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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.

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).

APPLY FOR INDESEM’s PUBLIC LECTURES NEXT WEEK (Norman Foster, Winy Maas, Ben van Berkel, Patrik Schumacher & more!)

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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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.

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.

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.

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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.

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