hi people!!!

we already got applications from 233 of you and it’s really cool to see that the whole thing is getting REAL!

there is just one thing i wanted to tell you:

many of you are arriving already Saturday by car in Zürich. I just want to inform you that if you come by car you probably wont be able to travel with our SPECIAL TRAIN because it’s impossible to leave your car (so far there are about 30 cars…) in Zürich for two weeks.
There will be no problem to leave the car in Bergün…and of course we will do the best for you to find the way up there!!

so
see you soon….(i can’t believe that it’s already in 3 months!!!)
eliza

posted by eliza_ch
Wed, 11 May 2005 21:24:45 GMT

1. for extra places: send a mail, preferably with the subject “(your country)_extra places”, saying: “hi, i’d like to apply for X extra places for (your country)”. that’s all. please send it to APPLICATION@EASA005.CH as we have recieved more than a third of your application forms on the organiser adress. it is a bit annoying to forward everything to the right place. countries that have already sent their request for extra places don’t have to resend it.

2. the following countries have sent their applications: austria, belgium (2 more places waiting), bosnia&herzegovina (3), croatia, cyprus, czech republic, denmark, finland, georgia, germany (2), greece, hungary, ireland (4), italy, latvia, lithuania, malta (5), netherlands, norway, portugal, russia, serbia&montenegro, slovenia, sweden, turkey, uk, us (5) and france (right now :-D)

3. the following countries have asked to keep their places for a later date: poland, spain, latin america and switzerland :-D

4. these are countries with no news so far. PLEASE, SEND YOUR APPLICATIONS, ALBANIA, ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN, BELARUS, BULGARIA, ESTONIA, ICELAND, MACEDONIA, MOLDOVA, ROMANIA, SLOVAKIA, UKRAINE. furthermore, we are trying to invite a couple of guests from israel and palestina. so far, we have received one israeli workshop proposal which is a great pleasure!

i hope that’s all correct. otherwise let me know, please. if you have sent your applications already, but you’re not on the list, please resend them cause they haven’t arrived! thanks. it’s very beautiful to get your applications, your names and sometimes even faces already. that makes the blood thing so real!

bye bye, flo_ch

posted by easa005.ch
Tue, 10 May 2005 18:26:27 GMT

hello everybody!

some good news, concerning website updates and communication issues:

1. banking details online: in the section “banking details” of our website, you can find any necessary information how to pay your fees. please wait before paying, we will send you a mail with the confirmation of the amount and number of places you are paying for.

2. post adress and office phone/fax: for any letter bombs or similar stuff, you find the mail adress in the “contacts” section, of course it contains phone and fax number of the office/headquarters.

3. bulletin 1!!! the first bulletin, addition to the tutorpack and so to our education, is online. it contains a couple of graphics, so it’s too heavy to send it out, but you can download it from the web: “theme > bulletins > bulletin1”. if you want some more good news about the competition, pavilion preparations and other important things, download it!

4. today, we have carried 5 tons of beautiful earth-brown bricks from an exhibition. if that’s inspiring you for a workshop, let us know! so that’s the portion of today. and don’t forget to download the bulletin!

5. very general: please check to which adress you send things we get. there’s just a few adresses indicated on the website in “contacts”. forwarding is easy for us, but the more steps the message takes to get to the right place, the bigger the possibility of getting into a mess. the biggest problem is that if i forward a message from… let’s say organiser to application, a direct reply ends up at organiser again, so we have to keep mailing back and forth to send stuff to the right place. would be great if you’d help us in that question (no apologies from anybody for that, please :-)).

!!!LESS THAN 3 MONTHS LEFT!!!

flo_ch

posted by easa005.ch
Tue, 10 May 2005 18:23:51 GMT

these days we all have something to celebrate!

soon we are 1’000 days online!
almost 500 members
and according to the counter on the left side soon 100’000 visitors

actually there is another (probably more accurate) counter on the bottom of the site, but as i missed our visitor nr. 100’000 i feel very proud to announce *tarrramtaarrraaaamm*
visitor nuuuuumber 101’000 is:

someone hosted by Bulldog Communications GB. jovan, was it you?

and now i’m very excited to wait for nr. 100’000…

nice to see this blog that… vivid ;-)

mark0.at

edit: so far we’ve posted 588 stories and i dont know how many tons of comments, and all started somehow like that… good old times…

posted by paradeiser
Sun, 08 May 2005 22:06:41 GMT

Hi all!
I’d like to move your attention on Rome, from the old and the new Pope event, into an architectonic-urban problem (even if we r still talking about several people!): the topic of my last exam: CORVIALE.
Do you know Corviale?

Corviale is the failure of utopic dreams of an architects generation, designed by the roman architect, Mario Fiorentino.
From the desire of the megastructures, starting from the Plan Obus of Le Courbousier for Algeri, trough the Karl-Marx-Hof untill the future cities of the Archigram with Plug-in-City and Walking City and so on … till the need of residences due cos of the fast expansion for the economic boom in the Italian capital, that was expressed till then with the chaos of the dispersion of illicit buildings in the suburbs.

That’s why Corviale was made. 1km of dam to contain the uncontrolled expansion of the city, with its nine floors designed for 1202 apartments of several sizes, plus others illegal in the plan that was dedicated to the services, for approximately 7000 people.

The biggest part of 60 hectares available, was left for the green, in fact the residences are concentrated in a huge block and the general services (schools, supermarket, library, multiservice center, gymnasium…) in a little part in front of it.

I think the problem that has caused the sickness of living of inhabitants, first of all is managerial, but the guilt of architecture is that Fiorentino wasn’t thinking about socialization spaces among inhabitants with different cultures and from different counties.
During the 30th anniversary from the beginning of the construction, the debate was divided between someone who wants to destroy it (like it happened for Pruitt-Igoe Housing by Minouru Yamasaki in St Luis), and someone who wants to reconvert it into other functions or requalify it (I agree whit the last two thoughts).

I’m sure that around the world Corviale is not the only exemplary, and I’m asking u if u know some other (good or bad working) examples or know how u would approach on this case.

More information are available in my prof.’s website, drawing, texts, photo… (but only in italian sorry)
w3.uniroma1.it

or something in thisone:
www.osservatorionomade.net

or try to download my heavy 10 min movie when I’m connected in winMX
or just ask and I’ll give u the names of some European reviews that have been dedicated to the concrete roman dinosaur.

Cheers

Paolo_Roma

posted by paolo_masa
Sat, 07 May 2005 17:49:13 GMT

I read this in belgian newspaper –

(c) BELGA/AFP

Libeskinds Freedomtower will never be build. Too dangerous according to NY police.

”The tower is told to be too close to the street and the abundant use of glass makes it vulnerable for terrorist attacks with a car bomb.”

The new design hast to honour the ‘spirit’ of Libeskinds design en it has to be as high (1776 feet – year of US independance). But it will be another tower.. of another architect.
And the main question still stands: ‘who’ll want to work in such a high tower?’ For the new tower there hasn’t been found a single person that wants to rent space there.

How come that such a design won, then? This project has been chosen on certain qualities that will go lost now in “honoring the spirit of Libeskinds design”..
How fair is this towards the other competitors that joined the cometition but didnt win? How fair is this towards Libeskind?
It seems that symbolism (1776 feet/Freedom(?)tower/…) is more important than architecture.
It seems that they still dont get that any building can be bombed if some1 wants it to be bombed (by car, by plane, by flowerpot, …). Or should we from now on build only at a minimum distance from the street equal to the maximum blast-radius of the biggest potential bomb? – Dont forget to incorporate the SAM-missiles on your roofs? ;) (It can be solved in a more esthetical way: www.battlemccarthy.com)
This megalomania is not a conmemeroration of the innocent who sadly lost their lives on 9/11, but a self-fulfilling-prophecy.

Whatever. Skyscrapers are outdated anyway.


kus
Freefrik NC.b

posted by frederik
Sat, 07 May 2005 16:07:49 GMT

i am just copy pasting sth from domus site i bumped into tonight. in light of recent discussion here, i think it is useful.
kiss
dubi


Designing a building is only part of the work of an architect. There is another phase, no less delicate, that regards the way in which the project is presented. A good dose of eloquence is required to get published. So drawings, models and diagrams are the ingredients that contribute to making architecture “famous”, sometimes even before it is finished. Albena Yaneva, fellow of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, has organised three days of discussion on this subject.

The aim is to respond to a series of questions, analysed in terms of the working methods of a number of international practices (such as Diller and Scofidio). How are images of a project made, diffused and manipulated? How do they help the designer develop an idea? What are the challenges that one could resolve through the use of these techniques? Discussing the matter will be historians, sociologists and architectural theorists. E.S.

Stuttgart, Germany
The Art of Thinking like an Architect
12.5.2005 – 14.5.2005
Akademie Schloss Solitude, Solitude 3
T +49-0711-99619-134
www.akademie-solitude.de

posted by dubravka
Wed, 04 May 2005 23:48:20 GMT

hi all
i’d need ur help.

I am looking for some inspiration and/or references on “boiler buildings”.

There’s quite a big area in Liège where modernism’s remains became a social hot spot of the city. Unsecurity feeling, criminality, youth unemployment, “ethnic” tensions made this area sadly known to the whole region.

A society is aiming at doing sth about it. Buildings are renovated, exterior spaces are re-worked, … The area is huge and heating has been provided from outside so far but new energy supply is needed. Still the heating installation is supposed to be a central one.

In this context we have been asked to design the building for that heating installation. as buildings around are quite high (up to 13 levels), the chimneys will have to be huge.

I found Funder Factory 3 by Coop so far.

Any other references, suggestions, inspiration, input?

loves

aLx_Be

posted by rimbaud
Mon, 02 May 2005 23:18:54 GMT

Here’s a collection of picture uploaded to the site by Dunc since around middle of january… just to sum up some of his great contribution to the community…









 









 



 





















Sorry couldn’t resist digging even a bit deeper into the archives… so here’s a stroll down memory lane…

 

what a classic… anybody remember his tasteful suggestion to ask the serbs how to build bomb shelters?













He must really think that inside any european arch student is a heart longing for ireland…. oh Ireland…









he apearantly uploaded this twice with two years in between:







and as the grande finale – the classic Dunc picture:



a fun sustainable picture if I ever saw one..

love

Adam

ps @ mods – just take it away when you get tired of it, or ask me to do it myself…

posted by adam cp
Mon, 02 May 2005 22:36:01 GMT

no one can argue with your commitment and the political fire that you´ve got burning, you know it´s not my point to critizise that in any sense –
BUT: This is not the site to manifest that! Especially not when you collage-paste pictures of riots along with pictures from easa-events. That really makes me mad (and diminishes the efforts you made in Roubaix)
Do you even realize what this means as far as a face to the public for Easa? The consequenses that it could have for the Easa in switzerland? the swiss crew and all their efforts with sponsors that take a look at our forum and wants no part of theses political standpoints? Don’t make “the swiss” look like liers or hipocrites. Not to mention new easa participants who might get the wrong idea that there is a “right” and a “wrong” standpoint within easa.

As a well spread out network, a non-hierarchical system, we have only one common face and it happens to be this blog. Please don´t disregard one of our strongest functions – a free-zone from political and religious opression.

I know you want us to react and discuss with you, but
t h i s i s n o t t h e p l a c e for it.
It’s not cause we don’t care about these issues that we don’t answer your callings, but (if i may speak for others than only myself..?) Let do that this summer, in groups when we´re all speaking as individuals and not as easians.


thank you and please understand where this is coming from.

alexandra – nc sweden

posted by alexandra_swe
Sun, 01 May 2005 21:05:22 GMT

mayday the traditional workers holiday is on next monday, whats going on in your country?

last year it was a bit of a fiasco here in ireland: plenty of people gathered, danced, sung and marched

only to be greeted by the water cannon (first time it was used in irish state, but had been used many times in north)

back in mayday 2002 was another violent day, as the cops here went completely mad beating peaceful protestors

despite acting without garda numbers on (an illegal act), despite beating peaceful people, many of whom were not even at the RTS, none of the gardaí were charged in court. thats justice for you?

was a lead up discussion to last years EASA @ la condition publique heres the origins of mayday (many languages, including greek) and to finish up, you can listen to a bit of music from riotfolk

posted by duncan
Sat, 30 Apr 2005 09:40:38 GMT

we get too many requests for extra places. dear people, as long as you haven’t even sent applications for the quota, it’s completely useless to ask at all! the system is so clear and simple, and we are not going to change it. applications go through nc’s, that’s it. we don’t answer to any requests for extra places anymore as it starts to ‘steal’ one hour of our daily working time, and after some time it gets on ones nerves.

nc’s, please find a good way to communicate you decisions for the participants you choose, and make an effort to ask for extra places also for people that are NOT your friends. this goes especially to russia from where we constantly get complaints! so katja and inara, please do something about it.

for all extra places: you can apply the given number of the quota list, and as soon as you get a confirmation, you ask for extra places. nothing else. and don’t worry too much, there will be enough places for everybody at the end, i guess.

and for all participants: whatever you try, you will not be able to avoid your nc’s for an application. it might sound very disappointing, but we have more important things to take care of than collecting individual applications from 40 different countries. if you ask for a place, don’t forget that you are not the only one, but it is about a network that is in contact to a couple of thousand students. so if we start to accept individual applications from one side, where should we start to draw a line? so we will be consequent about that.

sorry to be so rough, but it seems to be necessary!

cheers
flo_ch

posted by easa005.ch
Mon, 25 Apr 2005 11:26:28 GMT

came across something i thought id share with EASA.
OTHER VOICES, is a weekly live gig from a church in dingle, kerry
top bands have played there over the last 2 years, this years new series is archived on nation tv website; RTE
you can watch them, id direct you to THE RADIO and a fine set from MARK LANAGAN
enjoy.
dunk

artists who previously took part in ‘Other Voices:
The Frames, Damien Rice, Gemma Hayes and Bellx1

you can also listen online to a top radio channel PHANTOM FM , which started off as a pirate and might get an official licence for the great work it has done for up and coming irish acts. it was pulled off air while it awaits the government move to have it on the airwaves.

posted by duncan
Tue, 19 Apr 2005 14:50:21 GMT

Hello! Did you receive submissions from belarusian students in my letter?

posted by gosha
Mon, 18 Apr 2005 15:25:31 GMT

please send all workshop mail to workshop (at) easa005.ch without s (not workshops) cause we have a big spam problem on this mailbox.

don’t worry, e-mails sent so far have been checked and are registered. the workshops mailbox will not be deleted, so if someone sends his mail there by mistake, we notice it. but if possible, please send it to the new adress.

thanks
flo

posted by easa005.ch
Sun, 17 Apr 2005 16:27:12 GMT