What is Architecture? – Slice of Architecture lecture series continues with the talk that will try to answer this inextricable question. Presentation by architect and FAD tutor Harijs Alsiņš will take place on Thursday, Oct 24, 13.00 in the design studio, room 303.
SLICE of ARCHITECTURE lecture cycle this study year restarts with a lecture "Industrial areas in an urban environment. Ways of renovation. Liquidation or modernization of industrial areas? (architectural and town planning aspect)" by ELENA MALTCEVA (RU) from Tyumen State University of Architecture. Time and venue: Oct 17, 13.00, 3rd floor design studio at H2O 6 Architecture and Media centre, Durbes Street 4. Everybody is welcome.
Latvian architecture history is often a topic also in the studies of foreign researchers. Welcome to the upcoming SLICE OF ARCHITECTURE talk on Nov 29, 13.00 by Da Hyung Jeong, a PhD candidate from New York University – "National Question": Postmodern Tendencies in Late Soviet Architecture.
Da Hyung Jeong is a doctoral candidate in Art History at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts. He explores the possibility of imagining a Soviet architectural postmodernism, one that combines a critique of modernism and reflection on the status of non-Russian ethnicities. He has delivered talks at international conferences on such subjects as global postmodernism and Soviet-Japanese architectural exchange.
Everybody is welcome! The lecture will be held in English. Location: Street Durbes 4, 3rd-floor design studio, room 303.
This week at FAD three architects, writers and editors Ieva Zībārte, Jānis Lejnieks, and Jānis Dripe will speak about writing, publishing and curating for architecture.
Slice of Architecture open lecture will take place on Tuesday, Oct 23 at 13.30 and is organized as an input talk for the course "Organisational Management and Urban Design".
Everybody is welcome! The lecture will be held in English. Location: Street Durbes 4, 3rd-floor design studio, room 303.
Welcome to the upcoming lecture-discussion on Thursday, October 18, 12.30 at FAD where representatives from “Communa”, a non-profit organisation that facilitates transitory uses of empty buildings in and around Brussels, will talk about urban development projects.
“Communa” believes that revitalising empty spaces is a powerful way to reclaim the city, encompassing all aspects that make up an urban environment. Therefore, they host a broad range of projects that aim to rethink and reshape the city such as social and cultural projects, housing initiatives, co-working spaces, artists' studios/workshops, circular economy structures and commons experiments, to name a few. However, “Communa” does much more than simply matching spaces lacking projects with projects lacking spaces. Their main mission is to foster Brussels’ resilience by creating an ecosystem that will provide citizens with a real option for a tight-knit, resilient and inter-supportive lifestyle in Brussels.
The lecture will be held in English. Location: RISEBA Architecture and Media Centre H2O 6, Street Durbes 4, 3rd-floor design studio (room 303).