a short holiday; others come to the island to visit the places their migrated families once lived. This workshop will provide an opportunity to consider these different acts of travel that suggest different time frames in which one experiences a place.

traveltime will initiate participation, active involvement, and creative production. We intend this event to evolve around daily performances, readings and discussions from architectural discourse and other fields such as art, music, gastronomy, philosophy, and literature.
Start Date: 2010-08-07
End Date: 2010-08-15

Title: Architecture and Design Film Festival 2010
Location: Tribeca Cinemas @ Manhattan
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Description: The Architecture and Design film festival celebrates the creative spirit of architecture and design. A variety of films will engage the audience with how architects and designers think, work and create.

The festival will take place this October in New York City at the Tribeca Cinemas. This 4-day event will showcase films that focus on a range of design related topics, i.e., architecture, the people and the personalities behind architecture and design, the design process as well as product design. We are in the process of programming the festival, and would be interested in seeing if your film would be appropriate for this year’s screenings. Please send us a preview DVD for review, along with the necessary contact information to:

ADFF- Architecture & Design Film Festival
180 Varick Street, Suite 410
New York, NY 10014
USA

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION IS AUGUST 15th 2010

For additional information please contact:
ADFF Coordinator
Sofia Mourato
ph. (917) 940 9727
sofia@adfilmfest.com
Start Date: 2010-10-14
End Date: 2010-10-17

Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas has been awarded with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at La Biennale di Venezia 12th International Architecture Exhibition. Press release after the break.

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The second BIArch Open Lecture of the Spring 2010 cycle was delivered on June 11th by Stan Allen, principal of Stan Allen Architect and Dean of the Princeton University School of Architecture (SOA). The lecture was titled “From Object to Field (and back).” Stan Allen will be part of the faculty for the first edition of the Institute’s MBIArch Master’s Degree in Architecture program. For more info visit http://www.biarch.eu

Title: core.form-ula: Craft Series
Location: de Castelane Gallery
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Start Date: 2010-08-09
Start Time: 10:00
End Date: 2010-08-13
End Time: 18:00
Description: core.form-ula will begin its first intensive-hands-on craft series workshop at the de Castellane Gallery located in the heart of Brooklyn, minutes away from Manhattan by subway. The workshop will cover the use of Ecotect and Rhino/Grasshopper to develop techniques of evaluating performative form in architecture. More info after the break.

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Philippe Ruault

This year —the Serpentine’s 40th Anniversary— the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion is designed by world-renowned French architect Jean Nouvel. This 2010 Pavilion is the 10th commission in the Gallery’s annual series, the world’s first and most ambitious architectural programme of its kind. It will be the architect’s first completed building in the UK. More info and images after the break.

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Title: LaN FLIGHT
Location: Boston, New Heaven, New York
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Description: LaN-FLIGHT is a traveling seminar / tour of digital fabrication practices and programs. This immersion experience is intended to draw a diverse group of professionals and students from afar for a full schedule of exchanges with leading practices, fabrication lab visits, & LaN seminars… all while intensely exposed to the urban infrastructure of Boston, NY & in-between.
Start Date: 2010-07-07
End Date: 2010-07-13
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Title: 010 Architectural League Prize for Young Architects and Designers: ReSource
Location: Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design, 66 Fifth Avenue New York City.
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Description: Featuring work by Jason Austin and Aleksandr Mergold; Marc Frohn and Mario Rojas Toledo; Michael Loverich and Antonio Torres; Emily Abruzzo and Gerald Bodziak; Eric Schuldenfrei and Marisa Yiu; and Keith VanDerSys.

June 23-August 6, 2010
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, Parsons The New School for Design, 66 Fifth Avenue New York City.

The gallery is open daily from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. and late Thursday evenings until 8:00 p.m. Admission is free. The exhibition will also be open on the evenings of the lectures. For more information on the lectures, click here. For more information on this year’s competition and winners, click here.

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

The Architectural League Prize is made possible, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts. The program is also supported by the LEF Foundation, and by Dornbracht, Ibex Construction, Susan Grant Lewin Associates, and Tischler und Sohn.

Architectural League programs are also supported, in part, by public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
Start Date: 2010-06-23
End Date: 2010-08-06

Chuck Aitch

Project: Royal Bafokeng Stadium
Author: BSP Architects
Location: Phokeng, South Africa
Opened: 1999
Renovated: 2009
Capacity: 44,530
Images: wooze66
Chuck Aitch

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Title: The UK Architecture Students Self-Actuated Projects Conference
Location: Manchester, UK
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Description: On June 24th the easaUK team, backed by SCHOSA, is hosting conference for UK students of architecture at the Manchester School of Architecture. The conference is a chance to return the energy generated by easa010 returning to the country that not only spawned it, but that also has a great, now lost, tradition of Winter Schools.

The conference, organised and run by the esasa010 team, is intended to spread the experience the team has gained over the last two years around institutions unable to be part of the European event, with the aim of creating a similar IK based event.

Talks will cover the history of Winter School and EASA, team building, fundraising, promotion and the media and legal considerations. All talks will draw directly from the experience the team has gained from working on EASA, running smaller workshops and the easaHQ gallery.

Delegates will have the chance to debate all topics and there is a provision in the timetable dedicated to networking, giving the delegates the opportunity to discuss future conferences and events.
Start Time: 09:30
Date: 2010-06-24
End Time: 18:30

Title: Split Talks 2010
Location: Diocletian’s Palace, Croatia
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Description: SplitTalks-discussions on architecture is a three-day professsional conference organized by the University of Split Faculty of Civil Engineering and Architecture and the Internet portal www.pogledaj.to which will be held June 16 – 18, 2010 in Diocletian’s Palace.

The theme of SPLITalks 2010 is Tourism/Zoning, with the question is it possible for tourism to become the new generator of our coastline development. This theme imposes itself not only due to the significance of tourism for the Croatian economy in general, but also in light of former spatial policy analysis.

The Programme is conceived as a series of round table discussions, lectures and accompanying events: exhibits of Split students’ works based on their assignment to cover tourist zones, as well as a professional excursion.

Speakers at SPLITalks include Croatian and international lecturers from the field of architecture and zoning, holders of Croatian spatial policies, as well as tourist workers.
Start Date: 2010-06-16
End Date: 2010-06-18

IAAC is pleased to invite you to it´s public Lecture “The Ethics of f2f Processes” given by Maria Voyatzaki
Friday, April 30th, 2010
Free Entrance
IAAC Conference Hall, 20.00hrs
Pujades 102, baixos. Poble Nou

Maria Voyatzaki
Associate Professor of Architectural Design and Building Technology
Maria Voyatzaki is associate professor of architectural design and building technology at the School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) since 2001. Her PhD at the University of Bath, School of Architecture (1996) supervised by Dr. Chris Williams and Prof Ted Happold investigated the design process of non-standard architecture entitled ¨An Insight into the Design Process of Unconventional Structures¨. Her research and respective published work focuses on the integration of an idea and its materiality aiming at enhancing the quality of architecture through this integration.

She has taught for over 11 years in the United Kingdom and for a semester in Denmark (Aarhus School of Architecture). Between 1989-1991she worked in the research team of Bath University, UK on projects between the University of Bath led by Ted Happold, Buro Happold and Frei Otto. She works as a free launch architect in Greece. She has organised and participated in a great number of international student workshops and international conferences for architecture educators. She is the Coordinator of the European Network of Construction Teachers since 2001. She is also the coordinator of a number of European funded programmes on architectural education, with the most recent one being the two-year funded LifeLong Learning Multilateral Project, continuum: from the school lab to the factory workshop that investigates new pedagogic protocols for teaching students on a file-to-factory logic.

She has been a Council Member of the European Association for Architectural Education (2000-2007). She has lectured abroad and has sat at design juries around the world. She is a chartered architect and member of the Royal Institute of British Architects.