AA Landscape Urbanism History and Theory tutor Douglas Spencer will present a keynote lecture at the Nordic Association of Architectural Research Annual Conference, 2010, in Tampere, Finland on 23 April. In 'Complexity without Contradiction: Cybernetics, Architecture and Enchantment' he will present a critique of the reduction of thought to information in cybernetics and its use within architecture to serve contemporary mechanisms of organisational control. http://www.tut.fi/units/ark/pdfs/NAAR2010Conference.pdfDOUGLAS SPENCER IN TEMPERE
AA Landscape Urbanism History and Theory tutor Douglas Spencer will present a keynote lecture at the Nordic Association of Architectural Research Annual Conference, 2010, in Tampere, Finland on 23 April. In 'Complexity without Contradiction: Cybernetics, Architecture and Enchantment' he will present a critique of the reduction of thought to information in cybernetics and its use within architecture to serve contemporary mechanisms of organisational control. http://www.tut.fi/units/ark/pdfs/NAAR2010Conference.pdfEVA CASTRO LECTURE IN BOLZANO
On Friday 16th April, AALU director Eva Castro will be giving a lecture in the Free University of Bolzano of her work in Landscape Urbanism, Plasmastudio and Groundlab. The lecture is part of a series of events linked to the Redesign Boundaries worskop organized by AALU and university of Trento.AALU IN PANNEL DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FUTURE OF BOLZANO
AALU design tutor and Arup Engineer Eduardo Rico participated in a round table discussion about the future development of the city of Bolzano in Alto Adige, Italy. The session is integrated within the workshop that Landscape Urbanism is currently carrying out in the Italian City, where the students explore future development of southern parts of the city after future infrastructural upgrades linked to the A22 Brenner Highway. The round table was chaired by Technology Innovation Service and was attended by memebres of the Urbanism council of Bolzano, planning authorities of Trentino Region, members of Trento University, the director of Il Corriere del Alto Adige as well as other architectural professionals, AALU students and members of the general public.
AALU IN COSTA RICA
AALU director Eva Castro will be teachnig a week long workshop in Universidad Veritas in Costa Rica, which currently includes Landscape Urbansim as part of the curriculum taught by Juan Carlos Sanabria. The workshop will be followed by furhter contacts from students from Veritas University in London.INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: Redesign boundaries, public spaces and infra-city Bozen
The Course of “Progettazione Urbanistica e del Paesaggio” of the Building Design – Faculty of the University of Trento and the Faculty of Science and Technology of the University of Bolzano invites the Master “Landscape Urbanism” of the Architectural Association, LondonThemes and questions
Bozen produced recently an original and innovative Masterplan that points to redefine different urban scenarios of quality for the future of the city. Among the themes and the areas to develop there are some which require to be seen with the multiple eye of an urbanist, a landscape architect, an architect and an infrastructural engineer. One of those zones - the area between Bozen Sued and Virgel , is subject of interest of a group of teachers and students of the Building Design Course a the University of Trento which has produced some original visions of the future. Starting from this research is born the idea to invite the prestigious Master of Landscape Urbanism of the Architectural Association of London (one of the most prestigious scholl of Architecture within Europe) with its international teachers and students which will work for 10 days together with the team of Trento to propose project solutions for this complex but strategic area of Bozen. The themes will go from in suggesting a deviation of the A22 which is a real barrier within the texture of the city to the redefinition of the existing public, residential and commercial spaces to the definition of scenarios of sustainable and alternative mobility and the scenic valorisation of the Hill of the Virgel.
Bozen produced recently an original and innovative Masterplan that points to redefine different urban scenarios of quality for the future of the city. Among the themes and the areas to develop there are some which require to be seen with the multiple eye of an urbanist, a landscape architect, an architect and an infrastructural engineer. One of those zones - the area between Bozen Sued and Virgel , is subject of interest of a group of teachers and students of the Building Design Course a the University of Trento which has produced some original visions of the future. Starting from this research is born the idea to invite the prestigious Master of Landscape Urbanism of the Architectural Association of London (one of the most prestigious scholl of Architecture within Europe) with its international teachers and students which will work for 10 days together with the team of Trento to propose project solutions for this complex but strategic area of Bozen. The themes will go from in suggesting a deviation of the A22 which is a real barrier within the texture of the city to the redefinition of the existing public, residential and commercial spaces to the definition of scenarios of sustainable and alternative mobility and the scenic valorisation of the Hill of the Virgel.
Operative modalities
The workshop from the 12h till the 22nd of April will include representatives of the public administration as well as public and private departments which will be the complementary actors of the project. Conferences and lectures of architects and teachers will be hold as supporting programme and a magazine with a collection of the research material will be distributed after the workshop in the city of Bozen. Furthermore an international production with the collection of the experiences of the Master of “Landscape Urbanism” ( America, Africa, Arabia, Europe, ecc.) will include also the project proposals for Bozen which will be devellopped during this workshop.
The workshop from the 12h till the 22nd of April will include representatives of the public administration as well as public and private departments which will be the complementary actors of the project. Conferences and lectures of architects and teachers will be hold as supporting programme and a magazine with a collection of the research material will be distributed after the workshop in the city of Bozen. Furthermore an international production with the collection of the experiences of the Master of “Landscape Urbanism” ( America, Africa, Arabia, Europe, ecc.) will include also the project proposals for Bozen which will be devellopped during this workshop.
RELATIONAL URBANISM IN BARELONA
On Friday 12th March, Enriqueta Llabres and AALU tutor Eduardo Rico will be giving a lecture in the Institut d'Architectura Avancada de Catalunya, in Barcelona, about the relevance of Relational Uranism in contemporary pratice.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:
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
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