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May 05, 2008 - lecture by Eduardo Souto de Moura at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona

The Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura will give a lecture at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Barcelona. This event is part of the presentation of the Concrete Design Competition to students at the ETSAB. An introduction to the competition theme will be presented by Juan Herreros, curator of the current competition cycle.

April 30, 2008 - Basic knowledge about concrete, lecture at the School of Design and Crafts in Göteborg, Sweden

On April 30th, 10.00—12.00, Sten Hjelm, concrete technician of Cementa, will give a lecture on the basics of the concrete material and its use. Place: HDK, Kristinelundsgatan 6-8, Göteborg. The lecture is organized as a follow-up of the information about the Concrete Design Competition earlier given by Anita Stenler at this school.

April 21, 2008 - lecture by Solano Benítez at Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid

The Paraguayan architect Solano Benitez - nominee for the Swiss International Award - will lecture at the Esuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. This event is part of the presentation of the Concrete Design Competition to students of the ETSAM. An introduction to the competition theme will be presented by Juan Herrerosm, curator of the current competition cycle.

Th electure will start at 12.00, auditorium

deSingel, Antwerpen host for the Concrete Design Master Class on Implicit Performance

We are very happy to announce that the host for the upcoming master class for laureates will de deSingel in Antwerp, Belgium. They generously provide ample spaces for us to work, eat and have lectures. The available work spaces include a covered outside space for us to actually work with concrete.

deSingel’s intention is to become a vigorous and large-scale arts campus that presents and produces contemporary and international art and makes it accessible to the broadest possible audience.
The artistic disciplines to which deSingel has committed itself are theatre, dance, music and architecture. Its core task is to show and offer support to the production of contemporary international art. This involves the work of both foreign artists and companies and work from Belgium that seeks to connect up with the international nature of its operations. Presentation and production (and coproduction) take place in the context of cohesive program entities and are underpinned for the audience by means of information and education.
As a large-scale, international, multidisciplinary arts campus, deSingel operates on the basis of a unique infrastructure: a medium-sized concert hall (968 seats), a large hall for theatre and dance (801 seats) and a small hall for talks (90 seats). Architectural exhibitions are held in the corridors.

for information visit:
http://www.desingel.be

March 04 - 07, 2008 - Concrete Design Week, TU Delft, Netherlands

The graduation studio of Kees Kaan at the Technical University Delft will start with a two-day lecture series related to concrete and the Concrete Design Competition. Later in the week a workshop series will start to support the students that will also participate in the competition as part of their graduation program.

The lecture series are open to all students. The workshop (and critic) program has some places open for students that are participating in the competition but that are not part of the graduation studio.

March 04 & 05, TU Delft, faculty of architecture, room 1-1

Program March 04:
- 13.45, introduction - Henri van Bennekom (TU Delft)
- 14.00, opening lecture series - Hans Köhne (Cement&BetonCentrum)
- 14.05, State of the Art - Fair Faced Concrete - Henk Oude Kempers (ABT)
- 14.45, Thermal Insulating Concrete - Gert van der Wegen ( INTRON)
- 15.30, break + movie
- 16.00, Green Concrete - Michiel Haas (NIBE)
- 16.30, Green facades and Concrete, doctoral research - Marc Ottelé (Phd CT)

Program March 05:
- 10.00, Implicit Performance - Siebe Bakker (bureaubakker)
- 10.30, Ultra High Performace Concrete - Niek Kaptijn (Hageman Consultants)
- 11.10, movie
- 11.30, Introduction to Self Healing Material Concepts - Sybrand van der Zwaag (TU Delft L&R)
- 12.30, lunch
- 13.30, Light Transmitting Concrete, Ingo Gast
- 14.45, Experiments with Light Transmitting Concrete - Hans Köhne (Cement&BetonCentrum)
- 15.30, Concrete Structures in the wind - Rob Nijsse (ABT)
- 16.15, Intro to workshop program - Siebe Bakker (bureaubakker)

February 14, 2008 - lectures on concrete for students TU Eindhoven

A second studio at the TU Eindhoven led by Christian Rapp has adopted the competition theme. The studio will start with half a day of lectures on concrete and the competition. The lectures are open to all students.

TU Eindhoven, Netherlands - auditorium room 3.12 - 09.30 - 12.30

program:
- introduction - Christian Rapp (TU/e)
- light transmitting concrete - Hans Köhne (Cement&BetonCentrum)
- thermal insulating concrete - Hans Köhne
- ultra high strength concrete - Niek Kaptijn (Hageman Consultants)
- Concrete Design Comeptition - Siebe Bakker (bureaubakker)

January 29, 2008 - Gregor Zimermann lectures at TU Eindhoven

related to the kick-off for a semester long studio at the Technical University Eindhoven Gregor Zimmermann from G.tecz will lecture on Ultra High Performance Concrete.

The studio led by Gerald Lindner, Ralph Brodruck and Aant van der Zee has adopted the competition theme within its course. Students following the course will get extended support in the form of lectures, workshops and critics.

G.tecz – German technologies and engineering concepts – is an upcoming company in the fields of material, especially concrete optimization and ultra high performance concrete (UHPC) development in combination with structure as well as product development and attended technology transfer. Latest research and technical expertises, like nano based particle packing optimizing algorithms are used the develop UHPC with local recourses. That is a unique service at the market. With the scientific and practice orientated background, G.tecz is able to offer a span of innovative services. The company comes with a long lasting experience in Material development and technology transfer. Costumers are located in Austria and Germany and are acquiring Gtecz as innovation driver and technology developer.

January 25, 2008 - Presentation at Norwegian University of Science and Technology

On January 25 Kristin Kvisvik (national coordinator for Norway) will introduce the Concrete Design Competition Implicit Performance at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology

A+ Interview with Juan Herreros available for download

A+ together with Kersten Geers travelled to Madrid to interview Juan Herreros. It became a dialogue on beauty entitled ' Architecture as Formula 1'. Both the French and Dutch versions of this article are available for download in our press section.

November 27, 2007 - Presentation at Turin Politecnico

On November 27th Annalisa Torta the second prize winner of the Concrete Design Competition on plastic-OPACITY (2005/2006)presented her awarded project to an audience of students at Turin Politecnico Faculty of Architecture and talked about her experience in the Master Class at the Bauhaus Dessau in August 2006.

At the same session Maria Teresa Briotti (national coordinator for Italy) presented the current competition cycle: Implicit Performance to lecturers and students of the Project Unit:“Architectonic materials and quality– Architecture in exposed concrete” of the Specialist Degree in Constructions. It is a degree course run by the 1st Faculty of Architecture of Turin’s Polytechnic in conjunction with lecturers S.L. Pagliolico, N. Maritano Comoglio, A. Lacirignola, who coordinate the Modules “Science and Technology of concrete” and “Experimenting with concrete”.

The Project Unit has already experimented with innovative methods such as learning by doing: learning through putting things into practice, handling, acting on and experimenting with real materials to make physical objects whilst at the same time understanding, analysing and elaborating the results obtained on a theoretical level. This is the experience-based educational strategy adopted by the Architecture Faculties of Turin’s Polytechnic. The two course levels, namely the three-year degree and the specialist degree, will enable students to take part in Workshops, architectural and technological design Units and work placements.

November 20, 2007 - Download Herreros' presentation at Bozar

On November 6 Juan Herreros presented to an audience of about 250 Belgian students his views on the Concrete Design Competition. Besides explaining his considerations for accepting the task of curator and his office's attitudes towards materials, he elaborated on the theme 'Implicit Performance'.


Now available for download is an audio file containing Juan's full presentation. Also available are two movie files containing a selection of this event.

Herreros_Implicit_Performance_071106_Bozar.m4a.zip (audio / 9 MB)

071106_herreros_bozar_part_1.mp4.zip (video / 10 MB)

071106_herreros_bozar_part_2.mp4.zip (video / 8 MB)

November 6, 2007 - Risky Business

Curator Juan Herreros will lecture on the works of Ábalos & Herreros Architects, Madrid. Preceding this lecture he will present the 3rd International Concrete Design Competition for students - Implicit Performance elaborating on its theme and assignment.


'Risky Business' is a co-production of A+, Bozar and the Order of Architects and is supported by FEBELCEM.


programme November 6, 2007:
18.00 - briefing Concrete Design Competition
20.00 - lecture

students attending the briefing will obtain free access to the evening lecture

location:
Bozar / Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
Rue Ravensteinstraat 23
1000 Brussels
Belgium

info:
FEBELCEM, national secretary Belgium
http://www.bozar.be

October 5, 2007 - Briefing AHO, Oslo

Siebe Bakker - international consultant / coordinator - will present the 3rd Concrete Design Competition for students - Implicit Performance at the Oslo School of Architecture. This presentation will cover the initiative, competition programme, theme and assignment.


programme October 5, 2007:
13.00 - briefing Concrete Design Competition

info:
Norcem - national secretary Norway