Architecture Now – Go there now!

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ProDesign was first launched in 1992 and has been a faithful communicator of events and activity within the commercial design sectors of graphic design, product design and commercial interior design. ProDesign has enjoyed a long relationship with the Designers Institute of New Zealand and has also been a sponsor of the Best Design Awards for many years.

AGM will launch a new magazine in September 2011 that will provide focused coverage of the commercial interior design sector.

The new magazine will feature interior architecture and design projects across office and workplace, retail, hospitality, education, public and other interior commercial environments. It will also offer an intelligent mix of news, opinions, profiles and interviews.

The new magazine will be edited by Michael Barrett, editor of ProDesign, and designed by Matthew Straker, AGM’s creative director, who recently redesigned Urbis magazine. It will be published four times a year in large format.

AGM would like to thank the many readers of ProDesign and its advertisers for their support over the last 16 years.

AGM Publisher Parul Sheopuri says, “AGM is looking forward to better meeting the needs of those readers and advertisers associated with the commercial interior design sector. It’s an exciting time to be launching a new magazine for a sector that is primed for growth.”

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Portuguese designer Eduardo Souto de Moura has won this year's Pritzker Prize. Jury chairman Lord Peter Palumbo said that over the course of a three-decade career de Moura “has produced a body of work that is of our time but also carries echoes of architectural traditions.”

The American Institute of Architects has 'doled' out its annual housing awards. If you think there is a typical style of American architecture then think again. This is a varied line-up of high-end housing, social housing and senior living spaces.

Shigeru Ban, here in New Zealand last year as a guest of Auckland University's School of Architecture, is interviewed by the New York Times about temporary housing in post-quake, post-tsunami Japan. He is typically modest, typically honest.

Stephen Holl – Charles Rennie Macintosh's best friend – or not. Via Herald Scotland.

Design thinking won't help you… oh go on, it might help you a little bit. Helen Walters at Fast Company.

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For those unfamiliar with these artists, here's a bit of background info from the gallery:

Barry Cleavin and Jason Greig have both had a long, passionate and evolving relationship with print. Cleavin has explored its many traditional forms including as lithography and etching as well as making a recent move into realm of digital print. His work uses humour and a compelling graphic sensibility to interpret and comment on society, saying "Mostly I reduce the world to absurdity; in that form it is manageable."  Greig’s work takes a darker tack, exploring the macabre and sinister sides of the human psyche. His practice pushes the boundaries between painting and print, exploring the possibilities of monoprinting and creating sensuous and brooding images. The exhibition will present recent and older work from both artists, illuminating their ongoing engagement with print.

Jason Greig will be showing new work at  Ivan Anthony Gallery, Level 1, ANZ Building, Corner East Street & Karangahape Road, 30 March — 23 April, 2011.

The Print Season 2011 looks at ways that artists respond to the presence and history of print in New Zealand as well as the impacts of new technology on the ways in which we create and relate to printed matter.

Find more info here…

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If you're not, here's a list of all the great things you're going to miss. You can buy tickets on the day at the MINI Garage in Ponsonby – that's Urbis HQ for the day. See you there.

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The judges said of Plumen, that low-energy light bulbs have never been regarded as a stylish product, yet Plumen "addresses this by creating an aesthetic bulb which works just like any low-energy bulb".

"By bending the glass tubes of a light bulb, Plumen have designed a product that uses 80% less energy and lasts eight times longer than an incandescent bulb. Compared with the standard fluorescent light, Plumen 001 is a beautiful light bulb designed to be seen.

"The Plumen 001 is an imaginatively sculpted energy saving light bulb, its beautiful silhouette and organic form was chosen as the overall winner from the seven category winners as the Brit Insurance Design of the Year."

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Now in its fourth year, the Communiqué public lecture series highlights the breadth and depth of the National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries (NICAI), widely respected as a hub for trans– and interdisciplinary research and practice. This semester’s offerings include lectures on dance choreography, Tongan sculpture, modernist architecture in the Soviet Union, and a Bedouin primary school made of tyres and mud. Speakers hail from the United States, Japan, Tonga, Samoa and New Zealand.

“It may be initially surprising to find lectures on choreography and sculpture in a series presented by a School of Architecture and Planning, but Communiqué’s diversity reflects the scope of our two disciplines,” says Senior Lecturer of Architecture Jeremy Treadwell, who has coordinated the programme. “As host of this prestigious line-up of guests, the School celebrates the richness inherent in these areas of study.”

Featured speakers include Patrick Reynolds, New Zealand's leading architectural photographer. He has also collaborated with writers on best-selling books on such topics as the villa, the bach, contemporary houses, and architects’ own residences. Patrick is currently teaching a paper on architectural photography at NICAI.

Los Angeles-based architect Mark Lee is a founding partner of Johnston Marklee. Their work often involves collaborations beyond those typical of architecture, involving contemporary artists, graphic designers, writers and photographers. Mark Lee will teach an intensive design studio later this semester.

As one of the nation's leading landscape designers, Megan Wraight works with our best architects and urban designers to create public spaces and landscapes around the country. Her most celebrated works include the multi-award-winning Waitangi Park in Wellington, which broke new ground with its ecological features.

Neil Ieremia is one of New Zealand’s most accomplished contemporary dance choreographers. He is the founder and artistic director of the dance company Black Grace recognised as the world’s leading exponent of Pacific contemporary dance.

More about Communiqué…

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