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EXPOsesiones de Diseño Responsable
Lugar: Mall Galerías Santo Domingo, Managua
Fecha: 26 y 27 de Septiembre
Precio: Desde $ 20.00
Tema: Diseño Responsable

Al haber obtenido excelente resultado en elaboración del Primer exposesiones de arquitectura sostenible, nos hemos lanzando a la tarea de crear un segundo, teniendo como enfoque principal el diseño responsable. Dado que somos los principales contaminantes del ambiente, nuestro objetivo principal es promover el diseño responsable en Nicaragua y lograr identificar nuestras fallas y solucionarlas, o por lo menos dar propuestas de solución, donde la arquitectura aporte al medio ambiente y la respete cual es.

Mediante conferencias, proyectos, y la interacción de estudiantes, profesionales y conferencistas en fusión a ambientalistas y biólogos, promovemos de manera activa las prácticas de diseño y construcción más amigable con el medio que nos rodea.

ACTIVIDADES

II DIAS DE CONFERENCIA DE DISEÑO RESPONSABLE

Salón para 300 o más participantes, y se contará con la participación de: Arquitectos, Diseñadores, Ambientalistas y Biólogos Nacionales e Internacionales.

Conferencistas Internacionales

Conferencista: Arq. Rene Peralta.
País: Mexico
Exposición: ” Cartografias Fluviales: Urbanismo emergente en la frontera de Mexico y Estados Unidos”
Información: www.arquitectoslatinos.com/reneperalta

Conferencista: Arq. Jose R. Paredes
País: El Salvador
Conferencia: Principioas de diseños antiguos y nativos para adaptarnos mejor al medio ambiente
Información: www.arquitectoslatinos.com/joseparedes

Conferencista: Arq. Shaney Peña G.
País: República Dominicana
Conferencia: Pornografía Urbana. Santo Domingo y su Política del Diseño, lo obsceno que llega a ser la corrupción gubernamental a la hora de hacer ciudad
Información: www.arquitectoslatinos.com/shaneypena

Lugar: Galerías Santo Domingo (Donde fue Eclipse Sport)
Fecha y Hora: Sábado 26 de septiembre de 2 pm a 6 pm, y el domingo 27 de 10 am a 1 pm.

II DIAS DE FERIA DE CONSTRUCCION DE RESPONSABILIDAD SOCIOAMBIENTAL

Para empresas y organizaciones que ofrecen sus productos o servicios que contribuyan a la protección del medio ambiente, o estén relacionados a la temática de responsabilidad socio ambiental.

Lugar: Galerías Santo Domingo (Plaza Central)
Fecha y Hora: Sábado 26 y Domingo 27 todo el día y abierta al público en general.

CONCURSO DE DISEÑO RESPONSABLE

Arquitectos Latinos y Fondo Natura van a desarrollar los Términos de Referencias de un concurso para el diseño de infraestructuras de áreas protegidas.

a. Áreas Protegidas: Infraestructuras turísticas, centro rescate de fauna Silvestre, o estaciones biológicas.

b. Problemática Social: Asentamientos, parque urbanos o la vivienda responsable.

c. Innovación para el estudio y la conservación: Infraestructura Flotante, sumergida o sobre los arboles

ESPERA PRONTO MAS INFORMACION!!!

This presentation is about my interest in Fences. Fences that are inoffensive as the ones found in every home and fences that change the political relationships between countries.

I am also interested in fences that affect social structures. This was Friendship Park; a crucial meeting point for families that traveled miles, from the North and South, to meet each other and share a whole day together speaking across the fence.

I am also interested in the desires that intend to contest these fences. The fence as a stage for activism and performance.

I am interested in their porosity, when the fence is more than a line, when it becomes a space. Southbound in the US/Mex border part of my reality – everyday fences to come in and go out

In the city, I see the space of flows delimited by the fence

I am interested in their value as mechanism for security

I am also interested on how they contain memory and our personal past.

I am interested in them as space of contemplation and poetics. Luis Barragan’s screen in the Capuchinas convent in Mexico City.

I am interested in the potential they have to imagine new political and institutional spaces through architecture.

Architecture, through the screen and the fence, operates as cultural ornament at an urban scale.

All these readings became the inspiration for three projects I designed in the last 3 years. The first one at the MCASD we experimented with the idea of porosity and the spatial possibilities of the fence.

Laser cut plywood panels with ornamentation at different scales made the object attain levels and intensities of porosity and visual engagement.

At the Santa Monica Museum of Art we experimented with the fence and its possiblity in delimitng spaces, zones and thresholds.

At the Children’s Museum we experimented with folding the fence into a spatial structure.

In all three projects I was interested in taking the political aspect of the fence towards the phenomenological (into a poetics of light).

I was also interested in the experience from within. The effects of looking out from them.

And finally, I am interested in fences because I believe that their realities, truths, myths and even their beauty can inspire both our worlds to coexist.

Blog de los alumnos de Washington University – Tijuanologies.

Curso de diseño urbano que estoy impartiendo con John Hoal.

Entrega Final Julio 18, 2009

Blog of Washington Univeristy students – Studio I am teaching with John Hoal

Final Presentation July 18, 2009

A Literary Legend Fights for a Library

Ethan Pines for The New York Times

NYTimes Story

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El escritor Ray Bradbury a sus 90 años comenta sobre su carrera, como odia el internet, su preferencia de las bibliotecas por la universidades y ni más ni menos de Bo Derek!
Le doy toda la razón a Bradbury, si invirtiéramos en bibliotecas en vez de universidades patitos que aparecen por done quiera, tendríamos una sociedad más informada, creativa y libre. Se tiene que iniciar la idea de hacer un sistema de bibliotecas en vez de una sola centralizada, la época de la biblioteca como representación del conocimiento se acabo. El banco dejo de ser este espacio grandioso hace mucho tiempo, el cajero automático es su avatar…ocupamos el atm de los libros

I REALIZED THAT THERE IS SUCH A THING AS A STUPID QUESTION!

Esta semana me la pase en el DF, monstrou urbano. Aqui unas imagenes de las experiencias mas importantes…para mi!

CU y su traza urbana modernista
Convento de las Capuchinas de Luis Barragan
la iglesia de felix candela- no hay comparacion!

My late night insomniac generic thoughts

Notes on the future of the region

It is immediately apparent that this structure is composed of a formless heap of fragments colliding one against the other. The whole area between the Tiber, the Campidoglio, the Quirinale, and the Pincio is represented according to a method of arbitrary association (even though Piranesi accepts the suggestions of the Forma urbis), whose principles of organization exclude any organic unity.

Manfredo Tafuri, The Sphere and the Labyrinth – Avant-Gardes and Architecture from Piranesi to the 1970s (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1987), p. 34.

Tijuana began as a utopian ideal, its origin as a city rooted in concepts of modernism from the late 19^th century. Its past is modern – similar to NY, LA, Las Vegas or any other 20th century city. Downtown Tijuana is quasi modern and pseudo utopian. A city that simulated universal ideals that in the present remained obscure by the distopian path of postmodernism. Yet being modern (or pesudo modern) is not a fault, but an attribute that in the mist of globalization could generate a new “mood” for the city. As some say, maybe modernity is unfinished business. For Rem Koolhaas the generic is a consequence of the failure of modernism – junk space. Yet, a different kind of generic could appear –the search for an ethics in plurality and the ideal of architecture can become a premise for the construction of a correlative urban form. A Piranesian modernism is what Tijuana is all about.

Shaken But Not Stirred: Fifteen San Diego/Tijuana Architectural Designers

1. Shaken (with the news of not being invited) But Not Stirred (in anger or jealousy)

2. Shaken (in a small gallery as a team) But Not Stirred (to be homogeneous mix)

3. Shaken (as mismatch of philosophies) But Not Stirred (to be diluted critically)

4. Shaken (into shape) But Not Stirred (into form)

5. Shaken (in a specific context) But Not Stirred (producing unique results)

6. Shaken (into an indiscriminate encounter) But Not Stirred (into a pregnant association)

7. Shaken (into an expeditious assemblage) But Not Stirred (to shelve 26 years to do it again)

8. Shaken (into transformation) But Not Stirred (into revolution)

9. Shaken (by the informal) But Not Stirred (by surrogate romanticism)

10. Shaken (into responsive efficiency) But Not Stirred (into material fetishes)

architects/arquitectos

Emily FIerer , Miki Iwasaki, Megan Willis, Jose Parral+Tasi Paulson, Andrea Dietz, Hector Perez, Peter Perisic, Adriana Cuellar+Marcel Sanchez, Philipp Bosshart, Christopher Puzio, Cameron Crockett, generica+Rene Peralta+Monica Fragoso