AALU @ INFRASTRUKTURURBANISMUS

Design Tutor Eduardo Rico and AALU graduate Rahul Pahul will take part as speakers in INFRASTRUKTURURBANISMUS, a two day symposium in Munich about the role of infrastructure in the city. Details of the interventions can be found in:

http://www.infrastruktururbanismus.de/

AALU IN CREATIVE NATURE WORKSHOP, XI'AN

AALU graduates Minjoo Baek and Jorge Ayala and AALU design tutor Eduardo Rico have been invited to the Creative Nature Workshop in Xi’an, organized by The University of Southern California in Collaboration with 2011 Xi’an International Horticultural Expo. The workshop will take place between the 25tha dn 30th of January. It consists in the design of a series of micro environments each one commissioned to a different academic team. Other invited universities include Columbia University, USC, HKU, Peking University, UC Berkeley, USC, UTDT and University of Toronto.

AALU IN CHILE: GAME (ON) SANTIAGO

Eva Castro (AA Landscape Urbanism director) will be part of the Game (On) Santiago workshop in the Catholic University of Santiago de Chile (6th to 15th January). The intensive ten-day studio based design workshop is open to students, young architects and other designers worldwide. In Chile the construction of a new sports infrastructure to house the 'South-American Games ODESUR 2014'is being treated as an unparalleled opportunity to transform a range of environments. By taking a critical look at the ambitious plans currently under development, and proposing design alternatives, the workshop aims at defining strategies applicable at different scales. Participants will approach this project by integrating different fields of architectural action. This design research will encourage explorations ranging through material properties, construction processes, parametric design and digital fabrication, right up to the urban and landscape scales, taking account of the local cultures and Chile’s spectacular landscape.

The course will be taught by tutors from the AA School and the Catholic University. Eva Castro (AA Landscape Urbanism), Monia De Marchi (AA Diploma Unit 9), and Alejandra Bosch (AA Landscape Urbanism) will join Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, Arturo Lyon, Pedro Ignacio Alonso, J Parrish and Holgar Kehne.

DOUGLAS SPENCER IN TRENTO UNIVERSITY

AA Landscape Urbanism history and theory tutor Douglas Spencer will lecture in Italy at Trento University's Faculty of Engineering on "AA Landscape Urbanism: A Renewed Praxis" on 18 November. Considering a range of contemporary urban conditions operating outside those of the discipline's original North American and Westernised telos of the 'post-industrial' and 'post-urban', in this lecture he will argue for a critically-oriented renewal of Landscape Urbanism's theory and practice

JORGE AYALA IN CONVERSATION WITH PEI ZHOU STUDIO, 6TH NOVEMBER 2009

AALU graduate currently working with Groundlab in Beijing, will be heading a discussion panel in Pei Zhu office, Beijing. The title of the lecture will be Landforms, Horizontality, Infrastructure, Techniques....

ALFREDO RAMIREZ IN WELSH SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

AALU tutor Alfredo ramirez will be giving a presentation on Monday 02nd November in the Welsh School of Architecture showcasing AALU projects where sustainability has had a major role within the design. (image above from Responsive Coastline, Alejandra Bosch, AALU 0607)

DOUGLAS SPENCER IN AHO OSLO

Douglas spencer will be partcipating in the critics of diploma projects in the Landscape Architecture program in AHO Oslo .

AALU 0809 PROJECTS

WENWEN WANG

NAOMI PEREZ-DAVIDI

ANKITA GUPTA

RENITA DE SOUZA

SOHAIL GHANDILI

WANG SHAN

RAHUL PAHUL

MINJOO BAEK

CRISTINA BARRIOS

SOGOL ATIGECHI

BURCU KARAHASAN

AALU OPEN DAY 9th OCTOBER 2009

AALU OPEN DAY FRIDAY 9th OCTOBER

AA Landscape Urbanism will held an open day on Friday 9th of October in London, where the projects from 0809 students will be shown to the public and commented by a panel of international experts. The purpose of this event is to generate debate around the emergent discipline of landscape urbanism and evaluate the relevance of the course work within academic and practice environments.