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GHOST CITIES: BUILT BUT NEVER INHABITED Ghost Cities are vacant neighborhoods and sometimes whole cities that were built but were never inhabited. Their existence is a physical manifestation of Chinese overdevelopment in real estate and the dependence on housing as an investment strategy. Little data exists which establishes the location and extent of these Ghost Cities inChina.
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN REYKJAVIK Sustainable Architecture in Reykjavik. Basalt Architects have won the C40 Reinventing Cities global competition for innovative carbon-free and resilient urban projects for the site of Lágmúli in Reykjavik, Iceland. Acting as lead designers for team Fabric (Basalt Architects, EFLA, Landmótun and Reginn), Basalt Architects delivered an COPENHILL: HEDONISTIC SUSTAINABILITY CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, opens as a new breed of waste-to-energy plant topped with a ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall, embodying the notion of hedonistic sustainability while aligning with Copenhagen’s goal of becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2025. CopenHill is a 41,000 m2 waste-to-energyplant with
TIJ: SUSTAINABLE WOODEN BIRD OBSERVATORY The wooden nature artwork was given the name “Tij”, a reference to the tide and, of course, to the egg-shaped design. The bird observatory offers a fantastic view of the exceptional nature of the Haringvliet delta and its rich bird life. Among other things, a colony of thousands of large terns nest on the small islands off the coast of RURAL COMMUNITY CENTER: FUTURISTIC AND TRADITIONAL The center is located in a suburb of Dao Ming Town, Chongzhou County, well known for its extensive tradition of bamboo-weaving. As the first demonstration project in this rural area, this center is intended for hosting bamboo-weaving craftsman events, providing a hub for cultural sharing and for accommodating other multi-function activities. WALL HOUSE | ANUPAMA KUNDOO ARCHITECT Wall House is situated outside the planned city limits of Auroville, in Auromodele, an area designated for research and experimentation. The architect’s residence compactly accommodates everyday needs while effortlessly expanding to absorb guests. STORSTRØM PRISON: A MODERN, HUMAN, HIGH-SECURITY PRISON The aim of the closed Storstrøm Prison is to create the world’s most humane high-security prison, which contributes to the inmates’ social rehabilitation through architecture that supports the inmates’ mental and physical well-being and also ensures a secure and pleasant workplace for the prison staff. HEMP CONCRETE: A HIGH PERFORMANCE MATERIAL FOR GREEN Hemp Concrete: A High Performance Material for Green-Building and Retrofitting. Text by Monika Brümmer, Mª Paz Sáez-Pérez, and Jorge Durán Suárez. Emerging tendencies, inspired by environmental and energy saving criterions for building envelopes, refocus on a new challenge: the use of plant materials as bio aggregates in greenconcretes.
FLIGHT PATTERNS: ROUTES CONNECTING CITIES ACROSS AFRICA Flight Patterns: Routes Connecting Cities across Africa. The map of African commercial aviation has been transformed beyond recognition since the turn of the millennium. From very few international flights within the continent, and routes beyond the continent restricted almost entirely to century-old paths of colonial influence to European VERTICAL FOREST: A SUSTAINABLE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING Area: 40.000 sqm. Year: 2009-2014. Vertical Forest is a model for a sustainable residential building, a project for metropolitan reforestation contributing to the regeneration of the environment and urban biodiversity without the implication of expanding the city upon the territory. It is a model of vertical densification of naturewithin the
GHOST CITIES: BUILT BUT NEVER INHABITED Ghost Cities are vacant neighborhoods and sometimes whole cities that were built but were never inhabited. Their existence is a physical manifestation of Chinese overdevelopment in real estate and the dependence on housing as an investment strategy. Little data exists which establishes the location and extent of these Ghost Cities inChina.
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN REYKJAVIK Sustainable Architecture in Reykjavik. Basalt Architects have won the C40 Reinventing Cities global competition for innovative carbon-free and resilient urban projects for the site of Lágmúli in Reykjavik, Iceland. Acting as lead designers for team Fabric (Basalt Architects, EFLA, Landmótun and Reginn), Basalt Architects delivered an COPENHILL: HEDONISTIC SUSTAINABILITY CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, opens as a new breed of waste-to-energy plant topped with a ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall, embodying the notion of hedonistic sustainability while aligning with Copenhagen’s goal of becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2025. CopenHill is a 41,000 m2 waste-to-energyplant with
TIJ: SUSTAINABLE WOODEN BIRD OBSERVATORY The wooden nature artwork was given the name “Tij”, a reference to the tide and, of course, to the egg-shaped design. The bird observatory offers a fantastic view of the exceptional nature of the Haringvliet delta and its rich bird life. Among other things, a colony of thousands of large terns nest on the small islands off the coast of RURAL COMMUNITY CENTER: FUTURISTIC AND TRADITIONAL The center is located in a suburb of Dao Ming Town, Chongzhou County, well known for its extensive tradition of bamboo-weaving. As the first demonstration project in this rural area, this center is intended for hosting bamboo-weaving craftsman events, providing a hub for cultural sharing and for accommodating other multi-function activities. WALL HOUSE | ANUPAMA KUNDOO ARCHITECT Wall House is situated outside the planned city limits of Auroville, in Auromodele, an area designated for research and experimentation. The architect’s residence compactly accommodates everyday needs while effortlessly expanding to absorb guests. STORSTRØM PRISON: A MODERN, HUMAN, HIGH-SECURITY PRISON The aim of the closed Storstrøm Prison is to create the world’s most humane high-security prison, which contributes to the inmates’ social rehabilitation through architecture that supports the inmates’ mental and physical well-being and also ensures a secure and pleasant workplace for the prison staff. HEMP CONCRETE: A HIGH PERFORMANCE MATERIAL FOR GREEN Hemp Concrete: A High Performance Material for Green-Building and Retrofitting. Text by Monika Brümmer, Mª Paz Sáez-Pérez, and Jorge Durán Suárez. Emerging tendencies, inspired by environmental and energy saving criterions for building envelopes, refocus on a new challenge: the use of plant materials as bio aggregates in greenconcretes.
GHOST CITIES: BUILT BUT NEVER INHABITED Ghost Cities are vacant neighborhoods and sometimes whole cities that were built but were never inhabited. Their existence is a physical manifestation of Chinese overdevelopment in real estate and the dependence on housing as an investment strategy. Little data exists which establishes the location and extent of these Ghost Cities inChina.
SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN REYKJAVIK Sustainable Architecture in Reykjavik. Basalt Architects have won the C40 Reinventing Cities global competition for innovative carbon-free and resilient urban projects for the site of Lágmúli in Reykjavik, Iceland. Acting as lead designers for team Fabric (Basalt Architects, EFLA, Landmótun and Reginn), Basalt Architects delivered an BONPLAND 2169: FROM THE MIXED-USE TO THE DIFF-USE Finally, almost everyone agrees that our cities should be compact, dense and programmatically diverse. Although there are quantitative nuances regarding these points, most of our efforts aim to consolidate a different city model from the positivism outlined in the AthensCharter.
GENDER & PUBLIC SPACE Gender & Public Space. Inés Sánchez de Madariaga. This a podcast from urbanNext exchanges, the urbanNext series curated by Ricardo Devesa and Marta Bugés. For centuries, architecture and gender has been a silent debate but in the last decades there has been a very fruitful conversation about how design can have biased implications. HYMENS, MAMAS, WORDS, AND DRIVE: A CONVERSATION WITH When I met Gabrielle Printz, Virginia Black, and Rosana Elkhatib, we were sharing the same shiny working space at NEW INC, Trump had been recently elected, and along with other graduates from Columbia University GSAPP, they were incubating the “Post-Fordist Hymen Factory” project and hosting political architectural conclaves surrounded by popcorn, light beer, sodas, and music. ARCHITECTURE AND VIOLENCE Architecture and Violence. Bechir Kenzari. In today’s turbulent times few subjects deserve a closer scrutiny tan the interactions between violence and constructed environment. Modernity’s contradictory histories laid bare the fact that it is impossible to consider architecture simply a benign, passive victim of humanity’sviolent vices.
FUSION AND EXTENSION OF NATURE: CASA CM A rationalistic geometry and volumetry highlights natural and environmental values that are favourable to the domestic space. Though apparently hostile, the topography becomes the raw material for theidea.
DEFLAT KLEIBRUG: AN INNOVATIVE RENOVATION DeFlat Kleibrug: An Innovative Renovation. Kleiburg is one of the biggest apartment buildings in the Netherlands: a bend slab with 500 apartments, 400 meters long, 10 + 1 stories high. Kleiburg is located in the Bijlmermeer, a CIAM inspired residential expansion of Amsterdam designed in the 1960s by Siegfried Nassuth of the city planning ISLA INTERSECTIONS: FUTURE OF HOUSING IN THE CITY The 35,000-square-foot, 54-unit housing project and adjacent paseo, known as the Isla Intersections, is situated on a 19,814-square-foot triangular site uniting a traffic island and a former railroad right of way. Situated within close proximity to one of the world’s busiest freeway interchanges, the meeting of the 110 and 105 freeways,the
JUAN-ROQUE-URRUTIA_DESIGNING-WITH-AIR_05 juan-roque-urrutia_designing-with-air_05 ISSN: 2575-5374. No Comments EXPANDING ARCHITECTURE TO RETHINK CITIESURBANNEXTASSOCIATESJOURNALSTOPICSFORMATSTEAM This initiative covers an area of 60 hectares (54 on land and 6 on water), and constitutes a development of 630,246 square meters of gross construction area above ground. This is currently the largest urban regeneration in Lisbon and includes housing, hotel, office, retail, cultural and leisure facilities. The agenda: FLIGHT PATTERNS: ROUTES CONNECTING CITIES ACROSS AFRICA Flight Patterns: Routes Connecting Cities across Africa. The map of African commercial aviation has been transformed beyond recognition since the turn of the millennium. From very few international flights within the continent, and routes beyond the continent restricted almost entirely to century-old paths of colonial influence to European SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN REYKJAVIK Sustainable Architecture in Reykjavik. Basalt Architects have won the C40 Reinventing Cities global competition for innovative carbon-free and resilient urban projects for the site of Lágmúli in Reykjavik, Iceland. Acting as lead designers for team Fabric (Basalt Architects, EFLA, Landmótun and Reginn), Basalt Architects delivered an GOTHENBURG CABLE CAR: FAST AND EFFICIENT AERIAL TRANSPORT Gothenburg Cable Car: Fast and Efficient Aerial Transport. The new cable car system will comprise one cable car line with four stations and six towers and is one of a number of projects undertaken by the City of Gothenburg to mark its 400th anniversary in 2021. The cable car system, which will provide fast and efficient aerial transportacross
BIO-INTEGRATED DESIGN Bio-integrated Design. This essay is an excerpt of IAAC Bits 9 - Black Ecologies edited by Manuel Gausa, Areti Markopoulou and Jordi Vivaldi. Published by Actar Publishers. Jordi Vivaldi: Since the end of the 20th century, we have been experiencing a shift in relation to our understanding of the notion of nature: we are moving from a conception ISLA INTERSECTIONS: FUTURE OF HOUSING IN THE CITY The 35,000-square-foot, 54-unit housing project and adjacent paseo, known as the Isla Intersections, is situated on a 19,814-square-foot triangular site uniting a traffic island and a former railroad right of way. Situated within close proximity to one of the world’s busiest freeway interchanges, the meeting of the 110 and 105 freeways,the
CASA CVC: SEQUENCE OF OPEN SPACES Casa CVC: Sequence of Open Spaces. CVC house is generated from the articulation of the garden’s exterior spaces, terraces and the central patio with the spaces that were required by the client, as a way to generate a dialogue between the built space and the open space. In addition, there is a sequence of open spaces with varying degreesof
FATHER’S HOUSE
Father’s House rests in the ambiguous position between the river (and smoothed stones) and the mountains (and coarse stones). Over time, the river pulls rock out of layers of mountain, offering an abundant source of building material. The relation between water and stone is so accurate that the size of stone correlates precisely toits color
STORSTRØM PRISON: A MODERN, HUMAN, HIGH-SECURITY PRISON The aim of the closed Storstrøm Prison is to create the world’s most humane high-security prison, which contributes to the inmates’ social rehabilitation through architecture that supports the inmates’ mental and physical well-being and also ensures a secure and pleasant workplace for the prison staff. WALL HOUSE | ANUPAMA KUNDOO ARCHITECT Wall House is situated outside the planned city limits of Auroville, in Auromodele, an area designated for research and experimentation. The architect’s residence compactly accommodates everyday needs while effortlessly expanding to absorb guests. EXPANDING ARCHITECTURE TO RETHINK CITIESURBANNEXTASSOCIATESJOURNALSTOPICSFORMATSTEAM This initiative covers an area of 60 hectares (54 on land and 6 on water), and constitutes a development of 630,246 square meters of gross construction area above ground. This is currently the largest urban regeneration in Lisbon and includes housing, hotel, office, retail, cultural and leisure facilities. The agenda: FLIGHT PATTERNS: ROUTES CONNECTING CITIES ACROSS AFRICA Flight Patterns: Routes Connecting Cities across Africa. The map of African commercial aviation has been transformed beyond recognition since the turn of the millennium. From very few international flights within the continent, and routes beyond the continent restricted almost entirely to century-old paths of colonial influence to European SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE IN REYKJAVIK Sustainable Architecture in Reykjavik. Basalt Architects have won the C40 Reinventing Cities global competition for innovative carbon-free and resilient urban projects for the site of Lágmúli in Reykjavik, Iceland. Acting as lead designers for team Fabric (Basalt Architects, EFLA, Landmótun and Reginn), Basalt Architects delivered an GOTHENBURG CABLE CAR: FAST AND EFFICIENT AERIAL TRANSPORT Gothenburg Cable Car: Fast and Efficient Aerial Transport. The new cable car system will comprise one cable car line with four stations and six towers and is one of a number of projects undertaken by the City of Gothenburg to mark its 400th anniversary in 2021. The cable car system, which will provide fast and efficient aerial transportacross
BIO-INTEGRATED DESIGN Bio-integrated Design. This essay is an excerpt of IAAC Bits 9 - Black Ecologies edited by Manuel Gausa, Areti Markopoulou and Jordi Vivaldi. Published by Actar Publishers. Jordi Vivaldi: Since the end of the 20th century, we have been experiencing a shift in relation to our understanding of the notion of nature: we are moving from a conception ISLA INTERSECTIONS: FUTURE OF HOUSING IN THE CITY The 35,000-square-foot, 54-unit housing project and adjacent paseo, known as the Isla Intersections, is situated on a 19,814-square-foot triangular site uniting a traffic island and a former railroad right of way. Situated within close proximity to one of the world’s busiest freeway interchanges, the meeting of the 110 and 105 freeways,the
CASA CVC: SEQUENCE OF OPEN SPACES Casa CVC: Sequence of Open Spaces. CVC house is generated from the articulation of the garden’s exterior spaces, terraces and the central patio with the spaces that were required by the client, as a way to generate a dialogue between the built space and the open space. In addition, there is a sequence of open spaces with varying degreesof
FATHER’S HOUSE
Father’s House rests in the ambiguous position between the river (and smoothed stones) and the mountains (and coarse stones). Over time, the river pulls rock out of layers of mountain, offering an abundant source of building material. The relation between water and stone is so accurate that the size of stone correlates precisely toits color
STORSTRØM PRISON: A MODERN, HUMAN, HIGH-SECURITY PRISON The aim of the closed Storstrøm Prison is to create the world’s most humane high-security prison, which contributes to the inmates’ social rehabilitation through architecture that supports the inmates’ mental and physical well-being and also ensures a secure and pleasant workplace for the prison staff. WALL HOUSE | ANUPAMA KUNDOO ARCHITECT Wall House is situated outside the planned city limits of Auroville, in Auromodele, an area designated for research and experimentation. The architect’s residence compactly accommodates everyday needs while effortlessly expanding to absorb guests. HYMENS, MAMAS, WORDS, AND DRIVE: A CONVERSATION WITH When I met Gabrielle Printz, Virginia Black, and Rosana Elkhatib, we were sharing the same shiny working space at NEW INC, Trump had been recently elected, and along with other graduates from Columbia University GSAPP, they were incubating the “Post-Fordist Hymen Factory” project and hosting political architectural conclaves surrounded by popcorn, light beer, sodas, and music. VERTICAL FOREST: A SUSTAINABLE RESIDENTIAL BUILDING Area: 40.000 sqm. Year: 2009-2014. Vertical Forest is a model for a sustainable residential building, a project for metropolitan reforestation contributing to the regeneration of the environment and urban biodiversity without the implication of expanding the city upon the territory. It is a model of vertical densification of naturewithin the
BONPLAND 2169: FROM THE MIXED-USE TO THE DIFF-USE Finally, almost everyone agrees that our cities should be compact, dense and programmatically diverse. Although there are quantitative nuances regarding these points, most of our efforts aim to consolidate a different city model from the positivism outlined in the AthensCharter.
COPENHILL: HEDONISTIC SUSTAINABILITY CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, opens as a new breed of waste-to-energy plant topped with a ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall, embodying the notion of hedonistic sustainability while aligning with Copenhagen’s goal of becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2025. CopenHill is a 41,000 m2 waste-to-energyplant with
GHOST CITIES: BUILT BUT NEVER INHABITED Ghost Cities are vacant neighborhoods and sometimes whole cities that were built but were never inhabited. Their existence is a physical manifestation of Chinese overdevelopment in real estate and the dependence on housing as an investment strategy. Little data exists which establishes the location and extent of these Ghost Cities inChina.
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CASA CVC: SEQUENCE OF OPEN SPACES Casa CVC: Sequence of Open Spaces. CVC house is generated from the articulation of the garden’s exterior spaces, terraces and the central patio with the spaces that were required by the client, as a way to generate a dialogue between the built space and the open space. In addition, there is a sequence of open spaces with varying degreesof
FUSION AND EXTENSION OF NATURE: CASA CM A rationalistic geometry and volumetry highlights natural and environmental values that are favourable to the domestic space. Though apparently hostile, the topography becomes the raw material for theidea.
RURAL COMMUNITY CENTER: FUTURISTIC AND TRADITIONAL The center is located in a suburb of Dao Ming Town, Chongzhou County, well known for its extensive tradition of bamboo-weaving. As the first demonstration project in this rural area, this center is intended for hosting bamboo-weaving craftsman events, providing a hub for cultural sharing and for accommodating other multi-function activities. NAVY YARDS CENTRAL GREEN Field Operations has designed the 5-acre Central Green at the heart of the Philadelphia Navy Yard Corporate Center. The site was historically marked by wetlands, meadows, and bird habitat and is growing into Philadelphia’s most innovative and progressive corporateneighborhood.
EXPANDING ARCHITECTURE TO RETHINK CITIESURBANNEXTASSOCIATESJOURNALSTOPICSFORMATSTEAM urbanNext’s main goal is to generate a global network to produce content focused on rethinking architecture through the contemporaryurban milieu
FLIGHT PATTERNS: ROUTES CONNECTING CITIES ACROSS AFRICA The map of African commercial aviation has been transformed beyond recognition since the turn of the millennium. From very few international flights within the continent, and routes beyond the continent restricted almost entirely to century-old paths of colonial influence to European metropoles, Africa has quickly become criss-crossed by intra-continental flights run by African airlines,and
GHOST CITIES: BUILT BUT NEVER INHABITED Ghost Cities are vacant neighborhoods and sometimes whole cities that were built but were never inhabited. Their existence is a physical manifestation of Chinese overdevelopment in real estate and the dependence on housing as an investment strategy. CASA CVC: SEQUENCE OF OPEN SPACES CVC house is generated from the articulation of the garden’s exterior spaces, terraces and the central patio with the spaces that were required by the client, as a way to generate a dialogue between the built space and the open space. GOTHENBURG CABLE CAR: FAST AND EFFICIENT AERIAL TRANSPORTCABLE CAR COCKTAILCABLE CAR HISTORYCABLE CAR RIDESCABLE CARS MAPPOWELL MASONCABLE CAR SCHEDULE
The new cable car system will comprise one cable car line with four stations and six towers and is one of a number of projects undertaken by the City of Gothenburg to mark its 400th anniversary in 2021. DEFLAT KLEIBRUG: AN INNOVATIVE RENOVATION Kleiburg is one of the biggest apartment buildings in the Netherlands: a bend slab with 500 apartments, 400 meters long, 10 + 1 stories high. Kleiburg is located in the Bijlmermeer, a CIAM inspired residential expansion of Amsterdam designed in the 1960s by Siegfried Nassuth of the city planning department. HOEKENRODEPLEIN: REDEVELOPMENT OF A SQUARE Hoekenrodeplein forms the link between the Amsterdamse Poort shopping center and the Arena Boulevard. With the redevelopment of the New Amsterdam Building, the square has been developed as one of the final phases of the Zuidoost Center Area. WALL HOUSE | ANUPAMA KUNDOO ARCHITECT Wall House is situated outside the planned city limits of Auroville, in Auromodele, an area designated for research and experimentation. The architect’s residence compactly accommodates everyday needs while effortlessly expanding to absorb guests. ZOLLHALLEN PLAZA: A CLIMATE ADAPTION TOOL Every plaza has the potential to be a climate adaptation tool. To the relief of the city government, Ramboll Studio Dreiseitl started by disconnecting the site from the local combined sewer system, which is already over-capacity during storm events, a disaster waiting tohappen.
BOULOGNE BILLANCOURT SCHOOL The roof is a real hanging garden, twelve meters above the gymnasium. It is home to three levels of vegetation: A prairie of mesophilus plants planted in 50 centimeters of earth, a scrubland fringe and a woodland island planted in 1 meter of earth. EXPANDING ARCHITECTURE TO RETHINK CITIESURBANNEXTASSOCIATESJOURNALSTOPICSFORMATSTEAM This initiative covers an area of 60 hectares (54 on land and 6 on water), and constitutes a development of 630,246 square meters of gross construction area above ground. This is currently the largest urban regeneration in Lisbon and includes housing, hotel, office, retail, cultural and leisure facilities. The agenda: FLIGHT PATTERNS: ROUTES CONNECTING CITIES ACROSS AFRICA Flight Patterns: Routes Connecting Cities across Africa. The map of African commercial aviation has been transformed beyond recognition since the turn of the millennium. From very few international flights within the continent, and routes beyond the continent restricted almost entirely to century-old paths of colonial influence to European GHOST CITIES: BUILT BUT NEVER INHABITED Ghost Cities are vacant neighborhoods and sometimes whole cities that were built but were never inhabited. Their existence is a physical manifestation of Chinese overdevelopment in real estate and the dependence on housing as an investment strategy. Little data exists which establishes the location and extent of these Ghost Cities inChina.
DEFLAT KLEIBRUG: AN INNOVATIVE RENOVATION DeFlat Kleibrug: An Innovative Renovation. Kleiburg is one of the biggest apartment buildings in the Netherlands: a bend slab with 500 apartments, 400 meters long, 10 + 1 stories high. Kleiburg is located in the Bijlmermeer, a CIAM inspired residential expansion of Amsterdam designed in the 1960s by Siegfried Nassuth of the city planning GOTHENBURG CABLE CAR: FAST AND EFFICIENT AERIAL TRANSPORTCABLE CAR COCKTAILCABLE CAR HISTORYCABLE CAR RIDESCABLE CARS MAPPOWELL MASONCABLE CAR SCHEDULE
Gothenburg Cable Car: Fast and Efficient Aerial Transport. The new cable car system will comprise one cable car line with four stations and six towers and is one of a number of projects undertaken by the City of Gothenburg to mark its 400th anniversary in 2021. The cable car system, which will provide fast and efficient aerial transportacross
RURAL COMMUNITY CENTER: FUTURISTIC AND TRADITIONALDISADVANTAGES OF LEARNER CENTERED APPROACHLEARNER CENTERED APPROACH PDF The center is located in a suburb of Dao Ming Town, Chongzhou County, well known for its extensive tradition of bamboo-weaving. As the first demonstration project in this rural area, this center is intended for hosting bamboo-weaving craftsman events, providing a hub for cultural sharing and for accommodating other multi-function activities. CASA CVC: SEQUENCE OF OPEN SPACES Casa CVC: Sequence of Open Spaces. CVC house is generated from the articulation of the garden’s exterior spaces, terraces and the central patio with the spaces that were required by the client, as a way to generate a dialogue between the built space and the open space. In addition, there is a sequence of open spaces with varying degreesof
HOEKENRODEPLEIN: REDEVELOPMENT OF A SQUARE Hoekenrodeplein forms the link between the Amsterdamse Poort shopping center and the Arena Boulevard. With the redevelopment of the New Amsterdam Building, the square has been developed as one of the final phases of the Zuidoost Center Area. ZOLLHALLEN PLAZA: A CLIMATE ADAPTION TOOL Zollhallen Plaza: a Climate Adaption Tool. The Zollhallen Plaza in Freiburg, Germany is a new, dynamic urban counterpart for the conservation-listed customs hall which was restored in 2009. The plaza has been transformed from a freight train terminal, and then a wasteland, into an integrated multifunctional social resource for thelocal
WALL HOUSE | ANUPAMA KUNDOO ARCHITECT Wall House is situated outside the planned city limits of Auroville, in Auromodele, an area designated for research and experimentation. The architect’s residence compactly accommodates everyday needs while effortlessly expanding to absorb guests.AIR AND LIGHT
urbanNext. about; team; contact; donate; login; register; associates. be associate; booksellers; organizations: benefits & rates; professional: benefits & rates GHOST CITIES: BUILT BUT NEVER INHABITED Ghost Cities are vacant neighborhoods and sometimes whole cities that were built but were never inhabited. Their existence is a physical manifestation of Chinese overdevelopment in real estate and the dependence on housing as an investment strategy. Little data exists which establishes the location and extent of these Ghost Cities inChina.
INTERTWINED ENVIRONMENTS: ON LEADERSHIP Intertwined Environments is the series hosted by Martha Thorne, Dean of IE School of Architecture and Design, which discusses the natural, the physical and the digital realms in constructing environments that respond to current and future challenges. TREET: SUSTAINABLE HOUSING Inspired by Norway’s considerable history of wood construction, and driven by a desire for sustainable housing, Treet (The Tree) by ARTEC became the first engineered-timber high-rise building to capture the world’s attention. Built by housing developers BOB and completed in Bergen, Norway in 2015, the 14-story residential structure is a THE BUSINESS VALUE OF DESIGN We all know examples of bad product and service design. The USB plug (always lucky on the third try). The experience of rushing to make your connecting flight at many airports. CASA CVC: SEQUENCE OF OPEN SPACES Casa CVC: Sequence of Open Spaces. CVC house is generated from the articulation of the garden’s exterior spaces, terraces and the central patio with the spaces that were required by the client, as a way to generate a dialogue between the built space and the open space. In addition, there is a sequence of open spaces with varying degreesof
UPCYCLE HOUSE: INCREASING BUILDING PERFORMANCE Upcycle House is an experimental project, aimed at exposing potential carbon emission reductions through the use of recycled and upcycled building materials. In the case of Upcycle House, the reduction has been 86% compared to a benchmark house. With increasing building performance in regards to operational energy consumption, focus hasnow
COPENHILL: HEDONISTIC SUSTAINABILITY CopenHill, also known as Amager Bakke, opens as a new breed of waste-to-energy plant topped with a ski slope, hiking trail and climbing wall, embodying the notion of hedonistic sustainability while aligning with Copenhagen’s goal of becoming the world’s first carbon-neutral city by 2025. CopenHill is a 41,000 m2 waste-to-energyplant with
BIO-INTEGRATED DESIGN Bio-integrated Design. This essay is an excerpt of IAAC Bits 9 - Black Ecologies edited by Manuel Gausa, Areti Markopoulou and Jordi Vivaldi. Published by Actar Publishers. Jordi Vivaldi: Since the end of the 20th century, we have been experiencing a shift in relation to our understanding of the notion of nature: we are moving from a conception THE WAVE: AN ARCHITECTURAL EMBODIMENT OF THE SURROUNDING Photography: Jacob Due. A visually distinctive new presence on the Vejle waterfront, The Wave stands as an architectural embodiment of the surrounding landscape. Following an 11-year construction period interrupted by the global financial crisis, Henning Larsen’s The Wave apartment building in Vejle, Denmark has finally reachedcompletion.
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__The Frank Lloyd Wright School of ArchitectureJune 2, 2017
THE FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE IS NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR FALL 2017 ADMISSION Submitting the application is part of a multi-step application process. The next step is for the applicant to submit all supporting documents, as detailed below. Please note that applications for admission are accepted for the fall term only. It is the applicant’s responsibility to make sure that the application is complete upon submission. The application package must be complete before interviews are scheduled. Applicants are required to complete two interviews where one will be in person before a decision is made. Applications and credentials submitted are the property of Taliesin, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, and cannot be returned to applicants/students. School tours and studio visits are available on selected dates by advance reservation. Questions at any time during the application process are welcome and for information regarding tuition, financial aid, and admissions contact the Office of Admissions OFFICE OF ADMISSIONS FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE 12621 N. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT BLVD. SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA 85259-2537 admissions@taliesin.edu480.627.5345
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__IE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNMarch 6, 2018
MASTERCLASS WITH JUAN ALAYO ON MARCH 21ST AT 19:00 From industrial powerhouse to post-industrial cultural and tourist destination, through a devastating industrial and socio-economic crisis. The keys to the transformation, the actors, the amount of investment and sources of funding, the successes (and some not so good investments) and a description of an “innovative tool” for urban regeneration, BILBAO Ría 2000, where I was development planning director for 8 years, how it was set up, how it operated, how it funded itself and the projects developed. Juan Alayo has been studying cities for the last 25 years. After graduating in Architecture and Urban Design at the University of Navarra, Spain, and obtaining an MSc in Advanced Architectural Studies (Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London), he started his professional career as a researcher at University College London, analyzing urban form and how people used it. He then worked at Ove Arup and Partners International for 15 years. Based at the Planning group in London, he acquired significant international experience on urban and regional planning issues, integrating transport systems and infrastructure in urban areas and developing Spatial Morphology models for a variety of cities. In 2005, he was invited to join Bilbao Ría 2000, a publicly owned urban regeneration company, as Development Planning Director, where he was responsible for the planning of new development opportunities, integrating key transport infrastructures within dense urban environments, managing the interests and expectations of a diverse range of public administrations and ensuring physical, social and financial viability of the projects. In 2014, he established himself as an independent consultant and is currently advising on strategic urban projects internationally. Register at bit.ly/2oWKYxkExpand
__Jaque Architects July3, 2017
ESCARAVOX, MADRID
Assemblages of unattended rural infrastructures, reprogrammed as voice-giving-public-device In the city of Madrid, Institutional contemporary art centers tend to concentrate along the axis that joins the Avenida de América with Legazpi Square, meaning that they are lined up with the city center, in contrast to the geographic distribution of small music and theater groups or poetry associations, which are the most part evenly scattered throughout the capital’s extensive territory. While individually they culturally stimulate the local contexts in which their activities develop, altogether they make up, without a doubt, the cultural promotion and debate infrastructure with a greater impactupon the city.
The aim of this project is to endow Matadero Madrid, former slaughterhouse of the city and now an institution self-defined as “public space for contemporary culture, with views on the river”, with the necessary material devices and institutional protocols to prompt a connection between the aforementioned models of intervention in the cultural field. To achieve this, the scheme proposes equipping the open spaces of the old abattoir with varied types of large-span mobile structures with sound amplifying systems, stage lighting and audiovisual projection systems, so that in combination with sliding stands, they may serve as auxiliary structures for any public performance held in this space. The use of these facilities would be organized in the same way as municipal tennis courts, which are booked by the hour. The materiality of the infrastructure is based on the idea of an odd assemblage of already inexpensive elements. Watering systems, Almería greenhouse fabrics, cheap plastic chairs… A short of composite of ready-mades, using existing technologies in a different way of that they were produced for. It is a technological re-appropiation process, the office relates with the possibility of queer uses of availablesystems.
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__IE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNFeb 23, 2018
THE HAY FESTIVAL SEGOVIA 2017 IE UNIVERSITY, TOGETHER WITH THE IE FOUNDATION, WAS DELIGHTED TO SERVE AS A HOST AND KEY COLLABORATOR IN THE 12TH EDITION OF THE HAY FESTIVALSEGOVIA.
The Hay Festival of Literature and Arts has been a fixture on the international arts calendar since its inception and is attended and supported by key players from across the globe. This year’s Segovia program included 94 events that took place between September 16 and 24, and were attended by 13,000 people. The Festival program featured speakers and participants at the top of their fields, including several acclaimed architects. The line-up reflected the prestige of the event as well as IE’s commitment to the diffusion of knowledge and the promotion of learning. “Cities” was the central theme of a series of discussions featuring world-renowned speakers. The Pritzker Prize-winning Richard Rogers spoke to Martha Thorne, Dean of the IE School of Architecture and Design, about his vision for the future of our cities. A rock star in the world of architecture, Rogers is behind some of the most iconic buildings on the planet—from Paris’s Pompidou Center to the European Court of Human Rights and Madrid’s own Barajas Airport T4. Deyan Sudjic, the Director of the Design Museum, London, talked with Monocle Magazine’s Madrid correspondent Liam Aldous about the impact of urban planning. Lorenzo de’ Medici brought a historical angle to the topic, discussing great cities of the past, while Spanish architects Luis Vidal and Benedetta Tagliabue appeared alongside Japan’s Sou Fujimoto. The Hay Festival was also proud to host Guillermo Solana, the artistic director of the Thyssen-Bornemisza, who presented a series of screenings, documentaries and workshops. Richard Rogers stopped by the studios of IE University’s Bachelor of Architecture program to engage with students and offer insight on their projects. While he was there, Rogers reflected on the key skills that architects and designers must develop in order to deal with the challenges facing the industry. He identified the importance of “realizing that architecture is much more than a single act; it’s a complex overlapping of specialties, you have to work with other people to solve the problems.” Rogers also emphasized the importance of embracing technological change and understanding that these developments will shape the future of architecture, as well as society in general. Nevertheless, he noted that architects should strive to maintain a connection to the poetry of their designs, refusing to let the technological eclipse theaesthetic.
When it comes to the need for design, Rogers is clear: “Design matters because it has an aesthetic element that allows us to make beautiful things, but most importantly because it solve problems.” The IE School of Architecture and Design was proud to host Rogers, as well as the other speakers and guests who made this year’s Hay Festival Segovia a resounding success.Expand
__Langarita Navarro July 6,2017
‘ESTRATOS ACTIVOS’ NUEVOS MODOS DE HABITAR-MANZANA VERDE MÁLAGA,ESPAÑA
ARQUITECTOS: María Langarita y Víctor Navarro COLABORADORES: Policarpo del Canto, Adrián Úbeda PAISAJISTAS: INLANDSIS (Elinor Scarth, Mar Armengol, Etienne Haller). ESTRATOS ACTIVOS es la estrategia con la que producir ciudad mediterránea integrada, adaptable y sensible con los ciclos de vida de sus componentes. El objetivo pasa por entender la ciudad como un sistema estratificado y multiescalar que ha de gestionar de forma sincronizada los mecanismos de contacto, regulación, intercambio, comunicación o adaptación de sus componentes. El proyecto incorpora por un lado las inteligencias múltiples que se han dado en torno a la cultura mediterránea durante siglos: la materialidad híbrida, el carácter hedonista, la termorregulación del jardín árabe, el pensamiento democrático y la diversidad o la integración; proponiendo una estrategia general basada en la estratificación y evolución en el tiempo a partir de 4 vectores que han de servir, al mismo tiempo, como guías e indicadores de la sostenibilidad de la actuación: complejidad urbana, metabolismo urbano, biodiversidad urbana y cohesión social, habitabilidad del espacio público y movilidad sostenible. 01 COMPLEJIDAD URBANA La complejidad urbana es fundamental para la pervivencia de la ciudad mediterránea y su existencia se promueve en las diferentes escalas del proyecto. JARDÍN/HABITACIÓN El trazado reticular del espacio público, basado en la lógica del jardín árabe, permite la creación de recintos especializados que funcionan como salones exteriores con programas diferenciados. La organización espacial también permite sistemas de gestión alternativos que compatibilicen zonas de gestión pública (zonas recreativas, jardines contemplativos) y zonas de gestión de las comunidades de vecinos (espacios productivos, huertos comunales). EDIFICIO/PAISAJE Con genética de paisaje, el edificio cuenta con forjados equipados que se comportarán como parcelas preparadas para ser desarrollados por agentes independientes. El potente esqueleto distribuirá las instalaciones urbanas y al mismo tiempo definirá la escala en relación con el barrio. Sobre los forjados/solares se podrán ubicar programas heterogéneos de viviendas adaptadas, viviendas taller, comercios, negocios, áreas de esparcimiento o comunicaciones. 02 METABOLISMO URBANO Se propone una estratificación y una adaptación vertical del funcionamiento térmico deledificio en
función de sus intercambios energéticos. En los estratos inferiores la regulación térmica se ve apoyada de forma pasiva por los procesos de evapotranspiración y el enfriamiento adiabático del jardín urbano estratificado. A partir de los 20/30 metros, los mecanismos se modifican para adoptar una gestión sensual y activa de los sistemas de protección solar, basado en los umbráculos, soportes textiles y emparrados. La estratificación vertical también se produce desde el punto hídrico. Hundir las zonas plantadas ayuda a ser más eficaces los recursos hídricos, acercando las raíces de los árboles al nivel freático disminuyendo la dependencia del riego. 03 BIODIVERSIDAD URBANA Y COHESIÓN SOCIAL Con la estrategia de paisaje se busca crear un ecosistema maduro con índices altos debiodiversidad y
para ello se propone la plantación de una vegetación por estratos que permitirán crear un efecto oasis. Los tres niveles de vegetación (porte alto, medio y bajo) permite la creación de un de microclima que garantiza la supervivencia de las especies más lentas y vulnerables y al mismo tiempo garantizan la atracción de gran variedad de fauna. El estrato arbóreo reduce la insolación y con el resto de estratos, se reduce la evapotranspiración por el viento. Los árboles traspiran y así el aire fresco, desciende al mismo tiempo que produce sombra. Se ha pensado en utilizar especies vegetales de carácter productivo como los frutales en los portes altos y medios y arbustos de variedades comestibles y huertos en los portes bajos para que en los sistemas de mantenimiento y cuidado estén involucrados los habitantes. 04 HABITABILIAD DEL ESPACIO PÚBLICO Y MOVILIDAD SOSTENIBLE Se busca reducir la capa profiláctica de pavimentos que cubren la ciudad y potenciar los suelos porosos y permeables. Los escenarios tendenciales a largo plazo apuntan a la desaparición del vehículo particular y la aparición de sistemas de movilidad compartidos. Estos escenarios anuncian una reducción considerable de las plazas de aparcamientos necesarias por habitante. El proyecto propone minimizar las plazas de parking enterradas con poca utilidad en el largo plazo y por el contrario desarrollarsistemas
aéreos de fácil desmontaje que permitan dejar bolsas de espacio apropiables en el futuro para otros usos. A corto plazo, la conexión de los aparcamientos con los jardines y la incorporación de dobles alturas permiten la existencia puntual de usos alternativos.Expand
__Jaque Architects July3, 2017
THE PRIZE-WINNER OF THE 10TH AUSTRIAN FREDERICK KIESLER PRIZE FOR ARCHITECTURE AND THE ARTS 2016:ANDRÉS JAQUE
The Austrian Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts 2016 goes to the Spanish architect Andrés Jaque. The award with a substantial prize money of 55,000 euros is presented alternately by the Republic of Austria and the City of Vienna every two years. It honours “extraordinary achievements in architecture and the arts that relate to Frederick Kiesler’s experimental and innovative attitudes and his theory of ‘correlated arts’ by transcending the boundaries between the traditional disciplines” (Statutes of theKiesler Prize).
“It’s such a great satisfaction to receive the Frederick Kiesler Prize, that honors Kiesler’s endeavor to challenge disciplinary boundaries and conventions. I believe that daily life is there to be reinvented, discussed and taken care of, that is what we try to do with our work in the Office for Political Innovation. If we had to find friends on this purpose we would put the previous Kiesler awarded on top of the list.” _ANDRÉS JAQUE, Frederick Kiesler Prizelaureate 2016_
“Andrés Jaque‘s understanding of architecture is future-oriented: By discussing the complex social and political relations, he positions architecture as essential means for shaping daily life. In this way, Andrés Jaque appears as visionary as well as pragmatic, designing bold solutions at a time when usual schemata are not effective anymore.” _ANDREAS MAILATH-POKORNY, Executive City Councillor for Cultural Affairs of Vienna_ “Andrés Jaque belongs – just as Frederick Kiesler – to those who free architecture from constructing’s monothematic thinking. It is absolutely logical that the Spanish architect, lateral thinker and visionary Jaque is awarded with the Kiesler-Prize – the award for architecture in Austria endowed with the highest prize money – this year: he understands architecture as society’s designer by creating spaces for dialogue. In that way, he continues the path which was already pursued by Frederick Kiesler with his holistic and interdisciplinary working practice.” _THOMAS DROZDA, Austrian Federal Minister for Arts and Culture_ “Andrés Jaque is a worthy recipient of the Kiesler Prize, an architect who fearlessly turns all on its head confronting the banal that at times burdens the pursuit of pure fantastical space. His work stood out this year for its vibrancy, playfulness and uncompromising commitment to seeking out the new and the unorthodox.” _HANI RASHID, President of the Frederick Kiesler Foundation, Vienna-NewYork_
“The transdisciplinary work of Andrés Jaque predestines him as a worthy recipient of the 10th Kiesler-Prize. His artistic and scientific practice of developing new concepts regarding political and social innovations can be very much connected to Frederick Kiesler’s ‘correalistic’ theory and contributes crucially to the providing of realistic models concerning the rapid changes within society, architecture and urbanism at present.” _PETER BOGNER, Director of the Frederick Kiesler Foundation, Vienna_ JURY OF THE KIESLER PRIZE 2016: * Ben van Berkel, Architect, Amsterdam * Beatriz Colomina, Architectural theorist, Princeton University * Peter Kogler, Artist, Vienna * Stella Rollig, Director Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz * Benedetta Tagliabue, Architect, BarcelonaMore Info
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__The Frank Lloyd Wright School of ArchitectureMarch 8, 2017
HIGHER LEARNING COMMISSION APPROVES PLAN FOR FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE TO MAINTAIN ACCREDITATION FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT FOUNDATION Higher Learning Commission decision allows the School to maintain its accreditation as an institute of higher learning. The Higher Learning Commission (HLC) announced its approval today of the Change of Control application submitted by the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture (School). This allows the School to operate as an entity independent from the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation (Foundation), and thus maintain its accreditation as an institute of higher learning. The HLC decision allows the School to continue its three-year Master of Architecture Program, while offering additional programs for continuing education, including an 8-week non-degree Immersion Program. Stuart Graff, CEO of the Foundation, applauded the decision. “This action is a result of a collaborative process between the Higher Learning Commission, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, and the School. We are pleased this decision results in the continuation of a legacy of education that Frank Lloyd Wright began in 1932 with his apprentices,” said Graff. “Together, the Foundation and the School are now able to extend this approach throughout the education continuum. As the Foundation creates unique K-12 experiences that challenge students to think about the world in new ways, the School will continue to provide exceptional programs for advanced education.” As Graff indicates, the Foundation will expand its own STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) education programming for K-12 students. Since gaining accreditation in 1987, the School has operated as part of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation. In a proposal submitted in February of 2016, and after responding to communications from the HLC regarding revised accreditation standards, the School demonstrated its ability to operate independently from the Foundation. With the approval of this plan, the School will begin to transition to an independent entity by August 2017 while providing a seamless educational experience for both existing and incoming students. The Foundation will continue to be a supportive partner as the School works to provide experimental and experiential higher education in architecture. It will continue to donate space at Taliesin and Taliesin West for the School’s operations and providing other support to the School. Aaron Betsky, Dean of the School, said the HLC decision will benefit all parties. “Frank Lloyd Wright established his apprenticeship program to encourage innovative and creative thinking that furthers the School’s mission of learning how to create a more sustainable, open, and beautiful designed environment. We look forward to working with the Foundation and building on this legacy at his homes, Taliesin and Taliesin West.” Betsky and Graff both expressed gratitude for the work of the HLC and the time dedicated to reaching an outcome that satisfies all parties. The School and Foundation will work together over the next several months to allow the School to begin its new academic year as an independent institution beginning in August 2017. The Letter from the HLC can be read: Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture Action LetterExpand
__The Frank Lloyd Wright School of ArchitectureJuly 11, 2016
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ANNOUNCES CHRIS LASCH AS DIRECTOR OF ACADEMIC AFFAIRSSCOTTSDALE, Arizona
The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture is pleased to announce the addition of Chris Lasch as its new director or academic affairs. In this role, Lasch will work with Dean Aaron Betsky to support and facilitate the educational programs of the School, with a primary focus on curriculum and assessment, faculty and staff support and retention on both campuses, and strategic development of the academic environment. He will also become one of the School’s core faculty, teaching design studios and other courses. Lasch is a partner in ArandaLasch, a design studio dedicated to experimental research and innovative building. Established in 2003 with Partner Benjamin Aranda, the studio designs buildings, installations, furniture and objects through a deep investigation of structure and materials. They have been winners of the United States Artists Award and Young Architects + Designers Award in 2007, the Architectural Record Design Vanguard Award in 2014, the Architectural League Emerging Voices Award in 2015, and were named one of Architectural Digest’s 2014 AD Innovators. Their early projects are the subject of the best-selling book, Tooling. ArandaLasch has exhibited their work internationally in galleries, museums, design fairs and architecture biennials. Their work is part of the permanent collection of the The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Dean Betsky believes that Lasch brings an approach to architecture that extends Frank Lloyd Wright’s love of craft, geometry, and space, using new technologies to take design both deeper and further. “We are excited to have Chris join us here at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture,” says Betsky. “He brings skills, experience, and international reputation that will be of invaluable importance to us as we seek to all learn how to make an architecture that is more sustainable, open, and beautiful.” Lasch will help lead a core faculty who are also practicing architects. They bring to the learning environment not only the principles and methodology of architecture, but their real worldexperience.
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__Design future Dallas July12, 2017
CROWDUS COMPETITION
The Crowdus Street Design Competition asked teams of Designers, Artists, and Creatives to redesign Crowdus St. as a visionary project for pedestrians in the heart of Deep Ellum.For all of the growth and improvement in businesses, residents, restaurants, and bars, Deep Ellum lacks a public gathering space. Crowdus Street is located in the heart of Deep Ellum, running cross-grain to the primary vehicular roadways, and has great potential to become a pedestrian-only thoroughfare. From ReelFX Creative Studios to Deep Ellum Brewing Company, there are eight blocks that might be redesigned to add to the vibrant future of Deep Ellum. In Spring 2015, a collaborative team created a prototype of what the future of Crowdus Street could look like . Based on the success of this temporary project, we proposed an open design competition to solicit ideas for a permanent design. The Crowdus Street Design Competition asked teams of Designers, Artists, and Creatives to redesign Crowdus St. as a visionary project for pedestrians in the heart of Deep Ellum. In undertaking the task of hosting and facilitating the competition, certain goals came to theforefront.
* Preserve the cultural heritage of Deep Ellum. * Protect the neighborhood’s history and authenticity, while allowing room for its identity to evolve . * Create a practical framework and provide real useable space to residents & visitors. With these goals in mind, congratulations to the three winning teams of the Crowdus Street Design Competition.COMPETITION RESULTS
1ST PLACE: NEO-NATIVE _From the team:_ Sunlight glances off the sleek chrome of the enormous ring suspended above the intersection before me. As I press the crosswalk button, the cars slow to a halt, and I pass a sculpture of weathered wood posts crafted with rusted steel to support the hoop floating above. I remember the first time I visited Crowdus Park ten years earlier. In response to the revival gaining in Deep Ellum, the park was a powerful intervention that transformed the chaotic mess of traffic and insufficient pedestrian space into the local pride it is today. Originally three blocks long, it’s grown organically over time, and the fused wood and steel sculptures are now faded with wear. The series of chrome rings above every intersection have maintained their sleek purity, and continue to reflect flashes of downtown, surrounding buildings, and curious crowds back at pedestrians; in contrast, the supporting beasts embody the handcrafted charm of the park’s industrial character. Layers of graffiti tell the rich history of the cultures and creatives that have grown roots in the neighborhood, and the strains of a local band performing nearby infuse the air. As I walk beneath the dappled shade of trees lining the street and pass by the group of street musicians, I become an essential part of the fabric of this city and the lives present here. 2ND PLACE: BREAKING GROUND _From the team: _We are “Breaking Ground” on a new vision for Deep Ellum – one that brings together the community in a walkable, vibrant environment. The intent is to create a linear park that is well integrated in the historic industrial framework, respecting Deep Ellum’s past while providing an exciting new destination and greater connectivity to the broader city. People are now the priority. The Ground that was once focused on cars can now be used for a variety of pedestrian activities and community events. Adjacent businesses can spill out to energize the space. Underutilized areas such as alleys and parking lots are activated and incorporated to firmly root our design into the Deep Ellum neighborhood. Native vegetation and innovative stormwater solutions improve the urban ecosystem and offer a much needed reprieve from the harsh urbanenvironment.
This transformed street will serve as a catalyst for the rest of Deep Ellum, encouraging more ground to be broken where the community cantake root and grow.
3RD PLACE: SECRET GARDEN _From the team: _When you turn the corner from a noisy vehicular roadway, there is a secret garden in the front of you- Crowdus Street Corridor. A sea of sphere lighting forms an intricate canopy, it leads you to a mysterious space. A landscape rail with movable containers in the middle of the corridor from Indiana Street all the way to Malcom X Boulevad. The container is a Pandora’s Box- it can be opened as passionate as a live stage or as calm as a gallery; it can be opened.in the day time as a cafe or night time as a bar. When you get tired, you can relax on the bench. The bench with vegetation has an endless combination of methods and fresh with possibilities. The facade on both sides of the corridor display jazz and blues musicians’ class moments. It’s like a black and white movie which recalls the history of Deep Ellum. Thousands of colorful musical notes on the mural wall compose new music for the future ofthis area.
When you are rambling on the Crowdus Street Corridor, how far would you get to the place where you can’t remember, and you can’tforget?
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HISTORY
Deep Ellum developed in the late 1800s as a residential and commercial neighborhood on the east side of Downtown Dallas. The early 1900s flourished with industrial development, serving factory facilities for the Continental Gin Company and Henry Ford’s Model T. Deep Ellum’s real claim to fame was found in its music. By the 1920s, the neighborhood had become a hotbed for early jazz and blues musicians, hosting the likes of Blind Lemon Jefferson, Huddie “Leadbelly” Ledbetter, Texas Bill Day and Bessie Smith. Following WWII, the success of Deep Ellum started to fade. The ever-growing availability and use of the automobile led to the removal of the Houston and Texas Central railroad tracks — to make way for the Central Expressway– and by 1956 the streetcar line had been removed. Businesses closed and residents moved, and in 1969 a new elevation of Central Expressway truncated Deep Ellum, completely obliterating the 2400 block of ElmStreet.
Today, the neighborhood is on the upswing in a state of transition. Large scale residential and multifamily construction, streetscape improvements, and a large commission of mural artwork is contributing to Deep Ellum’s growth as a cultural center in the City of Dallas. For all of the growth and improvement in businesses, residents, restaurants, and bars, Deep Ellum lacks a public gathering space. Crowdus Street is located in the heart of Deep Ellum, running cross-grain to the primary vehicular roadways, and has great potential to become a pedestrian-only thoroughfare. From ReelFX Creative Studios to Deep Ellum Brewing Company, there are eight blocks that might be redesigned to add to the vibrant future of Deep Ellum. The Crowdus St. Design Competition asks teams of Designers, Artists, and Creatives to redesign Crowdus St. as a visionary project for pedestrians in the heart of Deep Ellum.PRIZE
There is a $1000 cash prize for the winning team and the potential to move on to further stages of design development.DEADLINE
The competition deadline will be February 29, 2016ENTRY FEES
Teams wishing to submit an entry will pay a $35 entry fee upon submission via PayPal. More information on how to submit will follow.ANNOUNCEMENT PARTY
The announcement party will be held on March, 24th, 2016 from 6-8pm at Common Desk in Deep Ellum to announce the winner of the competition. 2919 Commerce Street, Dallas.Expand
__IE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNFeb 23, 2018
I HASHTAG, THEREFORE I AM MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION ARE GAINING INFLUENCE IN ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN, IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE PROFESSIONALS HAVE THE TOOLS TO SHIFT FROM TELL-AND-SELL TO ESTABLISHING RELATIONSHIPS BASED ON SHARING KNOWLEDGE AND BUILDING RAPPORT. Until the 1970s, architects were unable to use advertising to promote their businesses. Because of the importance of colleague endorsements, the sector developed internal communication methods that often involved the use of peculiar jargon intelligible only to other architects. Paradoxically, architecture and design rely on powerful communication tools such as models and sketches, in addition to films, opinion pieces, participation in exhibitions, conferences, and of course more obvious media such as brochures, websites and variationssuch as blogs, etc.
What’s clear is that nowadays there are numerous opportunities to share opinions and discuss projects. The past few years have seen an explosion of architecture and design websites with new profiles, including Houzz, Archello, Archtizer, Dexigner, World Architects, and American Architects. And of course, we still have traditional communication platforms, websites, and blogs, as well as social media like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Nevertheless, although the opportunities to tell are more numerous than ever before, the key is to move from tell-and-sell to interacting, developing relationships, and building knowledge. This is a difficult challenge that requires communicative intelligence and the ability to choose your conversations wisely, focusing on those which are of particular interest. OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES There are many instruments that can help you communicate—platforms, films, networks, websites, conferences—but the key is to build a relationship with your target audience. The goal is to be aware of the person you’re communicating with, so that you can collaborate with them rather than having a one-way connection. The idea is to build and share knowledge in a participatory manner, to contribute to conversations and lead them, if possible—or at least know who’s leading them—in order to participate more or less actively. To do this, you have to be aware of the environments of interest and the main influencers in each area. All these routes involve potential benefits in terms of building your brand, showing who you are and how you want to be seen, and then analyzing and promoting this identity. You need others to choose you, so you have to stand out from competing services and other options. This involves an exercise in introspection, with a view to determining the precise ways in which you are different. Otherwise, you’ll end up competing in categories such as price—which may be precisely the area in which you are different. To quote Seth Godin: “A brand is the set of expectations, memories, stories and relationships that, taken together, account for a consumer’s decision to choose one product or service over another. If the consumer (whether it’s a business, a buyer, a voter or a donor) doesn’t pay a premium, make a selection or spread the word, then no brand value exists for thatconsumer.”
We live in the hashtag age. To further your goals, you must label yourself, your company, your work, and tell the story of who you are and what you do. I’m not just referring to hashtags associated with the labels that we use online, in the world of social media, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. What I’m proposing is a broader concept: hashtagging as a call to action. It’s an action that involves generating your own label or banner, ratcheting up the concept of the brand, and discussing a proposition that labels you in the most comprehensive and dynamic sense: hashtagyourself, hashtagyourcompany, or hashtagyourwork. In other words, be very aware of what you are, what you do, and how you do it, in order to configure and convey a legitimate value proposition that is true to who you are. Four architects—Bjarke Ingels, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster, and Frank Gehry—are good examples of hashtaggers, in this sense of this word.>
INGELS AND KOOLHAAS
The work of the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels symbolizes a strange yet playful optimism. It is practical and immediately accessible. His personal brand—often confused with that of his company, Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)—is cheerful and approachable. To some extent, these labels also encompass the company. BIG’s brand or label is so evident that people who aspire to work for the group think that doing something fresh and fun is the best way to have an impact and get a job offer. A clear example is the architect Étienne Duval, who made an ingenious rap video to send BIG a message about his skills and abilities. As Duval noted, to catch a big fish you need a big hook. He approached his cover letter to BIG in the same way he would approach an architectural project: looking for the key criteria and playingwith them.
Rem Koolhaas is another architect who is good at self-labeling. This is a different sort of example, because Koolhaas participates incessantly in conferences and continues to use traditional channels in some ways, but he has still managed to project his image via film. In fact, his son has just released a documentary about him, entitled REM. Along similar lines are the films about important architects made by the French-Italian artists Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoine. One of their works, Houselife Koolhaas, is a film about a private home built by Rem in Bordeaux. The key in this case is that the filmmakers used everyday people—such as the housekeeper—who have some connection to the house. This is a very human way of showcasing the property, focusing on its use. Bjarke Ingels and Rem Koolhaas are professionals who, in addition to making a splash in the audiovisual and online world, continue to participate in—and even lead—academic discussions. They have offline, real-life, academic versions of themselves that remain accessible, because they remain interested in participating and building knowledge through collaboration: that’s perfecthashtagging.
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FOSTER AND GEHRY
Through a neo-futurist skyscraper designed for the reinsurance company Swiss Re in the heart of London’s financial district—informally known as “The Gherkin”—Norman Foster reaffirmed himself professionally in the eyes of a mass audience as someone capable of tackling highly complex architectural challenges and emerging victorious. The project is an example of how a building can have a big impact on an architect’s career, on the overall image of a company, and even on a city’s brand, by shaping its skyline. To unveil and introduce the building, a film made with Foster’s participation in 2005 reveals the tension that built up between Swiss Re, the mayor, the funders, and the architectural firm. The film shows how the various elements converged before the architect ultimately triumphed over myriad difficulties. This element must be taken into account in projects that involve integrating a building into the urban environment of a major city, with the building sitting in the eye of the storm. Managing this situation entails additional complexity in the face of public opinion and the various stakeholders involved. That’s what Foster represents. In short, he’s a great hashtagger! Frank Gehry, for his part, is an architect who is controversial and in many ways unique. He represents the real as opposed to the digital or the world of social media. Gehry is defined by his pen-and-paper sketches, which he posts on his website. In his work, Gehry starts with these sketches, which he then transforms into models, which are later computerized. The documentary Sketches of Frank Gehry, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, was directed by Gehry’s friend Sydney Pollack. Gehry considered Pollack to be the ideal person for the job because he had no knowledge of architecture and had never done any work on the subject. Gehry’s designs are innovative and risky, but also functional. The architect defends his use of drawings and the practice of transforming them into a design. This is a good example of hashtagging, as it involves transferring Gehry’s personal brand to the title of the documentary and to the Internet. Other lesser-known professionals trained in architecture and design have also managed to achieve international fame thanks to the importance they have placed on communication and the sharing of knowledge. Examples include Nicholas Negroponte, best known as the founder and director of the MIT Media Lab; the fashion designer and film director Tom Ford; and the Indian businessman Ratan Tata, creator of the Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car. Making it look easy is the hard part. Hashtagging is an art that requires awareness of the environment and of oneself, as well as the generosity to share and “converse.” New technologies have helped to create more opportunities for hashtagging, but we must remember that the ultimate responsibility lies with one’s own communicativeintelligence.
CRISTINA MATEO, Executive Director of IE School of Architecture andDesign .
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__The Frank Lloyd Wright School of ArchitectureApril 24, 2017
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ANNOUNCES NEW BRANDING SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, April 24, 2017 – As part of its evolution into an independent graduate school of architecture, the professional architecture program established by Frank Lloyd Wright and carried on through the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation (Foundation) is redefining and representing its identity this spring. The school will now be known as the School of Architecture at Taliesin, acknowledging its origins in Frank Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin Fellowship, the apprenticeship program established at his homes, Taliesin and Taliesin West, in Spring Green, WI andScottsdale, AZ.
“Adopting this new name, the School of Architecture at Taliesin, helps us to secure our identity as an experimental, forward-looking architecture program that is deeply rooted in the Taliesin Fellowship,” says Aaron Betsky, dean of the School. “The process in which we developed our new relationship with the Foundation and our accreditors has been an opportunity to closely examine who we are as a school and how to best position ourselves to advance our mission and create quality educational experiences for our students.” Acclaimed designer Michael Bierut, partner at Pentagram, created a new visual identity for the School. Bierut says the new graphic identity builds on the heritage of this extraordinary institution and looks towards the future. “The solidity of the horizontally-oriented typography evokes the desert landscape that inspired Frank Lloyd Wright and his students,” says Bierut. “The variety of forms that these letterforms will assume is meant to indicate the capacity for experiment and invention that has always been at the heart of the Taliesin experiment.” “Dean Betsky and the School have been excellent partners of the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation,” says Foundation President & CEO Stuart Graff. “As we celebrate the 150thanniversary of Frank Lloyd Wright’s birth this year, we are highlighting the profound impact Wright has on the way we continue to build and live. We believe that Wright is more relevant today than he was even in his own lifetime, and the School of Architecture at Taliesin is a prime example of his ongoing impact and contribution to innovative architecture anddesign.”
Betsky says that while the legal and financial relationship between the School and the Foundation will change as the School becomes an independent entity, the spirit of collaboration between the leadership and the Boards of the two organizations will continue. The organizations will to work closely together on programming and other initiatives. He adds, “We are truly grateful to the leadership of the Foundation for making this a seamless and effective transition.” The Foundation owns both of Wright’s homes Taliesin in Spring Green, Wis. and Taliesin West in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Graff says the School is vital to preserving the spirit of Wright’s legacy on both properties. “We look at Taliesin and Taliesin West as living laboratories that continue to advance Wright’s principles,” he says. “Seeing the next generation of great architects working and living in these settings is as important to their preservation as maintaining the walls that hold them up.” When the transition is completed in August, the School will also see some changes at the leadership levels. Betsky will become President of the School of Architecture at Taliesin, while Chris Lasch, currently the director of academic affairs, will take over as Dean. Betsky sees this as a period of unprecedented opportunity. “We are excited to position the institution as one of the best experimental architecture schools in the country, a place where we all together learn how to make the designed environment more sustainable, just and beautiful.”Expand
__Future cities Nov 21, 2017 RESIDENTS HELP ATLANTA SHAPE ITS RESILIENCE STRATEGY A new off-grid device named the NEWgenerator can generate power while cleaning wastewater, tackling the need for water and sanitation at the same time. The system was awarded a $1.14 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, providing the necessary funding for the next generation of the device in Durban, South Africa. “I believe that it has great potential for accomplishing high performance, small-scale wastewater treatment and water recycling, bypassing vast, expensive sewer networks that are difficult to achieve in many developing countries,” Daniel Yeh, developer of the system,said.
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__Taubman College July 11, 2017 LETTIERI AWARDED 2017 GRAHAM FOUNDATION GRANT FOR PUBLICATION “WATER AND THE CITY” CO-AUTHORED WITH ADEYEMI Suzanne Lettieri, 2016 – 2018 Michigan-Mellon Design Fellow, and architect, designer, and urbanist Kunlé Adeyemi, have been awarded a 2017 Graham Foundation Grant for _Water and the City_.
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_Water and the City_ is a comprehensive publication documenting parts of the ongoing research project African Water Cities, a unique and innovative body of work initiated Adeyemi, in 2011. This research conducted by Adeyemi’s practice, NLÉ, explores the impacts of urbanization, housing shortages, scarce resources, and climate change in African cities and communities on or along water. The research reveals such facts as that the fastest economic and population growing African cities are also some of the most vulnerable to climate change. On this premise,_Water and the City_ continued in multiple architecture studios in 2014 – 2015 led by Adeyemi and Lettieri at Cornell University. In these studios they worked with various local partners, focused on Dar el Salaam, Tanzania and Lagos, Nigeria. By conducting macro-scale investigations at the convergence of rapid urbanization and climate change, the research tackles social, economic, and environmental challenges and opportunities that shape the development of these cities and neighbouring communities. The overarching aim of _Water and the City_ is to identify and bridge critical gaps in infrastructure to stimulate sustainable developments, and provide alternative methods of thinking, building, and living onand by water.
MORE ABOUT SUZANNE LETTIERI: Suzanne Lettieri is a principal of the design office JE-LE, and is a Michigan-Mellon Design Fellow at Michigan’s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, having previously served as Visiting Critic at Cornell University’s Department of Architecture. She received her MArch from Cornell University, and has also worked at the OMA New York, Biber Architects, and CODA. MORE ABOUT KUNLÉ ADEYEMI: Kunlé Adeyemi is the founder/principal of NLÉ and Aga Khan Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His notable works include Makoko Floating School, an innovative prototype floating structure located on the lagoon heart of Lagos, Nigeria. This acclaimed project is part of an extensive research project, African Water Cities, developed by NLÉ, an architecture, design, and urbanism practice founded by Adeyemi in 2010, with a focus on developing cities and communities. NLÉ recently launched MFS III—a new, improved iteration of Makoko Floating School—at this year’s la Biennale di Venezia, for which it was awarded the Silver Lion. Other projects include Chicoco Radio Media Center, an amphibious community building in Port Harcourt, Nigeria; ROCK Lakefront Kiosk in Chicago; the CDL Head Office in Lagos, Nigeria; and the Serpentine Summer House at the Royal KensingtonGardens in London.
Kunlé Adeyemi will also be at Taubman College to give a public lecture on Friday, November 10, 2017: 2017 John Dinkeloo MemorialLecture
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__Inform Interiors Oct 25, 2017 DESIGNED LEADERSHIP BOOK LAUNCH Video of our October 5th event, Designed Leadership book launch, with the wonderful Moura Quayle. Designed Leadership from Inform Interiors on Vimeo .Expand
__Design future Dallas June27, 2017
REIMAGINE CROWDUS
_Creating in collaboration with Ryan Roettker, Donny Zellefrow, Andrew Barnes, and Nick Thorn._ Following the success of the Crowdus Street Design Competition, Design Future Dallas, the Deep Ellum Foundation, Gensler, and Studio Outside worked together to test their ideas for the future of Crowdus Street. The project is called Reimagine Crowdus, and for the entire month of September in 2016, the street was closed to cars and become a prototype of a pedestrian only public space in the heart of DeepEllum.
www.reimaginecrowdus.com As part of the event, Design Future Dallas designed colorful art installation made of neon flagging tape to be hung across CrowdusStreet.
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Dallas Observer: Reimagine Crowdus Could Be a Glimpse Into the Futureof Deep Ellum
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__Inform Interiors Oct 25, 2017 On October 26th from 5 to 7pm, join us for the launch of the latest in the SALA Modern House Series, Copp House by Adele Weder with photography by Michael Perlmutter. In 1950, a young Vancouver architectural apprentice was handed a small house project that his boss was too busy to take on. The apprentice, Ron Thom, took the simple plan and rectangular foundation that had been roughed in, and transformed it into a groundbreaking work of architecture that gained national fame. Inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, but using local wood and paying careful attention to its verdant oceanside setting, Thom created a landmark for the new architectural movement known as West Coast Modernism. The client, Dr. Harold Copp, was himself a trailblazer, the first head of the physiology department in the University of British Columbia’s new Faculty of Medicine and a research pioneer. Generously illustrated with both vintage and contemporary architectural photography, line drawings, and photographs of the architect and residents, The Copp House is the story of a cultural landmark on the shores of Vancouver. Please fill out this form to RSVP for this event: https://goo.gl/forms/gqERQf5eCtZUWglw2Expand
__Langarita Navarro July 6,2017
‘EN MOVIMIENTO’ EUROPAN 13 BARCELONA, ESPAÑA ARQUITECTOS: María Langarita y Víctor Navarro COLABORADORES: Ramón Martínez, Angela Juarranz, Jacob Kummer,Guillermo Diego
Una ciudad adaptable, es una ciudad capaz de gestionar los tiempos de cambio y actualización a la velocidad que sus habitantes demandan. Una ciudad autosuficiente es una ciudad que piensa sus ciclos de vida sincronizados con los de la producción de los recursos.DESVELAR EL PAISAJE
El paisaje y los edificios fijan en un lugar único la experiencia del habitar. Gracias a herramientas como Google Earth la visión global del territorio está al alcance de nuestra mano. Pero esta poderosa imagen no está presente en el interior de nuestras ciudades. Paseando por el centro urbano, no podemos saber qué lugar ocupamos dentro del ecosistema total. La ciudad está separada del paisaje por un elemento no reclamado por ninguno de los agentes que construyen la ciudad: el pavimento no planificado. Proponemos una ciudad que se construye bajo las bases de una convivencia ciudad-paisaje. El hoy reclama la presencia del paisaje en nuestra vida cotidiana para que, sumado al resto de los elementos del patrimonio cultural que custodiamos como sociedad, activar la necesidad de su cuidado. Ahora bien, el paisaje no ha sido destruido por el avance de la ciudad: aguarda latente debajo del pavimento. Podemos crecer sin sustituir, podemos crecer añadiendo y dejando ser. CIRCULACIONES. Limitar las bandas de rodadura, vías, plataformas, a lo mínimo imprescindible para el perfecto funcionamiento de laciudad.
CIUDAD INMUEBLE. Construcciones, contenedores, equipamientos de promoción o gestión pública y privada coexisten en el territorio. Entre ellos, piezas de patrimonio y realizaciones de arquitectura ordinaria informan y transportan en el tiempo herramientas de la cultura sobre la que opera nuestra sociedad. PAISAJE LOCAL. Topografía, orografía, características hidrográficas, clima, altitud, latitud, tradición cultural definen la evolución del biotopo de crecimiento espontáneo y de los cultivos característicos de un lugar. El paisaje geolocaliza un lugar en el mundo y al mismo tiempo nos construye como ciudadanos globales. La naturaleza no ha desaparecido del archivo, aguarda en mapas y relatos y quedará recogida en el Plan. PAVIMENTO SIN PLAN. Detener el crecimiento espontáneo y no planeado de pavimento. Reducir paulatinamente su presencia en la ciudad aprovechando cada oportunidad de intervención. Al retirar el pavimento emerge el Plan. Junto al Plan aparece el paisaje y con él la ciudad se vuelve blanda, aumentan los espacios de oportunidad, transformables, apropiables por la actividad de la vida cotidiana, adaptables en el tiempo. APILAR SUELO URBANO. El estado actual del barrio muestra las tensiones entre las escalas de los modelos urbanos, el que estaba y el que está por venir. El proyecto pretende que coexistan cualidades de ambas escalas. Los solares apilados definen la volumetría de alta densidad que dará imagen al nuevo barrio mientras que los desarrollos de edificación interior buscan replicar los modos de relación y sociabilidad que se daban en la ciudad previa. Los edificios convencionales son el resultado de una superposición de capas de diferente durabilidad. La velocidad con la que cada una de ellas cambia está definida por la forma tradicional de construir. La posibilidad de que estos edificios sean adaptados es costosa y suele estar desacompasada. Proponemos sincronizar los tiempos de cambio y obsolescencia agrupando, por un lado, terreno y estructura para una larga duración y por otro, pensar las instalaciones, cerramientos y distribución espacial en una misma temporalidad, de tecnología blanda y de fácil transformación por parte de los usuarios. Parte del suelo que hemos devuelto al paisaje, podrá ser apilado en edificios de promoción pública. Con genética de ciudad, el edificio cuenta con forjados equipados que se comportarán como solares preparados para ser desarrollados por agentes independientes. El potente esqueleto distribuirá las instalaciones urbanas y al mismo tiempo definirá la escala de la construcción en relación con el barrio y será su imagen principal. Sobre los forjados/solares se podrán ubicar programas heterogéneos de viviendas, viviendas taller, comercios, negocios, áreas de Un formato de alquiler o cesión de solares permitirá que mediante sistemas de construcción de código abierto el edificio pueda ser intervenido por agentes diversos y pequeña escala manteniendo el vital tejido menudo de inteligencias locales. La estrategia propuesta puede coexistir con otros modelos de desarrollo urbano del barrio. Su intención no es por lo tanto crear criterios estéticos sino por el contrario aumentar la diversidad y adaptabilidad de creando una estructura que asimile con rapidez las nuevas necesidades. La ciudad adaptable requiere de estrategias de construcción rápida, económica y en sincronía con los ciclos de vida de los materiales.Expand
__Taubman College July 13, 2017 RESEARCH CLUSTER: WATER Water is an invaluable and finite resource. The built and natural environments cannot exist without it, yet human interaction with water comes with risks. Finding new ways to live with water is among the most urgent priorities in the planning of urban regions across theglobe.
Faculty engage in a diverse set of water-driven research initiatives across scales and geographies. We study, for example, how addressing climate change can help communities develop resilience planning strategies; how increasing population growth and water consumption in emerging nations affect sustainable water supplies; and what opportunities exist for innovative water infrastructure systems in urban areas. We develop innovative visualization techniques to convey the complexity and dynamic nature of urban-water interactions. We develop new planning techniques to assess risk, address vulnerability, and gauge the fiscal impacts of shoreline development, and we assess the planning, design, policy, and legal implications in their implementation. Our work also reveals the symbolic dimensions of water, its cultural and phenomenological resonances, and its place in social and environmental advocacy. These research initiatives compare data from hundreds of cities across the globe while also engaging in sustained regional, watershed and urban level planning in geographies across the Americas, Europe, and Africa. We highlight especially the environmental and equity agendas facing communities within the Great Lakes Basin – our home, and a critical region containing 20% of the global and 80% of the nationalfresh water supply.
Understanding the important role water will play in the generation of new urbanisms requires collaboration. Our faculty combine quantitative and qualitative methods, we forge partnerships with professional practitioners and local organizations, and we integrate knowledge from the environmental and social sciences with insights from city planning, design, policymaking, and law. URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING FACULTY WHO DO RESEARCH CONCERNING WATERISSUES:
* Maria Arquero de Alarcon* Margaret Dewar
* Kimberley Kinder
* Larissa Larsen
* Richard Norton
FACULTY BOOKS ON WATER: The Politics of Urban Water: Changing Waterscapes in Amsterdam Author: Kimberley Kinder Published: May 2015, University of Georgia PressExpand
__The Frank Lloyd Wright School of ArchitectureJan 12, 2017
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE ANNOUNCES SPRING 2017TALIESIN FORUM
SCOTTSDALE, Arizona, January 12th, 2017 The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture is happy to announce the 2017 Taliesin Forum. The Forum features ten discussions with prominent architects during the Spring 2017 season. Throughout the Spring our guest lecturers will discuss “Difficult Architecture forDifficult Times.”
The lectures are possible through the generous support of the Rio Salado Architecture Foundation, The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and the Arizona Community Foundation. Lectures are free, and open to the public by reservation. Reservations can be made by emailing TaliesinForum@taliesin.edu. Space is LimitedExpand
__IE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNMarch 21, 2018
ARCHETYPES – AN IE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN WEBSHOW The Archetypes webshow is a series of episodes that includes talks with notorious professionals from the architecture and design industrysuch as
or Satoru Matsuzaki from MUJI Check all the episodes at our Youtube channel.Expand
__RMIT Nov 30, 2017
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__Future cities Nov 21, 2017 AUGMENTED REALITY TO HELP BLIND PEOPLE SEE AGAIN Computer vision scientist Philip Torr and neuroscientist Stephen Hicksfrom the University of Oxford in England have developed smart AR glasses to help visually impaired and legally blind people to see again with the help of augmented reality technology. Their glasses recognize visual weaknesses in a person’s eyesight through a combination of smart computer vision algorithms and cameras, and then enhance those particular details. Users can then navigate more independently, avoid collisions in everyday life and improve sight in dark or low-light conditions.Expand
__IE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNApril 11, 2018
ONLINE MASTERCLASS WITH KAI-UWE BERGMANN (PARTNER AT BIG) ON APRIL 25 Kai-Uwe Bergmann is a Partner at BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group), bringing his expertise to proposals around the globe, including work in North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. In this Virtual Master Class, Kai-Uwe will delve into the making of BIG’s VIΛ 57 West built for the Durst Organization which embraces a union between the classic American skyscraper and the communal space of a European courtyard, creating a new building typology that fosters a heightened quality of life. The building occupies most of a city block at West 57th Street and the West Side Highway, permitting unobstructed vistas of the Hudson River Park. The 830,000-square-foot structure features a 22,000-square-foot pocket of lush green space and gardens within its centre. Referencing Copenhagen’s urban oases, the natural landscape includes both shaded and sunny spaces birthed by the unique angular forms of the building. The northeast corner of the 137-metre (450-foot) ‘Courtscraper’ stretches upwards to maximize views, creating a hyperbolic paraboloid. This configuration allows the low western sun to permeate the courtyard. The central stand-out space is directly connected to the lobby, which stands adjacent to a vibrant commercial program that includes a movie theatre and restaurant. Scattered around the building’s centre are multiple lounges and event spaces, a golf simulator, theatre room, pool, basketball court, gym, and game rooms. Owing to its distinct shape and twist on traditional Manhattan massing, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) named VIΛ the Best Tall Building in the Americas as part of its 2016 TallBuildings Award.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Kai-Uwe heads up BIG’s business development which currently has the office working in 20 different countries as well as overseeing BIG’sCommunications.
Registered as an architect in the USA and Canada, Kai-Uwe most recently contributed to the resiliency plan BIG U to protect 10 miles of Manhattan’s coastline. He complements his professional work through previous teaching assignments at University of Pennsylvania, University of Florida, IE University in Madrid, and his alma mater the University of Virginia. Kai-Uwe also sits on the Board of the Van Alen Institute, participates on numerous international juries and lectures globally on the works ofBIG.
ABOUT BIG
BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes, not least due to the influence of multicultural exchange, global economic flows, and communication technologies that together require new ways of architectural and urban organization. Some of BIG’s recently completed projects in Denmark include the LEGO Experience Center in Billund (2017), the Danish Maritime Museum (2014), and the Superkilen Park (2013). Work in North America includes buildings in New York City, Miami, San Francisco, Vancouver, andWashington DC.
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__Future cities Nov 21, 2017 EUROPEAN SOLAR SECTOR RAPIDLY GROWING AS MARKETS REALIZE BENEFITS A report released today from consultancy EY on behalf of Solar Power Europe is predicting a potential 470 percent growth in job creation in the solar sector in some countries by 2021. Spain, Greece, and Poland are on top of the list for rapid expansion over the coming years. In total, the report estimates 94,000 new solar jobs in Europein 4 years.
“2021 new installed capacities will be three to 20 times the capacities installed in 2016. This has a direct effect on engineering and installation related jobs,” the report says.Expand
__IE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGNApril 25, 2018
MASTER IN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT STUDENTS VISIT LISBON Each term, students of the Master in Real Estate Developmenthave
the chance to learn about large developments outside the classroom. During the second term, they visited LISBON to learn about KEY PROJECTS, to meet with the MAIN STAKEHOLDERS AND DECISION-MAKERS from private and public sectors, and also to ANALYZE REAL ESTATE TRENDS IN EUROPE.WHY LISBON?
After suffering from a nationwide recession for many years, Portugal’s economy is now in recovery mode. To that end, the spotlight has turned to architecture and design—for example, the regeneration of Lisbon’s waterfront. This project was one of the most successful long-term regeneration plans Europe has ever seen. Over the course of more than 30 years of ongoing transformation, including the EXPO of 1998, the city has slowly been reshaped, rekindling its relationship with the sea. The regeneration continues today, with new areas and projects like the new Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology (MAAT), or private developments like the Water City project. This initiative covers an area of 60 hectares (54 on land and 6 on water), and constitutes a development of 630,246 square meters of gross construction area above ground. This is currently the largest urban regeneration in Lisbon and includes housing, hotel, office, retail, cultural and leisurefacilities.
THE AGENDA:
* Master Class about the PROPERTY PERSPECTIVE IN PORTUGAL with CBRE MANAGING DIRECTOR FRANCISCO DE HORTA * Site visit to the LUXURY RESIDENTIAL BUILDING in AvenidaLiberdade.
* Visit to TORRE ORIENTE, RANKED THE BEST OFFICE BUILDING IN 2010 to see all the investment behind the development with the best performance in 2010 including an environmental certification. * ‘UNDERSTANDING LISBON’ Master Class with Architect, VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE IBERIAN DOCOMOMO AND IE UNIVERSITY’S PROFESSOR MIGUEL JUDAS.
* Guided Visit to MARGUEIRA, an abandoned SHIPYARD, key to understanding contemporary Lisbon. * Guided Visit to the WATER FRONT, THE LARGEST URBAN REGENERATION PROJECT IN LISBON that includes hotels, housing, offices, culturaland leisure areas.
* Guided Visit to the Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology (MAAT) , a power plant-turned-exhibition space designed by AL_Architects: * Site visit to CHIADO, a neighborhood affected by a fire in 1988 and renovated by architect Alvaro Siza Vieira. Now features THE HIGHEST REAL ESTATE PROPERTY PRICES IN PORTUGAL. Students in the program already visited BARCELONA to learn about its radical urban expansion plan. And in April, they will visit HAFENCITY, EUROPE’S LARGEST URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT IN HAMBURG, and also they will visit BERLIN TO LEARN ABOUT THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT BERLIN 2030, a strategy for the city’s future.Expand
__Taubman College July 11, 2017 AMBIGUOUS TERRITORY: ARCHITECTURE, LANDSCAPE, AND THE POSTNATURAL Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural is a symposium and concurrent exhibition that situates contemporary discourses and practices of architecture and landscape within the context of the Postnatural; the era of climate change, the Anthropocene, and altered ecologies. The project asks: In a time when humans have been fundamentally displaced from their presumed place of privilege, philosophically as well as experientially, should the disciplines of architecture and landscape architecture consider displacing themselves as well, in order to establish new affiliations and avail new ways to approach contemporary questions of design in relation to the environment? By bringing designers and scholars from these fields together the symposium and exhibition will highlight projects and ideas that are engaged with these issues from a variety of perspectives, ranging from scale and experience to questions of matter. Participants will present research and work that use tactics of mediation to understand, imagine, interrupt, and invent artifacts that exist at the large spatial and slow temporal scale of the Anthropocene. Ambiguous Territory will present design ideas and proposals from architects, artists, and landscape architects whose work challenges their disciplinary boundaries and long-held anthropocentric orientation and redefines the relationship between built and natural environments in an era of ecological anxiety.SYMPOSIUM KEYNOTES
LIAM YOUNG is an Australian born architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the think tank Tomorrows Thoughts Today , a group whose work explores the possibilities of fantastic, speculative and imaginary urbanisms. Building his design fictions from the realities of present Young also co runs the Unknown Fields Division , a nomadic research studio that travels on location shoots and expeditions to the ends of the earth to document emerging trends and uncover the weak signals of possible futures. He has been acclaimed in both mainstream and architectural media, including the BBC, NBC, Wired, Guardian, Time Magazine, and Dazed and Confused and his work has been collected by institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He has taught internationally including the Architectural Association and Princeton University and now runs an MA in Fiction and Entertainment at SciArc. Liam manages his time between exploring distant landscapes and visualising the fictional worlds he extrapolates from them. DAVID GISSEN is a historian and theorist with a specialty in environmental histories of American and European architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism in the 19th and 20th centuries. In addition to writing works of history and theory, David is committed to exploring alternative and experimental methods of documenting and reconstructing historical environments, spaces and objects, and often turns to digital tools and processes in these efforts. David is the author of the books _Manhattan Atmospheres: Architecture, The Interior Environment and Urban Crisis_ (University of Minnesota Press, 2014) and _Subnature: Architecture’s Other Environments_ (Princeton Architectural Press, 2009), and editor of the “Territory” issue of AD Journal (2010). He is a Professor at the California College of the Arts, and has been a visiting professor in the History Theory and Criticism of Art and Architecture, at MIT and the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University.Ellie Abrons
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principal of T+E+A+M and an Assistant Professor at the Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning. Recently, T+E+A+M won the 2017 Adrian Smith Prize for the Ragdale Ring, was commissioned to exhibit work in the Chicago Architecture Biennial, and built an installation in San Francisco for CCA’s Designing For Material Innovation exhibit. Bradley Cantrell is a landscape architect and scholar whose work focuses on the role of computation and media in environmental and ecological design. He received a BSLA from the University of Kentucky and an MLA from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has held academic appointments at the Harvard GSD, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Louisiana State University Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture. Rania Ghosn is partner of Design Earth and Assistant Professor at MIT School of Architecture + Planning. She holds a doctor of design degree from Harvard GSD. Ghosn is editor-in-chief of _New Geographies 2: Landscapes of Energy_ and co-author of _Geographies of Trash_ and _Two Cosmograms_. Ariane Lourie Harrison is an architect, educator and cofounder of Harrison Atelier (HAT). HAT explores the posthuman interpenetration of technology, human and animal life in architecture. Ariane edited _Architectural Theories of the Environment: Posthuman Territory_ (Routledge, 2013) and recently contributed to _Cosmopolitical Design_ (Ashgate, 2016) and Aesthetic Activism (2017). She has taught at the Yale School of Architecture since 2006, and had taught at Pratt and MIT.Christopher Hight
is an
Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies at the Rice University School of Architecture, where he is pursuing design and research on social, natural and subjective ecologies within the built environment. He has been a Fulbright Scholar and obtained a Masters from the Architectural Association, and a Ph.D. from the London Consortium at the University of London. His book, _Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics_ (2008), explored modern architecture’s contested humanism. El Hadi Jazairy is partner of Design Earth and Assistant Professor of Architecture at the University of Michigan. He holds a doctor of design degree from Harvard GSD. Jazairy is editor-in-chief of _New Geographies 4: Scales of the Earth_ and co-author of _Geographies of Trash_ and _Two Cosmograms_. Lydia Kallipoliti is an architect, engineer and scholar, currently an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Center for Architecture, Science and Ecology in New York. She is the founder of ANAcycle thinktank and the author of _Closed Worlds_, _Or_, _What is the Power of Shit_ for which she received the ACSA award for creativeachievement.
Sean Lally is the author of the book _The Air from Other Planets: A Brief History of Architecture to Come_ (2014). He is the host of the podcast ‘Night White Skies’ and is currently Associate Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago.Mark Lindquist
ASLA, PhD, is
an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. Mark’s research and teaching focus on the design and evaluation of high performance landscapes with an emphasis on multifunctional green infrastructure in urban areas. He is particularly interested in understanding how engaging with computation and data can transform the design process and decision making.Meredith L. Miller
is an architect and Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. She is currently developing an award-winning research project called Post Rock. She is a founding member of T+E+A+M . Ricardo de Ostos creates speculative fictions that envision architectural projects in shifting environmental and cultural contexts. He lives, works and teaches in London at both, the Architectural Association and The Bartlett School of Architecture. He is the co-director of NaJa & deOstos studio and co-author of ‘The Hanging Cemetery of Baghdad’ (Springer Wien/New York, 2006) ‘Ambiguous Spaces’ (Princeton Press, 2007) and ‘Scavengers and Other Creatures in Promised Lands’ (fall 2017,AA).
Jennifer Peeples
is a Full
Professor at Utah State University. Her work is in environmental rhetoric with a focus on the visual construction of toxicity. Her research has earned Book of the Year from the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association (2016) and the Christine L. Oravec Research Award in Environmental Communication (2011 & 2014).Alessandra Ponte
is a Full Professor at the École d’architecture, Université de Montréal. She has taught at Princeton University, Cornell University, Pratt Institute New York, the ETH Zurich, and at the IUAV Venice. Since 2008 she has been responsible for organizing the annual Phyllis Lambert Seminar. She has published extensively including a collection of essays on North American landscapes titled _The House of Light and Entropy_ (2014). She contributed to the Canadian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale Architecture in 2014 (_Arctic Adaptations_) and 2016(_Extraction_).
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