Author: Sebastian Jordana | ArchDaily

Dwell on Design Heads to NY, October 9-11!

Sebastian Jordana — Tue, 16 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Dwell on Design NY, curated by the editors of Dwell magazine, debuts at 82 Mercer in SoHo, NY. Join 5,000 design elite as Dwell upends the standard ‘trade show’ format and creates a unique forum to engage, learn, inspire and connect. ArchDaily readers can receive $10 off show passes for the inaugural event with code DODNY registering here.

"Mouthful of Meetings" Seminar at Venice Biennale & Exhibition at Helsinki Design Week

Sebastian Jordana — Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

What are the challenges in Africa's current rapid socio-economic development that architects have the capacity to address? Can foreign architects play any role on the African continent today and during the coming decades? If so, how?

2014 ANFA Conference

Sebastian Jordana — Wed, 23 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) will have their 2nd international conference between September 18 and September 20 in La Jolla, California.

eVolo 2015 Skyscraper Competition

Sebastian Jordana — Tue, 22 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000

eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the eVolo 2015 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture. It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. It is a forum that examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.

Exhibition: Total Reset

Sebastian Jordana — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Mayor de Blasio has declared a “total reset” for public housing in New York. At the same time, the decline of affordable housing options has become New Yorkers' greatest concern.

Video: Umbrellium At The Barbican

Sebastian Jordana — Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Umbrellium is a team of architects, designers, commercial experts, producers and creative technologists that create and commercialise participatory products and services that empower people to transform their cities. This video is about Assemblance, where Kinetic sensors and lasers allow for a truly interactive light experience.

Competition: WHO Headquarters in Geneva

Sebastian Jordana — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The World Health Organization (WHO, the Commissioning Organization) is the directing and coordinating authority for health within the United Nations system. On 23 June 2014, WHO launched an international, two-stage architectural design competition for the extension and redevelopment of WHO Headquarters in Geneva.

Call for Entries: Ideas to Remember

Sebastian Jordana — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000

The series of earthquakes that began on 4 September 2010 altered the Canterbury landscape and had a huge impact on the people. Now it’s time to create a place to remember.

Workshop and LEGO Architecture Studio Launch: Villa Pennisi in Musica

Sebastian Jordana — Tue, 15 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000

LEGO® Architecture Studio, a new concept of the LEGO Architecture line, makes his appearance in Italy in an innovative context of architecture and music. The LEGO Group chose Italy and the prestigious setting of the Sicilian "Villa Pennisi in Musica" event for the launch of the new set of building blocks.

Lecture: Architecture as a Way of Life and Placemaking

Sebastian Jordana — Mon, 14 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Rafiq Azam is the principal of SHATOTTO architecture for green living, based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. He will introduce us to his work and city, which is also home to works by Louis Kahn. Azam’s “green” is not about global ratings or the current sustainability trend. It is his response to the sky, water, and vegetation that surround him and his city. There is an apparent simplicity in Azam’s work that disguises and belies a complex fabric revealing the wonders of the cosmos.

ECOWEEK London 2014

Sebastian Jordana — Fri, 11 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

ECOWEEK in a non-governmental NGO with the mission to raise awareness on environmental issues and Climate Change and to promote the principles of sustainability. ECOWEEK has been organizing conferences and workshops across Europe that inspire and empower young architects to be active designers for the benefit of their communities.

Terence Gower: SuperPuesto

Sebastian Jordana — Wed, 09 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

SuperPuesto is a temporary pavilion by Terence Gower commissioned by The Bronx Museum of the Arts in collaboration with the Andrew Freedman Home for Beyond the Supersquare, the first U.S. museum exhibition to examine the complicated legacies of modernist architecture in Latin America and the Caribbean through the perspectives of 30 contemporary artists. With the goal of providing an immersive space for visitors to experience the exhibition’s artistic and architectural themes, SuperPuesto also serves as an annex for educational and public programs related to Beyond the Supersquare.

Moriyama RAIC International Prize

Sebastian Jordana — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000

Raymond Moriyama FRAIC, the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC) and the RAIC Foundation have created the Moriyama RAIC International Prize to raise the international stature of the RAIC and the Canadian architectural profession.

Exhibition: Lebbeus Woods, ON-line

Sebastian Jordana — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Museum for Architectural Drawing presents Lebbeus Woods, ON-line, an exhibition of the finest works of architectural theorist, draftsman, educator and architect, Lebbeus Woods (1940–2012). Curated by his longtime friend and partner Christoph a. Kumpusch, the exhibition brings together a collection of Woods’ visionary works that have never been exhibited before. The intensely rendered architectural and urban environments produced early on in Woods’ career are exhibited together for the first time. These ink and pencil drawings cover a wide range of Woods’ research and re-imagination of cities both real and fictive and support Woods’ longstanding desire to show the capacity of architecture as a transformative and eloquent force.

'Next Big One' International Open Ideas Competition

Sebastian Jordana — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000

“NEXT BIG ONE” – an international open ideas competition organized by Architecture for Humanity Vancouver Chapter – raises awareness on the high-magnitude earthquake and tsunami events that plague cities around the world. The competition hopes to call upon the design community to offer fresh perspectives and innovative ideas in designing for disasters.

Exhibition / Designing a Moment: The London 2012 Cauldron

Sebastian Jordana — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

The Cauldron, designed by the internationally renowned Heatherwick Studio, is one of the most enduring and creative symbols of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. 204 unique copper elements, each alight and representing every competing nation, were arranged in sublime concentric formation at the tips of slender mechanised steel stems. Slowly pivoting sequentially, they converged to form the Cauldron, in which the Olympic, and later Paralympic flame, would burn brightly for the duration of London’s summer of sport.

Exhibition: The Mound of Vendôme

Sebastian Jordana — Sat, 05 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

On view at the CCA from 19 June to 14 September 2014 and curated by architectural historian David Gissen, The Mound of Vendôme revisits one key episode of French history when the Commune de Paris in 1871 voted to demolish the Vendôme Column, abolishing all allusions to the Napoleonic era. To protect the surrounding architecture during demolition, a radical landscape was erected on Place Vendôme. Informed by the methods of experimental history, Gissen’s ongoing research project and installation at the CCA traces the provocative history of the column and mound, while arguing for its historicisation and reconstruction.

Call for Pilots: Storefront TV

Sebastian Jordana — Wed, 02 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Storefront TV is an online channel focused on the communication of contemporary art and architecture ideas with an emphasis on experimentation with a live TV format.