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Book launch and Exhibition opening
Angkor: Sketches of an Ancient City by Gregory Bracken

Hereby you are invited to the exhibition and book launch of Angkor: Sketches of an Ancient City by Gregory Bracken.

4 to 6 pm, Saturday, 26th June
Sociëteit De Kring
Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 7
Leidseplein, Amsterdam
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DSD Lecture of Patrick Healy at Technion, Haifa, 2 november 2009
Architectural theory in the late work of Walter Benjamin
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For the Technion in Haifa Patrick Healy has prepared a paper based on his ongoing research on architectural theory in the late work of Walter Benjamin. He will examine the theorising of architecture in Benjamin's study of the Baroque Lamentation-Play, and the significance of allegory and Trauer in his understanding of history and the object world: the relation ultimately of image to word. Healy will propose a new interpretation of how to understand the dialectical image in its upsurge as keyed to melancholy and ruins in Benjamin's work.
The reading will encompass for the Haifa conference the question of place and architecture in his account of Paris, Berlin, Moscow, Naples, Barcelona, and Marseilles in light of his commentary on contemporary architectural writing and theory in the publications of Giedion, Kaufmann, Le Corbusier. The significance for Benjamin of Max Raphael's Proudhon, Marx, Picasso, and Raphael's work on Marxist epistemology will be highlighted for Benjamin as his reading of Simmel on the Philosophy of Money, and Riegl on Dutch Portrait group painting, indicating their specific significance for his final surviving formulations and research direction.

Patrick Healy (b. Dublin, Ireland 1955- ) has been engaged as a philosopher and author for over 30 years in publication, international lecturing and research. He is currently a senior researcher at the Delft School of Design, Faculty of Architecture , Technical University, Delft, the Netherlands. There he also gives courses on aesthetics, in the philosophy of science, and seminars for the doctoral students. He currently offers a course in ten parts The Philosophy of Image.
He has also taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam, in departments of sculpture and photography. He is Professor of interdisciplinary research at the Free International University Amsterdam, and has contributed and issued many publications on artists and participated in projects, such as Paleo Psycho Pop, Bison Caravan, the formation of the FIUWAC collection.
New DSD Director.
Deborah Hauptmann appointed as new Director of the Delft School of Design.

Since of September 2010, Deborah Hauptmann is appointed as the new Head of the Delft School of Design at the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. She is the 2^nd Director to the Delft School of Design, and replaces Prof.dr.ir. Arie Graafland as director.

For the past decade Deborah Hauptmann has been engaged in both theory and design teaching at the Faculty of Architecture, TU Delft. Prior to the founding of the DSD she was Masters program coordinator for the Architecture Theory department where she developed much of core curriculum still taught in that department. Hauptmann lectures internationally and contributes actively to conferences as a speaker and moderator, both at the TU and abroad.
DSD UA Graduations

We would like to congratulate the following students who graduated from the DSD Urban Asymmetries program:

They where:

Tom KOLNAAR - Architecture [Final Presentation]

Levan ASABASHVILI - Architecture [Final Presentation]

Tania GUERRERO - Architecture [Final Presentation]

Taufan TER WEEL - Architecture [Final Presentation]

Martynas MAROZAS - Urbanism [Final Presentation]

Anouk DISTELBRINK - Urbanism [Final Presentation]

Amber MAESSEN - Architecture [Final Presentation]

Sylvia BIZZARRI - Urbanism [Final Presentation]

Yan BAI - Urbanism [Final Presentation]

Phillip LÜHL - Architecture [Final Presentation]

Carlos GARCIA SANCHO - Arcitecture [Final Presentation]

Idan ZVEIBIL - Urbanism [Final Presentation]
New DSD publication available
COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE - FROM BIOPOLITICS TO NOOPOLITICS, edited by Deborah Hauptmann and Warren Neidich , 010 Publishers, 2010

Cognitive Architecture questions of how evolving modalities - from bio-politics to noo-politics - can be mapped upon the city under contemporary conditions of urbanization and globalization. Noo-politics, most broadly understood as a power exerted over the life of the mind, re-configures perception, memory and attention, and also implicates potential ways and means by which neurobiological architecture is undergoing reconfiguration. This volume, motivated by theories such as 'cognitive capitalism' and concepts such as 'neural plasticity', shows how architecture and urban processes and products commingle to form complex systems that produce novel forms of networks that empower the imagination and constitute the cultural landscape. This volume rethinks the relations between form and forms of communication, calling for a new logic of representation; it examines the manner in which information, with its non-hierarchical and distributed format is contributing both to the sculpting of brain and production of mind. Cognitive Architecture brings together renowned specialists in the areas of political and aesthetic philosophy, neuroscience, socio-cultural and architecture theory, visual and spatial theorists and practitioners; the contributions elucidate original ideas for thinking the city as a framework for possible gestations of noo-politics.
DSD Santiago de Chili
Urban Asymmetries Program

Photo's of the recent field research in Santiago de Chili of the Urban Asymmetries Program.
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Departure: Roemer van Toorn.
Roemer van Toorn appointed as Theory & Media professor at the Umeå School of Architecture, University of Umeå Sweden.

Roemer van Toorn has recently been appointed Theory & Media professor at the Umeå School of Achitecture at the University of Umeå Sweden.

The Umeå School of Architecture (UMA) was founded in 2009 as the fourth academic school in Sweden providing a professional degree in architecture. Unlike the other Architectural Schools in Sweden, UMA has a spoken policy of a social, political and sustainable development of architecture through an integrated idea of design, and aims to grow into an international laboratory of experimental architectural development. The Danish architect Peter Kjaer, who has been the former dean of the Aarhus school of architecture, is appointed rector of the school.
DSD MSc Information Day
Urban Asymmetries Program

Photo's of the recent information day of the Delft School of Design's new MSc program.
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Shirin Jaffri Nominated for Best TU Delft Graduate.

We are honored to announce that Shirin Jaffri, a graduate of the DSD's Urban Asymmetries Program, has been selected to represent the Faculty of Architecture for the UfD Mecanoo Award for Best University Graduate, 2010.
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Prizes are awarded annually to the best graduates of the eight faculties at TU Delft, which are nominated by the respective faculty Deans. The Rector Magnificus commences the ceremony signaling the latest and most relevant thoughts and within the University. From the 8 candidates, one is selected as the best graduate of the Delft University of Technology. Shirin will represent the Faculty at the November 25th ceremony in the Aula, at 3pm.

Shirin's graduation project was part of the Urban Asymmetries La Victoria, Santiago de Chile graduation studio during 2008/2009, presenting her P5 in November 2009. She graduated as MSc Architecture, specialization in Urbanism, with the project titled 'Socioeconomic and Spatial Integration Strategies for Improved Housing and Modes of Production in La Victoria and San Joaquín in Santiago de Chile'.

Shirin received both Cum Laude and honorable mention for her academic achievements.
MSc INFORMATION DAY
Spring '09 - MSc2 and MSc3/4 Courses

DSD URBAN ASYMMETRIES MASTERS PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT - SPRING 2009.

Date: 3rd December 2008
Venue: Room C
Time: 12.45-13.45

TWO ALL NEW STUDIOS
1. MSc2 -- Singapore (30 ects)
Code: AR0044 'Flim/Video/City'

2. MSc3/4 -- New York Region (60 ects)
Code: AR3DSD020 'Urban Asymmetries'

We invite all students to come and attend this information session.
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Temporary Faculty premises

The Faculty of Architecture was recently destroyed by fire. At this time, our teaching program operates from the Faculty of Architectures tent site. Administration activities and logistics are dealt with at the TNW building.

Please refer to the contact details for directions to either of these locations.
Semester 2008/2009
New academic year commences

The new semester has officially commenced for 2008 / 2009.
All students are advised to refer to the TU Delft Blackboard for course information and meeting schedules.

www.blackboard.tudelft.nl
Fire engulfs faculty building.
Homage to the old faculty building

http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=9cecdce4-09cc-4ca5-98b1-95e2cea664b4&lang=en
Contemporary Interior Design Fair
London, 18-21 September

http://www.100percentdesign.co.uk/
A New Building for Bouwkunde
Design brief for the new Faculty

Berlageweg 1 burned down on May 13th, 2008, triggering a lot of emotions. The Building for Bouwkunde initiative aims to harness our emotions and use them in a creative way. We call on proactive people to get involved in a positive effort. By bringing people and ideas together in creative workshops, we hope to create a Gallery of Visions that will give everyone's visions a place. Everyone is welcome!

Please see the following link for more details: http://www.buildingforbouwkunde.nl/b4b/index.php