Open Source Design is the development of ideas without the retention of intellectual property. The goal of this initiative is to propagate a community of designers that are enthusiastic to selfless creation. The Open Source Design Library is a by-product of ARC.HV's experimental study, The 4th Dimension. The products currently range from furniture pieces, installations, jewellery, modular shelters and animal pods. The objective is to use locally available materials consciously with minimum wastage while following a DIY method of making or easy assembly in construction. The Open Source Design Library is also supported by Makers Asylum, who we are grateful to have as the prototyping partners. Download the brief here.
CREA TALENTS is an open&free; Architecture Ideas Competition, sponsored by The Economic Development & Culture Committee. The objective of the competition is to provide maximum freedom to the participants to engage the project without constraints in the most creative way.
Animalesque City - Visions for Human/Animal Cohabitation
The Animalesque AA Visiting School Competition invites students and professionals from all over the world to participate in the production of visionary scripts about the future agency of animals in the design and construction of urban environments.
Not a month goes by without Danish architects and Danish design in the news, as design seems to be one of the primary exports from the tiny Scandinavian country. To be fair, the attention isn't a bad thing. Denmark has a rich heritage of furniture designers and architects who have transformed spatial thinking around the world. Some thoughts were so “BIG,” that they envisioned inhabiting the moon or making plans for a Masterplanet.
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.
