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Medialab-Prado
Call for projects on digital facades: Open Up
Open Up is a workshop focused on the development of projects for the digital façade in Medialab-Prado's building. This call is meant for project proposals to be collaboratively developed during the workshop-seminar taking place in Madrid from February 9 through 23, 2010.
The goals of the workshop are to explore the relationship between the urban screen and public space, to experiment with the screen's communicative, narrative and visual capacities, and to investigate its potential to offer new forms of participation. Selected projects will be developed under the supervision of teachers, technical assistants and an extensive group of collaborators.
Projects submitted to this call should take the following ideas into consideration: the development of strategies for public participation, activation of urban space through the screen, fostering public visibility of agents that normally have none, visualization of public collectives; interaction with portable devices, etc. All those interested in collaborating in one of the selected projects can sign in from January 5 through February 8, 2010.
Check the call guidelines and submit your project before December 10, 2009. No entry fees.
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TED2010: What the World Needs Now
A new decade. A new U.S. president. A global financial crisis. Some are predicting the worst of times. But we think it’s a time to regroup, re-evaluate and then to dream. Dream big. Because the world of ideas has never mattered more. Behind the headlines, innovation and invention are alive and flourishing. And it’s here that the key to a better future will be found. At TED2010 we will be hotfoot in pursuit of that future. We’re assembling an incredible lineup of speakers whose ideas and ingenuity will thrill, enlighten and inspire. It’s What the World Needs Now…
Location: TED Conference, 55 Vandam Street, 16th Floor

John Portman + Jack Portman with Mack Scogin
"Form"
Location: Piper Auditorium, Harvard GSD
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

SOAK: Mumbai in an Estuary
Panel Discussion and Book Launch featuring Teddy Cruz, Nina-Marie Lister, Lindsay Bremner, Anuradha Mathur, and Dilip da Cunha. Hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture.
Location: B3 Meyerson Hall, PennDesign
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Building Design Workshop
This workshop offers "cutting-edge" programs focusing on the building envelope. At this workshop, attendees will learn about: Accessible Design, Moisture Penetration, Environmentally Friendly Insulation, Transparent Glazing & Textile Envelopes, Green Building Envelope Design & Methods for Reducing Carbon Footprint. Sponsored by DPC Associates.
Location: The Hotel Beacon, 2130 Broadway
Time: 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

The Future of History: Representations of Modernity
Panel discussion with Rachael Ziady DeLue and Vittoria di Palma. Moderated by Erika Naginski.
Location: Rm 112, Harvard GSD
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

When Light Becomes ART
“The Breakfast Club” is for Lighting Designers, Architects, Interior Designers, Electrical Engineers and Distributors. Meet other lighting professionals over breakfast, with a presentation by a principal, national sales manager or regional sales manager from one of Enterprise's 45+ lighting manufacturers.
Location: 20 West 36th Street, 3rd Floor
Time: 9:00 am - 10:00 am

Symposium: Designing an Enduring Legacy
This symposium will include distinguished architects who will share their work and experiences on various design projects that relate to the African American heritage.
Location: Higgins Hall Auditorium, Pratt Institute School of Architecture
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:45 pm

Green Cities 2010, People, Places, and Performance
The largest and most influential green building conference in the Asia Pacific region. Held from Sunday 21 to Wednesday 24 February 2010 at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, the conference will bring together green building innovators to explore new ideas and share practical knowledge in the expanding sustainable building industry.
Location: Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre
Link: www.greencities.org.au

Defining Data Visualization: Ben Fry
Documenting the way data is structured, visualized and seen in contemporary society.
Location: Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium, Columbia GSAPP
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Andrew Dolkart Book Talk and Signing
In the decades just before and after World War I, a group of architects, homeowners, and developers pioneered innovative and affordable housing alternatives. In The Row House Reborn, Dolkart traces this aesthetic movement from its inception in 1908 with architect Frederick Sterner's complete redesign of his home near Gramercy Park to a wave of projects for the wealthy on the East Side to the faux artist's studios for young professionals in Greenwich Village.
Location: The Skyscraper Museum
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Price: Free

The Future of Architectural Education: Brett Steele
A discussion with Brett Steele, Dean, AA School, London and Mark Wigley, Dean, GSAPP. Moderated by Enrique Walker, Director of Advanced Architectural Design, GSAPP.
Location: Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium, Columbia GSAPP
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Building in the Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture
The Yale School of Architecture and Autodesk invite you to a book launch and panel discussion for, Building in the Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture, Edited by Peggy Deamer and Phillip G. Bernstein. Diverse contributors describe new models of practice and reorganizations of labor for the twenty-first century.
Location: Center for Architecture
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

A Green Building is a Healthier One
Can working in a green building make you healthier? And if you can prove this, would reduce a company’s health care insurance? Find out if this is a game changer when considering how and when to build sustainably. A discussion with Gregory Kats, Mark Nicholls, Vivian Loftness and moderated by Robert Ivy.
Location: National Building Museum
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

The Making of Modern New York: Puerto Rican Architects and Their Contributions to New York
Fourth in the groundbreaking series of presentations by Puerto Rican architects in current practice in New York City. Speakers include Ruperto Arvelo, Frank X. Moya, Agustin Ayuso and moderated by Warren James. Panel discussion and reception to follow.
Location: Hunter College
Time: 6:15 pm - 8:15 pm

Workshop: Performing Navigations
Los Angeles-based artist and choreographer Sandra Wookey will guide participants in creating a conceptual map of the Hammer Museum. Participants will explore how people move throughout the spaces of the museum, paying close attention to areas such as the courtyard and lobby where the museum and the outside world converge. Participants will collect an archive of actions in the form of remembered movements, pathways, postures, gaze patterns and physical gestures.
Location: Hammer Museum
Time: 10:00 am
Price: Free

Building Museums 2010
The 2010 Building Museums Symposium is for architects, museum leaders, planners, project managers, technical experts, and all those who plan or implement new construction, renovation, or expansion projects for museums. The symposium is organized under three inter-related themes: Vision, Implementation, and Sustainability (or Life after Opening) . The content of each day will reflect these themes across a broad range of museum sizes and scales, budgets, scope of building projects, disciplines, and collecting vs. non-collecting institutions.
Location: Lower Manhattan

Transnational Latin Americanisms: Liminal Places, Cultures and Power (T)here
Vladimir Bartalini, Rosa Cervera, Miriam Chion, Patricio del Real, James Freeman, Milena Gmez, Hannia Gmez, Macarena Gmez-Barris, Cristina Incln, Gareth Jones, Nora Libertum de Duren, Stephen Lanz, Faranak Miraftab, Mara Moreno, Zaida Muxi, Ingrid Olivio, Vera Pallamin, Yves Pedrazzini, Erika Rossi, Marcela Tovar, Mara Teresa Vzquez-Castillo, and Marisa Zapata.
Location: Avery Hall, Wood Auditorium, Columbia GSAPP

The Future of History: Instruments of Modernity
Panel discussion with Georges Farhat and Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto. Moderated by Antoine Picon.
Location: Rm 112, Harvard GSD
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

On Criticism: A Reading Group Ada Louise Huxtable
In the past year, the published collections by Ada Louise Huxtable have reinvigorated a debate about the purposes and forms of architectural criticism. In this series of informal and open-ended reading groups, selected articles will shape a conversation about the different approaches to criticism and the role of critics in shaping architectural discourse, and the relationship between critics, the profession, and the public.
Location: The Architectural League
Time: 7:00 pm
Price: Free for Architectural League members; $10 non-members

Greening the Supply Chain
How can you tell if a piece of lumber, CFL light bulb or bamboo flooring is really “green?” And does “green” mean environmentally friendly, a lower carbon footprint, or manufactured in a socially responsible manner? A discussion with Gwen Davidow, Kirsten Richie, Nadav Malin and moderated by Ken Langer.
Location: National Building Museum
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Sustainable Building Affordable to all
From 17 to 19 March 2010 an international conference on the subject of sustainable building affordable to all will be held in Vilamoura, Portugal. This scientific conference will be organised jointly by the International Council for Building, the United Nations Environment Programme and the International "Initiative for a Sustainable Built Environment". Speakers, academics and researchers, will focus on identifying policies, solutions and results permitting the construction of buildings that are gentle to the environment at an affordable cost.
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Donna Goodman Book Talk and Signing
A History of the Future explores the impact of modern technology on design and planning, beginning with Renaissance concepts that laid the foundations for modern visionary work and concluding with emerging projects in sustainable design. It also includes relevant projects in related fields, such as film, photography, and industrial design. Profusely illustrated, A History of the Future is a visual survey of the heroic, utopian, and occasionally misguided visions of the twentieth century.
Location: The Skyscraper Museum
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Price: Free

On Criticism: A Reading Group Paul Goldberger
In the past year, the published collections of articles by Paul Goldberger have reinvigorated a debate about the purposes and forms of architectural criticism. In this series of informal and open-ended reading groups, selected articles will shape a conversation about the different approaches to criticism, the role of critics in shaping architectural discourse, and the relationship between critics, the profession, and the public.
Location: The Architectural League
Time: 7:00 pm
Price: Free for Architectural League members; $10 non-members

Hernan Diaz-Alonso + Jason Payne
Hernan Diaz-Alonso, Principal, Xefirotarch; Faculty, SCI-Arc in conversation with Jason Payne, Principal, Hirsuta; Assistant Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design. Xefirotarch's deign obsessions are based on an appreciation for the perversity of mutant form, a taste learned from the movies. Payne's work promotes a new materialism with a distinctly sensate bias, informed by intensive research and an experimental approach, his work engages material dynamics in the production of form to create a direct appeal to the senses.
Location: Preloff Hall, Decafe, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
Time: 6:30 pm

3rd International Holcim Forum
How can approaches to the design, fabrication and use of built structures be aligned with the principles of sustainable development?
Date: 14 - 17 April 2010
Place: Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City
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Discussions in Architecture
Peter Eisenman with Preston Scott Cohen
Location: Rm 112, Harvard GSD
Time: 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Global Challenges: Architectural Solutions, Global Convention and Expo of Architecture
Few career paths inherently aspire to advance the conditions of populated environments like those idealized in architecturally-related professions.  In celebration of Architecture Week 2010, product leaders, design professionals, and academics will gather at the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology for the 1st Annual Global Convention and Exposition on Architecture.  The event will feature a professional exposition, a product exhibition, a design college and university connection event, a seminar series, professional and mock firm competitions, and will conclude with the first Amazing Architectural Race.
Location: Illinois Institute of Technology

Symposium: "Positioning Global Systems"
This symposium explores the relationship between networks and locality in the built environment. New innovations in communication and information technologies form the basis of an expanding virtual geography. While contemporary architecture looks towards ways to model the global, our heightened perceptions of geographical specificity instead call for new visions of local articulation. This symposium seeks to reposition our broad and often vague definition of the global.
Location: Paul Rudolph Hall, Yale School of Architecture

2010 National Architecture Conference, extra/ordinary
extra/ordinary will dwell on the culture of the extraordinarily ordinary. As an antidote to the incessant abstractions of globalisation, we will be gathering together those who have an enthusiasm for engaging with the contingency of the everyday: inventing new ways of operating; embracing collaborative approaches and initiating direct action on the ground. Producing outcomes that are innovative and utilitarian, provocative and pragmatic. Resolving ordinary problems in extraordinary ways.
Location: Sydney Convention & Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour.
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ETH Housebuilding Forum 2010
Between interest yield and sustainabilty. Valuation in housebuilding.
Date: April 22, 2010
Time: 8.30 a.m.
Location: Lake Side
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Michael Meredith + Hilary Sample
A conversation with Michael Meredith, Principal, MOS and Hilary Samples, Principal, MOS. MOS is an interdisciplinary practice focusing on architecture and design through research and the production of multivalent architectural objects. The work engages issues ranges from typology, digital methodologies, the physical context of structure, fabrication, materiality, tactility, and use; to the larger social, cultural, and environmental networks.
Location: Perloff Hall, Decafe, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
Time: 6:30 pm

Sustainable Schools
Schools house the nation’s most precious resource, yet many expose children to off-gasing toxins, are built in far flung locations and lack sunlight that can create vitamin D deficiencies. Discover why greener schools mean a brighter future for us all. A conversation with Dr. Howard Frumkin, Steve Turckes, Glenn Cummings and moderated by Joanne Silberner.
Location: National Building Museum
Time: 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm

Greg Lynn + Joseph Kosinski
Greg Lynn, Principal, Greg Lynn FORM; Professor, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design in conversation with Joseph Kosinski, Film Director. The impeccably designed and visually innovative creations of Joseph Kosinski have made him a highly sought-after commercial and feature film director. His work represents a fusion of skills stemming from his background in architecture, product design, engineering and music. Greg Lynn has defined how designers and architects use computers as a medium, operating in an expanded field that fuses cutting-edge technology, contemporary art, and science fiction aesthetics with architectural form.
Location: Perloff Hall, Decafe, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design
Time: 6:30 pm

State of Design Festival, Melbourne
For 2010, Design for Everyone, the Festival's public program, will explore and communicate the importance of design to a broad public audience. Participation in Design for Everyone is an opportunity for individuals, organisations and businesses to demonstrate how design is improving living conditions, creating sustainable development opportunities, increasing commercial advantages and generating new and innovative products and services.
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2010 IDSA International Conference and Education Symposium
Each year, between 600 and 800 design practitioners, educators, students, business leaders and vendors working with designers from all over the world gather for IDSA’s International Conference and Education Symposium. These events combine provocative speakers with practical information and solutions, as well as plenty of time for building personal and professional connections.
Location: Hilton Portland and Executive Tower

Architecture + the City Festival
Celebrating San Francisco's unique built environment and design community, Architecture and the City is the first series of its kind in the Bay Area to feature architectural tours, film screenings, exhibitions, design lectures and more. The month long festival engages members of the public, design enthusiasts and architects and designers with a deeper appreciation for San Francisco's rich architectural and design community. Architecture and the City is bound to offer you an unparalleled opportunity to experience our city in a new way.