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What is required to foster a shift toward greater environmental, social and economic sustainability?
What barriers to change exist and how can they be overcome?
The Urban Sustainable Design Studio (USDS) explores these and other challenging questions in a dynamic interdisciplinary setting.
Stressing experiential learning and collaboration, the program centers around three projects focused on the process of creating and implementing innovative solutions to a diversity of sustainability- related issues.
The eight-week, full-time program also features weekly readings and discussions, field trips, and guest speakers from a range of relevant sectors.
Optional informal career counseling and networking opportunities assist participants with discerning potential future direction.
Working in close collaboration with one another and the program facilitators, USDS participants gain a broad exposure to the quickly evolving sustainability movement.
They graduate from the program better informed and empowered to apply systems-based thinking and transformative design to their future professional pursuits.
The program is open to attendees college-age or older possessing the requisite interest, passion, and maturity.
Design experience is not required (past participants have come from a range of fields).
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Today's architects and engineers are increasingly being asked to address issues of sustainability in our changing world.
Architecture of Change presents outstanding architectural projects that combine creativity, scientific knowledge, technical innovation, social engagement and a strong sense of responsibility to address environmental challenges.
The book is based on the Zumtobel Group Award for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment.
Architecture of Change features recently built and realised projects that in addition to their exceptional architectural quality make a notable contribution to a liveable and sustainable future.
But the book also covers current initiatives that promote innovative research in this sector and thus encourage an emerging generation of environmentally aware architects and urban planners.
Architecture of Change contains over forty international projects by architects that include Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne, Steven Holl, Kenneth Yang, Sauerbruch & Hutton, Architecture for Humanity and Rural Studio.
The included work ranges from development projects in Bangladesh, Nepal and Africa to open source Internet platforms, experimental approaches to flood prevention and modern high-rises for an urban context.
The book also includes essays by and interviews with internationally renowned experts in architecture, science, economics and politics.
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The Spanish designer and artist Jaime Hayon is a rising star in the international creative scene.
It's safe to say that he will be one of the most influential designers in the years to come.
Hayon embodies a new type of creative Renaissance man, who - thanks to his interdisciplinary approach and extraordinary talent - can realize his unique stylistic language across various areas and media.
Whether he is creating interior design, furniture, illustration, tableware or decorative vases and ceramics, Hayon's signature style always shines through.
Seemingly without effort, his designs coherently bring together diametrical opposites such as opulence and practicality, sensuality and precision as well as finesse and restraint.
This first monograph about Jaime Hayon presents the full spectrum of his work.
The book features projects such as his extensive ceramic installation for Bisazza in Milan and the interior design for La Terraza del Casino, an exclusive restaurant in central Madrid, as well as designer toys and furniture, including his award-winning bathroom collection, AQHayon.
Ranging from clear and harmonious to playfully extravagant, all of the examples attest to his inimitable grasp of form, style and colour.
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The Oporto Show is an international manifest of design, interiors and architecture (for furniture, lighting and fabrics).
The show will be composed, as in the past year, by several scenic spaces created by decorators and architects, representing different brands.
Inspired in some of the most recognized shows in this area, and after the success achieved in its first edition, TOS'08 pretends to be this type's biggest event in Iberian Peninsula.
The historic building of Alfândega do Porto, with a great view to Douro, it's, again, the chosen place to receive TOS'08.
Here, visitors will meet the latest trends and the suggestions of the best experts.
TOS'08 will take place in June 2008 and will last for four days (from 12 to 15).
During this time, along with the exhibition, are expected several parties to promote the brands, discussions and press conferences.
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Pritzker Prize-winning architect Thom Mayne, known for his innovative use of forms and materials, will present the 2008 Cannon Design Lecture for Excellence in Architecture & Engineering for the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts.
The lecture is free and open to the public and begins at 6:30 p.m. Monday, March 3, in Steinberg Auditorium, located near the intersection of Skinker and Forsyth boulevards.
The talk comes as part of the Sam Fox School's spring Architecture Lecture Series, sponsored by the College of Architecture and Graduate School of Architecture & Urban Design.
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