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Places: Design Observer. Horizonte “Angst” - Call for Papers. In regard to the German word for “fear” in terms of etymology, a surprising conjunction is to be found: “Angst”, deriving from the Latin word “angustiae” also translates as “narrowness”, which not only refers to a spatial relation in general but also implicates confinement and hence, containment quite literally.

Horizonte “Angst” - Call for Papers

Even the Old Testament already states that there had not yet been architecture in paradise and Cain had not built the first city for the fear of vengeance until the murder of his brother Abel. MAGAZINE / LAST UPDATE: 30.07.2012. Bart Lootsma: Carmelo Baglivo's Pirated Drawings Together with Stefania Manna and Luca Galofaro, Carmelo Baglivo is one of the founding members of the internatinonally renowned Roman practice IaN+.

MAGAZINE / LAST UPDATE: 30.07.2012

Lately, he started posting collages and montages of contemporary architectural capriccio's on Facebook, thereby discovering new opportunities to provoke an architectural discourse. A selection of these Disegni Corsari (pirated drawings) is exhibited in the Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome from November 12 to 22.

Bart Lootsma, who has been following Carmelo Baglivo from the beginning, on the Internet replacing the street as the source of cultural renewal, the eternal city of Rome and the importance of planning the impossible. Collected Resources : Climate change - adaptation and cities. Most Cited Cities Articles. The most cited articles published since 2009, extracted from Scopus.

Most Cited Cities Articles

Ecosystem services and valuation of urban forests in China Volume 26, Issue 4, August 2009, Pages 187-194Jim, C.Y. | Chen, W.Y. Urban forests are integral components of urban ecosystems, which could generate significant ecosystem services, such as offsetting carbon emission, removing air pollutants, regulating the microclimate, and recreation. These ecosystem services contribute to improving environmental quality, quality of life, and sustainable urban development. Despite a long history of inserting vegetation in human settlements in China, modern scientific study of this natural-cum-cultural resource did not start until the 1990s.

Development and Change. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. Urban Morphology online - 2001 Volume 5.2. SCIBE. 2009 Occuper, organiser et ordonner l'espace urbain. Cities. Table of Contents — June 2012, 49 (8) Footprint. Submit Projects « World Landscape Architecture. World Landscape Architecture are looking for great conceptual and built projects from design studios, firms, freelancers, students from across the world that were designed or realised in recently.

Submit Projects « World Landscape Architecture

Projects can be landscape, urban design, lighting, art installation (a landscape architect/ landscape designer must have been involved with the project). We encourage all firms to submit projects of any scale, nothing is too small or too big and showcases the diversity of work of the landscape profession. How to submit your project? 1. Select your 5 to 10 best images with a minimum 800 pixels wide at 150dpi in jpg format. 2.

CURRENT DEADLINE | December 31st 11:59PM Honolulu Time By sending or sharing files with World Landscape Architecture you confirm you own the copyright to the project, images and text and give World Landscape Architecture the right to publish the work digitally and/or in hard copy format. 1. 2. 4. Concursos de arquitetura e urbanismo. Concurso OPPTA 2011. El Concurso OPPTA 2011-2012 es una convocatoria internacional, lanzada de forma simultánea en 5 emplazamientos y bajo una temática común, para proponer soluciones a nivel técnico, territorial, infraestructural o arquitectónico.

concurso OPPTA 2011

En esta primera edición, el tema tratado es Intervenciones para la Emergencia, situando el escenario de la convocatoria en el continente Americano, afectado por sucesivas catástrofes, fenómenos naturales o antrópicos, acontecidos en los últimos dos años y aún pendientes de resolución. Emplazamientos a concurso y estrategias: Petrópolis. Estado de Río de Janeiro. Brasil.CÓMO CONSOLIDAR UN TEJIDO INFORMAL Y UN ENTORNO DE PROTECCIÓN AMBIENTAL EN MUTUA AMENAZA. Welcome - Space Syntax Symposium 8 Santiago Chile. This is the official website for the EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL SPACE SYNTAX SYMPOSIUM that will be held in Santiago de Chile at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile between Tuesday 3rd and Friday 6th of January 2012.

Welcome - Space Syntax Symposium 8 Santiago Chile

The workshops and the opening session will be on Tuesday 3rd January 2012, the sessions between Wednesday 4th and Friday 6th. BRACKET [at extremes]: Call for Submissions. Bracket 3 invites the submission of critical articles and unpublished design projects that investigate the potentials when situations extend beyond norms – into the extremities.

BRACKET [at extremes]: Call for Submissions

We are conditioned, as designers of the built environment, towards the organization of people, programs and movement. Indeed the history of modern urbanism, architecture and building science has been predicated on an anti-entropic notion of programmatic and social order. Suburbia Transformed 2.0, One Garden at a Time. AN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION FOR BUILT AND VISIONARY (UNBUILT) RESIDENTIAL LANDSCAPES sponsored by the James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design; co-sponsored by the American Society of Landscape Architects, New Jersey Chapter; and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

Suburbia Transformed 2.0, One Garden at a Time

THE COMPETITION The goal of Suburbia Transformed 2.0 is to promote and celebrate residential designs that go beyond “green” by explicitly using sustainable strategies, tactics and technologies to enrich the aesthetic spatial experience of people. ST 2.0 will assemble contemporary projects achieving this goal into an exhibition and catalogue. PLAT Journal 3.0_CollectiveDisruption_Call for Submissions. PLAT Journal. Anyone Corporation Log Journal for Architecture. Bracket— RUDI - Resource for Urban Design Information.