Architectural Wokshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 2011

 I am happy to announce that I will take part in a very exciting workshop in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil organized by the AA – Architectural Association School of Architecture. The workshop titled MATERIA PRIMA organized by AA tutors and SUBdv directors Franklin Lee and Anne Save de Beaurecueil will investigate “global and local sensibilities, between formal and informal economies, as well as between high-tech and low-tech fabrication processes”.

The really exciting part is that we will working with the materials from the over-the-top Rio Carnival 2011 season – from giant articulated folkloric toys to colourful costumes and crazy platforms. The workshop is open for all design students and professionals from all over the world. To recap: hands on workshop in Rio de Janeiro, using lots of high-low tech architectural techniques to deal with the RAW Materials from the Carnival 2011.

The dates are: April 5-14

For more information about the course and how to apply click here:

http://rio.aaschool.ac.uk

Ricardo de Ostos

Brazil:Swarming Futures – London Festival of Architecture 2010

 

 Image: The Ultimate Skyscraper by Vazio, Illustration by Vasco Mourao

Exhibition and Installation, Talks and Debates, International Architecture Showcase

25 June – 11 August

‘Swarming Futures’ explores the way innovation in design can be generated by large patchworks of inclusive collaboration and creative exchange. Recently appointed hosts of large international events, most notably the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympic Games, Brazilian cities have become a ground for speculation and intense scrutiny.

Designers, politicians, communities, businesses, participants and visitors are all agents and stakeholders in a massive swarm of interests and possibilities that will ultimately shape the cities and lives in Brazil’s near future.

Curated by London-based architect Ricardo de Ostos, the exhibition explores how unique associations between mainstream and underground forces can open new fields for innovative buildings and city planning. Aiming for fresh ideas, it displays projects that explore trans-disciplinary and spontaneous networks between the social, economic and cultural. Maverick cooperation and urban experiments in and for the city are uncertain, and at times unpredictable, but fundamental to encourage social progress.

‘Swarming Futures’ brings together a cross-section of current, cutting-edge Brazilian architectural proposals. Selected projects include large infrastructural interventions, such as the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Park, designed by BCMF, as well as local and sensitive proposals by São Paulo practice MMBB.The inventive Brazilian-French architects Triptyque display their well-known ecological projects alongside new and exciting experiments. Strengthening the speculative vein of the exhibition theme, Vazio S/A present their hyper-critical project ‘Ultimate Skyscraper’ which discusses the impact of large scale commercial developments, while additional features investigate innovation and interdisciplinary collaboration in the contemporary scene of Brazilian architecture.

The exhibition itself is an assemblage of diverse urban elements, including already built and yet to be built projects, from individual buildings to larger city scale projects. Following the exhibition opening, on 26 June, there will be an all-day symposium with invited guests from Brazil and abroad, providing an invaluable opportunity to discuss new partnerships not only amongst designers but also between different welcoming cities across Brazil and the world.

Swarming Futures

Rendering Speculation symposium – AA School London

Rendering Speculations symposium

Friday 7 May

1pm -6pm – AA LECTURE HALL

Architectural Association

I am organizing this event in London and althought is not related to Brazilian architecture I thought that some of you would be interested to join us at the AA School.

A symposium coordinated by Ricardo de Ostos (AA Inter 3/NaJa-DeOstos) and Tobias Klein (AA First Year/Horhizon)

Rendering Speculations is a day-long AA event in which seven invited guests, from a variety of different fields including architecture, conceptual art, video gaming and interface design, will discuss the topic of speculative visualisation and virtual design. Highlighting a variety of disciplines and approaches, the event seeks to locate architecture as a magnifying lens through which digital visions and speculations are imagined.

Navigating through CG film sets, a digital life painting performance, augmented reality strategies, narrative scenarios, experimental drawings and political projects, the concept of speculation will be discussed as an inventive design methodology. In an age where borders between physical and virtual environments are constantly shifting, the symposium looks to stimulate a debate on how architecture can explore emerging mediums and assist in the creation of new visions that we imagine, aspire and experience in the years to come.

The event will be streamed live on the AA website at aaschool.ac.uk.

Speakers include:

Marjan Colletti

architect, an architectural educator, researcher, and co-principal of ‘marcosandmarjan design limited he is teaching at the Bartlett UCL the diploma unit 20, who explores digital architecture and representation. He recently guest edited the last  AD issue titled ‘Exuberance’

www.marjan-colletti.blogspot.com

Nigel Coates

architect and interior and furniture designer and head of the architectural department at the Royal College of Art – His subversive spirit first came to public attention in 1984 with the publication of NATO (Narrative Architecture Today) magazine – a manifesto for a socio-culturally engaged and popular, narrative driven architecture.

www.nigelcoates.com

Ziah Fogel

American computer animation technical director who worked for Pixar Animation Studios and is currently working at Double Negative Visual Effects.
www.dneg.com

 Zaha Hadid

Founder or seminal architectural office Zaha Hadid Architects

www.zaha-hadid.com

 Andrew Jones

World famous digital painter and ‘techno-mystic visual pioneer of digital art’

www.androidjones.net

 Lebbeus Woods

American architect and educator whose work envisions experimental constructs and the question of the individual in society

www.lebbeuswoods.net

The event will be streamed live on the AA website at aaschool.ac.uk.

Sponsored by:

www.crystalcg.co.uk