New Research Fellow supported by the Ford Foundation, New York, USA
Beginning in April 2018 Architect Alberto Cendoya will serve as Ford Foundation Research Fellow in the Architecture, Design and Technology Units.
List of the selected scholars for 2018 ‘On Cities’ Workshop Announced
The list of the ten selected scholars that will participate in the 2018 ‘On Cities’ Workshop at the Norman Foster Foundation is now public. The workshop will take place on 18 – 22 June 2018 with the support of Bloomberg Philantropies and will be led by MIT City Science Director, Kent Larson. The scholars selected […]
Agreement between the Norman Foster Foundation and Arquitectura Viva
Arquitectura Viva has donated to the Norman Foster Foundation a complete collection of its publications, which includes all the issues edited to date of its three magazines: AV Monographs, Arquitectura Viva, and AV Proyectos, in circulation since 1985, 1988 and 2004, respectively. The donation has been completed in the context of a collaboration agreement signed […]
2018 Norman Foster Foundation Travelling Scholarship now open
The 2018 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Norman Foster Foundation Travelling Scholarship opens today and welcomes applications from architecture students enrolled in schools of architecture around the world. A grant will be awarded to one winner by a panel of judges which will include Lord Foster and RIBA President Ben Derbyshire. Lord Foster said: […]
Cristina Iglesias and Beatriz Colomina in Conversation
On 3 February 2018 at 4 pm Marian Goodman Gallery will host a conversation between artist Cristina Iglesias and architectural historian Beatriz Colomina to discuss Iglesias’s work, Entwined, currently on view at Marian Goodman Gallery New York, as well as The Ionosphere (A Place of Silent Storms), and Forgotten Streams, her site-specific sculptures for the Norman Foster Foundation […]
New plaque placed to mark the historical permanence of the Droneport prototype in Venice
A new plaque has been placed by the Venice Biennale last week to mark the historical permanence of the Droneport prototype in Venice’s Arsenale. A full-scale prototype for a droneport was built on site in the Arsenale in Venice and was unveiled at a Press Preview during the 15th International Architecture Biennale on Thursday 26 May 2017. The […]
Norman Foster becomes President of The Royal Fine Art Commission Trust
Lord Foster of Thames Bank OM has been appointed president of the UK’s Royal Fine Art Commission Trust, an independent charity aimed at promoting ‘visual awareness and public appreciation of high-quality design’. Chaired by one of architecture’s foremost patrons, Lord Peter Palumbo, the organisation was established in 1987 to complement the Royal Fine Art Commission, […]
The first Digital-X workshop of the Norman Foster Foundation starts this week
What does architecture have to do with the digital world? What happens when the natural world and the digital world are the same? How does society change when direct brain communication occurs among humans, and between humans and machines? These kinds of questions and many more will be discussed in the Workshop that, supported by […]
Digital X Workshop – Public Debates
The first Norman Foster Foundation Digital X Workshop explored the kinship of Architecture and the Digital World in a week-long event hosted in the Madrid headquarters of the Norman Foster Foundation. What happens when the natural world and the artificial world become one and the same? How does society change when direct brain communication occurs among […]
Digital X Workshop – Public Debates
The first Norman Foster Foundation Digital X Workshop will explore the kinship of Architecture and the Digital World in a week-long event hosted in the Madrid headquarters of the Norman Foster Foundation. What happens when the natural world and the artificial world become one and the same? How does society change when direct brain communication occurs […]