December 2009
18 posts
Five questions about Sustainable Architecture
…answered by Anna Heringer, Jan Gehl, Manfred Hegger, Philippe Rahm, Brian Edwards and Per Arnold Andersen… http://www.architekturclips.de/index_d.html#her
Film-Blog *Sustainable by Design*
For long winter evenings our little film-blog from the UIA-Open Forum Event in Copenhagen: *Sustainable by Design* - have a look ! - http://www.architekturclips.de/index_d.html#her
Daily report - Saturday
In the center of the 6th and last day of the UIA Open Forum stood the final presentation of the projects of the International Student Workshop and the presentation of the UIA Copenhagen Declaration “Sustainable by Design”.
The 10 student teams of the 4 participating European Universities (Royal Danish Faculty of Fine Arts – School of Architecture, TU Darmstadt, MSA Münster and La Sapienza Rome)...
Daily report - Friday
The 5th day of the UIA Open Forum Strategies-Series dedicated to“Vernacular & Low-Cost Architecture” was a real highlight. After the Lectures from “Global Award for Sustainable Architecture”-Founder Jana Revedin about “Innovation and transmission” and “Tegnestuen Vandkusten”-Partner Søren Nielsen on “Industrial Systems and Architectural concepts”, Aga Khan Award-Winner Anna Heringer spoke “On...
Daily report - Thursday
The 4th day of the UIA Open Forum stood under the headline “Climate and Architecture. The students and teachers of the Forum took part in the The Nantes Symposium: Climate and Architecture – Towards an Atmospheric Architecture with the speakers Sou Fujimoto (Tokyo), David Gissen (San Francisco), Sean Lally (Chicago), Juergen Mayer H. (Berlin), Akos Moravansky (ETH Zurich) and Henry Urbach...
Only two days to go...
At wednesday the students had a presentation and discussion with the teacher of the four universities about their projects. Now they only have two day to finish their ideas.
The general idea of the workshop is that each of the student team would focus on one of the topics relevant for the sustainable developement of the city. The different approaches shows the complexity of the challenge to...
Daily Report - Wednesday
Recycling & Revitalization Strategies were our focus on the 3rd day of the UIA Open Forum Sustainable by Design. Methodologies like thinking from cradle to cradle…like recycling and reusing buildings and building materials…like revitalizing brown field areas and increase the density of the urban sprawl or by renaturizing industrial and housing areas in shrinking cities. The 4...
Daily Report - Tuesday
The 2nd day started with an input lecture by Daylight, Energy and Indoor Climate expert Per Arnold Andersen from our partner VELUX about the importance of the use of natural daylight for the building comfort and the energy use. In the afternoon session we showed the documentation “In Comparison” by Harun Faroki about bricks - producing and using them in different parts of the world....
Daily report - Monday
The first day was a very intensiv day for all participants, beginning with the input lectures by the participating teachers about l´Aquila and Copenhagen for the students in the morning, followed by a visit to the site in the harbour of Copenhagen and informations about the urban developments in Copenhagen by the Head City Architect. After the marketplace of ideas to develop the first concepts...
Déclaration du CAE sur l’architecture & le... →
“In full support of the International Union of Architects (UIA) COP15 Copenhagen...”
– Africa Union of Architects (AUA)
ACE Declaration on Architecture and Sustainability... →
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Photos: 2nd Day of UIA Open Forum →