London calling

We're in London to receive the AR award at RIBA, we'll tell you all about it when we get back..

Les Lotte! med flere..

New Meaning

Åpen Klasse / Open Class
Alle er velkommen! / Open for all!
Kunstakademiet i Tromsø / Tromsø Academy of Fine Art
Strandveien 8 (Inngang Nord / Northern enterance)
Torsdag / Thursday 27.11, kl. 15.00
Ebba Moi: Kan jeg starte bølgen? - presentasjon av et deltagende kunstprosjekt og relaterte prosjekter. Ebba Moi will present the project New Meaning.

..and within Ebba's work-shop at the Art Academy, Public Space and Alternative Strategies, Magdalena will teach Wednesday..

men alle presidentene...

Den som vil følge med i debatten om NALs fremtidige president/er kan gjøre det her. (hvor alle innlegg ligger klikkbare i høyrespalten)

Glacier talks

Today Gisle gives a lecture at Fehn's Glacier Museum in Fjærland, invited by the Sogn og Fjordane Architect Association for celebrating their 25th anniversary.

Academy Talks

Tromsø Kunstakademi / Academy of Fine Arts is organizing a seminar on its physical framing and future and how this meets reality and political will. In this context several lectures will be given - by university people, artists, politicians.. Magdalena will participate with a talk on experiences from designing for an art school. The event is open for all and takes place Thursday 13th of November at the Art Academy, Strandvegen 8.
Saturday there will be a presentation of the 2nd year students' practice, 12.00-16.00 at the academy, and today 1st year students put the crisis in the centre.. somewhere in Tromsø..
If you haven't yet signed the students' petition for securing the future and continuation of the Art Academy do it here.

new week new book

..or big week big book..

The Phaidon Atlas of 21st Century World Architecture arrived with our National Tourist Routes projects presented in it - as a few grams of the massive amount of kilos The best 21st century architecture from all over the world apparently consists of..

out of office

Anniken gives a lecture at the national kindergarten conference in Bolkesjø, while some of us are in Oslo for the kick-off reception and seminar for the Deichmann/Munch competition.

Paris in the autumn

Small report from last week's Paris:
-yes, the right answer to the five clues was of course Villa Savoie, and the clues nothing less than Le Corbusier's cinq points d'une architecture nouvelle: the fundamental principles for the modern movement formulated in 1927.
-Jussieu Atrium and De La Ville Café by Périphériques / Louis Paillard
-St Blaise and great discussion and dinner with Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou of atelier d'architecture autogerée.

+ of course a lot more, as always in Paris ( cnac and PdT are les indispensables), for instance an apparition in one of our great friend and artist Michel Lascault's vidéo-clips: détourne mes yeux

VS

5 clues concerning today's activities: pilotis; toits-jardins; plan libre; façade libre; fenêtre en longueur. Voilà, now you should know where we are!