Tidak seorangpun peduli!

Gambar ini diambil pada tanggal 16 mei 2009.

Dimana hayoo, tukang ojek, perempatan cisitu, dimana sebuah tragedi lingkungan terjadi, dan tak seorangpun peduli. Tidak ada gerimis, tidak ada hujan, yang ada air bah mengalir, tsunami bagi semut, gejala ketidakpedulian sosial, keangkuhan terhadap lingkungan, dsb terjadi di sini, di sabtu siang bolong, panas menyengat Bandung. 

Sudah lebih dari 3 hari tanah menumpuk dan menyumbat di selokan ini, pemda? ribuan mobil plat D? ribuan mobil plat B? tukang ojek di sebelahnya? Dago Butik di sebelahnya? Bank Mandiri di depannya? Tak satupun bergudig, hehe.

11th International Bauhaus – Colloquium 2009

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Events , Bauhaus, Germany

On April 2-5, architectural theoreticians from around the globe will be coming to Weimar to debate the political and ethical challenges of globalization and how architecture responds to them.

In three plenary sessions 23 renowned international scientists will present their viewpoints. Among those invited are Philip Ursprung (Universität Zürich), M. Christine Boyer (Princeton University), Wolfgang Pehnt (Universität Bochum), Stanford Anderson (MIT), Philipp Oswalt (Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau) and Bill Hillier (University College London). The mornings are reserved for five workshops with a total of thirty presentations. The organizers wish to promote successful dialogue between established scientists and emerging scholars with this format.

The Bauhaus Colloquia, held in regular intervals since 1976, are the oldest and most esteemed conferences on architectural theory in the German-speaking world. Organized by the Chair of Theory and History of Modern Architecture at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, the colloquium is directed by Prof. Dr. Kari Jormakka and Prof. Dr. Gerd Zimmermann.

Opening Lectures on April 2, 2009, 10 a.m. at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Audimax, Steubenstraße 6, 99423 Weimar.

[ For more information, full program and registration, click here ]

[ Fiuh, berasa jadi arsitek lagi euy... ]

Are u an Architecture Student Enough?

Prove to me that u were an Architecture Student, because I don’t believe with your work!

Sir, it was day and night I’m , but I can’t make sure with my capability,

skill, and Please belive me, I can prove it!

Please sir! Please! 

It’s Just like my friend who need money to continue his life!

I donn’t wanna be like this! No…

But I believe this isn’t me!

And,  uhm... some day, lets everybody know who really u are, right!

Because life is just simple, we who always make it hard…

2009 Open Architecture Challenge

International design competition run by Architecture for Humanity and Orient Global — asks designers “to work with students and teachers to design the classroom of the future for a school of your choosing.”

Click the image above for more information. Registration deadline is May 1  – 2009, and the submission deadline is one month later.

[ Let's get started ]

We are inviting you, the designer, to work with students and teachers to design the classroom of the future for a school of your choosing. Your design should address the unique challenges your school faces in trying to provide smart, safe and sustainable learning spaces. Students and teachers, here’s your chance to tell the world what you need to make your classroom more effective. Architects and designers, you’ll work one-on-one with students to translate those needs into better classroom design.

* Share your design expertise and inspire school students to re-imagine their classroom
* Help students learn about the built environment using a companion design curriculum
* Become an advocate for better classroom design in your community

If your design wins, your school will receive up to $50,000 in funding for classroom construction and upgrading. You will receive a grant of $5,000 to help them do it.

Israel Want a Game?

How much infrastructure you’ve destroyed

They are not just lost their home to live, but also their family to love

This is a war crime!

[ They will defend their homeland till death ]

[ Until the last drop of your bomb ]

Israel’s end game?

Olmert said the aim is to restore a cease-fire on terms Israel considers favorable. Israel knows it can’t destroy Hamas completely, or even its ability to fire rockets. But Israel does want to make the price so high that Hamas will not want to fire any more rockets.

Essentially, Israel wants to destroy as much as possible of Hamas military infrastructure, teach Hamas the same lesson, and reach a cease-fire that will last.

But Hamas still has an arsenal of weapons, including thousands of rockets, suicide bombers ready to attack, and the support of its people in Gaza. Israel will overwhelm Hamas, but could yet suffer some nasty surprises.

The only other way the fighting could end soon is the way it has in the past: An Israeli rocket hits a school or an apartment building, killing a hundred people. Then Israel will not be able to withstand international pressure to call off the attack.

Moreover, Israel has much better intelligence than it had in southern Lebanon. Gaza is closer to home, in fact in some senses, it is home; and no doubt Fatah men in Gaza are helping Israel’s own secret services identify the targets.

However, Hamas remains strong. It has up to 20,000 well-trained and well-armed fighters who have been preparing to repel an Israeli ground assault for a year. It still has plenty of anti-tank rockets, secret tunnels and booby-traps. The price could be high on both sides.