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10.2.17

Charrette Call for Contributions: From the Global South: Pedagogical Encounters in Architecture (Guest Editor Professor Ashraf Salama)

 

Charrette, the journal of the Association of Architectural Educators (AAE), first published in 2013, is now well established as a pioneering journal for academics, practitioners, and theorists engaged in design teaching practices and theoretical debates. For this issue (Volume 5, Issue 1), Charrette invites papers and essays that address positions, experiences, and experiments which are undertaken in the Global South by either local or international academics or both. 


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THEME 
The main body of literature on architectural education and design pedagogy is primarily produced in the English-speaking world and is interrogated, debated, and reproduced mainly in the larger context of Western Europe and North America. The architectural academic community in other parts of the world; the Global South, is deeply influenced by such a discourse as well as by various pedagogical trends typically introduced in Western academia to reflect the needs of budding professionals and the profession of architecture at large. In essence, these represent tendencies that are instigated and practiced within the contextual particularities of Western academia including the ambitions and constraints of academic institutions, the professional milieu, and the way in which architecture is practiced and produced. Classically, such an influence manifests itself in the fact that in any discussion about pedagogy in architecture in Global South’ academia the discourse which characterizes the Global North dictates and thus overshadows opportunities for developing another parallel, or in fact different but equally important, discourse which can be generated and developed to address other unique particularities that characterize the Global South. The thrust here is not to create a competing discourse but to complement what is already there. 
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26.10.10

Challenge the possible create ispiration

Take part in the 3rd International Competition TRIMO URBAN CRASH 2011 for students of Architecture and Design.
October 15th 2010 - January 31st 2011
Who can participate:

  • Undergraduate and diploma students of architecture or design. How? >>
  • Professors, tutors and lecturers in architecture or design schools. How? >>
More info: www.trimo-urbancrash.com

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16.10.10

Rendering revolution competition

Here’s your chance to show off your best architectural work through high-quality renderings AND win great prizes! Sponsored by Autodesk®, CGarchitect, and NVIDIA, the Rendering Revolution contest is a global still image architectural visualization competition in celebration of the Autodesk® 3ds Max® 20th Anniversary and advancements in GPU-accelerated rendering solutions. To participate, you must:

  • Create an architectural scene that incorporates the 3ds Max 20th anniversary logo. The logo must be in a recognizable form, but you do get points for creativity.
  • Produce a still image of that scene. The scene can be designed with any application, but final frame rendering must be done in 3ds Max 2011 or 3ds Max Design 2011 software using its native GPU rendering solutions – Quicksilver or iray® – or any GPU-accelerated third-party rendering solution.
  • Upload your submission to this site. We will start accepting submissions on Friday, October 1, 2010 and the contest will close on Sunday, October 31, 2010.
For more info: http://gpu.cgarchitect.com/

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10.4.10

Sketch Competition

Architects have long been known to grab a cocktail napkin and start sketching when explaining or working out a design concept. In this increasingly digital age, Architectural Record hopes to encourage this time-honored, analog form of spontaneous creativity with its own cocktail napkin sketch contest.

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27.3.10

Startup Weekend

What happens during a Startup Weekend?

  • People from different backgrounds come together to present ideas, listen to new thoughts and get to know each other.
  • Interdisciplinary teams are formed to push the ideas forward in a creative environment. As a basis for a company, a business concept will be developed.
  • The process will be accompanied by coaches, business angels, former start-up entrepreneurs and many more motivated participants.
  • The groups will receive feedback on their final presentation by a panel of experts. In addition, more support like startup-consulting and appointments with venture capital companies are offered to promising groups.
  • Networking time! Talk with investors, sponsors and other participants.
For more: www.startvienna.at

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OC-Open City

OC-Open City - From Landscape to exterior Design.

PROGRAMFROM LANDSCAPE TO EXTERIOR DESIGN

The International Summer School program includes:

1- A workshop applied to specific issues typical of urban and environmental architectural design on different scales, aimed at the quality and sustainability of habitat transformation processes. This workshop will be conducted individually or in groups of no more than two participants, under constant supervision of tutors and lecturers;
The program includes three interconnected sections:

a- Landscape
b- Urban Space
c- Architectural Design

The three sections shall deal with the different design intervention scales and respectively focus on the preparation of:

a- Territorial planning master plans (including one or several specific interventions: strategic frameworks, complex nodes, infrastructural spaces), in a large and medium scale outlook;
b- Specific intervention projects (corresponding to individual cases: important public spaces, relational spaces, urban communication and representation areas), appropriately defined in their required spatial characteristics;
c- Design of architectural components typical of specific interventions, analyzed in depth in their constituting elements (basic, complementary and ancillary) at a level of detail and construction specificity, capable of implementing the qualities and values of the space.

For each of these three sections, each coordinated by a director, a “parallel internship” shall be opened, having specific operational and instrumental features but whose goals are closely related to the general issues proposed according to an integrated, interactive and interscalar architectural-urban-environmental concept.
The details of the various stages of the International Summer School include:

2- A series of conferences and round tables held by designers and scholars of international renown, with the presentation of projects and discussions on current design issues in parallel with the basic communications held by in-house lecturers;

3- A series of “parallel evenings” on the relationship between cinema and architecture;

4-Two critical revisions, One intermediate and the other, Final, with the participation of an international commission in the end of the work.

The work conducted in the design laboratory shall undergo progress reviews with the attendance of national and international key figures in architectural culture and a final results review conducted by an international committee, which will be the basis for the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano will issue an official certificate of attendance to each participant (equivalent, in the faculties of the Politecnico di Milano, to 8 credits).
The projects and study models prepared by participants shall be shown in exhibitions organized in appropriate venues and included in a specific publication.

For more : www.webdiap.diap.polimi.it

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3.5.09

Trimo Urban Krash Competition

With this year's creative task we challenged you to design a venue performed with Trimo products in the center of Ljubljana.
To participate in Trimo Urban Crash, no fee is required. Register and download the project documentation free of charge. You can sing up wherever you like .
Read more: www.trimo-urbancrash.com

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2.5.09

Corrugated Board Chair Design -Competition

The American Institute of Architecture Students (AIAS) and the International Corrugated Packaging Foundation (ICPF) are pleased to announce a student competition for the Spring 2009 academic semester. Judging will occur in two stages with the top six designs displayed and judged at the 2009 AIA National Convention and Design Exposition in San Francisco prior to determining the winning design. The postmarked deadline for the competition is March 12, 2009.

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NYC Student Lighting Competition

Every year, students in lighting, architecture, interior design, art, product design, photography and electrical engineering programs have submitted projects, resulting in a diverse showcase of ideas and interpretations on a single theme.

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The ASHRAE Student Design Competition

The ASHRAE Student Design Competition recognizes outstanding student design projects, encourages undergraduate and graduate students to become involved in the profession, promotes teamwork and allows students to apply their knowledge of practical design.

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