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Bauhaus. A Conceptual Model

Thomas, Tue 4 Aug 2009
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berlin, design + style and events + super design fun

20_Gropius_1921_N_3_84 (Work model for the memorial for the “March Heroes”, 1921, Klassik Stiftung Weimar © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2009)

Work model for the memo­r­ial for the “March Heroes” by Walter Gropius, 1921, Klas­sik Stiftung Weimar © VG Bild-​Kunst, Bonn 2009

Per­fectly in tune with my recent move from Rot­ter­dam to Berlin* I can rec­om­mend the Bauhaus exhi­bi­tion in the Martin Gropius Bau (where else?) in Berlin. The exhi­bi­tion – the largest on Bauhaus in his­tory – will be open until 4th of Octo­ber 2009, and focuses on the period 1919 to 1933. It is refresh­ing and and over­whelm­ing to see this wealth of utopian ideas, espe­cially now.

39_Toilettentisch_Breuer (Marcel Breuer (design and realisation), Gerhard Oschmann (reconstruction), Lady’s dressing-table from the Bauhaus experimental house “Am Horn”, Weimar, 1923)

Marcel Breuer’s Lady’s dressing-​table from the Bauhaus exper­i­men­tal house “Am Horn”, Weimar, 1923

Con­tinue read­ing ‘Bauhaus. A Con­cep­tual Model’

Berlage 1st Year Studios Final Review

Thomas, Tue 23 Jun 2009
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lecture + review, rotterdam, school tracker, theory + strategy and urbanism

berlage-finals

Ningbo Stu­dents tweak­ing their Pre­sen­ta­tion (photo: Thomas Stellmach)

The Berlage Insti­tute is hold­ing their final reviews for the first year stu­dios today, from 10 to 21:30 (CEST). If you are quick, you can watch the live video stream here.

The first ses­sion is already over (When Economies Become Form: Micro-​Economic Models as Spa­tial Pre­scrip­tions in North­east Brazil, Tina DiCarlo and Markus Miessen). H2OBITAT (Freek Persyn, Lau­rence Tait, Nico Tillie) starts at 14:00 (CEST), and Bridg­ing Untrou­bled Waters: The Ningbo Mall as a Quest for Alter­na­tive Strate­gies in Open Space Devel­op­ment (Rients Dijk­stra, Thomas Stell­mach) is sched­uled for 18:30 (CEST). Teach­ing the latter studio has been one of the reason why it has been so quiet around here the during the last weeks…

The guest crit­ics we’ve invited include Carson Chan, Direc­tor of Pro­grams, Berlin; Filip Geerts, Assis­tant Pro­fes­sor of Archi­tec­ture, TUDelft; Adrian Hornsby, editor, The Chi­nese Dream; Jorg Leeser, prin­ci­pal of BeL, Cologne; Hiroki Mat­suura, archi­tect, Maxwan, Rot­ter­dam; Marc Ryan, archi­tect, West8; Jan Nauta, researcher, nOf­fice, Berlin; Ralf Pflugfelder, part­ner of nOf­fice, Berlin; Car­o­line Rovers, Stad­shavens Rot­ter­dam; Jaap Wieden­hoff, prin­ci­pal, Arup, Amsterdam.

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Rotterdam Design Award Call for Applications

Thomas, Fri 10 Apr 2009
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art + media, competition + tender, design + style and rotterdam

rotterdamdesignprijs

The Rot­ter­dam Design Award started its 2009 appli­ca­tion period, dead­line is 8 of May.

Complexity Theory Conference @ TU Delft

Ekim Tan, Sun 5 Apr 2009
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events + super design fun, rotterdam, school tracker, theory + strategy and urbanism

Complexity Theories have come of Age

Com­plex­ity The­o­ries have come of Age

Don’t let the poster mis­lead you! TU Delft’s U-Lab comes up with a daring con­fer­ence break­ing from its single-​disciplinary con­ser­vatism. During 3 days from Sep­tem­ber 24th on math­e­mati­cians, physi­cists, urban­ists and design­ers gather in Delft. They will explore the impli­ca­tions of com­plex­ity the­o­ries of cities to plan­ning and urban design. Besides hot­shot pro­fes­sors Juval Por­tu­gali, Bill Hillier, and Mike Batty, gonna-be’s, or maybe wanna-be’s like Egbert and me will take the floor.

The con­fer­ence has a lim­ited audi­ence capac­ity, and is first-​come, first served! For more infor­ma­tion, you may see com​plex​i​tythe​o​riesofc​i​ties.com, send an email to me and check out the other dates in our cal­en­dar of selected Rot­ter­dam Archi­tec­ture Events.

Three decades of research have estab­lished the field of com­plex­ity the­o­ries of cities as a dom­i­nant approach to cities. Now that the field has come of age, it is time to stop for a moment, look back at what has been achieved, with appre­ci­a­tion, but also with sober crit­i­cism and then look for­ward at poten­tials that have yet to be real­ized. Con­tinue read­ing ‘Complexity Theory Con­fer­ence @ TU Delft’

Hunch 12: Bureaucracy – Launch Event

Darrel, Fri 27 Mar 2009
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architecture, books + mags, events + super design fun, rotterdam and urbanism

hunch12_cover_website

After a couple years with­out pub­lish­ing, the latest issue of Hunch #12 will be relaunched in col­lab­o­ra­tion with NAi Pub­lish­ers at the Berlage Insti­tute, Rot­ter­dam. The event takes place this coming Tues­day, the 31st March, at 19:00 within the school itself.
Con­tinue read­ing ‘Hunch 12: Bureau­cracy – Launch Event’

Google Maps NL – Street View!

Darrel, Sun 22 Mar 2009
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amsterdam, architecture, art + media, rotterdam and urbanism

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Arcam Archi­tec­ture Centre, Amsterdam

Google Maps recently updated var­i­ous cities within Europe, includ­ing Ams­ter­dam and Rot­ter­dam in the Nether­lands. Of course, Europe being much more dense, has caused pri­vacy prob­lems for Google as seen in a row exposed by the BBC News in the UK. While I’ve snooped through some of my favourite spots in Ams­ter­dam and Rot­ter­dam, I’ve yet to explore the limits of what Google has made avail­able online. It seems that some of the sec­ondary cities such as Utrecht and Maas­tricht still lack the ser­vice. Given that the cam­eras are placed high above a moving truck, there are few (or no) views of pedes­trian streets; and per­haps Google should think about cap­tur­ing Ams­ter­dam by boat?

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Kun­sthal, Rotterdam

UPDATE: I’ve added a map with the cities where street view is avail­able. The recently added Oxford, London (Mil­le­nium Dome), Rot­ter­dam (Ben van Berkel’s Eras­mus bridge) and Ams­ter­dam (Mirailles, West8 & Co. at Borneo) are not yet on it. Even more recent are the addi­tions of Cannes, Zaragoza and the Amalfi Coast. What­ever Google’s cri­te­ria for inclu­sion are, we agree with them.

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Avail­abil­ity of Google Street View in Europe

4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam – Exploring Urban Futures

Darrel, Sun 22 Mar 2009
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architecture, events + super design fun, rotterdam and theory + strategy

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Refuge Urban­ism; © Unknown

The web­site for this year’s 4th Inter­na­tional Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale Rot­ter­dam 2009 is fully online and oper­a­tional. Rot­ter­dam archi­tect Kees Chris­ti­aanse will curate the pro­gram, and has devel­oped the theme: Explor­ing Urban Futures. He will be work­ing in asso­ci­a­tion with a team in Zurich at the ETH, where he also teaches urban design. In Rot­ter­dam, Chris­ti­aanse runs his own office, KCAP, which is rec­og­nized for work in both archi­tec­ture and urban design. Being the 4th bien­nale, expec­ta­tions are high fol­low­ing what many per­ceived as a decline in the scale and qual­ity of the last, 3rd Bien­nale enti­tled “Power”.
Con­tinue read­ing ‘4th Inter­na­tional Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale Rot­ter­dam – Explor­ing Urban Futures’

Antiblob

Martin, Wed 11 Mar 2009
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architecture, art + media, design + style, events + super design fun, marketing + pimping, movies, recordings, and more and rotterdam

Prada Transformer Screenshot

Con­struc­tion of the Prada Trans­former Pavil­lion (from prada-​trans​former.com)

Have a look at OMA’s most recent project for Prada, the ‘Prada Trans­former‘. The project has it’s own proper web­site, fea­tur­ing Rem pre­sent­ing, plans and ren­der­ings as well as a con­struc­tion time lapse in progress.

Last Day at Foster Berlin

Thomas, Sat 28 Feb 2009
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berlin

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Apart from the burn­ing build­ing series, we observe a new trend on dys­turb, archi­tec­ture prac­tices clos­ing down. After the cuts at OMA and EEA’s ban­cruptcy, we received the link to the video below. It is filmed at Foster+Partners Berlin office on the day the announce­ment has been made to the team (Fri 13th), 3 days after it was announced to the press. Unfor­tu­nately, some of our friends have been work­ing there. More a about the shut­down at bdonline.

Rebuilding the Bouwkunde (TU Delft) – Coming March 14!

Darrel, Wed 25 Feb 2009
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architecture, competition + tender, events + super design fun and rotterdam

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Photo © Dennis87 on FlickR

Since the dev­as­tat­ing fire that con­sumed the noto­ri­ous archi­tec­ture fac­ulty at the TU Delft in 2008, the archi­tec­tural com­mu­nity in the Nether­lands has been hold­ing their breadth to find out what their new fac­ulty would look like. The open inter­na­tional ideas com­pe­ti­tion has recently closed, and the TU Delft is plan­ning to launch the project win­ners at the NAi in the coming weeks.

On March 14th at the NAi, the award win­ners and men­tions will be announced and a debate held to dis­cuss the work. The museum will simul­ta­ne­ous open an exhi­bi­tion doc­u­ment­ing the work that will run until the 7th June 2009. In total 466 entries came from 50 coun­tries, and the com­pe­ti­tion orga­niz­ers will pub­lish a mono­graph of the work this May.

Mias Arquitectes

Thomas, Fri 13 Feb 2009
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architecture and barcelona

Mercat de Barcelonate

Mercat de Barceloneta (Josep Mias)

I just found out that the office worked at in 2001 in Barcelona updated its web­site, finally (span­ish archi­tects often don’t con­sider it nec­es­sary to be present on the web).

Josep Mias (Mias Arqui­tectes) emerged as tal­ented young archi­tect from the school of Mirailles and founded his own office in 2001 after the death of Mirailles (see EMBT). I also made that tran­si­tion from Mirailles to Mias while work­ing there as an intern.

TVCC_timeline

Martin, Mon 9 Feb 2009
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architecture and beijing

update: it’s still stand­ing:
ruin

more pic­tures @ mov​ingc​i​ties.org

thanks to: 太阳太阳太阳
we’re talk­ing local Bei­jing time.

1:07爆料User has marked vehi­cles, are safe to go home, thanks to the con­cern of every­one, thank you for the sup­port of this report! Hope that all people in the fire Ping’an home! Wishes the injured a speedy recov­ery! To pay trib­ute to the brave fire fighters! ! !

1:07 on the road there are a number of taxi cars and more

1:05 There are fire engines and vehi­cles to the scene of the fire towards.

1:03 only east-​west direc­tion along the bus in the walk out­side the secu­rity line there are still many people, Yuan­wang smoke in the building.

At present, the main road 1:02 San­huan roads are still closed, have not seen the car, armed police have access to Chaoyang Theater

User claimed 0:59 with­drawal on the road, pass­ing the police station呼家楼, brightly lit inside, there are 7-8 police on standby in the hall. Area where a pedes­trian can not see, about 20-30% of the homes also亮着灯.
Con­tinue read­ing ‘TVCC_timeline’

TVCC on Fire

Martin, Mon 9 Feb 2009
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architecture and beijing

We just got news that the TVCC, just next to the CCTV build­ing is burn­ing. Looks like we have to add a new cat­e­gory of famous build­ings in flames…
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source: Oana & 潘石坚
Con­tinue read­ing ‘TVCC on Fire’

Object Rotterdam

Thomas, Fri 30 Jan 2009
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dysturb DNA, events + super design fun and rotterdam

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Love Bag Ted Noten (by Rob Koudijs)

From 4th to 8th Feb­ru­ary Las Palmas Rot­ter­dam hosts the Object Rot­ter­dam Fair for autonomous design. Check our cal­en­dar for more dates in Rotterdam.

OMA fires 50, wins Taipei competition

Thomas, Fri 30 Jan 2009
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architecture, competition + tender and rotterdam

OMA doorbell

OMA door­bell (© r.wiesenberger, may 2008, see original)

OMA announced on Tues­day that 50 of their 300 employ­ees have to leave. Busi­ness Direc­tor van de Chijs com­ments that he expects OMA to sur­vive the eco­nom­i­cal crisis as busi­ness is going well. But as they intend to be “ter­ri­bly care­ful” the diceded on the lay-​offs.

In related news OMA announces the same day that they won the com­pe­ti­tion to build the Taipei Per­form­ing Arts Centre (as widely reported). Have also a look at the very inter­est­ing runner-​up by Abalos+Sentkiewicz.

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Taipei Per­form­ing Arts Centre by OMA (click to see orig­i­nal size)

Read on for more pic­tures and the press release of the OMA design. Con­tinue read­ing ‘OMA fires 50, wins Taipei competition’

Erick van Egeraat Bancrupt

Thomas, Fri 23 Jan 2009
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architecture, london and rotterdam

EEA’s law office announced today that Egeraat’s prac­tice is ban­crupt. EEA has offices in Rot­ter­dam, Budapest, Prag and London and until now we con­sid­ered the practice’s output mediocre but suc­cess­ful. Appar­ently the credit crisis arrived to show vis­i­ble effects on archi­tec­ture prac­tices. Details, anyone?

Via cobouw.

Berlage Now

Thomas, Fri 16 Jan 2009
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rotterdam, school tracker and theory + strategy

Now Accepting Berlage Applications

Now Accept­ing Berlage Applications

The Berlage Insti­tute Appli­ca­tion Dead­line has been announced a few days ago, 27th Feb 2009 (appli­ca­tion forms here).

The Insti­tute is renowned for their 2-year post­grad­u­ate pro­gram, which empha­sises on research and knowl­edge (you can gen­er­ally recog­nise a Berlager by his jargon). An inter­est­ing addi­tion is their PhD pro­gramme in col­lab­o­ra­tion with TU Delft, which is under­go­ing some changes at the moment. Can­di­dates com­plet­ing dis­ser­ta­tions include Roemer van Toorn, Peter Trum­mer and Sasha Zanko.

UPDATE –
The Berlage Insti­tute 2009–2010 Post­grad­u­ate Prospec­tus is now online.
And the call for par­tic­i­pa­tion in the City Visions Europe Euro­pean exchange pro­gram is now avail­able for down­load: City Visions Europe Call for par­tic­i­pa­tion
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Con­tinue read­ing ‘Berlage Now’

Action In The City

Darrel, Sun 7 Dec 2008
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architecture, events + super design fun, montreal, process + technique and urbanism

Exhi­bi­tion Entrance; Photo: Darrel Ronald

A new exhi­bi­tion at the Cana­dian Centre for Archi­tec­ture, Actions: What You Can Do With The City, explores the thou­sands of exam­ples around the globe of people reclaim­ing urban space through Do-It-Yourself (DIY) actions in order to human­ize the failed urban real­i­ties around them. While urban action has become a hot sub­ject over the recent years, the CCA has approached the sub­ject from a broad cri­tique that mixes 99 Actions done by artists, archi­tects, design­ers, politi­cians, activists, ath­letes and most impor­tantly aver­age cit­i­zens. In many cases the actual museum arti­fact didn’t exist, thus giving the museum the chance to create the work.

Con­tinue read­ing ‘Action In The City’

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