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Archive for August, 2008

PIN-UP: Enjoy Architectural Entertainment

Darrel, Fri 29 Aug 2008
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architecture, books + mags and design + style

PIN-​UP #4 - Cover

Now in its 4th issue, PIN-​UP: Mag­a­zine for Archi­tec­tural Enter­tain­ment has proven to be a great mag­a­zine that has lasted past its first few issues to be a hope­fully last­ing review on archi­tec­tural and design cul­ture. Having first seen issue #2 back in the summer of 2007 at the Pro qm book­store instal­la­tion at Doc­u­menta in Kassel, the mag­a­zine has been noto­ri­ously hard-​to-​find through­out Europe and North Amer­ica. Released by Bruil in the Nether­lands, the mag­a­zine appar­ently shares sim­i­lar roots as our other pre­ferred review, Fan­tas­tic Man.
Con­tinue read­ing ‘PIN-UP: Enjoy Archi­tec­tural Entertainment’

This is happening to Beijing

Darrel, Thu 28 Aug 2008
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architecture, link and movies, recordings, and more

NYT Beijing Map

With the atten­tion on Bei­jing, the New York Times has pre­pared a small but inter­est­ing inter­ac­tive map show­ing the cre­ation and destruc­tion of Bei­jing over the recent years. Three sec­tions of the map high­light the new Olympic venues, the urban change of Bei­jing as well as new archi­tec­tural projects.
Con­tinue read­ing ‘This is hap­pen­ing to Beijing’

CCTV Facade complete

Thomas, Wed 6 Aug 2008
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architecture and marketing + pimping

CCTV Part

CCTV is ready for the games. The steel ribs reflect the dis­tri­b­u­tion of forces in the con­struc­tion (photo: Ole Scheeren)

OMA dis­trib­uted a press release includ­ing the above pic­ture (click for XXL) today that the facade devel­oped in col­lab­o­ra­tion with ARUP has been com­pleted. Just in time for the open­ing of the Olympic Games for an har­mo­nious sky­line, we might add. In that con­text: the extruded pagoda on the right is the Zhong Fu Tower.

XML architects: interns needed

Thomas, Mon 4 Aug 2008
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amsterdam, architecture and marketing + pimping

My friends at XML need some help, and asked me for sup­port. They are look­ing for interns for a period of 3 to 6 months, start­ing from sep­tem­ber. They’re young, small and inter­est­ing, and can only offer a min­i­mum salary. Here’s their advert:

XML is a con­tem­po­rary cul­tural prac­tice spe­cial­ized in Archi­tec­ture, Research and Urban­ism. From its base in Ams­ter­dam XML is involved in world­wide cross-​disciplinary projects with an empha­sis on cul­tural analy­sis. XML’s projects are fuelled by a reflec­tion on the con­tem­po­rary city as source of cul­tural pro­duc­tion. The work has been rewarded sev­eral prizes amongst which most recently the first prize in the Europan 9 com­pe­ti­tion Almere.

We cur­rently invite people to apply for a posi­tion as trainee in our office in ams­ter­dam. Can­di­dates should have fin­ished at least two years of rel­e­vant design edu­ca­tion. Fur­ther require­ments include:

- excel­lent model-​making, draw­ing and render skills
- strong graphic and design talent
- will­ing to actively con­tribute to the rapid growth of our young office

Appli­cants for this vacancy should send their cv, moti­va­tion letter and portfolio(pdf) to hr@x-m-l.org.

Responsive City Workshop

Thomas, Mon 4 Aug 2008
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events + super design fun, school tracker, theory + strategy and urbanism

Responsive City Workshop

Gulensu - Almere Haven (© Ekim Tan)

Work­shop announce­ments come in packs. Here is the third one, which I’d like to rec­om­mend espe­cially. The INTI sup­ported mas­ter­class com­pares highly reg­u­lated plan­ning strate­gies in the show­case new­town of the Nether­lands, Almere, with the self-​organised strate­gies employed in Gulensu, a clan­des­tine city exten­sion of Istanbul.

Plan­ning is a messy, time and energy-​consuming busi­ness of trial, error and fail­ure. Suc­cess is not a cer­tainty and even when the result is suc­cess­ful, it is often a sur­prise, not what was actu­ally being sought. Jane Jacobs

THE RESPON­SIVE CITY: ISTAN­BUL - RANDSTAD

Why?
The Respon­sive City: Istanbul-​Randstad* focuses on new approaches to the 21st city. The­o­ries of com­plex­ity and their appli­ca­tion onto the field of urban design and archi­tec­ture form its core. Here, the city is seen as a dynamic open system, con­stantly influ­enced by inter­act­ing bottom up and top down play­ers.
Who?
The Respon­sive City is an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary course offered as an once-​only-​elective for 16 par­tic­i­pants with diverse back­grounds such as human geog­ra­phy, plan­ning, soci­ol­ogy, archi­tec­ture and urban design.
How?
The course requires a hands-​on approach with two intense on-​site mas­ter­classes in Istan­bul and Almere. Agent-​based map­ping and respon­sive design game are main tools of the course. Knowledge/interest in GIS map­ping, infor­mal city, Istan­bul and/or Almere is highly appreciated.

The Dead­line for Appli­ca­tion is 5th of Sep­tem­ber 2008, Dates are 29 Sep­tem­ber - 3 Octo­ber 2008 in Almere; 27 - 31 Octo­ber 2008 in Istan­bul. The Mas­ter­classes are run by Prof. Arnold Rein­dorp, Prof. Juval Por­tu­gali & ir. Ekim Tan.

More at INTI, and soon at there​spon​sivecity.org.

One Land & Platform Paradise

Thomas, Mon 4 Aug 2008
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amsterdam, school tracker, theory + strategy and urbanism

FAST, a Amsterdam-​based foun­da­tion show­cas­ing and crit­i­cally inves­ti­gat­ing spa­tial con­di­tions of seg­re­ga­tion invites to Ein Hawd (Israel):

From the 28th of August to 7th Sep­tem­ber, we will final­ize the One Land Two Sys­tems project with a series of public events, work­shops, and spa­tial, social and cul­tural inter­ven­tions in Ein Hawd. The project aims at expos­ing the sit­u­a­tion of the unrec­og­nized Pales­tin­ian vil­lages in Israel, and at the same time find­ing alter­na­tive plan­ning solutions.

Check the Press Release PDF, or read more at www.​one-​land.org.

Sin Embargo

Thomas, Mon 4 Aug 2008
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barcelona, events + super design fun, school tracker, theory + strategy and urbanism

sin embargo

sine embargo - con embargo

Our friends from Super­su­daca host an inter­est­ing work­shop on tourism in post-​castro Cuba in Sep­tem­ber. It’ll set you back 1000€, but schol­ar­ships to reduce the fee are avail­able. The objec­tive of the work­shop is to find specual­tive answers on ques­tions as:

How will Cuba change its tourist brand­ing in a SIN-​EMBARGO sce­nario?
How will it mutate its cur­rent spa­tial seg­re­ga­tion strat­egy between locals and tourist in a SIN-​EMBARGO scheme?
What will be the ter­ri­to­r­ial impacts in a Cuba SIN-​EMBARGO that admits cruise ship tourism?
Will Cuba become a role model for next gen­er­a­tion tourist devel­op­ments in the Caribbean and world­wide in a SIN-​EMBARGO con­di­tion?
What is the emerg­ing ter­ri­to­r­ial par­a­digm of Sun and Beach in the Cuba CON-​EMBARGO? Will it change in a SIN-​EMBARGO con­text?
Will the reg­u­la­tion cul­ture and envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment remain the same in a ‘liberalized’ Cuba SIN-​EMBARGO?
How will Cuba react spa­tially to the open­ing of the mas­sive market of second res­i­dences for Amer­i­can pen­sion­ers in a Cuba SIN-​EMBARGO?

The inscrip­tion period ends on 15th of August. The (slightly dis­ap­point­ing) results of last years suda­pan com­pe­ti­tion will be at dis­play at RAS gallery in Barcelona from 4th Sep­tem­ber on.

More at sinem​bargo.org.