Open Call: 2021 CIDDI Conference Series on the Future City
This conference explores technological trends in the development of future cities. What are cutting-edge methods and technologies in city planning and urban design that will shape the design of our future urban environments? How will the application of AI, IoT, automation, smart and green technologies shape how we live, work and operate in future cities? We aim to explore emerging trends and discuss new applications engaging citizens in the planning process. In particular, we are interested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) its technologies, implementations, and impacts on urban planning and design.
The themes are:
1. AI History/Theory in Urban Design and Planning 2. AI Tools/Methods/Techniques 3. Using AI in city analysis 4. Using AI in city performance 5. Using AI in generating new city layouts/forms 6. Using AI in the experience/perception of cities
Call For Abstracts
CIDDI 2021 Conference Series on the Future City aims to bring together professionals, academicians, and the general public to share new trends and shape innovations in the development of future cities.
Select paper submissions will have the opportunity to be included in the book [Elsevier, 2022: Artificial Intelligence in Urban Planning and Design: Technologies, Implementation, and Impacts].
Abstract Submission Deadline: 25 April 2021 Notification of Acceptance: 02 May 2021
Kéré received his architectural degree from the Technische Universität in Berlin in 2004, having originally been trained as a carpenter both in his native country of Burkina Faso and in Germany. While still an architecture student he set up the association Schulbausteine für Gando e.V, later named Kéré Foundation e.V., which loosely translates to “School Building Blocks for Gando” to fund the construction of a primary school for his hometown.
He went on to complete his studies and build the Gando Primary School as his diploma project in 2004, the same year he also founded his own architectural firm Kéré Architecture. His first-ever building was awarded the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture, recognized not only for its innovative construction techniques and expressive care in craftsmanship, but also for being built cooperatively by the Gando community.
Over the course of nearly two decades, Kéré has gone on to become one of the world’s most distinguished contemporary architects, celebrated for his pioneering communal approach to design and his commitment to sustainable materials, as well as modes of construction. Inspired by a curiosity for the particularities of any given locality and its social tapestry, he and his diverse team at Kéré Architecture have completed renowned projects across four continents. Most prominently these include his design for the Burkina Faso National Assembly in Ouagadougou; the Léo Surgical Clinic & Health Centre (2014) in Léo, Burkina Faso; IT University in Burkina Faso; the Lycée Schorge Secondary School (2016) in Koudougou, Burkina Faso; the Serpentine Pavilion (2017) in London; and Xylem (2019), a gathering pavilion for the Tippet Rise Art Center in Fishtail, Montana.
For its remarkable success in combining socially engaged and ecologically resilient design Kéré Architecture is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture (2009), the Marcus Prize (2011), the Global LafargeHolcim Gold (2012), the Schelling Architecture Foundation Award (2014) among others. In 2017, Kéré received two prominent honors, the Prince Claus Laureate Award and the Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, for which he was praised for being “an alchemist working with local materials and technology to design buildings of meaning and beauty.”
The medal is typically presented in observance of Jefferson’s birthday, April 13, during celebrations including a formal dinner at Monticello, a medal presentation at UVA and public talks by the medalists. However, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the Architecture medal will be given during a virtual event. In In recognition of this distinguished honor, the UVA School of Architecture will host this virtual public talkby Kéré on Monday, April 12 at 5 p.m. (EDT), hosted on Zoom.
The boundary-pushing architectural practice championed by Kéré has attracted the attention of exhibition makers and curators, allowing him to oscillate between the realms of architecture and art. Commissions have included the Serpentine Pavilion (2017) – as the first architect of African descent to receive it; a visitors pavilion for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival (2018); showcases at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2016 & 2018); and various solo exhibitions, including at the Museo ICO in Madrid (2018), the Architekturmuseum in Munich and the Philadelphia Museum of Art (both in 2016). His work has been selected for group exhibitions such as: “AFRICA: Architecture, Culture and Identity,” at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (2015); “Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement,” at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010); and “Sensing Spaces,” at the Royal Academy, London (2014).
A current project, the Benin National Assembly in Porto-Novo, is designed to embody the identity of the people it serves. Kéré said, “This project gives shape to our ideas about community gathering, the importance of indigenous forms of governance and what contemporary African architecture can be on a national scale.” The government building includes an adjacent park that can be used by city residents as a central recreation space, creating a sense of openness and transparency, while expressing the democratic values of the people of Benin.
This project evokes the values inherent in the inspirational work of Kéré and his expertise in tackling complexity with understated elegance across scales and contexts. As School of Architecture Dean Ila Berman said, “Beginning with Francis Kéré’s original work in Gando and throughout his acclaimed career, he has not only taught the world that architecture and education are for everyone, but also has exemplified how architecture can build capacity in communities, foster environmental and cultural resilience, and inspire creativity while immeasurably serving the public good.”
On the anniversary of Thomas Jefferson’s birthday, April 13 (known locally as Founder’s Day), the University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticellojoin together to present the Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medalsto recognize achievements of those who embrace endeavors in which Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence and third U.S. president, excelled and held in high regard. These medals are the highest external honors bestowed by the University of Virginia, which grants no honorary degrees.
We are happy to invite you to the inaugural Robert H. Winters lecture series Resistance as Practice: Acts of Anti-Racism through Architecture and Planning! The event is hosted by the Dalhousie University Faculty of Architecture and Planning’s Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee, in partnership with the SHIFT: Connect conference. Our final event will be on Wednesday, March 31st at 7pm AST, and will be a panel featuring Dalhousie professorsJennifer Llewelyn(Schulich School of Law),Frank Palermo(School of Planning) andIngrid Waldron(School of Nursing). In this event, our panelists will discuss the structures of institutional racism that they face, and the ways they aim to challenge these systems through their work in areas including restorative justice, community engagement and environmental justice. Please see the attached announcement for more details on the panelists and the event, and register through Eventbrite here.
We have organized this series at a critical moment for architects, planners and other disciplines grappling with difficult histories and professional cultures. This means questioning how designed spaces are embedded with power structures that stratify our society, and how practitioners are implicated in this. Just as importantly, we must acknowledge that this is not a new conversation or area of analysis: racialized communities have developed their own planning and design practices in cities when they have not been heard by the faces of power. This lecture series builds on the ongoing powerful response to racialized violence by presenting the work of practitioners, academics and activists who have pursued these acts of anti-racism as a central focus of their work.
We hope that you’ll join us for this final event of the series!
On Tuesday, April 13 at 6:30 pm, the ACSA held its Annual Business Meeting via Zoom. Faculty at all ACSA member schools were invited to join us. The meeting is an opportunity for the board of directors to update the membership on ACSA’s activities and to hold some structured conversations on change happening in architectural education.
Business Meeting Agenda
1. Call to Order
2. Introduction of ACSA Board of Directors and Newly Elected Members
3. New Member School Registration
4. Breakout Sessions Moderated by ACSA Directors
a. President’s Report b. Vice President’s Report c. Treasurer’s Report
5. Confirm Member School Registration, First Notice for New Business
6. Breakout Sessions Moderated by ACSA Directors
7. New Business
Questions? Need to confirm or change your Faculty Councilor (full member schools only)? Please contact the ACSA office at info@acsa-arch.org.
Carpenter will lecture on “Light in the Public Realm.” This lecture will focus on a 40-year trajectory of work that brings agency to the presence of light, allowing it to reveal the properties and presence of nature within our built environment.
James Carpenter has worked at the intersection of art, engineering and the built environment for 50 years, advancing a distinctive vision based on the use of natural light and glass as the foundational elements of the built environment. Carpenter founded the cross-disciplinary design firm James Carpenter Design Associates in 1979 to support the application of these aesthetic principles to large-scale building projects.
Carpenter has been recognized with numerous national and international awards, including an American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Architecture in 2008 and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. He holds a degree from the Rhode Island School of Design and was a Loeb Fellow of Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.
The lecture will be livestreamed. The link will be live on March 29.
For disability-related accommodations for the College of Architecture and Design’s virtual events, please contact the college’s event coordinator, Jennifer Flatford, at jflatford@utk.edu or 865-974-6714, at least two weeks in advance of the event.
In 2021, AGC Glass North America partnered with the UT College of Architecture and Design to fund lectures by renowned design professionals whose work emphasizes the use of glass. The AGC Glass Lectures are part of the college’s lecture series to supplement the education of students and elevate the profession in the community. Read more information about the college’s full lecture series.
As architects and urban professionals engaged in the stewardship of the built environment, we are challenged to reconsider the future of architecture, cities, and the pedagogies with which we endeavor to understand the spatial dimensions of humanity’s wellbeing. Are our building sciences adequate to address the calamities of future pandemics, economic inequity, and other social pathologies? Emboldened by an unflinching belief in technological prowess, have we forgotten the time-tested passive methods of keeping buildings healthy and economical? Are we developing our cities turning a blind eye to the systemic racial and gender injustices that plague our cities? Have we undermined the power of empathy in user-conscious space-making?
The Spring Panel Series 2021 at the Catholic University of America Architecture plans to develop a critical conversation on post-pandemic thinking on spatiality (Feb. 22), urbanity (Mar. 15), and pedagogy (APR. 12). Adnan Morshed, professor at the School of Architecture and Planning, CUA, will moderate the panels that include academics, architects, urban planners.
Architecture professor’s firm named Emerging Voices competition winner
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Low Design Office (LOWDO), an architecture and integrated design firm co-founded by DK Osseo-Asare, assistant professor of architecture and engineering design at Penn State, has been named a winner of the Architectural League of New York’s Emerging Voices 21 competition.
Established in 1982, the Emerging Voices award spotlights individuals and firms based in the United States, Canada and Mexico with distinct design voices and the potential to influence the disciplines of architecture, landscape design and urbanism.
Based in Austin, Texas, and Tema, Ghana, LOWDO explores the links between sustainability, technology and geopolitics. The firm’s projects search to find optimal balance between design and resource consumption — to achieve the “most” with the “least.”
LOWDO has earned numerous international accolades in recent years and was named one of the 50 best emerging architecture practices in the world Domus magazine in 2020. The firm was featured in Architect magazine’s “Next Progressives” list in 2019, was a finalist for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program that same year and was recognized as an emerging architecture firm in the December 2017/January 2018 issues of Architectural Review.
Osseo-Asare and Ryan Bollom, LOWDO co-founders and principals, started the practice in 2006 while they were students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The firm was created around the idea that transformative innovation in creative fields “most often originates when the creator must overcome limited means and resources to provide meaning in their work.”
LOWDO will be featured in the Emerging Voices lecture series at 6 p.m. on March 18. More information about the event, which is free and open to the public but requires advanced registration, can be found on the Architecture League’s website.
Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled And/Or. “Geographies of Absence and Loss” will featureMaram Masarwiand Ahlam Shibli, hosted by Sean Anderson, for a discussion of art and architecture.
Free and open to the public – Please register for this Zoom event here.
In this online series, curators Viren Brahmbhatt, Ali C. Höcek, and Martin Stigsgaard argue that the traditional format of a single lecturer speaking to an audience sets up a binary opposite all of its own — speaker/listener, which simply reinforces the power structure between those who “possess” knowledge and those who “consume” it. In its place, the &/Or Online Dialogues will present two speakers in conversation with each other, moderated by a third. The series features prominent artists, activists, and architects from across the globe who will discuss their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they confront.
Maram Masarwi is currently a lecturer and researcher at Tel Aviv University and the head of the Education Department at Al Qasemi College of Education. Masarwi holds a PhD from the Department of Social Work at Hebrew University. Her dissertation addressed “gender differences in bereavement and trauma among Palestinian parents who lost their children in the Al-Aqsa Intifada.” Masarwi was a postdoctoral Fellow at the Europe in the Middle East-The Middle East in Europe (EUME), Forum of Transregional Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Her areas of research have included Palestinian archives, memory and commemoration in Palestinian society, loss and bereavement in Palestinian society, and gender and nationalism in the Middle East. Among her resent publications are The Bereavement of Martyred Palestinian Children: Gendered, Religious and National Perspectives (2019) and “Dialectic of the National Identities in Palestinian Society and Israeli Society: Nationalism and Binationalism,” in The Arab and Jewish Questions, Geographies of Engagement in Palestine and Beyond (2020).
Ahlam Shibli was born in 1970, in Palestine. Through a documentary aesthetic, her photographic work addresses the contradictory implications of the notion of home; it deals with its loss of and the fight against that loss, as well as with the restrictions and limitations that the idea of home imposes on individuals and communities marked by repressive identity politics.
Shibli’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions internationally. Her work includes the photographic series Staring (2016–2017), photographed in both al-Khalil/Hebron (Palestine) and Kassel (Germany). Her series Heimat (2016–2017) refers to expellees and refugees of German descent and the so-called guest workers, or Gastarbeiter, from the Mediterranean region, both of whom migrated to Kassel and the surrounding area as a result of the Second World War. Occupation (2016–2017), another series of photographs, is based on the destruction of Palestinian livelihoods in al-Khalil/Hebron and the occupied territories by the Israeli colonial regime and the actions of Zionist settlers. Ramallah Archive (2014) points to ways of reorganizing collective and individual existence encountered in files and photographic negatives found in the Ramallah Municipality Archive. Death (2011–2012) shows the efforts of Palestinian society to preserve the presence of those who have lost their lives fighting against the Israeli occupation. Eastern LGBT (2004/2006) illustrates the bodies of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from Oriental societies as a contested primary home. These and other of Shibli’s works have been extensively exhibited and published, including the monographs, Ahlam Shibli (2020) and Ahlam Shibli: Phantom Home (2013).
Sean Anderson is Associate Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art. A Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, he has practiced as an architect and taught in Afghanistan, Australia, India, Italy, Morocco, Sri Lanka and the U.A.E. His second book, In-Visible Colonies: Modern Architecture and its Representation in Colonial Eritrea (2015), was nominated for an AIFC Book Prize in Non-Fiction. In 2020, he co-curated the exhibition On Muzharul Islam: Surfacing Intention at the Dhaka Art Summit. At MoMA, he has organized the exhibitions Insecurities: Tracing Displacement and Shelter (2016-17), Thinking Machines: Art and Design in the Computer Age, 1959-89 (2017-2018), as well as collaborative collection displays including Surrounds (2019), Inner and Outer Space (2019-2020),and Building Citizens (Present). Sean manages the Young Architects Program (YAP) and the Issues in Contemporary Architecture series. His next exhibition, co-organized with Mabel O. Wilson, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America, opens on February 20, 2021.
Please join us for the new SCIAME Lecture Series, titled And/Or. “Architecture and Geographies of Difference” will feature Balkrishna Doshi and Barry Bergdoll for a discussion of art and architecture.
Free and open to the public – Please register for this Zoom event here.
In this online series, curators Viren Brahmbhatt,Ali C. Höcek, andMartin Stigsgaard argue that the traditional format of a single lecturer speaking to an audience sets up a binary opposite all of its own — speaker/listener, which simply reinforces the power structure between those who “possess” knowledge and those who “consume” it. In its place, the &/Or Online Dialogues will present two speakers in conversation with each other, moderated by a third. The series features prominent artists, activists, and architects from across the globe who will discuss their work and the unique political and environmental challenges they confront.
Balkrishna Doshi (B.V. Doshi), the first from India to be awarded the prestigious Pritzker Prize (2018), is one of the pioneers of modernist architecture in India. In a career spanning about seven decades, Doshi completed more than 100 projects, many of which were public institutions based in India: schools, libraries, art centers, and low-cost housing. His understated buildings adapted the principles he learned from working with Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn to the needs of people while considering India’s traditions, lifestyles, and environment. Doshi is an important figure in Indian architecture and noted for his contribution to the evolution of architectural discourse in India.
His more noteworthy designs include the IIM Bangalore, IIM Udaipur, NIFT Delhi, Amdavad ni Gufa, CEPT University, and the Aranya Low-Cost Housing development in Indore which was awarded the Aga Khan Award for Architecture. He has also been awarded the Padma Shri and the Padma Bhushan — two of the four highest civilian awards conferred by the Government of India.
Barry Bergdoll is the Meyer Schapiro Professor of Art History at Columbia University and the former Chief Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2007-2014). A specialist in the history of modern architecture, he has curated exhibitions at MoMA, the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Musée d’Orsay, and other venues, including Mies in Berlin (2001), Bauhaus 1919–1933: Workshops for Modernity (2009-2010), Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront (2010), Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980 (2015) and Frank Lloyd Wright at 150: Unpacking the Archive (2017). In addition to the catalogues for those exhibitions he is the author of numerous books and articles including most recently of Marcel Breuer: Building Global Institutions (2017; with Jonathan Massey), European Architecture 1750-1890 (2000), and Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia (1994).
A former President of the Society of Architectural Historians, Bergdoll is the President of the Board of the Center for Architecture, New York.
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