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Mikmak Lecture by Bob Allies

Simon Tiemersma — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:21:58 +0100

Start: 25 Nov 2009 - 17:00

End: 25 Nov 2009 - 19:45

Wednesday november 25

The lecture was a success, with room A completely filled and an interesting lecture by Bob Allies we heard a lot of positive reactions. You can watch the entire lecture on collegerama: http://collegerama.tudelft.nl/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=06f23be908074511888...

Working in partnership with other practices including EDAW, KCAP and Porphyrios Associates, London Architects Allies and Morrison are responsible for the masterplanning of three of the city's most significant urban projects: King's Cross Central, Bent Cross Cricklewood and the Olympic Legacy. Key to each of these proposals is the reconnection of the new development with the surrounding city. In each case this involves overcoming significant pieces of urban infrastructure - roads, railways, canals - which, until now, have acted as barriers effectively isolating these areas from their immediate hinterland.

In their architecture Allies and Morrison have always acknowledged the importance of the continuum of the city. In his lecture Bob Allies will describe how this has also informed their approach to urban design.

At the heart of this approach is an appreciation of the value of the pre-existing, of topographies and typologies that are specific to the site and of the role they can play in the evolution of the design. At the same time there is a recognition that a masterplan is not just a static proposition - a sort of two-dimensional graphic with a single signature - but is a more subtle framing of possibilities that while inviting immediate implementation, also has the capacity to accomodate future change. "Every city," said Aldo Rossi, "has a before and an after."

All cities - all existing cities - have a history, a pattern, an underlying order, a way in which they are read, and a way in which they are understood. If the architect and urban designer are to contribute to their evolution they have to engage with these particularities and not stand apart. If the momentum of a city is to be increased, it is as likely to be through its cultivation as it is through its reinvention.

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Mikmak lecture by Alan Berger

Roderick — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:43:49 +0200

Start: 15 Oct 2008 - 17:00

End: 15 Oct 2008 - 19:15

Systemic Design implies that there are larger scale forces in the built and natural environment that, if properly understood, will lead to more intelligent project scenarios as opposed to superficial cosmetics. Systemic Design merges the existing stresses on a landscape with multi-layered, time-base strategies that work to reclaim value and increase sustainability in the built environment.
Systemic Design seeks to interact with the environmental, economical, and programmatic stresses across regional territories.
Rapidly expanding technological and design mining tools enable new readings will produce the next generation of strategic solutions to address the most pressing environmental and social challanges of our time. This lecture will explore the topic of 'Systemic Design' through Berger's design lab P-REX/Project For Reclaimation of Exellence (theprex.net) and scholarly research.

Programme 15.10.08
Faculty of Architecture
Julianalaan 132-134

17.00 Welcome
17.30 Lecture by Alan Berger
18.30 Respondent Dirk Sijmons
19.15 Drinks

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Designers of the Future

Roderick — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:20:06 +0200

The Wouter Mikmak Foundation was established in honour of the architect Wouter Mikmak born in Amsterdam in 1891. Mikmak studied Architecture in Delft and became a practicing architect in the Netherlands. He realised his greatest work in the fields of housing an public building between 1917 and 1932. Following his death in 1976, Mikmak's widow uttered the wish to develop an initiative for young architects to honour her late husband. The Mikmak family approached the Faculty of Architecture at TU Delft and the DBSG Stylos Society. In September 2005, this collaboration resulted in the formation of the Wouter Mikmak foundation. The main goal of the foundation is to actively contribute to the architectural debate and knowledge in the Netherlands. In order to do so, the Mikmak Foundation organizes a yearl lecture by an international architect, urban designer or theorist, that deals with future challanges.

Subsequently these lectures are published as books. It is the intention of the Mikmak Foundation to make in this way a substantial contribution to the education of young architects, as wel as to the development of the architectural practice in the Netherlands.

www.designersofthefuture.nl

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Publication Wouter Mikmak

Roderick — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 16:51:57 +0100

The first publication of Designers of the Future is available!
"Wouter Mikmak (1891-1976), Architect"

Every year in october the Wouter Mikmak Foundation organizes a lecture on the faculty of architecture. This series of lectures goes by the title 'Designers of the Future'. Each of these lectures in published as a book. This is the first book in a series of publications from the yearly lectures.

To order this publication, > please click here

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