INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE DESIGN CONFERENCE

SECOND NATURE
Our shifting perception of nature is rapidly changing the way we interact in urban settings, signaling the emergence of a unique new ecology which sees human rituals being drastically restructured by man-made interventions and an onslaught of cultural products. This year’s theme, ‘Second Nature’, aims to look at how design is reestablishing its critical role as a mediator between the technological world and our natural environment. Within this hybridized space, authenticity is readily achievable by way of simulacra, disassembling any hardboiled ideas of what may be deemed artificial and what may be not. Architecture, meanwhile, emerges as a representative of this marriage between the space of real and the unreal, resulting in urban landscapes which thrive, not on mechanical repetition but a mechanical
organic, giving rise to a place beyond biomimicry, namely, a new or Second Nature.

MORE INFO HERE

迪化街公店URS127
台北市大同區103, 迪化街127號
No.127 Di-Hwua Street, postcode:103, Ta-Tung District, Taipei City
Tel: +886 2 2356 3600

JDS建築師事務所創辦人Julien De Smedt先生台北新書發表酒會及講座

Thursday, July 1, 2010 民國九十九年七月一日星期四
18:00 – Doors Open 開放入場
19:00 – Lecture by Julien De Smedt  先生演講
20:00 – Book Launch 新書發表酒會
Invited Professor: Aleppo Liu 特別邀請 劉育東教授 及
Honorary Guest: Tony Lu 捷年集團總裁呂台年先生

“Comment écrire, parler, montrer l’architecture d’aujourdhui ?”
“How to write, speak and show the architecture of today?”

June 24th, 2010
at 20:30H
Room:  Auditoire SG01 EPFL

Speakers:
Cyrille Poy, rédacteur en chef de L’Architecture d’Aujourd’hui
Julien de Smedt, architecte
Bas Smets, architecte paysagiste
(in french only)

PALESTRA INTERNACIONAL

ARQUITETO JULIEN DE SMEDT  – JDS ARCHITECTS

SEGUNDA DIA 14 DE JUNHO – 12:30

AUDITÓRIO BENEDITO NOVAES GARCEZ – PRÉDIO 9
@ Mackenzie, Sao Paulo

Data: 14 de junho de 2010
Horário: 18h00
Local: FAUUSP, sala 807
Rua do Lago, 876 – Cidade Universitária
Informações: Setor de Eventos FAU – 3091.1603 / 4801

(São Paulo, Brazil)

more info can be found here.

A bit last minute.. but here it is!

AGENDA book launch in Vilnius:

Saturday, 22nd of May, 2010 at 18.00 o‘clock

Place:
Domus Gallery
P. Luksio st. 32
Vilnius, LITHUANIA

The American Institute of Architects, New York Chapter, Archipress M and the Consulate General of Denmark in New York cordially invite you to the symposium:

“Facing the Crisis: Continuity and Change in Global Architecture”

May 5, 2010, 6-8 pm
Center for Architecture
536 LaGuardia Place
New York, NY 10012

Renowned practitioners from Copenhagen, Denmark, and New York discuss present and future trends.

Keynote speaker:
Kenneth Frampton, Architect, Critic, Historian and Professor at Columbia University

Panel includes:
Richard A. Cook, AlA, Cook + Fox Architects
Thomas Scheel, Vilhelm Lauritzen A/S
Julien De Smedt, JDS Architects
Jordan Gruzen, FAIA, Partner, Gruzen Samton LLP

Moderated by J.M. Cava, Architectural Critic

* Light refreshments will be served *

Please RSVP here.

The Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design invites you to the release party of their recently published book, Jour Fixe – zeitgenössische Positionen in Architektur, Design, Kunst (DOMpublishers, Berlin) which documents a series of 14 lectures from 2008-2009 by various thinkers  including Julien De Smedt.

Tuesday, 27 April:

INTRODUCTION TO BOOK 18.30
JOUR FIXIE LECTURE 19.00
BOOK RELEASE PARTY 21.00

Am Weißenjof 1, 70191 Stuttgart; Mehrzwecksaal, Neubau II

http://www.architektur.abk-stuttgart.de

Thursday April 1st 2010 / Admission : 5 Euro
The Sugar Club, Leeson Street, Dublin
Doors from 7pm / Presentations from 7.45pm
More information at

www.architecturefoundation.ie

www.alwaysreadthesmallprint.com

www.pecha-kucha.org

Julien De Smedt will speak at Pecha Kucha in Tokyo tomorrow night, doors open at 19h00,  see you there!

Here are the details:

March 31, 2010

20h20–midnight, doors open at 19h00

1000 Yen /1 drink

SuperDeluxe

B1F 3-1-25 Nishi Azabu, Minato-ku, Tokyo 106-0031

+81 (0)3-5412-0515

http://www.super-deluxe.com

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