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You will find here the most importants events, exhibitions and forums in Europe.
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Latz and Partner. Bad Places and Oases
(> 31/10/2008) - Berlin |
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“Bad Places” – defines spaces of urban wasteland, of landfills but also neglected parks or harmful and unfriendly traffic and infrastructure solutions. In their exhibition in AedesLand, Latz + Partner describe their approach to dealing with these places – the necessity of which goes beyond aesthetic standards in a time where we are faced with a shortage of space and yet continually create new wastelands.
“Oases” – selective interventions and special places give an answer to bad places. Primarily, this revolves around the acceptance of devastated and polluted spaces, around the qualities that even such spaces can hold and around the layers that define them and hold the potential of fascinating information. Landscape does not merely exist physically. It represents a repertoire of information which is continually interpreted and re-interpreted by the beholder. The design philosophy of Latz + Partner is rooted in the ambition of facilitating and furnishing new ideas to this process.
The exhibition focuses on two key, future-oriented projects: Hiriya, Tel Aviv and Crystal Palace Park, London. These projects, both of which are currently in the planning phase, are complemented by images of built projects, such as the blast furnace park in Duisburg, the Old Harbour in Bremerhaven and the urban transformation on the Plateau de Kirchberg in Luxembourg. Public participation is of great significance in all projects and ecological principles are innate to all of the work.
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Signs of the City – Metropolis Speaking
(> 2/11/2008) - Berlin |
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Haus der Kulturen der Welt
It is an artistic engagement with the urban world of signs of the European city using photography and new media. The exhibition creates a youthful view of our own city and those foreign to us. Experts discuss this digital transformation of urban signs into photographic expressions from various different perspectives. A central theme is the temptation and power of images and its ubiquitous invitation to communicate. The urban worlds of images are being questioned in their ability to shape young people’s identity and personal situatedness.
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Becoming Istanbul
(> 9/11/2008) - Francfort/Main |
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Deutsches Architekturmuseum
The show revolves around a database that sheds light from all sorts of different perspectives on the city on the Bosporus and how it has developed into the current metropolis that interfaces between the West and the Orient. The interactive presentation, which visitors can themselves control, is driven by a large stock of data contributions made by countless photographers, artists, architects, authors, illustrators and researchers who have focused in their work on the city of Istanbul and approach the metropolis from quite different angles.
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Design uit de fifties & de sixties
(> 12/10/2008) - Ghent |
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Design Museum
A great deal of 1950s and 1960s design has passed the test of time extremely well and even grown to icon status. In the fifties, the Italians developed a style of their own whereas Scandinavian designers were inspired by plastic arts. The focal point, however, lay in the U.S. 1958 was a turning point. The sixties were the decade of popular culture. The streets and art were sources of inspiration. Exhibitions displayed designs by Arne Jacobsen, Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Aarnio, Tapio Wirkkala, Gio Ponti, Harry Bertoia
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Design with a smile
(> 12/10/2008) - Ghent |
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Design Museum
The world of design and contemporary design are no strangers to a healthy dose of surreal humour either. “Forms with a smile” gathers designs and objects by modern surrealists and demonstrates that nothing is as it appears. Hairy rugs, lamps shaped like milk bottles, USB sticks carved from wooden branches or sofas made from stuffed cuddly toys. Is it purely humour? Or is it a titillating statement wrapped in an infectious smile? As with surrealism, design sometimes tells us more than we think.
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Week-End du Bois
17-19/10/2008 |
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L’évènement propose de découvrir plus de 170 activités variées liées au bois et à la forêt partout en Wallonie et au Grand-duché de Luxembourg afin de mieux comprendre l’importance de nos forêts et la valeur de leur utilisation. Au programme, entre autres : Entreprises et Métiers, Constructions et Architecture.
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Concept & Build
(06-07/11/2008) - Brussels |
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CONCEPT& BUILD gaat door in Brussels Expo en is een compleet nieuw concept exclusief voorbehouden aan vakmensen met bouwbeslissing. Tijdens deze tweedaagse beurs zullen de bezoekende voorschrijvers vooral contacten leggen en maken zij kennis met nieuwe producten en bouwsystemen. Een unieke kans om in no-time weer helemaal geüpdate te raken!
06-07/11/2008 // Hall 7 // Brussels Expo
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Mies van der Rohe Award 2007
(> 2/11/2008) - Leuven |
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Arenbergbibliotheek
De reizende tentoonstelling de ‘Mies van der Rohe Award' houdt halt in Leuven . Deze tweejaarlijkse prijs is één van de belangrijkste prijzen voor hedendaagse architectuur in Europa en toont het kruim van de Europese architectuur: Foster, Zaha Hadid Architects, Feichtinger Architectes, Mansilla & Tuñon en anderen tonen samen 40 recent gerealiseerde ontwerpen.
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899 Logements
(> 2/11/2008) - Paris |
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Pavillon de l’Arsenal
Révélatrice de réponses inédites et quelquefois inattendues à des programmes variés (logements étudiants, résidence sociale, maison relais,...), et parfois mixtes (logements sociaux et en accession, logements et commerces,...), l'exposition présente les résultats de 9 concours d'architecture pour la construction de 899 logements à Paris
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Stad uit de school
(> 25/10/2008) - Amsterdam |
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ARCAM
Dit najaar viert de Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam zijn 100-jarig bestaan met een groot aantal activiteiten. Gevraagd om een bijdrage organiseert ARCAM een tentoonstelling over de relatie tussen het Amsterdamse stadsbeeld en het architectuuronderwijs aan de academie. In de expositie worden tien tijdsgewrichten beschreven waarin (groepen van) docenten en studenten van de academie op een specifieke manier het stadsbeeld hebben beïnvloed. Voorbeelden van thema s zijn Amsterdamse bioscopen, vrouwelijke studenten en docenten, de oorlogsperiode, Forum, stadsvernieuwing oude en nieuwe stijl en in het laatste decennium de pretenties, het lef, het ondernemerschap en de internationalisering van het architectuuronderwijs. Aan de hand van in principe bekende gebouwen in de stad blijken verborgen verhalen te kunnen worden verteld!
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My Public Space
(> 9/11/2008) - Rotterdam |
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NAI
This travelling exhibition makes it clear that public space in Europe is much less public and accessible than we tend to think. How our immediate surroundings are organised is increasingly subject to privatisation, thematisation, control, commercialisation and the influence of the media. Eight correspondents carried out research on urban developments in Dublin, Copenhagen, Naples, Barcelona, Rotterdam, Tirana, Brussels and Berlin to find out how the transformation of public space has taken place.
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Formless Furniture
(> 26/10/2008) - Vienna |
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MAK gallery
The exhibition almost exclusively features seating furniture, which, being particularly body-related, has always been a central field of experimentation in furniture design. Designers were mainly interested to convey a more playful approach to things and to champion new positions and attitudes directed against rigid conventions and traditional views. Particularly in the years around 1968, affirmative bourgeois culture was challenged with new types of furniture: fanciful seating objects called for new ways to use them— relaxed sitting positions and provocative postures as had hitherto not been part of the accepted social conduct. The point was to find out in what various ways the new flexible furniture could be used and what was possible with—and through—it outside long-accustomed habits. The famous Sacco—actually only a plastic, fabric, or leather bag filled with Styrofoam pellets—is considered the most convincing prototype in this development toward more mobility and flexibility in the domestic sphere. A light, moveable, and affordable piece of furniture, mostly in glaring colors, the Sacco was in line with the spirit of the epoch in 1968 and, over the years and because of its exceptional flexibility and conformability, grew into something like a Pop art icon. As a homage to this design classic, Ron Arad and Karim Rashid made the Sacco a starting point and reference of their own designs.
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