The WAPW Academic Association together with the Faculty of Architecture of the Warsaw University of Technology invite you to the next lecture in the "About Architecture" series. Our guests will be architects Wojciech Mazan and Bartosz Kowal from the PROLOG studio. The studio was founded in 2017 in Wrocław. PROLOG engages with architecture through design projects, research, writing, exhibitions and workshops. PROLOG aims to frame each project from a design and theoretical perspective. PROLOG is thought as a formative period, therefore its focus lies in the exploration, speculations and experiments. PROLOG is scattered around Europe with a base in Wroclaw, Poland. More information can be found at https://www.prlg.pl The lecture will take place on Tuesday, December 13 at 6:00 pm at the Faculty of Architecture. More information will follow soon, so stay tuned!
JAPAN BUILD Tokyo, Asia’s leading trade show for the building and housing industries, will be held at Tokyo Big Sight from December 5–7, 2022. With a staggering total of 430 exhibitors, 60 other seminars with top industry speakers, and thousands of visitors in its past edition, JAPAN BUILD Tokyo is unquestionably Japan’s leading trade show.
Data are constantly flowing around us. By capturing signals, we can weave data into sceneries. In the digital era, massive data are continuously analyzed and sorted out. Then, they are computed and used to create an order from certain perspectives to become readable information, just like what the protagonist in Matrix sees—everything comprises data flows. Even though we can never be the savior, artists can now use algorithms to tease out data and propose their own viewpoints, converting information into fuels that drive their works and visualizing data into sceneries of light and sound.
Whether glass and sky, asphalt and sand, steel and trees: the merging of architecture and landscape has always been an inevitable factor in building. In particular the buildings made of glass, steel and concrete have had an immaterial connection to their natural surroundings since the 19th century. The superimposition of structures, reflections, filters and transparencies becomes an important design element and fascinates with its ambiguous representation of reality.
The ”European Bamboo Expo” is the first bamboo trade exposition in Europe and aims to be Europe’s leading fair, open to the general public, and a meeting platform for professionals, stakeholders, and decision-makers from the bamboo sector in Europe and around the world. This trade exposition is designed to initiate new projects, showcase products, close deals, and establish contacts with customers, business partners, and governmental entities. Very important issues like integrating bamboo into carbon markets, investment opportunities, EU regulations standards for imports -exports, structural building requirements, and the importance of bamboo to mitigate climate change and protect the environment will be addressed by leaders of these sectors.
"Green Obsession. Trees Towards Cities, Humans Towards Forests"
As part of the Fall 2022 Lecture Series and coinciding with Miami Art Week, the Department of Architect in collaboration with STEFANO BOERI ARCHITETTI (SBA), present the Lecture “Green Obsession. Trees Towards Cities, Humans Towards Forests,” by Stefano Boeri, on Thursday December 1st at 5:30pm in the Design Gallery at FIU’s Miami Beach Urban Studios.
Wellness and Well-Being in Coworking Spaces is an online event brought to you by the makers of the book “Around The World in 250 Coworking Spaces” a global guide on coworking concepts, business models and founding stories. This event is an exploration, one that will take you from Berlin to London, Vancouver, and Amsterdam to meet founders and teams of coworking spaces who’ve used wellness and well-being as a means of differentiation.
This November 24th, the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) will organise its first online Open Day of the current Academic Year. Join us and get the opportunity to speak with our Faculty about specific courses, discover IAAC’s facilities, and discuss about learning or living in Barcelona.
The Circular by Design Innovation Festival takes place as part of Design Week Ireland 2022. It is co-hosted by NCAD, the Creative Futures Academy and the Design & Crafts Council Ireland, and made possible with the support of the CIRCULÉIRE Innovation Fund and DCCl through Enterprise Ireland.
Addressing these pressing challenges, and looking towards future sustainability, Al Galala university announces the first “Advances in Energy Research, Materials Science & Built Environment” conference, through which, discourse across multiple disciplines such as architectural development, green urbanism, modern construction management practices, and material efficacy in climate change mitigation, will investigate research on sustainability and development. Implementing these techniques will lead to achieving efficient, renewable, affordable, and inclusive green growth to accomplish the now urgent developmental needs of countries, and bring about a level of prosperity, and a better managed and robust environment.
'Design is not about solving technical problems or only about beauty,' says lighting planner extraordinaire Ulrike Brandi. 'It's a social profession and we have very big challenges right now", she adds.
Missing Links forms part of the 2021-22 MA Architectural History Symposium, and engages in tracing the unwritten, interwoven and interdisciplinary in architectural history and theory.
This symposium explores concerns central to the history and theory of architecture today. Formed around three panels featuring invited speakers and contributions from the cohort, the event addresses the missing links in relationships between histories, theories, and the practice of architecture; architecture and related disciplinary fields; and the voices, bodies, and stories omitted from the canon.
ECHO, Tu Delft, the Netherlands. Image courtesy of UNStudio.
Since its inception, UNStudio has been known as a speculative practice, producing real world projects through the means of research, experimentation, testing, and conceptual frameworks.
Discover what’s happening at the Melbourne School of Design at MSDx Summer 2022, as the building is transformed into a multi-floor gallery showcasing hundreds of pieces of studio work by talented students in one of Australia's largest design exhibitions.
Tokyo and New York-based Ippodo Gallery will present Extreme Surfaces, an exhibition of contemporary Japanese kogei (art and craft), November 30–December 4 at Design Miami 2022 (booth G36). The installation will feature works by twenty two living artists including Kodai Ujiie, Yukiya Izumita, Terumasa Ikeda and Hirotomi Maeda, with a focus on the juxtaposition of the surfaces of three distinct object types. Shigeru Uchida’s stunning life-sized tea house will play host to a traditional Japanese tea service each day at 3PM. Marking the gallery’s debut at the fair, Extreme Surfaces comes on the heels of the opening of Susumu Shingu’s landmark Sculpting with Wind exhibit, which is running at Ippodo’s New York location through December 29, 2022.
