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📘 Recently Published: Rupturing Architecture by Sana Murrani Rupturing Architecture takes readers inside Iraq’s journey of creating spaces of refuge amidst two decades of war and displacement. Written by an Iraqi architect who has personally lived through this history, the book captures how everyday people have adapted their homes, cities, and border spaces to cope with trauma. Through maps, stories, interviews, and case studies, it reveals how resilience and creativity shape spaces of refuge and calls for a deeper understanding of spatial justice. A powerful read for those interested in the intersection of the built environment, resilience, and social justice! #SpatialJustice, #Architecture, #RefugeAndDisplacement, #TraumaAndMemory

UDL Thesis Publication 2024 - Call for Abstracts Now Open! 🌍 Curating the Best #ThesisProjects Globally! Submit your #abstract today and be a part of this prestigious #publication. For more details and submission guidelines, click on the link below: https://lnkd.in/dXZrQfmA Publication Themes #UrbanRenewal: Conservation, revitalization, and heritage revival of urban areas. #UrbanLandscapes: Management of the natural and built environment in urban areas. #UrbanManagement: Physical, social, economic, and infrastructure management of urban areas. #UrbanNetworks: Connectivity, linkages, transit, and mobility within and between urban areas. To participate, your #thesis must Be completed within the past five years, Relate to #urbandesign, #landscape, #architecture, or #planning #UrbanDesign #ThesisPublication #CallForAbstracts #UrbanRenewal #UrbanLandscapes #UrbanManagement #UrbanNetworks #InnovationInDesign #ResearchPublication

One of our absolute favourite Teulo Talkers ARCHITECTURE IS MORE THAN WHAT YOU DO, IT'S WHO YOU ARE Meet Alvin Huang, AIA, NOMA Principal at Synthesis Design + Architecture “I realised that architecture was what I really wanted to do, but I went back to grad school to figure out how I wanted to do it.” In what would prove to be his biggest blessing in disguise, Alvin didn’t get into his first choice of graduate school - Harvard. Instead, he moved to London to study a Master of Architecture and Urbanism from the Architectural Design Research Laboratory. “I thought it would be for 16 months, but it turned into nine years. London attracts the best, the brightest and the bravest. You’re either the best at what you do, or you’re brave enough not to care. That city is thriving with creative energy, from people all over the world.” One of the best, brightest and bravest people was none other than Zaha Hadid, whom Alvin had the fortune of working with for ‘three human years,’ which equated to seven years’ worth of recorded hours on his timesheets. “Zaha was a huge inspiration, working for her was a completely life-changing experience. I absolutely believe things happen for a reason. During my time in London I picked up on different disciplinary and intellectual aspects of architecture that I could carry forward as a different practitioner to the one I was prior.” Read more at The Delve: https://lnkd.in/gPTAU-Ma #synthesisdesignandarchitecture #thedelve #teulo #design #architecture #create

European colonialism has significantly impacted African #architecture, leading to the disappearance of #traditional architecture and the adoption of urban designs. This research aims to challenge the idea that African #traditional architecture could have stood on its own without European influence. https://lnkd.in/es4_KFh3

#PolyUDesign_KnowledgeTransfer Researchers from the PolyU School of Design (SD), the Department of Applied Social Sciences (APSS) and the Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS) will present findings from a GRF-supported research project in digital cultural heritage and housing ethnography, focused on social and spatial patterns in stilt housing districts in Tai O Village, Hong Kong. The research presented will illustrate how housing, understood as a culturally specific practice, relates to houses in settlements with distinct, long-standing vernacular architecture. The study will demonstrate and recommend tools for digital conservation of vernacular architecture and demonstrate methods designers, architects, and scholars can use to describe and conserve threatened cultural resources through digital surveying and ethnography. Professionals, scholars, and students working in design, architecture, housing, social sciences, and cultural heritage fields are welcome to join to hear research findings and discuss cultural heritage in Hong Kong. 🔗Register before 26 Nov 12 pm| https://lnkd.in/gjktEpmf 🔗More about the lecture and the speakers| https://polyu.hk/tdzLC Kun-pyo Lee Rennie Kan Daniel K Elkin Dr. Norah Wang Markus Wernli #PolyUDesign #PolyU #design #polyuEID #lectureseries #taio #stilthousing #Environmentaldesign #interiordesign #digitalconservation #vernacular #architecture #socialpattern #spatialpattern #questionquestionquestion

🎥 A Conversation on Daylight Education and Research Koen Steemers, Professor of Sustainable Design at the University of Cambridge, and Dr. Mandana S. Khaine, Lecturer in Health and Wellbeing in Sustainable Buildings at UCL, share their insights on the profound impact of daylight in teaching and research. Discover how daylight shapes healthier buildings and fosters interdisciplinary connections, offering valuable perspectives for architects, researchers, and beyond. 🎥 Watch the full conversation on the Community page of our website – https://lnkd.in/dWrxexQG #KoenSteemers @cambridgeuniversity @arch_cambridge #MandanaKhaine @UCL @bartlettarchucl #Architecture #Research #Sustainability #Teaching #DaylightEducation

The Habitat Research Center is celebrating the publication of Architecture revalued. #Baukultur and the culture of Transition published by The EPFL Press with a drink at the Montreux Jazz Café EPFL on Tuesday 3 December 2024 from 4.30 pm, in the company of the contributors. This moment will be an opportunity to conclude a wonderful collaboration between six ENAC faculty laboratories since the first interdisciplinary seminar organised on the topic in March 2022. Please let us know if you are coming by e-mail: Valentin Bourdon valentin.bourdon@epfl.ch The notion of Baukultur marked a fundamental step towards a comprehensive definition of the built environment. The idea that landscape, architectural heritage, and all the existing built context could converge to portray the richness and complexity of our habitat now points to a collective and strategic approach to design. In this perspective, the value of architecture arises essentially as a tool to convey the emerging culture of Transition within the existing Baukulturen. Architecture revalued structures a theoretical framework around these concepts leaning on the research, design, and pedagogical experiences of six architectural and urban design practices/academics, as specific readings and valorization of the existing built environment. Three essays articulate the ongoing debate, and a manifesto enunciates the basics of a common discourse on Baukultur and the socio-ecological Transition. The EPFL Press EPFL Architecture EPFL ENAC

A few weeks ago, we completed History and Theory in Architecture IX: 1990s Theories that Inspired Architects, a redesigned core theory course attended by 300 master’s students. The course was taught by Dr. Cathelijne Nuijsink explored the intersection of architecture and interdisciplinary thought, using the magazine ANY: Architecture New York (1993-2000) as a starting point for discussion. Throughout the semester we explored four themes that were (re)introduced into 1990s architectural discourse by ANY, but are still relevant today: 'lightness', 'whiteness', 'diagram' and 'public fear'. We asked ourselves how architecture can benefit from engaging with perspectives from outside the discipline, and what insights theorists, sociologists, political scientists, gender critics or even lawyers have brought to architectural discourse. In each of the sessions, we warmed up with a seminal music video clip to get us into a 1990s mindset and left the lecture hall with some classic 1990s disco tunes. Image: Retrieved from Realspace in Quicktimes: Architecture and Digitalization by Ole Bouman (1996). #newtheorycourse #architecture #ethz #darch #1990stheoriesthatinspiredarchitecture #avermaete #urbandesign #endofsemester

#PolyUDesign_KnowledgeTransfer Researchers from the PolyU School of Design (SD), the Department of Applied Social Sciences (APSS) and the Research Institute for Land and Space (RILS) will present findings from a GRF-supported research project in digital cultural heritage and housing ethnography, focused on social and spatial patterns in stilt housing districts in Tai O Village, Hong Kong. The research presented will illustrate how housing, understood as a culturally specific practice, relates to houses in settlements with distinct, long-standing vernacular architecture. The study will demonstrate and recommend tools for digital conservation of vernacular architecture and demonstrate methods designers, architects, and scholars can use to describe and conserve threatened cultural resources through digital surveying and ethnography. Professionals, scholars, and students working in design, architecture, housing, social sciences, and cultural heritage fields are welcome to join to hear research findings and discuss cultural heritage in Hong Kong. 🔗Register before 26 Nov 12 pm| https://lnkd.in/gzf67Z4G 🔗More about the lecture and the speakers| https://polyu.hk/tdzLC Kun-pyo Lee Rennie Kan Daniel K Elkin Dr. Norah Wang Markus Wernli #PolyUDesign #PolyU #design #polyuEID #lectureseries #taio #stilthousing #Environmentaldesign #interiordesign #digitalconservation #vernacular #architecture #socialpattern #spatialpattern #questionquestionquestion

Documentation of Cultural Heritage of Traditional and Modern Architecture in Kabul https://lnkd.in/gkJFtNGa