08/04/06:

Q-DAR Q-NEWS 03 issue 060315
Latest Q-DAR, Ayssar Arida, and Quantum City news will now be regularly posted at q-dar.com... You can see the latest issue HERE.
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14/11/05:

AA at EXPERIMENTA DESIGN/LISBON BIENNALE 05
The podcast of the talk featuring Ayssar Arida and Pedro Gadanho, and hosted by John Thackara is now online at livelanguage.org
‘Designers in the age of Fear’- City and Architecture was recorded on: Sep 16 11h30 - 13h30, Lisbon
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ORCHITECTURE 0.9 AT CHISWICK HOUSE
The CSR's first Orchitecture Event, a celebration of architecture through orchestra and vice versa, was a fantastic success. The live music/CCTV video installation developed by Ayssar Arida and Thor McB with the NLO for English Heritage had around 3000 visitors!
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08/06/05:

SUM OVER HISTORY or THE GARDEN OF FORKING PATHS
Lebanese Urban Designer and Architect Ayssar Arida was about to write his piece for [OutsideEdge ejournal #03], when the assassination of Rafik Hariri sent Beirut into a state of crisis. [...] Ayssar's response was to offer his vision of the reconstruction of The Beirut's Martyr's Square, originally submitted as a proposal to an international design ideas competition...

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16/11/04:

IT'S THE CITIES, STUPID.
The Urban Archipelago is a brilliant analysis of the post-election map of the US, that fits wonderfully within the quantum paradigm of complementarity (if you have the book, check out pp142-145, in chapter "Quantum Analysis of the Urban Realm" : forget BLACK/WHITE (or RED/BLUE!) and look at the finer grain, at the gradations, and suddenly new analysis/solutions can be contemplated...



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21/10/04:

AA AT VICKYH DESTINATIONS, GENEVA
Join us Thursday 28 October at Vickyh Destinations in Geneva for good drinks and good discussions!

Nous avons le plaisir de vous inviter, le jeudi 28 Octobre, pour rencontrer l'architecte Ayssar Arida, qui viendra présenter et dédicacer son livre QUANTUM CITY.
De 18h00 à 21h00
Vickyh destinations
92, rue des Eaux-vives
1207 Genève
t. +41.22.940.17.47
f. +41.22.940.17.48
e. vickyh-destinations@vickyh.ch
www.vickyh.ch
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24/08/04:

WHAT THE BLEEP DO WE KNOW!?
Sounds brilliant, i wonder when this will make it across the Atlantic...
"...is an irresistible cosmic romp that suggests that quantum physics is the biggest reality show in town, and that we are the co-wizards behind the curtains of our own lives..." www.whatthebleep.com is worth the visit for the book lists and interviews alone...
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27/06/04:

AYSSAR ARIDA: AN EDGE IS NOT A BORDER
A thought provoking interview/discussion with Maja Lovrenovic in new webzine Podroom...
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08/05/04:

THE WHOLE IN THE PART, THE HOLE IN THE PART, an essay
A short essay by AA just published in the fascinatingly titled Perspectives on Evil and Human Wickedness Ejournal. A personal stream of consciousness reflection on being away from Beirut...
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22/01/04:

"INTUITION BUILDS BETTER CITIES": AN INTERVIEW / DISCUSSION BETWEEN AYSSAR ARIDA AND CARLOS SANT'ANA
The English version of the AA Interview from ARCHITECTURA E VIDA, JAN 2004 is now online.
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15/01/04:

"INTUITION CAN BUILD BETTER CITIES..."
Portuguese magazine Architectura E Vida has published an interview of Ayssar (aka AYASSARD ;) ) Arida by Carlos Sant'Ana in its January 2004 issue. Text is in Portuguese, but an English version should be up here soon.
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C O N . T E X T
The proceedings of the (theorising) History in Architecture and Design conference, held in Oslo 25-27 April 2003 have just been published, and include a slightly different version of Ayssar Arida's THE 70 YEAR ITCH OR THE DAWN OF THE QUANTUM CITY, it's on page 201.
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06/01/04:

TOP 10 SO BEIRUT
December 2003 issue of JACK MAGAZINE carries a TOP 10 BEIRUT things to do by author Kris Kenway, with photographs by Ayssar Arida.
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07/11/03:

SEARCH INSIDE QC AT AMAZON.COM
The full text of the book is now available to search and read excerpts from at Amazon.com Click "Search Inside This Book", choose a keyword, and you will be taken to the part of the text with that index entry- a great way to preview if your subjects of interest are tackled the Quantum way! and if you buy a copy, please review it!
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01/11/03:

AA's VURTUAL BEIRUT AT THE LONDON FILM FESTIVAL
Ghassan Salhab's TERRA INCOGNITA (Selection Officielle Cannes 2002) is showing at the LFF 2003...
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30/09/03:

HORNSTRUMPET! THERAPEUTIC URBANISM?
Paper by AA and Michael Stanton published in the beautifully executed October issue of ARCHIS Magazine #4, 2003, pp.60-68
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17/07/03:

MEMORY BETWEEN AMNESIA & TRAUMA
Paper by AA and Michael Stanton presented at the ISUF conference in Trani, published in the Conference Proceedings, vol 3, p.956.
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THE 70 YEAR ITCH OR THE DAWN OF THE QUANTUM CITY
Paper by AA presented at the ISUF conference in Trani, published in the Conference Proceedings, vol 3, p.1006.
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THE PLANNED CITY? CONFERENCE
AA just returned from the lovely little town of Trani in the south of italy where he gave two papers at the 'The Planned City?' ISUF conference. Full text of the papers above.
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23/06/03:

HOW TO GET LOST IN BEIRUT
Sleazenation magazine's July issue has an article on Beirut by Kris Kenway, author of the up-coming novel "Bliss Street", with photographs by Kavi Pujara & Ayssar Arida. [note: watch this space for the launch soon of AA's photo gallery online].
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ONE POT CITIES
"We are what we eat, but why do we eat that way? wonders Ayssar Arida" in this just-published gem of a cookbook...
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06/06/03:

THRESHOLD GENERATION
The Architectural Review has published AA's response to Charles Jencks in this month's issue
"The problem with Charles Jencks is that he is too old..."
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QC RECOMMENDED AT CUE FIELDREPORT
The cue fieldreport is the media platform for the institute of Contemporary Urban Encounters...
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28/05/03:

AA at the ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS SUMMER EXHIBITION
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2003, one of the UK's most important art & architecture shows, begins on 2nd of June till 10th of August.
The Grand Egyptian Museum competition joint entry by Ayssar Arida and Katerina Hoey will be on show.

Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, Picadilly, London W1J 0BD
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24/05/03:

SOUKS OF BEIRUT
Added images from "PAST-SOUKS-FUTURE" International ideas competition entry by Ayssar Arida & Fadi Sarieddine in the projects section.
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19/05/03:

FENCING BATTLEGROUND
"rules: make a point, prove it. no name-calling. all other blows allowed. -en garde!"

A fantastic thread on the ArchNet Forum, more than 30 posts and the discussion goes on strong, come and join Ayssar, Shiraz, Lucien, Enrico and the others...
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NEW FRONT PAGE
This News & Updates section goes live now.
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