new york NEW YORK
evolo magazine is pleased to announce the winners of the 2010 skyscraper competition. established in 2006, the annual skyscraper competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organization. the award seeks to discover young talents whose ideas will change the way we understand architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.
new york NEW YORK
ted NGAI has launched a new website that looks at architecture by means of science and technology.
los angeles CALIFORNIA
usc school of architecture is pleased to announce the launch of PARAsite. this blog has been set up as a forum for debate about recent developments within the usc school of architecture in the area of parametric and algorithmic design. parasite also serves as a repository of records of past events, such as the intensive fields conference held on 12 december 2009. full video documentation of this conference is now available.
image credit: casey REAS, process 14 (image 3) 2008
taipei city TAIWAN
announcement of final winners (stage two)
first prize: rur architecture pc / jesse REISER nationality: u.s.a
second prize: studio gang architects,ltd. / jeanne GANG nationality: u.s.a
third prize: daniel GALLAGHER nationality: u.s.a
via mmag.com.tw
new york NEW YORK
bill MOGGRIDGE, designer of the first laptop computer in 1980 and co-founder of ideo, the renowned innovation and design firm, has been named director of the smithsonian’s cooper-hewitt, national design museum in new york, effective march 2010.
london ENGLAND
amazon.com: farshid MOUSSAVI’s the function of form explores the production of singular affects through systems that relate form and content. this is an essential graphic manual on structural systems and their capacity to produce a variety of forms. extracting their base geometric unit, a wide range of historical projects from the medieval to the present are used as systems to proliferate different forms. the book distinguishes tessellation from modulation as a type of flexible system for producing complex repetition through diverse parts. the research presented aims to move architectural experiments away from ‘mechanistic’ notions of systems for re-producing forms, to ‘machinic’ notions of systems that determine how parts of an architectural problem interrelate and multiply. This open nature of transversal systems leads to new actualized forms and novel affects.
cambridge massachusetts
leadership transition in MIT architecture
nader TEHRANI
head of mit architecture
[from july 2010]
andrew SCOTT
march director
meejin YOON
director of the undergraduate architecture program
yung ho CHANG will step down and continue to teach as a professor.
2009
aacdu : emergent s impressive command of variable structures, envelopes and forms according to peter zellner in his introduction offers up a genuine route away from the shimmering imagery of the computer screen and points towards an authoritative demonstration of an architecture grounded in new building techniques. this ambitious claim is supported throughout this publication with survey of 21 works and projects, reproduced here in full colour and accompanied by plans, details, computer models and texts. among the designs featured here, many unrealised, are the cheonga city tower in incheon, korea; the freshwater and emerald plazas, uae; sundsvall arts theater, sweden; the mersey observation deck, liverpool; their dragonfly design for sci-arc, los angeles; the czech national library, prague and the urban beach for moma/p.s.1, new york.
rome ITALY
MAXXI – national museum of XXI century art completed.
jonathan GLANCEY: it took wright 15 years to realise the guggenheim; it has taken [zaha] HADID 10 to complete maxxi, as the museum is known (a play on the roman numerals for 21st century). there have been at least six changes of national government in italy since the project was first announced in 1998, from left to centre to right, and the future of many such public projects has often seemed doubtful. but now here it stands, in the residential and military flaminio district, almost exactly as HADID and her team first imagined it.
london UNITED KINGDOM
royal institute of british architects [RIBA] announces winners of the president’s medals student awards 2009
the royal institute of british architects [RIBA has been awarding the president’s medals since the 1850s and the awards were established in their current format in 1984.
image from defensive architecture project by nicholas SZCZEPANIAK university of westminster london UK
