Events

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Kaiser+Path designed, built and developed the tallest CLT building in America and they are revealing their entire process on the new website BuildingCarbon12.com in an effort to inspire others to use CLT —​ a material that is at least as strong and fire-resistant as concrete, more sustainable, and less polluting. Join Carbon12 architects as they reveal the ‘secret sauce’ for building with mass timber.

The presentation will include:

• Architectural and environmental benefits of mass timber
• Key challenges and how to avoid them
• Construction efficiencies and financial upsides

SFERA 2020: BIOURBANISM is an international conference on building better cities using knowledge about the natural world around us.

SFERA 2020: BIOURBANISM is a conference in Tel Aviv that will bring together international innovators – urbanists, biologists, architects, programmers and designers, – to discuss how we can build better cities using knowledge about the natural world around us.

Not only is Tel Aviv an urban gem, but the inspiration for its unique design comes from nature. A biologist by education, Patrick Geddes was a revolutionary urban planner who incorporated ideas from natural sciences in Tel Aviv’s tree-laden boulevards, countless public gardens, and

The Developer Collective’s inaugural Developer Pitch event will be launched on 26th February 2020 at The Building Society in central London.

The Developer Pitch, in association with The Double Unit PR, is a chance for architects, investors and developers to present their ideas and help get their project off the ground.

The event comprises seven pitches from a range of built environment professionals. Each pitcher will be given three minutes to present their idea to a panel of distinguished judges and an audience of potential partners.

Developer Collective co-founder Gus Zogolovitch said:

“On the tech scene,

This event celebrates two new complementary publications: the AD issue Beauty Matters and the book about the Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) 2019, on the same topic. Both take an interdisciplinary approach to the re-emerging interest in beauty across neuroscience, neuroesthetics, mathematics, philosophy and architecture. Each publication contains a different content by a different set of contributors.

Bas ten Brinke (70F architecture) will be giving a lecture called 'The reality of architecture', about 'place, perception, tactility and loving architecture’.

THE NEW SENSE OF PLACE: EDUCATION, PROFESSION AND SOCIAL INTERACTION

ORGANIZED:
UPC Research Group (GIRAS)
Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC)
Mind, Land & Society Arquitectonics Network

Key Speakers:

3rd June:
- Luis Umbelino. Philosopher from Portugal
- Karl Friston. Neurologue from England
- Addenda Architects, from Barcelona
4th June:
-Alberto Magnaghi, Architet and senior professor at UNIFI,
- Anna Marson, Urbanist and professor at IUAV di Venezia,
-Aldo Bonomi, Sociologist, AASter
- Fabio Parascandolo , geographer and researcher at Università di Cagliari.
5th June:
- Alberto Campo Baeza Doctor Architect from Spain
- Abalos+ Sentkiewicz, AS+ (Madrid, Cambridge y Shangai)
- Barozzi-Veiga. Architects.
“Architecture and Art”

The School of Architecture at Mississippi State University is hosting an exhibit of the work of renowned African American Architect Philip Freelon as part of a celebration of Black History Month. The exhibition is located in the Charlotte and Richard McNeel Architecture Gallery in the Giles Hall School of Architecture on the campus of Mississippi State University. This partnership with the Mississippi State University African American Studies Program will also host an opening reception on Wednesday, February 5, 2020 at 12:00 pm in Giles Hall, located at 899 Collegeview Street, Mississippi State, MS 39762. The reception and exhibit are free

Europe’s oldest known wooden house is the Bethlehem House, a solid timber construction erected in 1287 in the Swiss canton of Schwyz. With a design that is both functional and flexible design, the building is still in use today.

Rossetti+Wyss explore the qualities of traditional building methods and transport these into their work. Many of their projects involve the use of solid wood for project-specific applications and designs, as well as in combination with other materials. Embracing the many facets of this trustworthy building material, they have used it for load bearing and bracing, as well as for protective and insulating

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Sir John Soane’s Museum

The Architectural Drawing Prize

Until Sunday 16 February 2020

The winning and commended entries of the third Architecture Drawing Prize, held in partnership with Make Architects and the World Architecture Festival, are now on exhibit at Sir John Soane’s Museum.

Launched in 2017, the prize celebrates and showcases the significance of drawing as a tool in capturing and communicating architectural ideas. It embraces the creative use of digital tools and digitally-produced renderings, while recognising the enduring importance of hand drawing.

The Architecture Drawing Prize is curated by Make Architects, Sir John Soane’s Museum, and the World Architecture Festival.

Museum presents the works of two giants of 20th-century architecture, Le Corbusier and Alvar Aalto, as seen through the lens of Jari Jetsonen. Jetsonen is a recognised Finnish photographer, who has been photographing Alvar Aalto’s architecture for over 20 years. As a dedicated photographer of architecture he became fascinated by the points of contact and similarities in the forms and ideas in both the buildings and thinking of the two seemingly oppositional architects. What becomes important here is the point of view of the artist and the way he sees buildings. Referring to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s idea that architecture

The gender chasm in architecture persists. Students see it in their mentors, practitioners experience it in the office, and media representation of the profession follows in kind. While schools of architecture are more and more demographically gender-balanced in their student populations, faculty and the practice both remain vastly skewed, indicating that programming in schools may be leading genders into the profession inequitably or “losing” certain populations along the way, or that the bridge between academia and practice is broken. This doesn’t even include the experience of people of non-binary genders in architecture, of which documentation is almost non-existent. Without equal

Join the conversation with panelists representing Everlane, Blue Bottle Coffee, Museum of the City of New York, and Bohlin Cywinski Jackson.

The annual Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat's (CTBUH) Tall + Urban Innovation Conference explores and celebrates the very best in innovative tall buildings, urban spaces, building technologies, and construction practices from around the world. Incorporating what was previously known as the CTBUH Annual Awards event, this conference sees the owner/developers, design, and engineer teams for 50+ Awarded projects present in front of an international audience and live juries for winning distinctions across several award categories. Hot topics in the building industry will also be explored through presentations in project rooms.

The event brings to Chicago, the home of CTBUH,

As we embark on a new decade, discussions surrounding the sustainability and longevity of our buildings have reached fever pitch, particularly within the context of the UK’s commitment to a 2050 target of carbon neutrality and a 33% reduction in whole life cost by 2025.

Leading the way in innovative thinking is Cartwright Pickard, who alongside the Mackintosh School of Architecture have conducted research into new software that will greatly assist the government in achieving these essential targets.

The revolutionary technology will integrate advanced BIM (Building Information Modelling) with cloud-based whole life cost and carbon databases, enabling those commissioning and designing buildings

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The International Built Environment Week (IBEW) is the first fully-integrated event in the Asia Pacific covering the entire built environment value chain. Organised by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA) and supported by 12 Trade Associations and Chambers, the event will convene under the theme “Innovation: Powering Sustainable and Smarter Cities”.

The IBEW 2020 will bring together over 12,000 industry leaders and businesses from the global built environment sector for rich exchanges of innovative ideas, and showcase the best of innovations in sector.

How can a building of architecture grow?
The clue to the answer might be found in the shells of molluscs.

The exhibition displays 400 and more kinds of shell specimens collected from all over the world. Within the exhibition, there are 150 sectioned specimens that are open to the public, which is an unprecedented initiative. Shells act as enclosures that the molluscs themselves build and they are based on the construction principles of growth. Sectioned specimens of shells reveal that amazing inner structure. One can explain the growth of shells using two principles: equiangular spiral and accretionary growth. The equiangular