Archinect - News 2024-05-06T05:53:48-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/100646405/rum-being-the-medium-of-choice-and-other-thoughts-from-play-with-your-food-the-upcoming-aa-visiting-school-in-puerto-rico "Rum being the medium of choice", and other thoughts from "Play With Your Food", the upcoming AA Visiting School in Puerto Rico Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2014-05-30T14:30:00-04:00 >2014-06-09T13:41:28-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/12/12nd02knb7uxjq5s.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>What do cooking and mixology have to do with architecture? Can food and drink, as prototyped and iterative objects, help us better understand architectural design? The<a href="http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/sanjuan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> AA Visiting School</a> is traveling to San Juan, Puerto Rico this summer for &ldquo;<a href="http://sanjuan.aaschool.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Play With Your Food</a>&rdquo;, to tackle these questions and, in the process, try to find the secret link between gastronomy and architecture.</p><p>Program directors <a href="http://sanjuan.aaschool.ac.uk/144-2/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Drew Merkle, Jorge Mendez-Caceres and Miguel Miranda</a> (all recent alumni of <a href="http://drl.aaschool.ac.uk/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AA&rsquo;s DRL program</a>) laid out "Play With Your Food" for us over email, touching on their own histories with culinary experimentation and why they decided to host the school in the alleged &ldquo;rum capital of the world&rdquo;.</p><p><img title="" alt="" src="http://cdn.archinect.net/images/514x/mp/mp0sad1y0ykn0zuv.jpg"></p><p><strong>What inspired AA to create a visiting school on the relationship between food and architecture?</strong></p><p>It was really us that brought the idea to Chris Pierce and Brett Steele who are the directors of the Visiting School, and the AA respectively. The relationship between food and architecture, is something which has been aro...</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/78297319/the-top-three-winners-of-the-international-gastronomic-center-brussels-competition-2013 The Top Three Winners of the International Gastronomic Center Brussels Competition 2013 Justine Testado 2013-07-30T15:35:00-04:00 >2013-08-05T19:46:59-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/b3/b30qmufki0vkw9ru.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Three winners were selected for the 2013 International Gastronomic Center Brussels competition hosted by Arquideas. A total of 106 teams of architecture students around the globe submitted projects to create a gathering space for professional chefs and visitors to share ideas, experience, research, and to celebrate the appreciation of food.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html><head><meta></head></html>