ADP Talks

Francesco is a Hanoi-based architect having graduated from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (Switzerland, 2016). ThinkPlaygrounds believes that qualitative public space built with the community is fundamental to achieve social equity and increase quality of life for urban citizens, as well as providing a playful childhood to children living in Vietnam.

Karl Langer was the first architect in our region to advocate for landscape; for the extension of living spaces from inside to outside, for affordable houses tuned to climate, and consideration of “the whole allotment as a unified living area.”

Kim Baber, Paola Leardini and Dan Luo will be presenting overviews of the projects they are leading in the ARC Advance Timber Hub, in the fields of Design for Extended Building Life; Manufacturing Innovation; and Value Chain Innovation

Climate change is being driven by emissions from buildings and we are now moving to the next age of design where the solution to keeping people thermally safe in buildings relies not on machines but on the quality of the climatic design of the building itself.

With the collapse of Spain's South American dominions and Brazil's independence in 1822, the continent beckoned European entrepreneurs, speculators and adventurers.
Pedro's lecture focuses on the British and other foreign engineers and manufacturers who came to the new emancipated republics seeking to market goods and services, promising to bring the fruits of the industrial revolution and propel the continent into the nineteenth century.