Get Lectured: School of Architecture ESARQ-UIC, Spring '14

2014-02-18T13:05:00-05:00

Archinect's Architecture School Lecture Guide for Winter/Spring 2014

Archinect's Get Lectured is up and running again for the Winter/Spring '14 term! As a refresher from our Fall 2013 guide, every week we'll feature a school's lecture series—and their snazzy posters—for the current season. Be sure to keep track of any upcoming lectures you don't want to miss.

Since we've been receiving more submissions lately, we're gonna show off posters more often -- and so you can see what events are happening in architecture schools right now!

Our next poster comes from Barcelona's ESARQ School of Architecture at the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, featuring their Transformation lecture series:

"When we talk about Transformations, we talk about the starting point, the beginning of the road back to what each person considers to be essential. The origin of these sessions aims to pin down our intentions to what is strictly necessary. It looks at the source of concepts and emotions that we know ...

Editor's Picks #230

2011-09-25T17:25:57-04:00

In a recent Washington Post article architect Roger K Lewis wrote about a recent article in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology which examined how commercial architecture’s similarity across nation provides mobile Americans with a sense of stability. Donna Sink, thinks it has less to do with with concepts like "familiarity-seeking" and more to do with the profit motives of developers.

In the second part of the CONTOURS: Whither Goest Thou, Green Economy: feature, Sherin Wing looks at the how the R-word index and the drag that the so-called PIIGS is having on the economy, are impacting the greening of the economy. Her essay attempts to put aside overblown rhetoric about 'New Sustainability Champions', and looks to a recent joint report by the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group. The report she argues "highlights sixteen companies in developing nations that deploy environmentally-conscientious business practices which, incidentally, have ensured their economic success. So, the green economy seems to be emerging in the developing world more significantly than in the developed world. Much of this is out of market necessity."

holz.box offers up his own take on the trajectory of the green economy "passivhaus retrofits: green jobs (planning, construction), significantly reduced energy bills (up to 95% reduction, owners keeps money in the country ins...

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Get Lectured: School of Architecture ESARQ-UIC, Spring '14

Editor's Picks #230