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Issue 294
In this months issue, Blueprint takes a look at some of the more notable elements of the academic scene as it stands today.
The cover story on this summer’s degree shows features the work of AA student Fredrick Hellberg. Hellberg was one of 26 students chosen from across the UK by a panel of architects, designers, curators and critics for their imaginative and ingenious projects. Much of the work selected shows a remarkable playfulness both in using alternative means of communication and in experimenting with other disciplines. In View, Peter Kelly meets with AA Director Brett Steele and discusses the new plans for the famous school. As the newly re-elected director, Steele argues for a new scholastic model, in which flexibility and diversity are valued above ideology and dogma.
In the Feature on the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, in Moscow, Tim Abrahams tells the story of the new school with an ambitious manifesto to revolutionalize the way architecture and city planning are seen in Russia. With Rem Koolhaas as its dean, Strelka promises to shake up the Russian architecture scene.
In Produce, Gian Luca Amadei looks at two innovative programmes aimed at redefining the way academia and industry can engage. The CIID in Copenhagen is re-launching itself as autonomous establishment in order to ensure it has full flexibility in exploring new avenues of collaboration with industry. In the UK furniture company Bisley is collaborating with the University of West England to create a new line of office accessories.
Other features include an interview the Alejandro Zaera-Polo from FOA, and a comment piece by Deborah Saunt on the design of educational environments.
Reviews include Ernesto Neto at the Hayward Gallery, Urban Origami at the PM Gallery and House, and All or Nothing, a retrospective on Robert Van’t Hoff at the Kroller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands.
