Each year, the ANCB provides an annual theme in order to provide a framework for its participating partners. These themes reflect issues of contemporary culture, addressing architecture and urbanism in the light of globalisation, emergent technologies and new media in a rapidly changing world. Themes are geared toward holistic thinking in the design and organistion of built environments, focussing on the potential of metropolitan technologies and the creative industries in addressing issues of ecological, economical and social concerns.
2009 – GLOBAL DEMARCATION
The architecture discipline is affected by globalisation not only in terms of its practice, but also in terms of its social and cultural roots. While global operation has become commonplace for architects, their traditional points of reference have steadily deteriorated. If globalisation is about the dissolution of borders, space making is its opposite – the definition of limits. In this way, architecture is both agent and victim in the redefinition of global borders. As a physical manifestation of the archetypal desire to establish identitiy through distinction, the making of space becomes a socio-economical, cultural and political act for which our future city makers need to be prepared.
Iberoamericana University Mexico
14 July - 02 August 2009
LECTURE
SMART STRUCTURES
What Is Intelligent Architecture Like?
Aedes Am Pfefferberg
9 July 2009, 19PM
EXHIBITION
Die Wiederentdeckung Sretenkas - Ein Moskauer Stadtquartier im Wandel
AedesLand
2 July – 27 August 2009
LECTURE
Happold Building Talk
ANCB
2 July 2009, 19PM
UNIT 2
Universidad Europea de Madrid
15 - 28 June 2009