Towards a job or internship in China, Brazil or India!

Whether you consider working abroad as a great experience, a welcome challenge, a boost for your employability, or as the biggest opportunity to find a challenging (non-) architectural job, applying for a job or internship outside of the Netherlands can be daunting. In this workshop the TU Delft Career Centre helps you to prepare for a career in China, Brazil or India. We will go over some important do’s and don’ts in the application and business processes in these countries so that you can launch your international career successfully!

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The environmental imagination: technics and poetics of the architectural environment.

It is the title of the latest published book by Professor Dean Hawkes, Emeritus Professor of Architectural Design at Cardiff University and Emeritus Fellow of Darwin College at Cambridge University, who in 2010 received the biennial RIBA Annie Spink Award for Excellence in Architectural Education. Hawkes is coming to Delft, so let's take a closer look at that title. What does it actually mean? The environment, argues Juhani Pallasmaa, is perceived through our senses. All of them, they work together. Consider for instance a taste of honey. Merleau-Ponty, great phenomenological philosopher, taught us that it is sticky and sweet at the same time. The perception of built environment, according to Pallasmaa, has become considerably dominated by sight since the Enlightenment. But we have more senses, and we use them too. Sounds, smells, tastes, which together with sight all stem from the most important of them all: feeling. So why not design for them too? The imagination is directly linked to that other strange term: poetics. What are poetics in architecture? For poetics to form, one must be receptive to the environment at the moment it appears. The very ecstasy of the newness of the environment is what counts. Bachelard writes: ''the poetic image is not subject to an inner past, it is not an echo of the past. On the contrary: through the brilliance of an image, the distant past resounds with echoes, and it is hard to know at what depth these echoes will reverberate and die away.’’ Are we capable of this, the multiple-sensory ecstasy? Yes says Peter Zumthor, an architect Hawkes considers in all of the last four essays of his book: ''Something inside us tells us an enormous amount straight away. We are capable of immediate appreciation, of a spontaneous response, of rejecting things in a flash.''
So what do architects do with this information? Have not the (especially mechanical) technics through modernity become the factor that often robs us of our local, perceivable, environment?
Is it not peace with our environment, in temperature, sounds, smells etc. that we want, instead of alienation in an overly controlled technical one? Served and Servant.

With his latest book Hawkes writes, in general continuation of his other research, what in fact is an entire alternative history to (pre-)modern architecture. For who had ever considered the technics that shape the architectural environment to be capable of producing a poetic experience? If you haven't, just as we had not, join us February 13th 16:00 during the public lecture in the Oostserre, BK-city during our week on Social Engineering and apply at Stylos for Hawkes’ Masterclass on February 14th.

Scarpa once exclaimed: ‘’I wish that I could frame the blue of the sky’’

Yes, he would then -technically- be letting in a quantity of light. But would it not be just so much more?

Maarten Willems (TU/e) will be giving a lecture that focuses on the awereness of the multiple senses on February 8th 16:00 in the Berlagezaal 1, BK-city.