Category: Architecture and Urban Design

Bernhard Sommer and Galo Moncayo Open Lecture to focus on energy efficient future cities

On November 3rd at 6 pm, the Open Lecture Series of the architecture faculty will be happy to present architect Bernhard Sommer from Exikon and architect and installation artist Galo Moncayo at Estonian Architecture Centre (Kultuurikatel, Põhja pst 27a, Tallinn). Sommer teaches energy design at one of the most exciting architecture schools in the world, Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, and leads Exikon arc & dev architecture office, dedicated to the application of cutting-edge planning and building technology. Moncayo is an established installation artist and architect who teaches at the Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien. Open Lecture Series welcome all architecture students from across Estonia, professionals and general audience intrigued by spatial matters: the lectures are in English and free of charge.

From this academic year, and with generous help from Merko construction company, Sommer will also be teaching at the Estonian Academy of Art architecture department. In his Open Lecture, Sommer will explain how energy design can fundamentally change the way future cities are designed. In Estonia, the prevailing method of raising energy efficiency of a building has been dealt with by adding energy efficient components and materials to a project, whereas Sommer guides his students to employ smart spatial geometry to make cities and buildings more efficient. Sommer’s architecture office, Exikon arc & dev in Vienna, is dedicated to the application of cutting-edge planning and building technology. Its aim is the integration of scientific findings into the design process.

Bernhard Sommer teaches energy design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and has been a visiting professor at the Institute for Experimental Architecture at the University of Innsbruck. Sommer also teaches building physics and holds seminars on sustainable design at the Technical University of Graz, the University of Cagliari and in the context of the Master Program Urban Strategies. In 2000, he has been awarded the Arch + Prize 2000, in 2002, the Schindler Scholarship of the MAK Center in Los Angeles. There he developed the transforming „desert cloud“ project that later was exhibited in West Hollywood and Vienna.

Galo Moncayo is an installation artist and architect currently teaching in the Energy Design Department at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, as well as a Assistant Professor in the Experimental Architecture Department at Innsbruck University. He has exhibited throughout the United States including in New York, and in Germany, Mexico, Austria, Spain and has been invited as a visiting artist/ lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, The George Washington University, among other universities in North America and in Germany, Mexico, Austria and Ecuador. Galo Moncayo received a Magister of Architecture from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna in the Zaha Hadid Master Class, a Master of Fine Arts in sculpture from Virginia Commonwealth University and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in sculpture from the Maryland Institute, College of Art in the United States.

More about Exikon: http://www.exikon.at/

Open Lecture Series is supported by Estonian Cultural Endowment and organised by the Estonian Academy of Arts architecture department. The architecture department would also like to thank Merko for their support for this event.

Series curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam (PART)
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More info:
Pille Epner
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Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture Open Lecture Series

14.04 Tristan Boniver (Brussels, Belgium)

Title of the open lecture:

“Critical positions on design, material resources and waste”

Tristan Boniver is a member of the Brussels-based collective Rotor. He studied architecture in Brussels at the Saint-Luc Institute, the Sint-Lucas School of Architecture, and La Cambre School of Architecture (ISACF). Throughout his studies, he worked as a graphic designer, consultant, and developer, both for private clients and associations and on projects in the underground electronic music scene in Brussels. A member of the Brussels collective Boups since 1999, he then worked with Maarten Gielen to set up Rotor, which he has been a member of since 2005. He qualified as an architect in January 2010, after presenting a dissertation on rounded corners.

http://rotordb.org/

At the Open Lecture Series internationally renowned architects, artists, theoreticians, critics and urbanists from all around the globe give talks to offer fresh perspectives on architecture, design, urban development and critical thought. The lectures are open to everyone interested in the future of our living environment.

www.avatudloengud.ee

The lectures are held in English, free of charge.

The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture Open Lecture Series

31.03 Onur Sönmez / München

Onur Sönmez is a designer, who has a wide range of interest in interaction design / interface design research. He has exhibited at Venice Architecture Biennale, Saatchi Gallery London, Contemporary Istanbul, Ars Electronica, Transmediale ’15 Berlin, Media Facades Festival Europe, Connecting Cities, Linz 09 European Capital of Culture etc.

After receiving his BA degree (with Honours) in Visual Communication Design at the Istanbul Bilgi University with full scholarship he moved to Linz – Austria, completed his Masters degree of Interface Cultures at the Kunstuniversitat Linz and worked for Ars Electronica Futurelab, Bosch Design Studio Münich and currently working for Kontrastmoment as an Interface Designer on the development and design of interactive interfaces and control concepts for BMW Group (including BMWi, Mini and Rolls-Royce) and other interesting projects.

www.onursonmez.com

www.avatudloengud.ee
The lectures are held in English, free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture Open Lecture Series

17.03 Milota Sidorova / Prague, Czech Republic

Milota Sidorova is a consultant of urban projects and strategic development. She studied landscape architecture, urban planning, graphic design, film production, urbanism, methods of social research and human resource management in different schools around Europe, Asia and America. She was a founding member and coordinator of the international urban planning festival reSITE. In 2014 she finished doctoral studies in landscape architecture on the topic: Catalytic impacts of markets on public spaces. Since 2012 she has been mapping actors in non-governmental sector engaged with public space in Bratislava and Prague. In 2015 she co-founded initiative WPS Prague – a network promoting active women in architecture, urban planning and development of community life.

www.wpsprague.com

Title of the open lecture: “Shared Governance aka Urban Activism 2.0”

The landscape of urban projects in Central Europe defined by one sided activism, voluntary work and kind of antagonistic movements from non-governmental initiatives has been changing rather towards creative, complex frameworks in need of effective use of sources from all three sectors. We come across projects sharing similar features: blending edges of responsibilites, communication and finances between non-governmental, private and public sector.

The lecture will draw from a case study of Obchodna street (Bratislava, Slovakia) where the concept of Business Improvement District as a model of shared governance has been emerging and where the need for revitalization of the declining main street has been led by a private sector adopting the tools, traditionally seen between non-governmental groups, simultaneously working with the public sector too.

At the Open Lecture Series internationally renowned architects, artists, theoreticians, critics and urbanists from all around the globe give talks to offer fresh perspectives on architecture, design, urban development and critical thought. The lectures are open to everyone interested in the future of our living environment.

www.avatudloengud.ee
The lectures are held in English, free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture Open Lecture Series

BorderScaping. An explorative study on the North Moroccan/Spanish border landscapes

Rooted in ‘border landscapes’ research and post-colonial studies, BorderScaping proposes an understanding of the productive interactions between ‘border thinking’ and ‘design thinking’ towards alternative forms of imagination for contemporary border landscapes, beyond existing geo-political and cultural polarizations.

The Moroccan / Spanish border is explored as one relevant observatory of the past and ongoing re-bordering dynamics across Europe’s borders in the Mediterranean and in North Africa.

By addressing a set of emerging “borderscapes’ constellations”, seen both as diachronical narratives and transcalar socio-spatial fields, the lecture intends to unfold the background knowledge for alternative images of change.

Alice Buoli is an Architect and PhD in Territorial Design and Government. Her most recent professional and academic activities lie at the intersection between urban research, design thinking and borderlands studies, with a peculiar interest on the Euro-Mediterranean context and on the Spanish-Moroccan border landscapes. She is currently Experienced Researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts, in the context of Adapt-r FP7 ITN Program.

http://borderscaping.tumblr.com/

At the Open Lecture Series internationally renowned architects, artists, theoreticians, critics and urbanists from all around the globe give talks to offer fresh perspectives on architecture, design, urban development and critical thought. The lectures are open to everyone interested in the future of our living environment.

www.avatudloengud.ee
The lectures are held in English, free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Robert Vierlinger is an interdisciplinary consultant and researcher. At the University of Applied Arts Vienna he has co-initiated several research projects in architecture and technology, investigating digital design representation, multi-modal optimization, machine learning, and material intelligence. Procedural design and optimization on international competition and construction projects are the basis of his consultancy at Bollinger+Grohmann engineers. He studied structural design in Delft and Vienna, studied architecture in Studio Hani Rashid Vienna, and since has been lecturing at the Angewandte, AA, CITA, ZHA, USC LA, CU Hongkong and many more.

At the Open Lecture Series internationally renowned architects, artists, theoreticians, critics and urbanists from all around the globe give talks to offer fresh perspectives on architecture, design, urban development and critical thought. The lectures are open to everyone interested in the future of our living environment. The lectures are held in English, free of charge.

www.avatudloengud.ee

The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture

“Open Lecture Series”

04.02 Víctor Enrich (Barcelona) – Víctor Enrich stuudio

Victor Enrich (b. 1976) is a catalan photographer and artist. He graduated architecture in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in year 2002. Continuing with a self taught education of 3D visualisation and photography, his work is a constant manifest on one and the same subject: the City. The city, not only understood as the very well-known process of adding, subtracting or modifying spaces for all sorts of human activities but also as a complex system of nodes that involve and connect everybody’s blurry dreams, exacerbate passions, fearful nightmares or even tedious social life.

http://victorenrich.com/

At the Open Lecture Series internationally renowned architects, artists, theoreticians, critics and urbanists from all around the globe give talks to offer fresh perspectives on architecture, design, urban development and critical thought. The lectures are open to everyone interested in the future of our living environment. The lectures are held in English, free of charge.

www.avatudloengud.ee

The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

26.03 Siv Helene Stangeland_Helen&Hard (Stavanger)
Helen & Hard was founded in 1996 in Stavanger on the west coast of Norway by Norwegian architect Siv Helene Stangeland and Austrian architect Reinhard Kropf. Today, the company has a youthful staff of 20, drawn from 8 different countries, with offices in both Stavanger and Oslo. They design in different scales and scopes, on a wide spectrum of projects ranging from single family houses to large public buildings, from offices and multi-family housing projects to master planning. They aim to creatively engage with sustainability, not only in the design of spaces, but also in the conception and organization of the design process, including construction and fabrication. Their goal is move away from a solely technical and anthropocentric view, allowing the project to unfold in relation to its physical, social, cultural and economic context. Helen&Hard has won a number of awards and prizes, as well as exhibited and published their work internationally.
http://www.hha.no

Estonian Academy of Arts Faculty of Architecture Public Guest Speaker Series

Quite a few well-known architects, theoreticians, critics and urbanists have given talks at this lecture series, to offer fresh perspectives on architecture, design, urban development and critical thought from around the globe. The lectures are open to all students and professionals in the fields of architecture, urbanism and other spatial studies, as well as to the broader circle of those interested in the future of our living environment. The lectures are in English and they are free of charge.

The previous talks can be found at https://www.artun.ee/avatudloengud
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.