Art and Architecture

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An independent association providing a public forum for cross-discipline debate. Since its inception in 1982 at a landmark ICA conference A&A has been influencing the role of art, design and building. To date A&A has presented over 200 lectures and events. A&A advocates joined-up thinking between architects, engineers, planners, artists and academics. More ...

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ARCHITECTURE & REPRESENTATION
March 2010 - ARCHITECTURE & REPRESENTATION I : Photography

       Photography and the City: Architecture and the Immaterial Position

More details to come soon

NOMADIC ARCHITECTURES
July 2009 - NOMADIC ARCHITECTURES I : Open_Sailing

TALK 1 - Cesar Harada & Hiromi Ozaki

TALK 2 - Ruairi Glynn

 

November 2009 - NOMADIC ARCHITECTURES II : Sheds, Bothies & Retreats

TALK 1 - John Davies - "Seven years of Shedman" - Poetry and meaning of Sheds

TALK 2 - Ivan Morrison - Sculpture Structures in forms of sheds and retreats

TALK 3 - Thomas Pausz - "Revisiting the community Shed"

December 2009 - NOMADIC ARCHITECTURES III : Caravans and Canal Boats

TALK 1 - Julia Denis

TALK 2 - Up Projects - Emma Underhill & Sarah Davies

 





Benedetta Tagliabue: Public Library Enric Miralles - Thursday 18 March 2010 at the London Geological Society

This event is part of the Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Programme. Benedetta Tagliabue reflects upon the gestation of the Public Library Enric Miralles in Palafolls, Spain, describing how the practice’s buildings embody both a local and a universal cultural ethos – with reference to this and other projects, including the Spanish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo. Book here.

Spanish Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo - Image via dsgnwrld



London Festival of Architecture 2010: Ready for the Olympics?

The 2008 festival drew crowds of over 250,000 people, to over 800 events staged across London’s boroughs in a four-week period.

London’s architectural community is being asked to come up with ideas for next year’s London Festival of Architecture, running between June 19 and July 4 under the theme The Welcoming City in anticipation of the 2012 Olympics. Founding director of the festival Peter Murray, said: “We are incredibly excited about this next London Festival of Architecture. London is unique, and we want to help celebrate this with as many events that involve the communities of London as possible.”

By creating a personal and organisational profile on lfa2010.org, you can register events, follow others’ events and receive the latest news.



Yosuke Ushigome and Ryuma Niiyama bring life into Tensegrity structures

In 1948, artist Kenneth Snelson produced his innovative 'X-Piece' after artistic explorations at Black Mountain College (where Buckminster Fuller was lecturing) and elsewhere. Tensegrity structures are a combination of tension and compression components. In 1949, Buckminster Fuller developed an icosahedron based on this technology, and he and his students developed further structures and applied the technology to building domes. Yosuke Ushigome and Ryuma Niiyama have added pneumatic "artificial muscles". Archi/e Machina has a dome shape with 21 struts and 84 cables.

Kenneth Snelson's Needle Tower (1968), currently housed at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
 
 
 

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