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Recent graduates Adel Zakout and Tom Mallory with design studio Despark have launched a major new architectural webdsite www.openbuildings.com
OpenBuildings is a new community-driven website that lists architecture from across the globe; be it historic, contemporary or conceptual, enabling a more open way to share architectural knowledge. OpenBuildings was founded by architects and architecture fanatics who became increasingly frustrated by the lack of online resources for learning about architecture and buildings. Until now this has been a protracted and fragmented experience, with no single website offering a serious informational resource. OpenBuildings solves this problem: an openly editable encyclopedia of buildings from around the world. OpenBuildings creates an intelligent, filterable building directory which allows visitors to quickly and easily find architecture that interests them. Content about buildings is aggregated from various online sources: Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo, Amazon and others to enrich the information available. Buildings are also displayed in different views; grid, list, slideshow and a Google Maps overlay, each of which allow for a different type of browsing experience. All of this content is made fully accessible through an iPhone application, soon to be available in the Apple App Store for free, allowing people to see what interesting architecture is around them at any given moment - to learn, comment and share. OpenBuildings aspires to become the online hub of the construction industry; the place to find indepth, factual information and content about buildings - to educate, inspire and inform. Check it out on www.openbuildings.com or submit your projects online on http://openbuildings.com/buildings/submit.html or via email to submit@openbuildings.com
Date Submitted: 29.07.2010
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International Collection of Potential Architecture: Call for Entries Deadline 5 September
The Architecture Foundation is collaborating with Oslo-based art and architecture organisation 0047 on a call for submissions to 0047's user-generated archive, the International Collection of Potential Architecture.
Thousands of hours are spent on the unrealised every year, both in the professional sphere and in the academic context. An enormous amount of work is produced presenting a future never to be. This work is often inaccessible, hidden and forgotten in the archives or servers of offices and architecture schools. To have an effect, these unbuilt works need to be made visible. If examining the unbuilt, can one find other ideas and values? Øystein Rø and Espen Røyseland, Directors, 0047
An online database of architectural efforts and designs which remain unrealised, the Collection gives visibility to alternative, speculative futures through projects that for a variety of reasons have never seen the light of day. The International Collection of Potential Architecture, established in 2007, features unrealised work by Snøhetta, Vito Acconci, Zaha Hadid, Jensen and Skodvin, JDS, Juan Herreros arquitectos and Spacegroup amongst many others.
The AF and 0047 invite architectural practices to submit their projects to the Collection, informing a public event and exhibition of selected new UK entries at the AF Project Space in October. A PDF of the call for entries can be downloaded from here. For questions or technical difficulties uploading projects please do not hesitate to contact Ingrid Brekkhus: ingrid@0047.org / 0047 24 20 11 47
Date Submitted: 26.07.2010
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Stratford Kiosks Competition: Call for entries by Architecture Foundation
The Architecture Foundation, on behalf of the London Borough of Newham and Design for London, is pleased to announce the launch of an open international competition to design a permanent group of kiosks in Meridian Square, Stratford, London, for use before, during and after the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Situated at the front of Stratford Regional Station and hosting a variety of uses, the kiosks will serve as key venues for information, orientation and services within the rapidly changing town centre. Sponsored by Design for London, the competition is being organised by The Architecture Foundation, on behalf of the London Borough of Newham. The design competition is open, but not limited to: architects, designers, artists, product designers, and related disciplines. The Architecture Foundation encourages design teams to suggest flexible and innovative yet realisable designs for this permanent structure. The competition will be open to entries from 13 July until 3 September. Entries will be judged anonymously by a panel including Sarah Wigglesworth, Director, Sarah Wigglesworth Architects; Philip Singleton, Divisional Director of Major Sites, LB Newham; Eleanor Fawcett, Head of Design for Legacy and Lower Lea Valley, Design for London; Christophe Egret, Partner, Studio Egret West; David Sterry, Premises Development Manager, Bus Infrastructure, Transport for London and Sarah Ichioka, Director, The Architecture Foundation. A shortlist of design teams will be awarded £1,500 each to develop their designs to RIBA stage D. A selection of entries will be on public display at Stratford Old Town Hall during the London Design Festival 2010 (18–26 September), where the public will be invited to comment on the designs. The winning team appointed to supervise the project through to RIBA stage L will be announced in October. Download brief at www.architecturefoundation.org.uk
Date Submitted: 22.07.2010
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Superfusionlab (Nathaniel Kolbe, ex-AA Unit Master and Lida Charsouli, DRL 2000) in London Festival of Architecture
The Bexhill Kiosk and Shelter project is exhibited at the Aram Gallery in the group exhibition Prototypes & Experiments, 1 July–28 August. www.thearamgallery.org
The Green & Blue hat for London is exhibited at the Hat-itecture Exhibition curated by you&me at Gabriela Ligenza Hats, 5 Ellis Street SW1X 9AL, 19 June–18 July. www.youandmearchitecture.com, http://www.lfa2010.org/event.php?id=303&name=hat_itecture Spontaneous Schooling Exhibition. London Metropolitan University Unit 11 work tutored by Nate and Lida is exhibited at Nous Gallery from 18 June–4 July. www.nousgallery.com
Date Submitted: 21.07.2010
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CoARQ invites architecture and design students to participate in international architecture student competition
Read more details at http://www.coarq.net/
Date Submitted: 21.07.2010
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EmTec tutors/students Christina Doumpioti, Evan Greenberg and Konstantinos Karatzas present research at ACADIA 2010 at Cooper Union, NY
Christina Doumpioti (EmTech Studio Master/EmTech MArch '08), Evan Greenberg (EmTech Tutor/EmTech MSc '08) and Konstantinos Karatzas (Emtech MSc '09) have been invited to present their current research titled 'Embedded Intelligence: Material Responsiveness in Facade Systems' at ACADIA 2010 at Cooper Union, New York.
Date Submitted: 21.07.2010
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Immanuel Koh (AA DRL 2010 & Shanghai Summer School tutor) teaching Summer Workshop at Moscow's Strelka Institute
Immanuel Koh has been invited to teach at this two-week workshop at the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture & Design in Moscow (Russian Federation), from 23 July to 6 August, curated by anOtherArchitect, Daniel Dendra.
More details at www.strelkainstitute.com/en/ and www.immanuelkoh.net
Date Submitted: 13.07.2010
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KABC/Anna Klingmann (AA Dipl 96/Summer School tutor 2004), completes first design phase of masterplan in Salalah, Oman
PSFK sat down with Anna Klingmann for a conversation covering trends in architecture as they pertain to sustainability and health. Read more at http://www.psfk.com/2010/06/how-branding-can-lead-to-healthier-architecture.html KABC has just completed the first design phase of a large masterplan on a 300,000-square-metre site in Salalah, Oman for a sustainable mixed-use project with an eco-park, a sustainable residential community and an eco-resort. For more information, see http://www.klingmann.com
Date Submitted: 07.07.2010
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AA School Receives Gift to Develop first UK Campus Dedicated to Design & Make Architecture
The Architecture Association School has been awarded its largest ever single gift in the form of a living legacy, generously given by the family of Norah Garlick, in the name of Norah’s parents, Horace and Ellen Hannah Wakeford. The gift will go towards the development of Hooke Park, the AA’s Dorset-based campus and working woodland, which it has owned since 2003. The Bequest will enable the AA School to begin work on its vision of turning Hooke Park into the UK’s first campus dedicated to returning contemporary architecture to a hand-on, experimental approach of alternative and ecologically-sustainable design and building.
Download full text on Press Release page
Date Submitted: 30.06.2010
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Rosa Ainley (AADP) nominated for Arts + Public Health award for Leysdown Rose-tinted regeneration project
Last year Rosa Ainley was lead artist with muf architecture/art on this arts-led regeneration project at Leysdown-on-sea, Isle of Sheppey. The first outcome Leysdown Rose-tinted, a £5 programme of interlinked 'incidents', has been nominated for a Royal Society for Public Health Award, to be announced at the end of July. The project, which was funded by CABE, is now entering implementation. Download Leysdown Rose-tinted here
Date Submitted: 28.06.2010
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Emanuel de Sousa (AA PhD candidate/HTS Tutor) was invited speaker at CCA, Montreal, part of his residency there, presenting the paper 'Heterotopia: Other Histories, 1960–present'
Emanuel's paper discussed the appropriation of the notion of Heterotopia in distinct branches of knowledge, namely in architecture. Emanuel de Sousa is the recipient of AA/CCA Research Collection Grant 2010.
More information on CCA at http://www.cca.qc.ca/en
Date Submitted: 21.06.2010
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Federico Rossi (AA Dipl 2007) is appointed Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at London Southbank University
Former AA Diploma 12 student, architect at Zaha Hadid Architects, Federico Rossi will run the new digital design media platform.
Date Submitted: 21.06.2010
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Emanuel de Sousa (AA HTS tutor and PhD candidate) was invited speaker at Sounds and Arts in City Spaces Symposium in Oporto
Emanuel de Sousa presented the paper titled 'Heterotopia: E-Motion Spatiality' at the symposium Emotion and the City' at Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo UP in Porto. His paper discussed the valorisation of the relational and the performative in the reassessment of spatial practices in the city. For more information on SACS, see http://sacsverona.altervista.org/site/
Date Submitted: 16.06.2010
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Superfusionlab (partners Nate Kolbe and Lida Vanessa Charsouli ex-AA tutors) selected to exhibit in Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2010
The two Superfusion models are displayed in the Lecture Room together in the Architecture section of the summer show.
www.superfusionlab.com www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/summer-exhibition/
Date Submitted: 16.06.2010
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Ricardo de Ostos, Inter 3 Unit master, lectures on Swarming Futures at RIBA Speakers Crescent, Sunday 20 June
The lecture is titled Swarming Futures: ambiguities and opportunities in designing Brazilian cities.
'Housed in a landmark pavilion structure designed by Price and Myers, RIBA London in conjunction with the Crown Estate Paving Commission and the British Council, host a 48 hour rolling programme of diverse talks and conversations. Nash Saturday offers a number of Capital themed discussions, while International Sunday, sponsored by Gleeds, features presentations from global practices that discuss The Welcoming City. To kick off International Sunday Ricardo de Ostos of London based studio, Naja & deOstos, explores the history of future visions embodied in Brazilian Cities, the role of speculation and large scale urban propositions embedded in Brazilian culture.' For more information on the lecture and the full schedule please visit http://www.lfa2010.org/event.php?id=312&name=speaker_s_crescent_brazil
Date Submitted: 16.06.2010
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Eleftherios Ambatzis (AA Dipl 2009) completes altar-sculpture project, on exhibition at Siza-designed Sao Bento Metro Station in Porto, until mid July
The project is an altar-sculpture which represents a set of wooden angels from the 15th–16th century (loan from the Pius XII Museum in Braga). The exhibition is on display until mid July at the Sao Bento Metro Station in Porto designed by Alvaro Siza. The exhibition was commissioned by Paulo Teixeira de Carvalho, General Manager of the Hotel Infante de Sagres for the Pope Benedict XVI visit to the city of Porto. The sculpture is inspired by the painting: 'Island of the dead' by Arnold Bocklin as an attempt to stretch the dead and hermetic nature of the exhibits. The angels are presented at different levels, each one in its own cave of isolation. Colour, texture and scale are juxtaposed and creat a surreal environment in the centre of the central station of the city. The sculpture was constructed in black glossy resin by the sculptor Paulo Moura.
Date Submitted: 15.06.2010
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AA Bookshop and Bedford Press at Off Press, Art Basel 41, 14–20 June
Bedford Press & AA Bookshop Off Press, Art Basel 41 14 to 20 June 2010 Art Unlimited Hall, Hall 1 Messe Basel, Messeplatz, 4005 Basel, CH Please join Bedford Press & AA Bookshop at Off Press, Art Basel 41. 'The first Off Press presentation focuses on art publishers and artist structures that literally or conceptually re-appropriate their means of production, i.e. acquiring small press facilities or printing devices, developing programs using new and old technological possibilities and defining a new zeitgeist in contemporary publishing …' From artbasel.com Art Unlimited and Art Statements Preview: Monday 14 June, 4.00–7.00 The AA Bookshop opened at the Architectural Association in January 2009. It is a leading specialist bookshop featuring AA & Bedford Press publications alongside a comprehensive selection sourced from international publishers ranging from the established to small independents. Off Press: www.artbasel.com
Date Submitted: 15.06.2010
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Fitzrovia Trail in London Architecture Festival, 19 June
Open studios include HOK, Make, Feilden Clegg Bradley For full details of all practices and galleries taking part, please go to www.lfa2010.org
Date Submitted: 14.06.2010
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