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Saturday, November 26, 2005
Exhibition / Berlin
B-ZONE Becoming Europe and Beyond
KW (Kunst Werke Berlin _ Institute for Contemporary Arts)
December 17, 2005 – February 26, 2006
Re-Print from KW :
B-ZONE is a territorial research and collaborative art project on what is soon to become a part of the European Union: the transitory geographies of Southeast Europe, the Balkans, Turkey reaching until the Caucasus. Each of the three core projects unfold as they follow the trajectory and traces of large-scale transnational infrastructures laid down in the territories of former communist states and beyond. The Black Sea Files by Ursula Biemann explores the new pipeline connecting the world’s oldest Oil Capital Baku at the Caspian Shore with the Mediterreanean, Postwar Footprints by media researcher Lisa Parks investigates telecommunication and satellite infrastructure before and after the Balkan wars and Timescapes, a project by Angela Melitopoulos with partners in Ankara, Athens and Belgrade which follows the EU-financed “Corridor X”, a historic migration route connecting Germany with Turkey, reconstructing the infamous Yugoslav “Highway of Brotherhood and Unity”. B-ZONE investigates the spaces and implications created by these infrastructures as lived experience against the background of neo-colonial economic strategies, mass migration and war. Beyond the accumulation of field work information and facts, the projects interlace the production and meaning of subjective and collective perceptual spaces and representations with the “silent” language of infrastructure, questioning the democratic of the ideology of capitalist integration that, since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, counts as progressive and holds a status of historical necessity.
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MOVIE / ULTRANOVA
Dir. Bouli Lanners
The Belgian Artist and filmmaker Bouli Lanners has realized 'Ultranova', the story of off-keys characters that sale turnkey and prefabricated houses. Bouli Lanners with Ultanova create a pictural definition of the ambient, a linear landscape where we follow Dimitri, Jeanne & Cathy. Ultranova is not a roadmovie, Ultranova is a roadmovie.
Ultranova is presented at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts _ London) from december 16 005 until January 10 006.
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Monday, November 21, 2005
Exhibition / Paris
Sebastien Rinckel
November 23 _ November 27 005
123 avenue de Wagram
75017 Paris
4th & 5th Floors Right Door
Ring : Gardinet
code : 36 B 98
métrostation : Wagram
During 6 days, the Architect Sebastien Rinckel will present an Installation in a duplex in Paris.
It consists on a continuous and discontinuous ribbon in plywood that creates a new domestic landscape and an indeterminacy of the territory and its uses.
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MIT MediaLab / Smart Cities
Smart Cities is one of the Research Department of the MIT MediaLab, Led by William J.Mitchell also the author of Me++, E-Topia and City of bits published at MIT Press.
Smart Cities is a Laboratory that explores the physical, the real and the virtual relations between human, their environments and new technologies.Design Process and Parametric Design are both developped as strategical tools to define new Infrastructures.
Following these research, we have to precise that William J. Mitchell has published a New Book 'Placing Words,Symbols-Space & the City' where the complex flow of Information and Communication re-define the urban places and the Meaning of the Cities.
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Exhibition / London
DEUTSCHLANDSCHAFT - EPIZENTREN DER PERIPHERIE
Victoria & Albert Museum
Sept 20 005_January 29 006
re_print from urbandrift :
Francesca Ferguson, artistic director of urban drift productions ltd has been invited by the V&A to bring the DEUTSCHLANDSCAPE to Great Britain and re-contextualise the issues of the exhibition for British designers and architects.
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Michael Wolf
Michael Wolf has lived and worked more than 10 years in China and as a photographer he turns his last production on the City of Hong Kong. This project 'Architecture of Density' reveal with large pictures the incredible growing system of HK.
Michael Wolf writes "in comparison to the ordered and well-planned European cities, Hongkong is almost like a plant- it grows organically, making space for itself wherever possible. The face of a newly built public housing estate is a blank slate- several years later its facade reflects the ingenuity and improvisational talents of its inhabitants."
This project is also an exhibition project that could be seen at
Colette / Paris / nov 7_dec 3 005
Museum for Contemporary Photography / Chicago
photos copyrights Michael Wolff
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Competition / NY / USAENYA Competition / Emerging NY architects
From Ruin to Rejuvination, The Roosvelt Island Universal Arts Center is the new competition organized by the ENYA.
It's an International Idea competition open to architects.
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Competition / ThailandTsunami Memorial
The Tsunami Disaster of December 24 004 has killed nearly 280 000 people.
The Government of Thailand has decided to organize an International competition and selected the Khao lak site in the Phangnga Province.
The Design Program is based on a Master Plan, a Memorial, a Museum space, a Visitor Space and a Learning center.
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New Oroville / HYDERABAD / India
New Oroville / a Campus in India
New Oroville has been developped by the software company Catalytic and it's located in Hyderabad in India.
Hyderabad is the new High-Tech Hub in Asia and New orovile has been created by Catalytic as the New Silicon Valley. The Domes architecture has been designed and developped with an US technology call Air Form.
These substainable architecture is made with recycled concrete and magazines.
New Oroville is a self-contained Township based on a plug and play infrastructure.
Finally New oroville proposed a new standard.
Credits Photos Catalytic
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URBAN JELLY \ San FranciscoJell_O Project
The Artist ELizabeth Hickok has created a kind of urban Jelly strategy for San Francisco, an ephemeral urban sweet that proposes a colorfull series of the main buildings and characteristics of the City of SF.
Photos Copyrights Elizabeth Hickok
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TAZ / Temporary Autonomous Zone ?
Following the writings of the american activist Hakim Bey (TAZ \ temporary Autonomous Zone), The abandoned Maunsell Towers as new pirat islands could be an illustration of the deterritorialized territories of the XVII & XVIII centuries. These towers has been designed and realized by the architect and Designer Guy Maunsell in 1942 in relation to the Naval Sea Forts. It has been realized very fast in concrete and steel and it's no more than 30m High. Today just the Red Sands and Shivering Sands Forts are still existing. It has been used as Autonomous platforms in the 60's and 70's by pirates radio.
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International Festival / BCN / SpainEmE3
The International Festival Eme3 has been created and took place in BCN october 21 22 23 005.
The program integrated an Auditorium for videos & films and discussion, exhibitions, workshops and Multimedia architectural installations.
Eme3 is also an opportunity for architecture studio to submit a project related to other fields. It has to be a multidisciplinary proposal.
eme3 is a festival in which architecture interacts with other scientific and creative disciplines, adopting and reinterpreting their structures. eme3 is the environment expressed in cubic meters, where proposals, fruit of the research of space, interact with one another and who's cohabitation in a common setting motors an exchange dynamic.eme3 is a provider of stages for expressing ideas, providing the creator with an actual interactive space and offering the promoter an appointment to explore emergent architecture.
The First prize 005 is the project of the french team Exyzt based in Paris.
credits photos Exyzt
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Sunday, November 13, 2005
MiniHouses / Japan
On boo-hoo-woo.com & 9tubohouse.com pictures and details are available about minihouse designed by architects and designers.
Related to the Metropolis context, the japanese architects and Designers have developped a spatial strategy to define new typologies, new uses and very experimental space to live. Mini is Max here. The website of Birgit Huber & Hannes Rossler about MiniHäuser show some of the more efficient and emblematics japanese architects that have worked on this way like Atelier Bow-Wow, Taira Nishizawa, F.O.B.A.
Photos A&B (Aura House) / Photo C (Na House) / copyrights F.O.B.A.
KiosKinRuralScape / © 2002-2005 Ateleir Bow-Wow Co. Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
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Saturday, November 12, 2005
Exhibition / Rotterdam / Netherland Architecture InstituteNest _ Marc Mueller
The Netherland Architecture Institute create a new Gallery Nest that propose every 6 weeks a new project realized by an architect or an Artist.
Marc Mueller is a German artist based in Netherland. He has worked with Atelier van Lieshout.
In Nest, he develops an "Interior Growths" related to "is my compulsion to expose internal structures."
It's an architectonic project that exacerbate the structure by an asepticized and clinical environment.
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Architecture as Desire / Project in Paris
Nathalie Wolberg Architect
Nathalie Wolberg is an Architect and a Teacher based in Paris.
She has developped since many years a prospective in Architecture and Design related to the Desire.
The following project has been realized in Paris and is emblematic of her Research.
She redefined an existing place (an old Factory) with a conceptual approach related to the individual, the use, the relationship, a kind of erotic space.
After an Analysis of situations, she has develop a psycho-physical space with specifics ambients.
It's a GlobalSpace, a Parisian Loft where Architecture and Design interact to produce sensitives relations.
Normality is Elsewhere, the Individual is non-standard.
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Credit photos Philipp Durr Photograph
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