March 8

WOOD SUMMIT SMÅLAND 2010

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Remember the call for Architecture of Necessity we published some time ago on behalf of the Virserum Art Museum in Sweden? Here’s the program for their WOOD SUMMIT SMÅLAND 2010 (which you can also download here). The event is a seminar on architecture, sustainable development and sustainable urban planning taking place on June 29 and 30, also enriching the Wood 2010 exhibition going on from May 9 to September 19 at the konsthall.

TUESDAY 29 JUNE – THE ARCHITECTURE OF NECESSITY
Topics of the day include: Sustainable urban planning; recycling and regeneration; the Architecture of Necessity; who are the city meant for?
WOOD SUMMIT SMÅLAND 2010 coincides with Virserum Music Days and this will be reflected in series of concerts throughout the seminar. All events on this day will be conducted in English.
07:30–10:00 REGISTRATION
Breakfast. Morning concert featuring Ismahni on harp and Gunilla von Bahr on flute.
CLAES CALDENBY: THE ARCHITECTURE OF NECESSITY
Caldenby is a professor in architectural theory and history at Chalmers Technical College, Sweden. He is also the moderator for the day.
MICHELLE KAUFMANN: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE WITH MODULAR SYSTEMS
Michelle Kaufmann is an architect and designer from California, USA. She is a leading figure in the field of sustainable design and was, among other things, named “2009 Green Advocate of the Year” by the National Association of Home Builders.
LUNCH
Presentation of specially invited Swedish architecture agencies and their proposals for the Architecture of Necessity. Concert in the Paperhouse.
RICCARDO VANUCCI, FARESTUDIO: ARCHITECTURE OF NECESSITY
Riccardo Vannucci is an architect at FAREstudio in Italy. The agency won the WAF 2008 Health category with their Centre pour le Bien-être des Femmes in Burkina Faso.
KENGO KUMA, KENGO KUMA & ASSOCIATES: ANTI-OBJECT
Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect known for his refined minimalist style. His buildings get their identity from the use of traditional materials such as bamboo, stone and metal.
17:00 TOUR OF EXHIBITIONS AND PRE-DRINKS IN THE PAPERHOUSE EVENING BANQUET
Followed by a concert in Virserum church. After that there is the possibility of enjoying a drink at the River Pub. Read more

January 6

hometta.com

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(Text by Nicola Bozzi)

In his Manifesto of Futurist Architecture, Antonio Sant’Elia despised all architecture that wasn’t built for the people inhabiting it. Decades later, the Archigram group was designing computer-inspired visions of modular living units, focusing on human scale living spaces and the use of technology to make the best of urban living. Designing and building your own home is still too hard to do on your own, but while we wait for a technology that will allow everybody – regardless or design or architectural education – to build their own place like Lego, we can still get somebody to help us in the process of choosing and building our shelters. Today, if you are looking for both relatively-customized design and tailored assistance, as well as a relatively simple interface, you can turn to the Hometta guys. Read more

December 8

Electrosmog Festival – International Festival for Sustainable Immobility

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(Text by Nicola Bozzi)


While browsing Facebook on an iPhone or working via wireless on a train, we tend to forget all those electromagnetic fields and aerial data we exchange compulsively each and every day are a physical matter and not just a platonic projection of our cognitive babble.* Given that we’re all more or less dependent on this stuff, some don’t think it’s necessarily making our life the best possible, and definitely not healthier. This is the premise to the Electrosmog Festival, to take place in Amsterdam (and in many other places) on next March. Read more

October 28

Ecohouse by Filippo Taidelli and OneOffice in Curno, Bergamo
2009 SAIE Selection award

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(Text by Angelica Di Virgilio, all images courtesy of Filippo Taidelli Studio)

Saie Selection. Low cost & low energy sustainable housing
Exhibit and convention, SAIE 2009
from October 28 to October 31, 2009.

Within the International Building Exhibition, SAIE 2009, the Low cost & low energy sustainable housing exhibition opens today. The event features a selection of 24 low-cost and low-energy sustainable housing projects selected after the SAIE Selection competition promoted by BolognaFiere in co-operation with Archi-Europe Group, Edilio and under the sponsorship of ArchitettiBologna, Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori and of Coordinamento Nazionale dei Giovani Architetti Italiani. The jury together with chairman architect Mario Cucinella selected 24 projects and concepts (12 for young architects and 12 for students) in 4 categories: brick, metal&glass wood and concrete. We use this occasion to present the project which has attracted our attention the most, that is the Ecohouse designed by architect Filippo Taidelli and OneOffice.

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This project, which was originally elaborated on a previous ideas competition on sustainable housing promoted by Agogroup last spring, shows an interesting balance between the sustainable and technical strategies and the architectural pattern. Starting from a simple parallelepiped and specific studies on the orientation, the volume is developed towards two directions in order to allow the single flats to enjoy a good exposure to the sun and consequently a remarkable energy saving. Read more

September 11

FOR AN ECOLOGY OF MIND: DIGITAL SUSTAINABILITY
NABA Digital Environment Design Contest 2010

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In order to facilitate the participation of talented international students to NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano) Master programs, the Academy offers to applicants interested in participating to its one-year Academic Master program in Digital Environment Design, the opportunity of being awarded of 3 scholarships, which will be won by the authors of the best three projects selected among the participants to “For an ecology of mind: digital sustainability” international contest, ruled as explained in the following pages.

Interested applicants are kindly required to follow the process as explained in the following pages, and send their projects within September 30th, 2009 to:

Giulia Pitzolu c/o Ufficio Master e Bienni
NABA Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Via Darwin 20
20143 Milano
ITALY
Tel. +39 02 97372264
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September 2

Sustainability, Innovation and Creativity. Conference series @ Officina Contemporanea, Verona

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september 16-19
Officina Contemporanea – Via dei Mutilati, 8/a, Verona
info 045 800 82 88
info@atelieritaliano.it
www.atelieritaliano.it
Press Office
Mariarosa Fiorio 348 40 55 354

August 19

UNStudio/ Ben van Berkel to build Raffles City Hangzhou in China

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(Images © Unstudio)

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UNStudio’s design for the mixed-use Raffles City development is located near the Qiangtan River in Hangzhou, the capital of Zhejiang province, located 180 kilometres southwest of Shanghai. With a city population of 1.69 million, Hangzhou is one of the most renowned and prosperous cities in China and is well known for its beautiful natural scenery, particularly in the West Lake area. Read more

July 21

The 12xMilano series
Metropolitan protoGARDEN by ecoLogicStudio

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(As promised, here’s the first of a long series of specific focuses on the 12 projects of 12xMilano, the exhibition currently on show at Milan’s Urban Center. Today we’re presenting you ecoLogicStudio’s Metropolitan ProtoGarden project.)

Milan 2015: Metropolitan protoGARDEN is a visionary project, it’s the projection of a dream for a new kind of cybernetic urban ecology; however, rather than with fictional scenarios, the dream is constructed through the systematic and rational deployment of techniques and technologies that have already entered our daily life: “google MAPs and Earth”, “panoramio”, “flickr”, “facebook” on one side, iPHONEs, computational tools, interactive and robotic devices on the other. In 2015_MpG this instruments are deployed to read, understand and eventually control and manipulate real material processes unfolding in Milan: the intensification of public urban life, the city’s global awareness, the concentration of air pollution, the collection of rain water, the accessibility to public transportation, the growth of algae colonies, etc. The 2015_MpG interface extends the reach of such technologies to become instruments of communication and eventually conversation with the city as a large living system. Read more

July 13

The Incremental House

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all images © Luke Weldon Perry

the incremental houseOutside of the mainstream channels, the blogosphere has been a fertile ground for young students and researchers to share their often interesting and surprising viewpoints on contemporary architecture. If architecture is slow, theory and research keep finding new ways of communication, and spread quicker and quicker. So here’s our latest finding: we’re delighted to introduce you to Luke Weldon Perry’s The Incremental House, a journal-blog based on Perry’s 2008 John K. Branner Traveling Fellowship from UC-Berkeley, CED Department of Architecture, which enabled him to travel worlwide for a survey on housing as a social agent of improvement and change. Thus Luke describes his work carried out in web:

“The Incremental House explores various relationships between low-cost housing, architecture, and social change. This blog originally developed as a result of the John K. Branner traveling fellowship from the University of California, Berkeley, which gave me the extraordinary opportunity to travel the world in 2008. Through this lens, it is clear that housing for many is a paradox. While much of the self-built and informal housing around the world very much signifies a lack of choice, the ability to design, construct, and adapt one’s home gives many people a significant tool to better negotiate the tremendous shifts and changes that are occurring in cities worldwide.

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July 8

GRAFT 412
Make it Right goes on.
MIR camelback house in New Orleans

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(All drawings and renderings © GRAFT)

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A total of 6 houses have been finished as part of the Make It Right Foundation promoted by sensitive and sensitive to design actor Brad Pitt in the Lower 9th Ward to reconstruct the New Orleans French quarter devasted by Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005.

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After a first group of prestigious architects who answered the first call for safe and sustainable shotguns, camelbacks and Creole cottages, a second group, this time of multi-family dwellings designed by as many renowned names (Elemental, Pugh + Scarpa, Gehry Partners , BNIM and MVRDV among others) is now touring the first pages around the world.
We’re pleased to show you the two houses designed by GRAFT which had already donated a first design for a single family house in 2006. Read more

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