The competition participants are requested to design an innovative Yurt structure informed by and in collaboration with a local Central Asian community that can be built within two (2) months and with an overall budget of CAD$4000. The design must be innovative and practical, aimed to solve a real need by a local community to improve the quality of their life. We invite designs that can be built using local materials but with modest modern technological improvements for joints and other components to increase structural stability and achieve the adoption of new technologies such as off-grid electricity, better thermal insulation, users’ improved comfort and a new look. The idea is that people can still carry, assemble and dismantle the yurts themselves with no specialized help or transportation. Keywords: deployable structures; Yurt; local materials, digital fabrication, spaceframe/lightweight structures. Awards: Stage One: 1st place CAD$500, 2nd place CAD$300, 3rd place CAD$200 Stage Two: CAD$4000 to build Mentorship: The top three projects will receive mentorship from the jury to better develop their design and strategize construction in collaboration with the local community of their choice. Registration: Participants must e-mail info@architectonic.ca to register and receive an entry code. Language: English is the official language of the competition; however, where appropriate, other languages can be incorporated with English translation. Schedule: March 10th- April 30th, 2023. Submissions are open. May 1st -10th, 2023: Jury composition to be confirmed. May 11th -May 15th, 2023: Jury to select the first, second and third place winners. May 16th – June 15th, 2023. Mentoring stage one winners to further develop their designs. June 20th -June 25th, 2023. The jury decides the final winning project to be constructed. July 1st - September 15th, 2023. Construction Period. CAD$4000 will be released for construction in 4 installments.
Créé en 1988 et composé d’une dizaine d’architectes, l’Atelier Pierre Thibault place en dialogue constant le territoire québécois, ses paysages, ses saisons et son architecture vernaculaire de manière à créer des projets intimement ancrés dans le milieu naturel et culturel. Fortement influencé par les lieux qui l’entourent, l’Atelier a su se démarquer sur les scènes nationale et internationale grâce à son approche sensible, empirique et intuitive. Cet univers intriqué et poétique de lieux, d’images et de typologies qui l’habitent se matérialise dans le cadre de l’exposition, proposant aux visiteurs une immersion littérale et figurative dans l’imaginaire architectural québécois et des territoires qui le compose. Scénarisée en un archipel composé de plusieurs ilots-territoires, l’exposition utilise le corpus distinctif de Thibault et son équipe pour interroger les différents rapports entre un projet d’architecture, son site d’implantation, son contexte culturel et naturel. En résulte une constellation architecturale distillant l’essence du travail de l’Atelier, brillant à la fois par sa constance et sa capacité de renouvellement, et ce depuis une trentaine d’années. Articulée autour des médiums de prédilection de l’agence - maquettes et croquis - l’exposition s’ancre dans une volonté de construire des ponts entre différentes approches architecturales et paysagères et de stimuler des échanges durables et lumineux entre cette profession, les territoires qu’elle construit et le grand public.
Join us for the opening reception of The Koffler Gallery's latest exhibition, “The Synagogue at Babyn Yar: Turning the Nightmare of Evil into a Shared Dream,” launches on April 17th, Yom HaShoah Eve.
Princeton University School of Architecture is pleased to announce F(r)iction, an exhibition by the 2023 Post-Professional M.Arch Thesis class, opening March 31st at a83 in New York City. The exhibition showcases projects by 8 students—Nancy Ai, Shirley Chen, Xinyu Chen, Andy Kim, Danial Mahfoud, Ana Morris, Ali Berk Senbas, and Guanglei Zhang.
HarvardxDesign is an annual conference launched in 2012 and led by students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design this year. We bring together creative thinkers, industry leaders, professors, and students to engage, debate, and reinterpret the design process across scales and sectors. Our goal is to share knowledge, tools, and resources that can empower creatives to become change agents through design.
29ddm Mourning Station #4, Dominic Di Mare, hawthorn, handmade paper, silk, bone, bird's egg, feathers, gold and wood beads, 13" x 7" x 7", 1981. Photo by Tom Grotta
Acclaim! Work by Award-Winning International Artists, presented by browngrotta arts The exhibition features 45+ artists whose diverse bodies of work, in addition to being acquired into important collections, have achieved formal art recognition — lifetime achievement awards, artist-of-the-year designations, a Legion of Honor award and even an Order of the British Empire. browngrotta arts will produce a catalog for Acclaim! —its 56th.
"Datament", a monumental installation to be presented at the Polish Pavilion for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, will allow visitors to experience data in its ‘physical’ form. The space of the pavilion will be filled with the frames of four life-size houses. These seemingly chaotic and absurd structures faithfully reproduce the source data. The exhibition is intended as a starting point for a discussion about how, while new technologies may not offer us ready-made solutions, they can help us ask better questions.
foley&cox is a New York–based interior design firm recognized for its style and versatility, led by Michael Cox. Cox focuses his practice on the concept of home—a word that encompasses a myriad of associations for everyone but can be most eloquently and simply described as the special place where we feel most comfortable. Published to coincide with the firm’s 20th anniversary, Language of Home: The Interiors of Foley & Cox presents twenty-four projects that reflect the breadth and depth of the foley&cox portfolio.
A collection of illuminating essays exploring what theory makes of architecture and what architecture makes of theory in philosophical and materialized contexts.
For those considering a career in environmental design –as an architect, landscape architect, urban designer, or city planner–, an immersive summer program in architecture and sustainable design might be the way to go before making a more long term commitment. Intensive summer programs are a great way to explore a career interest in architecture and environmental design. The College of Environmental Design at the University of California, Berkeley offers a variety of immersive summer courses, emphasizing hands-on studio design and teaching a multitude of relevant foundational design skills. By attending these programs, students gain professional clarity, competency, an increased network of peers and experts, and an empowering experience.
New construction as an exception? “Waste” as a new building material? Affordable housing vs. climate protection? How do we design a building’s whole lifecycle? How do we calculate grey energy honestly? What is zero-carbon concrete? Which insights are new, and how can we tap past knowledge to develop solutions for the future? How do we shape this complex change process together? “Second City. On the New in the Old” is the theme of Architecture Matters 2023, where we will explore this topic at different levels: materials, buildings, society.
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House in Restelo / Pedro Domingos Arquitectos. Image Courtesy of FritsJurgens
The third and final part of "Stories of Lisbon's Light" focuses on a robust and daringly contrasting family home between the seven rolling hills of ‘the city of light’, Lisbon. Discover how architect Pedro Domingos designed a home where daylight and the river Tagus play the leading roles. With the residence facing the south, radical architectural choices had to be made to allow the light to flow through the entire residence.
People’s tolerance for sound in the workplace is different at different times. Curating acoustics requires a hybrid approach, combining areas for focused work and comfortable conditions for meeting. Image Courtesy of Haworth
Is it the award-worthy barista skills at the third-floor coffee bar that make your days in the office bearable? Or is it being able to ring-fence a desk and height-adjusted chair and call them your own while the rest of the world hot desks? Perhaps it is knowing that the warming of your hands and toes is at someone else’s expense or that in this space you are you and not mum, dad, daughter, or husband. Or you might put it simply down to the camaraderie of the team and the common sense of purpose. One thing that is not in question, however, is that since the recent shake-up of our working practices, it matters now more than ever that productivity and wellbeing are in balance in the office, and contentment and comfort are key to both.
