Archive for October, 2012

Lab-int/2013: news

Wednesday, October 31st, 2012

Aedas unveiled first images of their Robin Hood Gardens ‘Regeneration’… and they look very far from being convincing. On bdonline more images and an article explaining that:

The new homes will be used to ‘decant’ residents from the existing Robin Hood Gardens, which is due to be demolished in a future phase of the project…

Lab-int/2013 should keep an eye on this…

Obiettivo Terragni

Monday, October 29th, 2012

30/ X / 2012
Politecnico di Milano
Facoltà di Architettura e Società
aula B6.4/5

9.30
OBIETTIVO TERRAGNI
Paolo Rosselli

11,00
VIAGGIO NELL’ARCHITETTURA DI GIUSEPPE TERRAGNI
Attilio Terragni

coordina
Alessandro Rocca

download the flyer

The Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS)

Thursday, October 25th, 2012

ahttp://occas.aho.no/

Cuts in the EU budget for Research/Petition

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

Priority for the research budget is crucial for achieving economic prosperity and solutions for global challenges. Read the text of the petition and voice your concerns on the EU budget to the heads of states or governments.

 Sign the petition – and invite others to join!

This petition reflects the mobilisation of research communities, including younger scientists, the members of learned societies and of concerned citizens. It complements the open letter of 42 European Nobel Laureates and 5 Fields Medallists recently published in the major European newspapers.

Disseminate the Call to everyone since is open to non-academics!

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Aliano reloaded

Wednesday, October 24th, 2012

IL RESTO DI MOLTO: ri/attiva/azioni di un borgo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfT6WaAxSW4

Documentario realizzato dall’Artivista comunicazione per documentare le installazioni effettuate nei borghi di Aliano e Alianello(MT) dal 28 Aprile al 1 Maggio 2012 nel seminario/workshop curato dall’arch. Nicola Flora e con Mobilarch-Facoltà di architetta di Ascoli Piceno-Università di Camerino; Regia di Antonello Picciano.

Årsta Church in Stockholm

Saturday, October 20th, 2012

photo © Ioana Marinescu

Årsta Church, by Johan Celsing, Stockholm

Functional Art, The: An introduction to information graphics and visualization

Sunday, October 14th, 2012

The first Massive Open Online Course about infographics and data visualization.

(UPDATE, Oct. 13th: The Knight Center has told me that, due to server limits, they have been forced to put a cap on the amount of participants. In any case, the course will be offered again in January. This situation was unexpected, and it is due to the fact that this is the first experiment the Center does with this kind of program. They are trying to avoid server blackouts. I’ll do my best to accommodate everybody who wants to sign up by offering it as many times as needed in the next months.)
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Architecture and archaeologies of the production landscapes: conference

Saturday, October 13th, 2012

 

International Conference
18.10 – 19.10    2012

Exhibition
03.10 > 19.10   2012

Il Convegno internazionale, organizzato dall’Unità di Ricerca Iuav “Architetture e archeologie dei paesaggi della produzione”, propone un evento culturale di approfondimento e discussione sulle diverse linee di ricerca e di progetto relative al recupero e alla rigenerazione di luoghi e architetture della produzione.
Correlato alla mostra, che illustra in dettaglio gli esiti di una “Call for papers and proposals of architectural design”, bandita all’inizio del 2012, il Convegno presenta accanto ai progetti e le ricerche selezionate alcuni interventi di riconosciuto rilievo per le tematiche affrontate.

Download: programma del convegno

info: productionlandscapesarchitecture@iuav.it

lablog tries to post on facebook

Monday, October 8th, 2012

[La villa di Livia, Roma, 30- 20 a.C]

Today, we set up a plugin to update lablog facebook profile with all posts we edit on the blog. We hope to spread out more lablog information and archive: at least we try.

CM-int/2012 takes off

Friday, October 5th, 2012

IA-Interior Architecture course 2012-13
Prof Gennaro Postiglione together with arch Maddalena Scarzella

 

ASthought

architecture from concept to built form

 

Monday 8th October 2012 – h. 9:15 aula C
Facoltà di Architettura e Società
Politecnico di Milano

Main goal is to describe the design process, the architectural solutions and the detailing choices of a built work in a chronological order. The sequence of selected iconography for each step will be arranged into specific categories (typology, materials, elements, etc.), according standard architecture manuals, and explained through captions (140 characters in order to be able to become twitter posts). An introduction presenting the work ‘facts’, a short description of 1000 words and an essay selected among what already published, will constitute the main textual sections.

Follow the project on: asthought.polimi-cooperation.org

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