xmlns:owl="http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#" http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction Mailing list archive for In-Enaction at Architexturez en-us admin-res@architexturez.net (Architexturez) Copyright (c) None Architexturez IMPRINTS 2008-09-02T09:30:19+05:30 http://mail.architexturez.net/logo.jpg http://mail.architexturez.net http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04135.shtml Architexturez IN 2008-09-02T08:49:23+05:30 Architects throughout the country are increasingly putting their skills to work for the public good, according to a recent survey of 350 firms by nonprofit Public Architecture. For the second year in a row, the survey queried architecture and design firms that have pledged a minimum of 1% of their billable hours to pro bono service via Public Architecture’s flagship program, “The 1%.” Public Architecture’s goal is to direct at least 1% of every firm’s time to pro bono service. cont'd.... http://www.publicarchitecture.org/downloads/Survey%202008%20Press%20Release.pdf http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04134.shtml Architexturez IN 2008-09-02T01:55:40+05:30 D_CITY CALL FOR ENTRIES: DATA CITIES MODELLING MOVIES 9th World Congress of Metropolis 22-25 October 2008 Sydney, Australia INVITATION Researchers from all disciplines relevant to the data modelling revolution in planning, designing and managing cities are invited to present their latest achievements to senior government delegates attending the Metropolis `Connecting Cities' Congress in Sydney 22-25 October 2008. We seek short movies (including animations and dynamic data visualisations) of preferably less than five minutes and no more than 20 minutes in length. Movies should demonstrate well-researched concepts and discoveries which can inform government planners, administrators and politicians about more eco-intelligent ways to plan, design and manage cities. Entries will be selected by a Panel of Curators and confirmed by a Review Panel. Selected entries will be professionally edited/curated to incorporate titles, introductions and end credits. As well as being presented to delegates attending Metropolis ... http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04133.shtml johny ml 2008-09-01T04:01:55+05:30 Dear Friends, Greetings from www.artconcerns.com. September issue is up. Highlights: 1.Editorial 1. Cover Story-Everywhere is war-Johny ML 2. Upclose and Personal-Pushpamala N 3. Springboard-Payal Bhalala 4. Cartoon corner 5. Photo Feature I- 'Ethics of Encounter' at Soul flower. 6. Photo Feature II -I Dig, I Look Down. 7. Photo Feature III-Keep Drawing 8. Photo Feature IV-Revisit 9. Offbeat- Shreyas Karle 10. My TV, My Art- Sahar Zaman 11. Essay I- Ethics of Encounter-Johny ML 12. Essay-II- Imagining (Hindu) nation through popular grids of geopi-ety/ ty-* *V.Divakar 13. Essay-III-* *Praise Undeserved is Satire in Disguise: the Irony of Ved Gupta's art 14. Interview I ,Shaheen Merali- Johny ML 15. Interview II-V.Ramesh- Ina Puri 16. Interview III-* *Allan deSouza- Akansha Rastogi 17. Interview IV-M.Ramachandran- Rikimi Madhukaillya 18. Interview V- Ashim Purakayastha- Rikimi Madhukaillya 19. Feature I-Public Art and our Aesthetic Experience- Oindrilla Maity 20. Feature II- AUCTION TIME! –Anubhav Nath 21. Feat... http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04132.shtml Architexturez IN 2008-09-01T00:07:17+05:30 ref: http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg03412.shtml Yet another Commonwealth Games project has hit a roadblock. The controversial Ring Road bypass around the 15th century Salimgarh Fort — which was touted as the ultimate solution to the congestion at Rajghat and Shanti Van crossings — has failed to get the Delhi Urban Arts Commission (DUAC)’s approval. The project was conceived by PWD as a decongestion plan for Ring Road, after traffic surveys revealed that over 2.1 lakh vehicles use the two crossings daily. The plan entails closing the main Ring Road after Hanuman Setu and diverting traffic on a new four-laned road running behind the fort. The alternative road will run parallel to the Ring Road till the intersection of Shanti Van-Valedrome Road, where a grade separator with four loops has been proposed. cont'd.... http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Delhi_Red_light_to_2010_road_map/articleshow/3423761.cms http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04131.shtml Architexturez IN 2008-09-01T00:04:18+05:30 The journey becomes worse as you get closer to Tahiliani’s factory for, by now, the structures are uglier and the road almost non-existent. And then you come upon Tahiliani’s factory with its giant red-brick facade that seems to acknowledge that architecture in India was once a gentler and more refined pursuit. Funnily, it has taken a French architect to show us that we can be proud of our native design heritage. Stephane Paumier, who came to India 12 years ago and stayed on to practice here, says of Tahiliani’s factory: “The area where the factory is located isn’t fully developed. Our aim was to create a nice space for everyone to work. The idea was to put a farmhouse on top of the factory.” If that sounds a bit indulgent, one has only to turn a beady eye to the landscape surrounding the factory. Says Tahiliani, “We went to Jamali Kamali and took several photographs. The inspiration for this space has come from there.” cont'd.... http://www.business-standard.com/india/storypage.php?autono=332933 http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04130.shtml Architexturez IN 2008-09-01T00:01:31+05:30 If you want to see a suburban house in Manhattan, you have to go to a museum. On an asphalt parking lot behind a chain-link fence, the Museum of Modern Art’s current exhibit Home Delivery presents five of them, plus a sixth (of earlier vintage) in a gallery upstairs. Passing New Yorkers glance with slightly bemused curiosity, as if the structures were exotic animals in a zoo. The exhibit, curated by Barry Bergdoll, brilliantly explores the now curious-seeming 20th century notion that houses should be designed and delivered like mass-produced, factory-fabricated and assembled artefacts — automobiles, aircraft and tanks. This idea never met with much success, but that didn’t stop many of the stars of 20th century modernism from developing kits of parts for factory production and designing “demonstration” prefabricated homes — most of which never got beyond the rendering and model stage. cont'd.... http://www.bdonline.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=427&storycode=3121175&c=2&encCode=0000000001802970 http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04129.shtml Architexturez-IN 2008-08-31T22:22:05+05:30 If architects and architecture writers continue to use outmoded – I might even say totally irrelevant – forms of publication, such as $20/copy university-sponsored magazines and huge books purchased by no one but college librarians, then surely they can expect only people currently enrolled in academic programs even to be aware of what they're talking about, let alone to be enthusiastic about it or appreciative of the implications. $100 hardcover books do absolutely nothing to increase architecture's audience. So what would happen if architects tried videogames? cont'd.... http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2008/08/tactical-landscaping-and-terrain.html http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04128.shtml Architexturez-IN 2008-08-30T23:02:26+05:30 The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has joined hands with the Vastu Kala Academy (under the aegis of Institute of Socialist Education, New Delhi) and the Institute of Environmental Design & Architecture (under the aegis of Vidya Vardhan Trust, Goa) to initiate a Bachelor degree programme in the area of Architecture. cont'd.... http://www.indiaedunews.net/Universities/IGNOU_signs_MoU_for_architecture_programme_5808/ http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04127.shtml Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan 2008-08-29T11:18:42+05:30 Dear Friends, Kindly peruse the enclosed report as received courtesy pnn hindi from ground Zero. This only reiterates the fact that the so called natural calamity is largely man made and the official sources are grossly under estimating the human tragedy resulting from mismanagement or no management by the people / officials concerned. Is there something called accountability for acts of ommission and commission? Is any government functionary ever found accountable for such tragedies? Manoj Misra Convenor -- www.yamunajiyeabhiyaan.blogspot.com http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04126.shtml Yamuna Jiye Abhiyaan 2008-08-28T20:45:37+05:30 Dear Friends, Today we are calling the Kosi floods a national calamity (see the article below), releasing funds for relief works and promising what not. It is the top story for the media. But soon it too shall be behind us. More compelling and urgent causes and events will take over the media centre stage and Kosi floods of 2008 shall be consigned to becoming a statistics. So many people died, so much area devastated, etc etc. Engineers would go back to reconstructing and building more embankments and barrages over not just Kosi but many other rivers in the land. *So, do we have any useful lessons from Kosi?* First and foremost is that Kosi is a river and a river do not need engineering solutions. It needs ecological understanding and its own space and respect of that space through a national policy and a legal framework, both of which we lack as a nation. Second is that never underestimate the power of water. Remember 'pralay' is water all around... Would the Hon'ble PM (who also happens to be the Environme... http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04125.shtml Architexturez-IN 2008-08-28T08:01:32+05:30 These are lonely times for Lebbeus Woods. In the early 1990s, this irreverent New York architect produced a series of dark and moody renderings that made him a cult figure among students and academics. Foreboding images of bombed-out cities populated by strange, parasitic structures, they seemed to portray a world in a perpetual state of war, one in which the architect's task was to create safe houses for society's outcasts. Since then Woods has become his own kind of outcast. cont'd.... http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/28/travel/outcast.php http://mail.architexturez.net/+/In-Enaction/archive/msg04124.shtml Anoop Kamath 2008-08-28T05:21:29+05:30 Dear Friends, Greetings from www.mattersofart.com . Our August 20th upload can be viewed online now! * - Lead: *A photofeature on* Indian Art Summit 2008* - *Special Interview: Vikram Bachhawat *of Aakriti Art Gallery * - Infocus: Swapan Mallick** - Bhooma Padmanabhan*'s essay on *FICA'*s exhibition *Urgent: 10ml of Contemporary Needed! - Triviality of Everyday Existence: Gigi Scaria's *essay* - Krishna Pillai* writes on *Babu Xavier*'s* *works – *Organic Dreams* * - G.R. Iranna *gets nominated for* Signature Art Prize - My Work: Raghavendra Rao K.V.* - A feature on *Celestial Clock* displayed in *Khoj @ One Shanti Road Gallery/ Studio, Bangalore* - Exhibition reviews: * Santhosh Mithra's Goat Series displ *ated at *Chaithanya Art Gallery, KochiShakila's *exhibition at*CIMA Gallery, KolkataDestination Asia -Conversation I, *a review by* Cristiana de MarchiSarmistha Maiti *reviews* To All Whom it May Concern *at* Ganges Art Gallery, KolkataTanya Abraham *reviews* Manoj Brahmamangalam's Shadow RemnantsPrakriti ...