Angeliki Koliomichou (AALU 2006/07) presented her MA project on Urban Morphology and Transformation at the International Seminar on Urban Form (ISUF 2009) co-hosted by South China University of Technology and Guangzhou Urban Planning Bureau, in September 2009.
Read more at www.urbanfrom.org

1 ecoLogicStudio shortlisted for ‘oxigen italia' in Abitare magazine competition, results published in December issue.
2 Their studio profile will be featured in next issue of AD.
3 The practice is currently submitting a planning application for AqvaHouse in Turin, a refurbishment for a four-storey housing complex, featuring a 3D facade/roof system working as water collector and vertical garden. ecoLogicStudio has been completing 'tropic playgrounds … towards playful collapse?' workshop and exhibition for Linz University.
4 AAInter10 students’ first term work 'coral gardens' exhibited in shelter gallery in DUBAI. The exhibition opening was followed by a roundtable with members from the local authority, local architects and representatives from Nakheel, developer of 'The World'. The exhibition featured the students’ project, an onsite installation and a series of critical films about Dubai. The exhibition brief questioned whether instability (such as the current economical and environmental crisis) can become a generative design opportunity rather than a limiting constraint.
5 AAinter10 has been re-describing this issue though a series of visionary design proposals, the Coral Gardens, sited in ‘The World’, the artificial lagoon in Dubai. Each project investigates specific architectural mechanisms of co-existence and co-evolution within the local marine habitat, prefiguring future scenarios of development whereby the lagoon is transformed into a population of urban artificial coral reefs.

Read article in National Dubai magazine:
thenational

Interior Architecture and Exhibit Design Department, Milan Politechnic: conference 5–6 October, exhibition 27 September–8 October
Deadline for papers 15 February, for posters 15 May

IFW2010 is looking for the ‘key words’ for Interiors. What are they? How many are there? What are they about? What stories, people, projects, architectural spaces and shapes do they conjure up? Are they declarations of intent? Or cultural manifestos? Are they words from the past that have survived into the present, or words of the present in which the future is germinating?
Words tell stories, specify things; words also open on to other worlds and different ways of thinking. We want to understand, discuss, and compare notes, without having to classify: for words generate ideas, not ideas words. Not only that: as they are passed around, words spread ideas, stimulate other ideas to germinate, constantly reinventing themselves because they are never definitive, but free and open to change. Words also represent things, and things can be a means of making new stories, new ideas. As words transform themselves over time in any given society, country or economy we should look for the ‘key words’ for Interiors: let us freeze-frame certain ideas, clarify them, assert them – but always remembering they belong in an open panorama of thought.

The premises laid down by IFW2010 is that in our globalised world it is possible to construct a single unified narrative – though one with different facets – or to describe/specify a complex constellation of Interiors by means of the words that characterise them.

For further information, email Cristina Colombo at IFW2010@polimi.it or go to
www.interiorsforumworld.net

Christina Doumpioti (MArch EmTech 2008/EmTech Studio Master) and Evan Greenberg (MSc EmTech 2008/EmTech Course Tutor) have been invited for the Elegant Ecotones workshop at the University of Bologna, on 11–12 February. Doumpioti and Greenberg will be guest tutors and jurors, and give a lecture covering current EmTech research on active systems in nature and architecture.

David Dobereiner gave a slide lecture to the Ecocity 2009 Conference in Istanbul in December. The 20-minute presentation was a summary of his book The End of the Street: Sustainable Growth within Natural Limits and was followed by a lively discussion.

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For more details, see
http://www.lai2009.nl/LAi-prijs/Nominaties/
www.mdma.be

Drama Centre for Parmiter’s School by Architects Co-Partnership, practice of David Lloyd (AA Dip) receives RIBA Design Award, Hertfordshire branch

We've moved to a new studio about a year ago.
We're finally going live with our new website.
And the year is still young enough for New Year’s drinks!

Please join us for a get together.
On Friday 5 February from 7.00.
At our studio at 1-5 Vyner Street.
London E2 9DG.
Phone 020 8983 3883.

Mollie Claypool (AA MA H&T 2009/AADRL, HTS tutor) presented her MA dissertation research, The [dis]Appearance of the Architectural Object: Narratives of the Subject in Projects of the City, at the Architectural Humanities Research Association's (AHRA) Annual Postgraduate Research Conference in late 2009.