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Berlage 1st Year Studios Final Review

Thomas, Tue 23 Jun 2009
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berlage-finals

Ningbo Stu­dents tweak­ing their Pre­sen­ta­tion (photo: Thomas Stellmach)

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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Complexity Theory Conference @ TU Delft

Ekim Tan, Sun 5 Apr 2009
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Complexity Theories have come of Age

Com­plex­ity The­o­ries have come of Age

Don’t let the poster mis­lead you! TU Delft’s U-Lab comes up with a daring con­fer­ence break­ing from its single-​disciplinary con­ser­vatism. During 3 days from Sep­tem­ber 24th on math­e­mati­cians, physi­cists, urban­ists and design­ers gather in Delft. They will explore the impli­ca­tions of com­plex­ity the­o­ries of cities to plan­ning and urban design. Besides hot­shot pro­fes­sors Juval Por­tu­gali, Bill Hillier, and Mike Batty, gonna-be’s, or maybe wanna-be’s like Egbert and me will take the floor.

The con­fer­ence has a lim­ited audi­ence capac­ity, and is first-​come, first served! For more infor­ma­tion, you may see com​plex​i​tythe​o​riesofc​i​ties.com, send an email to me and check out the other dates in our cal­en­dar of selected Rot­ter­dam Archi­tec­ture Events.

Three decades of research have estab­lished the field of com­plex­ity the­o­ries of cities as a dom­i­nant approach to cities. Now that the field has come of age, it is time to stop for a moment, look back at what has been achieved, with appre­ci­a­tion, but also with sober crit­i­cism and then look for­ward at poten­tials that have yet to be real­ized. Con­tinue read­ing ‘Complexity Theory Con­fer­ence @ TU Delft’

Workshop Advanced Architectural Structures

Thomas, Thu 26 Feb 2009
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TU Eind­hoven invites to par­tic­i­pate in the Work­shop Advanced Archi­tec­tural Struc­tures, from 9-13 March. The work­shop deals with gen­er­a­tion and pro­duc­tion of doubly curved sur­faces and includes an intro­duc­tion to Rhino as well as Pro­cess­ing. Reg­is­tra­tion closes tomor­row, par­tic­i­pa­tion fee for pro­fes­sion­als is 300 Euros. Full pro­gram after the fold.

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If you’ve lost your job, apply to the Jan Van Eyck Academie!

Darrel, Wed 18 Feb 2009
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jve-apply

The highly reputed Jan Van Eyck Acad­e­mie in Maas­tricht, Nether­lands (Map) has sent out it’s call for appli­ca­tions (click on “Applications” on top), to be received by the 15 April, 2009. The research pro­gram mainly reaches out to Artists, The­o­reti­cians and Design­ers, but their open­ness always for diver­sity of stu­dents. If you are one of the unfor­tu­nate former employ­ees of a Dutch office, and want to stick around the Nether­lands, here is a great chance. You can bet that the com­pe­ti­tion to get in will be stiff.
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Berlage Now

Thomas, Fri 16 Jan 2009
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Now Accepting Berlage Applications

Now Accept­ing Berlage Applications

The Berlage Insti­tute Appli­ca­tion Dead­line has been announced a few days ago, 27th Feb 2009 (appli­ca­tion forms here).

The Insti­tute is renowned for their 2-year post­grad­u­ate pro­gram, which empha­sises on research and knowl­edge (you can gen­er­ally recog­nise a Berlager by his jargon). An inter­est­ing addi­tion is their PhD pro­gramme in col­lab­o­ra­tion with TU Delft, which is under­go­ing some changes at the moment. Can­di­dates com­plet­ing dis­ser­ta­tions include Roemer van Toorn, Peter Trum­mer and Sasha Zanko.

UPDATE –
The Berlage Insti­tute 2009–2010 Post­grad­u­ate Prospec­tus is now online.
And the call for par­tic­i­pa­tion in the City Visions Europe Euro­pean exchange pro­gram is now avail­able for down­load: City Visions Europe Call for par­tic­i­pa­tion
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Berlage Lectures Starting!

Martin, Mon 20 Oct 2008
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The Berlage Lec­ture Series 2008/2009 is kick­ing off tomor­row 21 Octo­ber 2008 with:

Dig­i­tal Mate­ri­al­ity by Fabio Gra­mazio and Matthias Kohler
You may have seen their work at the Bien­nale this year. They did the instal­la­tion at the Swiss Pavil­ion, using ETH’s famous brick laying robot. They also just pub­lished Dig­i­tal Mate­ri­al­ity in Architecture

ROB, the robot. courtesy of Gramazio & Kohler

ROB, the robot. Cour­tesy of Gra­mazio & Kohler

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Responsive City Workshop

Thomas, Mon 4 Aug 2008
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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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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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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.

Berlage Institute: You Only Have Two More Weeks to Apply!

Darrel, Sat 16 Feb 2008
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rotterdam and school tracker

Berlage-0809

If you were think­ing of apply­ing to the Berlage Insti­tute for the 2008-2009 school year (PDF), well, hope­fully you’ve done it already. The dead­line is for appli­ca­tions is the 29th Feb­ru­ary, 2008. The prospec­tus is as good as usual, and if you’re new to Berlage-​Institute, it is the best place for post-​graduate study in the Netherlands.

Berlage Lecture Series

Martin, Wed 10 Oct 2007
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The Cult of Celebrity: Super­star Archi­tects in the Acad­emy debate with George Baird, Thom Mayne and Mark Wigley, mod­er­ated by Vedran Mimica, 17 April 2007

I just got news about the Berlage Institute’s lec­ture series this term. It’s start­ing rather late, but as always impresses with a highly pro­filed list of speak­ers. It’s the pat­tern we all know and love: A few well known names mixed with a bunch of people maybe less known but def­i­nitely worth noticing.

Here’s the details:
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‘Performance, Geometry and Materials’ Lecture Series

Thomas, Mon 24 Sep 2007
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DSD lectures

TU Delft lec­ture series launched – CLICK the image for the full programme

The Delft School of Design PhD series ‘Architectural Engi­neer­ing – Per­for­mance, Geom­e­try and Materials’ has been launched. Themes are Com­plex Geom­e­try Archi­tec­ture and Per­for­mance Based Archi­tec­ture. See our Cal­en­dar for allthe dates.

Associative Design @ Berlage

Thomas, Fri 13 Jul 2007
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asso­cia­tive design III – berlage insti­tute second year studio (requires quick­time, turn sound on)

Last week I attended the pre­sen­ta­tions of the asso­cia­tive design 2nd year at the Berlage research studio syn­thetic ver­nac­u­lar. Led by Peter Trum­mer and assisted by our fellow dys­turb evan­ge­list Martin Sobota, the class inves­ti­gated tra­di­tional chi­nese build­ing typolo­gies. The prin­ci­ples found in the analy­sis were used to create a set of rules to create a frame­work to para­met­ri­cally derive urban struc­ture and archi­tec­ture of an exem­plary plot in Shang­hai: Deus ex Machina.

The research group divided up into for teams, each focussing on dif­fer­ent base para­me­ters as FAR, degrees of pri­vacy, cli­mate, inter­nal room organ­i­sa­tion, sun tra­jec­to­ries. The formal deci­sions of the teams also led to vary­ing urban fab­rics, from low-​rise high-​density urban mass not unsim­i­lar to south-​american fave­las to a styled court­yard & slab net­work. The results are cut­ting edge and and visu­al­i­sa­tions of the process are breath-​takingly beau­ti­ful. But watch the movie first, then pro­ceed to the review.

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Knowing Nothing of Agility: The PZI end-of-year show @ Tent Gallery

Darrel, Mon 9 Jul 2007
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Jeremie Boyard, A Sense of Deja Vu, 2007

© Jere­mie Boyard, A sense of déjà vu, 2007, cour­tesy of Tent Gallery

Of the many end-of-year shows around Rot­ter­dam, we are espe­cially excited for this Thursday’s open­ing of Know­ing Noth­ing of Agility at the Tent Gallery, Rot­ter­dam. It is the grad­u­at­ing exhi­bi­tion for Master of Fine Arts stu­dents from the Piet Zwart Insti­tute, part of the Willem de Koon­ing Acad­e­mie here in Rotterdam.

Open­ing Event: 12 July 2007 @ 20.00.
Exhi­bi­tion Runs: 12 July 2007 – 19 August 2007

Stu­dents show­ing: Alexis Blake [US], Jérémie Boyard [FR], Ruth Buchanan [NZ], Ange­line Dekker [NL], Deirdre M. Donoghue [FI/IE], Rafael F. Mendi­eta [PE], Ruth Legg [UK], Lieke Snellen [NL], Niels Vis [NL]

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Short Notice – TU Delft Diploma presentations tomorrow

Thomas, Thu 5 Jul 2007
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Some TU Delft stu­dents we know present their diploma projects tomor­row, Friday the 6th of July. Among them Michiel van Raij, author of Eikono­graphia. See his invitation.

Berlage Institute sets new Research Board

claudia, Thu 5 Jul 2007
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Alejandro Zaera-Polo, former dean of the Berlage Institute is now part of the Research Board

“Alejandro Zaera-​Polo, former dean of the Berlage Insti­tute is now part of the Research Board”

The Berlage Insti­tute, post­grad­u­ate lab­o­ra­tory of archi­tec­ture in Rot­ter­dam, has installed a new Research Board. Until now, Ale­jan­dro Zaera Polo (direc­tor of FOA) has been the Dean of the Insti­tute. He has been open­ing the Berlage to a more inter­na­tional field as to tutors, lec­tur­ers and new design strate­gies. Instead of appoint­ing a single fol­lower, the insti­tute named a board of five estab­lished fig­ures: Ben van Berkel, Winy Maas, Robert E. Somol, Elia Zenghe­lis and Ale­jan­dro Zaera Polo him­self. Vedran Mimica (now Direc­tor of Stud­ies) is named direc­tor and will be respon­si­ble for the man­age­ment of the post­grad­u­ate pro­gram and the imple­men­ta­tion of strate­gic advice pro­vided by the Research Board. The idea is to create a new inno­v­a­tive plat­form, not so much depen­dent on a single person. One the one hand this model is very flex­i­ble and inspires dis­cus­sion and cri­tique, on the other hand there is the danger of loos­ing pro­file by not having a rep­re­sen­ta­tive person, a cham­pion. Who is respon­si­ble for what? How much time will the board mem­bers spend at the insti­tute? Will they find a common course? I am curi­ous to follow how this system works out. The open­ness of the system speaks for the flex­i­bil­ity of the Berlage Insti­tute as an inde­pen­dent research laboratory.

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Hunch #11 – Rethinking Representation

Darrel, Thu 29 Mar 2007
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Hunch#11

Hunch #11 from the Berlage Insti­tute came out the past month. The annual books cur­rent theme is Rethink­ing Rep­re­sen­ta­tion. Google Maps +
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Architectural Positions… TU Delft – Modernism & Public Sphere Lectures

Darrel, Thu 29 Mar 2007
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Posisitons - TU Delft

The coming few months will see the end of this years “Architectural Positions” sem­i­nar series fol­low­ing the sub­ject “Modernity and the Public Sphere”. Check out our cal­en­dar for event details. The mix of speak­ers is broad, and 3-person sem­i­nars look to be set for heated debates. The school’s goal is that: “The sem­i­nars will illus­trate how archi­tects, not just in their archi­tec­tural pro­duc­tion but more specif­i­caly in their writ­ing respond relent­lessly to changes in the public sphere by adopt­ing var­i­ous ‘Architectural Positions’.”

The lineup will include (among others): Richard Sen­nett, Xaveer De Geyter, Leon Krier, Hans Koll­hoff, Bernard Tschumi, Rem Kool­haas, Steven Holl and Lars Spuy­broek. There is only a few sem­i­nars left – but they are also very good lineups.