PROFESSION

06Aug 2014

Anuala Timișoreană de Arhitectură – a_ta is the most important professional event organized by the Timiş branch of the Romanian Order of Architects (OAR), with the financial support of OAR.

The project’s main objective is to distinguish and promote excellence in architecture and, in doing so, to highlight exemplary professional practices.

Even though a_ta addresses mainly the architectural profession, a major goal of the project is to attract the general public’s interest in quality architecture and to engage it in the architectural phenomenon, of which it is the ultimate beneficiary. To this purpose, the a_ta events have a public dimension – the exhibition, debates, workshops and conferences are open to everyone – and a formative one – by exposing the community to the values of quality architecture.

This year’s concept - present! - has this major goal as its starting point, thus generating a form of curating that highlights and at the same time questions different types of processes that take place as part of an architect’s path within context: the educational process, the process of buiding a practice, the relations with communities, the project, a discourse, etc.

We used the same type of process for the CONFERENCES - which represent a collection of different practice typologies, interesting  either becauseof their typical concept for building, because of the manner in which an architect might have chosento associate with others or with the community, or for their architectural discourse regarding the physical and theoretical background we are living within in the present.

 

ARCHITECTS ABOUT ARCHITECTURE is, in conclusion, a collection of different ways of understanding what architecture might mean in the present.

 

Before attending the conferences, we inviteyou to go over the profiles of our 8 lecturers:

 

21 november, hrs. 17:00

Unu La Unu – Bucharest

Fala atelier – Porto

Space Caviar – Genoa

DPR – Barcelona

 

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edit! – Prague

XML – Amsterdam

Raphael Zuber – Chur

die Baupiloten – Berlin

06Aug 2014

In follow-up of this year’s theme for a_ta 2014, present!,  POST-ARCHITECTURE ALTERNATIVES [CHRONICLES] is a compilation project, consisting of a collection of stories authored by architects who developed alternative means of existence within the community by orienting their curiosities, thoughts and their life towards remarcable activities.

Architects are invited to share their personal experiences related to alternative activities, also showcasing if and how architecture has influenced them. For this reason, the following line-up of questions has been addressed:

  • How would you introduce yourself to strangers?
  • What made you choose architecture as a profession?
  • How has architecture influenced you personal development?
  • How would you describe your alternative activity to people unfamiliar with it?
  • How has the transition from architecture to your alternative activity occured?
  • How do the two activities influence each other?
  • To what degree are you present in each of the activities?

The resulting chronicles will be published periodically on the internet, until the termination of a_ta 2014.

 

 

06Aug 2014

*** PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS COMPETITION IS RESTRICTED TO ROMANIAN CITIZENS

The Timiş branch of OAR (the Romanian Order of Architects) has the pleasure of inviting you to participate at the first edition of the architectural essay competition a_ta 2014. The competition, launched for the first time this year, is opened to anyone interested in architectural theory and its manifestations in the local architectural landscape.

Through this initiative the 2014 edition of a_ta, themed “present!”, aims to stimulate and acknowledge the theoretic discourse in architecture and, in doing so, to facilitate a different type of presence than a strictly material one, customary to architecture. The competition’s subject – a critical approach of the relationship between architecture and the economic, political, social, cultural etc. present which contains it – is derived from the necessity to investigate and reconsider architecture’s temporal dimension as a result of the contemporary shift of the architectural character from a producer of objects to a manager of processes.

Students, art/architecture critics, professors, philosophers, theorists, sociologists, architects, urbanists, designers etc. are invited to submit a critical essay on the proposed subject. The award, 2000 lei, will be conferred at the a_ta 2014 gala, in December.

The jury is comprised of 3 members: conf. dr. arh. Francoise Pamfil, prof. dr. arh. Ana Maria Zahariade, prof. dr. arh. Ioan Andreescu.

Competition timeline:

- launch: August 1st

- Q&A: August 1st – August 31st

(questions will be sent by email to contact@anualadearhitectura.ro, answers will be posted on the annual’s site)

- registration and submission deadline: November 3rd

- jury deliberations: November 17th – November 30th

- announcement of winner essay: December 3rd

- prize award: December 12th

a_ta is the most important architectural event in Timisoara, organized by the Timis branch of the Romanian Order of Architects (OAR), with the financial support of OAR derived from architectural services tax. This year’s edition, themed present!, establishes as its scope to provoke to dialogue and to experiment with different types of interaction by means of cultural events and interventions unfolded on a 6 months timeline.
For more details about a_ta 2014, you can contact the organizing team by email on contact@anualadearhitectura.ro or onwww.anualadearhitectura.ro.

 

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06Aug 2014

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ARCHITECTURAL VISIONS ON THE PRESENT

How do YOU perceive the present in architecture?

 

Today, boundaries encompassing our activity as architects are softening. Because technology is constantly evolving, time accelerates at an unprecedented rate. In this context, a question arises: how has architecture changed and how do we, as professionals, perceive it today?

In essence, the project entitled ARCHITECTURAL VISIONS ON THE PRESENT implies an open call to architects to express their vision, in a graphical manner, in reply to this question: How do you perceive the present in architecture?

Our scope is to collect as many personal views as possible, in order to create a general perspective on how architecture is perceived, in the current spatial and temporal context.

The end-product of this endeavour will be gathered, archived and exhibited during the 2014 Timişoara architecture annual a_ta. The first exhibition will take place on November 10th 2014, in Timişoara. For this reason, completed postcards are to be submitted until November 3rd 2014.

The collection of postacards will also be digitally available for viewing on www.anualadearhitectura.ro.

Postcards will be distributed in all regional branches of the Romanian Order of Architects OAR, where you will be able to get one and, once completed, submit it. Completed postcards can also be sent directly, express or via mail, at the address already marked on the back of the postcard.

ARCHITECTURAL VISIONS ON THE PRESENT is a project developed during the 2014 edition of the Timişoara architecture annual, themed present!. The annual is organized by the Timiş branch of OAR, with the financial support of OAR derived from the architectural services tax.

 

a_ta is the most important architectural event in Timisoara, organized by the Timis branch of the Romanian Order of Architects (OAR), with the financial support of OAR derived from architectural services tax. This year’s edition, themed present!, establishes as its scope to provoke to dialogue and to experiment with different types of interaction by means of cultural events and interventions unfolded on a 6 months timeline.

 

For more details about a_ta 2014, you can contact the organizing team by email on contact@anualadearhitectura.ro or on www.anualadearhitectura.ro.

 

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