A pandemic has swept the globe and we are facing new challenges. Covid-19 has changed our way of living as it spreads through respiratory droplets, by direct contact with infected persons, or contaminated objects and surfaces. We have been forced to retreat into our homes in quarantine and isolation, making us to re-think our multifunctional spaces.
'Arctic Nordic Alpine' is dedicated to contemporary architecture in vulnerable landscapes, focussing on the influence interventions could have on regions with extreme climatic conditions. The exhibition presents pioneering projects by the internationally renowned architecture and design firm Snøhetta, including the energy-efficient Hotel Svart in Svartisen, the Arctic World Archive Visitor Center in Svalbard Island and the Museum Quarter in Bolzano. These buildings illustrate that architecture can make a significant contribution to the mitigation of climate change by promoting a more sustainable use of nature with innovative strategies and solutions – in dialogue with landscape.
Apathy residency in Valga - European Architecture Students Assembly 2020
We invite you to participate in the summer school of European Architecture Student Assembly (EASA). The focus of the summer school is on the daily workshops. Lectures, discussions and a musical program will take place in the the evenings. For two weeks the participants will live together as an experimental community in a school building that will soon be demolished. The venue Valga is a border town between Estonia and Latvia 1 - 16 of August 2020.
A prolific architect, trailblazing city planner, and civic and cultural leader, Daniel Burnham has been described by contemporaries and biographers as both a pragmatic realist and a visionary idealist. CAC docent Marcia Matavulj dives into this apparent contradiction by exploring Burnham’s architectural practice during Chicago’s fast-moving progression from short buildings with load-bearing walls to steel-framed skyscrapers never seen before.
In this Nesta Talks To conversation, Sendra and Sennett will propose a reorganisation of how we think and plan the social life of our cities. ‘Infrastructures of disorder’ combine architecture, politics, urban planning and activism in order to develop places that nurture rather than stifle, bring together rather than divide up, remain open to change rather than closed off.
This virtual tour highlights famous and lesser-known buildings in downtown Chicago designed by women architects including Studio Gang’s Aqua Tower and Vista Tower, and the International Style landmark 401 North Michigan, completed in 1965 as the Equitable Building and designed in part by Natalie Griffin de Blois of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
In this Nesta Talks To conversation, Leslie Kern exposes the social inequalities that are built into our cities, homes, and neighborhoods, and offers an alternative vision. It is time to dismantle what we take for granted about cities and to ask how we can build more just, sustainable, and careful cities together.
A prolific architect, trailblazing city planner, and civic and cultural leader, Daniel Burnham has been described by contemporaries and biographers as both a pragmatic realist and a visionary idealist. CAC docent Marcia Matavulj dives into this apparent contradiction by exploring Burnham’s architectural practice during Chicago’s fast-moving progression from short buildings with load-bearing walls to steel-framed skyscrapers never seen before.
The International Scientific Conference SWS Vienna ART 2020 is organized as an extended session of the SWS International Scientific Conferences on SOCIAL SCIENCES. The event will be held in the biggest and most historically Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna, Austria in the period of 9 – 12 December 2020.
Architects have always been asked to breathe new life into ancient architectures inherited from the past or into historical –often monumental– artefacts that no longer respond to the customs and needs of the contemporary society. Nevertheless, the ancient architectures tell our story, therefore deserve to be restored with interventions that bring along a hint of modernity and show the trace of the design activity. The Architecture for Heritage course has been created on these premises.
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Project: Quatuor, Brussels, Belgium designed by Jaspers-Eyers Architects and developed by Befimmo. Image Courtesy of DeMicoli & Associates
The exchange of ideas and concepts is a major part of any large modern building project. Architects, investors, general contractors and sub-contractors all use different tools to form both mental and modeled images of what the end result will look like. When some parties rely on renders or fly-throughs and others use 2D drawings, it can lead to communication difficulties. Reynaers discovered that by bringing together collaborators from different disciplines in its Avalon, the fog of misunderstandings evaporates and difficult decisions can be made on the spot.
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Some of the speakers participating in the event
One Week Series of Free 24/7 Online Workshops and Talks, 27 June to 3 July 2020. There are 30 talks with occurring 3 times each day to cover all the time zones in the world. Topics covering International Practice, AI and Architectural Practice, Reappraising the City, Agency, Borders and Immigration, Architects and Locality, Digital Technologies in the Post-Pandemic Future, The Future of the University, Bio-Futures, Transculturalism: The Space in Between, and many more.
Museum of Galata Virtual Exhibition Opening Poster
Özyeğin University, 3rd and 4th grade architecture students are sharing their studio projects with a virtual exhibition due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This virtual exhibition, organized by students working in Architectural Design Studios run by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Alessandro Camiz and Teaching Assist. Özge Özkuvancı, offers the opportunity to explore the studio works by visiting online.
Join us for a discussion of how university leaders are working toward enhancing the value of each student's learning experience and institutional life in higher education, with a focus on social equity.
One Week Series of Free 24/7 Online Workshops and Talks, 27 June to 3 July 2020. There are 80 workshops in 5 different languages that take place in 3 major time regions around the world. Topics covering artificial intelligence in Architecture to Design Fiction, Bio Design, AR/VR, Robotic Fabrication and NeuroDesign.
Taizhou Contemporary Art Museum. Credit Tian Fangfang
Join us for a lecture live-streamed from Shanghai with Liu Yichun, principle of Atelier Deshaus, who will be showing us highlights from the practice’s last 20 years designing iconic educational, cultural and domestic buildings.
Rainbow Flag Agora, one of the eight floats featured in this year's TSA Virtual Pride online event
Ready to join a virtual parade? Looking to create new, inventive and unique shared spaces for community and celebration while we all do our part staying home, the Toronto Society of Architects is taking our Pride celebrations to the virtual public realm with a one-of-a-kind design challenge.
The current global situation forces us to do all kinds of adjustments and we are seeing this as an opportunity to go out of our comfort zone and try something new. We are going online! This allows us to invite architects from different parts of the world and make it possible for you to get to know them from the “AnA perspective”, no matter where you are located. The first round of events will take place before mid-July. Join us!
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