The new Global Master in Real Estate Development program is designed for professionals with backgrounds in various fields, from finance or economics to architecture, and from engineering to law. The aim of this degree is for students to explore the relationship between real estate development, investment and city infrastructure from a wholly global perspective. The program is based on the principles of sustainability, digital innovation and real estate technology transformation.
Charles Holland is joined by Sumayya Vally (Counterspace) to discuss the role of the plan in the work of her practice, specifically the way that this intersects with issues of politics, gender and cultural distinctions.
Gesamtkunstwerke – Architecture by Arne Jacobsen and Otto Weitling in Germany, poster of the exhibition in Berlin, Germany
The architecture of Arne Jacobsen and Otto Weitling is of outstanding importance for postwar modernism in Germany. At the same time, the quality of their projects has fallen into oblivion. The curators Hendrik Bohle and Jan Dimog would like to close this gap in the public perception with the touring exhibition and the accompanying publication.
With Sky-Frame, the focus is what inspiration and freedom their windows can help achieve, not on the windows themselves. Rather, the spatial qualities and view potential created by the windows is what you notice. The Swiss company is the leading international supplier of frameless sliding doors that work to blend interior and exterior for a unique living experience. Featured in thousands of projects worldwide, Sky-Frame products include curved and sloped sliding doors, as well as a pivot door, to fit each individual space.
As a mid-career design-professional, what avenues exist for investigating questions and problems that arise from being embedded in practice? What opportunity is there for exploring or articulating an idea for a type of project or organizational structure that could improve professional practice?
Master of Design Studies at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design
There is a growing demand for specialized knowledge and skills to address emerging and critical issues that span the architecture and design disciplines. This demand is underpinned by the sustained movement in which research informs an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary design practice. Graduate study is a way for early and mid-career design professionals to gain expertise, strategically focus and develop their career path, and even seek leadership positions. The three areas of practice framed below show how advanced design education can lead to professional development and growth.
Film: Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story
The Architecture & Design Film Festival is coming to a screen near you with a two-week-long virtual festival! From November 19-December 3, ADFF:2020 - presented by Eventscape - will take viewers on an uplifting journey around the world with 17 virtual film programs highlighting some of the world's most iconic architects & designers like Paul R. Williams, Alvar Aalto, Albert Frey, and more.
Charles Holland is joined by Ahmed Belkhodja (FALA atelier) to look at how the ways in which the way we design domestic interiors is affected by marketing, the rise of short-term renting and the dissemination of architectural imagery via social media.
Università degli Studi di Ferrara; Dipartimento di Architettura; Fassa Bortolo
The VIII Edition of the "Domus Award Restoration and Preservation Fassa Bortolo" - Thesis division, is an event that aims to reward and make known to a wide public, architectural restorations that have been able to consciously interpret the conservation principles in which the scientific community recognizes itself, even by resorting to contemporary forms of expression.
Frameworks For Interaction is a series of webinars organised by Nomada with institutional partnership from the Chamber of Urban Developers from Argentina. In this series of webinars we will be talking with international speakers regarding the future of buildings, cities and the way we live and work.
Charles Holland is joined by Professor Lesley Lokko to look at the relationship of the domestic plan to issues of power, gender, race and social relations.
Book Histories of Rio de Janeiro told by architects - Organization Jozé Candido S. Lacerda and Priscilla Chiesse
Architects Jozé Candido Sampaio de Lacerda and Priscilla Chiesse organized a book with Histories of Rio de Janeiro told by architects, which will be released on December 2nd. The idea was born from each day more, we value our city, mainly through all those who somehow collaborated in making it more beautiful and human. For that, nothing better than the testimonies of some architects who contributed a lot to this valorization.
For the first time in history, 111 driving forces in architecture from 29 countries, spanning five continents, united in a unique collaborative experimental project by creating a magnificent collection of artworks. Each contribution is inspired by the previous work.
“Life within Ruins. Essays on architecture restoration and reuse proposals for Piscina Mirabilis” is an incoming book, published by Save the Heritage Benefit Corporation, including essays on the topic of Architecture Restoration from worldwide researchers and the projects on the reuse of Piscina Mirabilis, to be published on 2021 with ISBN. The editorial board currently welcomes abstracts from University researchers, PhD candidates, professors and any other scholar affiliated to an institution or a cultural organization.
Mars is the most Earth-like planet in the solar system; and the only one where humans have conceived setting up colonies in the near future. A human mission to Mars has been the subject of science fiction and aerospace engineer-since 20th century. Private companies and government agencies like SpaceX and NASA, developing this infrastructure, are set to make this long sought-after human dream come true, possibly by the end of 2030.
ISOLA (Indian Society of Landscape Architects) Mumbai (MMR) Chapter is delighted to invite entries for Flash Fiction (short story up to 750 words) set in past, present or future and based on the theme: “Landscapes & Well Being”.
From a reality of intense transformations generated by the COVID-19 pandemic around the world, the 13th International Architecture Biennale of São Paulo presents "Reconstruction" as the central issue for the Co-Curatorship Call for Proposals.
The Driving the Human journey will start with the Opening Festival, a digital festival that will be streamed online from November 20-22, 2020, and hosted by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe and Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Open to everyone, the Opening Festival will showcase and critically engage with the urgencies of our time, publicly discussing and condensing questions and visions for shaping a sustainable and collective future by combining science, technology, and art.
