Organized by the Mendoza Architects' Association, the 2020 Architecture Month has adopted a new format, adapting to current circumstances and their requirements while maintaining its core mission of disseminating knowledge for the growth of the sector.
CAP Regional Lima invites you to attend the event "The Use of Technology in the Offices of Zaha Hadid Architects and Foster + Partners."
After setting aside his career as an architect to serve on the front lines during World War I, Walter Gropius sensed that the world needed a radical change—a change in which art and architecture would play a fundamental role.
The Uses of Decoration comprises four essays that investigate a set of normative representations of non-professional home decoration and its instrumentalization within various economies.
In 2016, the last modern masterpiece designed by world renowned architect Marcel Breuer, the Atlanta Fulton County Public Library, was slated for demolition. One of the Fulton County commissioners described the original design as looking “more like a jail” than a welcoming space for learning and productivity. To save the iconic building from the wrecking ball, changes would have to be made. This case study from cove.tool shows how energy and daylighting analysis is useful not only in new construction, but for revitalizing existing buildings as well.
The National League of Architecture Students (LINEA México), an organization dedicated to creating activities that complement academic learning and bringing together students from 30 states and over 65 schools across the country, invites you to the 1st International Meeting on Computational Design, Digital Fabrication, and Technology Applied to Architecture, to be held from December 14 to 21, 2020.
Developed in association with Barbican, this online evening course provides an engaging and critical introduction to Brutalist architecture through the iconic and groundbreaking design of the Barbican. Learn about the origins of the style, its unique relationship with Britain and its enduring impact on architecture and design.
This is a graphic novel about the contemporary architectural profession, in which it acts as the protagonist in the form of an imaginary city called Practiceopolis. The novel narrates quasi-realistic stories that exaggerate the architectural everyday and the tacit, in order to make them prominent and tangible. They depict and dramatise the value conflicts between the different cultures of practising architecture and between the architectural profession and other members of the building industry as political conflicts around the future of Practiceopolis.
"What if I am You" is an architectural graphic novel created by architect Vika Pranaityte since 2015 and published in 2020.
The book is the first monograph on Raphael Zuber`s work. It presents four buildings designed between 2009 and 2016, exploring their spaces through the medium of precise computer animation. Rather than simply a presentation technique, these animations were an essential instrument both for the development of the project and the evolution of the architect`s thinking, transitioning from a strong conceptual design to a more conscious resolution of spatial qualities.
In 1959 the American architect John Saunders Chase completed a radical work in Houston: a modernist house for his own family. No architect would hire Chase for the necessary professional internship when he – the first African American to enroll in and graduate from the University of Texas School of Architecture – arrived there in 1952. He instead had to petition the state for special permission to take the licensing exam, and he became the first African American registered as an architect in Texas. Yet by 1959 Chase had worked his way to a position of remarkable influence in the cultural, political, social, and economic life in Houston. His progressive house was testimony to this accomplishment. Its architectural form was equally radical, the first fully enclosed courtyard house – a building type only initially experimented with by progressive architects across America at that time – in Houston. Notorious but not well known, the Chase Residence, in both its original version and after a fundamental alteration undertaken in 1968, is an ongoing experiment in how a family might live. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the house, describes how its architecture frames experience, and places the house within the larger context of Chase’s career and times
This book explores the concept of co-dividuality, an architecture that expresses a new response to joint living in the age of postindividualism, social media, and the sharing economy. The focus lies on current experimentation in Japanese architecture and presents thematic homes with shared spaces designed as a result of warm, simple, fun and contemporary design reflections. In addition to their private room, the co-tenants have large common areas where they can practice urban farming, create a start-up, cook together, or experience new spatial ergonomics. The book offers an overview not only on domestic space but also on projects characterized by a multifarious mix between public and private spheres. What Is Co-dividuality? reflects on how we might want to live tomorrow.
Lise Juel is dissecting Can Lis into fragments, uncovering the masterpiece layer by layer, offering the reader a unique key in understanding the architecture of Jørn Utzon
Days of Oris is an international architectural festival organized by the magazine Oris from Croatia, which has been held since 2001. Every year it gathers more than 2,000 participants – architects and professionals from related fields. So far, more than 300 top experts and speakers from all over the world, have participated in the Festival.
Saturday, December 12th, marks the final conversation of the inaugural module of the "Global South Architectures" open course, organized by Marco Artigas and Pedro Vada and hosted by Escola da Cidade.
ArchitectureForChange is a series of workshops and seminars that aim to foster knowledge exchange and to track innovations in the field of “Architecture”. The 21st century witnesses a shift in architecture and urban practice with architects, urbanists, planners, artists and others from different disciplines getting more and more involved in community development projects, urban development and conflict resolution; Mostly, Architecture is responding to today’s human condition.
This year we are back with Nudging limitations
We address “Limitation” beyond the traditional semiology of both limits and restrains. We use the word in its wider sense that in addition to its negative connotations of restrictiveness, its challenging nature that induces creativity to crack open the darkened status quo and sheds light on possibilities: It is about how limitations become submissive to the “will to/for change. We focus on spatial processes, ongoing and unfinished hands-on practices in order to understand, learn and develop.
We became architects to conceptualize, to design, to create. But too much of our time is spent searching for products, organizing details and writing specifications. Technology has provided tremendous improvements to the design process, but beyond digitizing all those binders, it has provided little advancement to product sourcing.
The Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) is happy to announce the 2021 Great Places Awards in collaboration with the Project for Public Spaces (PPS).