Archive for 2009 September
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Live post 6 – Jeremy Till closes the 2009 Symposium
Jeremy Till presents “Architecture is not Architecture is not architecture” in which he discusses the limited role of the architect, referring to the RIBA Plan of Work as a restrictive definition of the architect’s
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Live post 5 – Future of Practice Session
Christian Derix shows examples of his computer simulation work at the R&D department of Aedas, looking at behavioural modelling and the process of generating a form from data. Heuristic algorithms that result in the best arrangement
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Live post 4 – Ideology of Practice
Starting with a film presentation entitled “Telling It As It Is”, Jonathan Charley examines architecture as a capitalist process in a world of commodity production, questioning whether the profession can ever have true creative
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Live post 3 – Organisation of Practice Session
Jim Saker opens this session, with his presentation “Adaptable Futures – Is it the Future?”. Starting with an apology on behalf of the motor industry, Saker explains his background and as an architectural outsider provides
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Live post 2 – Evolution of Practice Session
An interesting first session of the day covering the evolution of architectural practice. Simon Pepper opened his presentation “Rise and Fall: A long century of changing public sector practice” with a graph showing the drastic decline in the proportion of architects
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Live post 1 – Welcome and Keynote from Anne Lacaton
Welcome to the live coverage of the 2009 RIBA Research Symposium – Changing Practices. Updates will follow at key points throughout the day summarising the presentations and debate from Portland Place. Following a brief address
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RIBA Research Symposium 2009 Live Blog – Changing Practices
This week the fourth annual RIBA Research Symposium will be held at the institute’s headquarters at Portland Place, London. The theme for 2009 is ‘Changing Practices’, taking an introspective look at the profession and
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The journey through Spain
Our journey from Barcelona to Madrid took us through the beautiful countryside of central Spain via Zaragoza where they have taken advantage of the sweeping plains to erect a number of wind farms to
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So on to Madrid!
The Palladio exhibition has finished in Barcelona to the next stop for us is the city of Madrid and the CaixaForum Madrid which is housed in an 1899 power station converted into a cultural
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Show me the money.
Common cash flow forecasting errors
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