Risky Business: Radical and Reckless Architecture

Open Lecture Series
ed by Maria Feller, Enrico Forestieri, Marta Geroldi

Politecnico di Milano – via Golgi 20

Building 26 Room L1.4 – H 10:00

more info: bipolarch

martedì 21 maggio

Politecnico di Milano
ore 15:00
Aula Gamma
via Ampére, 2

Carles Muro
Notas sobre el Mat Building

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José Val del Omar (1904-1982) è stato un artista e cineasta spagnolo.

Durante 50 anni di carriera sperimenta senza sosta alla ricerca di una singolare alchimia di tecnica e poesia nelle immagini in movimento: la meca-mística.

I film di VDO e gli innumerevoli frammenti audio e video mirano ad ampliare le frontiere della sensazione ottica, così come a cercare di vedere ciò che non può essere visto e mettere alla prova i limiti stessi della visione (T. Beard, 2010), della stessa narrazione ed esperienza del cinema: un progetto “sin fin”.

Per saperne di più su José Val del Omar: Bipolarch

The Chair of Architectural Design / Interiors at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology organized a one-day international conference entitled Architecture and the Interior on Thursday 23 May.

Gennaro Postiglione has been invited to participate as a keynote speaker (From the very large interior to the continuum interior)

Check out the Architecture of the Interior master course brand new website.

Laboratorio di progettazione degli Interni 1

Spring Semester 2013 at POLIMI
Prof Gennaro Postiglione, arch. Francesco Dolce, arch. Enrico Scaramellini

Utopia reloaded

A+P Smithsons’ Robin Hood Gardens

Oggeto del lavoro di quest’anno sarà il complesso residenziale dei Robin Hood Gardens (1966-1972) di Alison and Peter Smithson che l’amministrazione comunale di Londra ha deciso nel 2009 di demolire per la cattiva condizione statica, igienica e sociale del complesso.
Il laboratorio, dopo una fase ricognitiva sui dati materiali e culturali legati all’immobile, affronta l’ipotesi di un progetto di recupero e riqualificazione per uno dei capolavori del brutalismo britannico.

Durante il laboratorio è stato programmato un ciclo di conferenze sul lavoro di APS a cura degli arch. Michela Bassanelli ed Enrico Forestieri.

Prima Lezione
incontro con David Heathcote
martedì 12 marzo
ore 14:30
The Barbican Centre
London 

Download il calendario del laboratorio.

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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…

ahttp://occas.aho.no/

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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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

[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.

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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Thematic design studio 2013

NUS – New Urban Scapes

from design to curatorial practice

Spring Semester 2013 at POLIMI
Gennaro Postiglione, Antonio Longo, Talita Medina & Marco Lampugnani, Enrico Forestieri

NUS – project will be active in Milan, italy, in 2013, focusing on concrete urban issues.

NUS will develop material or immaterial design solutions (systemic and diffuse or site specific, crossing the different scales) dealing with everyday living needs of the people, and considering the many aspects that contribute to the habitability of the city.

We would like NUS developing projects that are the core for quick and effective Diploma work. We would like as well to find people that share this approach: enrollement open for the Spring Seemester 2013 at POLIMI.

Visit us on http://nus-project.polimi-cooperation.org

It has been a very long weekend for our Design Studio. An open exhibition with a lot of visitors, lot of talks, quite few drinks… We’ll probably get soon a full coverage of the event (professional photographss and videos) but for the time being here’s a little slideshow of the exhibition’s set up.

Here you can have a preview of the Year Book 2012