Monday 27 July 2009

Guggenheim Museum and Google® SketchUp Design It Shelter Competition

on Monday 27 July 2009 - 09:42:49 | by etipuf
Guggenheim MuseumGuggenheim Sketchup Design It competitionA competition run by the Guggenheim Museum and Google asks for a shelter design, anywhere in the world, that will include living, sleeping and study spaces within an area no larger than 9.3 square meters, and height less than 3.6 meters. The designs are asked to be developed by Google SketchUp embedded on a location on Google Earth and uploaded to Google Warehouse.
Entry is open to both professionals and amateurs, above 13 years of age. The issue that the shelter would be possible to build in real life will not be considered. Infrastructure such as electricity should not be included and designs are asked to be kept simple. Criteria are:
  • The relationship of the shelter to the built or natural environment around it?
  • Innovative design and space organization
  • Thoughtful use of materials
  • Adherence to the Competition specifications
  • Quality of the SketchUp model
The entries will be first evaluated by students of the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture and selected entries will be open to public voting. In the end, two winners will be elected, one by the public vote and one by a jury.
PrizeFor both winners;
  • Trip for two to New York City (includes airfare and hotel accommodations for two nights)
  • Behind-the-scenes tour of the Guggenheim Museum and the Google Offices
  • Free admission to other NYC museums
  • Google SketchUp Pro license (USD$495 value)
  • +$1000 cash prize for the winner selected y the jury
There is no entry fee.

Key dates:

 Submission until August 23

 Public voting  September 7 - October 10

 Announcement of prizes October 21, 2009


CLICK HERE to obtain more information.


Sunday 26 July 2009

8 Finalists of the Classroom Design: Open Architecture Challenge 2009

on Sunday 26 July 2009 - 10:50:06 | by NEO
Open Architecture NetworkOpen Architecture Network this year called the architects and designers from around the world to involve with real schools, students and teachers and improve the design of their classrooms. This competition was a major success if we look at the number of submissions and the diversity of them. The encouraged involvement of students and teachers with the designers seem to be a real breakthrough in the way we think of designing a classroom today.
Here are the images and other details of the eight finalist designs:

Adaptable Hillside classroom
Project: Adaptable Hillside Classrooms
Design Team: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios & Architecture for Humanity UK
Engineering Team: Buro Happold
Partner/ Location: Bunyonyi Community School, Kabale, Uganda


Bamboowood School
Project: Bamboowood School
Design Team: Petr Kostner, Martina Sobotková and Soňa Huberová, Czech Republic
Partner/ Location: Antarastriya Yuba Barsa Lower Secondary School, Lakhanpur - Teksing, Kavre, Nepal


Classroom for the saltpan community, Cohesion Foundation
Project: Classroom for the saltpan community, Cohesion Foundation
Design Team: Rajesh Kapoor, Prashant Solanky, Bharat Karamchandani and Kiran Vaghela, Gujarat, India
Partner/Location: Cohesion Foundation, Kutch, Gujarat, India


Teton Valley Community School
Project: Teton Valley Community School
Design team: Section Eight Design, Idaho, United States
Partner/ Location: Teton Valley Community School, Victor, Idaho, United States


A Sustainable Community Classroom
Project: A Sustainable Community Classroom
Design Team: Gifford, London, UK
Partner/ Location: Building Tomorrow, Uganda


House in the Wood Classroom
Project: House In The Wood
Design team: Built Form, LLC / Northwestern University Settlement House, Chicago, IL, United States
Partner/Location: House In The Wood and Rowe Elementary School, Delavan, Wisconsin, United States


Justified Architecture in a Landscape of Transformation
Project: Justified Architecture in a Landscape of Transformation
Design Team: Arquitectura Justa - Wolfgang Timmer, Fabiola Uribe, T. Luke Young, Bogota, Colombia
Partner/ Location: Corporación Educativa y Social Waldorf, Ciudad Bolívar, Bogota

Blurred Classroom
Project: Blurred Classroom
Design team: Gensler, New York, United States
Partner/ Location: Future Leaders' Institute, New York, NY, United States

Here each of the images are linked to the project pages of OAN Website. It should be an stimulating experience to go through all the finalist projects.

Sunday 19 July 2009

Architectural Film Show at AIUB Architecture School

on Sunday 19 July 2009 - 18:26:02 | by admin
Frank Lloyd Wright: Murder, Myth & ModernismAs part of the regular film show in the Department of Architecture of AIUB in Dhaka is going to show the documentary by BBC "Frank Lloyd Wright: Murder, Myth & Modernism" tomorrow (21st July) from 18:00 to 19:00 at the university auditorium. The documentary is directed by Paul Tilzey, released in 2005.
Everyone is invited.
Contacts: Phone: +880447600367, 8802-9885907, 8802-8815387 extn 781
Address: House 23, Road 17, Kemal Ataturk Avenue, Banani, Dhaka 1213, Bangladesh

The IMDB.com (Internet Movie Database) review says about this documentary:
"I would have expected the BBC to do a better job of introducing people to Wright. The interviews with Meryle Secrest (whose biography of FLW turned me into a fan), Ada Louise Huxtable and his grandson Eric Lloyd Wright were worthwhile, as were the home movies and the TV interviews (the voice off-camera in the interview near the end is that of Mike Wallace). But framing the thing around the 1914 murders at Taliesin, making it sound like the defining event of his life (it wasn't), and then revisiting the tragedy two-thirds of the way through, came off as lurid and exploitative. They gloss over his Prairie houses and, worse, virtually ignore the Usonian houses that made up at least half of his body of work. It came off mostly as a by-the-numbers caricature that could have done a better job with both the praise and the criticism"

Those who are going to watch this movie tomorrow are welcomed to write their reviews in comments to this newspost.

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