- Via MACE

” Call for Papers

Within the context of MACE (Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe) , a European project co-funded by the European Commission, a two-day international conference, entitled “Online Repositories in Architecture”, is organised in Venice during the period of “La Biennale di Architettura 2008” on 12-13 September by EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education) and Collaboratorio (Italy) from the MACE project partnership.

The MACE project is interlinking architectural repositories. Gaps resulting from autonomous design, implementation, funding, and maintenance are bridged by implementing conceptual tools (ontologies, glossaries, and standards), interfaces and metadata agglomeration. This happens in order to create innovative e-learning tools that can help expert users and laypeople to find, tag, acquire, use, and discuss contents from many architectural repositories that previously had limited accessibility.
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The Department of Architecture and Design at the American University of Beirut is pleased to invite you to the first edition of TALK20 Beirut
on Friday March 28, 2008 at 6:30 pm
ALH [Architecture Lecture Hall] Dar Al-Handassah Building, AUB
(Please note that entry to campus is only accessible from the Main Gate, Bliss Street)

TALK20 is not a lecture but a gathering, an open forum for the dissemination of ideas in art, architecture and design. Produced in cities around the world, it seeks to spark a conversation across ideological, geographic, and disciplinary boundaries. It is an event that encourages exposure to work being currently done by designers/artists/musicians within Beirut. TALK20 happens in the form of an informal gathering, and begins with a series of short presentations | 20 slides per 20 seconds each |, selected and narrated by a hybrid panel of students, educators and professionals working the across the design and art fields.

The presenters for this first edition include (listed in the order of presentation):

Maha Nasrallah (architect/ ARD faculty)
Raafat Majzoub (architecture student)
Zena El Khalil (painter/ artist)
Hamed Sinno (graphic design student)
Zeid Hamdan (musician)
_ Break ( with music, food and drinks)
Mazen Kerbaj (graphic artist)
Karim Nader (architect/ ARD faculty)
Wyssem Nochi (designer)
Khaled El Maiss (architecture student)
George Arbid (architect / ARD faculty)

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- Via FRAME

by Archi-Tectonics

“The P.A.N. (Progressive Architecture Network) exhibition will open on September 20 at the SESV gallery in Florence. 

After its success at the Frederieke Taylor Gallery in New York, the P.A.N. exhibition – curated by Winka Dubbeldam and Helene Furján – presents the research and the production of five young architectural offices that are well established on the international scene:
- Sadar Vuga Arhitekti from Ljubljana
- R&Sie(n) from Paris
- J. Mayer H. Architects from Berlin
- IaN+ from Rome
- Archi-Tectonics from New York

The five groups, that found their initial stimuli at the ArchiLab meetings in Orléans, share a common attitude towards experimentation.” FRAME

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“  The NAi (new website) hosted the book launch and discussion featuring Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman Monday night in Rotterdam (10-09-2007).The three presenters first outlined their positions about the gulf region context, before sitting down to take questions about the book. As a possible strategy to diffuse the potential early judgments and criticisms of the crowd, Bouman asked the question, “Who has been to Dubai [or gulf] and seen it first hand?” Roughly not even 10% of the crowd raised their hands, and only half-heartedly at that. It reflects one of the weaker themes of the evening that ‘we should not judge’ the situation in the gulf region, especially in the UAE. When it came to the questions at the end of the evening, the presenters were at times defensive, and repeated numerous times that the books aims to suspend judgment and rather present a detached overview/reading of the situation. But this is not to say the evening wasn’t full of great ideas, polemics galore, and of course, the exciting subject of Dubai and the Gulf Region itself.” Read more on Dysturb

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A model of the Bernie Grant Arts Center in London, a space that is a big aluminum-clad shed

New York Times has published an article about David Adjaye’s latest exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem . Read it Below .

- via New York Times

“David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings,” an exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, is the kind of measured, well-meaning endeavor that provokes reflection but yields few profound insights.

Public space is always a cause worth embracing in an era when the government continues to turn large swaths of the public realm over to private interests. And it has particular resonance in Harlem, where accelerating gentrification threatens to erode the fabric of neighborhoods even as it holds out the hope of economic revival.

Although Mr. Adjaye, a 40-year-old British architect who was born in Tanzania, made his name by creating spare, geometric houses for art-world clients, he obviously has a keen understanding of how architecture can serve as a community’s social glue. His best designs are enlivened by a sensitivity for the tactile qualities — the textures of materials, the play of light — that engage you physically and mentally and bring architecture to life. Read the full story

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