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The last lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this autumn semester will be Basel-based architect Artem Kitaev, who will be stepping on the stage of Kanuti Gildi Saal (Pikk 20, Tallinn) on 14th December at 6 pm. Kitaev’s lecture is titled Kosmos / Chaos, it’s in English and free for everyone.

Originating from Moscow, Kitaev is working with a team based now in Moscow, Basel, New York and Bangkok. His architecture office KOSMOS works across typologies and on different scales – from door handles to the city, from earnest architecture to temporary installations. KOSMOS, in their own words, combines art with technology, global experience with respect towards local context and European professionalism with Russian drive.

Kitaev graduated in Moscow, started in Moscow office Meganom, then moved to Switzerland where he worked for 4 years for Herzog de Meuron, then focused on KOSMOS only. In parallel with architectural design, KOSMOS is involved in teaching, working on researches, industrial design and publications. First project built by KOSMOS team is Temporary museum for Center of Contemporary Culture Garage in Moscow.

More about Kitaev and KOSMOS: https://k-s-m-s.com/office

The Open Lecture Series brings to Tallinn a number of exciting architects, urban planners, academics from across the world. All Open Lectures are free of charge, in English, take place every fortnight, and are open to everyone – for both students and professionals of the field, general audience and students considering architecture for their further studies.

The architecture and urban planning department of the Estonian Academy of Arts has been curating the Open Lectures on Architecture series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn. All lectures are in English, free and open to all interested, drawing an audience of students as well as professionals and academics from the fields of architecture, design, engineering but also fine arts. The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.

Curators: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam
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Pulp Pavilion, built for the 2015 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in the California desert, using reclaimed paper.

Manja Van de Worp: “New Engineering typologies: not a hybrid – just new”

The penultimate lecturer of the Open Lecture Series this semester will be architect and engineer MANJA VAN DE WORP, director of YIP Structural Engineering London (formerly, NOUS Engineering), who will be stepping on the stage of Kanuti Gildi SAAL (Pikk 20, Tallinn) on the 30th of November at 6 pm. The lecture, as usual, is in English and free for everyone. Van de Worp’s work is focussed on the future of architectural engineering and she’ll be focussing on the new typologies of engineering in her Tallinn lecture.

Van de Worp holds Master degrees in Architecture, Structural Engineering and in Emergent Technologies and Design. She is a structural engineer with 10 years professional experience in the Construction Industry focusing on Structure, Geometry and Fabrication, while teaching at the RCA, Architectural Association & IAAC. Van de Worp has previously worked for Arup in London in the Advanced Geometry Unit and at the Advanced Technology and Research group, designing structures with a complex geometry and moveable structures.

She also launched NOUS engineering London (now YIP) in 2013 as an engineering consultancy bearing extensive knowledge of advanced structural analysis tools, complex structural systems, materials and fabrication technologies. Their current projects involve a FRP shell and a modular steel roof structure. YIP also focuses on structural product design and research based projects, looking at innovative ways to use timber, 3D printing of concrete, searching how materials not conventionally used in structural design could find their way into building engineering.

Among the largest projects that she has lately been working on is the Leadenhall Building in London, completed in 2014 (project engineer, AT&R Arup; architects: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners) The 225 m/48-floor Leadenhall Building, also known as the cheese grater, has a steel mega frame, that provides stability to the entire structure and is the worlds tallest of its kind. The ultra lightweight prefabricated floor system allows for a shallow floor and a lighter foundation. Due to footfall, all frames had to be individually designed and the connections developed and tested in collaboration with the contractor.

Currently, van de Worp is focused on the NUS kinetic facade project in Singapore. Designed by architect Joseph Lim, the social housing project has retractable origami façade that forms an external shading device, based on the Momotani folding pattern.

More about Manja van de Worp: http://www.nousengineering.com/

The architecture and urban planning department of the Estonian Academy of Arts has been curating the Open Lectures on Architecture series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn. All Open Lectures are free of charge, in English, take place every fortnight, and are open to everyone – for both students and professionals of the field, general audience and students considering architecture for their further studies. The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment and curated by Sille Pihlak and Siim Tuksam.

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The second-years students of the interior architecture department are pleased and proud to announce that TREPP, the new viewing tower in Tuhu bog, built in co-operation with RMK, has now been completed! The opening ceremony will take place in Tuhu bog on Saturday, 9th December from 2 pm to 4 pm.

You are welcome to arrange your own travel or join us on the Estonian Academy of Arts bus (THE BUS IS NOW FULLY BOOKED)

We’d love for you to join us!

Got a question?

Please write to Kirke from the TREPP team: kirke.kalamats@artun.ee

13 November at 4 pm,
graphic art department,
Lembitu 10B, room 144

On Monday, 13 November at 4 pm there will be an artist talk #postprintshop by Patrick Wagner from Stockholm. He will make an overview over works and collaborations in recent years, the possibilities of social media presence and how to deal (or not deal) with the loss of all artwork and printmaking workshop. Uplifting and hopefully inspiring despite the gloomy connotations, and involving lots of chine-collé. 

The artist talk will be in English.

Patrick Wagner (b 1980, Germany) is an artist and printmaking educator from Stockholm, Sweden. Since 2014 he teaches stone lithography at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, having previously worked as a contract intaglio printer in the studio of Tuula Lehtinen in Tampere, Finland.

More info 
@blackheartpress on instagram / tumblr

Seminar series Non Aura in the autumn semester 2017/2018 consists of 10 lectures and talks from different fields, which take place mostly on Mondays from 4 pm. Seminar series is a free elective that gives 3 ECTS. Registration at the seminar place.

You are warmly welcome!

On Thursday, 26th October at 6pm Evelin Saul and Madlen Hirtentreu will open their first joint exhibition ‘Transmission’ at HOP gallery.

The exhibition stays open till 14th November.

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In 1632, Galileo Galilei published his ‘Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems’. Some pages of the aforementioned book are dedicated to a discussion of a ship that leaves Venice for Aleppo. One speaker, Sagredo, imagines a pen that would leave a visible mark of the entire voyage from Italy towards Syria.
Noble Venetians ponder how it could be that everything on board remains immobile, while at the same time leaving a thousand-yard-long trace. They discover that a true and real motion can be seen from different perspectives, including those from which this very movement would be as if nonexistent.

Exhibition involves inner and outer space, movement between instinctive, controllable and uncontrollable.

One is left with resonance.

Attention: Access to mechanical inventory is physically restricted

From idea to realization: Evelin Saul, Madlen HIrtentreu

Technical team: Bruno and Rünno Mander, Harri Liis, Ahto Härm

Exhibition is supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia and Konesko Ltd.

Thanks: EKKM, Mihkel Masso, Revo Koplus, Lilian Vellerand, Aksel Tamm, Eneli Järs, Jarmo Reha

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Evelin Saul graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts in 2016 with Master’s degree in Installation and Sculpture, having previously completed the field of Ceramics in BA in the same university. She has studied in exchange in Spain (UGR, 2009) and France (ÉSAD, 2010) and has been taking part of exhibitions since 2010, including in Estonia, Denmark, Russia, France, Spain, the USA and Canada. Reoccurring themes in her works and research include relations between inner and outer spaces, perception, site specificity. Evelin is currently based in Denmark.

Madlen Hirtentreu studied Visual arts and Economics in Italy, IED(BA) and graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts at the Sculpture and Installation department (MA, 2017).
She has been active in projects and exhibitions since 2014, including Estonia, Denmark, Italy, France, Russia and Canada.
In choice of medium tries to maintain freedom, using often collaboration between different means/materials.
Reoccurring themes in her work and research lies in psychological and physical aspects and codes in the matter and space, playing with subjects individual ability to perceive time and space.

2nd of November, Thursday, will start bright and early at 9AM with the next Morning Coffee event, where students and graduates from our department will come and share their experiences from studying, working or doing an apprenticeship somewhere else in the world – through the spectrum of space and spatial design. On the stage this time: experiences and views of the world, learning and spatial design: Andrea Lilian Zuniga Lozano from COLOMBIA and Seyedeh Sarina Masoumi from IRAN!

Also: this Morning Coffee event will be in English, spread the news so it reaches every EKA Erasmus student!

This event is perfect for students and those wanting to become a student, but also tutors; our Nunne St door is also open to anyone from other EKA departments or other schools. The interior architecture department Morning Coffee events take place every first Thursday of the month. The event is worthy of its name: there will most definitely also be coffee – and upon occasion, there has been also delicious cake (for the cake, you might want to bring a tiny bit of cash)

Set your alarm clocks, join us!

​Mexico City projekt “Foundation Alumnos47” Didier Faustino // Mesarchitecture

On the 2nd of November, Architecture Open Lecture Series will host architect and artist Didier Fiuza Faustino. Starting at 6 pm, this lecture will take place at the Von Krahl Theatre (Rataskaevu 10).

This autumn, the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design of the Estonian Academy of Arts is inviting a number of exciting architects, urban planners, academics from across the world to Tallinn for the Open Lecture Series. The lectures are free of charge, in English, take place every fortnight, and are open to everyone – for both students and professionals of the field, general audience and students considering architecture for their further studies.

Arriving to Tallinn on the 2nd of November is Paris-based architect and artist Didier Fiuza Faustino, who is focused on how people relate to space and creates human-scale spaces. Faustino’s spatial installations are especially well known: he’s designed striking temporary stages that invite people to perform and speak up, as well as created spatial installation projects for exhibitions, asking questions about the sense of a space. Faustino’s lecture titled “Unbuilt memories” is one that also sculpture, installation, spatial design and interior architecture students, lecturers and audience should definitely not miss. All open talks are free and in English.

Didier Fiuza Faustino is an architect and artist working on the relationship between body and space. He started his own practice at the crossroad of art and architecture just after graduating in architecture in 1995. He has been developing since then a multi-faceted approach, ranging from installation to experimentation, from visual art to the creation of multi-sensorial spaces, mobile architecture and buildings. After teaching six years at the AA School in London and being two years editor in chief of the French architecture and design magazine CREE in 2015 and 2016, Didier Faustino is currently fully dedicating his time on architecture projects (Mexico, Costa Rica, Belgium, Portugal and France) and art installation and exhibitions (Vienna, Geneva, Lisbon, Los Angeles).

More about Didier Fiuza Faustino: http://www.didierfaustino.com/

The Faculty of architecture and urban design of the Estonian Academy of Arts has been curating the Open Lectures on Architecture series since 2012 – each year, a dozen architects, urbanists, both practicing as well as academics, introduce their work and field of research to the audience in Tallinn. All lectures are in English, free and open to all interested.

The series is funded by the Estonian Cultural Endowment
Curators: Sille Pihlak, Siim Tuksam

www.avatudloengud.ee
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/

More info: Pille Epner / arhitektuur@artun.ee / +372 642 0071

Estonian Academy of Arts TASE ’17 Graduation Show sites and dates announced!
The Estonian Academy of Arts Graduation Show TASE ’17 and its satellite festivities will take place from 27 May – 12 June, 2017 at the historic Noblessner valukoda, Peetri 11 and other venues in Tallinn.

Sat 27 May ERKI Fashion Show 30
The most scandalous fashion show of Estonia will present its 30th show in a last-chance-top-secret-site! Not to be missed!
Follow the lead

Tue 30 May 4pm TASE ’17 Opening Ceremony
Noblessner valukoda, Peetri 11, Tallinn

TASE ’17 Graduation Show
Wed 31 May – Sat 12 June
Noblessner valukoda

TASE ’17 Portfolio Café
Fri 2 June and Sat 3 June
Noblessner, Cafe Noble

TASE ‘ 17 Graduation Works Lift Talks
Wed 2 June
Noblessner, Cafe Noble

SISU Symposium of Interior Architecture and Spatial Use 2017 “Naked Space”
7. – 8. 06. Luzern, Neubad, Switzerland and Mobile Classroom of the EAA Dept of Interior Architecture, in Tallinn

The SISU 2017 symposium will focus on re-use of interior space and community-driven redesign processes. The symposium will shed light on the question, how interior architecture is able to create an identity for naked space while ‘re-dressing’ it, and how this can contribute new value to the whole neighbourhood. What are our needs today and how does it influence the re-purposing process? How can we investigate the space inside the buildings of the past?

SISU will approach these questions across different disciplines including interior architects/designers, architects, filmmakers, academics and students from different cultures for the first time in parallel in Switzerland and in Estonia.

The Estonian Association of Interior Architects, the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art / School of Engineering and Architecture, the Estonian Academy of Arts / Department of Interior Architecture and the Association of Swiss Interior Architects have the honour of inviting You to the 4th International Interior Architecture Symposium SISU
Read on and sign up at sisu.esl.ee

TASE FILM ’17
9. 06.
Sõpruse Cinema
Vana-Posti 8, Tallinn

The programme is developing, more info soon! Please save the dates and visit us!

Keiu Krikmann
TASE Head Coordinator
keiu.krikmann@artun.ee
Solveig Jahnke
Head of Communications
solveig.jahnke@artun.ee
Tel +372 6267 111
Mob +372 5626 4949
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