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

“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 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

Julien De Smedt is lecturing at the Escola da Cidade in São Paulo on Friday, March 5th at 18.30 – for more information call  (11) 3258-8108.

Julien De Smedt will be lecturing in Rio De Janeiro on Wednesday, the 3rd of March at the AUDITÓRIO RDC [RIO DATA CENTRO] starting at 19:00.

ADDRESS:  Rua Marquês de São Vicente, 225 – Gávea – Rio de Janeiro

MORE INFO: call [21] 3527-1828

JDS and The Department of Architecture and Design American University of Beirut cordially invites you to a public lecture.

Wednesday December 16, 2009
at 6:00pm
ALH
[Architecture Lecture Hall]
Dar Al-Handassah Building

Andrew Griffin and Ali Basbous to lecture tonight at Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies in Mumbai at 18.00.  Visit www.krvia.ac.in for more information.

On Wednesday, Andrew and Ali will be will be in Bombay lecturing at Sir JJ College of Architecture at 13.00, and later that day you can find them at the CityScape India Development Conference at stand 6G15.