RØROSSEMINARET 2011 TAF INTERNATIONAL CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE

Fredag 29. april

1200-1300 Åpning av Arkitekturens år 2011/ ARCH-TRD Rådstuallmenningen i enden av Kongens gate (ved Peppes Pizza)

1330 Avreise fra Rådstuallmenningen1630 Innsjekk på Vertshuset Røros1730-1930 Koldtbord i Apotekergården2000- Han Tümertekin, Tyrkia

Lørdag 30. april

0800-0900 Frokost0900-0930 Marit Haugen/ Dan Zohar, Norge0945-1100 Petter Paus - Pir II Arkitektkontor, Norge1115-1230 Torben Schønherr, Danmark 1230-1345 Lunch1400-1515 Bijoy Jain - Studio Mumbai, India 1530-1700 Wang Shu, - Amateur Architecture Studio, Kina1930 Festmiddag i Sangerhuset

Søndag 1. mai

0800-1030 Frokost og utsjekk1030-1145 Bjørn Otto Braaten, Norge1200-1315 Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Norge1315 Lunchca 1400 Avreise

Seminarsted Sangerhuset

Kursavgift kr 2200,-inkl. koldbord og middag (ikke drikke)

Overnatting Vertshuset Røros Bestilles ved påmelding. NB! Overnatting betales separat ved utsjekking. Alle priser er pr. pers/ pr natt, inkl. frokost.

Enkeltrom 825,-Dobbeltrom 525,-Leilighet (3-4 pers) 475,-

Det tas forbehold om at alle ønsker kan oppfylles. Deltakerne oppfordres til å organisere seg i leiligheter.

Transport Buss Avreise fra Rådstuallmenningen (ved Peppes Pizza) kl 1330. Merk tid og sted! kr. 300,- t/r

Påmelding e-post: sa@eggen-arkitekter.noNB! Angi ønske om overnatting og buss Trondheim-Røros t/r.

InnbetalingTrondhjems Arkitektforeningboks 265 – 7411 Trondheim

Kontonr.: 1503.04.07471

Påmeldingsfrist 8. april 2010

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WELCOME TO RØROS!The 13th TAF International Celebration of Architecture

The Trondheim Chapter (TAF) of the National Assosiation of Norwegian Architects (NAL) has been arranging architectural celebrations at Røros since 1988.

This years we also celebrate Year of Architecture, the 100-year anniversary of NAL.

Over the years these bi-annual arrangements have become important events; celebrating the common bonds between architects, wherever they work in the world. It’s a place for architects to congregate, for projects and buildings to be discussed and to celebrate the work of colleagues.

There were no high-flying ideas behind the initiative. There were no problems to be solved, and no particular issue to be debated. We simply wanted to invite fellow practicing architects from around the world, primarily from areas that we knew little about, to share ideas and built work. All architects struggle with similar challenges, but in different settings and often without due recognition.

Out of this idea came an event celebrating the tribulations we go through in creating buildings to enhance our environment, and the exuberance felt when buildings come out “warm, dry and noble”, as the late Samuel Mockbee said.

International exchange between architects is easy, at times too easy. This is the reason we make an issue of architects meeting face to face in an informal way. We meet in the town of Røros, one of Norway’s World Heritage Sites, and an extraordinary location for architects to gather in one place. Lecturers are invited to present works that carry a particular significance for them and the seminar encourages the informal exchange of ideas.

The invited architects are people we are familiar with through word of mouth, ‘obscure’ publications, and/or regular architectural press. Their work has to carry a social significance, be architecturally innovative and challenging - and they have to be nice people.

On behalf of the Røros Committee 2011

Tore Wiger, Siri Rørholt, Nina Haarsaker, Sverre Andreassen, Leif Baardstu, Hilde Bøkestad and Hans Skotte.

Han Tümertekin is a practicing architect based in Istanbul and principal of the firm Mimarlar Tasarim Danismanlik Ltd that he established in 1986. His built works include residential, commercial, and institutional projects primarily in Turkey, as well as in the Netherlands, Japan, Canada, the United Kingdom, and France.

Han Tümertekin was trained in architecture at Istanbul Technical University and completed graduate studies in historic preservation at the University of Istanbul. In addition to his built works, he has taught architecture since 1992, and is presently a design critic at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design. He lectures at universities and cultural institutions throughout the world. His works have been widely published in international architectural journals, including Domus, Abitare, and AV.

He was presented a 2004 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the B2 House, a private residence he designed for two brothers in Canakkale, Turkey.

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Marit Haugen and Dan Zohar describes their preferences on architecture in their own words: For us, architecture is by its nature, earthbound. Drawn by and for people. In our work we aim to question relationships between architecture, function, and art, by integrating the disciplines of landscape - architecture and sculpture. Our body of work conveys the necessity to establish links between past and future, culture and memory, between people, their stories and their surroundings. Concerned with political, social and environmental urgencies of contemporary society, our work focuses on the translation of such urgencies into spatial and material forms of action. These forms of actions have to do with social engagement and participation; they have to do with the environment and expressivity of territories; they have to do with conflicts, needs and visions in our dynamic society. These forms of actions have to do with empathy.

www.hza.no

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Petter Paus, Pir II Architects. The “Pir II Family” advocates flexible cooperation between independent yet loyal family members and friends. Pir II AS, Pir II Plan and Pir II Oslo are bonded within this concept, while Pir II Buenos Aires is emerging as the family’s youngest offspring. We see this as a sustainable approach to business operation, an alternative at a time when the industry through expansion and mergers is transforming into ever larger units. At the same time we seek to uphold friendships and relations with competitors and collaborators alike, locally and abroad. Both modest and more renowned projects have been developed within this framework.

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Torben Schønherr is the first Landscape Architect to be invited to Røros. His body of work includes projects within all fields of landscape architecture and planning. The work places an emphasis on complete solutions which bring value to the entire community. His projects seek to create spaces and elements that are obvious, natural and indispensable; while always remaining architecturally functional.A signature of his projects is simplicity and poetry, characters which permeate the projects from idea to presentation of concrete proposals. Several of his projects also strive to merge art and landscape in their design and execution.

We are excited to include a Landscape Architect at Røros and look forward to having Torben share his recent work at the seminar.

Bijoy Jain (born 1965) was trained as an architect in the USA and worked in Richard Meier’s office. Jain returned to his native India in the 1990s and founded Studio Mumbai Architects in 2005. The Indian landscape as well as local resources, materials and technology play key roles in the office’s projects, which train local artisans and skilled labourers during the planning and building process. Planning always begins by bringing local craftsmen together and making plans in collaboration. Studio Mumbai’s projects invariably involve a social dimension, which aims at improving people’s living and housing conditions through local resources.Jain has criticised the uncontrolled building that occurred in India during the economic boom. Engineerdriven “photocopy design” is what Jain calls the years of uncontrolled growth; it was this phenomenon which made him come back from the US, set up Studio Mumbai and dive into alternative architecture. “Human infrastructure” is Jain’s goal. He also speaks of genius loci and its interpretation, something which can be found together with local people.

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Wang ShuI design a house instead of a building. The house is the amateur architecture approach to the infinitely spontaneous order.Built spontaneously, illegally and temporarily, amateur architecture is equal to professional architecture. But amateur architecture is just not significant.

One problem of professional architecture is, that it thinks too much of a building. A house, which is close to our simple and trivial life, is more fundamental than architecture. Before becoming an architect, I was only a literati. Architecture is part time work to me. For one place, humanity is more important than architecture while simple handicraft is more important than technology.The attitude of amateur architecture, - though first of all being an attitude towards a critical experimental building process -, can have more entire and fundamental meaning than professional architecture. For me, any building activity without comprehensive thoughtfulness will be insignificant.

From the design philosophy of Amature Architecture Studio www.chinese-architects.com/amateur/

Amateur Architecture Studio was established in 1998 by Chinese architects Wang Shu and Lu Wenyu. Based in Hangzhou they gained international attention for Ningbo Museum, Xiangshan Campus and the Wenzheng Library. They are considered one of the most experimental architects in China. Wang Shu is also a professor at the School of Architecture, Academy of Fine Art in Hangzhou.

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Bjørn Otto BraatenDEEP STRUCTURESSurprising discoveries about the work of first year student of architecture

A documentation of the first assignment architect students did at NTNU in the period of five years, 2001-2005, shows that there is more to these works than what may be assumed. Through a systematization and further study of parts of the material, deeper architectural and conceptual themes is discovered that brings forth basic questions concerning teaching and learning, creative processes and the relationship between these.

Associate professor Bjørn Otto Braaten, NTNU, has been a teacher of architecture for more than 20 years, first at Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) and since 2001 at NTNU. Together with Gisle Løkken and Kjeld Nash he established 70˚N arkitektur in Tromsø in 1995.

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Ingerid Helsing Almaas was born in Oslo, Norway in 1965. After studying woodworking and philosophy in Oslo, she moved on to architecture studies in the United Kingdom, graduating from the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1994. She has practised as an architect in London and in Oslo, and taught in the AA Diploma School with Pascal Schöning for several years. Now living in Oslo, she has been working as an architecture critic architecture in various capacities at in Norway and internationally. She has been editor-in-chief of Arkitektur N, the Norwegian Review of Architecture, since 2004.Ingerid’s concern with architecture is rooted in practice. Culture is not an academic pursuit; culture is the way we do things, and architecture is a field of action. Within the realm of architecture lies the possibility to grapple with – and perhaps meet – some of the major challenges facing the human community today. Arkitektur N continues to furnish practicing architects with the arguments for the ongoing debate about how we are to build the future.

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These have been our lecturers so far:

1988: Vilen Kunnapu, Estonia; Lasse Vtera ,Finland; Seppo Heinonen, Fredrik Prøsh, Evlyn Anderson and Lars Fredrik Nordland, Norway. 1990: Romi Khosla, India; Josè Forjas, Mosambique; Sigurdur Harason, Iseland; Thorsen & Dykers/ Snøhetta, Norway; Michael Lloyd, UK/ Norway; Ulrich Malicius, Torbjørn Eggen, Norway.1992: Rasem Badran, Jordan; Jury Brashkov, Russia; Raul Hestnes Ferreira, Portugal; Juvenal Baracco, Peru; Ulf Grønvold, Norway; J.O. Jensen, PC Brynildsen Norway; 1994: Ralph Erskine, Sweden; Jo Noero, South Africa; Kenneth Yeang, Malaysia; Amir Pasic, Bosnia Herzegovina; Kristin Jarmund, Norway; Heidi Bjøru, Norway.; Michael Lloyd, UK/Norway1996: Miguel Angel Roca, Argentina; Eko Prawato, Indonesia; Rodney Harber, South Africa; Carmen & Elin Corneil, Canada/ Norway; Einar Hagem, Lund Hagem, Norway. 1998: Farhad Ahmadi, Iran; Jan Søndergård, Denmark; Hans Venhuiszen, Netherlands; Ulla Vatrea, Finnland; Grov Haga, Sixten Rahllf, Harald Hille, Norway.2000: John Tuomey & Sheila O`Donnell, Ireland; Richardo Porro, Cuba/ France; Sanjay Mohe, India; Kari Järvinen, Finland; Ewa Kipka, Poland; Molne and Gertslauer, Norway; Ola Steen, Norway.

2002: Daigu Ishii, Japan; Glenn Murcutt, Australia; Dorte Mandrup, Danmark; Simon Velez, Columbia; Nils Johan Mannsåker, Norway; Merethe Moum, Norway, Helge Solberg, Norway; Knut Einar Larsen, Norway.2004: Rifat Chardiji, Irak; Kengo Kuma, Japan, Smiljan Radic, Chile, Michael Lloyd, Spain/Norway/UK; Geir Brendeland/Olav Kristoffersen, Norway, Steve Christer/Studio Granda, Iceland, Reinhard Kropf/Helen & Hard, Norway2006: Kate Otten, South Africa; Rafael Iglesia, Argentina; Lie & Øien, Norway, Channa Daswatte, Sri Lanka, Juha Laiviskä, Finland, Elias Torres, Spain, Sunniva Neuenkirchen Rosenberg, Norway, Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Norway2008: Dick van Gameren, Nederland; Pushak, Norway; Open City, Chile; Brian MacKay-Lyons, Canada; Diébédo Francis Kéré, Burkina Faso; Eike Roswag, Germany; Sami Rintala, Finland/ Norway; Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Norway.2010: Point Supreme Architects, Greece; Rever og Drager Snikkarverksted, Norway; Tyin Tegnestue, Norway: Patama Roonrakwit, Thailand; Steinsvik Arkitektkontor, Norway; Adnan Harmabasic, A-lab, Norway; Ingerid Helsing Almaas, Norway

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The Aga Khan Award for Architecture

En stor takk ti l Øien og Indergaard for hjelp med trykking av program.

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