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5th Eco-Products International Fair (EPIF) at MOA

After successfully holding it in Malaysia in 2004, Singapore in 2006,
Thailand in 2007, and Vietnam in 2008, the 5th Eco-Products
International Fair (EPIF) will be held in the Philippines on 19-22
March 2009 at the SMX Convention Center, Mall of Asia Complex, Pasay
City.

EPIF is one of the largest international environmental exhibitions in
Asia which:

1) showcases the most advanced environment- friendly technologies,
products, and services that enhance sustainable productivity and
competitiveness;

2) provides international and local industry players with a marketing
platform for exploring business collaboration and accelerating eco-
awareness and expansion of green markets in the Philippines and
abroad;

3) provides an excellent opportunity to educate and engage the general
public for the establishment of a sustainable society by promoting
public awareness of environmentally friendly products and services;
and

4) provides an opportunity to showcase our country's industrial and
indigenous eco-products and services.

EPIF is organized by the Asian Productivity Organization (APO), a
regional inter-governmental productivity think-tank, catalyst,
regional adviser, institution builder, and clearinghouse organization
with 20-member countries, with its local National Productivity
Organization (NPO) in the host country and a private-sector
counterpart as local co-organizers. As the NPO of APO in the
Philippines, the Development Academy of the Philippines (DAP) is the
co-organizer of the 5th EPIF 2009, together with the Philippine
Business for the Environment (PBE), as its private sector counterpart.

In this regard, we would like to invite you to come and visit EPIF
2009 where our very own indigenous environment- friendly products will
be showcased to the rest of the world. ADMISSION IS FREE. Attached
are the events highlights and invitation flyer for your reference.

For further information please get in touch with our EPIF secretariat
Ms. Tina Vergara at 6312126.

We trust that you will give this request your favorable consideration.

Thank you very much!

Yours truly,

ANTONIO D. KALAW,JR.
President
Development Academy of the Philippines

Animated Atmosphere by Nora Graw

A diploma project by German architecture graduate Nora Graw submitted while studying at Studio Lynn,at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Austria.


The information below is from Graw:
Conventional films are restricted in physical conditions of the film set, or collage an artificial surrounding to suggest the wanted atmosphere and aesthetic.


Animated films create an abstract world that mimics qualities of the physical that are extracted and exaggerated in animated films, where characteristics are adopted to create an environment that through its aesthetic creates an all-around coulisse.


The goal is to create an environment for this profession with characteristics of the coulisse, layering of scenes and interconnecting various stage settings to take part in the ‘real world’.



My goal was to create surfaces with imprinted conditions (structure, ornament, shading,…) that transform continuously through blending and superimposing specific surface information to create a diverse set of scenes and creating spatial depth with strong perspectives. I am interested in a cohesive exterior with an iconic image and a multilayered permeable interior. The layers merge and separate to reveal different surface qualities and organize space.



The newly developing district Puerto Madero in Buenos Aires, Argentina, gives the opportunity to integrate a contemporary architectural design and form an identity for the emerging district. Located on the waterfront of the old port the facade and silhouette of the building impacts the skyline of the district seen from the old town.



The idea of multiple unique offices sharing and represented in a corporate building triggers the discourse of the relation of the exterior appearance to interior facades. The upcoming designers are represented as a collective identity to the exterior and still show their uniqueness in a spatial complexity on the interior.



The building hosts large volumes as movie screening, exhibition and entertaining facilities acting as a programmatic attractor for the public, which will in turn highlight the smaller businesses and give insight into the movie making industry. Spatial programmatic elements such as combinable offices + conference room and editing facilities + server room provide opportunities for a rigorous organization in solid clusters. These solids nest in a fabric of layers that host programmatic related spaces.



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The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard

This is a deep, magical, densely captivating book about space, our homes, how we live in them, and how dwellings and space affect us; it is as much a book of philosophy as a work of serious literature. It requires careful, preferably leisurely reading, with the possibility of moments to pause and digest and re-read the words. It will change the way you look at your home and your life, providing a deeper, more insightful relationship with the spaces you occupy.

Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People by Hamish Bowles

This unique book of thirty-six spectacular houses and gardens—whose owners come from the worlds of fashion, music, art, and society—draws not only on stories that have appeared in the pages of Vogue and Vogue Living over the past two decades but also on images that have never before been published. Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People takes you to these style-makers’ private realms around the world, captured by such celebrated photographers as Miles Aldridge, Cecil Beaton, Jonathan Becker, Eric Boman, Oberto Gili, François Halard, Horst P. Horst, Annie Leibovitz, Sheila Metzner, Mario Testino, Tim Walker, and Bruce Weber, among many others. Their dazzling photographs bring to life interiors and exteriors, modern and classical, that are both inspiring and transporting. Writers like Hamish Bowles, Joan Juliet Buck, Dodie Kazanjian, Eve MacSweeney, Julia Reed, Marina Rust, and Vicki Woods take us behind the scenes to give us an intimate view of the owners and how they live.

Here are Madonna’s romantic rural retreat in the depths of the English countryside and the Oscar de la Renta’s coral-stone Palladian mansion on the coast of the Dominican Republic; Michael and Eva Chow’s epic Los Angeles manse and shoe maestro Christian Louboutin’s magical houseboat on the Nile; Donna Karan’s Zenlike Manhattan aerie and legendary tastemaker Marella Agnelli’s enchanted villa and gardens in the Palmeraie of Marrakesh; Julian and Olatz Schnabel’s operatic downtown loft and childrenswear designer Rachel Riley’s miniature château on the Loire; celebrated landscape gardener Fernando Caruncho’s innovative Spanish gardens and Houghton, David Cholmondeley’s magnificent English stately home; Janet de Botton’s idyllic Provençal estate; and four decades of Karl Lagerfeld’s endlessly surprising houses, both innovative and palatial.

Lavishly illustrated in full color, Vogue Living: Houses, Gardens, People is an irresistible voyage through some of the world’s most beautiful and private gardens and interiors.

Green from the Ground Up: Sustainable, Healthy, and Energy-Efficient Home Construction by David Johnston

"Eco-friendly housing used to be thought of as expensive, ugly or just plain weird. Now it's becoming common. David Johnston and Scott Gibson offer guidance on environmentally sensitive home building in Green from the Ground Up: Sustainable, Healthy, and Energy-Efficient Home Construction. The book helps builders and homeowners create houses that conserve natural resources and are energy-efficient and healthful. It's packed with information, tips, illustrations and case studies that offer wisdom earned from experience." --Review by McClatchy-Tribune News Service

The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs

"Streets in cities serve many purposes besides carrying vehicles, and city sidewalks-the pedestrian parts of the streets-serve many purposes besides carrying pedestrians..."

Review
"The most refreshing, provacative, stimulating and exciting study of this [great problem] which I have seen. It fairly crackles with bright honesty and common sense."
--Harrison Salisbury, "The New York Times"
"One of the most remarkable books ever written about the city... a "primary" work. The research apparatus is not pretentious--it is the eye and the heart--but it has given us a magnificent study of what gives life and spirit to the city."
--William H. Whyte, author of "The Organization Man"

Brad Pitt and Making It Right

Brad Pitt once stated that “whilst acting is my career, architecture is my passion”, and this clearly shown in his effort at gathering support for his project/foundation Make It Right, aiming to develop housing prototypes for the reconstruction of New Orleans.

The popular and handsome actor has made good use of his available resources, such as public image and influence on this case, working with practices such as MVRDV, Shigeru Ban and Morphosis, in developing 13 prototypes for the first stage to consolidate a 150-house neighborhood destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

After being shocked by what he saw of the remnants of the storm, he made consultations with the displaced residents and resolved to do whatever he could to help them rebuild.

He then initiated, together with Global Green, a design competition to generate ideas on how to build sustainably. From thence, Brad Pitt launched Make It Right hoping that it will be a catalyst for redevelopment of New Orleans' Lower 9th Ward. The foundation hopes to build "a neighborhood comprised of safe and healthy homes that are inspired by Cradle to Cradle thinking, with an emphasis on a high quality of design, while preserving the spirit of the community's culture".

Shall we say Brad Pitt is a 'hero'?

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