Thursday April 14 SCI-Arc NYC Discussion and Cocktail Party with Ming Fung and A, New York, NY Friday April 15 FABRICATE 2011 Call for Work, London, UK Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry, Chicago, IL HUBURBS: Metrolinx Mobility Hub Symposium, Toronto, ON, Canada Saturday April 16 AA Istanbul Visiting... View full entry
at the same time,cecil balmond+roland snooks studio from university of pennsylvania was presenting their agent-based works just down stairs in the big studio.suddently,we ve felt something like earthquake that we thought it should be normal as we are in tokyo,japan.but it didnt soon stopped as usual and was going on shaking,wont stop!!!we started to run asap to 1st ground from 2nd studio in the persistent shakes.there is nothing in my mind at that time but run — University of Tokyo (Zhao) School Blog
Archinect School Blogger, Zhao, shares his first-hand experiences with the Japan quake while in classes at the University of Tokyo View full entry
Event includes panel discussions featuring leaders of the environmental design professions including: Marvin J. Malecha, Ray Kappe, Richard Chylinski, Frank Clementi, Stefanos Polyzoides, Deborah Sussman, Michael Rotondi, Ken Smith, Rick Bishop, and Lorraine Wild. — 40th Anniversary Party for the College of Environmental Design
SCHEDULE OF ENV 40 PANELS, Saturday April 16th 201110 – 11 am: The early years Dean Emeritus Marvin J. Malecha, FAIA, 2009 President of the American Institute of ArchitectsProfessor Emeritus Ray Kappe, FAIA, former Chair of the Architecture Department (who went on to found... View full entry
Members of this organization begin the narrative process by examining city neighborhoods and commercial districts for compelling structures that appear to have fallen into disuse—“hidden gems” of the built environment. In varying states of repair, these buildings suggest only stories about the past, not the future. — bldgblog.blogspot.com
The 1941 Maxwell house by Richard Neutra, one of Southern California's most celebrated residential architects, is being moved in pieces from Brentwood to a vacant lot in Angelino Heights, the neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles best known for its restored Victorians. Photographer Brian Thomas Jones was on the scene as the first part of the 1,700-square-foot wooden structure made the journey down Sunset Boulevard to its new home. — LA Times
The LA Times covers the moving of Neutra's Maxwell house. View full entry
Two seating spaces I didn't get a chance to sit in: some pointy mineral deposits by Aranda/Lasch in collaboration with Island Planning Corporation, and raumlaborberlin's Kitchen Monument, which played host to a programme of talks and exchanges. The Giardini was dotted with interesting spaces to... View full entry
OMA finds us in Cronocaos, as the boundaries between preservation and demolition collapse, Caruso St. John pays homage to a private home in Chongqing that stood against all odds, and Bahrain takes home the prize in their moving call to preserve their coastline from development. The Office for... View full entry
As part of the British Pavilion, London-based artist Lottie Child investigates how children play in the streets of Venice. London-based artist Lottie Child led a group of people, mostly children, who live and work around Via Garibaldi in Venice, in a Street Training session for architects and... View full entry
Some good old-fashioned bootstrapping as the US pavilion celebrates the "proactive, entrepreneurial spirit of architects, engineers and designers who recognize the transformational potential of focused partnerships." Plus, a seemingly unrelated installation from MOS, who call their work... View full entry
In which Economy. and Testbedstudio singlehandedly save the Nordic pavilion. With their slick presentation of completed urban design projects from Sweden, Norway and Finland, the Nordic pavilion took a while to get the picture: this year it's about people and architecture. At the last minute, they... View full entry
Croatia's much anticipated floating Pavilion doesn't make it to port, while the rebiennale creates a rogue pavilion out of the scraps of past biennales. A group of Croatian architecture practices collaboratively designed Brod / The Ship / La Nave: a floating pavilion for Croatia, to be towed... View full entry
Participatory build projects and natural architecture ... Some wonderful seating elements constructed from simple wood slats dot the Giardini, reminiscent of Enzo Mari's “autoprogettazione.” The chairs have been made by Raumlaborberlin, who have enabled public participation by laying... View full entry
Serbia makes a curious space for seesaws and plants on wheels, Greece builds an ark to carry their old seeds to new cultures. Serbia's Seesaw Play-grow "extends an invitation to you and us, the timeless seesawers." A lovely little playground ... In the Greek Pavilion's Old Seeds for New Cultures... View full entry
Vacancies, voids and squatting the pavilions of Venice. The Netherlands Pavilion (Vacant NL) explores the thousands of buildings in the Netherlands that lie vacant, in a call for the “intelligent reuse of temporarily vacant buildings around the world in promoting creative enterprise.&rdquo... View full entry
Real quick: The Poland Pavilion ... I heard some ankles were broken already! Real quick: The Poland Pavilion ... I heard some ankles were broken already! "The activity materializes the need and desire to lose control, to free oneself both physically and metaphorically from the current system; from... View full entry