Tuesday January 24 2012

Time: 18:30 hrs
Location: Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam
(this is the back entrance of the Willem de Kooning Academy-building)
Admission: free

The lecture is open for public and will take place in studio W.1.145

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Brian Peters of DesignLabWorkshop will present several projects, ranging from small products to large architectural installations, that explore ideas around materials, craft, digital fabrication and user interaction. DesignLabWorkshop is an award-winning interdisciplinary studio that focuses on the intersection between art, architecture and product design.

Brian Peters founded DesignLabWorkshop in 2008 to explore how art, architecture and product design can influence one another. With a passion for design, research and fabrication, he is always in search of new ideas and his work has been exhibited in numerous museums and exhibitions, including the 2010 Architecture Biennial in Beijing and the Design Hub Museum in Barcelona. Outside of the studio, Brian has taught design and fabrication at the Institute of Advanced Architecture in Catalonia (IAAC) in Barcelona, Spain, worked as project architect in Chicago, and is currently collaborating with DUS Architects in Amsterdam. He is also teaching this semester’s design studio course for the Piet Zwart Institute’s Master of Interior Architecture and Retail Design.

Unbridled Pillar,
2010, Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, New York
Material: Concrete spacers/ tie- raps

INVADE SPACES
Lecture by Tanja Smeets
Artist

Date: Thursday November 17 2011
Time: 18:30 hrs
Location: Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam
(this is the back entrance of the Willem de Kooning Academy-building)

The lecture will take place in studio W.1.145
Admission: free

In the work of Tanja Smeets intangible, furtive growth processes play a prominent role. Her amorphous sculptures nestle in places where they don’t belong. She has a distinct preference for industrial materials or goods from daily life: Lentils, dried beans, polystyrene balls with a sand coating, foam strings, concrete spacers, tied up plastic wire, strings of lycra.

Under Tanja Smeets hands these materials change into sculptures that invade spaces like alien creatures. Developing hyperorganic shapes that can ooze through walls, both indoors and outdoors, infiltrating and merging with the identity of the architecture, friendly structures that take over a building in a secretive way. The sculptures infiltrate the everyday environment to then get interlaced with it. This creates a strange tension; the sculpture obtains an almost natural place despite its unbridled, disturbing growth process. As if it has always been there.

“Untitled”
2009 , Commission Woerden Municipal Council
Materials : Ceramics and the bricks that are used in the wall.
Dimensions: Widht: 1: 1.60 meters/ Height: 65 centimeters

Lisa Hassenzadeh
CONCRETE Architects
Concept and Identity

Guest Lecture Series
Date: October 6 2011
Time: 18:00 hrs

Location: Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam
Studio: W1.145
Admission: free and open to the public

Public Space in the Context of a Cultural Diverse City

Date: Wednesday September 28 2011
Time: 10:30 hrs
Location: Wijnhaven 61, Rotterdam
(this is the back entrance of the Willem de Kooning Academy-building)

The lecture will take place in studio W.1.145
Admission: free

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On Wednesday September 28 at 10:30 hours, the first lecture within the Public Programme: Lecture Series of the Master Interior Architecture & Retail Design department will have its kick off. During this lecture we will have two speakers:

• Hugo Bongers
  Lector of the research programme ‘Cultural Diversity’ of the Rotterdam University
• Robbert de Vrieze
  Designer/architect for Transformism

Hugo Bongers works for the last 4 decades in the cultural field as a policy maker and advisor. Besides his commission as lector Cultural Diversity at the Rotterdam University), he’s also employed as secretary of the Rotterdam Arts Council (Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur). Previously he held the position of deputy director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and as the financial director of the museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. The

Robbert de Vrieze is designer and architect at Transformism. During the lecture he will give an introducation on his work on redesign of the interior (& exterior) of existing buildings in Rotterdam.

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The lecture will be held in English.

For more information, please contact:

Vanessa Tuitel: coordinator Piet Zwart Institute
E-mail: v.a.j.tuitel@hr.nl
Phone: +31 (0)10 794 4716

Interior Architecture students are in Cagliari, Italy to participate in a workshop with architecture students from the University of Cagliari, School of Architecture.

We are pleased to invite you to the final presentation of the work of Domesticity & PUBLIC SPACE Workshop, organized within the activities of the Integrated Laboratory of Architectural Design for Internationalisation Programme 4 and Visiting Professor, 2010, in cooperation with the Master Program Interior Architecture, Piet Zwart Institute Willem de Kooning Academy Rotterdam

Friday, June 10, 2011 17:30 h, Aula Magna of the Faculty of Architecture, Cagliari, IT
Cesarina Siddi, Ruth Baumeister, Didier Bequillard