IfUD Launches New Website & Open Call for Entries for US Pavilion at the Venice Beinnale

Wednesday, January 18th, 2012

We have just launched a new website for the U.S. Pavilion at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale, devoted to the theme Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good. The website will continue to grow over the next nine months, expanding to include a news column, curators’ blog, links to related articles and resources, and list of participants and projects. When the Biennale opens in September, the site will include a participants’ blog, a searchable database of projects, and guide to programs in Venice and the United States during the Biennale.

Currently, we are encouraging architects and designers who have realized a tactical urbanism intervention in a U.S. city to submit their projects by February 6 in order to be reviewed during the next curators’ meeting.

BWAF Seeks To Fill All 50

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

The Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, founded by Beverly Willis (pictured at left) and is now led by Wanda Bubriski, has launched a Call for Entries to the Collection of Women in 20th Century Architecture, an online database in which 40 of the 50 US states are currently represented. The BWAF’s summer mission is to find enough entries to fill out the map! If you know of a historical or active practitioner in Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, South Dakota, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, or New Hampshire, please contribute today!

Call for Entries: OIKODOMOS Project

Friday, July 8th, 2011

Fellow Kris Scheerlinck (who will participate in BEAU XI later this month) is on the Scientific Committee for the 2011 OIKODOMOS Project conference, which recently put out an international call for contributions. The gathering brings together professionals, academics, and experts to provide a forum for discussion of contemporary housing issues. The event will take place in Brussels this October. Good luck to all who submit!