Tag: Paolo Cascone

Decolonising Performative Architecture Seminar Series: “Earthen Towers” Stephanie Chaltiel , MuDD Architects, Tuesday, March 9, 2.30pm GMT | Online

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When: Tuesday, 9th of March at 2.30pm GMT

Blackboard link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/a1f67e76494344a3ba9b0a002be29c38

The seminar is organised by Paolo Cascone, Yota Adilenidou and Maddalena Laddaga in the frame of Architecture and Environmental Design DS3A “Decolonising Performative Architecture” seminar series.

Stephanie Chaltiel is a French architect and interior designer working with innovative techniques and natural materials offering unique designs for each project. She began her career in Mexico and French Guyana building by hand with local dwellers houses. After working for Bernard Tschumi in New York, OMA and Zaha Hadid she started her own practice. Her award winning projects marrying cutting edge technology and raw materials (ACADIA, MIT 2017, part of the ICON Design 100 talents 2019 and Dezeen Awards Winners Highly commended mention) has been presented and exhibited worldwide. She taught at SUTD Singapore, Westminster London, AA London, Ravensbourne London, and at the architectural school of Brighton and more recently at Elisava Barcelona. She was also during 4 years an EU Marie Curie scholarship recipient when she developed the drone spray technology for sustainable architecture and refurbishments. She’s a partner at www.muddarchitects.com .

Decolonising Performative Architecture Seminar Series: “Think Global, Act Local” Farzana Gandhi, New York Institute of Technology – School of Architecture and Design, Monday, March 8, 2pm GMT | Online

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When: Monday, 8th of March at 2pm GMT

Blackboard link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/0c1eb0958d304a78a4b51396245b91fd

The seminar is organised by Paolo Cascone, Yota Adilenidou and Maddalena Laddaga in the frame of Architecture and Environmental Design DS3A “Decolonising Performative Architecture” seminar series.

Farzana Gandhi is Registered Architect in New York and a LEED Accredited Professional. Her architecture and planning practice, Farzana Gandhi Design Studio, focuses on sustainable and socially conscious solutions, both locally and abroad. Recent work includes a primary school in Senegal, Africa; community visioning and streetscape design in East Harlem, NY; resiliency strategies and NYCHA campus connectivity in Inwood, NY; and replicable, modular infrastructure for Puerto Rico. Farzana is most interested in how widespread social impact can be achieved at the intersection of architecture and its environmental, cultural, and socioeconomic framework. Her deep commitment to community outreach is driven by deep inquiry, investigation, and integration. Early this year, Farzana also cofounded Collective Infrastructures, a multidisciplinary design lab confronting complex societal challenges with unique comprehensive response. To build a community based on social and environmental resiliency, the team creatively coordinates a rethinking of social, economic, cultural, environmental, educational, medical, and technological infrastructures in disaster hit and/ or disadvantaged neighbourhoods. Farzana frequently lectures about her work, which has been recognised globally through publications, exhibitions, awards and honours. Farzana is also tenured Associate Professor of Architecture at the New York Institute of Technology, where she teaches across the design studio and visualisation sequence and pursues multidisciplinary design research focused on social impact design. Farazana earned a Master in Architecture with Distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. At the University of Pennsylvania, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Bachelor of Arts in Architecture, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Spanish with Distinction. 

Principal, Farzana Gandhi Design Studio |  www.farzanagandhi.com Associate Professor of Architecture, New York Institute of Technology 

Decolonising Performative Architecture Seminar Series: “Six strategies for a more participatory architecture” Giancarlo Mazzanti, El Equipo Mazzanti, UCL, Thursday, February 25, 3pm GMT | Online

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When: Thursday, 25th of February at 3pm GMT

Blackboard link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/0c1eb0958d304a78a4b51396245b91fd

The seminar is organised by Paolo Cascone, Yota Adilenidou and Maddalena Laddaga in the frame of Architecture and Environmental Design DS3A “Decolonising Performative Architecture” seminar series.

Giancarlo Mazzanti is the founder of El Equipo Mazzanti, social values are at the center of Mazzanti’s architecture. He seeks to realize projects that give value to social transformations and build communities, and has dedicated his professional life to improve quality of life through the design of the environment and the idea of social equality. His work has become a reflection of the current social changes occurring in Latin America and Colombia, showing that good architecture manages to build new identities for cities, towns, and inhabitants, and transcend reputations of crime and poverty.  

Amongst some of his most relevant projects are the International Convention Center, Biblioteca España, and the South American Games Coliseums, all in Medellín, Colombia. Works in other areas of Colombia include the Tercer Milenio Park, El Porvenir Kindergarten in Bogota, Timayu Kindergarten in Santa Marta, Pies Descalzos School in Cartagena, and Marinilla Educational Park. Mazzanti graduated from Javeriana University in Colombia, with postgraduate studies in industrial design and architecture in Florence, Italy. He has experience as a visiting professor in Colombian universities, as well as in world-renowned universities such as Harvard University, Columbia University, and Princeton University. He is also the first Colombian architect to have his works in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and in the Centre Pompidou in Paris. 

Decolonising Performative Architecture Seminar Series: “Architecture for Automation” Mollie Claypool from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, Tuesday, February 23, 2pm GMT | Online

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When: Tuesday, 23rd of February at 2pm GMT

Blackboard link: https://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/a1f67e76494344a3ba9b0a002be29c38

The seminar is organised by Paolo Cascone, Yota Adilenidou and Maddalena Laddaga in the frame of Architecture and Environmental Design DS3A “Decolonising Performative Architecture” seminar series.

Mollie Claypool is an architecture theorist working on issues of social justice including the future of housing, labour and work. She is concerned with the social and economic implications of new technologies and automation on architectural production and disciplinary practices. She is Director of Automated Architecture Ltd (AUAR), a design and technology consultancy and Co-Director of AUAR Labs at The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL where she has been a Lecturer since 2015. Mollie is co-author of Robotic Building: Architecture in the Age of Automation (Detail Edition 2019) and author of the SPACE10 report “The Digital in Architecture: Then, Now and in the Future” (2019). 

Joint online lecture by Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows and Paolo Cascone, Tuesday, February 16 from 3.30pm GMT

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When: Tuesday, 16th of February at 3.30pm GMT

Blackboard link: http://eu.bbcollab.com/guest/a1f67e76494344a3ba9b0a002be29c38

The lecture is organised by Paolo Cascone, Yota Adilenidou and Maddalena Laddaga in the frame of Architecture and Environmental Design DS3A “Decolonising Performative Architecture” seminar series.

Tumpa Husna Yasmin Fellows is a Senior Lecturer and a Course Leader for BSc Architectural Technology (Year 2) at the School of Architecture and Cities, University of Westminster. She’s an award winning British architect who co-founded the inter-disciplinary practice Our Building Design (in 2018), the charity Mannan Foundation Trust  (in 2012), and the two organisations that promote and support architects from the ethnic minority in the UK: FAME Collective and Asian Architects Association. She is a senior lecturer at the University of Westminster where her teaching draws on her research methodologies on interdisciplinary approach to design. Her practice-based research focuses on community participatory methods and architectural responses to the changing climate, landscape and social practices in the UK and Bangladesh. Tumpa was awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Rising Star Award in 2017 and she has received a commendation for the RIBA President’s Award for Research in 2019. For her architectural work, she received the SEED/Pacific Rim Community Design Network Award 2018 and Architecture Sans Frontieres Award 2017 (commendation). In June 2019, Tumpa was appointed to be on the Design Review Panel for the Southwark Council Planning Department in an advisory role.

Paolo Cascone was born in Italy and grew up between West Indies and East Africa. He started his research between urban ecologies, digital fabrication and self-construction during his Master’s at the AA-School in London, and continued it while accomplishing a PhD in Environmental Engineering at the University of Rome. Paolo has started to teach ecological design at ENSAP – Malaquais and ESA schools of architecture  in Paris where he founded CODESIGNLAB. His work has been exhibited widely and published in international design magazines. Paolo is a scientific director of the African Fabbers School and a Senior Lecturer in Environmental and Architectural Design at the University of Westminster.

Friday Technical Surgeries

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Each year, the final year MArch and Year 3 BA students are invited to attend the Friday Technical Surgeries, to help them develop the technical side of their design projects. 

The tutorials are organised by Dr Will McLean, and the University of Westminster (UoW) Technical staff is joined by the visiting structural engineers, environmental consultants and practising architects who act as consultants for the students. 

In attendance last Friday were:

  • Scott Batty (UoW)
  • Will McLean (UoW)
  • Andrew Whiting (HUT) (UoW)
  • Chris Leung (UCL) (UoW)
  • Paolo Cascone (UoW)
  • Alison McLellan (UoW)

Plus:

Paolo Cascone: About Urban Fabrication Laboratories – AA Lecture Series “What’s Next?”, 23rd October, 18:30

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The lecture will tell the story of COdesignLab, from its theoretical background to its experimental practice, oscillating between COllaborative design, COmputational thinking and self-COnstruction. After a decade of engagement in both professional and academic practices around the world, Paolo Cascone started to investigate how to redefine the role of urban designers and independent researchers in order to bridge technological and social innovation. These investigations have generated a series of urban fabrication laboratories between Africa and his hometown of Naples in Italy. 

Where: Architectural Association, Lecture Hall

When: Monday, October 23rd, 18:30

More info: http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/VIDEO/lecture.php?ID=3726