| Scattered House Workshop London Architecture Festival - The Embassies Project
Usman Haque, Bengt Sjölén and Adam Somlai-Fischer will lead a 3-day informal/drop-in workshop on creating low-tech / networked sensor environments as part of the London Architecture Festival, hosted by the Hungarian Cultural Centre, London. The workshop is aimed at both designers and families with children.
Together we will build an interactive environment made out of hundreds of... |
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| London Festival of Architecture 2008
The London Festival of Architecture 2008 is a celebration and exploration of the city's buildings, streets and spaces, aimed at Londoners and visitors alike.
The Festival runs from 20 June – 20 July and includes street installations, exhibitions, guided walks, cycle rides, boat tours of the city's river and canals, parties, design workshops, debates, breakfast talks, and weekend... |
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| Plečnik Project: Early Modern Slovenian Architect
On the occasion of its EU Presidency, Slovenia presents one of its greatest minds whom expert circles worldwide recognized as an outstanding artist quite some time ago.
The architect Jože Plečnik (1872–1957) began his professional career in the joiner's workshop of his father in Ljubljana and then completed his training in Vienna with Otto Wagner, who admitted him to his class... |
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| Architecture Nights 08 - MECANOO - 17 May 2008
The third edition of Architecture Nights for 2008, being organised once again by the Kamra tal-
Periti has so far seen the participation of Architect John Bushell, London Director of world renowned leading international architectural firm Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates and Agnes
Couvelas, Greece’s most prominent and respected female architect in March and April
respectively. Both... |
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| Achieving Quality in the Built Environment
Two aspects of the design process that require attention and that are gaining in importance are the energy efficiency of our buildings and the issue of accessibility for all. Far too much of recent construction is inadequately built, with a general absence of attention to detailing both in the design, as well as in the implementation stages of the project. The principal issues are two,... |
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| Architecture Nights 08
Agnes Couvelas
Locality – Interlocality: tools for architectural creation
The next debate in the Architecture Nights series will feature Greeces most prominent and respected female architect, Agnes Couvelas and will be held at the Aula Magna in Valletta on Saturday 19th April at 7.30pm. Entrance to this debate is free. Architecture Nights 08 is sponsored by HSBC and Steel... |
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| 30th SALON OF ARCHITECTURE: Works in progress…
Salon of Architecture is the most important and most considerable annual review of architectural production in Serbia which enjoys great reputation both among the profession and broader public. Importance and specific qualities of the Salon of Architecture are reflected in the fact that it offers insight into the full scope of national architectural production in the past year... |
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| Process - Contemporary Architecture in Latvia
Process. Contemporary Architecture in Latvia is the first exhibition to study the process of contemporary architecture in Latvia involving work of both, local and foreign, architects. Moreover, this is the first architecture exhibition at the Latvian National Museum of Art. Featuring over 300 objects including architectural drawings, models and photographs of about a hundred built and... |
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| Architecture and Technology for Intelligent Living
What potential do the new technologies and materials of today hold for domestic living and residential architecture of tomorrow? At the invitation of Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, and the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, fifteen architects and designers sought to address this question. The selected firms are based in the USA, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Sweden,... |
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| Idea Competition for Espoo City Hall
To commemorate Espoo's 550th anniversary, an international architecture competition is being held for the renovation of City Hall and an adjoining office complex. The competition starts in December and lasts until the end of March 2008. The languages of the competition are Finnish and English. The competition area is City Hall and its environs, but the entire adjoining office complex... |
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| The Void
"The Void" exhibition uses huge models and scores of plans and photographs to illustrate eleven projects by the architects Gonçalo Byrne and the Aires Mateus brothers. The result is a fascinating dialogue between the oeuvre of two leading Portuguese architectural practices.
Both Gonçalo Byrne and the Aires Mateus brothers have made Lisbon their base. And both firms can claim to... |
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| Exceptional Houses. Alternative of Individual Housing.
The environment of one’s home, its quality, culture and aesthetic features influence both mental development and life of a human ever since one’s birth so strongly that this issue remains to be of current relevance. Purely individual approach towards one’s own extraordinary housing does not appear to be ultimately common.
This exhibition introduces some of the possible... |
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| Lessons from Bernard Rudofsky
Organised by the Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna, in collaboration with The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, and in association with the CCA.
The first retrospective to examine the life and work of Bernard Rudofsky, the controversial architect, designer, and critic whose groundbreaking buildings, exhibitions, and fashion designs challenged the Western world’s perceptions... |
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| Zaha Hadid: Architecture and Design
Zaha Hadid is at the height of her powers. With an office 170 strong, she is building all over the world, from masterplans in Singapore and Istanbul, to an opera house in China, a museum in Rome, and a skyscraper in Dubai. In the last year she has opened two substantial buildings in Germany: a car factory for BMW and the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg, for which she received... |
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| The Frontiers of Architecture I: Cecil Balmond
With its new series, The Frontiers of Architecture, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art concentrates on some of the most significant phenomena that have been influencing architecture over the past few years. The choice of Cecil Balmond as the pivotal figure in the first of these exhibitions turns the focus on the constructional and aesthetic principles underlying architecture, thus offering... |
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