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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 Campus for 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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Alex de Rijke and Jeremy Dixon in National Gallery architecture events during London Festival of Architecture, 19 June to 4 July
The London Festival of Architecture takes place from 19 June to 4 July and will be a city-wide celebration of architecture in the capital. The National Gallery’s free events for its June Focus ‘Perspectives’ joins in with this celebration of architecture in the capital. Jeremy Dixon http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/points-of-view-18-june-2010
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/whats-on/calendar/points-of-view-25-june-2010
Date Submitted: 13.06.2010
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Mollie Claypool (AADRL/HTS tutor) invited to speak at International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture symposium at University of Newcastle
The symposium at the University of Newcastle takes place on 14 June 2010. Mollie will present a paper titled 'The Potentiality in Difference'.
For more information, see http://isparchitecture.wordpress.com/
Date Submitted: 08.06.2010
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Immanuel Koh (AADRL 2010) invited to speak at Architectural Research Think Tank Forum at National University of Singapore, 16 June
Immanuel Koh will be speaking on his DRL thesis project (Proto-Design Agenda) on 16 June. He has also been invited as a Visiting Researcher at Ambient Intelligence Lab at National University of Singapore's Interactive and Digital Media Institute (IDMI).
Below is the official link & details of his forthcoming presentation at NUS See more at http://www.arch.nus.edu.sg/artt/artt0910/313.htm www.immanuelkoh.net
Date Submitted: 08.06.2010
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Read international press coverage for Minimaforms: Enabling exhibition from AA
Coverage of the exhibition and work of brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos is featured in international journals including Blueprint, Space, Take Me, Design Boom, Not Cot, Motherboard and 99%. Exhibition mini-site:
Sample Journals: www.vmspace.com/eng/sub_emagazine_view.asp?category=people&idx=10676 http://the99percent.com/articles/6511/minimaforms-ideas-must-find-their-form http://joshspear.com/item/enabling-the-work-of-minimaforms-london/
Date Submitted: 08.06.2010
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DRL Director Theodore Spyropoulos invited by Institut für Raumexperimente, Studio Olafur Eliasson to Space Activism conference
Invited guests to the conference which takes place 8–10 June include Olafur Eliasson, Bjarke Ingles, Francois Roche, Tomas Saraceno and Vito Acconci.
Date Submitted: 07.06.2010
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Julika Gittner (AADipl 2005) curates The Stones of Menace, one-day event at St Pauls, Bow Common
The event will take place in the main space of St Pauls Bow Common, a New Brutalist church from the late 1950s and showcase work by architects, artists and members of the local community including Charbel Ackermann, Atelier 14, Jack Brindley, Eleanor Vonne Brown, Nim-Jo Chung, Garry Doherty, Sarah Entwistle, Julika Gittner, Liam Herne, Claire Hope, Candice Jacobs, Jane Madsen, Ioana Marinescu, Ruth Oldham, Alan Powers, Jon Purnell, Natasha Rees, Duncan Ross, Nikola Semotanova, William Titley, Stina Wirfelt
St Paul's Bow Common, Burdett Road, E3 faulted all architecture based on Greek or Roman models as 'utterly devoid of all life, virtue, honourableness, or power of doing good'. Thus debates about architectural aesthetics usually go hand in hand with convictions about architecture’s ideological foundation and social function. The austere architecture of New Brutalism is often vilified as resulting in landscapes of social neglect rather than securing the vibrant community life envisioned by its architects. This view has led to a continuing string of demolitions of landmark buildings from this period. Contemporary art on the other hand is expected to ‘stir things up’, to be radical, controversial and provocative. Art is often seen as a safe ‘valve’ for the expression of social discontent and criticism. Who could ever dream of destroying a seminal piece of art because it is deemed too radical? This show will explore a range of perspectives on the architecture of New Brutalism and on the role of art in relation to housing and regeneration in order to open up a debate on culture as a source of conflict and criticism. The event will take place in the main space of St Paul’s Bow Common and showcase work by architects, artists and members of the local community. It was curated by Scare in the Community and will be accompanied by a small publication. Curated by Julika Gittner and Jon Purnell For more information, see http://www.re-title.com/artists/julika-gittner2.asp
Date Submitted: 03.06.2010
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Havana … The Dead Body of Paradise
Inter 8 Exhibition runs Wednesday 2–Friday 18 June
'In the Kingdom of Heaven there is no grandeur to be won, inasmuch as there all is an established hierarchy, the unknown is revealed, existence is infinite, there is no possibility of sacrifice, all is rest and joy. For this reason, bowed down by suffering and duties, beautiful in the midst of his misery, capable of loving in the face of afflictions and trials, man finds his greatness, his fullest measure, only in the Kingdom of this World.' Alejo Carpentier Havana … The Dead Body of Paradise shows some glimpses of research work carried out by students of Inter 8 on the unit trip to Havana in January. Revolution, declamatory art and propaganda, biological exuberance, rur-urbanity, flesh bursting and decay, collective recycling, dialogue and confrontation, archaic machines, low commerce and traditional labour all configure the cosmography of a city where imagination seems to be overwhelmed by the boldness of its material reality. Contrary to the myth of being the capital of rumba, tobacco and rum, Havana responds with a heavy physical presence, hardened by a vertical sun which exposes the ruin of its urban fabric. The pearl of the Antilles, the city of infinite wealth in the colonial world, is now a rotting paradise that reeks of sweat and debris, made of human physical contact, material recycling and constant wheeling and dealing. Fifty years of economic embargo have faded any heroism into an agonic expression of survival on the outskirts of the hegemony of global modernisation. However, even as peripheral, Havana seduces by demonstrating its otherness within the global condition. It traps its visitors in an intense tapestry of smell and touch that allows a different vantage point from which to redefine our idea of material expression – from a detached external object to an internalised and shared biological process within the city. By chance or by fate, the decay of the city portrays the kind of ‘real-marvellous’ condition defined by the Cuban writer Alejo Carpentier. Yet this should not be seen as the sublimated reality romanticised by magical realisms, but the condition by which the biological processes of decay, dejection and contamination subsume the collective imagination into the experience of everyday life, and the construction/destruction of the city.
Date Submitted: 02.06.2010
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