Architectural Association School of Architecture

Read more about this major new gallery project in London at www.caspermuellerkneer.com

Invited by the PG Group and Glass South Africa, the workshop focused on advanced digital design and fabrication technologies and was accompanied by a number of local publications and public lectures in Johannesburg, Durban and Cape Town.

Mark Chan's thesis project with Diploma Unit 12, Re-Envisioning Los Angeles, has won the railLA international Call for Ideas 2010, an international ideas competition held by a non-profit organisation to support the development of high-speed rail in Los Angeles.

The project is exhibited in the LA Beyond Cars exhibition. (29 July–28 August, The Jewel Box, City National Plaza, 525 S. Flower Street, Los Angeles, 90071)

For more details, please go to www.mark-chan.com

Calvin Chua and Kai Ong's project challenged the typology of seaside houses by dispersing spaces and programs within the house through follies.

The Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture is an annual award given in partnership with the Public Monument and Sculpture Association.

Plasma Studio (Diploma 12 Unit Master Holger Kehne and Landscape Urbanism director Eva Castro) will inaugurate Formel X, where offices of the up-and-coming generation will present their architectural positions, with a solo exhibition. The series’ focus is on design methodology & design processes.

With the new series, FORMULA_X, the DAZ will open discussion on the facets of sustainable ideas and visions. Plasma will focus on its work in China with a series of conceptual and presentation models against the backdrop of built European work.

The exhibition opens on 1 October, 8.00 at DAZ, Koepenicker Str 48 / 49, 10179 Berlin
See plasmastudio.com

Theodore Spyropoulos’s practice Minimaforms is nominated for the International Iakov Chernikhov Prize by distinguished Japanese architect Makoto Sei Wantanabe.  
Theodore Spyropoulos is interviewed in leading Cypriot architecture and design magazine Synthesis on his views on contemporary architecture, urbanism and education.

Wolf Mangelsdorf will be judging in the category Future Projects Infrastructure/Production, Energy and Recycling/Transport at the World Arhitecture Festival in Barcelona in November.

Ioanna Symeonidou (AAEmTech 2009) presented design research on Surface Nets at the 5th EAAE/ ENHSA Architectural Theory Subgroup Workshop SUR-FACE/ ΕΠΙ-ΦΑΝΕΙΑ: Digital Materiality and the New Relation between Depth and Surface as a Challenge for Architectural Education

The Conference and Workshop was hosted by the Technical University of Crete and included lectures by prominent architects and researchers such David Vanderburgh, Yannis Zavoleas, Panagiotis Parthenios and Kostas Terzidis, among others.

Read more here:
http://www.arch.tuc.gr/surface.html
http://www.tuc.gr/fileadmin/users_data/public_relations/5th_eaae_chania_program.pdf

Kostas Grigoriadis, Irene Shamma, Alex Robles-Palacio, Pavlos Fereos (all AADRL v11) have been awarded a Special Mention for their thesis project Urban Reef (tutored by Theodore Spyropoulos), in the architecture category of competition d3: Natural Systems 2010.
 
For more information, see
http://www.d3space.org/competitions/
http://www.shampooo.net/
 

Deniz Manisali, Dimitris Akritopoulos and Sylvia Georgiadou (all AADRL 2007) are taking part in a recycled-art exhibition creating a wall-suspended installation. The structure is made of laser-cut plywood pieces and skewers, 3.6m wide x 2m high. A multilayered system of gradually transforming planar components creates the impression of a gradient fading spatial effect.   

For more information, please see:
http://ddisturbdesign.blogspot.com
www.ddisturb.com

Mark Chan's thesis project with Diploma Unit 12, Re-Envisioning Los Angeles, is the winner in the railLA international Call for Ideas 2010, an international ideas competition held by a non-profit organisation to support the development of high-speed rail in Los Angeles. The project is exhibited in the LA Beyond Cars exhibition. (29 July–28 August, The Jewel Box, City National Plaza, 525 S. Flower Street, Los Angeles, 90071)

For more details, please go to www.mark-chan.com

Ahmad Sukkar performed his fictional tale about walls at the faculty of architecture in Damascus University, and the department of architecture at the International University for Science and Technology. An audience of more than 200 attended each performance, which took place during his visit to Damascus at the end of 2009.

The story is entitled Ḍijrit minnī al-Ḥīṭān: Ilā Judrān Fairūz wa Zaha wa Ummī wa Scheherazade (Walls are Bored with Me: To the Walls of Fairuz, Zaha, my Mother, and Scheherazade). It is about a student of architecture turning into a wall and questioning his identity in relation to topics such as art, politics, gender, and spirituality. During his metamorphosis, he recalls events of his childhood, sayings of his mother, and attitudes of his grandmother towards walls. He questions architectural issues such as what he considers an architectural fail of Zaha Hadid, the most famous female architect in the history of architecture. The main Arabic title of the tale and the show is borrowed from a popular song of Fairūz, the Arabic diva and ambassador to stars. In addition to three of her songs in which she mentions walls, Classical music is included in the text and played during the performance which ends with a piece about Scheherazade, the legendary Eastern storyteller of One Thousand and One Nights. Walled theatrical stage with spot lighting was specially built for the show and power point presentation about theoretical issues related to walls went together with it. The tale is in the process of publishing in Arabic and English magazines of architecture and literature.
 
www.gnome-netlab.com
www.londonconsortium.com/about/ourstudents.php#asukkar

The judges, chaired by Vicky Richardson at the British Council, were asked to consider which projects had been most effective and imaginative in responding to the festival theme, ‘the Welcoming city’, and in showcasing the work of emerging architects.

Swarming Futures, a selection of cutting-edge contemporary Brazilian architectural projects. Part of the International Architecture Showcase of this year’s London Festival of Architecture, the exhibition explores the Festival’s Welcoming City theme through the way innovation in design can be generated by large patchworks of inclusive collaboration and creative exchange. Recently appointed hosts of high-profile international events, most notably the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, Brazilian cities have become an extremely fertile ground for speculation and intense scrutiny. Designers, politicians, communities, businesses, participants and visitors are all agents and stakeholders in a massive swarm of interests and possibilities that will ultimately reshape Brazil’s cities in the near future.

The exhibition is open until 11 August at the Embassy of Brazil in London at 32 Green Street,
London W1K 7AT.

See Embassy site for opening times