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You will find here the most importants events, exhibitions and forums in Europe.
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Richard Neutra in Europe. Buildings and projects 1960 – 1970
(> 1/08/2010) – Herford / Marta |
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Austro-American architect Richard Neutra (born 1892 in Vienna, died 1970 in Wuppertal), one of the most important representatives of “classic Modernism”, was best known for his houses in Southern California. His designs combined light metal structures with stucco elements to create light, pervious ensembles, which he embedded with great sensitivity in carefully arranged gardens and landscapes.
For the first time ever architectural projects will be shown that he realized in Europe in his 10 final creative years (1960 – 1970). He created eight villas, four in Switzerland, three in Germany and one in France. Prominent clients in this period included publisher of the ZEIT newspaper Gerd Bucerius but also figures from commerce and science. And for the first time seven unrealized projects will be documented, which were only discovered in the artist’s estate during research work for this exhibition – for example, a competition entry for the theater Schauspielhaus Düsseldorf.
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The Essence of Things. Design and the Art of Reduction
(> 19/09/2010) - Weil am Rhein / Vitra Design Museum |
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It is in the nature of human beings to seek the simplest solution. In fact, the idealism of "edle Einfalt” (noble simplicity) and "stille Größe” (quiet grandeur) pre-dates classicism, and the "less is more” principle of modern design has remained a guiding notion through the postmodernist era up to the present. The exhibition illuminates the influences and motifs of a principle whose impact on design transcends time and place. The diversity of this phenomenon is documented in such examples as the legendary Thonet chair No. 14, furniture and product design by Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Charles and Ray Eames, Max Bill, Dieter Rams, Shiro Kuramata and Jasper Morrison up to the iPod. In the exhibition, these objects will be complemented by photos from the fields of architecture, fashion and art. Despite all the rationalisation of method and material, concentration on functional essentials and abstraction of shape up to the very disappearance of things, the principle of simplicity demonstrates its great complexity.
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MIND YOUR BEHAVIOUR - How Architecture Shapes Behaviour
June 18 – July 29, 2010 |
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“Architecture can get people talking together. Architecture can calm children in the classroom. Architecture can make passive people more active. Architecture can change or strengthen corporate culture. Architecture can encourage people to find new paths, discover new aspects of their city – and of themselves.”
Architecture shapes behaviour. That is why 3XN aims to create spaces that make us bigger inside. 3XN, a creative architecture office from Copenhagen with about 80 employees, believes that buildings – like people – are more than the sum of their parts. And that it is possible to achieve a synthesis of design, function and context. 3XN applies holistic principles and is constantly exploring the potential for building better, smarter and more beautifully.
The exhibition Mind Your Behaviour highlights the architectural practitioners 3XN and their work to show how architectural design can encourage people to communicate better, arrive at new realisations and come up with new ideas. Mind Your Behaviour is an invitation to approach the world thoughtfully with an inquiring mind. To reflect on how your behaviour is influenced by the space around you.
The Exhibition:
3XN develops all new architectural designs with behaviour as the central theme. The exhibition focuses on the concept of behaviour as expressed in the seven themes; Social Behaviour, Cultural Behaviour, Responsible Behaviour, Public Behaviour, Human Behaviour, Learning Behaviour, and Building Behaviour. Spatially as well as theoretically the exhibition shows how these aspects of behaviour are expressed in 3XNs design.
Mind Your Behaviour highlights 3XNs practice and examines how behaviour impinges all phases of the studio’s working processes. The exhibition will provide the visitors with an exclusive insight into the development of 3XNs projects and how the studio communicates spatial qualities through ambience, attention to detail, choice of materials, and light.
The geometry of selected 3XN projects form the basis of the exhibition design, which allows for the visitors to create their own individual experience of the exhibition through their choice of route, mood, detail, material, and perspective. Boards, models and installations will present the following projects among others: Museum of Liverpool, Saxo Bank, Horten, Ørestad College, The Blue Planet, Lighthouse, Middelfart Savings Bank, , Frederiksberg Courthouse, and Kubus.
The Office:
Since the foundation of 3XN in 1986, the architectural practice has made a name for itself on the Danish and the global architectural scene winning a number of prestigious competitions. Nielsen, Nielsen and Nielsen – now 3XN – is known and acknowledged for spectacular designs, pioneering architectural theory, precise detailing, and highly professional workmanship. In recent years 3XN has also created an image for itself within innovative, sustainable architecture by establishing the internal Research & Development department GXN, which focuses on the development, testing and implementation of intelligent materials and new, green technology.
3XNs work is based on the Scandinavian tradition of functionality and aesthetics. The practice creates architectural projects for human beings through complex working processes, which carefully adapt each project to the requirements and needs of its surroundings and users. The architects strive to maintain their open minded approach to each task – looking upon each project as a research effort based on the experience from previous projects.
3XN seeks to create synergy between architecture and people by creating spaces where people can engage in communal activities and develop as they interact. In their new publication – also by the title Mind Your Behaviour – 3XN elaborates on this philosophy and the seven themes of the exhibition. The publication includes contributions from experts and writers such as Henrik Oxvig / Art Historian (Building Behaviour), Marianne Krogh Jepsen / Ph.D. in Architecture History (Human Behaviour), Ralf Richardt Strøbech / Director at LoopGroup (Cultural Behaviour), Professor Lars Qvortrup (Social Behaviour), Ida Marie Klawonn / Teacher at Ørestad College (Learning Behaviour), Martine Seedorff / Student at Ørestad College (Learning Behaviour), Blaine Brownell / Founder of Transstudio (Responsible Behaviour) and a conversation about Public Behaviour between Kim Herforth Nielsen and Jan Gehl / Founder of Gehl Architects.
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Boom/Room. New Estonian Architecture
(> 1/08/2010) - Berlin / Deutsche Architektur Zentrum |
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Boom/Room presents outstanding examples of contemporary architecture from Estonia which interact in a special way with the urban context. The exhibition deals with the building boom in the Baltic Republic since the mid 1990’s. In the course of rapid economic growth between 2000 and 2008, the appearance and atmosphere of Estonia’s cities transformed decidedly. At the same time the dream of many Estonians came true : to work in a large western - style city and to live in a private home with a garden. However, in consequence of the fast - paced building activities and inadequate planning principles, in many places frag-mented urban spaces emerged. For this reason the architects’ responsibility to create new buildings with a high spatial, cultural and social quality is all the more important. BOOM / ROOM therefore shows successful Estonian architecture which interacts with the user and the surroundings by creating new types of urban movement, communication and living.
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Open Scale. Young & local ideas Munich 2009
(> 1/08/2010) - Berlin / Deutsche Architektur Zentrum |
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Open Scale is an interdisciplinary design competition, a think tank as well as a planning workshop for young protagonists from architecture, urban planning and other disciplines to create diverse ideas for the future urban development of Munich. The exhibition documents the uniqueness of this two - phase competition process and presents the seven winning projects as well as all of the 50 submissions from the first phase. Teams from the metropolitan region applied to take part in the competition with a self - chosen task and had no restrictions in terms of theme and scale. The range of work includes proposals for : the “rediscovery of harvesting in everyday urban life” ; the future development of seven million square meters left - over traffic waste land and the redensification of inner courtyards in Munich ; the concept of an agency for temporary use ; a survey on a hybrid performance of stadiums ; proposals on strategies for the further development of the metropolitan area as well as a debate on past and future utopias of Munich. Sustainable, radical or utopian – OPEN SCALE presents unusual perspectives on Munich’s future.
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Oggetti e Progetti | Alessi: storia e futuro di una fabbricia del design italiano
(> 19/09/2010) - München / Pinakothek der Moderne |
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One of the really great figures of design - Alessandro Mendini - is curating and designing a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design specially for Die Neue Sammlung. Mendini focuses his exhibition on a key player in the design world: the Alessi company, which has very successfully morphed from a small metal-working firm into a creative factory in the field of design with global operations. Not only with its products but above all through its influential ideas, actions and meta projects Alessi wrote European design history and provided inspiration for reflections on the future of design.
Mendini incorporates into his exhibition concept a critical reflection on the design tradition at Alessi, which extends from the famous tea and coffee set ¿Bombé¿ from the immediate post-war period via the "Bel Design" of the 1950s and 1960s and postmodernism through to the fairly contemporary pluralist design, and in doing so he simultaneously highlights the development of design in Italy. Highly typical are the so-called meta-projects in which "pure" architects tackled classic design tasks, though the creations were presented as "multiples", "collector's items".
However, Mendini's conception extends beyond the company's earlier projects and also addresses the present with its radical changes. Mendini effectively addresses the general design strategies and approaches adopted by current design such as sustainability, energy balance, recycling, new technologies and production processes etc., but also aspects relating to the cultural dynamism between East and West and the altered aesthetics of a globalized world characterized by rapid changes.
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De Nieuwe Oogst 2009
(11/06 – 22/08/2010) – Bruxelles / Design Vlaanderen Galerie |
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The exhibition shows the Flemish young designers. Some of them are still relatively unknown, but have a lot of potential, whereas others are already quite known, have already a long career behind them and have waited a while before participating. What they have in common is their creativity, authenticity and quality and the way they know how to please a public with their projects. On the exhibition, you will see textiles, but also graphic design, industrially made products, handmade ceramics and so much more. A fine moment for companies, press, galleries and the audience at large to discover the important names for the future: Maarten De Ceukaer, Fleur Swildens, Stijn Ruys, Carolien Van den Hole, David Pas, etc.
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In Progress
(> 12/09/2010) - Hornu / Grand-Hornu |
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Le progrès s’est longtemps incarné dans la création industrielle de nouveaux produits qui répondaient à des besoins réels d’amélioration de la vie quotidienne. Soucieux du bien-être pour tous, le designer a occupé une place-clé dans la création de ces objets et a souvent été associé à l’idéologie du progrès. Une dizaine de designers ont été invités par Grand-Hornu Images pour repenser cette notion de progrès. Ils ont été choisis pour l’intérêt de leurs travaux, leur ouverture internationale et la reconnaissance de leur pratique. Il s’agit de Big Game, Sébastian Bergne, Matali Crasset, Delo Lindo, Étienne Mineur, Ana Mir & Emili Padros, Normal Studio, Satyendra Pakhalé et Studio Wieki Somers. L’exposition « In Progress » témoigne de leur réflexion en initiant une recherche et des éléments critiques qui appartiennent au design et à ses modes d’action.
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Charles Szymkowicz. D’Apollinaire à Van Gogh : l’expression du génie européen
(18/06 – 19/09/2010) - Stavelot / Abbaye de stavelot |
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Peintre né à Charleroi en 1948, professeur de dessin et de peinture aux Académies des Beaux-Arts de Charleroi et de Bruxelles, Charles Szymkovicz est un des pionniers belges de la Nouvelle Figuration et du Néo-expressionnisme européens. Il a réalisé, tout au long de sa carrière, de nombreuses expositions personnelles en Belgique et à l’étranger (Berlin, Paris, Cologne, Barcelone, Milan, etc.). Son style expressif et puissant, l’emploi de couleurs vives, percutantes donnent à ses œuvres une force étonnante. Travailleur acharné, toujours fidèle à sa ville natale, il est connu pour ses nombreux portraits, dont ceux de son grand ami : le poète, musicien et chanteur français Léo Ferré.
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Rehabilitation
(> 15/08/2010) – Bruxelles / Wiels Musée d’Art Contemporain |
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Le terme qui renvoie à la rénovation et à la préservation historique de l’architecture afin de lui offrir une deuxième vie sert de fil rouge à cette exposition de groupe qui montre comment une génération de jeunes artistes se heurte à l’héritage des concepts utopistes de l’architecture et du design modernistes tout en se l’appropriant. Le bâtiment ‘Blomme’ du Wiels complètement réhabilité constitue l’endroit parfait pour une réflexion sur la manière dont l’architecture moderniste reste une référence persistante pour des artistes pourtant nés après la ‘mort’ de celle-ci. L’exposition qui en découle inclut sculptures, films, collages, maquettes architecturales et installations.
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Santiago Calatrava, Architecte, Sculpteur, Céramiste
(> 27/09/2010) – Liège / Grand Curtius |
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L’exposition révèle, pour la première fois en Europe, la recherche fondamentale et appliquée à laquelle se livre le célèbre architecte dans son activité d’artiste plasticien. Dessinateur inlassable, Calatrava conçoit des formes, des sculptures, des mobiles, des meubles, des céramiques, des verres,. En acceptant de prêter à Liège ses œuvres sculptées, peintes, tournées, mobiles, l’artiste se met à nu, et lève le voile pudique de son intimité artistique, en donnant à voir et à comprendre une part de lui-même qu’il avait réservé jusqu’ici à ses proches.
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Concrete Day 2010
(21/10/2010) - Brussel / Brussels Expo |
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Concrete Day is hèt jaarlijkse professionele evenement voor de hele betonindustrie. Het biedt een overzicht van alle mogelijkheden en oplossingen die er zijn in het domein van beton. De organisatie van Concrete Day is in juni 2010 overgenomen door Artexis. Concrete Day en Artexis vormen een solide combinatie, dankzij de ervaring die Artexis heeft in deze sector met beurzen zoals easyFairs ‘Industrie- & Projectbouw’. Een aantal overlappingen qua aanpak en organisatie leveren mooie synergievoordelen op. Het vertrouwen van CPE, de vorige organisator, in Artexis is groot.
De feestelijke dertigste editie van Concrete Day heeft plaats in Brussels Expo, paleis 12, op donderdag 21 oktober. Concrete Day is als professioneel evenement gegroeid van seminarie tot een vaste waarde als het trefpunt (met congres, beurs, workshops en awards) voor de betonindustrie. De beurs trekt een duizendtal experten en geïnteresseerden in beton aan om nieuwigheden uit de sector te ontdekken of om op zoek te gaan naar nieuwe oplossingen voor hun klanten. Deze unieke en brede waaier van activiteiten maakt van deze dag een must voor alle betonprofessionals. Daarnaast trekt het evenement steeds meer spelers uit de bouwsector aan. De beursvooruitzichten zijn positief: de beurs is nu al voor 50% volgeboekt met nog een aantal maanden te gaan. Ook deelnemers kunnen zich binnenkort online registreren voor een bezoek aan Concrete Day.
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Global Award For Sustainable Architecture 2007 2008 2009
(>5/09/2010) - Paris / Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine - Palais de Chaillot |
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Quinze architectes réunis par le Global Award depuis 2007, vingt en 2010 : un collège d’architectes de tous les continents se créé. Ils témoignent de l’ampleur et de la complexité du challenge écologique par la diversité et la beauté de leur architecture, portée par une même éthique, ancrée dans des sols, des cultures, des sociétés que parfois tout sépare. Une exposition itinérante consacrée aux 15 premiers lauréats du Global Award a été produite par la Cité de l’Architecture et circule dans le monde entier, après son inauguration à Copenhague lors du Climate Summit de novembre 2009.
Stefan Behnisch (Allemagne), Balkrishna Doshi (Inde), Françoise-Hélène Jourda (France), Hermann Kaufmann (Autriche), Wang Shu (Chine), Fabrizio Caròla (Italie/Mali), Alejandro Aravena (Elemental - Chili), Andrew Freear (Rural Studio – Etats-Unis), Philippe Samyn (Belgique), Carin Smuts (Afrique du Sud), Patrick Bouchain (France), Thomas Herzog (Allemagne), Bijoy Jain (Inde), Diébédo Francis Kéré (Allemagne/Burkina Faso), Sami Rintala (Norvège).
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Richard Deacon. The Missing Part
(5/06 - 19/09/2010) – Strasbourg / Musée d’Art Moderne |
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Né en 1949 au Pays de Galles, Richard Deacon est aujourd’hui internationalement reconnu comme une des figures marquantes de la sculpture contemporaine. Il s’est rapidement imposé comme un étonnant fabricateur de formes et comme le créateur d’un univers plastique épousant la mobilité du vivant. L’exposition, The Missing Part, réalisée en étroite collaboration avec l’artiste, offre la première vision rétrospective de son œuvre sur plus de 40 années et rassemble une quarantaine de sculptures ainsi que quelque 120 dessins, gravures et photographies.
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Principio Potosí
(> 6/09/2010) - Madrid / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía |
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The project Principio Potosí centers on analyzing the notion of modernity and its universal expansion, which has taken place since the colonization of Latin America. The exhibition will display examples of Andean colonial painting and works by international artists, inviting viewers to reflect on relationships between sixteenth- to eighteenth-century colonial art and the contemporary world. Beginning with examples of viceregal painting from the Potosí School, the project’s line of investigation relates these isolated fragments of history to the conditions of artistic production today. Principio Potosí is an aesthetic proposal with an ambiguous meaning. "Principio" in Spanish can refer to, on the one hand, a temporal meaning or a beginning—the enduring memory of Potosí. On the other hand, it also refers to technique, such as a mechanical principle or rule, which is repeated on different global coordinates in time and space. These two potential foci form the basis for the project, which together with the exhibition will include several seminars, conferences and publications.
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Alex Katz. Prints
(28/05 – 29/08/2010) – Wien / Albertina |
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Alex Katz, born in Brooklyn in New York in 1927, today numbers among the most important exponents of contemporary American art. Starting out from the pictorial concept of Abstract Expressionism, he traveled his own trails of figurative painting even before the birth of Minimal Art and Pop. At least since the exhibition Birth of the Cool (held in Hamburg and Zurich in 1997), he has been considered a central figure within a self-reflexive U.S. American painting tradition that is marked by rationality, sensuality, and abstraction. In his huge formats, he describes the life of the well-to-do American leisure society, in the form of images seemingly devoid of passion, as well as ostensibly remote natural idylls. Prints play a vital role in his oeuvre as well. Fathoming the limits of the various printing techniques, the artist explores new creative possibilities, mostly by referring to pictorial ideas he has conceived for his paintings and cutouts.
Alex Katz has donated his entire printed oeuvre of the past sixty years, including some five hundred prints, as well as several portfolios and artist books, to the Albertina. This exhibition will present a selection of the most outstanding works.
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Best of Europe. Mies van der Rohe Award 2009
(24/06 – 20/09/2010) - Wien / Architekturzentrum Wien |
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The Mies van der Rohe Award is granted every two years by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona. The aim of the prize is to acknowledge and reward projects whose innovative character serves as orientation or even as a manifesto in the development of contemporary architecture. Furthermore, the award is intended to inspire architects to accept the entire European Union as the arena for their work and to support aspiring young architects at the outset of their careers.
Five finalists have been selected from the 340 projects nominated by experts from all over Europe — the distinguished jury was finally convinced by the Norwegian architects Snøhetta with the Oslo Opera House. The Emerging Architect Special Mention went to STUDIO UP in 2009 (Lea Pelivan and Toma Plejic) for the Gymnasium 46° 09' N / 16° 50' E in Koprivnica, Croatia. A total of 50 buildings from throughout Europe are presented with plans and photographs and, in particular, numerous models.
The touring exhibition is supplemented by a presentation of the 15 Austrian projects nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award.
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12th International Architecture Biennale
(29/08 – 21/11/2010) - Venice |
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The 12th International Architecture Exhibition will be directed by Kazuyo Sejima and titled People meet in architecture.
Two major projects will be developed for the 12th Exhibition: the Architecture Saturdays (a series of conversations, performances and weekly discussions with architects and critics) and the greater involvement of the Universities (educational opportunities for students of Architecture, Engineering, Design, etc.).
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Objects of Light
(>25/08/2010) - Copenhagen / Danish Museum Art & Design |
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An exhibition of more than 100 works of silver created in contemporary style by silversmiths in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Spain, Greece, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Australia, Mexico and U.S.A.
Together with an exciting experiment … a gigantic bowl created jointly by 63 silversmiths.
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Warhol after Munch
(4/06 – 12/09/2010) – Humlebæk / Louisiana Museum |
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Warhol’s “Munch pictures” are rarely shown and the showing of them together in a museum exhibition is unique. Placing Edvard Munch, whom most people view as the painter of the innermost reaches of the soul, alongside Andy Warhol, who is normally classed as the apostle of the surface, may seem the strangest choice of all. But there are three good reasons to do so. First, in 1984 Warhol actually made a long series of prints that are copies or rather versions of four major subjects by Munch – the iconic The Scream, Madonna, Self-Portrait and The Brooch. Secondly, Warhol and Munch both worked intensively with the print medium, with the concepts of quantity and repetition as guidelines. Thirdly, the juxtaposition of Warhol and Munch seeks to modulate the image we have of the two artists by showing that Warhol is less superficial than he is normally viewed – and Munch correspondingly more a painter of the surface than we think.
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SANAA's Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, Switzerland
(19/06 – 15/09/2010) - Copenhagen / Danish Architecture Center |
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This year, the summer exhibition at the Danish Architecture Centre features the world-renowned and Pritzker Prize awarded Japanese architects, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, and their design studio SANAA. One of their most recent buildings in Europe is the 'Rolex Learning Center' in Lausanne, Switzerland, an extension to the Technical Faculty, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. It is already being rumoured that this building will become an international architectural icon. The exhibition will present the new 'Rolex Learning Center' to the Danish public, while offering insights into other prominent projects from SANAA and the poetic architectural idiom that is their trademark.
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Oiva Toikka - Moments of Ingenuity
(30/05 – 19/09/2010) – Helsinki / Design Museum |
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In 2010, Oiva Toikka (born 1931) will celebrate his career of 50 years as a designer for Iittala. In honour of the event, Design Museum's summer exhibition of 2010 will be a major retrospective of Oiva Toikka's work. Oiva Toikka is known as a playful spirit in Finnish design and as someone who has always followed his own path. His colourful and rich idiom of form has gained many admirers, both in Finland and abroad. As an artist and designer, Toikka is a perpetual seeker and experimenter. He began his collaboration with Arabia-Nuutajärvi-Iittala in 1956–1959 with stylized animal sculptures that he created at the Arabia factory's Art Department. In 1963, Toikka began his work in glass that has continued to the present day. Alongside ceramics and glass, Oiva Toikka has designed, among other works, textiles, opera sets and costumes, and plastic products.
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Invisible
(21-22/08/2010) Jyväskylä / Alvar Aalto Museum |
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The 6th Alvar Aalto Design Seminar explores the creative process of the designer, something that does not show in the final product. What does the design of an industrial product comprise? How does the designer decide what to show and what not to show? And what is the role of art and creativity in mass production? What is the relationship of commerciality to functionality and beauty? Speakers also address the issue of how to design a long-lasting and durable product. What type of corporate setting produces a high-quality result? How does one create a classic?
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Urban Africa. David Adjaye
(> 3/09/2010) - London / Design Museum |
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One of the leading architects of his generation, David Adjaye has stepped out of his regular line of work to photograph and document key cities in Africa as part of an ongoing project to study new patterns of urbanism. Often regarded as a continent defined by underdevelopment, poverty, war and tourism, through this exhibition Adjaye presents Africa in a different light, examining the buildings and places which have a special resonance with his preoccupations as an architect. This detailed survey will reveal a unique snapshot of life in Africa today, documenting the nature of urban life in a developing continent, a unique geo-cultural survey profiling the African city in a global context.
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Sustainable Futures - Can design save the world ?
(> 5/09/2010) – London / Design Museum |
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From the world’s first carbon neutral city to a refrigerator which doubles as an aquarium, this exhibition explores a range of products, concepts and projects that address issues of sustainability in their design. Through prototypes, samples, products and film, you can find out more about your impact on the world and how to change it.
The exhibition is presented around five themes: Cities, Energy and Economics, Food, Materiality and Creative Citizens, this overview shows the changing role of the designer and reveals how design can make a difference.
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Architects Build Small Spaces
(15/06 – 30/08/2010) – London / Victoria & Albert Museum |
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The V&A is commissioning a group of international architects to build a series of structures throughout the Museum which will respond to the theme of the 'retreat'. The starting point for these experimental projects will be the idea of a small enclosed space representing an escape from the chaos of urban life to an area for peace, contemplation, shelter or creativity. One of the central aims of the exhibition is to move away from explaining architecture through drawings and models and instead allow the visitor to experience the architecture itself.
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Francis Alÿs
(15/06 – 5/09/2010) - London / Tate Modern |
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A man pushes a massive block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it melts to nothing. Five hundred volunteers walk over a huge sand dune in Lima, Peru, digging with spades and shifting the dune a few centimetres as they go. These are the works of the celebrated artist Francis Alÿs (born Belgium, 1959), and the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern.
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John Bock: New Comminsion for Then Curve
(10/06 – 12/09/2010) – London / Barbican Art Gallery |
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The internationally-acclaimed, Berlin-based artist John Bock is renowned for his surreal installations combining performance, sculpture and film. Drawing on an idiosyncratic range of interests, Bock creates an absurd amalgamation of references from the disciplines of economics, fashion, film, politics, philosophy and music, among others. In Bock’s installation a modified mobile home lands like an alien space ship in the middle of The Curve, where it docks with parasitic structures suspended from the ceiling. These make-shift architectural structures house various enterprises: a pub, a noodle restaurant and shops. Resembling a utopian, plug-in city constructed of found materials and handmade elements, the installation alludes to the original plan for the Barbican’s Frobisher Crescent which was to include a shopping arcade one level above The Curve. Live performances by Bock and other actors periodically animate the installation and can be viewed on screens in the gallery.
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Constant Le Breton (1895-1985). Pinturas e aguarelas
(19/06 – 30/08/2009) - Lisbon / Gulbenkian Museum |
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Mais de sessenta obras do pintor francês podem ser vistas, pela primeira vez em Portugal, nesta exposição monográfica. Uma retrospectiva dos grandes temas da sua extensa carreira – a paisagem, o retrato, as cenas de interior, a natureza-morta, as vistas de Paris – que divide em seis secções distintas a variedade da sua produção pictórica. Na mostra, é ainda possível constatar a dívida artística que o conjunto da obra de Constant Le Breton deixa transparecer relativamente à pintura da segunda metade do século XIX – trabalhos influenciados por grandes nomes como Corot, Boudin e Manet – período que mereceu, como se sabe, uma atenção especial por parte de Calouste Sarkis Gulbenkian na constituição da sua colecção
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Roboterträume (Robot Dreams)
(9/06 – 12/09/2010) – Basle / Museum Tinguely |
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Robots are no longer found just on the factory floor or as highly developed imaginary creatures in science-fiction stories. They are moving into our homes, taking to the water or the air, optimizing artificial limbs, helping autistic children and surveying fields. Borrowing its title from Isaac Asimov, the exhibition endeavours to pin down the term ‘robot’ and its association with various concepts such as power, control and fear. The projects go on the trail of pressing questions of embodiment, the interaction between man and machine, biopolitics and various forms of swarm-oriented thinking (e.g. community-organised thinking), also feedback from developments in the realm of artificial intelligence relative to the perception of human behaviour and human intelligence.
Exhibition in collaboration with Kunsthaus Graz.
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Klee meets Picasso
(6/06 – 26/09/2010) – Bern / Zentrum Paul Klee |
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The Zentrum Paul Klee is celebrating its 5th anniversary. And this exhibition is the highlight of its 2010 anniversary year. Pablo Picasso and Paul Klee are widely regarded as the two great opposites of modern art: the former, Mediterranean and very much focused on the here and now; the latter, romantic and spiritual. Picasso was a force of nature. He enthralled his contemporaries, challenging them one way or the other to agree or disagree. Klee, too, was deeply impressed by the Spaniard, and there is no doubt that his involvement with Picasso influenced his work. The exhibition contrasts Klee with Picasso and illustrates Klee’s artistic relationship with his great fellow artist. The exhibition comprises around 180 works from the Zentrum Paul Klee, many museums and from private ownership.
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Sketches of Space
(19/06 – 19/09/2010) - Luxemburg / MUDAM |
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Attila Csörgő is one of the best-known young Hungarian artists, who is featured at prominent international exhibitions and art fairs, like the Venice Biennale in 1999. He has won the prestigious Nam June Paik Award in 2008. Exploring the adjoining territories of art and science, he makes devices of his own design that attest to a mindset that is playful and humorous, as well as philosophical.
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International Skyrise Greenery Conference 2010
1st-3rd November 2010 |
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The conference is co-organized by the National Parks Board and International Green Roof Association (IGRA). The conference themed " Surfaces of Creativity : Spaces of Delight" will serve as a platform for the holistic exchange of ideas in the new innovations of urban greenery and its potential to transform our cityscapes and the lives of the people. International urban greenery experts from various disciplines, the academia, architects, landscape architects, landscape contractors, policy-makers and stakeholders will come together to discuss the present and future trends of this growing sector.
Topics will also include the various essential aspects of skyrise greenery such as specifications and installation of green roofs and vertical greenery systems, technical studies (eg. heat shield and the thermal aspects, integration of skyrise greenery with sustainable eco-processes) as well as the sharing of the experience garnered from global political incentives and guidelines. The conference will be presented in forms of lectures, workshops, projects and site excursions.
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