Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal, 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates, photo courtesy of Laurent Chalet.
Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal, French architects who have recently been named 2021 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureates, were appointed co-chairs of the inaugural, three-year Rothwell Chair at the Sydney School of Architecture, Design, and Planning in 2020 to explore their topic: ‘we propose to deal with contemporary urban conditions of living in the city’.
Tariq Dixon, co-founder of TRNK NYC, will discuss PROVENANCED, a digital exhibition that debuted in fall of 2020. PROVENANCED explores what it might mean to establish a canon of African and Indigenous-inspired design that exists outside a colonial legacy of extraction and appropriation. Dixon's lecture will look at product design and industrial design through the lens of racism and classism in terms of curation, the industrial design business, and how the industry historically has been impacted by these phenomena.
Projections, the biennial peer-reviewed Journal of the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, is now accepting abstracts for Projections 16, "Measuring the City: The Power of Urban Metrics", to be published Fall 2022. Projections 16's doctoral editors are MIT PhD candidates Chaewon Ahn, Carmelo Ignaccolo and Arianna Salazar Miranda.
Course Details The Master in Design for Emergent Futures is for students who want to expand their focus interests and acquire the skills to turn protests into prototypes, ideas into actions, and who are engaged in the mission of transforming the current status of affairs in society. The programme aims to provide strategic vision and tools for designers, sociologists, economists and computer scientists, to become agents of change in multiple professional environments and focuses in the design of interventions in the form of products, platforms and deployments that aim to produce new emergent futures, by previously analysing the current challenges in society and industry. The Master in Design for Emergent Futures is organised by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and ELISAVA Barcelona School of Design and Engineering, in collaboration with the Fab Academy.
Since 1995, Cecilia Puga has developed an independent practice in Santiago, where she has carried out design projects at different scales and programs, from single-family homes to collective housing, educational and industrial equipment, and urban design.
Even if you don’t know what media architecture exactly is, you have probably seen it many times. You may even have interacted with it, which is often the purpose of media architecture. That interaction can range from commonplace activities such as checking the departure sign at a train station, to being immersed in art installations that mix digital technology with layered information. With this omnipresence it is now time to develop a critical outlook on this emerging discipline that is influencing our daily lives, says Martijn de Waal, co-curator of the upcoming Media Architecture Biennale (MAB20) that will take place as an online event from June 28th – July 2nd, 2021.
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The International Seminar "Small Baltic Conversations: Architectures, Cities and Heritage of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia", curated by Donatella Scatena and Marco Falsetti and organized by the Sapienza University of Rome, in collaboration with the Department of Architecture and Design and the Baltic Studies Center, aims to address, within an interdisciplinary debate, the architectural culture, addresses and issues of the heritage of the Baltic countries. The intervention of speakers from different disciplinary sectors is foreseen, who will discuss the main topics while providing useful tools for scholars and designers. The focus of the conference will be the confrontation and dialectical exchange between the scientific community of Sapienza and the academics / designers of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, in order to make areas and researches known to a wider sector of the scientific community and, at the same time, intensify international relations. The seminar is the first of a series of annual meetings and enjoys the patronage of the Embassy of Lithuania, the Embassy of Latvia and the Embassy of Estonia.
Join AIA 2021 President Peter Exley, FAIA, and curator Carolina Vaccaro as they discuss the photography of legendary architect Denise Scott Brown, which captures the beauty and banality of cities.
Join AIA 2021 President Peter Exley, FAIA, and curator Carolina Vaccaro as they discuss the photography of legendary architect Denise Scott Brown, which captures the beauty and banality of cities.
Architects Patrick MacLeamy (foreground) and Mark R. LePage (on laptop) host the new "Build Smart" podcast.
Architects Patrick MacLeamy, FAIA, and Mark R. LePage, AIA, host the new “Build Smart” podcast. Debuting April 12, this 14-episode series is based on MacLeamy’s Book, "Designing a World-Class Architecture Firm." The podcast will discuss recession-proofing tips derived from MacLeamy's 50-year career at HOK. Topics will include: • Creating a Recession-Proof Firm • Leading vs. Managing, Structuring the Firm Around Specialized Leaders • Capitalization: Outside Investors, Working With Banks • Diversification: Division Launches, Mergers, Acquisitions • Reclaiming Company Culture, Positive Peer Pressure • Confronting Crisis New episodes will appear every Monday through July 5. For more information, visit https://gablmedia.com/show/buildsmart/
The mission and aim of the Thinking Hand NGO Talk Series is to empower and educate people, and especially students. Talk series will be on various topics starting from (Questioning Why? How? What?) Architecture, Design, Landscape, Environment, Thesis, Theory, Practice, Sustainability and more.
The Brick Award is an internationally known architectural prize, which pays tribute to modern and innovative brick architecture. The submitted projects show how varied and diverse ceramic products can be when used for walls, façades, roofs, and paving.
Gerald Babel-Sutter, CEO and Founder at Urban Future Global Conference, Europe's largest event for sustainable cities, will share the story of the Urban Future Global Conference: How it evolved from a local mobility workshop planned for the city of Graz in 2014 to be the meeting place for CityChangers across Europe and beyond, with almost 3000 participants gathering in Oslo in 2019.
Ever since the world’s first skyscraper was built here in 1885, Chicago has been a city of tall buildings. As its skyline has changed it has inspired other cities around the world to pursue high-rise solutions of their own.
