ORIS - HOUSE OF ARCHITECTURE headquarters Prilaz Gjure Deželića 61 10 000 Zagreb, Hrvatska
The exhibition will show original drawings, black-and-white photographs and contemporary color photographs by Wolfgang Thaler. There will also be an accompanying talk with authors of the book Dobrović in Dubrovnik – A Venture in Modern Architecture - Ljiljana Blagojević (Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade), Krunoslav Ivanišin (Faculty od Architecture in Zagreb) and Wolfgang Thaler, that will be moderated by Dubravko Bačić.
As part of the exhibition programme, on 3 March 2016 at 7 p.m. Krunoslav Ivanišin will deliver a lecture on the work of Nikola Dobrović in Dubrovnik.
Galerie NMariño 8 rue des Coutures Saint Gervais 75003 Paris
In her work Annett Zinsmeister concentrates on the intersections between art and architecture, combining theoretical research with art. She creates grand installations—conceptual spaces—and works with various media such as photographies, drawings, films, and texts. Because of their immersive qualities her works have a special impact on the spectator, illuminating human perception and demystifying everyday habits. Zinsmeister poses questions about communication, social interactions and transformations of the urban space. One of her fundamental principles and a recurring element in her œuvre is the utilization and creation of modular systems and structures.
Her installation Virtual Interior MoMA white is currently also on display at MoMA NYC in the exhibition „Endless House. Intersections of Art and Architecture“.
Architektur Galerie Berlin, Karl-Marx-Allee 96, 10243 Berlin
On Chikei Norihiko Dan / at Architektur Galelie Berlin, 19th of January 2016
The earth is made up of the sphere as it's main body and it's epidermis that is Chikei. The aspect to see the earth as a globe tends to provide us a particular vision of earth as a planet controlled by a single logic of dynamics similar to the early atomic physics.This leads to such global aspects as a topic of CO2 reduction plan, emphasis on the role of UN, and sygnificance to establish global standards for anti-terrorism and for stabilization of world economy. On the other hand, Chikei is the cradle for the diversity sometimes as an opposition as well as it's compensation to the globalism. It is amazing that all kinds of various climate and environmental diversity are created in only a quarter of a Marathon course in height, that is 10km, from the top of Everest to the deepest bottom of the sea. Chikei is composed of seas, mountains, deserts, wet lands existing unevenly and it becomes a body to give birth to multiple lives and diverse cultures of the universe. Chikei is an interface between lives and a sphere. Fingerprints of the earth is an analogy of Chikei which becomes a symbol of the diversity as an icon with no particular form.
A series of 4 artworks is made as my hommage to Chikei, seeking for it's various expressions, made of only paper and water. I believe that Chikei is formed by several powers such as water, wind,wave and sunlight in a volcanic activities or in a muddy current of the earth, with nobody's intentions. I think that it just came on earth. I used water for the artworks because even after it has gone, it leaves profound expressions of it's engagement to the material. In the process of these inprovisation, I challenged to have a dialogue to Chikei through such experiances and engagements which I took to the terrain transformed by an unpredictable force of others.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on January 21, 2016, 7:00 pm Welcome: Ulrich Müller Introduction: Felix Claus
AIT – ArchitekturSalon Bei den Mühren 70 20457 Hamburg
Exhibition opening: 10 December 2015 | 7:30 pm
With an introduction in the exhibition by the curators Klaus Dömer, Prof. Hans Drexler, and Prof. Joachim Schultz-Granberg
The exhibition is based on the publication Affordable Living - Housing for everyone. Using exemplary projects from international architects such as Gaupenraub +/-, Lacaton & Vassal or Urbanus, it shows the problems, potentials, and dependencies that different approaches bring with them and how these impact our reality of living.
The book will be available for sale during the opening hours of AIT – ArchitekturSalon.
For decades Croatia has been the holiday paradise on the Adriatic coast unabated. So the tourist industry represents the key economic sector in the country. It is built on an infrastructure that was developed during the Socialist drive to modernise in the 1960s and '70s, an era when priority was given to spatial planning and explicit modernity in architecture and art were part of the nation's corporate design.
The exhibition provides a genealogy of large-scale vacation architecture on the Adriatic coast, including the physical and economic tranformations undergone by these complexes since the collapse of Yugoslavia. The projects concerned are of a remarkably high quality, although today they have become melancholy ruins, been modestly renovated, or entirely and innovatively redeveloped.
The Hellenic Centre, 16-18 Paddington Street, London W1U 5AS
Cairo: the capital of Egypt and the largest city in Africa. Its downtown core, the brainchild of Khedive Ismail, is a unique, living treasure house of nineteenth and twentieth century residential and commercial architecture. Dr Vittoria Capresi and Barbara Pampe, editors of Discovering Downtown Cairo: Architecture and Stories, have assembled an amazing book which introduces us to 38 historic buildings in Downtown Cairo. Until recently, Greeks were to be found in almost every village, town and city in Egypt. Like the other minority communities, they were most numerous in the large urban centres. In the mid-twentieth century, the Greek community of Cairo numbered in the tens of thousands. Most Cairene Greeks lived downtown, close to their shops, offices, restaurants, schools, churches and clubs. Some Greek-Egyptians still live and work there today, as Discovering Downtown Cairo makes clear.
Program:
Greeks and Others in Downtown Cairo from Khedive Ismail to the Arab Spring
Dr George Vassiadis, Lecturer in Modern Greek History, Royal Holloway, University of London
The Making of “Discovering Downtown Cairo: Architecture …and Stories”
Dr Vittoria Capresi, Berlin, and Barbara Pampe, Bonn, baladilab
“A Piece of Europe”? Reflections on Khedival Cairo after the Opening of the New Suez Canal
Dr Alexander Kazamias, Senior Lecturer in Politics, Coventry University
Refreshments will be served. This event is free of charge, but places are limited.
Please reserve your seat by sending an email to george.vassiadis@rhul.ac.uk by Monday, 26 October 2015.
An experimental study project on the subject of furniture making with structural impulses lead to unexpected uses of wood: wood as a fabric, as a fine lattice, as a thin and hollow part, as a sculptural rod structure, as a soft stack, as a feather, or as an interwoven fabric. Eight students from the Object Design course at Lucerne University—Art & Design and the Structural Design course at the architecture faculty of ETH Zurich show seating objects as transformations of constructive principles.
Exhibition opening: October 22, 6.30 pm
Discussion: October 23, 7.30 pm, in collaboration with the Swiss Design Association
Haus der Kulturen der Welt John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10 10557 Berlin
How can we create affordable living space? How do we provide opportunities for self-determination? Who are today’s new clients? What new answers can be found to the age-old housing question?
Housing forms the rooms, neighborhoods and streets of our daily lives. Our personal happiness and societal well-being originate and find their expression there, as do social ills and personal dramas. But housing issues are increasingly reduced to real estate problems and disassociated from the cultural practices of architecture. And alternative players are clearly lacking. The result: Growing numbers of people are finding it increasingly difficult to gain access to self-determined, affordable housing. The HKW project WOHNUNGSFRAGE investigates the tension-ridden relationships between architecture, housing, and social reality in an exhibition of experimental concepts for living, an extensive opening program a publication series and an academy.
The opening of the exhibition takes place on October 22, at 7 pm
Still. The East End Photographs is a collection of images about the landscape of Long Island, New York. Reflective and transcendent, these images evoke the quality of our natural world defined by light and the contours of nature. Cheng has photographed the environment using a shift of the focus plane within the camera to detail in a non-distinct yet decidedly emotional way, to evoke a poetic interpretation of the landscape that is constantly deriving its beauty and power from the color palate and a sense of movement that defines the landscape of Long Island and which has inspired so many artists.
Barnes Noble, Upper West Side, 82nd St & Broadway, New York
Still. The East End Photographs is a collection of images about the landscape of Long Island, New York. Reflective and transcendent, these images evoke the quality of our natural world defined by light and the contours of nature. Cheng has photographed the environment using a shift of the focus plane within the camera to detail in a non-distinct yet decidedly emotional way, to evoke a poetic interpretation of the landscape that is constantly deriving its beauty and power from the color palate and a sense of movement that defines the landscape of Long Island and which has inspired so many artists.
