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Business France reveals a beautiful delegation of 10 French designers and manufacturers eager to partner with North America based interior design professionals
The City Nature Challenge is an international global citizen science event that brings together cities around the globe in a friendly competition to observe and identify the biodiversity in their communities. The event focus on urban areas to promote the idea that one does not need to leave the city to connect with nature. This year, we will be exploring local parks, backyards, and neighborhoods to observe wild plants and animals that share our environment.
Throughout the last year, the essential vibrancy of our creative community has remained and thrived even as we wait to be able to come together again in person. Our friends and neighbors have continued to stay apart out of a resolute desire to care for each other as we persevere one day at a time.
The second edition of ECO Solidarity returns at CLOSEUP 2021 presented by ICFF + WantedDesign Manhattan. Eight visionary designers, chosen by eight European Union National Institutes for Culture (EUNIC), will share products and projects that address the imperative need for human-centered, sustainable design in response to humanitarian and public health crises.
*This event is occurring as a live webinar. Registrants will be emailed a link to access the program.*
For nearly every industry, 2021 will be a year of rebuilding, reconnecting, and reinventing ourselves as we adjust to the new normal that awaits us post-pandemic. As our nation looks ahead to the post-COVID economic recovery, we know design-build will play a vital role. Enter Delve.
Last December we co-produced (video soon available online!) a live curated online exhibition, a new concept we had fun exploring together with the great Delta Lab (Rijeka, Croatia) team. Online live-curated Fiume Fantastika: Phenomena of a city stepped up from a standard Zoom lecture and introduced us to a new and more dynamic concept. Fiume Fantastika was the first online exhibition of the new Nights of Architecture format.
EdX MOOC on Global Housing Design
Florence, 13 January 2021 – Cinema Nervi is a videoart project which offers an enriching contemporary and experimental contribution to the exhibition Pier Luigi Nervi, Structure and Beauty*, dedicated to the work of the world-renowned Italian architectural engineer, on display in the temporary exhibition spaces at Manifattura Tabacchi.
Shaastra, IIT Madras along with L&T Construction launches Archi-Tech Summit 2021, a two day virtual conference (27th - 28th February 2021) which aims to provide the stakeholders with a platform to express and explore the integration of technology in Architecture and Design to spread the ideas of innovation, sustainability, and advancement.
The technical fest has an illustrious line-up of events that include skill building workshops on BIM, GIS and latest visualisation techniques in Architecture using VR, panel discussions on The future of our cities and how technology is transforming how we use architecture and engaging lectures on Sustainability and Rehabilitation.
During 28 years as architecture critic at the Chicago Tribune, Blair Kamin deepened civic awareness of design. Join Kamin as he revisits three decades of skyline-shaping towers, imaginative local projects and transformations of the public realm.
How do designers think? How do they visually communicate complex ideas? What strategies do they employ to make a positive impact on the built environment? How does design change the way people see and experience the world?
Drew Adams (M.Arch 2011) is a designer with a background spanning architecture, landscape architecture and urban design. He is an Associate at LGA Architectural Partners in Toronto with nearly 10 years experience leading innovative and high-profile public interest design projects. This includes affordable housing projects like Eva’s Phoenix to the Evergreen Brick Works carbon neutral Kiln Building while his own speculative work has been distinguished in numerous international design competitions. This work has received recognition ranging from the Mies Crown Hall America’s Prize nomination to material innovation awards and publication features ranging from Fast Company to Architectural Record. Drew recently co-authored a series for Azure on design and climate change, is a frequent speaker and guest critic, and occasional adjunct professor. In 2020, Drew was named recipient of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada’s Emerging Architect Award.
"The method doesn’t always pay off, and comes with a good deal of frustrating moments and necessary plot twists. Projects we love are regularly thrown in the trash bin. But more often than not, they leave place for even more lovable ones. In short, we have to be resilient and stubborn. Being optimistic is an enjoyable burden."
Space Popular directors Fredrik Hellberg and Lara Lesmes will discuss their latest projects in both the physical and virtual realms with a focus on how new technologies are changing both how we think of and experience architecture.
This book The Architecture of Point William. A Laboratory for Living shares Shim-Sutcliffe’s significant work at Point William intertwines landscape and architecture with ancient rock and water reshaping and reimagining a site on the Canadian Shield for over two decades. The project is a laboratory for experimentation at many scales of design including the landscape, built form, furniture, lighting and hardware shared in this book through sketches, model photos and photographs. Kenneth Frampton provides an insightful introduction with his own selected sketches framing a way of seeing Point William for the reader. Michael Webb’s provocative interview with Brigitte Shim and Howard Sutcliffe describes the evolution of the site. Immersive spaces have been captured by three remarkable photographers Ed Burtynsky, James Dow and Scott Norsworthy.
The Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design is pleased to announce that the 2020-21 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in Architectural Design is Douglas Cardinal, OC, FRAIC, a renowned Canadian architect known both for his inspiring designs and for his advocacy for the rights and dignity of Indigenous peoples. Cardinal will lead a series of public events including lectures and conversations in collaboration with the Daniels Faculty, throughout his appointment as Gehry Chair.