Date
May 16, 2018
Speaker
Nadia Alaily-Mattar, TU Munich
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STAR ARCHITECTURE AS A SOCIO-MATERIAL ASSEMBLAGE
Date
May 2, 2018
Speaker
Laura Lieto, “Federico II” University of Naples
Flagship Architecture, Multinational Design Firms and the Urban Transformation of European Cities (2017)
“Flagship Architecture, Multinational Design Firms and the Urban Transformation of European Cities” is a series of international symposia. The aim is to discuss the urban implications of star architecture and transnational projects with particular reference to European cities.
Date and Place
November 25-26, 2017 at Villa Vigoni in Menaggio, Italy Continue Reading
Learning from Gulf Cities 2017 – Abu Dhabi
Gulf cities like Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha are receivers and exporters of contemporary shifts – in tastes, capacities, and urban consequences. Inspired by the classic book, Learning from Las Vegas produced in 1972 by architectural scholars Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, we can learn from new, even ‘outlandish’ cities. They often reveal trends otherwise obscured by attention to more traditional urban sites. By means of photography, maps, infographics, data and narration, this exhibition shows that Gulf cities share striking features not only with each other but also with cities elsewhere in the world.
In conjunction with the opening, Nasser Rabbat (Agha Khan Professor and Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT) gave the lecture “Historical Memory and Coca-Cola: Reflections on the Arabian Gulf Cities”
New Methods for Studying Transnational Urbanism and Architecture: A primer
Year
2017
Description
Ponzini D., Manfredini F., “New Methods for Studying Transnational Urbanism and Architecture: A primer”, Territorio, Vol. 80, pp. 97–110.