Architecture and Vision: from Pyramids to Spacecraft
A lecture by Andreas Vogler
Time: 16:00 – 18:00, Saturday May 14, 2011
Location: Xindanwei, 50 Yongjia Rd, Shanghai
Language: English
Cost: 40RMB/person (including fresh ground coffee, tea and fruits)
Organizer: Architecture and Vision; Xindanwei
About the lecture:
Architecture, Aerospace, People, Beauty, Nature, Genius Loci
Drawing inspiration from nature and scientific progress, Architecture and Vision aims to improve the quality of life through a wise use of technologies and available resources to create a harmonious integration of humans, technology and nature by design.
The company has been founded by Italian architect Arturo Vittori and Swiss architect Andreas Vogler. With experience in aerospace and architecture, Architecture and Vision is merging these skills to create a vision of the future, which is expressed through their projects. AV has gained a particular interest and passion for the exploration of space, and is engaged in developing projects for aerospace — a field in which multidisciplinarity and innovation are required to the utmost. To design for space requires researching and developing solutions that assure the optimal use of available resources, with minimal consumption, activating processes of valorization and waste treatment in order to guarantee sustained self-sufficiency. A similar approach and methodology applied to architecture and design can lead to the improvement of life on Earth.
The projects presented range from houses and sculptures, which clean the air, tents, which cool themselves using the local solar energy in the desert to mobile pavilions and towers, which walk. Planning Space Habitats and Hygiene Units for developing countries are not a contradiction, but a clear consequence of understanding the preciousness of resources like clean air or potable water. It is a the economy of the third wave AV is designing for, where people and their designed objects are not just consuming and polluting the clean resources of nature, but are actively producing them. We live in a time, where people can easily build robots or wind machines to power their homes. The openess of the design process fostered at AV allows to move into different fields quickly and push innovation.
In the age of ubiquitous internet communication and kitchen-built robots, where sophisticated technology not only becomes cheaply available, but also fun, we see our planet from outside, we not only learn how fragile it is, but also how much potential we have. Design is in its deepest sense the exploration of the yet unknown.
The Architecture and Vision is invited by Swissnex to show their traveling exhibition “FROM PYRAMIDS TO SPACECRAFT” during the “2011 Shanghai International Science & Art Exhibition” organized by the Shanghai Association for Science and Technology (SAST). The exhibition will take place from 13 to 22 May 2011 at Shanghai Pudong Expo.
Please visit AV’s website at www.architectureandvision.com
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@chillwind: Hello there, you simply need to check in at the bottom of this event page to reserve a seat, and come to the event on time! The address is 50 Yongjia Rd., you may find a map somewhere on our website
hello, I’d like to attend this lecture, how can I attend it?
@George Moroz:
Thank you so much for sharing the information, George. It’s inspiring! Hope to meet you in another Xindanwei event!
Sounds like a wonderfully interesting presentation. Sorry that I cannot be there to participate. For those who are interested in the topic, however, check out the following link from The Henry Ford’s website on another visionary architectural marvel, Bukminster Fuller’s famed Dymaxion House. Here’s the link for any and all interested: http://www.thehenryford.org/exhibits/dymaxion/index.html