The School of Architecture of Tianjin University and the Chinese press group, Urban Environment Design (UED), announce the second edition of the international competition on urban transformation, open to students of architecture worldwide. The International Union of Architects supports this initiative.

OBJECTIVES and PROGRAMME
Participants are invited to contribute their response to the radical statement “Architecture must disappear”, a reflection that imagines solutions in face of new Situations. One of the commitments of an architect is to overwhelm the observable escalation in the production of contemporary architecture by introducing new situations, dialectic situations and experiences, between inside and outside, free and available spaces in-between what is public and what is private. Competitors can choose the site for their proposal, of a maximum built surface area of 4 000 m2.

An important man and tutor of our Department passed away yesterday. George Marnelakis was the main and most daring intellectual of his generation on the scrutiny of the relationship across sexuality and space, gender studies and the city. The community of our Department was lucky enough to be part of his academic activity. He has shared his thoughts and ideas with us. His presence, in the architectural milieu of Greece, provided the confidence and the prospect of a renewed examination of the social role of Architecture. His activity on acknowledging the political importance of everyday life affairs and relationships, was aiming at the advance of architects’ intervening stance based on freedom and inclusiveness. His absence is a great loss for both the academic and the architectural community of Greece.   

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Giorgos Marnelakis was born in Athens. He studied Architecture at the National Technical University of Athens (1993-2000) and Urban and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths College of the University of London (2001-2002). He taught Gender Studies and Cultural Geography at the School of Architecture of NTUA and the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly (2004-2010). Since 2005 he has been teaching in collaboration with Dina Vaiou the postgraduate course A Gender Cultural Approach of Urban Space at the Interdepartmental Postgraduate program of studies Architecture-Spatial Design of NTUA at the direction of Urban and Regional Planning. His research focused on issues of sexuality, gender and cultural identity within urban space. In his PhD research under the title, Pleasure and the formation of the city as a subject of discourse, he studied the idea of pleasure within the discourse of Modernity in regard to the city. He was the editor of the annual scientific journal Research in Architecture of the direction Architectural Design-Space- Culture ofthe Interdepartmental Postgraduate Program of NTUA Architecture- Spatial Design. His books, Geographies of the Bodies: Sexuality, Gender and Urban Space and Women and Men within everyday spaces (in collaboration with Dina Vaiou) are expected to be released by Alexandria and Epikentro editions respectively.

For more on his teaching activity and his stance visit the following links (in greek)

http://www.arch.ntua.gr/gs/menu.aspx?page2=bibliography.asp

http://www.10percent.gr/periodiko/teyxos19/466-2008-10-10-10-43-20.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4YjAc-mDhI

Kalos&Klio (Christos Kalos, Klio Tantalidou) are two artists who work together as a collaborative duo. The pair lives and works in Thessaloniki, Greece. Klio studied painting at the Hanze University, Groningen, NL printmaking, at the Governors’ State University, Chicago IL, USA and holds an MFA in Digital art from the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA. Christos Kalos studied Photography at ESP school of Photography, Thessaloniki, Greece. The pair has participated in many solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. In 2011 a new book, has just been released by IANOS publications written by Professor of Art History & Culture Theory at the Technical University of Crete, Thanasis Moutsopoulos Kalos&Klio: A user’s guide for the digital world and global trash.

Tuesday 30th of October 2012, at 20.30, amphitheatre of the Deparment of Architecture, Uth.

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2-day intensive workshop in the context of the Advances in Architectural Geometry 2012 Conference, 27-30/9/2012 Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France.

Tutors:  Yota Adilenidou (The Bartlett, UCL), Maria Voyatzaki (School of Architecture of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), and Sophia Vyzoviti (University of Thessaly, Greece).

Information and Registration http://aag12.architecturalgeometry.at/?page_id=554

TEACHING
Elia Zenghelis, Professor, Berlage Institute
Teaching assistants: Savina Derdelakou, Nikos Platsas, Michalis Soſtas

WHEN / WHERE
Saturday 1 September through Sunday 9 September 2012
St. Nicholas – Paou Monastery, Argalasti, Pelion, Greece

THEME
Participants will examine alternative ways of integrating dwelling to landscape; these could include educational installations and accommodation. The concept of integration in the land- scape is projected neither with modest humility nor as an abandonment of architecture’s juris- diction but rather as an emphatic juxtaposition of the intrinsic properties and of the oppositions between the two. That is, of the dialectic that underpins and juxtaposes the constitution, on one hand, of the evolutionary dynamics of nature and, on the other, of the static balance of the human artifact.

WHO
The workshop is open to undergraduate students in the last years of their studies, to graduate students and to young architects (who have graduated in the last five years). Participants, 10 in total, will be selected on CV / portfolio basis.

STAY & COST
Τhe workshop will take place in the Monastery of Paou in Pelion, Greece (www.monipaou.gr), where participants will also be housed. Included in the participation price (300 euros) are: tuition fees, stay, as well as a daily excursion in the area.

HOW TO APPLY
Please send your application (include a 2-page pdf with 150-words cv and sample of portfolio) to pelion.aw@gmail.com (deadline: 31 July, 2012). 

WEBSITE
http://www.arch.uth.gr/PAWorkshop2012

The Businesses Chair of “Landscape and Tourism” of the Higher School of Architecture of the University of Malaga (Spain), announces the IV INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON

LANDSCAPE  “CITY AND PORT” with the collaboration of the Schools of Architecture of:
REGGIO CALABRIA | EL CAIRO | GRANADA | THESSALY | MADRID | MARSELLA | PAMPLONA | PARIS (Villette) | RABAT | ROMA (Sapienza) | SEVILLA | SIRACUSA | VALENCIA

The main aim of  this  International Workshop on  Landscape will  raise an appropriate balance  between  theoretical  and  practical  reflection  of  the  project  as  “intermediate scale”,  recovering  the  necessary  dialogue  between  the  scales  of  architecture  and planning  of  our  cities  and  territories.  This  combination  of  esthetical  and  practical values,  try  to  discover  the  elements  of  the  existing  architectural  and  urban  culture through the action of the intervention of the project.

For more information and participation guidelines, please contact Assoc. Professor Spiros Papadopoulos.

Workshop Website | Poster

BERLIN / Universität der Künste > 23 - 30 july
CHANIA / Center of Mediterranean Architecture > 22 - 30 august

The KAM workshop of Berlin would elaborate on the subject of communities that already shared massively the “panopticon cultures” as continuous conditions of social normality. Systems of freedom are examined as analogous to the Plan de evasión, the novel by Adolfo Bioy Casares describing a system of detention in illusion: in an analogous way, the first thematic area of 2012 KAM workshops will be linked to the constitution of a mapped world as a first system of detention. The draft design of a video game is the final product of the Berlin’s workshop.

Concerning the KAM workshop of Chania its participants will be asked to design a minimum isolated capsule that forms a maximum isolation possibility including the description of an illusion of community, through an extended time of autonomy concerning food and water. This isolated relation to the community functions as the formation of an autonomous system that in the same time creates a separation from the community. The investigation of the autonomous cell that is formed as the place for the natural body placed in a map. The participants will conclude to a model of a condensed “room condition” and some linear drawings describing its technical characteristics.

KAM workshops are open to graduate and post-graduate students of architecturε. They can also be followed by students of art, design, media and cultural studies.

To apply for the workshops you are expected to send an e-mail to kamworkshops@gmail.com with the following files:

A filled-in application form (download here )

A PDF with examples of your work (5 images, PDF maximum size: 3MB)

Please make sure that you have correctly named your PDF files stating both your first name and your last name.
All textual information should be in English or Greek. 

For more information please visit KAM workshops homepage

The Department of Architectural Engineers of the University of Thessaly invites all interested students to submit their candidature,in order to attend the Postgraduate Studies’ Program (PSP) of the academic year 2012-2013, which leads to the award of a Postgraduate Specialisation Diploma (PSD) in Architectural Design.

All interested students must submit to the PSP’s Secretariat the supporting documents described in the invitation, the latest by the 15th of June 2012 13th of July 2012.

The exhibition ‘’…all that has been done…’’ is the outcome of the 8^th Documentation and Design Workshop that was held in May, 2012, at the geographical territory of lake Kerkini, northern Greece ( the community of Gefirudi-Municipality of Iraklia-Prefecture of Serres). The exhibition is open in the central corridor of the Department of Architecture of the University of Thessaly, between the 1^st and the 11^th of June. The reconnaissance of the area, the studies, the design of small scale structures by the embankment at the periphery of the lake, the common life and the correlation with the community are the contents of the exhibition.

See the poster.