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 (Practice ran by our Director). The second presentation presented in front of the distinguished guests KAF’s seminal work on the conservation and management plan for the Kosovo National Library, a project made possible through the Getty Foundation Keeping it Modern Grant. Ramku was also part of the panel discussion on youth and the city moderated by Martin Barry the founder of reSITE.
KAF also gave two guided tours to the conference participants. The first was a tour of the Kosovo National Library and the second was the Prishtina Architecture Tour.
The Conference was held in several venues from the 5th to the 8th of April. More informations on the conference can be found on the link: http://www.aiaeurope.org
Dezeen Awards is our new annual awards programme. It will identify the world’s best architecture, interiors and design, as well as the studios and the individual architects and designers producing the most outstanding work.
Organised by Dezeen, the world’s most popular and influential architecture and design website, Dezeen Awards will be the benchmark for international design excellence and the ultimate accolade for architects and designers everywhere.
For details on how to enter, visit the how to enter page. The page also contains information about entry fees and deadlines. For more detailed information, please refer to the terms and conditions page.
Dezeen Awards is organised by Dezeen and judged by a panel consisting of leading figures from the design world. This means that Dezeen Awards will have unprecedented credibility and reach.
Every shortlisted and winning entry will be published on our awards site and shared via our huge social media and newsletter audiences, bringing significant recognition to successful entrants. Shortlisted and winning studios will be able to promote the fact that they are Dezeen Awards winners. In addition, winners will get a trophy and a certificate.
There are lots of architecture and design awards out there – but Dezeen Awards will be different.
First, our low entry prices are designed to attract smaller firms, and avoid categories being dominated by large studios that can afford to enter multiple categories.
Second, our judging criteria have been carefully considered to ensure that winning projects are not only beautiful and innovative but also strive to benefit users and the environment. We don’t believe that good design today can ignore issues such as social impact or sustainability and we will be looking for projects that incorporate positive thinking in this area.
Third, our awards include categories for architecture, interiors and design – the three key areas that Dezeen writes about. This means that Dezeen Awards will be a comprehensive annual survey of the best work across the major fields of 3D design.
Dezeen Awards 2018 will be judged by an international panel comprised of 75 leading figures from the architecture and design world.
Judges include architects David Adjaye and Rossana Hu, interior designers India Mahdavi and Afroditi Krassa, and designers Benjamin Hubert and Formafantasma.
The judges will be supported by Dezeen’s award-winning editorial team. Full details of the judging process can be found on the terms and conditionspage.
There are 30 categories you can enter in total: ten each for the sectors of architecture, interiors and design. In each sector there are eight categories for projects, and two categories for studios (architecture or design firms, or individual architects or designers).
Full details of the categories can be found on the categories page.
For the project categories, judges are looking for entries that best fit the three judging criteria. These are:
Beautiful: does it look amazing? We know that beauty is subjective but our judges will be looking out for aesthetic rigour, good detailing and good use of materials.
Innovative: does it incorporate original thinking or address a problem in a new way? We don’t mean that every entry has to reinvent the wheel but we will be looking for evidence of fresh approaches and new ideas.
Beneficial: is it useful and considerate to both people and planet? Your project doesn’t have to set out to save the world but it should show respect and consideration for users and the environment.
For studio categories, judges are looking for individual designers or companies that show strong vision and achievement both in terms of projects completed projects, business success, client satisfaction and positive impact.
They should also describe at least two completed projects that fit the three judging criteria listed above, as well as displaying evidence of responsible management practices and company policies (for example covering diversity, wellbeing and training).
Winners of each of the 30 categories will get a specially designed trophy and a certificate. They will get the right to promote themselves as a Dezeen Awards winner and will have their project published on the Dezeen Awards website as well as being mentioned on the main Dezeen site.
In addition, all winners will be widely promoted via Dezeen’s extensive email and social media networks. The whole world will know you’ve won!
In addition to the thirty categories, we’ll be awarding three special Dezeen Grand Awards. These will go to the best project overall from the all winners of the architecture, interiors and design categories. Winners will be decided by our master jury.
The three Dezeen Grand Award winners will have the right to claim they have created the best architecture, interiors and design projects of the year. They will get a special trophy and certificate and will get their project published in a dedicated post on the Dezeen website.
We’ll be announcing shortlists for all our awards categories in August 2018. All shortlisted entries will be published on the Dezeen Awards website.
Winners of the inaugural Dezeen Awards will be announced at a dazzling ceremony in London at the end of the year. This will be the highlight of the architecture and design year. Full details, including ticket prices, will be announced soon.
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If you have any questions about Dezeen Awards, including press and sponsorship enquiries, please email awards@dezeen.com.
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Francis Kéré: An Architect Between & The Design Between Screening
The work of Francis Kéré is at the forefront of a paradigm shift within design. The architect is globally renowned for using his craft to improve social, economic, and political environments in his native Burkina Faso and numerous other countries. Globally, people are turning to designers to address intractable problems from poverty to climate change. Kéré seeks to do just this, using a mix of low-tech and high design and working in partnership with the communities for whom he builds. This film documents several projects Kéré has built or begun in the past 15 years, and shows the architect in action between Burkina Faso and Germany, where he is attempting to build a community performance centre for Syrian refugees.
Directed by: Daniel Schwartz
Produced by:
Gran Horizonte Media
The Architekturmuseum der TUM
About the Director:
Daniel Schwartz is a filmmaker, photographer, and multimedia artist based in Zürich. Born in Nairobi in 1987, he grew up in Atlanta and went to school in Philadelphia, Gaborone, and Zürich. He has a degree in Urban Studies and photography, and currently directs the production company Gran Horizonte Media and works on independent projects. Previously, he was a member of the interdisciplinary design collective Urban-Think Tank at ETH Zürich. His work focuses primarily on urban transformation from a social, spatial, and political perspective.
Daniel’s photography and writing have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Domus, The Süddeutsche Zeitung, Dissent Magazine, The Architectural Review, Designboom, ArchDaily, Art in America, and numerous books.
His films have been featured by festivals, museums, and broadcasters such as the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), MoMA NYC, The Venice Biennale of Architecture, The Pinakothek der Moderne München, The Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Arko Art Center Seoul, Schweizer Fernsehen (SRF), The Winterthur Kurzfilmtage, Al Jazeera, and Arte.
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Gran Horizonte, Around the Day in 80 Worlds
Compiled with material collected by U-TT Films over the course of three years, this documentary portrays the reality of urban informality around the world, structured in a dream-like dérive of a single day. Asking questions rather than presenting answers, “Gran Horizonte” aims to broaden the perspective of viewers about both the world they live within and the world they could help create.
Directed by: Daniel Schwartz and Martin Andersson
Concept by: Alfredo Brillembourg & Hubert Klumpner
Cinematography by: Daniel Schwartz and Markus Kneer
Edit by: Martin Andersson and Daniel Schwartz
Original Score by: Martin Andersson
Music by: Juana Molina
With the support of: ETH Zürich, The Georg und Bertha Schwyzer-Winiker Stiftung, Habitat Norway, The Coalmine Gallery
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The Barcelona Pavilion, the masterpiece with which Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich staged their revolutionary ideas in 1929, changed the History of architecture forever. It only existed for eight months but paradoxically its image was always alive in the minds of generations of architects around the world, becoming one of his greatest influences.
The Pavilion is still surrounded by myths and mysteries that this documentary addresses, framing the building into a portrait in two acts of the Barcelona that made possible its cons- truction in 1929 and its reconstruction in 1986. We immerse ourselves in a reflection on the transformative capacity of art, the emotional perception of space and the concept of master- piece.
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During the last nine years we have had the pleasure of filming the Barcelona Pavilion on nu- merous and varied occasions: video art, advertising spots or transformation interventions that artists like Ai Weiwei have made in this space. It is a scenario of endless perspectives, lights and reflections, a living building that changes at every hour of the day and at any season of the year. Each time you record it, the Pavilion surprises you with a new reflection or a new vi- sual composition, and you discover that fourth dimension that Mies created with the game of materials and perspectives. A universe where the composition of each frame easily becomes art within art because the Pavilion generates and multiplies beauty. This documentary is a ci- nematographic essay within this space of Miesian architecture, at once abstract and rational, finite and infinite.
For more info and trailers visit www.miesonscene.com
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 by drone
“Delivery drones are here right now, said designer Paul Priestman, chairman of PriestmanGoode, in the trailer. “You can go online and see them delivering objects. And I think the next step is going to be humans travelling by drones.”
He added: “Ten or fifteen years ago drones were immensely expensive, complex objects. Now you can buy them at a toy shop.”
“I think you could well see the development of aerial highways,” said architect Norman Foster, founder of Foster + Partners.
“There are a lot of implications of drones changing the way architecture is perceived and also in the future the way architecture is built,” said Hans-Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries.
“Parking for drones will be on the top of buildings. Recharging will be on the top of buildings,” said architect Mark Dytham, co-founder of Klein Dytham Architecture. “It’s going to be this cloud of wasps everywhere.”
“Drones are like an expanded consciousness; an extra eye that allows us to reach places that otherwise we would never reach,” said Marina Otero, director of research at Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Drones are “potentially as disruptive as the internet”
Speculative architect Liam Young said: “Now that drones are in the hands of every person in the street, they’re potentially as disruptive as the internet.”
The documentary features interviews with Norman Foster, Paul Priestman, Mark Dytham, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Liam Young, Anab Jain, Marina Otero Verzier, Ammar Mirjan, Clemens Weisshaar and Ed Reeve.
Before the documentary is screened in Prishtina the European Premier of the Movie will be launched during the Venice Biennale Vernissage at Casa Flora. For more info on the screening and other event Dezeen is organizing at the Biennale go to: https://www.dezeen.com/…/dezeen-casa-flora-venice-architec…/
Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, who also co-directed Elevation, is available for interview.
For press enquiries contact:
Pauline Zberro
pauline@dezeen.com
+44 (0)20 3327 1230
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 what you might call a seasonal town.
Since 1980, the population of Skagen has decreased by almost 50% and the city is currently home to around 8.000 inhabitants – a sharp contrast to the vast number of tourists that fill the streets during the summer. Since the EU’s eastern enlargement in 2004, many Eastern Europeans have come to Denmark to work. The outskirts of Denmark have experienced a particularly large influx. Out of the 8.000 inhabitants in Skagen, about 300 are Romanians, the majority of whom share apartments in Mosegården and have only minimally integrated into the community. They typically work in the factories, the hotels, restaurants and campsites.
Skagen has integrated foreign fishermen, alternative artists and other newcomers from near and far throughout its history. So how is the town meeting and incorporating these newcomers into the social structure of Skagen in 2018? The participants will investigate the spaces of social integration and work with documenting and/or staging in order to create short cinematic portraits of the architecture of these cultural intersections.
Join the Summer School in Skagen and explore the architectural spaces of social integration under the guidance of filmmakers and architects. The summer school is a collaboration between the Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx) and the Association Onsdagsskolen, headed by architect Susanne Eeg. During the week you will also meet renowned documentary filmmaker Lea Glob, scenographer Maja Ziska, filmmaker and photographer Sidsel Becker and sociologist Solveig Meier-Nielsen as well as local architects, cultural associations, businesses and citizens. Through the medium of film, they will all work with the participants to investigate and make portraits of the spaces of social integration in Skagen- be it in the fish factories, restaurant kitchens, local halls, shared apartments or maybe even imaginary.
Participants will work individually or in groups to sketch, build scale models, create small installations, photograph and finally film. The final films will be screened publicly to a wider audience in the Skagen cinema.
If you are a student, a professional in the fields of architecture, film, spatial design or visual anthropology or if you are simply interested in these fields and have basic experience working with film, sign up now for our summer school in August 2018.
The 2018 Summer School has been conceived by CAFx with support from Frederikshavn Municipality and DFI and realized in collaboration with the Association Onsdagsskolen.
The CAFx summer school is open to both students and professionals with a background in relevant fields or those who are interested in exploring new interdisciplinary environments. Applicants are expected to have basic experience working with film.
To apply, please submit a 1 page motivational letter and a short portfolio / showreel (via a file sharing link) to: summerschool@cafx.dk no later than June 11th 2018, which will form the basis for the selection of participants.
Please note that the number of participants is limited. Furthermore, we kindly ask you to bring your own technical equipment such as camera, computer (+ editing software) and further recording or editing devices, as we unfortunately cannot provide any of these technical tools.
Once the admission is approved, the selected participants will receive further information regarding payment of the participation fee.
For general inquiries and questions regarding the 2018 Summer School, please contact Susanne Eeg: susanneeeg@gmail.com
The participation fee is 4.000 kr. per person and includes tuition fees, accommodation and full board.
The summer course is going to take place in the cinema and workspaces at the Culture House Kappelborg in the centre of town. All participants will be accommodated in a former farm, Toftegården, which has recently been renovated into a modern hotel. We can only offer shared rooms (2-3 beds in each room). Communal meals will be prepared by the participants.
Please note that all participants traveling from abroad are responsible for securing any visa required.
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
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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 02 korrik deri me 01 tetor 2018.
Kandidatët potencial duhet të janë në dispozicion së paku 7 ditë nga data 29 qërshori deri me 9 korriku.
Gjithë të interesuarit duhetdërguar një CV të shkurtër së bashku me kontaktet e tyre deri me datën 15 qërshor në
media@prishtinaarchitectureweek.com
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