Issue 2nd, Year 2nd | 2012 www.journalofbiourbanism.org | ISSN 2240-2535 | Biannual review edited in Rome, Italy For this issue some distinguished authors have also submitted their work to be peer reviewed and eventually be published alongside with PhD scholars work. It is an honour for us in Biourbanism to get so much response to […] read more
Marco Casagrande has been awarded the 2013 European Prize for Architecture. Finnish, Italian roots, 42, Marco is an original architect and environmental artist, urban philosopher, architectural theorist, writer, and professor of architecture. Principal at Casagrande Laboratory in Helsinki, Finland, at WEAK!, together with Hsieh Ying-Chun and Roan Ching-Yueh in Taipei, Taiwan, and founder of the […] read more
Ruin Academy starts operating in Artena (Rome, Italy) in co-operation with the International Society of Biourbanism Artena (Rome), 20th July 2013, 6:00 pm Opening ceremony with Marco Casagrande (Founder of Ruin Academy) Stefano Serafini (Research Director of International Society of Biourbanism) As the launching event we will present our new book: “BIOURBAN ACUPUNCTURE – […] read more
Extended service design for the development of the 18th “Comunità Montana dei Monti Lepini” (Mountain Communities of Lepini Mountains) Segni (Rome), 16th June 2013, 6:00 pm Organizers: International Society of Biourbanism & Progetto Artena, in collaboration with Comunità Montana dei Monti Lepini BIOURBANISM AND REVITALIZATION OF SPACES Biourbanism connects natural sciences, humanity, and architecture in order […] read more
Exploring New Ideas, Practices and Alliances ECC 2013 CONFERENCE Berlin, Germany, May 22–24, 2013 Conference Organizers: Commons Strategies Group, Heinrich Böll Foundation One of the most significant impediments to positive social change is the entrenched power of market-fundamentalism as an economic and political paradigm. The prevailing dogma is that only a scheme of individual self-interest, […] read more
University of Kent, Canterbury (UK), 27-28 June 2013 Artscapes 2013 is a two-day interdisciplinary conference aims to provide a forum for academic, policy and practitioner engagement with the relationships between the public and urban art. Artscapes seeks to critically examine the relationship between art and urban places, questioning in what ways urban art can engage […] read more
The sixth edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam opens in May 2014 in the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. The Dutch landscape architect Dirk Sijmons is the curator and the theme is Urban by Nature. IABR-2014-Urban by Nature claims that we can only resolve the environmental problems of the world if we resolve the urban problems. […] read more
RULES The International Society of Biourbanism, in cooperation with “Progetto Artena” and “Immaginari Urbani”, promotes the international photo contest “Sguardi su Artena” (“Glimpses of Artena”). TEMA The photo contest aims to promote Artena, by using pictures to tell its extraordinary historical centre, the landscapes, the “contrade”, the characters and the people, the festivals and the […] read more
Apple Inc. June 14, 2011 Dear Mr Jobs,Due to the wonders of the iPad, I came across your June 7th presentation to the Cupertino council of the plans for the new Apple campus. My excitement at the start of your presentation — expecting Apple’s cutting edge tradition to appear in the Architecture and Planning — […] read more
On RMJM, or the fall of gods The monstrous project of building a 403 meters skyscraper in the centre of St. Petersburg, Russia, has been dismissed by a presidential ukaz ( http://rt.com/politics/gazprom-skyscraper-moved-petersburg/ ).According to Guardian, company in charge of realizing the Okhta Centre, the Scotland-based multinational RMJM, is sailing in troubled waters. Newspaper points out […] read more