Architectural Association School of Architecture

TAG in conjunction with the RIBA Trust is holding of a series of debates where Modernist architects and writers are invited to debate with New Classical and Traditional architects. The second of these will be held, 6.30 to 8.00, on Thursday, 25 November. Steven Semes, author of The Future of the Past and renowned architectural theorist Charles Jencks will be the main speakers. The debate will be introduced by TAG chairman, Alireza Sagharchi. and chaired by former RIBA President, Sunand Prasad. The venue is the University of Notre Dame, London Centre, 1 Suffolk Street, London SW1.
 
Tickets: £8.50/5.50 concessions
For more information and to pay for and book tickets in advance go to www.traditionalarchitecture.co.uk

Friday Session 42 will bring together two speakers whose work has led them to a close involvement with nomadic and pastoral cultures across the globe. Pooya Ghoddousi, architect and researcher born in Tehran and currently living in London will present his work on nomadic and transitional cultures. Fernando García Dory, artist and ecologist from Spain will introduce his practice and involvement with the global pastoral movement from setting up of a Shepherds School in Spain to organising a global gathering of pastoralists.

public works studio
1-5 Vyner Street London E2 9DG

Friday Sessions are informal talks and presentations hosted by public works mostly on Friday evenings - but sometimes on a Wednesday, with invited guests and friends.
Anyone is welcome.
Beer is served.
Pooya Ghoddous (Theran 1974) has worked as an architect, consultant, and designer in companies in Iran and The United Arab Emirates from. from 2004 to 2007 he worked with CENESTA, an NGO based in Iran working with Qashqai Nomads on Sustainable Livelihoods and Nature Conservation. During this time he had a first hand experience to live and learn from the traditional nomads and study aspects of the mobilities of transnational Iranians. Together with Farshid Behzad and Sohrab Daryabandari he has produced a documentary film on the subject of Nomadism in Iran. He received his master's in Architecture and Urbanism from Shahid Beheshti University and a master in Urbanisation and Development from London School of Economics and Political Science which was dedicated to Global Nomads or Temporary Citizens: Transnational Mobility of Middling Iranians.
www.iranomad.com
www.cenesta.org

Fernando García Dory (Madrid, 1978) is a neo-pastoral and agro-ecologist artist. His work deals with subjects affecting the current relation between culture and nature in the framework of landscape, countryside, desires and expectations related to aspects of identity, crisis, utopia and social change. He often uses self-organization strategies, initiating collaborative social plastic processes. He studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, and Rural Sociology. His interest in mobility, rythms and relation with space, made him to start to work with trashumants and nomads. After creating a Shepherds School, he organised a World Gathering of Nomadic and Trashumant Pastoralists, resulting from it the WAMIP ( World Alliance of Mobile Indigenous Pastoralists) , representing the 250 mill of nomadic pastoralists in the world.
www.campoadentro.es
www.wamip.org

See www.publicworksgroup.net

Andrew Shepherd, Director of Building Conservation, will present three lectures and participate in a workshop in a two-day seminar on techniques and principles of restoration and emergency interventions in Prishtina, Kosovo on 23 and 24 November.

Sunday 14 November
John Palmesino (AA Dip4 tutor) lectures on 'Neutrality' at the New Museum, New York. In the ambit of the Perpetual Peace Project, Slought Foundation (http://perpetualpeaceproject.org)

Friday 19 November
John Palmesino, Ann-Sofi Rönnskog with AA Diploma 4 to run a seminar on 'Democratic Space and Territories', together with Iceland Academy of Arts, Department of Architecture, Sigrún Birgisdóttir (AA Dip), Reykjavik.

Saturday 4 December
John Palmesino, lectures on 'The Peninsula: The Architecture of Territorial Transformations'  at Sea of Marble: Navigational Convergence', xurban, Sanat Limani, Antrepo No: 5, Istanbul, Turkey (http://sea.xurban.net)

www.territorialagency.com

In November, students can purchase a joint ticket to see all three Patrick Keiller films for only £11.75. Offer only available in person. Go to bfi.org.uk/releases and print off the e-flier and bring it to box office when purchasing your ticket.

Robinson in Ruins (UK 2010 | 101 mins | Cert U) is the eagerly awaited sequel to Patrick Keiller's earlier two films London and Robinson in Space. Narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, this cinematic essay intriguingly blends fiction and documentary, taking us on a tour of the English landscape against the backdrop of our current economic predicament and looming environmental catastrophe...

References to the Captain Swing riots of 1830, Shelley, Marx, the opium poppy fields of Oxfordshire and the war in Afghanistan all serve to make this a timely, provocative film, studded with surreal humour.

Intellectually stimulating, mysterious and beautiful, Robinson in Ruins makes us consider the world around us afresh.

This is an annual event hosted by the AA. Jury chaired by Paul Finch.

Read more at http://www.bdonline.co.uk/events/young-architect-of-the-year-serie-architects/5008603.article
 

The presentation is hosted by British novelist, historian and curator Dr Mike Phillips OBE and will be followed by Q&A session. It takes place at the Ratiu Foundation / Romanian Cultural Centre
Monday 8 November 2010, 7.00–9.00, Manchester Square, 18 Fitzhardinge Street, London W1. Tel. 020 7486 0295, ext 108; email: bookings@romanianculturalcentre.org.uk; Entry is free but booking is essential.

This presentation will introduce the work of a reflection group which produced since 2006 a series of buildings and experiments as an attempt to re-appropriate traditional construction techniques.
The two speakers investigated traditional mud-brick architecture and also the poor neighbourhoods inhabited by the Roma in Romania. After visits to legal and illegal camps in France, Italy, Greece, Serbia, India and the UK, the speakers now attempt to connect their knowledge with the problems raised by the evictions of Roma camps in France, and also to the new housing policies proposed by EU.

Catalin Berescu studied architecture and urbanism at Ion Mincu University in Bucharest. He worked as an editor for several architectural journals, did artistic interventions in public space and teaches about new media and architecture, as well as other theoretical issues. His main research and intervention field is extreme poverty housing and housing discrimination. He is also an adobe buildings enthusiast.

Florin Botonogu works for the Policy Centre for Roma and Minorities in Bucharest and has a wide experience in issues concerning disadvantaged groups and minorities. He holds a Master's degree in European Social Policies and worked for UNDP in the areas of poverty and vulnerable groups, contributing to studies and projects on housing and Roma related issues.

Organised by The Ratiu Foundation / Romanian Cultural Centre in London.

Culture Power is a programme initiated by the Ratiu Foundation, consisting of a number of presentations and constructive dialogue with an invited audience.

With the support of ProFusion International Creative Consultancy.

http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/conferences/conferences.htm
                                                                                                                                                                                        

2.00–6.00
Venue: Cruciform LT1, Cruciform Building (University College London), Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT

Presentations by Mark Smout (Smout Allen); John Vidal (Guardian Environment Editor); Michael Pawlyn (Exploration Architecture); and Colin Fournier

The conference is free to attend.
There is no need to register for this event, places are limited to 350 on a first-come first-served basis.

For further information please contact Sebastian Craig, Communications Programme Administrator, 0207 679 4642, email: s.craig@ucl.ac.uk

See http://www.arch.udk-berlin.de/news/index.php?site=610000
 

The symposium 'Learning Spaces', organised by the BDA (Federation of German Architects), is part of the nationwide 'Building Education' programme.

Matthew Wilson's manuscripts on the political regionalism of Landscape Urbanism are 'Vertical Landscraping, a Big Regionalism for Dubai' (IJURR, 2010), and 'Condenser Typology' (CTBUH-J, 2009). He is now studying the history of political thought and planning at the University of London.

WWW.PWFERRETTO.COM
 
Prof. Peter Winston Ferretto
Department of Architecture, Seoul National University, Korea
Blog http://pwferretto.snu.ac.kr

Billed as 'The Research Tool for Contemporary Architecture' the site gives access to information about what materials and products were used on which building and by which architect.

See also http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl
 

AA/PUC Visiting School 
Atacama & The Catholic University School of Architecture Chile
Deserta 
5–14 January 2011

Pedro Alonso
Programme Director

The AA/PUC Visiting School will approach a harsh climatic and geographical condition, the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. Considered the driest place on earth, over the last centuries this desert has nonetheless seen the emergence and collapse of several mining towns, always constrained by scarce water and energy resources and extreme weather conditions.

Read full details and apply at http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/santiago.php