SIA International is proud to invite for a virtual online sneak preview fo the Virtual Reality project « IF BUILDINGS WERE LANDSCAPES » as part of the french journées nationales de l’architecture at the Atelier Néerlandais in Paris. This project by the Rotterdam-based Swiss Landscape Architect Daniel Jauslin is co-financed by SIA International. The panel discussion of the sneak Preview is joined by Daniel Racine, President of SIA International

The theme of the renewal of modern architecture is of particular relevance in our cities where in the last seventy years a huge quantity of buildings has been built which today urgently pose the question of their renewal, their re-use, their maintenance. This concerns buildings and parts of the city and will be the subject of professional work in the coming decades, in a by now shared logic of enhancing what is already there, without further land consumption.

The theme of the renewal of modern architecture is of particular relevance in our cities where in the last seventy years a huge quantity of buildings has been built which today urgently pose the question of their renewal, their re-use, their maintenance. This concerns buildings and parts of the city and will be the subject of professional work in the coming decades, in a by now shared logic of enhancing what is already there, without further land consumption.

Glänzend, tropisch-schwül, technisch effizient und streng reguliert: Das ist das bekannte Bild, welches Singapur hierzulande augenblicklich hervorruft.

Doch hinter dem glatten und geschmeidigen Erscheinungsbild des tropischen Inselstaates verbirgt sich eine andere, dunklere Welt: Die der Geister.

The committee of the SIA International Section cordially invites its members as well as SIA members of other SIA sections to join its General Assembly 2019 in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland, on Friday, 15 March 2019, 15.00.

The General Assembly will be hosted by GLS-Architekten, Zentralstraße 115, 2502 Biel/Bienne at the Schnyder-Areal with the generous support of Nik Liechti, owner of GLS Architekten AG. The committee is excited being able to welcome its members in a particularly inspiring location, again.

Am 28.-30 September 2018 fand im Kloster Kappel, Kappel am Albis, eine Fachtagung zur Zukunft der historischen Kirchenburgenlandschaft in Siebenbürgen (Rumänien) statt. Die Tagung erfolgte unter dem Patronat und mit Unterstützung der SIA Sektion International und bildet einen wichtigen Beitrag zum Europäischen Kulturerbejahr 2018.

Das Programm ist dem Download-Flyer zu entnehmen.