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 INTI is curator for the 2nd Architecture Festival Almere -
The International New Town Institute has been asked by the municipality of Almere as curator for the second Architecture Festival in Almere. The opening of the festival will be in April 2012, at the same time as the fifth International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, which is themed ’Making (...)
Spring Semester 2012 Lecture series:’New Towns on the Frontier of Geopolitics’ -
In the second semester of the academic year 2011 – 2012, INTI, the Graduate School for the Social Sciences (UvA), and TU Delft will offer a lecture series for master students. This series can be attended by students from UvA and TU Delft, but students from other universities are also (...)
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Rising in the East Buy it here: Amazon | Sun Architecture | Architecture Books Throughout the Asian continent, much of the recent urbanization has come in the guise of New Towns—cities that are completely planned and built from scratch. Many countries like the Emirates, India, China and Korea use these New Towns as a tool to manipulate and control an otherwise unwieldy urbanization process. Rising in the East: Contemporary Asian New Towns examines not only the urban designs, the architectural and urban character of these New Towns, but also the intricate political, economic, and social motivations that bring them into being. The stories of these cities are wrought with political intrigue, financial corruption, ruthless displacements and spatial segregation. Their justifications are often unrecognizable to people familiar with the origins of New Town planning. 
INTI is curator for the 2nd Architecture Festival Almere The International New Town Institute has been asked by the municipality of Almere as curator for the second Architecture Festival in Almere. The opening of the festival will be in April 2012, at the same time as the fifth International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, which is themed ’Making City’. Almere is one of the national projects in the ’Atelier Making Projects’, an initiative by IABR and the Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment’. INTI will be responsible for organizing an exhibition, lectures and other events in Almere, cooperating with cultural partners around the city. See http://www.iabr.nl/ for more information. |
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