Programme

Architecture on Film Events 

Architecture on Film

Buckminster Fuller Meets the Hippies / Counter Communities
14 July 2009 7.00pm

Spaceship Earth and the Designer Guru: Two films documenting architectural alternatives, and a countercultural response to visionary architect Buckminster Fuller.

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Events 

Radical Nature: Contemporary Visions

Superuse: 2012Architecten
20 August 2009, 7.30pm

2012's architecture of re-use, research and adaptation, presented by Jan Jongert of the Rotterdam based practice.

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Competitions & Awards 

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.

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Competitions & Awards 

Awards

The Architecture Foundation co-ordinates and partners on a range of international awards for architects that promote quality and new thinking in contemporary architecture and urbanism.

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Radical Nature: Contemporary Visions Events 

Radical Nature: Contemporary Visions

Futureproofing the City: ZEDfactory; Foster + Partners; R/E/D
23 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.

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Projects 

AND NOW WHAT? Rethinking Spatial Practice

20-22 April 2009

The 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.

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Education 

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.

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News

Archiving The Architecture Foundation Begins

Archiving The Architecture Foundation Begins

The first inroads to The Architecture Foundation's extensive archiving project have started.

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Radical Nature talks coming soon

Radical Nature talks coming soon

The 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.

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Follow the AF on Twitter

You can now follow The Architecture Foundation on Twitter.

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