The doors will open at 20.20. / Tickets can be bought for 5,- euro at the door.
Location: Off Corso, Kruiskade 22, Rotterdam hope to see you there!!!
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Archive for April, 2007
Chris Jordan - Cans Seurat, 2007 (from artist’s website)
Chris Jordan’s project “Running the Numbers” hits my weak spot for data visualisation. The artist about his project:
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
See for yourself at www.chrisjordan.com.
Zeche Zollverein (photo by toms)
Last weekend we went for a tour to the Emscherpark, which is meandering between Duisburg and Hamm, with an approximate length of 70 km (straight trajectory Duisburg - Hamm). The objective of this trip was to get a feeling how a huge and dispersed park can work. We are working on a similar project in the greater London area at the moment for or office maxwan, which sponsored this trip. Continue reading ‘Emscherpark - Industrial Heritage Done Right’
Nederlands Fotomuseum (screenshot from their site)
I’ve just added a couple of dates to our Calendar page -
First of all, there is tonight's panel at the NAi discussing the state of architecture critique in the Netherlands (language will be dutch, fee is 5e). From their announcement:
Aan de hand van drie introducties van architectuurcritica Angelika Schnell (D), architectuurhistoricus Cor Wagenaar (NL) en docent architectuurkritiek Paul Vermeulen (B) wordt gedebatteerd over de stand van zaken in de architectuurkritiek in Nederland en Vlaanderen. Zij gaan in op de vraag in hoeverre de architectuurkritiek verdrinkt in de verschuiving van tekst- naar beeldcultuur? Hoe reflecteert ons denken over het maatschappelijk belang van de architectuur in de architectuurkritiek? En aan welk type architectuurkritiek is in de huidige tijd behoefte?
Also today the “Nederlands Fotomuseum” opens at Las Palmas - finally. There they’ll have enough room to host their extensive collection of not only photography, but also movies and digital media. The Las Palmas Building housed the Holland-America Line since 1953, but was soon used for other things, among them as a trade station for goods from the Canary Islands, thus the name. Benthem Crouwel Architecten conceived the renovation plans for its new use. The opening exhibitions are “Dutch Eyes’ and ‘Panorama Las Palmas”. See nederlandsfotomuseum.nl to see what else is going on on this opening weekend and after.
On the 26th of April you’ll find us at the Worm - a location we favor anyhow - where the new Yearbook of Dutch Architecture will be presented. It’s free, but you can make sure they’ll let you in at www.naipublishers.nl.
In the night of the 24th of may you’ll be able to behold the results of the eldaplus.org workshop “spelen met licht” (play with light). The selected locations gravitate around the Erasmus bridge. You’ll find a full map soon at www.rotterdam2007.nl, you can also register for the workshop at http://eldaplus.org/691.0.html if yo spare 1140e. Let’s hope that the results are more satisfying as the purplish city of Architecture installations we’ve seen so far at several sites in Rotterdam. The same evening will also be the opening evening for the Rotterdam Biennale of Architecture - which deserves an own post to be fully covered.
For a complete list of what’s going on visit our Calendar page.
Skyscrapers under Construction world wide (screen capture skyscraperpage.com)
Cities are as entangled in global competition as companies, and what a TV Ad is for the car manufacturer, a skyscraper is for a metropolis. You can rank them according to the height of their buildings (or is it the extent of their identity crisis?) on www.skyscraperpage.com. Beautiful.
Rotterdam’s Tallest (screen capture skyscraperpage.com)
Also worth a look, but updating their databases right now, is www.skyscrapercity.info. They are always on top featuring pictures of recent developments in their unfortunately often very shallow forum discussions.
OMA redesigned their website. No more flash, better structure. And they might be working on a blog…
Ole Boumann (photo: v2 archives)
Ole Bouman became Director of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam a couple of days ago. See the press release and read an extensive interview with him at the bldgblog. From the introduction to the interview:
In May 2005, Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, and Mark Wigley co-founded Volume. Volume was meant as both a magazine and a “global idea platform… dedicated to experimentation and the production of new forms of architectural discourse.” […]
In the following interview, Bouman talks to BLDGBLOG about some of these “spatial challenges,” including the role of “agitation” in architecture; who the real audience for architectural journalism might be; the “politics of the spectacular”; unexpected possible side-effects of long-term investment in China; public space and dialogue in post-conflict cities; and the future of the Netherlands Architecture Institute.
geolocation of dysturb users on 6 April 07
A screenshot of our statistics page from beginning of April - before we went beta. It is nice that we would be able to tell who is behind of each of these little icons. This will change, though. I’ll post more of these during our next steps until we go public - it will be interesting to see how the dysturb virus spreads.
On Tuesday, April 10, 2007, Martin Berendse of the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science will officially open the Dutch Electronic Art Festival. The opening will take place at Rotterdam’s new Las Palmas cultural center at 7:00 pm. A performance by the Belgian group Code31 will be the highlight. DEAF, one of the most important international festivals devoted to art, media and technology, is organized every two years by V2_, Institute for the Unstable Media. DEAF07 runs from April 10 to 29, 2007, in Rotterdam. Continue reading ‘DEAF’
The 3rd Rotterdam Architecture Biennale POWER is coming - so get ready
Continue reading ‘3rd Rotterdam Architecture Biennale - POWER’