Running from 22 March to 12 April and with invited teams from the AADRL, DIA/Bauhaus, Why Factory/Delft and NTUAthens schools of architecture the workshop will end with a presentation to the curators of each team: Theodore Spyropoulos (AADRL), Christos Passas (DIA), Tihamer Salij (WHY Factory) and Dimitris Papalexopoulos (NTUA), as well as a panel of invited critics: Winy Maas (MVRDV), Alfred Jacoby (DIA), Socratis Stratis(UCY), Areti Markopoulou (IAAC).

The workshop will be followed by an exhibition of the work at the Metropolitan Works Gallery in London that will be part of the London Festival of Architecture 2010.

For more information: http://www.nomanslandproject.com

Link to WAN’s ‘Icons of Architecture’ series with Daniel Libeskind: http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=ticket.iconsofarchitecture

Christine Filshill (AADipl 2001), with Francisca Muñoz (Architect University of Chile) and Cristina Núñez (Designer Universidad Catolica de Chile) have launched Desplegar: 24 Models of Architecture in Chile.
An attractive and surprising expression of papiroflexia combining architecture, play and divulgence.
Architecture: presents 24 Chilean buildings, all of them selected among the best of the years 2006, 2007 and 2008 by the jury of the XVI Chilean Architecture Biannual.
Play: almost like doing a puzzle or resolving a sudoku, requires the reader to concentrate, observing with care each one of the details of assembly.
Divulgence: the main outcome is to showcase, display and promote Chilean architecture, transforming into an innovative tourism agent.

The book was financed by the Book and Reading Promotion Fund 2009 of the National Council of Arts and Culture and is distributed by Ocho Libros Editorial.

More information in www.desplegar.cl. It is available in the AA Bookshop.

Renata Bertol (MA H&U 2006) and Gabriel Duarte (AA Visiting Teacher's Programme 2006), partners in the office CAMPO aud (based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), have been chosen as finalists in the international competition organised by Architecture for Humanity for a football training centre for a local NGO, in Rio.

More news: They have also been chosen to exhibit their work in the Center for Architecture of the American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter – AIA-NY for the exhibition 'Our Cities, Ourselves', opening on June 24 and  touring. Gabriel Duarte was recently appointed Professor of Design in the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and, in 2010, is serving as host critic at MIT's Graduate Program in Architecture (Cambridge, USA).

Andrew Shepherd (Director, Building Conservation Course) has been invited by the Swedish Foundation Cultural Heritage without Borders to participate by giving technical lectures and leading Workshops at the restoration camp in Gjirokastra, Albania for students from the Polis University and others. Gjirokastra is a World Heritage Site. The visit will also include reconnaissance for a trip for the AA Building Conservation Course students who will be offered the opportunity of attending a similar workshop in September 2010.

Christina Doumpioti (EmTech Studio Master) presents her paper titled ‘Fibre Composite Systems: stress as growth promoting agent’ at the CAADRIA 2010 New Frontiers conference in Hong Kong, 7–10 April.

Visit the conference website at http://www.caadria2010.org/index.html

public works studio
1-5 Vyner Street
London E2
 
With presentations by Nina Pope from Somewhere on What Will the Harvest Be? at Abbey Gardens in Stratford; Celine Condorelli talking about Commons and things in common; Cristina Cerulli, University of Sheffield and Studio Polpo, about the Crookes-Walkley Transition Group in Sheffield; and Nolwenn Marchand from aaa on Le 56 ECOintersice in Paris
 
Followed by discussion, food and drinks.
 

'According to Nature' exhibition by Luca Molinari in Milan features the CasaLightWall project by ecoLogiSstudio (Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, AAInter10 tutors). A roundtable discussion with Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto, other ecoLogicStudio directors and other architects will take place on 24 March at 6.30.

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The second event in this new workshop series organized by Simply Rhino and run by ecoLogicStudio in London aims to deliver design-oriented Grasshopper training for professional architects, landscape, product and urban designers.
For more info go to: ResponsiveSkins and www.ecologicstudio.com
Further dates and other workshop details including Introductory Grashopper Classes with David Rutten  are all listed at simplyrhino

For prices & availability please email fionuala@simplyrhino.co.uk or call 0208 498 9900
Concessions for students & academic staff are available on all classes.

Architecture education organisation Open House is currently looking for enthusiastic, creative and committed architecture students and recent graduates to contribute to the architecture education programme for London primary schools: Junior Open House.

There are opportunities for recent architecture graduates and current students to get involved in both our informal and formal education programmes to network with architects in established London-based practices, diversify their practice and support young people in investigating architecture and the built environment.

Ros Croker

Education Projects Coordinator

Open House

T: 020 7383 5722

E: rcroker@openhouse.org.uk

www.openhouse.org.uk

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Eric Hazan's newly translated urban history of Paris, The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps, maps centuries of architectural revolutions and weaves concrete development with politics and literature. Iain Sinclair equally understands the poetics and politics of place. In London Orbital, Sinclair walked the length of the M5 motorway circling London on foot. His latest work, Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire pieces together the oral accounts and occult psychogeography of East London. The pair will discuss their journeys through Paris and London.

Price £5, concessions £3
Institut français, 17 Queensberry Place, London SW7
Advance booking recommended, call box office on 020 7073 1350 or go to www.institut-francais.org.uk/book

The 21st Reyner Banham Memorial Lecture will be given by Alice Frideman on American Glamour, Philip Johnson, Eero Saarinen and Mid-century Modern Architecture at the Royal College of Art on Friday 5 March.

The lecture will examine key works by prominent mid-century American architects, addressing not only the social, cultural and economic forces that shaped these important buildings and interiors, but also the impassioned critical debates they engendered, including some of Reyner Banham's most brilliant and insightful essays.

Alice Friedman is the Grace Slack McNeil Professor of the history of Amercian Art at Wellesley College in Massachusetts. She is also a visiting Professor at the Modern Interiors Research Centre at Kingston university. Her publications include Women and the Making of the Modern House: A Social and Architectural History (1998).

For enquiries, 020 7590 4482 or laura.collins@rca.ac.uk

This is the first in a series of stimulating events organised by World of Architecutre featuring the leading architects of our time
 
Peter Murray, Founder Director of the London Festival of Architecture will be talking to Daniel Libeskind about his life and work.
 
Thursday 29 April, 6.30
Royal Geographical Society
1 Kensington Gore
London SW7
 
For booking enquiries please contact:
Tessa Schubert at events@worldarchitecturenews.com
01273 648 933

Journal of Fine and Studio Art (JFSA) is an open access journal that provides rapid publication (monthly) of articles in all areas of the subject.

The Journal welcomes the submission of manuscripts that meet the general criteria of significance and scientific excellence. Papers will be published approximately one  month after acceptance. All articles published in JFSA will be peer-reviewed.

The Journal of Fine and Studio Art will be published monthly (one volume per year) by Academic Journals.

AA graduate Dr Eugenia Frateskou has been appointed as an Editor of JFSA.

Types of paper
Regular articles: These should describe new and carefully confirmed findings, and experimental procedures should be given in sufficient detail for others to verify the work. The length of a full paper should be the minimum required to describe and interpret the work clearly.
Short Communications: A Short Communication is suitable for recording the results of complete small investigations or giving details of new models or hypotheses, innovative methods, techniques or apparatus. The style of main sections need not conform to that of full-length papers. Short communications are 2 to 4 printed pages (about 6 to 12 manuscript pages) in length.
Reviews: Submissions of reviews and perspectives covering topics of current interest are welcome and encouraged. Reviews should be concise and no longer than 4 to 6 printed pages (about 12 to 18 manuscript pages). Reviews manuscripts are also peer-reviewed.
 
Please visit JFSA for more information.

Now in its sixth year, Kohn Pederson Fox Associates is sponsoring a travel scholarship for architecture students attending architectural schools in the United Kingdom. Organised by The Architecture Foundation, the award encourages students to engage in international research. Travel awards of £1,250 and £1,000 will be awarded to two students whose projects show an outstanding insight into the possibilities of public space, building and spatial design.

The competition is open to all undergraduate and graduate students at architecture schools in the UK, including year-out students and students graduating in 2010.

Download award brief and application form

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday 7 April

Sylvia Georgiadou (AADRL 2005/07) invited by Ali Rahim to lecture on Parametric Urbanism at his MArch seminar Design Innovation at UPenn in November 2009 

Infrastruktururbanismus is a two-day symposium in Munich about the role of infrastructure in the city. See more at http://www.infrastruktururbanismus.de/