Emerging Architecture: next generation architects from around the world show and tell at the RIBA with a series of talks and an accompanying exhibition.07 February Trahan Architects Brendeland & Kristoffersen Architects 6.30pm [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Trey Trahan will speak about his award winning design for the Holy Rosary Holy Rosary may be:
Geir Brendeland and Olav Kristoffersen, the partners of a newly established practice in Norway, have in their first projects demonstrated a fresh take on wooden architecture in an urban context. Their project for new apartment buildings in Trondheim merges vernacular architecture vernacular architecture Common domestic architecture of a region, usually far simpler than what the technology of the time is capable of maintaining. In highly industrialized countries such as the U.S. , new timber building technology and punk spirit. Chaired by Paul Finch finch, common name for members of the Fringillidae, the largest family of birds (including over half the known species), found in most parts of the world except Australia. 14 February Edward Ng Ng, Edward W. received his PhD degree in astronomy/applied mathematics from Columbia University. He has been employed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL) of the California Institute of Technology, under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Taira Nishizawa Architects 6.30pm eA Bridge too Far, a Dream Come Truei was the motto of a project to build a simple footbridge in a remote village in North West China in 6 days On behalf of the team of over 100 students, professionals and villagers who contributed, Professor Edward Ng will talk about the project and the synergies created by technical, financial, logistic and human challenges. Since establishing his practice in 1993 Taira Nishizawa has completed a number of building projects, many of which show his concern with the connection between architecture and the surrounding landscape. He will present his forestry hall, a timber and steel space frame building, in the Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. Chaired by Rob Gregory 21 February fnp-architekten Rural Studio 6.30pm Martin Naumann of fnp-archifekten will speak about the house-in-a-house project in the Pfalz Forest in Germany. The prefabricated pre·fab·ri·cate tr.v. pre·fab·ri·cat·ed, pre·fab·ri·cat·ing, pre·fab·ri·cates 1. To manufacture (a building or section of a building, for example) in advance, especially in standard sections that can be easily shipped and timber structure inserted into stone ruins is a playful solution for a flexible showroom that touches on the history and memory of the space. Rural Studio, a programme within the School of Architecture at Auburn University Auburn University, main campus at Auburn, Ala.; land-grant and state supported; opened 1859 as East Alabama Male College, reorganized 1872 as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama; became coeducational 1892; renamed Alabama Polytechnic Institute 1899, , has designed and built more than 150 community projects and charity homes in west Alabama involving more than 400 architecture students in a service-learning model, that has garnered an international recognition. Andrew Freear will talk about the place, the philosophy and the practice of Rural Studio, four years after the death of its founder Samuel Mockbee Samuel "Sambo" Mockbee (December 23, 1944–December 30, 2001) was an American architect and a co-founder of the Auburn University Rural Studio program in Hale County, Alabama. He was born in Meridian, Mississippi. . Chaired by Catherine Slessor 28 February Ex-Studio Satoshi Matsuoka/Yuki Tamura 6.30pm Ex-studio was founded in Barcelona by Mexican architects This is a list of Mexican architects. It may never be fully completed or, depending on its its nature, it may be that it can never be completed. However, new and revised entries in the list are always welcome. Iv*n Ju*rez and Patricia Meneses. Theiryt projects explore the relationship between art and function; integrating the disciplines of architecture, design, sculpture and installation. Patricia Meneses will talk about the Tambabox in Senegal, an object-space created from varied Senegalese textiles and Dream House, a space for self-reflection, focussed around an urban tree. Tokyo Architects Satoshi Matsuoka and Yuki Tamura of Matsuokasatoshitamurayuki will present a witty and uncanny urban installation composed of nine enormous translucent translucent slightly penetrable by light rays. balloons wedged wedged - 1. To be stuck, incapable of proceeding without help. This is different from having crashed. If the system has crashed, it has become totally non-functioning. If the system is wedged, it is trying to do something but cannot make progress; it may be capable of doing a few into a tight Vancouver alleyway and illuminated from within. Chaired by Catherine Slessor Emerging Architecture Spring Lecture Series A series of four seminars with presentations from winners and highly commended architects from the AR Emerging Architecture competition. The architects will talk about their recent work in general as well as focusing on their prize-winning projects. The annual AR Awards are now seven years old and are recognised as the worldis leading celebration of the work of young architects who are at the start of their independent careers and are often, as yet, not very well known. The accompanying free exhibition of winning and highly commended entrants will be in the Florence Hall until 28 February. How to book Tickets cost [pounds sterling]8 full price and [pounds sterling]4 RIBA RIBA Royal Institute of British Architects members, student members and concessions. For RIBA Trust talks tickets call 020 7307 3699 or visit www.architecture.com/programmes RIBA Trust 66 Portland Place Portland Place is a street in the Marylebone district of central London. It was laid out by the brothers Robert and James Adam for the Duke of Portland in the late 18th century and originally ran north from the gardens of a detached mansion called Foley House. London W1B 1AD t. 020 7580 5533 f. 020 7307 3703 |
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