Architecture on Screen – Cinema series commissioned by the Norman Foster Foundation for Sala Equis.
On the occasion of the 15th Madrid Architecture Week, the Norman Foster Foundation presented Architecture on Screen, a cinema series commissioned by the foundation for Sala Equis. From the early twentieth century, both Architecture and Cinema found ways to express new ideas and develop avant-garde languages. Avant-garde movements such as Futurism introduced a close link between […]
Grace Baker, winner of the second Norman Foster Foundation Scholarship at The Bartlett School of Architecture
This year’s Norman Foster Foundation Scholarship has been awarded to Bartlett undergraduate student Grace Baker, who impressed the jury with her sense of creative enquiry. The jury met at the Bartlett School of Architecture on Wednesday 19 September and interviewed ten students, all of whom were outstanding in different ways. This is the second year […]
Urban Mobility Workshop – Public Debate
The Urban Mobility Public Debate explored how new technologies could open up an exciting range of opportunities in which the infrastructure of movement and the architecture of buildings can physically merge together. With the participation of Alfredo Brillembourg, Founder of Urban Think Tank, Caracas, Venezuela/ETH, Zurich, Switzerland; Tilly Chang, Executive Director of the San Francisco County Transportation Authority, California, United States; Norman […]
OPEN CALL: Urban Mobility Workshop
The Norman Foster Foundation is awarding scholarships to take part in the upcoming Urban Mobility workshop to be held at the Norman Foster Foundation headquarters in Madrid, Spain, 17–21 September 2018. Since the end of the nineteenth century, and for most of the twentieth, monorails have captured the imagination and consistently featured in science fiction visions of the urban […]
On Cities Workshop – Public Debates
On Cities Workshop included a series of Public Debates, free and open to the public. We are living in an era of extreme urbanisation and rapid global warming. The challenges of both call for more than mere incremental adjustments. The On Cities Public Debates explored the premise that emerging urban innovations can dramatically reduce resources consumed by […]
Launch of the Summer Internship Programme 2018 at the Norman Foster Foundation
The Norman Foster Foundation launches its Summer Internship Programme 2018 to provide students the opportunity to conduct summer research projects. The goal of the programme is to encourage students to discover more about the mission and objectives of the Foundation and to extend their knowledge in the field assigned. Internships will be two to three […]
The first retrospective exhibition of Osvaldo Borsani is now open
The first retrospective exhibition of Osvaldo Borsani – architect, designer and co-founder of Tecno – is open at Milan’s Triennale Design Museum until 15 September 2018.
Winner of the twelfth RIBA Norman Foster Foundation Travelling Scholarship announced
The 2018 RIBA Norman Foster Foundation Travelling Scholarship has been awarded to Steven Hutt of the University of Greenwich for his proposal, ‘East of Eden’. Steven will investigate how urban wildlife is adapting to the rapid rise of densely populated mega-cities in the Far East. The study will take him to Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, South […]
Slum Land Rights Project
The Norman Foster Foundation was invited by the Chief Minister of Odisha, the Honourable Naveen Patnaik, and Tata Trusts to visit several slum areas in the province and to attend the ceremony to mark the passing of the Odisha Land Rights to Slum Dwellers Bill, claimed to be the world’s largest slum land titling initiative. […]
Lecture | Architecture on Stage: Norman Foster
Norman Foster, President of the Norman Foster Foundation, addressed yesterday, at the Barbican Centre in London, the challenges of urbanisation and sustainability, looking at how a philosophy of ‘doing more with less’ can help generate design solutions. Foster used examples from around the world and discussed the nature of innovation and the power of advocacy. Watch […]