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The art of timber construction - Chinese architectural models
(>24/01/2010) - Munich |
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Pinakothek der Moderne
Models of Buddhist temples, ancient palace complexes and typical secular buildings from different regions were made with extreme precision by apprentices or for documentary purposes at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries in China, based on real or reconstructed buildings as well as on the ideal structures of the Tang (c. 7th¿10th centuries) and Ming dynasties (c. 14th¿17th centuries). All structural details ¿ including the complex timber joints in particular ¿ were carefully copied and documented in these models and, as such, have facilitated the study of ancient buildings. Historical photographs as well as pictures of the structures, drawings and painted architectural views of historical buildings provide an insight into traditional Chinese architecture and construction techniques. This is the first exhibition of this unique collection from the Chinese National Institute of Cultural Property ever to be held outside China.
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TV TOWERS — 8,559 Meters of Politics and Architecture
(> 14/03/2010) - Francfort/Main |
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Deutsches Architekturmuseum
Be it in Moscow, Belgrade, Berlin or Cairo – there is hardly a city or nation wanting to present itself as progressive that has resisted the showy construction of a television tower. According to exhibition curators Friedrich von Borries, Matthias Böttger and Florian Heilmeyer (raumtaktik, Berlin), “the TV towers that have risen up over cities since 1950 are almost always symbols of social change or political and economic power. No other type of building in the second half of the 20th century was as politically charged as the television tower.” A case in point is the Berlin Television Tower. It will celebrate the 40th anniversary of its inauguration on October 3, 2009. This building was not only supposed to dwarf every tower in West Germany, but at the same time to form the pinnacle of the redevelopment of East Berlin’s center. Television towers are still being built today. Two projects are currently underway in Japan and China, both of which have 610 meter-high towers and thus aim to supersede the CN Tower in Toronto as the world’s tallest television tower.
The exhibition will showcase 25 realized or planned television towers in Ashgabat, Auckland, Barcelona, Baghdad, Belgrade, Berlin, Brasilia, Guangzhou, Jakarta, Yekaterinburg, Johannesburg, Cairo, Las Vegas, Liberec, Moscow, Prague, Riga, Shanghai, Stuttgart, Tashkent, Tehran, Tokyo (2), Toronto and Vilnius. There have never been so many TV towers in one exhibition before.
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Martin Elsaesser and the new Frankfurt
(> 14/03/2010) - Francfort/Main |
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Deutsches Architekturmuseum
As Artistic Director of the Municipal Buildings Office, Martin Elaesser (1884-1957) was in charge of large-scale municipal buildings and thus contributed significantly to shaping the New Frankfurt as initiated by Mayor Ludwig Landmann. He planned numerous buildings between 1925 and 1932, ten of which were realized. With the exception of the Großmarkthalle, which was later to become part of the European Central Bank complex, today only a few of his buildings are generally known among the public.
The exhibition presents his known and unknown legacy, with the help of plans, essays, models, a documentary film as well as historic and present-day photographs: A series of municipal school buildings including today's Pestalozzi-Schule (1927) and Holzhausenschule (1929), Elsaesser’s own house in the district of Ginnheim (1926), the indoor swimming pool Frankfurt Ost in the Fechenheim area (1928), the church Gustav-Adolf-Kirche in the district of Niederursel (1928), the conversion of the Palmengarten Gesellschhaftshaus (1930) and of course the Großmarkthalle (1928) as well as other buildings impressively show the wide range of architectural tasks Elsaesser took on during his period in office in Frankfurt. The exhibition will also outline further designs that have not been realized as well as relevant buildings from other creative periods. The show aims to remove Martin Elsaesser from the shadow of architectural history and acknowledge him as a master builder who interwove the latest construction methods with traditional references.
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Land Lines, Häfner / Jiménez, landscape architects, Berlin
(29/01 – 8/04/2010) - Berlin |
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Aedes Land
Lines serve the opening up, the bounding, the structuring of Landscape: taking on form as canals, paths, wall edges, acoustic barriers, forest aisles and visual axis. Straight lines, oscillating lines, fat lines, thin lines, broken lines, built lines, imagined lines, single lines, clusters of lines: lines are a fundamental form-giving element of Landscape Architecture.
In the projects by the Landscape Architecture practice Häfner / Jimenez, lines are deployed as constituent elements of unusual lucidity and sharpness, dividing between water and land, nature and culture, inside and outside. The design intent is for lines to be creative agents, that qualify and differentiate surrounding environments, and that give character to newly made open space. As built elements they stage special places, while leaving the remaining landscape undisturbed, or as organisational interventions they manifest the divisions between areas, achieving clarity through sharpness of contrast. They envision a stage and open up distinct places. As a strategy, the line sits, like a precious intarsia, as usable, intensified open/public space in a wider stretch of land.
AedesLand presents the constructed open space projects by Winfried Häfner and his team, and their accomplished competency with Lines in the Landscape: a Berlin water's edge, a noise barrier in Wolfsburg, the regeneration of the lost centre of Staßfurt in the periphery of Leipzig, together with planned projects for Leipzig Harbour and for the Energy Mountain Georgswerder in Hamburg-Wihelmsburg.
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NICHE – Young Belgian Architecture
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Centre of Fine Arts
Every two months the opening of a new micro-exhibition is accompanied by a reception and a talk by the architect on a building, of which he or she presents a model, and on why it is particularly representative of his or her approach. These models will remain on show until June 2010 in the recesses around the prestigious Henry Le Bœuf Hall, at the level of the first balcony.
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Mexican Modernisms 1945-1985
(11/02 – 11/04/2010) – Brussels |
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Centre for Fine Arts
There is more to modernist architecture in Mexico than just the work of Luis Barragán, its most renowned representative. The detailed plans and impressive enlarged photographs in this exhibition offer a broad overview of architectural production in post-war Mexico. In addition, a unique series of documentary films and contemporary documents helps to flesh out this fascination evocation of the refined lines and raw functionalism of Mexican modernism.
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Made in Holland. Uitvindingen en innovaties
(> 21/03/2010) - Rotterdam |
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Kunsthal
Kunsthal Rotterdam presenteert in samenwerking met het Nationaal Archief en de Technische Universiteit Delft een veelzijdige familietentoonstelling over Nederlandse uitvindingen en innovaties. Aan de hand van vernuftige ontwerpen en modellen, zeer divers filmmateriaal, octrooien en verfijnde tekeningen wordt duidelijk waarom en hoe Nederlanders uitvinden en innoveren. De tentoonstelling laat op een verrassende manier zien hoe allerhande problemen door de eeuwen heen zijn opgelost, hoe nieuwe producten worden uitgetest en hoe kleine ontwerpen onze samenleving kunnen veranderen. Jong en oud worden geprikkeld zelf modellen te testen, producten te verbeteren en in een denktank hun innovatieve plannen aan te dragen.
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Teun Jonh Visscher
(29/01 – 28/03/2010) - Haarlem |
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ABC Architectuurcentrum
Teun Jongh Visscher was een actief architect maar vooral ook een
gepassioneerd plannenmaker en ’ideeën generator’. In een zeer
eigenzinnige en karakteristieke tekenstijl (alles met de hand en gebruikmakend
van o.m. het zogenoemde ‘molperspectief’) vervaardigde hij
talloze en zeer uiteenlopende futuristische en visionaire ontwerpen.
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Green Life: Costruire città sostenibili
(5/02 – 28/03/2010) – Milan |
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Triennale Design Museum
Legambiente, Triennale di Milano e Istituto di Ricerche Ambiente Italia presentano: Green Life: costruire città sostenibili, mostra dedicata agli architetti e alle città che hanno saputo darsi una visione del futuro, hanno adottato strategie coraggiose, hanno messo in atto azioni concrete per un’architettura più sostenibile.
Solo le città sostenibili del prossimo futuro potranno dare speranza a quella metà della popolazione mondiale che è diventata urbana, talvolta cingendo d’assedio i nuclei storici con nuovi agglomerati di fango e lamiera. E’ necessario passare dall’utopia alla realizzazione, per dimostrare che è possibile vivere diversamente negli spazi urbani; bisogna interpellare i saperi, della scienza e della cultura, perché nessuno è autosufficiente. Nel nostro caso Legambiente e la Triennale affrontano il tema mettendo al centro i grandi architetti.
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Pictures of the World: The Global Poster
(> 5/04/2010) - Copenhagen |
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Danish Museum Art & Design
Swinging skirts, surrealistically distorted faces, monocle wearing men, aggressive war propaganda, richly illustrated tourist posters, introvert anti war missiles, humoristic advertising figures and a stencilled President Obama. The comprehensive international exhibition Pictures of the World: The Global Poster at the Danish Museum of Art & Design with more than 300 posters designed by the most predominant poster designers in the World offers visual stories and a rare insight into the history and development of the poster through almost 200 years Poster icons like Jules Chéret, Toulouse-Lautrec, Alphonse Mucha, Chagall, Cassandre, Lenica or Fukuda as well as several of the best Danish graphic artists from Valdemar Andersen and Sven Brasch to Per Arnoldi and Finn Nygaard are represented. Through its presentation of man the poster shows different features of the development of fashion. The exhibition shows widely different techniques, styles, artists and visual expressions, presented in an international and urban perspective.
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Modern(ism)
(12/02 – 9/05/2010) – Helsinki |
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Design Museum
This exhibition will be the first comprehensive presentation of Finnish jewellery from Modern[ism] is a major exhibition opening in February 2010 at Design Museum. It explores the various manifestations and trends of modernism, while considering the problematic nature of this total concept of style. Modern[ism] establishes a chronological continuum of modern design and creative work from the late 19th century to the present day, with its main focus on the "golden age" of modernism from the 1910s to the late 1930s. The exhibition prominently showcases modernism's Nordic dimension and the simple and functional form that became the established image of Finnish design.
The numerous exhibits are from Design Museum's own collections and from several other museums and private collections. Lenders of materials include the Alvar Aalto Museum, the Finnish Poster Museum, the Bauhaus Archiv of Berlin, the Bröhan Museum of Berlin, Design Museum Ghent, The National Museum of Norway, and numerous private collectors both in Finland and abroad.
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Paul Klee. Life, Work and Responses
(> 24/05/2010) – Bern |
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Zentrum Paul Klee
Paul Klee’s body of work is a biography in pictorial form – even if many of his communications are coded and raise more questions than they answer. On closer examination, however, what becomes clear is the large extent to which Klee’s oeuvre is imbued with his character, his life circumstances and his environment. His works demonstrate his fondness for the satirical and the grotesque, but also his need for success and respect. They give an account of his family, his travelling and his ambivalence towards politics and world affairs. Not least, they tell us about his artistic experiments involving Expressionism and Constructivism, the Bauhaus and Picasso.
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Global Design
(12/02 – 30/05/2010) - Zürich |
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Museum für Gestaltung
Globalization, along with all its implications and repercussions in highly diverse areas of society, is a much discussed theme. One aspect which has so far been neglected is the relationship of globalization and design. The exhibition now shows the effects that the globalized world has had on design since the 1970s and how design is developed for the globalized world. It is based on a concept of design which includes architecture, graphics, media, fashion, product and industrial design just as much as the design of spheres of life or product processes. Beginning with global networking in the fields of communication, mobility, production, trade and capital, the focal themes are the presentation of globalization in relationship to regionalism, the container as the primary element of globalization, cultural transfer and global trends. Contributions from artists such as Thomas Demand, Fischli / Weiss, Armin Linke or Allan Sekula illustrate special phenomena of globalization.
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ECOWEEK 2010
13-20 March 2010 |
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The UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen may not have yielded the expected results and commitments, but ‘green’ buildings are already in global spotlight and will remain - in Greece too: towards a 20% energy reduction by 2020, the implementation of EU Directive 2002/91 (Greek law N3661/2008 FEK89A) for energy conservation in buildings, for the implementation of the Law for the waste management in construction and very soon the new EU target for energy autonomous buildings by 2016.
The conference takes place under the auspices of the European Institute of Law, Science and Technology and the City of Athens.
The design workshops of ECOWEEK 2010 will be hosted this year, for the first time in Greece, in 20 architectural offices in Athens.
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Brave New World
(30/01 – 23/05/2010) - Luxemburg |
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MUDAM
What do works of art tell us about the world we live in and that we contribute, each day, to (re-)construct, to (re-)form, to (re-)think? Which are the images of our bodies, of our earth, of our cities, of our dreams and of our fears that artists reflect to us? The exhibition Brave New World proposes - from the perspective of Mudam Collection - an open and surprising view of the universe that surrounds us, through art works of more then eighty contemporary artists.
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The Brno Building Fairs 2010
(13 - 17/04/2010) Czech Republic |
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The new strategic outlook of the Association of Building Entrepreneurs of the Czech Republic for the period to 2012, presented at a press conference by President of the Association Ing. Václav Matyáš, offers three potential scenarios. The first of these – given the title “optimistic–realistic” – is seen as the most likely by those in the building industry, and envisages the beginnings of stabilisation during the course of 2010, with the economy performing at around the level seen this year. This strategy is based on research conducted among members of the association, though in terms of future prospects their responses are extremely cautious, with companies emphasising the fact that their ability to forecast developments beyond the year 2009 is extremely limited. Nevertheless, for the period 2010–2011 companies foresee a continuing downturn, though slight (1 %). We are, however, seeing signs that the stronger and more predatory among them will be biting off a larger slice of the cake and will begin to grow.
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