Lecture + workshop about the climate and biodiverity emergency, architecture’s part in it and how YOU can get involved to make a difference.
Register here for the ACAN WORKSHOP on Eventbrite.
About the Event
ACAN formed in London over the summer of 2019, in this talk we will take you through how ACAN was conceived, founded and is expanding. We will explain the principles and activities fundamental to the network, talk through some of the actions we have taken and explain the changes we are trying to bring about. We will discuss how to build effective campaigns and make an inclusive network of engaged individuals working collaboratively to address the climate and biodiversity crises.
There will be a short Q&A session before we divide the audience into groups. With a facilitator from ACAN you will be asked to discuss what issues affect your region and areas of expertise, how these could be overcome and what would be needed to make changes for the better.
This will not be the a run of the mill lecture and audience participation will be vital! Don’t be afraid, we will create a fun, inclusive forum for people to speak their mind and meet others who share their concerns. The movement is building and we want you all to be a part of it.
The Kosovo Architecture Festival this year will be held from the 15th of September till the 15th of October under the theme of “Publicness”. This year as well KAF will invite pioneering individuals and collectives from around the globe to present their work.
As one of the founding partners of the Future Architecture Platform KAF will be inviting a number of FA creatives to hold online lectures and workshops.
In the coming days we will be announcing the full schedule of activities for KAF2020.
La Biennale di Venezia announces that the 17th International Architecture Exhibition – How Will We Live Together? – curated by Hashim Sarkis, which was to take place in Venice from August 29th through November 29th 2020, has been postponed to 2021, to be held Saturday May 22nd to Sunday November 21st.
Consequently, the 59th International Art Exhibition, curated by Cecilia Alemani, which was to take place in 2021, has in turn been postponed to 2022. It will last 7 months and will be held from Saturday April 23rd to Sunday November 27th.
The decision to postpone the Biennale Architettura to May 2021 is an acknowledgment that it is impossible to move forward – within the set time limits – in the realization of such a complex and worldwide exhibition, due to the persistence of a series of objective difficulties caused by the effects by the health emergency underway.
The current situation, up to now, has definitely prejudiced the realization of the Exhibition in its entirety, jeopardizing the realization, transport and presence of the works and consequently the quality of the Exhibition itself. Therefore, after consulting with the Curator Hashim Sarkis and in consideration of the problems, the invited architects, Participating Countries, institutions, Collateral Events are facing, thanking all of them for their efforts so far, La Biennale has decided to postpone the opening date of the Biennale Architettura to the year 2021, extending its duration back to the customary six months, from May 22nd to November 21st.
“I am deeply moved by the perseverance of all the Participants during the last three months – stated CuratorHashim Sarkis. I hope that the new opening date will allow them first to catch their breath, and then to complete their work with the time and vigor it truly deserves. We did not plan it this way. Neither the question I asked How will we live together? nor the wealth of ways in response to it, were meant to address the crisis they are living, but here we are. We are in some ways fortunate because we are well equipped to absorb the immediate and longer-term implications of the crisis into the Biennale Architettura 2021. The theme does also provide us with the possibility to respond to the pandemic in its immediacy. This is why we will return to Venice in the coming months for a series of activities devoted to the Architecture.”
Kosovo Architecture Foundation is invited as part of the main exhibition of curated by the Hashim Sarkis. For more updated informations on the Biennale do check their website.
It is our greatest pleasure to announce that the Kosovo Architecture Foundation was invited to participate at the main exhibition of this years Venice Architecture Biennale 2020. It is the first time that a regional architect or a group of architects is invited to exhibit at the main exhibition of the Architecture Biennale.
The director of KAF and the curator of its exhibition at LaBiennale 2020 Mr. Bekim Ramku sees this as a great honor and responsibility, “the invitation by Hashim to exhibit at the Biennale 2020 is a great honor for us, not just for the fact that we’re the only regional institution to be invited at the event but also for the fact that we will be presented at the co-habitats section of the main exhibition”.
Our installation is titled “Prishtina Public Archipelago” and it analyses the public “islands” in the city center of the Kosovo capital. The work in Venice will be presented through diagrams and audio-visual documentation and has a large team of contributors behind it. As KAF director puts it: the work that will be presented in Venice will consist of diagrams, audio-visual documentation in the form of a documentary, as well as a book that will see contribution from regional centers.
The 17th Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale is titled “How Will We Live Together” and is curated by the American-Lebanese architect and Dean of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Mr.Hashim Sarkis. Sarkis was a keynote speaker at the Kosovo Architecture Festival in 2017.
For more information regarding the theme and the participants in LaBiennale 2020 visit their website.
The official book for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2019 cycle
The winners of the 14th Cycle of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture are featured in this cyclical monograph. In addition to detailed descriptions of all the projects, this book gathers a series of personal statements from members of the Award’s Steering Committee and Master Jury on key issues that are crucial in the discussions for the final selection of the recipients.
in this cycle of the awards our founding director, mr. Bekim Ramku served as a technical reviewer and was tasked to evaluate two projects, the Ashinaga Dormitory by Terrain Architects in Uganda and the SOS Tadjourah Village by Urko Sanchez in Djibouti.
The Architecture In Dialogue, Aga Khan Award for Architecture book is edited by Andres Lepik
Co-published by Archi Tangle and Aga Khan Award for Architecture
Available in English and Russian (2019).
The Book can be purchased at Archi_Tangle’s website.
An art gallery built into a sand dune, Europe’s first underwater restaurant, a bunker-like apartment, a sustainable algae micro-farm for the home and the world’s first modular hearing aid feature on the Dezeen Awards 2019 longlists.
Dezeen Awards identifies the world’s most outstanding new architecture, interiors and design with diverse longlists of international projects, products and studios.
With the 2019 edition attracting more than 4,500 entries from 87 countries, the Dezeen Awards longlist offers a global perspective on the world’s most oustanding new design, architecture and interiors. It also champions both emerging and established studios at the zenith of their creativity.
A benchmark for international design excellence, Dezeen Awards is the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere.
Download images of highlighted 2019 projects here ›
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Tonight 04.07.2019 from 7.00 pm and 9.00 pm at Kino Armata we screen the 2 episodes of the Slumbering Concrete documentary.
The documentary series Slumbering Concrete builds a story around the architecture from the period of socialist modernism in former Yugoslavia, an area unique for many dilapidated buildings of outstanding architectural value from the 20th century.
The sixties were a specific time period marked by general optimism in Europe. The reconstruction after the world war is completed and new technologies are changing the world. The dream of a welfare state and prosperity for all in the socialist Yugoslavia is perhaps best reflected in the architecture of the time.
7.00 pm / Spilt – Where Plan Meets Chaos
The City of Split is a fascinating example of urban continuity from antiquity to modernity (from ancient culture to socialist modernism). We are focusing in on the unfinished urban phenomenon of Split 3, one of the most advanced socialist modernist settlements in the world. The complex was built under the Slovene team of architects Mušič, Bežan and Starc in the 1970s following the modernist principles of freestanding cities. However, simultaneously to harmoniously proportioned skyscrapers of Split 3, the space is taken by unregulated individual construction sites. Planning and deregulation coexist, exemplary order clashes with chaos – the city and its antithesis. Opposing tendencies intertwine, and with the passing of time one prevails. We read the city as a reflection of society in the fascinating architectural collage of Split.
9.00 pm / The City That Was Too Modern
After the catastrophic earthquake in 1963, Skopje became a global demonstration city of the future. UN hired international experts to participate in its reconstruction, the central figure being the Japanese avant-garde architect Kenzo Tange who designed the new center using the principles of the metabolism – its first application outside Japan. Fifty years later, North Macedonia seeks its identity through faux Baroque and monumental memorials.
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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 1st of July till the 30th of September 2019.
The potential candidate should be available for at least 7 days from the 29th of June till the 9th of July.
All interested should send a short CV together with their contacts till 12th of June to events.kaf@gmail.com
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Fondacioni Kosovar i Arkitekturës fton studentët dhe entuziastët e arkitekturës nga Kosova dhe jashtë saj për të kontribuar në organizimin e Festivalit të Arkitekturës në Kosovë që do mbahet nga 1 Korrik deri me 30 Shtator 2019.
Kandidatët potencial duhet të janë në dispozicion së paku 7 ditë nga data 29 Qërshori deri me 8 Korriku.
Gjithë të interesuarit duhet dërguar një CV të shkurtër së bashku me kontaktet e tyre deri me datën 12 Qërshor në events.kaf@gmail.com
The 20 shortlisted projects for the 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture were announced today. The projects will compete for US$ 1 million in prize money.
In January, an independent Master Jury reviewed hundreds of nominations. The 20 shortlisted projects are now undergoing rigorous investigations by a team of experts who visit and evaluate each project on-site. Their reports are the basis for the Master Jury’s selection of the eventual laureates. It should be noted that projects commissioned by the Aga Khan or any of the institutions of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) are ineligible for the Award. To be eligible for consideration in the 2019 Award cycle, projects had to be completed between 1 January 2012 and 31 December 2017, and should have been in use for at least one year.
The full list of the 20 shortlisted projects can be found at the Awards website.
Below are some of the images from the shortlisted projects.
