This month as a change to our usual venue we are meeting at the Royal Festival Hall – in the central bar area.
Please feel very welcome to come along and let others know who may be interested.
The Trustees
Architecture for Humanity UK
The conference will explore the impact of Cuba’s political and economic conditions on its architecture and speculate on the future of architecture and development in Cuba. We have organised a fantastic group of leading architects, academics, politicians and economists, such as acclaimed Cuban architect Ricardo Porro, Dr. Eusebio Leal, Deputy to the Cuban National Assembly of the Popular Power, Dr. Mario Coyula Cowley, vice-director of the Havana Group for the Integrated Development of the Capital. Brett Steele, director of the Architectural Association and Edgar Gonzales of BrisacGonzalez will moderate.
Please visit the website at www.alternativeinitiatives.co.uk for more information and to purchase tickets.
The conference is being curated by Nuria Alvarez Lombardero and Francisco Gonzales de Canales, tutors at the Architecture Association and principals of Canales & Lombardero and Melissa Woolford, director of Nous.
Architecture for Humanity UK have been invited by Global Color Research™ Mix Publications to present a workshop at 100% Design.
Our workshop will look at how the local context within specific regions needs to be considered as part of the design brief and how an understanding and appreciation of this environment can give an identity and expression to appropriate design solutions. The session will look at participants producing a visual presentation to describe different places. We will be considering resources, so come prepared to source visual materials locally, draw and engage in lively discussion.
Place: Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London Date: Saturday 25th September Time: 10.15am
The Centre for Development and Emergency Practice (Oxford Brookes University) & CARE International UK would like to invite you to the following conference:
Improving learning and practice in the humanitarian shelter sector
16 and 17 September 2010
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Keynote speakers include:
Professor Ian Davis, Visiting Professor to Cranfield, Oxford Brookes and Kyoto Universities: “What have we learned from forty years experience of Disaster Shelter?”
Joseph Ashmore, Independent Shelter Consultant: “Shelter Projects 2009”
Lizzie Babister, Senior Shelter Specialist, Care International UK: “Clusters: Ten Things to Do Before it’s Too Late”
Professor Michal Lyons, London South Bank University: “Scaling Up People-Centred Reconstruction”
Currently accepted papers are from: practitioners from USAID, Practical Action, Christian Aid, Architecture Sans Frontières-UK; academics from Cambridge University, University College, London, London South Bank University; and expert shelter consultants.
During the event delegates will have the opportunity to participate in shelter debates focused on co-operation, collaboration and partnerships, community engagement and innovations in shelter.
To register please download a booking form at: www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/be/research/cendep/shelters.html
For further information please contact Jeni Burnell, conference co-ordinator at: jburnell@brookes.ac.uk or 01865 483966
This event is funded by ELRHA (Enhanced Learning and Research for Humanitarian Assistance)
Roots Architecture Challenge at WOMAD; Charlton Park, 22nd – 25th July, Wiltshire
a showcase of architecture and building projects/methods worldwide in the humanitarian & aid sector – ranging from emergency shelter to community development & buildings.
The Kay e Sante nan Ayiti competition seeks to solicit ideas on housing prototypes for PLWHA (Persons Living With HIV or AIDS) that work to reduce the transmission of Tuberculosis in St. Marc, Haiti. Within the stated parameters, submissions may explore various size, scale, layout, grouping, building construction methods, structural responses, materials and form. ARCHIVE hopes to build five single family units and to adhere to a pre-established budget. The wider aim of the project is to provide transient 1-year health housing for PLWHA in addition to vocational and skills training.
AfHUK were recently part of the multidisciplinary panel discussing proposals as part of an exhibition hosted by the Peruvian Embassy and part of this year’s London Festival of Architecture.
Dates: 19th June – 3rd July
Location: The Peruvian Embassy, 52 Sloane Street, Knightsbridge, London SW1X
Opening hours: Monday to Friday 10.00am to 1.00pm and 3.00 to 4.30pm
images from edible places 2009
This year’s Architecture Sans Frontieres-UK summer school at the Eden Project will be a continuation of last year’s Edible Places summer school (http://www.asf-uk.org/case_studies.htm) and will be focusing on one of the most fundamental issues for the continued survival of human beings – food: where we produce it, how we access it and how we dispose of it. This workshop will explore ways of upgrading the urban environment through innovative and adaptable designs to respond to this need. Through lectures, prototype designs and construction we will study the urban environment and understand how it can be more suitably adapted for sustainable living and eating environments. We will debate the possible natures of urban food cycles with Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen authors of CPULs (continuous productive urban landscapes), Clare Brass a social entrepreneur, product designer and founder of Seed Foundation and Adriana Allen (Senior Lecturer and Director of the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at the Development Planning Unit, UCL). We will discuss the importance of food cycles, and understand how they should contribute towards productive urban landscapes. By including social, economic, political and environmental issues we will place the development of the urban context at both an individual and collective level.
The programme runs from 12pm on Friday 3rd to 6pm on Wednesday 8th of September and will be hosted by the Eden Project and ASF-UK. The workshop will include visits to the world renowned Eden Project and exposure to the many excellent programmes they run. Lectures will be held by Katrin Bohn and Andre Viljoen (Senior lecturers at the School of Architecture & Design, University of Brighton Bohn and Viljoen ), Adriana Allen (Senior Lecturer and Director of the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development at the Development Planning Unit, UCL) and Clare Brass (social entrepreneur, product designer and founder of the Seed Foundation ).
Participants will then spend two and a half days designing and building prototypes and products for a sustainable food cycle. The prototype development will happen within the public realm at the Eden Project which will be a great opportunity to raise awareness about the importance of food security for every human being. The ASF-UK team will for this workshop include Melissa Kinnear (ASF-UK and tutor at Oxford Brookes University), Peter Newton (Roger Evans Associates), Mina Samangooei (Sustainable Architecture Masters graduate), Caroline Dewast and Teresa Rodriguez (Architecture diploma students) and the horticultural team at the Eden Project. The cost is of £65 per day – £325 for the whole week which includes fees, food and camping cost ; there is and option for CPD training for £200 Saturday and Sunday food and accommodation included.
AfHUK are having an informal Meet Up at The Book Club – 100 Leonard St.
The London Festival of Architecture.
Informal Exchange comes to Speaker’s Crescent
To listen to details of the talk follow this link