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June 20, 2018

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Rainer Mutsch lecture at KAF18

By Rudina Voca | Lectures, News

EN/ Rainer studied Furniture Design at the Denmarks Design Skole Copenhagen, Product Design at the University of Arts Berlin and completed his degree in Industrial Design (Prof. Paolo Piva) at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Rainer Mutsch then worked as senior designer for Werner Aisslinger in Berlin for several years before opening his own design studio with a focus on product design in Vienna in 2008. Deeply committed to creating design with purpose and always having his notepad and a pen at hand, his open-minded approach allows Rainer Mutsch to invite an element of play into his work. Living…

June 20, 2018

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Eliza Hoxha lecture at KAF18

By Rudina Voca | Lectures, News

EN/ Eliza Hoxha Curator of the Kosovo Pavilion Venice Biennale 2018 Was born in 1974 in Mitrovica/Kosovo and lives in Prishtina. She is a well known public ﬁgure in Kosovo, active in the ﬁelds of art, music, photography, architecture and urbanism. Because of her work she was awarded from Kosovo Association of Architects for “Education and Promotion of Architecture” for her writings on urban matters. She was also awarded from Kosovo Women Network for promoting girl and women rights in Kosovo. She is the author of the book “City and Love” an urban diary about Prishtina. She completed her architecture…

May 30, 2018

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Copenhagen Architecture Festival Summer School 2018

By Rudina Voca | Events, News

ABOUT The CAFx Summer School 2018 will focus on architectural space as a tool for social integration in Skagen. The town of Skagen is the northernmost town in Denmark, located on the top of the Jutland peninsula. It is widely known for the Scandinavian artist colony ’Skagensmalerne’, who assembled and worked in Skagen from the late 1870s until the turn of the century. But it is also one of Denmark’s main fishing ports, and the unique nature in the area in addition to the large number of architectural and cultural sights attract up to two million tourists annually, making it…

May 30, 2018

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Elevation – How Drones Will Change Cities

By Rudina Voca | Events, News

Drones will transform cities, revolutionising how people travel, how goods are delivered and how buildings look and are constructed, according to a documentary by Dezeen. “Aerial highways” will relieve pressure on roads as deliveries and human transportation take to the skies in unmanned electric vehicles. Architecture will change dramatically as the ground floor entrance is replaced by rooftop landing, parking and recharging zones and deliveries arrive via specially constructed portals on the sides of buildings. This vision of the future is set out in Elevation, a new documentary created by online architecture magazine Dezeen (www.dezeen.com). Humans will soon be travelling…

May 7, 2018

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Call to KAF Volunteers

By Rudina Voca | News

Kosovo Architecture Foundation calls all students and enthusiasts of architecture from Kosovo and beyond to contribute in organizing the Kosovo Architecture Festival, which will be held from the 2nd of July till the 1st of October 2018. The potential candidate should be available for at least 7 days from the 29’th of June till the 9’th of July. All interested should send a short CV together with their contacts till 15th of June to media@prishtinaarchitectureweek.com

April 9, 2018

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The Kosovo National Library Conservation plan is out

By Rudina Voca | News

Few days ago our seminal work on the Conservation and Management of the Kosovo National Library was out and on this occasion we must thank the numerous individuals that have helped us realize this project. On behalf of myself and the Kosovo Architecture Foundation team, I must thank the Getty Foundation for providing the financial support and guidance necessary to conduct this project. Through their program: “Keeping It Modern” this project was possible. It comes at a critical time for the health of the National Library as there are numerous systems such as the roof, windows, moisture protection and plumbing…

April 9, 2018

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AIA Europe Conference held in Prishtina

By Rudina Voca | Events, News

AIA Continental Europe Chapter held its annual conference on architecture and urbanism in Prishtina. The Kosovo Architecture Foundation is immensely proud that it had the honor to be part of this great event and help out with the organization. Our greatest of appreciation goes for Bard Rama who made this conference possible and brought eminent architects and planners from Europe and beyond to Prishtina. The head of the Kosovo Architecture Foundation Bekim Ramku, held two presentations during the event. The first was a lecture on the Prishtina Mosque Competition proposal by the late Zaha Hadid in collaboration with the OUD+Architects…

February 13, 2018

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Future Architecture Platform Announces new Advisory Board

By Rudina Voca | News

Future Architecture platform, key exchange and networking platform for European Architecture announces the formation of the Future Architecture Advisory Board, a group of renowned leaders, researchers, curators and practitioners selected to advise the platform in ensuring quality performance, taking advantage of opportunities to achieve its overall goals and stronger international positioning. © Phi by Phi (Calum Bowden, Cory Levinson, Aliaksandra Smirnova, Artem Stepanov, Aiwen Yin) Matevž Čelik, leader of the Future Architecture platform points out: “After two years of successful operation on the international architectural scene, the platform is developing towards closer integration of the programmes of renowned European cultural operators in the field…

November 15, 2017

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3rd CALL FOR IDEAS

By kafkaf | News

With the 3rd Call for Ideas the Future Architecture platform invites multi-disciplinary emerging creatives who work on transformative projects and ideas for the future of architecture to apply for participation in the European Architecture Program in 2018. The Future Architecture platform acts as a key platform for exchange and networking for European architecture and integrates some of Europe’s most important architectural events. The platform enables architecture museums, festivals, producers, publishers, agencies, academic institutions and multi-disciplinary emerging professionals to easily connect and build joint projects. The European Architecture program invites emerging talents to get involved with 20 established architectural institutions and…

August 27, 2017

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Documenting Modern Kosovo Prishtina Workshop

By kafkaf | News, Workshops

Docomomo_Kosovo national working party will be organizing a documentation workshop in major Kosovo cities during the months of August, September and October 2017. The “Documenting Modern Kosovo” workshop, which will be organized in the cities of Prishtina, Gjakova, Peja, Mitrovica, Ferizaj and Prizren, aims to document a set of buildings belonging to the Modern Movement in Kosovo. The documentation workshop, which will use the Docomomo documentation fiche’s will serve as a base for the inventory of Modernism in Kosovo as well for the Docomomo “MoMove” Virtual Exhibition. Docomomo is the international working party for the Documentation of buildings, sites and…