Events

ANUPAMA KUNDOO, Architecture speaks
Anupama Kundoo Architects / India, Germany

The event will take place in Zoom. We want to make this lecture series safer to all participants – there will be no participation fee, but pre-registration is needed. Registration for the lecture ends on Wednesday 20th January 2021 at 12 pm. Online participants will be sent an invitation link to the event.

Register here: https://q.surveypal.com/Registration-Architecture-Speaks...

The international lecture series on contemporary architecture continues online. Six architects from various backgrounds are invited to share their thoughts and ideas on current trends in architecture.

Anupama Kundoo was born in Pune, India in 1967. She graduated from Sir JJ College of Architecture, University of Mumbai in 1989, and received her PhD degree from the TU Berlin in 2008. Her research-oriented practice focussing on material research to achieve architecture of low environmental impact while being socio-economically beneficial, was exhibited twice at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with the installation Feel the Ground. Wall House 1:1 in 2012 and Building Knowledge, An Inventory of Strategies in 2016 and now exhibited as a solo show ‘Taking Time’ at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark till 31 January 2021.

Anupama Kundoo’s practice started in 1990 in Auroville where she worked closely with Roger Anger on Auroville’s planning, particularly the urban design of Auroville’s City Center, Administration Zone and Habitat Area till his last days. She taught Urban Management at TU Berlin and strengthened her expertise in rapid urbanization and climate change related development issues, about which she has written extensively. She is the author of the bilingual book Roger Anger: Research on Beauty/Recherche sur la Beauté, Architecture1958 –2008, published in Berlin by Jovis Verlag in 2009. Anupama Kundoo is currently Professor at Potsdam School of Architecture, Germany.

“Anupama Kundoo has in her work a strong sense of haptic qualities, warmth and richness. Her kind of material research is something I would like to see more of in architecture”, says Jenni Reuter, curator of the lecture series.

ARCHITECTURE SPEAKS

This international lecture series is curated by Professor Jenni Reuter and organised jointly by Aalto University Department of Architecture and the Museum of Finnish Architecture. The new season of lectures examines the relationship between the interior and exterior in architecture as well as hapticity and time in the built environment. Six architects from various backgrounds have been invited to share their thoughts and ideas on current trends in architecture.

Richard Wentworth has played a leading role in New British Sculpture since the end of the 1970s. His work, encircling the notion of objects and their use as part of our day-to-day experiences, has altered the traditional definition of sculpture as well as photography. By transforming and manipulating industrial and/or found objects into works of art, Wentworth subverts their original function and extends our understanding of them by breaking the conventional system of classification.

You are invited to the end of year show for the Masquerades course. 

The exhibition opens Wednesday, December 16th at 13:00 on the 6 1/2th floor. The exhibition remains open through Friday, December 18th.

And the winner is .......

THE WINNER HAS BEEN CHOSEN – STATSBYGG`S STUDENT AWARD OF NOK 20.000, - - for one of the diploma projects from 2020.

*Statsbygg wishes to encourage innovative and experimental studies of architecture among future generations of architects. The Student Award will be handed out to one or more student projects at the master level for particularly innovative and well executed project work performed in accordance with state guidelines within the field of architecture. In the evaluation, emphasis is placed on clarity in quality and form, in terms of identity, practical usefulness and aesthetic value.

Statsbygg will announce the winner, which will receive a check of NOK 20.000,-.

The winner of the award will give a presentation of the project.

The 3 nominated projects are:
Sindre Kartvedt: ‘A Future in Ruins; Exploring the Possibilities for a New Wave Power Plant and Visitor Centre at Toftestallen’

Claudiu Tamas: “Upstream- Reimagining the collective dream of a city”

Karoline Haukjem og Emilie Van de Walle: “Liminal landscapes – three ports in transformation”

 Statsbygg is a public sector administration company responsible to the Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs, Statsbygg provides appropriate, functional premises to public sector enterprises, as well as realising prevailing sociopolitical objectives in relation to architecture, governmental planning interests, preservation of heritage sites and the environment.

http://www.statsbygg.no/Om-Statsbygg/About-Statsbygg/

Frederik Petersen (PhD, Cand. Arch.) is a Unit Lead at Bergen School of Architecture. In the Merging Practices lecture he will discuss the interplay of photographic practice and sculpture work.

“Små rom for store naturopplevelser”

En livslang lidenskap for natur og friluftsliv, kombinert med fagfeltet arkitektur er grunnlaget for arkitektfirmaet Biotope. Biotope arkitekter har siden 2009 designet gapahuker, stormhytter, leplasser, friluftsamfi og annen småskala arkitektur for friluftsliv og reiseliv. Målet i ethvert prosjekt er å skape rom for gode naturopplevelser! www.biotope.no

As a follow up from the presentation on Thursday 26th, we continue with 3 new school .

• 1200-1215: Aalto, Finland ( Helga)
• 1215-1230: Technical University Braunschweig, Germany (Kirsten)
• 1215-1230: Münster School of Architecture, Germany (Judith)

School presentations, especially aimed at those that are considering to go on exchange over the summer, or later. Dont miss this chance to learn more. Our incoming exchange students, plus some that have been on exchange, will present shortly their home institutions and try to explain why their school and country should be an option for you. Zoom presentation during Thursday and Friday.

Program: Thursday 26. November:

• 1200-1215: Chalmers, Sweden. (Sofia)
• 1215-1230: Ku Leuven, Belgium (Marie, Rasmus)
• 1230-1245: University of Antwerp, Belgium (Elisabeth)
• 1234-1300: Paris La Villette, France (Zoelie)

Finally, BAS is happy to announce the launch of our new webpage. The working group has consisted of students, teachers, rector and representatives from the administration. We hope that the new format of our webpage will be more accessible, and we have especially high hopes when it comes to presentation of projects. Our wish is that students and teachers are willing to share work on the webpage, and we look forward to contributions.

0900-0945: Each one of the courses do a sort introduction in plenary.
0945-1500: Students and teachers split up into 8 breakout rooms. (each breakout room will have 1 project from Complex context, 1 Ocean space and 3 Masquearade + 1 tutor)
Each group project has 15 minutes to present, and 15 minutes feedback. Individual project has 10 minutes presentation, 10 minutes feedback.

Each breakout room manages their own schedule with breaks, etc.

1500: All meet in plenary to exchange findings and general discussion.

Zoom link will be provided for participants in advance.

If you are not a participant on either one of the master courses, you can contact adm@bas.org to receive the links if you want to join the presentations in the plenary in the morning and in the afternoon. (0900 and 1500) For information about the 3 master courses that are taught in the autumn 2020, please check out section 03 at this page.

Hvordan forlenge levetiden til eksisterende bygninger?

Det er et økt fokus på gjenbruk og sirkulærøkonomi i byggebransjen. Hvordan skal vi jobbe med eksisterende bygninger for å bevare og gi dem lengre levetid. Hvilken rolle spiller teknologien i dette arbeidet? Følg lenken for å lese mer og melde deg på. https://husbanken.no/kommune/berekraftig-frokost-21102020/

Bærekraftig frokost i Bergen er et samarbeid mellom Bergen kommune, Vestland fylkeskommune, Høgskulen på Vestlandet, Bergen Arkitektskole, Universitetet i Bergen, Fylkesmannen i Vestland og Husbanken.

(In Norwegian only) Bergen byarkiv har en rekke ulike arkiver som kan dokumentere byggevirksomheten i Bergen fra 1830-tallet og fremover, både fra kommunale etater og private arkitektfirma. Arkivene kan være alt fra kommunens store byggesaksarkiv til små arkiver med en enkelt protokoll etter en byggekomite. Både tegninger, kart og ulike skriftlige kilder kan være med på å dokumentere en bygnings historie. Ingfrid Bækken er arkivar på byarkivet og vil fortelle om de ulike arkivene og hva de kan fortelle om byens bygningshistorie.  

Nat Chard is the Professor in Experimental Architecture at the Bartlett UCL. His research into indeterminacy and precision employs paint hurling catapults, high speed photography, stuffed animals, drawing machines, body implants, and bored clouds. Chard’s work is published in Architectural Design Wiley, Pamphlet Architecture, and Indeterminate Drawings of Architecture.

Online he can be found at www.natchard.com and www.instagram.com/nat_chard/

Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96676267230?pwd=OEtXZnZXWkwrbTBHeXAzN3hJaDExdz09
Meeting ID: 966 7626 7230 7 Passcode: 278769

Bas in collaboration with Bergen Kommune, 3rd year Urban Research and Design Studio.

ABOUT
Cities are known to change and adapt over time. Consequently, if we view the city as a continuous process of transformation, a central question becomes what are the driving forces and structures behind this process? On the one hand there are unplanned or unintentional influences such as natural disasters or epidemics that have brought about change. On the other hand, however, urban change has been propagated through planned and intentional processes by human society. Additionally given that cities evolve over time and often collectively, how does one engage with things beyond the short term and beyond the individual in looking at the future of the city.

With this frame of mind, the third year urban design and research studio is engaging with the current redevelopment of the industrial waterfront in Laksevåg, Bergen. To gain a better understanding of the various structures and agendas engaged in this process, we wish to meet with various actors explicitly and implicitly involved in this transformation e.g. planning authorities, landowners, developers, local activists, politicians, residents and other stakeholders. Further on, students will look to negotiate these various positions and conditions into urban proposals for the area. These proposals are to embody the notion of a generative process, of an incremental, collective and adaptable nature that put forth an idea for the future.

The symposium is organized by the 3rd Year Urban Research and Design Studio in collaboration with Bergen Kommune

LOCATION Large Auditorium, Bergen School of Architecture or Digitally via Zoom on the following channels:

Day 1 https://zoom.us/j/94245972124?pwd=MFRRSkY3d0tiRTFPL0plWGFFcVFOZz09

Day 2 https://zoom.us/j/91658227916?pwd=cHJuN1ZCckpyTTJPVU9kYWZxaWpRUT09

Day 3 https://zoom.us/j/97248157910?pwd=VzJIMXZmZm9UcXJ4b21LYVRHQ0Zrdz09

Day 4 https://zoom.us/j/91785283785?pwd=V29SMTZydXBFSEw4MmFTMUM3dGgwdz09

SCHEDULE: See below