Programme
Events
Architecture on Film
Buckminster Fuller Meets the Hippies / Counter Communities14 July 2009 7.00pm
Spaceship Earth and the Designer Guru: Two films documenting architectural alternatives, and a countercultural response to visionary architect Buckminster Fuller.
Radical Nature: Contemporary Visions
Superuse: 2012Architecten20 August 2009, 7.30pm
2012's architecture of re-use, research and adaptation, presented by Jan Jongert of the Rotterdam based practice.
Design Competitions
The Architecture Foundation initiates and co-ordinates design competitions to ensure that high quality contemporary architecture finds its place in everyday life.
In February, dallaspierce+quintero was announced as the winner of the Amelia Street public realm design competition.
Events
Radical Nature: Contemporary Visions
Futureproofing the City: ZEDfactory; Foster + Partners; R/E/D23 July 2009, 7.30pm
A panel discussion on the ecological challenge facing urban settlements around the world. The first in a series of three conversations exploring architectural responses to living in and with a future world. In association with the Barbican exhibition; Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet.
Radical Nature: Contemporary Visions
With and Against Nature: Exploration Architecture and Hugh Broughton8 October 2009, 7.30pm
Visionary designs for inhabiting the Antarctic and the Sahara.
AND NOW WHAT? Rethinking Spatial Practice
20-22 April 2009The Architecture Foundation has organized three high-level discussions that seek to share and evaluate propositions for spatial practice in a radically changing context. Proceedings were recorded and will be broadcast on The Architecture Foundation website soon.
Urban Pioneers
The AF's education programme engages and empowers teams of 16-19 year olds in areas of London undergoing dramatic change. Young people critically explore the transformations happening around them and develop new skills in film making, radio production and website design.
News
Archiving The Architecture Foundation Begins
Posted: 2 July 2009The first inroads to The Architecture Foundation's extensive archiving project have started.
Radical Nature talks coming soon
Posted: 2 July 2009The Barbican opened their expansive Radical Nature exhibition last week, which investigates "art and architecture for a changing planet", to much acclaim. In conjunction the AF is holding a series of conversations debating the architectural responses.
Follow the AF on Twitter
Posted: 1 July 2009You can now follow The Architecture Foundation on Twitter.
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