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What Happened to the Venice Architecture Biennale 2008?

Darrel, Sat 27 Sep 2008
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architecture and events + super design fun

“What’s Left” instal­la­tion view of graphic design carpet by Thonik, Photo by: Darrel Ronald

Excite­ment for the idea – Poten­tial of the idea

What hap­pened to the bien­nale was the main ques­tion run­ning through my head the whole time inside the main pavil­ions this year. The theme, Out There: Archi­tec­ture Beyond Build­ing, is loaded with intel­lec­tual poten­tial and open­ness of inter­pre­ta­tion, and yet did not seem to unite the chosen con­tent exhib­ited. It is pos­si­ble that the theme devel­oped by Aaron Betsky was too broad and not accu­rately defined, or that it was too ambi­tious with­out the right resources.

While the bien­nale is some­what desyn­chro­nised every year –due to the indi­vid­ual coun­try pavil­ions run­ning with their own themes- this only empha­sizes the need for strong cura­tion of the main exhi­bi­tion pavil­ions. The Arse­nale Pavil­ion over­all read more as a who’s-who list of archi­tects than an inten­tional pre­sen­ta­tion of rel­e­vant work. Add to this the fact that many pieces of the exhi­bi­tion where older, well-​known works, they were unable to inspire surprise.

Dys​turb.Link: For a full set of pho­tographs from the Venice Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale 2008, visit our Dys​turb.Net FlickR Set
Con­tinue read­ing ‘What Hap­pened to the Venice Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale 2008?’

Out There: Architecture Beyond Building – Our Best Photos

Darrel, Sat 27 Sep 2008
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architecture and events + super design fun

Venice Architecture Biennale

Rock­well Group with Jones`Kroloff; Arse­nale Pavil­ion; Photo by: Darrel Ronald

Dys­turb has spent the open­ing press week­end at the 11th Venice Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale. This year’s theme, Out There: Archi­tec­ture Beyond Build­ing, was curated by Aaron Betsky, the former direc­tor of the Nether­lands Archi­tec­ture Insti­tute, and now direc­tor of the Cin­ci­natti Art Museum (pre­vi­ous arti­cle here).

As we start to process the event, we have first uploaded our best images for all of you to see: Dys­turb or FlickR. Coming soon will be more detailed arti­cles. To find out more about the indi­vid­ual coun­try pavil­ions both within the Gia­r­dini and around Venice, their list­ing and links can be found here.

See all pic­tures here: Con­tinue read­ing ‘Out There: Archi­tec­ture Beyond Build­ing – Our Best Photos’

Maxwan News

Thomas, Thu 25 Sep 2008
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architecture, competition + tender, events + super design fun and rotterdam

sketch pro­posal for the IABR Lobby (maxwan a&u)

I am wrap­ping things up here at maxwan archi­tects & urban­ists, as tomor­row is going to be my last day. I will be teach­ing urban­ism at a pri­vate uni­ver­sity in Aleppo (google maps) in a week.

We have achieved quite a bit recently – not only did we launch our new maxwan web­site, but we also won the com­pe­ti­tion for the design of 2009′s Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale in Rot­ter­dam (IABR). The motto of next year’s Bien­nale is ‘Open City’, a term Kees Chris­ti­aanse (the Biennale’s Cura­tor) has been work­ing with for a while. Maxwan trans­lates this idea spa­tially by turn­ing the NAi inside out. Con­tinue read­ing ‘Maxwan News’

ExperimentaDesign Amsterdam – Space and Place

Darrel, Sat 6 Sep 2008
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amsterdam, events + super design fun and urbanism

ExperimentaDesign

Exper­i­menta Design is an exist­ing fes­ti­val from Lisbon that has been invited to Ams­ter­dam for the first time start­ing this Sep­tem­ber (2008). With a great line-​up of events and con­fer­ences, the fes­ti­val is very promis­ing. The Droof Event 2: Urban Play aims to attack the streets of Ams­ter­dam with urban inter­ven­tions. And of course, any reason to visit Ams­ter­dam is great.
Con­tinue read­ing ‘ExperimentaDesign Ams­ter­dam – Space and Place’

Responsive City Workshop

Thomas, Mon 4 Aug 2008
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Responsive City Workshop

Gulensu – Almere Haven (© Ekim Tan)

Work­shop announce­ments come in packs. Here is the third one, which I’d like to rec­om­mend espe­cially. The INTI sup­ported mas­ter­class com­pares highly reg­u­lated plan­ning strate­gies in the show­case new­town of the Nether­lands, Almere, with the self-​organised strate­gies employed in Gulensu, a clan­des­tine city exten­sion of Istanbul.

Plan­ning is a messy, time and energy-​consuming busi­ness of trial, error and fail­ure. Suc­cess is not a cer­tainty and even when the result is suc­cess­ful, it is often a sur­prise, not what was actu­ally being sought. Jane Jacobs

THE RESPON­SIVE CITY: ISTAN­BUL – RANDSTAD

Why?
The Respon­sive City: Istanbul-​Randstad* focuses on new approaches to the 21st city. The­o­ries of com­plex­ity and their appli­ca­tion onto the field of urban design and archi­tec­ture form its core. Here, the city is seen as a dynamic open system, con­stantly influ­enced by inter­act­ing bottom up and top down play­ers.
Who?
The Respon­sive City is an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary course offered as an once-only-elective for 16 par­tic­i­pants with diverse back­grounds such as human geog­ra­phy, plan­ning, soci­ol­ogy, archi­tec­ture and urban design.
How?
The course requires a hands-​on approach with two intense on-​site mas­ter­classes in Istan­bul and Almere. Agent-​based map­ping and respon­sive design game are main tools of the course. Knowledge/interest in GIS map­ping, infor­mal city, Istan­bul and/or Almere is highly appreciated.

The Dead­line for Appli­ca­tion is 5th of Sep­tem­ber 2008, Dates are 29 Sep­tem­ber – 3 Octo­ber 2008 in Almere; 27 – 31 Octo­ber 2008 in Istan­bul. The Mas­ter­classes are run by Prof. Arnold Rein­dorp, Prof. Juval Por­tu­gali & ir. Ekim Tan.

More at INTI, and soon at there​spon​sivecity.org.

Sin Embargo

Thomas, Mon 4 Aug 2008
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barcelona, events + super design fun, school tracker, theory + strategy and urbanism

sin embargo

sine embargo – con embargo

Our friends from Super­su­daca host an inter­est­ing work­shop on tourism in post-​castro Cuba in Sep­tem­ber. It’ll set you back 1000€, but schol­ar­ships to reduce the fee are avail­able. The objec­tive of the work­shop is to find specual­tive answers on ques­tions as:

How will Cuba change its tourist brand­ing in a SIN-​EMBARGO sce­nario?
How will it mutate its cur­rent spa­tial seg­re­ga­tion strat­egy between locals and tourist in a SIN-​EMBARGO scheme?
What will be the ter­ri­to­r­ial impacts in a Cuba SIN-​EMBARGO that admits cruise ship tourism?
Will Cuba become a role model for next gen­er­a­tion tourist devel­op­ments in the Caribbean and world­wide in a SIN-​EMBARGO con­di­tion?
What is the emerg­ing ter­ri­to­r­ial par­a­digm of Sun and Beach in the Cuba CON-​EMBARGO? Will it change in a SIN-​EMBARGO con­text?
Will the reg­u­la­tion cul­ture and envi­ron­men­tal man­age­ment remain the same in a ‘lib­er­al­ized’ Cuba SIN-​EMBARGO?
How will Cuba react spa­tially to the open­ing of the mas­sive market of second res­i­dences for Amer­i­can pen­sion­ers in a Cuba SIN-​EMBARGO?

The inscrip­tion period ends on 15th of August. The (slightly dis­ap­point­ing) results of last years suda­pan com­pe­ti­tion will be at dis­play at RAS gallery in Barcelona from 4th Sep­tem­ber on.

More at sinem​bargo.org.

Final Presentations at the Berlage Institute – Watch Live

Darrel, Mon 23 Jun 2008
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architecture, events + super design fun and rotterdam

Berlage-Institute-Venice

Exhi­bi­tion of the Berlage Insti­tute at the 2006 Venice Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale; FlickR photo: Darrel Ronald

The final pre­sen­ta­tions of the 1st and 2nd year Berlage Insti­tute stu­dents are sched­uled at the school this coming week and next. All of the pre­sen­ta­tions are open to the public, and are with­out entry cost. On the 24th June, the 1st year stu­dents will present two stu­dios, Rethink­ing the All-​Inclusive, and the Sae­man­quem Project; while on the 1st July two other stu­dios, Asso­cia­tive Design: Urban Ecolo­gies, and Cap­i­tal Cities, The limits of the City: A Strate­gic Project for Seoul will be presented.

You may also watch the Livestream Broad­casts online.
Con­tinue read­ing ‘Final Pre­sen­ta­tions at the Berlage Insti­tute – Watch Live’

London Festival of Architecture

Thomas, Sun 8 Jun 2008
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architecture, events + super design fun and london

London Festival of Architecture

London Fes­ti­val of Architecture’ over­whelm­ing website

In a few days – on the 20th of June – the London Fes­ti­val of Archi­tec­ture starts and will go on for a month. The pro­gram is over­whelm­ing (includ­ing events/hubs/themes/tours/projects..), I will write more after I’ve seen it. Go and check their site: http://​www.​lfa2008.org!

WAF? WTF?

Thomas, Mon 28 Apr 2008
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architecture, barcelona and events + super design fun

World Architecture Festival Barcelona

World Archi­tec­ture Fes­ti­val Barcelona

Emap, a Business-to-Business media group (from their web­site), hosts the first World Archi­tec­ture Fes­ti­val in Barcelona. Archi­tects are invited to put their build­ings up for com­pe­ti­tion (entry fee a smack­ing 950€), and among the exhib­ited projects the best will be awarded. The inter­est­ing jury (to name a few: Will Alsop, Cecil Bal­mond, Stefan Behnisch, Richard Bur­dett, Luis M. Man­silla, Richard Meier, Sir Peter Cook, Neil Denari, Norman Foster, Mas­si­m­il­iano Fuksas, Zaha Hadid, Michel Rojkind, Michael Sorkin, Francine Houben, Robert Stern, Christoph Ingen­hoven, Charles Jencks) might redeem the commercial/artificial flair the event exudes. We’ll keep our final judge­ment to our­selves until we know more about the event.

De Eenvoud – Simplicity

Martin, Thu 27 Mar 2008
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amsterdam, architecture, competition + tender, design + style, events + super design fun and rotterdam

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This friday at 16:30 an inter­est­ing exhi­bi­tion opens @ the Casla in Almere. It will fea­ture the win­ning projects of the Een­voud Com­pe­ti­tion, the third edi­tion for an experimetal neigh­bour­hood in Almere. Its pre­de­ces­sors, “De Fantasie” and “De Realiteit”, ‘Fantasy’ and ‘Reality’ were held back in the eight­ies and their results are still worth an excur­sion. More infor­ma­tion on that below.

“De Éénvoud” or ‘Simplicity ‘is the result of a com­pe­ti­tion held in 2006. The brief was to design a free­stand­ing and simple low-​cost house, express­ing their own wishes and ideas for dwelling. The win­ners got the pos­si­bil­ity to build their design on a beau­ti­ful open spot in the wood­land of Noorderplassen-​West.
Con­tinue read­ing ‘De Een­voud – Simplicity’

Get A Flag!

Martin, Tue 18 Mar 2008
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June 11th the first Museum entirely ded­i­cated to Graphic Design will be opened by our Queen Beat­rix in Breda.
For the open­ing my friend Teun Castelein will make his graphic state­ment out of con­cieved con­tent from 250 par­tic­i­pants. Every­body is wel­come to design its own flag and mail it to flag@graphicdesignmuseum.com. All designs will be printed on unique flags and put against the build­ing. The result will be an explo­sion of infor­ma­tion. A colour­ful art piece at the old baroque build­ing of the super­mod­ern Graphic Design Museum.
Really a piece of art that makes people think about modern visual com­mu­ni­ca­tion, about the posi­tion of musea in the con­tem­po­rary image-​culture and the fact that every­body is a designer/ image-​maker nowa­days.
Con­tinue read­ing ‘Get A Flag!’

Stasi Spaces @ FOAM, Amsterdam

Darrel, Tue 11 Mar 2008
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© Daniel and Geo Fuchs; Source: FOAM

Amsterdam’s finest pho­tog­ra­phy museum, FOAM Fotografiemu­seum, has what should be an excel­lent exhi­bi­tion open­ing on the 14th March. The new exhibit by Daniel & Geo Fuchs: STASI – Secret Rooms runs until the 4th June 2008, and doc­u­ments the inte­rior spaces used by the East German Stasi.
Con­tinue read­ing ‘Stasi Spaces @ FOAM, Amsterdam’

Aaron Betsky to Curate the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale 2008

Darrel, Sat 1 Mar 2008
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events + super design fun and theory + strategy

Venice Architecture Biennale

Arse­nale Pavil­ion, Venice Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale 2006 (photo: Darrel Ronald)

Ahhh, the Venice Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale is coming again in 2008! The exhi­bi­tion runs from the 14 Sep­tem­ber to the 24 Novem­ber and I’m totally stoked for another visit to the mag­i­cal city.

This year’s 11th Inter­na­tional Archi­tec­ture Exhi­bi­tion will be curated by Aaron Betsky, the former direc­tor of the Nether­lands Archi­tec­ture Insti­tute and now direc­tor of the Cincin­nati Art Museum. You can find an inter­est­ing inter­view from 10.2004 between Archinect and Betsky here.

Con­tinue read­ing ‘Aaron Betsky to Curate the 11th Venice Archi­tec­ture Bien­nale 2008′

DRL Ten _ AA School London

szacka, Sun 24 Feb 2008
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architecture, events + super design fun and london

DRL TEN pavilion

Model of the DRL TEN pavil­ion to be built in Bed­ford Square (All photos: Léa-Catherine Szacka).

From 22nd Feb­ru­ary to 18th March 2008, The Archi­tec­tural Asso­ci­a­tion in London present DRL TEN.

DRL actu­ally stands for Design Research Lab, a research unit started at the AA in 1997. To cel­e­brate the tenth anniver­sary of DRL, the AA have decide to organ­ise an exhi­bi­tion, build a tem­po­rary pavil­ion in Bed­ford Square, and pub­lish DRL TEN: A Design Research Com­pendium. Con­tinue read­ing ‘DRL Ten _ AA School London’

Touw & Barayazarra Art Opening at the Duende

Darrel, Thu 13 Dec 2007
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art + media, events + super design fun and rotterdam

Duende Presents

Exhi­bi­tion Poster

Dutch artist Lies­beth Touw and Span­ish artist Zigor Barayazarra will exhibit their recent work at the Duende artist-​run stu­dios in Rot­ter­dam. Both artists have been work­ing at the studio in the artist’s res­i­dency pro­gram. The exhi­bi­tion open­ing runs between 19.00 and 22.00, Thurs­day the 20 Decem­ber at the Duende stu­dios (map).

Berlage Lecture Series

Martin, Wed 10 Oct 2007
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architecture, events + super design fun, lecture + review, rotterdam and school tracker

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The Cult of Celebrity: Super­star Archi­tects in the Acad­emy debate with George Baird, Thom Mayne and Mark Wigley, mod­er­ated by Vedran Mimica, 17 April 2007

I just got news about the Berlage Institute’s lec­ture series this term. It’s start­ing rather late, but as always impresses with a highly pro­filed list of speak­ers. It’s the pat­tern we all know and love: A few well known names mixed with a bunch of people maybe less known but def­i­nitely worth noticing.

Here’s the details:
Con­tinue read­ing ‘Berlage Lec­ture Series’

Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam

Martin, Thu 4 Oct 2007
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architecture, events + super design fun, movies, recordings, and more and rotterdam

erection of the euromast tower

Erec­tion of the Euro­mast, designed by Huig Maaskant

Since the fog is hold­ing Rot­ter­dam hostage since a few days (my won­der­ful theory burst into pieces…) you’ll be happy to hear that next week­end (Oct. 11th to 14th) we’ll have the archi­tec­tur film fes­ti­val in town.

Reser­va­tions are pos­si­ble since a few days so get to the phone (010) 411 5300 and make sure you get to see a few delicacies.

Our pre­lim­i­nary tips would be:
Con­tinue read­ing ‘Architecture Film Fes­ti­val Rotterdam’

‘Performance, Geometry and Materials’ Lecture Series

Thomas, Mon 24 Sep 2007
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events + super design fun, lecture + review, process + technique and school tracker

DSD lectures

TU Delft lec­ture series launched – CLICK the image for the full programme

The Delft School of Design PhD series ‘Architectural Engi­neer­ing – Per­for­mance, Geom­e­try and Materials’ has been launched. Themes are Com­plex Geom­e­try Archi­tec­ture and Per­for­mance Based Archi­tec­ture. See our Cal­en­dar for allthe dates.

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