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  • Wednesday 16th September – Architecture Day

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    We haven’t got a whole week of events for you this year, but we do have 3 events all on one day, so we reckon that’ll do just as well. All events will be held in Rutherford House in the Pipitea campus – starting at 4.00pm with Adrian Leaman, continuing at 5.30 with McBride Charles…

  • MODULOR BEAT

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    School of Architecture, Lecture Theatre 1, 139 Vivian Street 18:00 start (drinks from 17:30) Modulorbeat is a young, innovative design studio based in Münster, Germany. The multiple award winning team is dedicated to the development and realization of interdisciplinary projects in the fields of architecture, design and urbanism. CPD Points available

  • Adrian Leaman

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    On the 16th of September, we have a Super Triple header event of Architecture for you. All events will be at Rutherford House, Victoria University Pipitea campus. Starting the afternoon / evening off is Adrian Leaman, one of the world’s foremost experts on post-occupancy evaluations. The talk by Leaman (a must for students as well…

  • McBride Charles Ryan

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    Appearing on the same evening as Shigeru Ban, are Australian architects McBride and Ryan. McBride and Ryan’s work is some of the most daring and intersting work to come out of Australia in recent years. Sponsors for this event, Dulux, are putting on drinks for the event before hand, so come along at 5.00pm, for…

  • Shigeru Ban

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    Shigeru Ban will be appearing in Wellington, for one evening lecture only, on the 16th September. The Japan Foundation have kindly sponsored Ban’s visit, and we recommend you RSVP asap to ensure that your seat can be reserved for this talk. Ban has become well known throughout the world in architectural circles for his innovative…

  • Phil Jones : shared spaces expert

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    Lecture Theatre One, School of Architecture, 139 Vivian Street, Wellington RSVP by 5pm Tuesday 8 September to Anna Wood Wellington City Council pleased to invite AC members to hear shared spaces expert Phil Jones deliver a public lecture on his experiences with shared spaces. ‘Shared spaces’ aim to create a better balance of priorities between…

  • Wellington Balconies

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    While you’re waiting for your next newsletter to appear, we thought that you might like to have a go at a small quiz, on the subject of balconies. They’re that appendage to a building that often gets little consideration, little forethought as to what it is going to be used as or how it is…

  • Video of the Week XXIX: Russian Winter Series IV

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    This last segment in the Russian Winter Series has three longish films (in internet terms – they’re only 8ish minutes each) – three parts of “Paradoxes in Russian Style of Constructivism”. They take a little more patience that the previous installments – partly because they’re not in English – but I found the interesting aesthetic…

  • Plant your building

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    There’s an old adage that while Doctors can bury their mistakes, Architects have to live with them. By the same token, the only thing to do with some buildings to disguise their ugliness, is to plant ivy and hope it covers up the hideousness. French architect botanist Patrick Blanc has spent

  • Video of the Week XXVIII: Russian Winter Series III

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    The long awaited Russian Sci-Fi and the really nice “Bullet Factory” (not a sentence I ever thought I’d type – or say!) .. silent to begin with – but will all that intense facial expression who needs sound? Aelita 1920’s Russian Sci-fi film extract

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