The Berlage Insti­tute is hold­ing their final reviews for the first year stu­dios today, from 10 to 21:30 (CEST). If you are quick, you can watch the live video stream here.

The first ses­sion is already over (When Economies Become Form: Micro-​Economic Models as Spa­tial Pre­scrip­tions in North­east Brazil, Tina DiCarlo and Markus Miessen). H2OBITAT (Freek Persyn, Lau­rence Tait, Nico Tillie) starts at 14:00 (CEST), and Bridg­ing Untrou­bled Waters: The Ningbo Mall as a Quest for Alter­na­tive Strate­gies in Open Space Devel­op­ment (Rients Dijk­stra, Thomas Stell­mach) is sched­uled for 18:30 (CEST). Teach­ing the latter studio has been one of the reason why it has been so quiet around here the during the last weeks…

The guest crit­ics we’ve invited include Carson Chan, Direc­tor of Pro­grams, Berlin; Filip Geerts, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Archi­tec­ture, TUDelft; Adrian Hornsby, editor, The Chi­nese Dream; Jorg Leeser, prin­ci­pal of BeL, Cologne; Hiroki Mat­suura, archi­tect, Maxwan, Rot­ter­dam; Marc Ryan, archi­tect, West8; Jan Nauta, researcher, nOf­fice, Berlin; Ralf Pflugfelder, part­ner of nOf­fice, Berlin; Car­o­line Rovers, Stad­shavens Rot­ter­dam; Jaap Wieden­hoff, prin­ci­pal, Arup, Amsterdam.

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