This video shows a lecture by Arnout Van Vaerenbergh on the occasion of TEDxEutropolis. Van Vaerenbergh is a young Belgian architect and a co-founder of Leuven-based design practice Gijs Van Vaerenbergh. The speaker and his partner Pieterjan Gijs have been creating projects together since 2007. The projects are realized in the public spaces and without doubt they show architects’ architectural background. In spite of architecture, these projects also clearly display an artistic intention. Van Vaerenbergh’s work consists of site-specific interventions, installations and constructions that generate a mutual reaction with the environment. As such, their projects do not always originate from the customary commission and carry a large degree of autonomy. Their primary concerns are experiment, reflection, a physical involvement with the end result and the input on the viewer. In their art they manipulate the public space with minimal means and maximal impact. During the lecture Van Vaerenbergh talks about 3 very innovative projects which were invented and realized by his practice.
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This video shows a lecture by Lehna Malmkvist who is an ecologist and the founder of Swell Enviormental Consulting Ltd. Malmkvist works in multi-disciplinary teams for low impact/green development projects, watershed planning, rainwater management and ecological restoration. She ensures an innovative, whole system approach which is integrated into her projects. She also shares her expertise by teaching workshops and lecturing at professional, community and university events, helping to educate a new way of thinking about our connection to our immediate environment. During this lecture Malmkvist speaks about the importance of environmentally friendly design.
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This video shows a lecture by Inga Saffron who is an architecture critic and also an architectural writer. She writes about urban design issues for more than a decade. As the architecture critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, she has reviewed some of the most memorable new projects of the era, but her primary interest is in writing about the less-heralded places that people encounter in their daily lives. As a 2011-12 Loeb Fellow at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Saffron is exploring how cities can retain their distinct identities in the globalized, interconnected world, while remaining viable places to work and live. During the lecture Saffron challenges cities to shift focus and look beyond skyscraper fantasies and dreams of increased tourism.
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This video presents a lecture by an architect Tobias Ell. The speech took place on 20th January 2012 on the occasion of PechaKucha Night in Maastricht. The concept of PechaKucha Night was devised in Tokyo in February 2003 as an event for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. Now it has turned into a massive celebration, with events happening in hundreds of cities around the world. The presentation format of PechaKucha Night is based on a simple idea: 20 images x 20 seconds which makes presentations concise. During the presentation of Tobias Ell we are able to hear about the importance of knowledge in contemporary architecture.
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This video presents a lecture by Chad Oppenheim, the architect who is an emerging architecture star launching onto the national and international architecture scene. He has received distinguished design awards at the national and international level. He is the 1994 recipient of the KUME Fellowship in Japan, a two time winner of the Chicago Athenaeum’s American Architecture Award, and has won numerous design awards between 1999 and 2005 from the Florida and Miami Chapters of the American Institute of Architects. During the lecture, Oppenheim takes us on a journey from Paradise Lost to Paradise Regained and shows us that today architects must go beyond building “green” to rebuild Earth’s ecosystems.
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The film is a presentation of 2006 Ted Prize winner Cameron Sinclair, who is a co-founder of Architecture for Humanity. It is a non-profit organization that finds architectural solutions and put them into practice during humanitarian crisis, it also brings professional design services to communities in need. He speaks about his organization and about the system that they have been developing since receiving Ted Prize.
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The video shows a lecture by Roisin Heneghan, a co-founder of Heneghan Peng Dublin–based architectural practice. In spite of the fact that Heneghan Peng is a small firm, it has won some significant commissions, including the Grand Musem of Egypt and Aras Chill Dara in Kildare. The company won 2006 RIBA European Award for the second best project. This lecture took place at TEDx Tallaght and it was about making an idea in architecture.
This film presents a lecture by Marica Shioiri-Clark who is an architect and a co-founder of MASS Design Group. MDG is an architectural nonprofit organization concentrated on designing well-built environments for poorest regions of the world. Marica takes an active part in MDG activities, she was a lead designer on the Butaro Hospital project in northern Rwanda. In this film she talks about why designers should step aside, and understand users’ of the buildings point of view.
