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Category: Faculty of Architecture
18.05.2023 — 18.06.2023
Unbounded Nature in Tallinn Zoo
Faculty of Architecture
In the empty bear cage of the Tallinn Zoo, starting from May 19th, the exhibition “Unbounded Nature” by the glass and ceramics students of the Estonian Academy of Arts can be seen.
On May 18, at 17.00, ten second-year students of the Estonian Academy of Arts will open a joint exhibition “Unbounded Nature” in the old bear cage of the Tallinn Zoo, which raises questions about the natural relationships of living beings with the environment and adaptation to unfamiliar settings. At the same time, the budding artists also investigate the influence of the animal cage as an exhibition venue on the meaning and interpretation of the artworks.
The works in the exhibition deal with the change of human nature at a time when the primordial nature around us is disappearing and artificiality is taking over. Will life lose its natural essence if we begin to manipulate it technologically? Or as Sara Kyllönen, one of the authors, asks with her sculptures: “Is the exploitation of the most innocent creatures a natural part of civilized society, or could it work differently?”
Annali Kruusamägi, Annika Luhaäär, Erko Lill, Helen Tiits, Kätriin Reinart, Laura Stina Parri, Marta Vikentjeva, Sara Kyllönen, Valeria Poljakova and Õnne Paulus will perform at the exhibition. Each of them approaches the topic from their own personal authorial position.
This is how Annika Luhaäär remembers almost extinct sea lilies by making new fossils from them. However, Annali Kruusamägi’s work consisting of a thousand keys explores the abundance of opportunities in our lives and how rarely we take advantage of them.
The exhibition “Limitless nature” is open from May 19 to June 18 every day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Entrance with a zoo ticket.
The authors thank the Tallinn Zoo for their welcoming and friendly cooperation. Also tutors Laura Põldu and Kateriin Rikken, EKA’s glass art, ceramics and blacksmithing departments and the Estonian Academy of Arts Student Council and OÜ Kerakot.
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
Unbounded Nature in Tallinn Zoo
Thursday 18 May, 2023 — Sunday 18 June, 2023
Faculty of Architecture
In the empty bear cage of the Tallinn Zoo, starting from May 19th, the exhibition “Unbounded Nature” by the glass and ceramics students of the Estonian Academy of Arts can be seen.
On May 18, at 17.00, ten second-year students of the Estonian Academy of Arts will open a joint exhibition “Unbounded Nature” in the old bear cage of the Tallinn Zoo, which raises questions about the natural relationships of living beings with the environment and adaptation to unfamiliar settings. At the same time, the budding artists also investigate the influence of the animal cage as an exhibition venue on the meaning and interpretation of the artworks.
The works in the exhibition deal with the change of human nature at a time when the primordial nature around us is disappearing and artificiality is taking over. Will life lose its natural essence if we begin to manipulate it technologically? Or as Sara Kyllönen, one of the authors, asks with her sculptures: “Is the exploitation of the most innocent creatures a natural part of civilized society, or could it work differently?”
Annali Kruusamägi, Annika Luhaäär, Erko Lill, Helen Tiits, Kätriin Reinart, Laura Stina Parri, Marta Vikentjeva, Sara Kyllönen, Valeria Poljakova and Õnne Paulus will perform at the exhibition. Each of them approaches the topic from their own personal authorial position.
This is how Annika Luhaäär remembers almost extinct sea lilies by making new fossils from them. However, Annali Kruusamägi’s work consisting of a thousand keys explores the abundance of opportunities in our lives and how rarely we take advantage of them.
The exhibition “Limitless nature” is open from May 19 to June 18 every day from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Entrance with a zoo ticket.
The authors thank the Tallinn Zoo for their welcoming and friendly cooperation. Also tutors Laura Põldu and Kateriin Rikken, EKA’s glass art, ceramics and blacksmithing departments and the Estonian Academy of Arts Student Council and OÜ Kerakot.
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
11.05.2023 — 14.05.2023
The Glow of Krull
Faculty of Architecture
Krulli District, light installations of the students of the Estonian Academy of Art
11.–14.05.2023
The students of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) open an exhibition of light installations in the new Krulli District in Kalamaja. The area is named after Franz Krull’s metal and machine manufacturing company, whose product range included cast iron, steel castings and steam boilers as well as steam locomotives and even liquor production equipment.
The installations give a new lease of life to the former industrial colossus. Visitors will be taken on a trip through the whole block and its memory lanes, trapped in the glow which takes shape, absorbs, vaporizes, flows, ripples, shimmers and shines. An unforgettable experience will await, the darkened windows will once again come to life. The timeless tale glows, holding and protecting both internal and external reflections, showing the way to an exciting future.
Participating students: Saskia Krautman, Frank Kuresaar, Karl Perens, Triin Indlo, Madli Rööp, Eva Maria Põldmäe, Triinu Väikmeri, Kadri Vahar, Anna Minchenkov, Aasa Ruukel, Elle Lepik, Vivian Ilves, Katriin Maitsalu, Laura Susanna Lätte ja Annika Emilie Viigand.
Mentor: Elo Liiv.
Architectural lighting of the light path by NGO Valgusklubi
The grand opening is on the 11th of May at 9 p.m.
Installations are visible at night, after the dawn
Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, TMW, NGO Valgusklubi, MicroWatt OÜ, Meeskond OÜ, Krulli Kvartal AS
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
The Glow of Krull
Thursday 11 May, 2023 — Sunday 14 May, 2023
Faculty of Architecture
Krulli District, light installations of the students of the Estonian Academy of Art
11.–14.05.2023
The students of the Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) open an exhibition of light installations in the new Krulli District in Kalamaja. The area is named after Franz Krull’s metal and machine manufacturing company, whose product range included cast iron, steel castings and steam boilers as well as steam locomotives and even liquor production equipment.
The installations give a new lease of life to the former industrial colossus. Visitors will be taken on a trip through the whole block and its memory lanes, trapped in the glow which takes shape, absorbs, vaporizes, flows, ripples, shimmers and shines. An unforgettable experience will await, the darkened windows will once again come to life. The timeless tale glows, holding and protecting both internal and external reflections, showing the way to an exciting future.
Participating students: Saskia Krautman, Frank Kuresaar, Karl Perens, Triin Indlo, Madli Rööp, Eva Maria Põldmäe, Triinu Väikmeri, Kadri Vahar, Anna Minchenkov, Aasa Ruukel, Elle Lepik, Vivian Ilves, Katriin Maitsalu, Laura Susanna Lätte ja Annika Emilie Viigand.
Mentor: Elo Liiv.
Architectural lighting of the light path by NGO Valgusklubi
The grand opening is on the 11th of May at 9 p.m.
Installations are visible at night, after the dawn
Supporters: Cultural Endowment of Estonia, TMW, NGO Valgusklubi, MicroWatt OÜ, Meeskond OÜ, Krulli Kvartal AS
Posted by Andres Lõo — Permalink
04.05.2023
Common Futures
Faculty of Architecture
This year’s Urban studies Studio 2: Urban Futures explores the process of commoning as a social practice that radically rethinks property regimes and social relationships in order to envisage a ‘common future’: where despite our differences, we are all moving towards a collective and planetary future.
The final project for the studio sees students contribute to alternative ‘common futures’ through an architecture competition for a contemporary border crossing. The competition organised by The Canadian Academy of Architecture for Justice (CAAJ) “A New Frontier: The Contemporary Border Crossing” invites students to contribute to alternative common futures by designing a contemporary border crossing that can be ‘integrated into the surrounding context and community, act as a catalyst for building a positive relationship between two nations, and address what a border entry means in today’s context.’ The act of designing a border crossing requires students to rethink the prevailing ideas and imaginaries of how different states, communities and ecosocial assemblages are organised and how boundaries between them are defined. By exploring the legal and architectural forms that shape our societies, students can engage with the themes of commoning and contribute to the creation of alternative futures.
As a final outcome, student teams were asked to develop a specific design that answers the technical and conceptual requirements of the call. This includes creating two A1 posters and an accompanying 500-word description.
On 4th of May (A400,4th floor lobby) Students will introduce their projects at the final presentations followed by feedback and discussion.
Students: Aleyna Canpolat, Larisa Illetterati, Alp Ozalp, Ishrat Shaheen, Kalina.Trajanovska, Maria Laura Bendezu Ulloa, Jim Wolff.
Tutors: Agata Marzecova, Sean Tyler.
Guest critic: Klaske Havik
Posted by Keiti Kljavin — Permalink
Common Futures
Thursday 04 May, 2023
Faculty of Architecture
This year’s Urban studies Studio 2: Urban Futures explores the process of commoning as a social practice that radically rethinks property regimes and social relationships in order to envisage a ‘common future’: where despite our differences, we are all moving towards a collective and planetary future.
The final project for the studio sees students contribute to alternative ‘common futures’ through an architecture competition for a contemporary border crossing. The competition organised by The Canadian Academy of Architecture for Justice (CAAJ) “A New Frontier: The Contemporary Border Crossing” invites students to contribute to alternative common futures by designing a contemporary border crossing that can be ‘integrated into the surrounding context and community, act as a catalyst for building a positive relationship between two nations, and address what a border entry means in today’s context.’ The act of designing a border crossing requires students to rethink the prevailing ideas and imaginaries of how different states, communities and ecosocial assemblages are organised and how boundaries between them are defined. By exploring the legal and architectural forms that shape our societies, students can engage with the themes of commoning and contribute to the creation of alternative futures.
As a final outcome, student teams were asked to develop a specific design that answers the technical and conceptual requirements of the call. This includes creating two A1 posters and an accompanying 500-word description.
On 4th of May (A400,4th floor lobby) Students will introduce their projects at the final presentations followed by feedback and discussion.
Students: Aleyna Canpolat, Larisa Illetterati, Alp Ozalp, Ishrat Shaheen, Kalina.Trajanovska, Maria Laura Bendezu Ulloa, Jim Wolff.
Tutors: Agata Marzecova, Sean Tyler.
Guest critic: Klaske Havik
Posted by Keiti Kljavin — Permalink
04.05.2023
Public architecture lecture: Klaske Havik
Architecture and Urban Design
A series of open architectural lectures will be held this 2023 spring under the title “Triggers of Architecture”. The theme brings architects and theoreticians to Tallinn, who analyze the root causes of architecture and the means of making it.
On May 4, at 6 pm, Klaske Havik will analyze the connections between literature and architecture with the lecture “Between the lines. Poetic imagination in architecture”. Creative imagination is one of the most important tools of every creator, including an architect. Using examples, Klaske Havik examines how poetic imagination works, how some key thinkers and architects conceptualize it.
Klaske Havik is an architect, scholar and writer. She is professor of Architecture at TU Delft, holding the chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination. Advocating a literary approach to architecture to address societal issues, Havik published, among many other edited books and articles, Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture (2014). She was editor of architecture journals de Architect and OASE, and initiated the Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature. Havik’s literary work appeared in poetry collections and literary magazines. She is Chair of the EU COST Action Writing Urban Places. New Narratives for the European City – an international and interdisciplinary network that seeks for more socially inclusive and locally specific urban places through the investigation of local narratives. In Estonia, Klaske has written for Maja and Ehituskunst, and been part of the thesis board at EKA.
Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.
The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture. All lectures take place in the large auditorium of EKA, are in English, free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
Curated by Andres Ojari
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/
Additional information:
Tiina Tammet
E-post: arhitektuur@artun.ee
Tel. +372 642 0071
Posted by Tiina Tammet — Permalink
Public architecture lecture: Klaske Havik
Thursday 04 May, 2023
Architecture and Urban Design
A series of open architectural lectures will be held this 2023 spring under the title “Triggers of Architecture”. The theme brings architects and theoreticians to Tallinn, who analyze the root causes of architecture and the means of making it.
On May 4, at 6 pm, Klaske Havik will analyze the connections between literature and architecture with the lecture “Between the lines. Poetic imagination in architecture”. Creative imagination is one of the most important tools of every creator, including an architect. Using examples, Klaske Havik examines how poetic imagination works, how some key thinkers and architects conceptualize it.
Klaske Havik is an architect, scholar and writer. She is professor of Architecture at TU Delft, holding the chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination. Advocating a literary approach to architecture to address societal issues, Havik published, among many other edited books and articles, Urban Literacy. Reading and Writing Architecture (2014). She was editor of architecture journals de Architect and OASE, and initiated the Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature. Havik’s literary work appeared in poetry collections and literary magazines. She is Chair of the EU COST Action Writing Urban Places. New Narratives for the European City – an international and interdisciplinary network that seeks for more socially inclusive and locally specific urban places through the investigation of local narratives. In Estonia, Klaske has written for Maja and Ehituskunst, and been part of the thesis board at EKA.
Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.
The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture. All lectures take place in the large auditorium of EKA, are in English, free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
Curated by Andres Ojari
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/
Additional information:
Tiina Tammet
E-post: arhitektuur@artun.ee
Tel. +372 642 0071
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13.04.2023
Open architecture lecture: Pascal Bronner
Architecture and Urban Design
A series of open architectural lectures will be held this 2023 spring under the title “Triggers of Architecture”. The theme brings architects and theoreticians to Tallinn, who analyze the root causes of architecture and the means of making it.
On April 13, 6 pm, Pascal Bronner will take the main hall stage with a lecture “57 Milligrams of Graphite”.
In this lecture he will take us to the journey through his work to date and provide an overview of his research into the ‘Droame’ – a composite realm that connects the physicality of drawing to the different forms of cerebral musings that the process uncovers. “In an effort to construct real spaces made entirely of graphite on paper, I investigate the seductiveness of this metaphysical world alongside its physical manifestation – both of which exist in a borderland between the miniaturised space on the drawing board and in the mind. I have begun to survey and capture these graphite landscapes in microscopic detail through the construction and assembly of various devices.” – Bronner describes his working process.
Pascal Bronner is a senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Greenwich. He was born in Malaysia, grew up in Germany and moved to the UK in 2000 where he still lives and works today. In London, he studied fine art at Central St. Martins, and architecture at the Bartlett, UCL. Pascal was awarded the RIBA Bronze Medal Commendation and the Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing at Part 2. He was also a recipient of the Fitzroy Robinson Drawing Prize and the Banister Fletcher Medal. Pascal is a co-founder of FleaFollyArchitects, and is currently undertaking a PHD at RMIT, where he examines and dissects his perpetual drawing practice.
Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.
The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture. All lectures take place in the large auditorium of EKA, are in English, free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
Curated by Andres Ojari
Additional information:
Tiina Tammet
E-post: arhitektuur@artun.ee
Tel. +372 642 0071
Posted by Tiina Tammet — Permalink
Open architecture lecture: Pascal Bronner
Thursday 13 April, 2023
Architecture and Urban Design
A series of open architectural lectures will be held this 2023 spring under the title “Triggers of Architecture”. The theme brings architects and theoreticians to Tallinn, who analyze the root causes of architecture and the means of making it.
On April 13, 6 pm, Pascal Bronner will take the main hall stage with a lecture “57 Milligrams of Graphite”.
In this lecture he will take us to the journey through his work to date and provide an overview of his research into the ‘Droame’ – a composite realm that connects the physicality of drawing to the different forms of cerebral musings that the process uncovers. “In an effort to construct real spaces made entirely of graphite on paper, I investigate the seductiveness of this metaphysical world alongside its physical manifestation – both of which exist in a borderland between the miniaturised space on the drawing board and in the mind. I have begun to survey and capture these graphite landscapes in microscopic detail through the construction and assembly of various devices.” – Bronner describes his working process.
Pascal Bronner is a senior lecturer in architecture at the University of Greenwich. He was born in Malaysia, grew up in Germany and moved to the UK in 2000 where he still lives and works today. In London, he studied fine art at Central St. Martins, and architecture at the Bartlett, UCL. Pascal was awarded the RIBA Bronze Medal Commendation and the Serjeant Award for Excellence in Drawing at Part 2. He was also a recipient of the Fitzroy Robinson Drawing Prize and the Banister Fletcher Medal. Pascal is a co-founder of FleaFollyArchitects, and is currently undertaking a PHD at RMIT, where he examines and dissects his perpetual drawing practice.
Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.
The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture. All lectures take place in the large auditorium of EKA, are in English, free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
Curated by Andres Ojari
Additional information:
Tiina Tammet
E-post: arhitektuur@artun.ee
Tel. +372 642 0071
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09.03.2023
Public architecture lecture: Marcel Smets
Architecture and Urban Design
On March 9 at 6 pm, Marcel Smets will give the first lecture of the lecture series – The modern landscape of infrastructure.
As primary public investments in our societies are devoted to infrastructure, we need to consider roads, canals, railways, trams, cycle paths, etc., not merely as means of transport but rather as prime urban/ public spaces. For this reason, the lecture intends to sketch out how infrastructure design initially transformed from an architectural to an engineering project, and to clarify why this evolution is reversed today. Reviewing significant projects worldwide of recently implemented projects in transport infrastructure, it advances four important paradigms that dominate the landscape of infrastructure design today: 1. hiding its presence; 2. beautifying its form; 3. appreciating it as vehicle for urban improvement; 4. deploying it as the driving force for urbanization.
On Friday, March 10, at 11:30 am, will be Marcel Smets’ book “Foundations of Urban Design” (2022) launch and an open seminar with 4th-year architecture and urban planning students on the 4th floor of the atrium (A400) in EKA.
Everyone is welcome!
Marcel Smets is an architect and urbanist and emeritus professor of urban design at the University of Leuven. As academic, he taught urban design at the University of Leuven (B) and Harvard GSD. As urbanist, he was the head designer for certain important conversions: the Leuven Railway Station area, the Isle of Nantes, three complex nodes of the Antwerp Ring coverage project – and he directed fundamental projects for Brussels, Rouen, Genoa, Oporto, Conegliano. As scholar he published many articles (Archis, Casabella, Lotus, Planning Perspectives, Storia Urbana, Topos, Urbanisme and Urbanistica Etc.) and books: most recently The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure (2010–2016, with K. Shannon) and Foundations of Urban Design (2022). As public servant, he acted as spatial Advisor for the City of Leuven (1995–2001) and as Flemish State Architect (2005–2010).
Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.
The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture. All lectures take place in the large auditorium of EKA, are in English, free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
Curated by Andres Ojari
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/
Posted by Tiina Tammet — Permalink
Public architecture lecture: Marcel Smets
Thursday 09 March, 2023
Architecture and Urban Design
On March 9 at 6 pm, Marcel Smets will give the first lecture of the lecture series – The modern landscape of infrastructure.
As primary public investments in our societies are devoted to infrastructure, we need to consider roads, canals, railways, trams, cycle paths, etc., not merely as means of transport but rather as prime urban/ public spaces. For this reason, the lecture intends to sketch out how infrastructure design initially transformed from an architectural to an engineering project, and to clarify why this evolution is reversed today. Reviewing significant projects worldwide of recently implemented projects in transport infrastructure, it advances four important paradigms that dominate the landscape of infrastructure design today: 1. hiding its presence; 2. beautifying its form; 3. appreciating it as vehicle for urban improvement; 4. deploying it as the driving force for urbanization.
On Friday, March 10, at 11:30 am, will be Marcel Smets’ book “Foundations of Urban Design” (2022) launch and an open seminar with 4th-year architecture and urban planning students on the 4th floor of the atrium (A400) in EKA.
Everyone is welcome!
Marcel Smets is an architect and urbanist and emeritus professor of urban design at the University of Leuven. As academic, he taught urban design at the University of Leuven (B) and Harvard GSD. As urbanist, he was the head designer for certain important conversions: the Leuven Railway Station area, the Isle of Nantes, three complex nodes of the Antwerp Ring coverage project – and he directed fundamental projects for Brussels, Rouen, Genoa, Oporto, Conegliano. As scholar he published many articles (Archis, Casabella, Lotus, Planning Perspectives, Storia Urbana, Topos, Urbanisme and Urbanistica Etc.) and books: most recently The Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure (2010–2016, with K. Shannon) and Foundations of Urban Design (2022). As public servant, he acted as spatial Advisor for the City of Leuven (1995–2001) and as Flemish State Architect (2005–2010).
Within the framework of a series of open lectures, the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning of EKA presents a dozen unique practitioners and valued theorists in the field in Tallinn every academic year.
The lectures are intended for all disciplines, not only for students and professionals in the field of architecture. All lectures take place in the large auditorium of EKA, are in English, free of charge.
The lecture series is supported by the Estonian Cultural Endowment.
Curated by Andres Ojari
https://www.facebook.com/EKAarhitektuur/
Posted by Tiina Tammet — Permalink
09.03.2023
Open lecture: Thomas Eschenbach: ACT Facades
Architecture and Urban Design
Thomas Eschenbach, development director of Priedemann Facade-Lab GmbH, will hold an open architecture lecture on energy-efficient facades in the EKA hall on March 9 at 4:00 pm.
The presentation of an engineer with 25 years of experience in the facade industry “Active Cavity Transition (ACT) Facade – transparency made energy-efficient” deals with effective solutions for modern building facades in all aspects. The architectural features of the facades, space efficiency, energy load, construction efficiency, lighting and temperature effects, as well as renovation solutions that a modern architect faces when designing, are under consideration.
ACT technology combines the advantages of traditional heat-retaining facades made of aluminum profiles with modern lighting, air exchange and temperature solutions in a new system that reduces investments and costs.
Priedemann Fasade-LAB is a competence center that participates in the development of non-traditional technologies and, together with research institutions and professional associations, guides the future of facade construction in practice.
The lecture is intended for architecture students and professionals. The lecture takes place in the large auditorium of EKA, is in English, free of charge and open to all interested parties.
Posted by Tiina Tammet — Permalink
Open lecture: Thomas Eschenbach: ACT Facades
Thursday 09 March, 2023
Architecture and Urban Design
Thomas Eschenbach, development director of Priedemann Facade-Lab GmbH, will hold an open architecture lecture on energy-efficient facades in the EKA hall on March 9 at 4:00 pm.
The presentation of an engineer with 25 years of experience in the facade industry “Active Cavity Transition (ACT) Facade – transparency made energy-efficient” deals with effective solutions for modern building facades in all aspects. The architectural features of the facades, space efficiency, energy load, construction efficiency, lighting and temperature effects, as well as renovation solutions that a modern architect faces when designing, are under consideration.
ACT technology combines the advantages of traditional heat-retaining facades made of aluminum profiles with modern lighting, air exchange and temperature solutions in a new system that reduces investments and costs.
Priedemann Fasade-LAB is a competence center that participates in the development of non-traditional technologies and, together with research institutions and professional associations, guides the future of facade construction in practice.
The lecture is intended for architecture students and professionals. The lecture takes place in the large auditorium of EKA, is in English, free of charge and open to all interested parties.
Posted by Tiina Tammet — Permalink
26.01.2023
To walk a secant line (?) – Athens meets Tallinn; Tallinn meets Athens
Erasmus+
If two points on a circle are a map, a secant line establishes a relationship between the points as two places, connecting them spatially and interrogating their position with respect to each other, juxtaposing them.
After spending three weeks in Athens Estonian Academy of Arts urban studies, animation, architecture, fine arts and graphic design students propose to connect the two geographical locations, Athens and Tallinn, by starting to walk and test the bridging line between two peripheries rarely thought together in the European context.
What is the Union between these geographically so distant cities? How do they feel when experienced side by side, when one melts into the other and vice versa? Can we learn more about the circle by looking at the two points simultaneously?
Join them online: http://urbanisms-of-migration.hotglue.me/ as they walk the two cityscapes together, digging a interactive “hole” into the (dis)common ground of two capitals on the EU’s southern and northeastern borders.
The event is hosted by MA-students of the first ever student-led course of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, in collaboration with Communitism, Athens.
Students: Viktor Kudriashov, Diana Drobot, Paul Simon, Luca Liese Ritter, Nabeel Imtiaz, Sachal Rizvi, Christian Hörner, Inês Machado Sales Grade Pinto, Aurelijus Čiupas, Pietro Ercolino Vizzardelli Barcucci, Siew Ching An, Kaja Likar.
Communitism: https://communitism.space/
Student-lead course “Urbanisms of Migration: Researching the Periphery of the European Union” is supervised by Urban studies second year students:
Blog: https://padlet.com/urbanperipheries/athens
Posted by Keiti Kljavin — Permalink
To walk a secant line (?) – Athens meets Tallinn; Tallinn meets Athens
Thursday 26 January, 2023
Erasmus+
If two points on a circle are a map, a secant line establishes a relationship between the points as two places, connecting them spatially and interrogating their position with respect to each other, juxtaposing them.
After spending three weeks in Athens Estonian Academy of Arts urban studies, animation, architecture, fine arts and graphic design students propose to connect the two geographical locations, Athens and Tallinn, by starting to walk and test the bridging line between two peripheries rarely thought together in the European context.
What is the Union between these geographically so distant cities? How do they feel when experienced side by side, when one melts into the other and vice versa? Can we learn more about the circle by looking at the two points simultaneously?
Join them online: http://urbanisms-of-migration.hotglue.me/ as they walk the two cityscapes together, digging a interactive “hole” into the (dis)common ground of two capitals on the EU’s southern and northeastern borders.
The event is hosted by MA-students of the first ever student-led course of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, in collaboration with Communitism, Athens.
Students: Viktor Kudriashov, Diana Drobot, Paul Simon, Luca Liese Ritter, Nabeel Imtiaz, Sachal Rizvi, Christian Hörner, Inês Machado Sales Grade Pinto, Aurelijus Čiupas, Pietro Ercolino Vizzardelli Barcucci, Siew Ching An, Kaja Likar.
Communitism: https://communitism.space/
Student-lead course “Urbanisms of Migration: Researching the Periphery of the European Union” is supervised by Urban studies second year students:
Blog: https://padlet.com/urbanperipheries/athens
Posted by Keiti Kljavin — Permalink
20.01.2023 — 30.04.2023
Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture Without Borders, 1960s–1980s
Faculty of Architecture
Futuristic fantasies that were manifested in architecture and art from the 1960s to the 1980s.
On Friday, January 20 an exhibition „Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture Without Borders, 1960s–1980s“ will be opened in Rotermann Salt Storage.
This exhibition stages a meeting point for scientific predictions and futuristic fantasies that were manifested in architecture and art from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Bringing together authors from Eastern Europe and the West, the exhibition will display works that emerged from the new technological reality that followed the Second World War, and which took it along unexpected paths: foreseeing the replacement of work with games and collective pleasures in computerised societies, turning away from the overarching machine logic and replacing it with myths and romantic ideas of the human being, or looking for traces of other civilizations from space, instead of conquering it. A utopia of quantification and of scientific planning, of the separation of life and work, was replaced by a striving towards harmony between the machine and nature, the mind and the body. These projects are extensions of a technologicised world, ironic and absurd situations that present a critique of rationalism and speak of the contradictions of late modern society, demonstrating at the same time both its intellectual horizons and the limits of its utopian fantasies.
The exhibition will present works of the following architects, artists and groups: Archizoom, Yuri Avvakumov, Alexander Brodsky & Ilya Utkin, Igor Dřevíkovský & David Vávra, Dvizhenie, Stano Filko, István B. Gellér, Anna Halprin, Zdeněk Hölzel & Jan Kerel, Jozef Jankovič, NER, Tiit Kaljundi, Jevgeni Klimov, Mari Kurismaa, Kai Koppel, Vilen Künnapu, Leonhard Lapin, Hardijs Lediņš, Avo-Himm Looveer, Kirmo Mikkola, Stefan Müller, Jüri Okas, OHO, Ain Padrik, Alessandro Poli, László Rajk, Toomas Rein, Sirje Runge, Superstudio, Tõnis Vint, and others. The photo kit can be downloaded from here.
Curators of the exhibition are Andres Kurg and Mari Laanemets, their assistent is Kristina Papstel. Design is by Kaisa Sööt and Indrek Sirkel. This exhibition has been produced in collaboration with the Estonian Academy of Arts and its research was supported by the Estonian Research Council grant (PRG530).
The director of the Estonian Museum of Architecture Triin Ojari states, that for the Estonian Museum of Architecture, it has been an exceptional loan process, because the exhibited works come from nearly 30 different national and private collections in Europe and Canada. Bringing all the threads together has been a real detective work for the curators. „We are happy to say that the Estonian Museum of Architecture is a reliable partner for several of the world’s top museums and collections, such as the Tate, the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, the Canadian Center for Architecture, Drawing Matter and the Museum Folkwang in Essen.
The exhibition places the Estonian architecture of the 1970s-1980 into international context and does it visually very effectively, comparing the works of our artists and architects not only with Russian paper architects, but also with Polish, Czech, Italian, Latvian and several other authors. The exhibition blurs the line between art and architecture, which both contribute equally to the visions of the future.
The curators of the exhibition, Andres Kurg and Mari Laanemets have collaborated earlier on such exhibitions as “Environment, Projects, Concepts: Architects of the Tallinn School, 1972-1985” (Museum of Estonian Architecture, 2008) and “Our Metamorphic Futures: Design, Technical Aesthetics and Experimental Architecture in the Soviet Union” (Vilnius National Gallery and Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, 2011-2012).
Andres Kurg is professor of architectural history and theory at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His research focuses on architecture and design in the Soviet Union in the 1960s-1980s in relation to changes in technology and everyday life, and to alternative art practices.
Mari Laanemets is senior researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Her research focuses on 1960s and 1970s alternative art in the Soviet Union and its intersections with architecture and design practices, on post-war abstractionism and the aesthetics of modernisation in Eastern Europe.
The exhibition in the Estonian Museum of Architecture in the Rotermann Salt Storage is open until April 30, 2023.
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Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture Without Borders, 1960s–1980s
Friday 20 January, 2023 — Sunday 30 April, 2023
Faculty of Architecture
Futuristic fantasies that were manifested in architecture and art from the 1960s to the 1980s.
On Friday, January 20 an exhibition „Forecast and Fantasy: Architecture Without Borders, 1960s–1980s“ will be opened in Rotermann Salt Storage.
This exhibition stages a meeting point for scientific predictions and futuristic fantasies that were manifested in architecture and art from the 1960s to the 1980s.
Bringing together authors from Eastern Europe and the West, the exhibition will display works that emerged from the new technological reality that followed the Second World War, and which took it along unexpected paths: foreseeing the replacement of work with games and collective pleasures in computerised societies, turning away from the overarching machine logic and replacing it with myths and romantic ideas of the human being, or looking for traces of other civilizations from space, instead of conquering it. A utopia of quantification and of scientific planning, of the separation of life and work, was replaced by a striving towards harmony between the machine and nature, the mind and the body. These projects are extensions of a technologicised world, ironic and absurd situations that present a critique of rationalism and speak of the contradictions of late modern society, demonstrating at the same time both its intellectual horizons and the limits of its utopian fantasies.
The exhibition will present works of the following architects, artists and groups: Archizoom, Yuri Avvakumov, Alexander Brodsky & Ilya Utkin, Igor Dřevíkovský & David Vávra, Dvizhenie, Stano Filko, István B. Gellér, Anna Halprin, Zdeněk Hölzel & Jan Kerel, Jozef Jankovič, NER, Tiit Kaljundi, Jevgeni Klimov, Mari Kurismaa, Kai Koppel, Vilen Künnapu, Leonhard Lapin, Hardijs Lediņš, Avo-Himm Looveer, Kirmo Mikkola, Stefan Müller, Jüri Okas, OHO, Ain Padrik, Alessandro Poli, László Rajk, Toomas Rein, Sirje Runge, Superstudio, Tõnis Vint, and others. The photo kit can be downloaded from here.
Curators of the exhibition are Andres Kurg and Mari Laanemets, their assistent is Kristina Papstel. Design is by Kaisa Sööt and Indrek Sirkel. This exhibition has been produced in collaboration with the Estonian Academy of Arts and its research was supported by the Estonian Research Council grant (PRG530).
The director of the Estonian Museum of Architecture Triin Ojari states, that for the Estonian Museum of Architecture, it has been an exceptional loan process, because the exhibited works come from nearly 30 different national and private collections in Europe and Canada. Bringing all the threads together has been a real detective work for the curators. „We are happy to say that the Estonian Museum of Architecture is a reliable partner for several of the world’s top museums and collections, such as the Tate, the Neues Museum in Nuremberg, the Canadian Center for Architecture, Drawing Matter and the Museum Folkwang in Essen.
The exhibition places the Estonian architecture of the 1970s-1980 into international context and does it visually very effectively, comparing the works of our artists and architects not only with Russian paper architects, but also with Polish, Czech, Italian, Latvian and several other authors. The exhibition blurs the line between art and architecture, which both contribute equally to the visions of the future.
The curators of the exhibition, Andres Kurg and Mari Laanemets have collaborated earlier on such exhibitions as “Environment, Projects, Concepts: Architects of the Tallinn School, 1972-1985” (Museum of Estonian Architecture, 2008) and “Our Metamorphic Futures: Design, Technical Aesthetics and Experimental Architecture in the Soviet Union” (Vilnius National Gallery and Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, 2011-2012).
Andres Kurg is professor of architectural history and theory at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His research focuses on architecture and design in the Soviet Union in the 1960s-1980s in relation to changes in technology and everyday life, and to alternative art practices.
Mari Laanemets is senior researcher at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Her research focuses on 1960s and 1970s alternative art in the Soviet Union and its intersections with architecture and design practices, on post-war abstractionism and the aesthetics of modernisation in Eastern Europe.
The exhibition in the Estonian Museum of Architecture in the Rotermann Salt Storage is open until April 30, 2023.
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08.02.2023
Online info session: doctoral studies at EKA
Architecture and Urban Design
EKA Doctoral School is hosting an online info session about doctoral studies at EKA on February 8, 2023, at 15:00 EET (local Estonian time) .
Info session provides a good opportunity to hear more about doctoral studies at EKA, available programmes, admission requirements and procedure, etc; also meet and ask questions directly from people behind the Doctoral School and the programmes. The info session will be hosted online over Zoom.
RECORDING OF THE INFO SESSION HERE
The Estonian Academy of Arts offers following PhD level programmes for international applicants:
- Architecture and Urban Planning
- Art and Design
- Art History and Visual Culture
- Cultural Heritage and Conservation
Admission period for international PhD applicants for 2023/2024 starts on February 1st, 2023. Deadline for submitting application is March 31st, 2023.
Admission requirements for PhD programmes can be found HERE.
More information:
Irene Hütsi
Doctoral School coordinator
irene.hutsi@artun.ee
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Online info session: doctoral studies at EKA
Wednesday 08 February, 2023
Architecture and Urban Design
EKA Doctoral School is hosting an online info session about doctoral studies at EKA on February 8, 2023, at 15:00 EET (local Estonian time) .
Info session provides a good opportunity to hear more about doctoral studies at EKA, available programmes, admission requirements and procedure, etc; also meet and ask questions directly from people behind the Doctoral School and the programmes. The info session will be hosted online over Zoom.
RECORDING OF THE INFO SESSION HERE
The Estonian Academy of Arts offers following PhD level programmes for international applicants:
- Architecture and Urban Planning
- Art and Design
- Art History and Visual Culture
- Cultural Heritage and Conservation
Admission period for international PhD applicants for 2023/2024 starts on February 1st, 2023. Deadline for submitting application is March 31st, 2023.
Admission requirements for PhD programmes can be found HERE.
More information:
Irene Hütsi
Doctoral School coordinator
irene.hutsi@artun.ee
Posted by Maarja Pabut — Permalink