Architerrax has initiated an online fellowship programme for architecture and design students and we would like to invite you to be a part of this community. Our fellowship programme is a collaborative initiative which aims to unite, educate and strengthen the students of the architecture/design community. In this programme you will have opportunity to learn, connect and interact with other like-minded fellows around the world. Through this program, you will gain valuable work experience that will make you stand out amongst your peers.
The River Somes project is a contemporary example of river regeneration and re-naturalization efforts that aims to interconnect the diverse communities that inhabit the city of Cluj-Napoca in Romania, as well as to re-associate them to local fauna and flora species that were far removed from their natural habitat on the riverbanks. Given the wide range of the project, it proposes a new frame for dialogue and interaction by means of architecture, and unites the efforts of a wide multidisciplinary team that includes architects, landscape designers, engineers, urban planners, government agencies and everyday users in order to find a possible answer to the question of how we will live together. The project therefore re-imagines the river as a new active social space for interrelation that operates across scales and programs. It defines how the residents of the city interact among themselves and with their surrounding ecosystem. On a community-scale level, it becomes a space to gather and exchange ideas among the different communities that live in the city. The Somes project, although limited in time and space, has multiple ramifications that affect entire communities across social orders and physical boundaries, and acts as a new piece of shared infrastructure that addresses both local and global conditions equally.
Luisa Lambri, Bijoy Jain / Studio Mumbai, ALMA ZEVI Venice, installation view. Courtesy the Artists and ALMA ZEVI. Photo Enrico Fiorese
ALMA ZEVI is proud to announce the first two-person exhibition of Luisa Lambri (b. 1969, Como) and Bijoy Jain/ Studio Mumbai (b. 1965, Mumbai). Both artists have created new work on the occasion, using photography and sculpture respectively. Lambri and Jain have participated in multiple Venice Art and Architecture Biennales (Lambri in 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2010, winning the Golden Lion in 1999; Jain in 2010 and 2016).
Architecture Fringe 2021 (Un)Learning A Festival of Design, Architecture and the Built Environment across Scotland, and Online Friday 04—Sunday 20.06.21
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Collaborative Building Workshop -Rural Community Market- Summer 2021.
Background This workshop is part of a wider initiative started in 2018, to introduce sustainable construction materials to an area whose environment has been greatly affected by the deforestation caused by the production of fired bricks. Based in Maji Moto, Tanzania, the project aims to bring together environmental awareness and community resilience.
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) is glad to launch another edition of the Global Summer School (GSS21), the 14th edition of the international summer educational program focussing on designing the future of our cities. The programme will take place online from IAAC Barcelona from July 5 through July 29.
Architecture is a privileged tool of those brands characterized by an elevated positioning and that, beyond the quality of their own products, need to feed an imaginary of prestige, style, and refinement. From the showrooms to the stores, fashion needs architects as much as stylists, photographers, and modelers.
The global financial crisis of 2008 revealed the damage done by unchecked housing speculation, yet in the ensuing years, the use of architecture as an investment tool has only accelerated, heightening inequality and contributing to worldwide financial instability. We rarely consider architecture to be an important factor in contemporary economic and political debates, yet sparsely occupied ultra-thin "pencil towers" develop in our cities, functioning as speculative wealth storage for the superrich, and cavernous "iceberg" homes extend architectural assets many stories below street level. Meanwhile, communities around the globe are blighted by zombie and ghost urbanism, marked by unoccupied neighborhoods and abandoned housing developments.
Smart design can make solar, wind, and geothermal energy beautiful, affordable, and accessible to all. Thirty-five projects from around the world that demonstrate how clean, healthy energy is within reach in every sector and field. Projects include homes for all income levels and climates, schools, parks, offices, and even power plants. Harmonizing nature, technology, and space, each project in Good Energy shows how design can improve planetary well-being while producing cost savings and creating green jobs.
Office and commercial building Blissestrasse 5 in Berlin before total refurbishment and today. (Historical photo: Philipp Bauer; photo today: Klemens Renner)
The architectural language of post-war modernism shapes our cities to a large extent. From a historical point of view, the buildings constructed during this period, which are now getting on in years, often have an important significance, but do not usually fall within the scope of listed building protection.
EIGHT BOOKS in Eighty Minuets LIVE on YouTube with Chee Pearlman / TED Moderator, Peder Anker/ NYU, "The Power of the Periphery: How Norway Became an Environmental Pioneer for the World". Bjarke Ingels, Kai-Uwe Bergmann / BIG, "Formgiving: An Architectural Future History from the BIG Bang to Singularity". Eran Chen / ODA, "Unboxing New York". Michael Murphy / MASS Design Group, "Justice Is Beauty". "Julia Watson, "Lo—TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism". Paul D. Miller / AKA DJ Spooky, "Digital Fictions: The Future of Storytelling". Mitchell Joachim, Maria Aiolova, Nurhan Gokturk / Terreform ONE, "Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities". Nina Edwards Anker / nea studio, "Cocoon House".
On May 22nd 2021, from 10:00 to 19:00, the Unfolding Pavilion will open its doors to the public. Now in its third edition, the Unfolding Pavilion will pop-up on the occasion of the 17th International Architecture Exhibition at the Biennale di Venezia, inside of the belly of an old mercantile sailboat - a trabaccolo - moored at Punta della Dogana. Now managed by a non-profit organization, the trabaccolo once belonged to Countess Luisa Albertina di Tesserata: an eccentric art collector who in the 1970s commissioned the construction, on a small island of the Venetian archipelago she owned, of an almost exact replica of an unrealised project by John Hejduk: the House for the Inhabitant who Refused to Participate.
Parks and urban green spaces enrich people’s lives in many ways and are known to provide a range of physical and mental health benefits to communities within which they are located. In the past year, with the increasing number of restrictions and guidelines for social distancing due to the global pandemic, parks across the world have seen dramatic increase in use. They have become spaces of resilience, personal restoration, and social activity when the usual amenities were not available. Parks today provide access to a range of activities such as exercising,
The next online conference of the “AURA on Saturday” series will host Prof. Ute Schneider, architect, urban designer, and the partner of Kees Christiaanse Architects & Planners (KCAP). The lecture will focus on “Re-Activate by Adaptive Re-use” to transform cities into vibrant, open, inclusive, and adaptable places by re-using, re-cycling, re-thinking what is already there, with a holistic vision.
Certain cities or parts of a city are lost in the layers of history and fade away from public memory. However, many of such long-forgotten urban conditions are important because within them they are a repository of certain collective culture and consciousness. In this writing workshop, we will write episodical histories of such cities while emphasising key ideas or practices that defined them. The aim would be to create a narrative which can be quickly shared in the public domain.
En Plein Air - an object for outdoor living in times of pandemic
ATELIER MOBILE launches its first design+build competition! Architects, designers, artists, craftsmen, creatives are called to design and model an object for our going back to outdoor living. The winning projects will be built and exhibited by atelier mobile. Due to the current historical moment and in compliance with the restrictions for the control of the infection from Covid-19, atelier mobile reinvents itself: our first workshop of 2021 is a competition open to all. Our will is to create and share elements of daily use for outdoor life. This summer we’ll do it anyway but safely! 1. INTRO Over the past few months we have been forced to spend most of our days indoors, often with little or limited range of motion. The desire to spend moments of our day also outside invites us to imagine new objects that can be in support of a new period in which open-air spaces become the setting for multiple work, leisure or meeting activities. 2. WE ARE LOOKING FOR designers to create an object that can be used for outdoor living in a period divided between social-distancing and the desire to return to live in public spaces. The object must be selfbuildable, easy to assemble, with limited dimensions and cost, recyclable (or composed by elements that can be reused even individually) and transportable. The object must have one or more defined functions and a clear use to respond to concrete needs. 3. GUIDELINES _object typology Any object that can be used outdoors, in urban or natural spaces, to simplify activities that normally could only be carried out indoors. The object must be easy to make to allow it to be replicated by people without special craft and construction skills and competences, without the use of professional machinery and industrial production technologies. _materials Suggested materials are made through recycling or easily recyclable, as well as those that can be used for a second life if they are abandoned or no longer used. _dimensions and weight The object must be easily transportable and stored in a container with a maximum size of 50x30x20cm (approximately a 30-liter backpack) and low weight. It is admitted that it could be disassembled or folded to be transported, if it’s guaranteed an easy reassembling. _cost The maximum cost of the materials to make the object must be € 30, considering the standard prices in Italy. _target The largest possible pool of users should be favoured. _values to convey Creativity, curiosity, innovation, ease of use, clear functionality, awareness in the use of available resources. 4. MATERIALS TO SUBMIT _gallery of 5 images (.pdf, max. 10MB overall size, ratio 4:3) 1. iconic image of the object, its title and short description (max. 280 characters including spaces), designer(s) name(s) and surname(s) 2. list of elements composing the object and their zenith photo 3. prototype (1:1 scale), photo of the disassembled object 4. prototype (1:1 scale) photo of the assembled object 5. photos of the object’s prototype showing its use(s) _assembly instructions, A3 landscape panel (.pdf, max. 5MB) object assembly explanation by a sequence of operations _list of costs, A4 portrait table (.pdf, max 1MB) _application form designer(s) data and disclaimers (.pdf, downloadable together with the brief) 5. EVALUATION CRITERIA Functionality Innovation Technical feasibility Environmental compatibility 6. AWARDS _prototype construction The jury will select, build and exhibit from 3 to 5 prototypes, according to the number and quality of the submitted works. _exhibition Presentation and exhibition will take place at the natural area of Laghetto dei Camosci in Sant’Ambrogio di Torino (end of July) and at the Intercultural Center 28. Lo Spazio di mezzo in Turin (autumn). Panels and images of the winning projects will be exhibited with stop-motion videos on their construction (edited by our team) and together with a selection of images and panels of other selected projects. _on-line publication Winning and selected projects will be published on atelier mobile website and in an ISSUU flipbook. 7. JURY The jury will be composed by members of the atelier mobile team. 8. LANGUAGE All texts must be written in Italian or in English. 9. CALENDAR _brief publication: 3 May 2021 _deadline for sending FAQs: 18 June 2021 _answers to FAQs: every week on www.ateliermobile.org _deadline for registrations and works submission: 11 July 2021, 11:59 pm CET _publication of results online: 18 July 2021. 10. REVIEW Optional, not mandatory on-line reviews with an atelier mobile team member will take place in June, by appointment to be fixed by e-mail by 25 May 2021. 11. TO JOIN THE COMPETITION The participation to the competition is free, open to creative talents of any nationality, aged 18 or over. The requested materials must be sent to info@ateliermobile.org by the submission date. Works presenting materials other than those requested or arriving after the deadline will not be taken into consideration. The intellectual property of the submitted projects belongs to the authors. With the delivery of the projects, the authors consent to the publication of the works, and to their self-construction replica, protected by the Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ 12. GENERAL RULES AND PROTECTION OF PERSONAL DATA Participation in the competition presupposes full acceptance of this brief, the acceptance of the general competition rules, and the consent on personal data processing included in the application form.
