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Lydia Kallipoliti named Columbia GSAPP's new Advanced Architectural Design program director

2024-07-29T19:49:00-04:00

Columbia GSAPP has appointed architect, engineer, and academic Lydia Kallipoliti as the new director of its Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design program. She joins the Morningside Heights campus from the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union, where she has been working as an Associate Professor and Senior Associate at the Institute for Sustainable Design.

Kallipoliti, a noted ecological design expert known for her distinctive “immersive scholarship” approach, will also teach students as a tenured Associate Professor of Architecture, Planning and Preservation beginning in the Fall of 2024. She recently served as Head Co-Curator (with Areti Markopoulou) of the 2022 Tallinn Architecture Biennale and taught previously at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University, the University of Technology Sydney, and her alma mater Princeton in addition to leading the New York-based ANAcycle design+writing studio.

NFTs will be at the (i)heart(blob) of the Tallinn Architecture Biennale

2021-12-17T11:49:00-05:00

The hot new trend sweeping the art and design communities will be at the center of next year’s Tallinn Architecture Biennale. The festival released its 2022 list of exhibitors on Thursday, which includes an installation program highlighted by a virtual metaverse space from the web-based studio iheartblob.

Touted as the world’s first-ever blockchain-funded pavilion, the installation "Fungible Non-Fungible Pavilion" has a specific focus on the concept of slowness similar to the overall theme of the biennial, which this year is “Edible; Or, the Architecture of Metabolism.”

Image courtesy iheartblob

The installation was named the de-facto winner of this year’s installation competition after another exhibitor, the fungi-inspired team called Simulaa (previously on Archinect), dropped out due to unforeseen circumstances. iheartblob nonetheless won for its crowdfunded and sourced entry that they say will empower local communities towards craftsmanship in specifically AI and NFT-based hybrid...

Mushrooms hold the key for this year’s winning proposal at the Tallinn Architecture Biennale in Estonia

2021-10-12T14:18:00-04:00

A trippy trend in building technology has taken top billing at the 6th annual Tallinn Architecture Biennale in the Baltic nation of Estonia.

Using 3D-printing technology, the Australian team of Simulaa and Natalie Alima has taken a timber-frame formwork imbued with mycelial fibers that grow to envelop the structure, allowing it to decay along an algorithmic process that, in fitting with the competition’s mandate, biologically expresses the slow passage of time.

The installation contained within ‘incubation bag’ to create ideal conditions for mycelial growth © Simulaa

With the Biennale’s theme being “Edible; Or, The Architecture of Metabolism,” the concept offers a very wavy way of considering how materials and methods can be better used to help buildings adapt to local environments through projects that “take a long, romantic and human-centric view towards construction technology.”

“This project curates an ...

Finalists Announced for the Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) Installation Competition

2021-06-07T20:41:00-04:00

"12 teams to enter the 2nd stage of the competition..." "The 2022 TAB installation calls for proposals that take a long, romantic, and human centric view towards construction technology, demonstrating designs and processes that extend and expand learning and mastery, traditional craftsmanship and analogue fabrication, repurposing and reuse of local materials, human invention and improvisation, environmental adaptation and responsiveness, wonderment, and delight."

The Tallinn Architecture Biennale (TAB) Installation Competition has announced 12 shortlisted teams out of 119 entries from 41 countries to continue on to the 2nd stage of the competition.

TAB 2017 Installation by Gilles Retsin. Image by NAARO.

Adrien Rigobello, Tom Svilans, Phil Ayers
Andy Watts, Alicia Nahmad Vazquez
Simulaa
Barry Wark, Richard Beckett, Levent Ozruh, Jan Contala, Phillip Schwaderer
EmTech, Buro Happold
Ezio Blasetti, Danielle Willems
Francesco Lipari, Arturo Tedeschi
IHEARTBLOB
Joseph Choma, Jefferson Ellinger, Wesam Al Asali
Katya Bryskina, Dmitry Morozov
Roberto Naboni, Riccardo La Magna, Aljaz Kramberger, Anija Kunić, Luca Breseghello, Alessandro Zomparelli
Studio KINC, Igor Siddiqui