The Boijmans van Beuningen proves itself yet again with a soon-to-open retrospective on Kurt Schwitters. From March 3rd to May 28th, 2007 the exhibit showing more than 300 pieces will be on display in Rotterdam. With consistently great shows, the Boijmans again makes its neighbour, the Kunsthal, look like a flabby gallery for pop-culture amateurs.
Chicago based office urbanlab just won the ‘city of the future’ competition with a familiar scheme: the Holland of now as the future of Chicago. See the slideshow.
Says HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, Prime Minister of United Arab Emirates. This phrase is the starting point of a 60min movie about actual mega-projects in Dubai. Badly produced and featuring a very annoying soundtrack, it’s still worth a look to see the latest in corporate 3d visualization and big time developer taste. To see more, look at skyscrapers in Dubai at flickr.
Further reading: Neo-Liberalism & Dubai.
Via Albert’s Blog.
air foundation is inviting us to see MVRDV’s first realized project in Rotterdam.
After the Blue Houses in Beukelsdijk have been demolished, MVRDV fills the gap with a roof extension in Beatrijsstraat 71.
Next PechaKucha will be 28th of February, starting at 20:20. Tickets costs 6 Euro.
For those not in the know, Pecha Kucha is an innovative approach to giving presentations that is taking design and architecture circles by storm. This format ensures that presentations last no longer than 6 minutes and 40 seconds as speakers are limited to using 20 slides, each of which is shown for only 20 seconds. These simple rules have resulted in Pecha Kucha nights becoming synonymous with punchy, fast-flowing presentations that keep audiences on their toes.
The Pecha Kucha craze originated in Tokyo among creative professionals as a means to introduce and exchange ideas with peers; and is named after the Japanese onomatopoeic equivalent for chitchat. As it continues to sweep through major cities all over the world, it is quite fitting that Pecha Kucha has made its way to the Embassy of Japan.
The spanish designer Jaime Hayon is staging at the VIVID gallery until the 4th of march. His work consists mainly of furniture design with ceramic as material.The style is pretty baroque and funky. He is perfect for architects with rich clients who desperately need a golden bath tub.
“After the architect is dead, one receives another sort of ‘catalogue’, with every scrap of paper interpreted by historians. But building architects ask of the detritus of a working, thinking life completely different kinds of questions that wish to receive totally different kinds of answers.”
Alison and Peter Smithson.
Sun. Feb. 11th 15.00 Dirk van den Heuvel, long time Team10 researcher and editor of ‘Team 10, 1953-1981′ is giving a lecture on the Smithsons, browsing through the NAi archives, and focussing on the correspondece of Team10 members Alison & Peter with Jaap (Jacob Berend Bakema).
The lecture will be in dutch, but to listen is much makkelijker that speaking!
World famous for inventing ‘throwies’ the Graffiti Research Lab is invading Rotterdam. The work they will do here is part of the Art Fair Rotterdam opening tonight until feb. 10th.
Their main intervention will be lasertagging the KPN buildings BACKside.
Not really sure what Art Rotterdam is all about, their website is somewhat cryptic, but feb. 9th offers a guided tour by Artifex, including an architectural tour over the Kop van Zuid, the last big extension of R’dam, still in progress and with a few highlights to come.
send a mail or cell number to GRL megaohmresistor to receive electronic and SMS messages regarding the dates and times of actions in Rotterdam and Amsterdam in early February.
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