WOSC

A participação de Gonçalo M. Furtado C. L. no "14th World Organization of Systems [...] International Colloquium", com o paper "Gordon Pask: Exchanges Between Cybernetics and Architecture", foi premiada com "highly Commended Paper".

WORKSHOP

FAUP DEBATE DESAFIOS DA ARQUITECTURA ACTUAL

FAUP DEBATE DESAFIOS DA ARQUITECTURA ACTUAL

Contemporary Architectural Challenges- CAC 08
22 a 24 de Setembro
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto

FAUP debate desafios da Arquitectura Actual

Nos próximos dias 22, 23 e 24 de Setembro, o presente e o futuro da arquitectura vão estar em debate na Faculdade de Arquitectura da U.Porto. Trata-se do "Contemporary Architectural Challenges: Conception, Production and Performance", um encontro internacional de índole científica e cultural que pretende abordar os desafios enfrentados pelo projecto e construção da Arquitectura, face ao actual contexto tecno-cultural.

Organizado pelos professores Rui Póvoas e Gonçalo Furtado, o evento será composto por várias plataformas, envolvendo docentes, investigadores e críticos nacionais e internacionais. Entre os conferencistas que estarão na FAUP destacam-se nomes como os de Pau Sola-Morales, Jasia Reichardt, Ted Krueger, Josep Maria Montaner ou Neil Leach. O programa inclui ainda uma exposição sobre obra de Cedric Price (patente de 22 de Setembro até 2 de Outubro) e um workshop sobre as potencialidades das novas tecnologias no domínio do projecto e produção arquitectónica.

Toda a informação relativa ao programa bem como sobre as inscrições no "Contemporary Architectural Challenges: Conception, Production and Performance" encontra-se disponível no site do evento em http://cac.arq.up.pt ou no site da FAUP em www.arq.up.pt

Contactos:
Serviço de Relações Públicas e Internacionais
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto
T: 226057103/15
F: 226057198
Email: sre@arq.up.pt

Exhibition: Cedric Price´s Generator

EXPOSIÇÃO CEDRIC PRICE'S GENERATOR: THE FRAZERS' COLLECTION

Between 1976 and 1979 the avant-garde architect Cedric Price got himself involved in an enigmatic project that came to be known as the "Generator". The afore mentioned project, designed for the plantation of a North-American millionaire was intended to hold the ever flowing occurrence of new activities, desires and raising of ideas. At that time, John's and Julia Frazer's computer investigation would provide a system designed to stimulate the regeneration of the complex and the project was thus to be acknowledged as the "first intelligent building". The present exhibition, under the curatorship of the FAUP professors Gonçalo Furtado e Rui Póvoas, brings for the first time to the public a set of drawings of the Generator project that are held by the Frazers. The selection, made by Gonçalo Furtado during his research in the UK, was structured by both commissaries and was put into context with the help of contemporaneous bibliographic material. Passing by the numerous items present in the exhibition, the visitor will understand the enormous effort of Cedric Price in the name of an "impermanent architecture, open to the time flow and to the desires of its users" (Furtado), as well as the relevant contribution of John and Julia Frazer.

NOTE: The exhibition held in the Architecture Department of the Oporto University's Museum will be opened to the general public from the 22 nd of September until the 2 nd of October 2008. The commissaries will deliver an opening speech at 14h30 on the 22 nd of September, encompassed on the International Colloquium "Contemporary Architectural Challenges 2008."
Before the exhibition closing, Furtado - author of the book "Generator and Beyond" will conduct a guided visit to the exhibition.

INSERTING NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURAL CURRICULA: A CASE STUDY

NO ÂMBITO DO CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURAL CHALLENGES: CONCEPTION, PRODUCTION AND PREFORMANCE FAUP, 22-24 September 2004
Organization: Gonçalo Furtado e Rui Póvoas





INSERTING NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN UNDERGRADUATE ARCHITECTURAL CURRICULA: A CASE STUDY
Curated by José Pinto Duarte
Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto, 22 a 24 de Setembro de 2008


This EXHIBITION "[...] describes a set of curricular tools devised to insert new technologies in an undergraduate architectural curriculum. These tools encompass three courses and laboratories with advanced geometric modeling, rapid prototyping, virtual reality, and remote collaboration facilities. The immediate goal was to set up the virtual design studio and enable creative design thinking. The ultimate goal was to fulfill the criteria of intellectual satisfaction, acquisition of specialized Professional skills, and contribution finor the economic development of society that should underlie university education." José Pinto Duarte

PROGRAMA GERAL 2008

PROGRAMA GERAL

SIMPÓSIO
22 Setembro 2008
14.00-14.30h - Sessão de Abertura
14.30-15.30h - Conferência 1 (Gonçalo Furtado e Rui Póvoas)
15.30-16.30h - Sessão de comunicações 1 (“Perspectivas no ensino e na investigação”)
16.30-17.00h - Mesa Redonda 1 (“Perspectivas no ensino e na investigação”)
17.00-18.00h - Sessão de comunicações 2 (Perspectivas no ensino e na investigação)
18.00-18.30h - Mesa Redonda 2 - (Perspectivas no ensino e na investigação)
18.30-19.00h - Coffee Break
19.00-20.00h - Conferência 2 (Josep M. Montaner)
23 Setembro 2008
14.30-15.30h - Conferência 3 (Pau Solà-Morales i Serra)
15.30-16.30h - Sessão de comunicações 3 (Concepção e Produção)
16.30-17.00h - Mesa Redonda 3 (Concepção e Produção)
17.00-18.00h - Sessão de comunicações 4 (Concepção e Produção)
18.00-18.30h - Mesa redonda 4 (Concepção e Produção)
18.30-19.00h - Coffee Break
19.00-20.00h - Conferência 4 (Neil Leach)
24 Setembro 2008
14.30-15.30h - Conferência 5 (Ted Krueger)
15.30-16.30 - Sessão de comunicações 5 (Concepção e Performance)
16.30-17.00h - Mesa Redonda 5 (Concepção e Performance)
17.00-18.00h - Sessão de comunicações 6 (Concepção e Performance)
18.00-18.30h - Mesa Redonda 6 (Concepção e Performance)
18.30-19.00h - Coffee Break
19.00-20.00h - Conferência 6 (Jasia Reichardt)
20.00-20.30h - Sessão de Encerramento

WORKSHOP
17 a 24 de Setembro 2008 - Workshop “Projectar e Construir Geometrias Complexas” ministrado por ReD

HOMENAGEM A FERNANDO LISBOA
1 Julho 2008 - Mesa redonda “Homenagem ao Professor Fernando Lisboa” com Isabel Lisboa, Fernanda Lisboa, Francisco Barata, Rui Póvoas, Gonçalo Furtado, Vasco Branco, Domingos Tavares, Marco Ginoulhiac, Andreia Soutinho, José P. Sousa, Francisco G. de Carvalho, António Meireles e João P. Moura; e actuação do Arquicouro.

MOSTRA
22 a 24 de Setembro 2008 - Mostra de trabalhos de CAD-CAM comissariada por José Pinto Duarte.

EXPOSIÇÂO
22 de Setembro a 2 de Outubro de 2008 - Exposição “Cedric Price’s Generator: The Frazers’ Collection” comissariada por Gonçalo Furtado e Rui Póvoas.

CAC 2008 (computation, complexity and emergence)

The department of architecture of the Oporto University will hold, in September 2008, the “Contemporary Architectural Challenges: Conception, Production and Performance”, an international meeting of scientific and cultural foundation that intends to encase the challenges faced nowadays by the project and construction of architectural work in the face of the present techno-cultural context. The afore mentioned event will be organized by Professor Doutor Rui Povoas and Professor Doutor Gonçalo Furtado and will enclose several platforms involving teachers, researchers as well as national and international critics.

This initiative arises in the sequence of previous similar projects such as the international colloquium “Architecture and the Information Society” (FAUP 2002) and the corresponding release of the publishing of “Architecture: Machine and Body” (Faup Publications, 2006). The afore mentioned colloquium arose a debate about the impact of the Information Society on the discipline concerning Project, Architectural Construction and the City; and benefited from the contribution of national and international protagonists such as Alessandro Aurigi, João Camacho, Ted Krueger, Eurico Carrapatoso, António Costa, Xavier Costa, José Pinto Duarte, Manuel Duarte, Borges Gouveia, Luís Guardão, Marco Guilloniac, Fernando Lisboa, José Mamede, Francesc Munoz, Paulo Silva, Alfredo Soeiro e José Pedro Sousa. The afore mentioned publication includes the endowments of Ted Kruger, Ignási Sola Morales, Neil Spiller, Neil Leach, Josep Maria Montaner, José Bragança de Miranda e Adrian Forty and was envisaged “in order to offer a sustained contribution regarding the technological dimension of our multidiscursive reality”.
We have been observing, nowadays, a strong input of the new information technologies as far as conception and production of architecture are concerned as well as what regards to the new conceptual challenges including the issue of complexity, source and sustainability, making it paramount to promote the continuity of an up to date scientific debate on such matters. With the goal of giving progression and renovating the debate aroused by the afore said initiatives and thus contributing to a careful thought of the Project and Production of the Contemporary Architecture we now depict the CAC 2008.
The event will count with the attendance of spokesmen such as Sola-Morales, Jasia Reichardt, Ted Krueger, Josep Maria Montaner, Neil Leach, among others. The three conference tables will count with the attendance of various public names such as Rui Povoas, Gonçalo Furtado, João Pedro Xavier, Joaquim Vieira, Vitor Silva, Marco Guinoulhiac, José Pedro Sousa, Borges Gouveia, Luís Pinto Faria, Bragança de Miranda, Alfredo Soeiro, João Rocha, Pedro Martins, José Pinto Duarte, Jorge Lino Alves, Dirk Loyens, Nancy Diniz, Pedro Leão, João Pedro Xavier, Vitor Silva, Vasco Branco, Nuno Pinheiro, João Moura, Miguel Serra, and others.
The colloquium will be accompanied by the publishing of the relating speeches. Parallel to this, a workshop for students will also take place, the tuition of it under the supervision of the nationally and internationally known (ReD Research + Design Studio), with the aim of revealing recent potentialities regarding the field of the architectonic projects and production. It is likely that an exhibition will also take place. The event was associated to a previous homage to the work of the recently deceased professor Fernando Lisboa in the domain of the architectonical project upheld by computer and semiotics.