Five architecture and design events in August from Dezeen Events Guide
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Aberto/03 and 16th Alvar Aalto Symposium – The Weight of Architecture among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this August.
Other events taking place during the month include the Entourage, Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design and Gather: Catalyst 2024.
Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design
2 September 2023 to 25 August 2024, USA
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City is exploring circular design with its exhibition Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design.
The showcase addresses regeneration in design through technological advancements, presenting lamps, speakers, bricks, vases and other objects made from innovatively designed materials.
Entourage
22 June to 15 September 2024, USA
Entourage is an exhibition held at Los Angeles‘ MAK Centre displaying body-centric architectural projects, including work by New York-based practice MOS, collaborative project Your Restroom is a Battleground and architect Strat Coffman.
The exhibition demonstrates research projects focusing on human rights within architecture, with MOS examining bodies in architectural drawings and renders and Your Restroom is a Battleground highlighting the functions of and politics surrounding toilets.
Aberto/03
10 August to 6 October 2024, Brazil
Aberto is an annual exhibition celebrating local architecture and heritage, with this year’s event spotlighting homes and studios in São Paulo, Brazil.
The exhibition, which has travelled around Brazil, marks its third edition being located at Japanese-Brazilian artist Tomie Ohtake and Chinese-Brazilian architect and designer Chu Ming Silveira’s residences.
The exhibition includes the houses and art designed to complement or respond to them, as well as furniture created by Chu Ming Silveira’s son, Alan Chu.
Gather: Catalyst 2024
11 to 13 August 2024, USA
The annual Gather conference by the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) returns, this year taking place in Denver, Colorado.
The travelling conference is hosted over three days, inviting ASID members to outline industry insights and projects in their talks, as well as network between sessions.
The event takes place at the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel.
16th Alvar Aalto Symposium – The Weight of Architecture
22 to 23 August 2024, Finland
Located at the University of Jyväskylä, the 16th Alvar Aalto Symposium presents a programme of talks centre around the role of architecture in social, environmental and political changes.
Speakers include architects Juho Grönholm, Antti Nousjoki, Samuli Woolston, Hilda Rantanen, Thomas Brogren, Emma Johansson, Willem van Bolderen, Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, academics David Benjamin and Helena Mattsson, designer Ehab Sayed, historian Barnabas Calder and climatologist John Schellnhuber.
Named after the late architect Alvar Aalto and organised by the Alvar Aalto Foundation, the event also offers guided tours of the architect’s buildings in Finland.
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