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Tom Verebes lectures and joins panel discussion at Beijing Design Week
Wednesday 28 September 2016, DADA, Beijing Design Week Lecture: Ontologies and Methods of Parametric Urbanism Panel Discussion: Computational Urbanism, together with Xu Feng and Li Shiqi In a compact 40 minute lecture, Verebes surveys parametric design over the last 60+ years, and also gives a brief history of parametrics in urbanism. Following the lecture, a […]
OCEAN CN is hiring architects, graduates and student interns!
ARCHITECTS, RECENT GRADUATES & STUDENT INTERNS Directed by Tom Verebes, OCEAN CN Studio is a specialist design studio recently launched within Turenscape, a multidisciplinary design practice based in Beijing, founded and directed by the celebrated landscape architect, Dr. Yu Kongjian. OCEAN CN Studio is seeking to hire its core team of highly skilled designers, at […]
Exhibition: RURAL-URBAN RE-INVENTIONS: BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN CHINA’S CITIES AND COUNTRYSIDE
Curated by University of Southern California (USC)’s American Academy in China (AAC), this exhibition features the work of the AA Shanghai Summer School, directed by Tom Verebes. ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION VISITING SCHOOL SHANGHAI BASE BEIJING, ROBERT MANGURIAN / MARY-ANN RAY ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE D’ARCHITECTURE DE SAINT-ETIENNE ETH ZURICH HARVARD UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGN HONG KONG […]
SHANGHAI TEN | SHOW | EVENT — Verebes curates AA exhibition & organises symposium
SH10 SHOW | EVENT | FOLIO is a series of events which celebrate the tenth consecutive year of the AA Shanghai Summer School, curated and edited by Tom Verebes, and featuring work by OCEAN CN. SHANGHAI TEN has been curated, edited and hosted in 3 parts, including an exhibition (AAVS SH10 | SHOW), and a […]
Tom Verebes lecturing at RMIT University, Architecture & Design, Melbourne, Australia
Friday 13 May 2016 Lecture title: Uniqueness and Ubiquity in Urbanism At a time when more cites are being built faster than ever before, the quandry of urban similitude is confronted in this lecture, with the aim to evolve new paradigms and methods of generating the specificities of cities. Tom Verebes presented the theoretical and […]
Verebes as Director of 10th consecutive AA Shanghai Summer School 2016
Architectural Association Visiting School Shanghai Hosted at HKU Shanghai Study Centre, Shanghai 建筑联盟学院 访问学校 2016 AA上海暑期工作营 城市特异性 15-23 July 2016 2016年7月15-23日 In an era of unprecedented city building, the 10th consecutive AA Shanghai Summer School will focus on issues related to urbanization in China. The central government of China has recently announced both the Southern […]
Verebes to curate, edit and organise AAVS SH10 SHOW | EVENT | FOLIO
AAVS SH10 will celebrate AA Shanghai Summer School, in its tenth consecutive year, to be curated, edited and hosted in 3 parts. Tom Verebes will serve as the Curator of AAVS SH10 SHOW, Editor of AAVS SH10 FOLIO, and organizer/host of AAVS SH10 EVENT. Exhibition: AAVS SH10 SHOW This exhibition, to open concurrently with AAVS […]
Mass Customised Cities issue of AD, Guest-edited by Tom Verebes, is published
Guest-edited by Tom Verebes CONTRUBUTORS: Donald Bates Michael Bell Martin Bressani M Christine Boyer Mark Burry Kenneth Frampton Jeffrey Huang Branko Kolarevic Jerry Ku & Philip Vernon Neil Leach Elena Manferdini Rob May ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS Archi-Union Architects Arup Contemporary Architecture Practice davidclovers E-Grow Gramazio & Kohler OCEAN CN Rocker-Lange Architects What happens when computational […]
Tom Verebes publishes an article in ‘Digital Architecture’
As Associate Editor of a new online journal titled, ‘Digital Architecture’, as part of ‘Frontiers in Digital Humanities’, Verebes authors a 12,000 word article, titled, “The Interactive Urban Model: Histories and Legacies Related to Prototyping the Twenty-First Century City”. Series Editor is Jeffrey Huang. http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fdigh.2016.00001/full
Launch of “Mass Customised Cities” AD at the Shenzhen Biennale
Launch event for AD “Mass Customised Cities” issue, Guest-Edited by Tom Verebes Monday 7 December, @ 15:30 – 18:00 Presentations & Panel Discussion Auditorium 2015 UABB Venue Former Dacheng Flour Factory No.3 Gangwan Road, Shekou, Shenzhen 深圳市南山区 港湾大道3号 原大成面粉厂 2015 UABB 主展场 报告厅 Participants Donald Bates Chair of Architectural Design, University of Melbourne; Founder/Director, LAB […]