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STADSLAB EUROPEAN URBAN DESIGN LABORATORY, TILBURG (NL)



Professionals Master Class (Spring 2010)

Stadslab is offering a special 1-week spring Master Class in the Ukrainian city of Melitopol. Topic will be to develop new ideas for its major city park; the 36ha Gorky Park. Melitopol has the ambition to develop the park from the perspective of intercultural cities. The city has over 100 different nationalities. The park should be attractive to interest business partners and to attract part of the 40.000 tourists per day who now bypass the city on their way to the Crimean coast.

The Master Class will be supervised by Beatriz Ramo, from the Rotterdam based office STAR strategies + architecture, together with the Swiss landscape architect Anouk Vogel. Both are prize winning designers with a strong international profile. The program includes a visit to Kiev and will be developed together with the Kiev based organization 'Democracy through Culture' and linked to the Intercultural Cities program of the Council of Europe.

Date: April 11 - 17, 2010 Limited positions available. Please mail us a CV and portfolio to indicate your interest!

For whom? Graduates holding a degree in landscape architecture, architecture, urban design or similar
How to apply? Send an e-mail to info@stadslab.eu with your cv and portfolio for selection (limited positions available)
Program costs? 925 euro (including train ticket, meals and accommodation; excluding travel expenses from/to Kiev and optional extension of stay in Kiev)

Stay informed at www.stadslab.eu or through our Stadslab LinkedIn group www.linkedin.com


BRAIN CITY LAB



5th Program

Degree MASTER OF SCIENCE (MSc)

This postgraduate course is designed to offer guidance towards independence through an open and intense discourse with a wide range of specialists from various disciplines.

BRAIN CITY LAB will research the potential the understanding of our brain has for a new way of looking at cities. New paradigms should provide the basis for contemporary strategies. The program is connected with the brain city research program of Coop Himmelblau that was introduced in the International Pavillon at the Architecture Biennale in Venice 2008.

Courses start middle of october 2009

Admission Requirements: The program is intended mainly for people who hold a degree in architecture or related disciplines
Duration: 3 semesters

urban.strategies@uni-ak.ac.at
www.urbanstrategies.at


ELISAVA - SCHOOL OF DESIGN POSTGRADUATE AND MASTER DEGREE



www.elisava.net

Postgraduate Diploma in Design, Image and Architecture

Direction : IGNASI PÉREZ ARNAL
Programme : 6th
Duration : October 2009 to February 2010
ECTS Credits : 30
Language : Spanish
Qualification : Postgraduate Diploma in Design, Architecture and Image, from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and ELISAVA Escola Superior de Disseny.
Price : The fee for the programme is € 3,700.
Schedule : Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, from 5 to 9.15 p.m.

Postgraduate Diploma in Design, Environment and Architecture

Direction : IGNASI PÉREZ ARNAL
Programme: 6th
Duration: October 2009 to February 2010
ECTS Credits: 30
Language: Spanish
Qualification: Postgraduate Diploma in Design, Architecture and Image, from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and ELISAVA Escola Superior de Disseny.
Price: The fee for the programme is € 3,700. Former students of ELISAVA enjoy a 10% discount on the enrolment fee.
Schedule: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, from 5 to 9.15 p.m.

ELISAVA Escola Superior de Disseny
Ample, 11-13
08002 Barcelona
Tel.: + (34) 93 317 47 15
Fax: + (34) 93 317 83 53
e-mail: elisava@elisava.net


MASTER IN COLLECTIVE HOUSING



5th Edition

January - July 2010

In 2006, the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid presented the first Master's Degree in Collective Housing, a graduate course offered on a yearly basis that provides advanced knowledge in architecture, and gathers the research of specialists and professionals on the fields of collective housing and high-density cities.

The Master's Degree was created to become a reference amongst international graduate courses in advanced architecture and today we can confirm its success.

We rely on the most prestigious teachers and professionals worldwide, and highly qualified students who share an interest in broadening their knowledge in this matter.

The course is part of the Department of Architectural Design of the Escuela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid.

Teachers have been among others: Carlos Ferrater, Ryue Nishizawa, Rafael Moneo, Manuel Gausa, Juan Herreros, Felix Claus, Dietmar Eberle, Frits van Dongen, Wiel Arets, Jacob van Rijs, Jan Neutelings, Kees Christiaanse, Roger Riewe

For further information please visit our website www.mastercollectivehousing.com or contact us: info@mastervivienda.com


4TH INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE ROTTERDAM



The 4th edition of the IABR takes place from 24 September 2009 until 10 January 2010 in Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The theme is Open City : Designing Coexistence, and the curator is the Dutch architect Kees Christiaanse.

Open City: Designing Coexistence

What is the Open City? Why is it urgent to re-imagine the Open City? How and what can architects and urban designers actively and concretely contribute to the social sustainability of our cities, and to the design of coexistence, of an open city? In finding responses to these and other questions the 4th IABR, like earlier editions, deliberately positions itself as a platform for contemporary architects, designers and thinkers who have the ambition to regain control of the idea of the city, and who respond to a call-to-arms for advocacy and real engagement in the urban process.

The curators of the 4th IABR have identified six situations in which geographical, spatial, typological, and socio-cultural conditions reveal different qualities and potentials of Open City. Each of these situations will be explored through research and actual projects, and presented as a sub-theme of the Biennale. The six sub-themes are Community, Collective, Squat, Refuge, Reciprocity and Rotterdam Maakbare Stad (make-able City).
The theme and sub-themes are the basis of the exhibition Open City: Designing Coexistence, in the Netherlands Architecture Institute (NAI), the main location of the 4th IABR. Other exhibitions of the 4th IABR are Parallel Cases//IABR@RDM at the RDM Campus in Rotterdam and The Free State of Amsterdam (Vrijstaat Amsterdam) at a central location in Amsterdam.

IABR: Exploring Urban Futures

The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam (IABR) is an international urban research biennale founded in 2001 on the conviction that architecture is a public concern. It is an international event of exhibitions, conferences, lectures and other activities devoted to themes in the field of architecture and urbanism.

www.iabr.nl


DUTCH ARCHITECTURE WORLDLEADING AWARD 2009



Holland Property Plaza (HPP) will be all about ‘Dutch Architecture, worldleading’ during the Expo Real in Munich on 5th, 6th and 7th October 2009. This is why HPP will be organising the Dutch Architects Award 2009 (all entries will also be displayed in at least two addresses in the Netherlands in 2009) on its stand, which measures over 550 m2.

Holland Property Plaza would like to extend a cordial invitation to all architects to participate with this Award, whereby an expert jury will reveal the eventual prize winner.

A number of criteria are linked to this Award.
The most important ones are:

• You have gained at least 10 years of work experience.
• Your entry will provide a positive contribution to the professional group
• A scale model for the design is available (measuring a maximum of 70x70x50cm lxwxh).

You can register for this Award through info@hollandpropertyplaza.com until 20th August 2009. You can also find detailed information regarding HPP and this Award on this website.

REGISTER BEFORE 20TH AUGUST!

www.hollandpropertyplaza.com


BAUHAUS KOLLEG XI



Univercities CIAM Urbanism II, 2009/2010
In its programme for 2009/2010, the Bauhaus Kolleg XI will focus on the urban education infrastructures of post-war modernism. Against the backdrop of the Cold War, the emergence of the modern welfare state, the rise of the consumer society and growing mobility all improved access to education. The shift in social realities after WWII also forced a revision of the role and tenor of the state’s educational institutions. In many parts of the world, the competition for participation in the cities’ resources of education and knowledge centred on universities and schools. The foundation of new university campuses at that time gave voice to the thirst for education, and the spirit of reformation. The campus was built in a rural environment outside the city limits, to allow access to knowledge and education in concentrated form in quasi-monastic solitude, undisturbed by the city’s diversions. At the same time, educational reform movements tailored to local needs originated in the cities, and these sought to redefine relations between local area, school and city.

The Bauhaus Kolleg XI will come to grips with these diverse urban education and knowledge infrastructures of post-war modernism in academic and design-related work. Updating these modern approaches emerges from a revived interest in the knowledge resource of post-Fordian urban development. The integral connectedness of city and knowledge also forces a revision of urban educational institutions. Questions of equitable access to knowledge in the city, as they were raised in post-war modernity, are of renewed relevance. Based on two case studies, the Bauhaus Kolleg XI will explore the genesis of the modern education infrastructure and focus on its currency for the reform of contemporary urban educational contexts.

1st Semester (Theory and Analysis)
12.10.2009- 25.02.2010

2nd Semester (Project Phase)
15.03. 2010 – 25.06.2010

Application Deadline
30.09.2009

www.univercities.bauhaus-dessau.de

Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Gropiusallee 38
D-06846 Dessau
Phone +49(0) 340 6508-403
Fax +49(0) 340 6508-226

goegel@bauhaus-dessau.de
www.bauhaus-dessau.de


Bauhaus City – Get on Site!



The Bauhaus Dessau calls students from around the world to attend its anniversary year Summer School.

From 22 – 31 July, the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation will hold an international Summer School entitled ‘Bauhaus City - Get on Site!’. On the occasion of its 90th anniversary, the institution invites young artists, architects, designers as well as the interested public to come to Dessau and explore the Bauhaus architecture on site. Parallel to the anniversary exhibition ‘Modell Bauhaus’ which will be shown in Berlin at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, the Summer School in Dessau offers students from all over the world the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of the Bauhaus at one of its original sites.

In six workshops the examples of Classical Modernism built here will be examined through performative actions and urban interventions. Hidden traces and connections will be brought to light. The Summer School will look at the experimental housing estate Dessau-Törten, the Bauhaus buildings, the Masters’ houses, the employment office and the restaurant Kornhaus. The workshops are run by INTERBORO, New York; MUF, London; Michael Zinganel, Graz; Wochenklausur, Vienna; Kuehn Malvezzi, Berlin and Gods Entertainment, Berlin. A series of public lectures accompanies the Summer School programme.

At the heart of the programme lies the question of how to define the Bauhaus City: Is it a centre of innovative architecture, an outstanding educational infrastructure or a place for creative entrepreneurship? In the 20th century, Dessau changed continuously due to destruction during the war, societal developments after the German reunification and the collapse of the industry. Many of the Bauhaus buildings, however, are now under a preservation order, have been restored accordingly and are open to the public.

Summer School Fee: 150 Euro

Important, Important, Important:

All the confirmed participants of the summer school please select one out of the 5 workshops in advance and send a short note to goegel@bauhaus-dessau.de This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Please give also a second choice in case the first selected workshop is already booked.

1. Dessau Törten Estate: A little happiness in the big plan
Design Walter Gropius / Built: 1926-28
Commissioned by the municipality of Dessau
Head of workshop: Interboro, New York

2. Employment Office: Models of engineering urban life
Design Walter Gropius / Built 1927-28
Commissioned by the municipality of Dessau and the
Reichsanstalt für Arbeitsvermittlung und Arbeitslosenunterstützung
Head of workshop: Wochenklausur, Wien

3. Bauhaus Building: Neighbour Bauhaus
Design Walter Gropius / Built 1925-26
Commissioned by the municipality of Dessau
Head of workshop: Michael Zinganel, Graz

4. Masters’ Houses: Modern comfort
Design Walter Gropius / Built 1925-26
Commissioned by the municipality of Dessau
Head of workshop: Kühn Malvezzi, Berlin

5. Kornhaus: Modern escapes
Design Carl Fieger / Built 1929- 30
Commissioned by Schultheiss-Patzenhofer-Brauerei
in association with the municipality of Dessau
Head of workshop: God’s Entertainment, Wien

For further information please contact:

Ina Goegel: goegel@bauhaus-dessau.de or sommerschule@bauhaus-dessau.de


IAAC - INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED ARCHITECTURE OF CATALONIA



IaaC-Research/Education/Development Centre
The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IaaC) directed by Vicente Guallart is an international centre of research, education, and development of architecture on a multi-scalar level ranging from bits to geography.
The three-term Master in Advanced Architecture is a Master program of 75 European credits (75 ECTS) accredited by the Fundacio Politecnica de Catalunya. The program approaches the physical construction of the world by simultaneously engaging issues on the scales of the territory, the building, and digital fabrication.
Directors of the Master Program Vicente Guallart, Willy Müller, and Marta Male-Alemany, together with the rest of the teaching staff, are committed to a long-term prospectus of creating an academic and explorative centre in Barcelona which brings together students, tutors, and researchers from different fields of knowledge in order to materialize experimental forms of communication, dwelling, and planning.

IaaC-Vision
Architecture from Bits to Geography
IaaC takes a multiscale approach to the project of the physical construction of the world, simultaneously engaging issues on the scales of the territory, the building, and digital fabrication with the aim of transforming architecture into a discipline that, rather than build buildings, produces habitats, complete and complex multiscalar environments that are open to the development of social living.
With this in view it has created a locus of education, research, development and diffusion of architectural knowledge, an environment for international participation encompassing institutions, professionals and students from five continents that enables it to address global and local issues from a diverse and multicultural perspective.
IaaC works in close cooperation with experts from a wide range of fields, including engineering, anthropology, sociology, IT, mathematics, biology and ecology, as an optimum means of formulating the project in the physical world in terms of multidisciplinary knowledge and fostering the emergence of new ways of constructing reality.
Barcelona, one of the great international centres of architecture and urbanism, is thus a hub for a new generation of ideas and initiatives in the development of architecture and the city, capable of attracting talent and stimulating innovation in the construction of the world on the basis of the understanding afforded by history and experience.

Directed by
Vicente Guallart, Willy Muller, Marta Malé Alemany

Applications for MAA 2009-10 are open.
For more information contact coordinator@iaac.net

www.iaac.net
www.iaacblog.com
www.fablab.es
info@iaac.net


FOODPRINT - FOOD FOR THE CITY

Exhibition: June 27 thru August 23, 2009
Location: BINK36, Binckhorstlaan 36, The Hague, NL

This summer art and architecture center Stroom Den Haag kicked off the program Foodprint. Food for the city. The program takes place over the course of two years and focuses on the influence food can have on the culture, shape and functioning of the city, using The Hague as a case study. With a series of activities Stroom aims to stimulate the debate on food and foodproduction in the city an hopes to increase people's awareness of the value of food and the relationship between food and the city.

Largely hidden from the view of the city dweller, a worldwide network of food producers and supermarket chains takes care of our supply of daily food. Although very convenient, it is also the cause of many problems. A handful of distributors decide what we eat. For the most part the people who produce the food are invisible. The natural seasons are passed by. Transport puts a heavy toll on the environment and climate. Supply is dependent on the amount of fuel available. There is hardly any knowledge of how our food is actually produced. The return of food production to the city might help to increase this awareness and might also create healthy and safe food within the boundaries of a more sustainable city. This requires a new way of looking at the city, where nature, the production landscape and the recreational landscape are linked to urbanism in a more ‘natural' way. With Foodprint, Stroom aims to explore the feasibility of The Hague as a production landscape and to develop utopian, appealing and realistic proposals.

The Foodprint program consists of a symposium, an exhibiton, art projects in the city, lectures, excursions etc. From June 26 thru August 23, 2009 crucial moments relating to food, food production and the city are presented through the work of artists and designers.

Looking for innovative chances for a user-friendly and attractive green environment a number of special studies have been commissioned. Van Bergen Kolpa Architects develop a ‘Landscape Supermarket', a model visualizing the future of the edibility of city parks (to be continued in 2010). The architect Winy Maas and The Why Factory (TU Delft) design an urban agrocluster with a pig farm for the urban industrial area of the Binckhorst in The Hague. The results of these research projects will be presented in the exhibition.

For more information, please visit www.foodprint.stroom.nl


PARAMETRIC URBAN DESIGN



MODELUR is a revolutionary 3D application for parametric urban design that enables:

rapid design of built environment,
quick response to changed conditions of planned site,
automatic change of built environment,
quick creation of different variants of urban design solution,
avoiding mistakes issued by wrong building articulation and
continuous supervision of achieved urban control values.

„MODELUR represents, in my opinion, outstanding contribution in development of operative tools for more creative and, at the same time, more responsible work in urbanism, which can assure more verified and harmonised spatial interventions.“

Prof. Janez Koželj, city architect of Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia

www.modelur.com