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DE sign:
(Deconstructing in-order to find new meanings)

A blogging space about my personal interests; was made during training in Stockholm #Young Leaders Visitors Program #Ylvp08 it developed into a social bookmarking blog.

I studied #Architecture; interested in #Design #Art #Education #Urban Design #Digital-media #social-media #Inhabited-Environments #Contemporary-Cultures #experimentation #networking #sustainability & more =)


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p.s. sharing is usually out of interest not Blind praise.
This is neither sacred nor political.

Thursday, March 26

GWIIN

Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network (GWIIN)
a subsidiary of the Professional Family Woman's Network Ltd based in the United Kingdom, is a global network which aims to increase the number of innovative women embracing enterprise. We work with Government departments, leading industry experts, voluntary organisations, enterprises and educational institutions.
The goal is simply to find effective ways of bringing support, assistance, tools, advice and information to assist women in achieving significant growth in their businesses. 

Friday, March 20

2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom

Teachers and students know what makes a classroom work. We're inviting you to design the classroom of the future together.

According to the World Bank, educating all children worldwide will require the construction of 10 million new classrooms in more than 100 countries by 2015. At the same time, millions of existing classrooms are in serious need of repair and refurbishment.

Let's get started.

We are inviting you, teachers, students, architects and designers, to work together to design the classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide smart, safe and sustainable learning spaces. Students and teachers, here's your chance to tell the world what you need to make your classroom more effective. Architects and designers, you'll work one-on-one with students to translate those needs into better classroom design.

  • Share your design expertise and inspire school students to re-imagine their classroom
  • Help students learn about the built environment using a companion design curriculum
  • Become an advocate for better classroom design in your community

Jurors currently includes Dave Eggers, Michelle Kaufmann, Hilary Cottam, Kigge Hvid and others. More will be added over the course of the registration period.

If your design wins, your school will receive up to $50,000 in funding for classroom construction and upgrading. You will receive a grant of $5,000 to help them do it.

http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/competitions/challenge/2009

Re:Vision DALLAS

Re:Vision is a revolutionary initiative to create the prototype for an innovative, sustainable urban community. At the heart of the process is a series of contests generating visionary ideas for what can and should be in the design about urban space.

The City of Dallas and Urban Re:Vision present Re:Vision DALLAS in partnership with Central Dallas CDC and BC Workshop.

What if everything we knew and believed about design needed to change? What if we need to change along with it?

It’s a provocative idea, but one Re:Vision has been delving into for the past two years. Our series of competitions have searched for ideas and plans that can redefine urban space in a restorative way. We have focused on the city block because it is a microcosm of systems and relationships, and requires an integration and imagination that transcends beyond a single building.

The challenges—and opportunities—on this scale are incredible. And we’re looking for visionary thinking to take them on.

Re:Vision Dallas is a chance to propel design beyond the typical, beyond the norm and to lay the foundation for a future of sustainable development we all hope is inevitable. It’s a chance to create a block that does no harm, to people or place. A chance to encourage and value relationships, while fostering respect for nature and our neighbors, privacy and resources, economy and consumption. It’s a chance to change how we live and connect, how we interact and collaborate—how we live in a space throughout our life and the lifecycle of the space.

http://www.urbanrevision.com/competitions/revision-dallas

Friday, March 13

Prove A Point

The Omrania l CSBE Student Award for Excellence in Architectural Design . Prove A Point
After having had a successful launch in 2008, Omrania and Associates (O&A) and the Center for the Study of the Built Environment (CSBE) have expanded the Student Award for Excellence in Architectural Design beyond the boundaries of Jordan by widening eligibility to include students from all Arab countries. The award, which is given to the most outstanding submitted architectural graduation projects, aims at recognizing quality in the teaching of architecture in the Arab world, and at encouraging students in Arab architectural schools to excel in their design performance.

The monetary value of the award’s prizes also have been increased and will consist of the following:

First Prize of 3500 USD

Second Prize of 2500 USD

Third Prize of 1500 USD

Eligibility

Eligibility for the award will be restricted to final-year students for a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture or Architectural Engineering at universities located in countries belonging to the Arab League. Applicants should have successfully completed and defended their final-year architectural design graduation project before the award’s submission deadline.

Additional Information

Details regarding submission format, submission dates, jury members, etc. will be published on this website in March 2009.

http://www.csbe.org/awards/omrania_csbe_2009award.html

Shatana International Artist Workshop 3

Shatana International Artist Workshop 3, Jordan 

is inviting applications for its 2-week workshop residency program in Shatana, Jordan from the 3rd until the 17th of July 2009. Shatana workshop is part of the Triangle Arts Network following the model of workshops organized by artists for artists.

 

Submissions Deadline: 30th of March, 2009

For more information:

http://www.makanhouse.net/shatana

DAMAS . a new brand 4 the old town

Presentation at Kozah Art Gallery

Friday, March 6

Hemeroscopium House



For the Greek,
Hemeroscopium is the place where the sun sets. An allusion to a place that exists only in our mind, in our senses, that is ever-changing and mutable, but is nonetheless real. It is delimited by the references of the horizon, by the physical limits, defined by light, and it happens in time.
 
Hemeroscopium house traps, a domestic space, and a distant horizon. And it does so playing a game with structures placed in an apparently unstable balance, that enclose the living spaces allowing the vision to escape. With heavy structures and big actions, disposed in a way to provoke gravity to move the space. And this way it defines the place.


The order in which these structures are piled up generates a helix that sets out from a stable support, the mother beam, and develops upwards in a sequence of elements that become lighter as the structure grows, closing on a point that culminates the system of equilibrium. Seven elements in total. The design of their joints respond to their constructive nature, to their forces; and their stresses express the structural condition they have. By the way this structure is set, the house becomes aerial, light, transparent, and the space kept inside flows with life. The apparent simplicity of the structure´s joints requires in fact the development of complex calculations, due to the reinforcement, and the prestress and post-tension of the steel rods that sew the web of the beams.

It took us a year to engineer but only seven days to build the structure, thanks to a total prefabrication of the different elements and a perfectly coordinated rhythm of assembly. All of our effort oriented to develop the technique that would allow to create a very specific space. And thus, a new astonishing language is invented, where form disappears giving way to the naked space. Hemeroscopium house materializes the peak of its equilibrium with what in Ensamble Studio we ironically call the “G point”, a twenty ton granite stone, expression of the force of gravity and a physical counterweight to the whole structure.



Antón García- Abril
  • *1969 in Madrid, Spain
  • European Doctor of Architecture. ETSA, Madrid 2007.
  • Master in Architecture, ETSA Madrid 1995.
  • Spanish Academy research scholarship in Rome 1996.
  • Establishes Ensamble Studio in 2000.
  • Professor at the E.T.S.A. Madrid, Architecture Projects.
  • Writes about architecture in EL CULTURAL.
  • Gives lessons and conferences at different forums and universities.
2008 Exhibition JAE (Young Spanish Architects). Arquería de los Nuevos Ministerios. Madrid. (Sede SGAE Noroeste en Santiago de Compostela). Exhibition “La natural seducción de la piedra – Contemporary Architecture in Spain. PIEDRA2008”. (Sede de la SGAE en Santiago de Compostela). Conference “recent work” Accademia d'Architettura of Mendrisio. Conference “Sfidando la gravità.” Facoltà di Architettura di Ferrara. Ferrara. Conference “Sfidando la gravità.” Museo di Castelvecchio. Verona. Conference “A young look to knowledge frontier. Subtractive architecture.” Menéndez Pelayo International University. Santander. Honor Guest – Conference “Tuned City - Between sound and space speculation. Antón García-Abril: building for sound”. Technische Universität. Berlin. Conference in Technische Universität Berlin. “Antón García- Abril: studio work. Positionen 08”. Conference “Matter in time", Academic Association of Lusíada University, Lisbon. Conference “New works”. Intention cultural program. Formatos library. A Coruña. Visiting professor in Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Architectural Digest Award. Best architect of the year 2008.
2007
Conference "Antón García-Abril. Recent work". Harvard University, Massachusettts. Visiting professor in University of Navarra, Spain. Lecturer at the "X Architecture Courses", C.M. Hernando Colón, Seville. Lecturer at Dallas Architecture Forum, Texas. 2006 Visiting professor in UTA - University of Texas at Dallas. 2000 First Prize. Biennial of Architecture 2000, Spanish Pavilion, Venice. 1997 Store – Exhibition HAZEN PIANOS project. Madrid. Built (1998).
Honorable mention. Madrid City Hall XIII Architecture and Town Planning Award. (Store – Exhibition HAZEN in Madrid).