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June 2007
division of Archi-Europe


 Editiorial


« Small is beautifull »

Our contemporary world is always on the move. This is also seen in furniture where designers enjoy devising storage solutions on castors, foldaway beds, modular sofas, folding tables and stackable chairs. In a change of scale, architects are taking an interest in a type of mobile and compact habitat, which up to now had had no aesthetic added value, since small is said to be synonymous with questionable. Caravans, chalets, or micro housing sufficiently pollute our countryside. But from now on, relevant and innovative concepts will finally break with this negative tradition. Quality of design, tactile aspect and ease of use are the new key words.

Welcome to the LoftCube, which we introduce as the project of the month, similar to the M-CH (Micro Compact Home), a 2.6 m cube, created by a team of researchers based in London and at TU-Munich. Available throughout Europe, this compact house makes use of aviation or yacht technology.

The French architect Eric Bigot, for his part, developed a modular house in South Africa, in tune with nature, for city dwellers who wish to make buying a home as simple as buying a car. The challenge was not to sacrifice comfort in a space only 3.40 m wide (the structure's length can be expanded from 6 to 23 metres, depending on the modules chosen). "Creating a house, is creating a space where people are in harmony with themselves, with others and with the environment," recalls the CNEAI (French Centre for Contemporary Art), which moored the Floating House conceived by the designers Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec and the architects Denis Daversin and Jean-Marie Finot on the banks of the Chatou island (Yvelines). Inaugurated last October, this residence aimed at housing a number of artists, could summarise the need for serenity experienced by our contemporaries, far, very far from urban trepidations.

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Arhitekti Bevk Perovič, Ljubljana

The jury of the prestigious 2007 Mies van der Rohe Prize has just awarded a special "Emerging Architect" mention to Slovenian architects Bevk and Perovič for their Mathematics Faculty in Ljubljana. An opportunity to reach out to a Slovenia in search of another architectural identity. The new quality of life, generated after the well-known political changes, allowed for the gap to be filled in the country's economic development. Attentive to these social changes that undoubtedly impact architectural design, young agencies (Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Ofis, Dekleva Gregori, Elastik or Maechtig Vrhunc Arhitekti) encourage different behaviours and lifestyles. The Arhitekti Bevk Perovič agency is also part of this generation of architects who completed their studies abroad, and convey a novel spirit and assimilate knowledge and languages. Their work symbolises the recent profound changes in Slovenian society, even if national culture is still deeply rooted in the past. Matija Bevk (1972) is a Ljubljana architecture graduate and Vasa Perovič (1965) earned a master's degree in architecture from the Berlage Institute in Amsterdam in 1994 after studying at the Belgrade architectural faculty. Opened in Ljubljana only 10 years ago, their agency is one of the most promising ones in the country today. The architects stand out with a mixed approach that relates as a much to the contextualism of the famous Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik (1872-1957) as to the influence of the Dutch Berlage school. On the other hand, the minimalist use of certain materials such as concrete and wood recalls the plasticity of the houses in Vorarlberg.

It is not only the quality of their work that surprises but also the creative energy freed up for projects that follow each other at a rapid pace. Their architecture, crowned with prizes and awards, has achieved true international recognition. And the projects completed display the riches of a high-quality offer. To be discovered.

 

Legends of the pictures

1. Matija Bevk and Vasa J. Perovič
2. Stefula-Blejec house (2004)
Situated on a small plot (500 m2) near a green area, the open-plan house, made up of two wings, is structurally designed like a bridge spanning the parking spaces. In terms of materials, it is entirely covered with tamarack wood, including the roof and the terrace. The living spaces situated on the first floor are fitted with large picture windows that allow to enjoy the view.
3. Residence of the Dutch ambassador in Slovenia (2003)
The interaction of dynamic and relevant geometric shapes. The ground floor that opens up to the garden contrasts with the wooden structure of the first floor.
4. Polje social housing in Ljubljana (2005)
Clustered near the railway, these six social buildings surprise, even if their orientation, size and slope of the roofs were selected beforehand by the client. The architects paid a lot of attention to detail on the façades that recall trains (red sheets secured with the help of rivets and aluminium washers), as well as to entrances, corridors, to the modularity of the apartments, to the staggered balconies.
5. Student housing at the University of Ljubljana (2006)
This programme of 56 dwellings and study and leisure spaces are centred around a nucleus that includes kitchens and bathrooms. Perforated aluminium panels form protective screens in the private spaces.
6. Mathematics Faculty (2006)
The architectural concept is based on the idea of a series of transparent "rooms", cut from the building's mass. At first sight, the building appears simple but it was completed with precision, notably with respect to the tactile treatment of surfaces. The shell in clear glass or executed in various densities produces interesting visual effects.

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1. Matija Bevk and Vasa J. Perovič

2. Stefula-Blejec house (2004)


3. Residence of the Dutch ambassador
in Slovenia (2003)

4. Polje social housing
in Ljubljana (2005)

5. Student housing at the
University of Ljubljana (2006)


6. Mathematics Faculty (2006)

 



 Project of the month


LoftCube
Aisslinger + Bracht Architekten

The first drawings date back to 2001. Numerous remodellings followed until the first prototype was presented to the public in Berlin, two years later. This habitat for urban nomads, conceived as a cocoon made from contemporary materials, immediately generated huge interest. In 2005, the Loftcube was used for events and a first series of references was created. But what does this project that has just launched an international presentation tour last April in Milan, represent, amid never-before-seen enthusiasm? A bubble cell, a comfort capsule, according to the notion of its designer? Imagine a dwelling with a 360° view. An extraordinarily compact innovative space to work, relax, entertain friends, this lightweight loft, mobile, easy to set up near a beach, in the middle of nature or, with the help of a helicopter, on the roof of a building.

Werner Aisslinger elegantly refined organic shapes and straight lines. The plastic shell reinforced with fibreglass and material used in naval construction for many years, is polished like a white pebble. Supported by a structure in galvanised steel, it combines stability, flexibility and durability. Large openings made from safety glass, louvers and wooden components allow air and light to flow in. An architecture that is somewhat reminiscent of the futuristic visions of the sixties. Offering maximum functionality on a very small footprint, the brand-new interior equipment includes a comfortable "lounging" area, a spacious and sophisticated kitchen, a bright bathing space, an efficient home management system. Let us just dream for moment of this new lifestyle where freedom and tranquillity would temporarily replace the stress of today's urban life. Town planning regulations permitting, of course...

Floor dimensions: 7.17 m x 7.17 m or
9.80 m x 7.17 m

 








 Product of the month


Passive house, the most inexpensive energy is the one that is not consumed in the first place

A passive house does not define itself by outer appearance but by its inner values. Therefore any type and size of building can be realized. Every year, a growing number of examples testify to that. Whether residential or non-residential, the passive house standard gives you all the freedom you want. And it is no longer only the new buildings which comply with this future-oriented building standard. There is an increasing number of existing, old and even historical buildings where the refurbishment is based on passive house principles. By using well-selected passive house components it is possible to achieve ecologically and economically sensible results.

Compared to conventionally built new houses; the space heating requirement of a passive house is lower by about 75 %. And in contrast to old buildings, savings amount to as much as 90 %.


Based on the thermos flask principle, the ISOVER Multi-Comfort House retains its comfortable temperature. The passive house really lives up toits name by making extensive use of "passive" components. These include heat-insulating windows, comfort-ventilation systems with heat recuperation and, above all, efficient thermal insulation to ensure that the warmth is kept inside.

Considerable heat gains are realized through the windows which in winter allow higher amounts of sun energy to enter the house than those lost to the outside. Add to this the heating energy recovered from the exit air and you can normally save yourself the expense incurred by a conventional heating system. Unlike conventional buildings that suffer high losses of heat to the outside, the thermal discharge of humans, animals and household appliances is quite important for covering the required amount of heating energy.

From the roof down to the foundation slab: a jointlessly sealed and airtight building envelope ensures thermal and acoustic insulation. And the ventilation system - complete with heat recovery - takes care of fresh air supply and heat distribution.







 Agenda

- GERMANY -

  • Cross-Border / Fotografie und Videokunst aus dem MUMOK Wien
    (> 17/06/2007) - Stuttgart
    Kunstmuseum
    Whether it is a street barrier or a club membership card, an academic title or waiting for your number to be called at the employment office - we are surrounded by visible and invisible boundaries. The exhibition deals with this extremely complex subject. The resulting photography and video art show in Stuttgart examines about 200 works by internationally renowned artists such as David Goldblatt, Nan Goldin, Gelatin, Louise Lawler, Thomas Ruff, The Atlas Group, and Anna and Bernhard Blume, focusing on the subject of "crossing borders".
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Horizon of Public Housing
    (> 21/06/2007) - Berlin
    Aedes Am Pfefferberg

    E.M.V.S - public housing enterprise, Madrid - has developed an impulse for social housing in the last 25 years. During this period, the policy of the E.M.V.S has generated one of the most significant transformations in the way of living in public housing, complying to the new socioeconomic requirements that society demands and offers habitations of exceptional quality.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Gewahrsam, Räume der Überwachung
    (> 1/07/2007) - Francfort/Main
    Altes Polizeigefängnis
    The former police custody building in Klapperfeldstrasse has been empty for some years now and is waiting to be demolished. In addition to the rich history of the edifice the exhibition will showcase a historic tableau of prison typologies that follow different concepts for holding people in custody, and their surveillance. In addition to surveillance quarters the exhibition will also be taking a look at surveillance techniques.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • S333 Architecture + Urbanism / On the Urban Designing of Architecture
    (2/06 - 8/07/2007) - Berlin
    Deutsche Architektur Zentrum
    S333 Architecture + Urbanism wurde 1997 in Amsterdam (NL) gegründet. Die Ausstellung wurde vor Kurzem in der Pariser Architekturgalerie La Galerie d'Architecture gezeigt und reist jetzt nach Berlin. Sie wurde von S333 konzipiert. Die Ausstellung präsentiert Forschungsarbeiten wie die Studie zum "Evolutionary Tower", die sich mit der Integration eines Hochhauses in vorhandene historische Innenstadtstrukturen beschäftigt, sowie Entwürfe für zukünftige Bauvorhaben und realisierte Projekte.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Laboratorium Lack
    (> 22/07/2007) - Stuttgart
    Kunstmuseum
    Willi Baumeister, Oskar Schlemmer and the architect Franz Krause worked together from 1937 to 1944.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • The furniture of Charles and Ray Eames / Products, Processes, Prototypes
    (> 26/08/2007) - Weil am Rhein
    Vitra Fire Station
    An exhibition by Vitra to mark Charles Eames's 100th birthday. To mark the jubilee, Vitra is putting on an exhibition that offers insight into the joint works of Charles and Ray Eames. It encompasses furniture design sketches by the Eames's which are still in production by Vitra today, as well as prototypes and trial products from the Eames's Office. Other areas of the American design couple's multifarious creativity are also on display; some of the exhibits have never been shown in Europe before.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • 100 Jahre Deutscher Werkbund
    (> 26/08/2007) - Munich
    Pinakothek der Moderne
    The German Werkbund was founded in Munich in 1907 with the aim of »refining arts and crafts in collaboration with art institutions, industry and craftsmen's trade organisations and creating for all aspects of modern living high-quality products that were to be distributed through education and propaganda«.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Max Herman Maxy / Der integrale Künstler
    (2/06 - 2/09/2007) - Dessau
    Meisterhaus Schlemmer
    Exhibition dedicated to romanish Constructivists.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • STONE+TEC
    (6 - 9/06/2007) - Nuremberg
    International Trade Fair Natural Stone and Stoneprocessing Technology
    --- Go to the site ---

  • TECHTEXTIL
    (12 - 14/06/2007) - Francfort/Main
    International trade fair for technical textiles
    --- Go to the site ---

  • THE DESIGN ANNUAL
    (14 - 17/06/2007) - Francfort/Main
    Focus on kindling a social discourse on design
    --- Go to the site ---

  • COLLECTIONE
    (17 - 20/06/2007) - Francfort/Main
    The summertime consumer goods fair for a large-scale retailer or distributor
    --- Go to the site ---

  • MUTEC
    (20 - 22/06/2007) - Munich
    International Trade Fair for Museums, Collections, Restorations and Cultural Projects
    --- Go to the site ---

- AUSTRIA -

  • Yves Klein. Die blaue Revolution
    (> 3/06/2007) - Vienna
    Museum Moderner Kunst

    This renowned artist is famous for his IKB blue (International Klein Blue) and his monochrome works, but his work has yet to be discovered: Performances featuring conceptual art, architectural projects, sound works, ballet choreography, film sets, major written works...
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Young Blood EXPORT
    (> 10/06/2007) - Vienna
    Architekturzentrum Wien - Az West
    Young Blood examines the emerging generation of architects in the countries of Central Europe, and introduces the work of selected architecture studios from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Poland, Hungary and Austria in six national exhibitions. The participating countries were selected for their shared historic and cultural ties.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Az West: Home Stories / An Inside Look at Single-Family Houses in Austria
    (5/07 - 19/08/2007) - Vienna
    Architekturzentrum Wien - Az West
    An inside look at a selection of 28 homes constructed in Austria since 2000. The exhibition presents various types of home, ranging from tiny solutions in typical Austrian allotment settlements on the outskirts of towns, increases of density in the form of extensions to existing buildings, homes with intelligent floor plans or flexible spatial agendas, to generous houses with swimming pools and plenty of open space.
    --- Go to the site ---

- BELGIUM -

  • Kitsch, Camp or Design ?
    (> 24/06/2007) - Gand
    Design Museum

    Questions on the confusing phenomenon of kitsch and camp, about the exaggerated ornamentation of the rococo period or the design aspect of the Philippe Starck' garden gnome.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • « Collections/Connections »
    (> 26/08/2007) - Grand-Hornu
    This exhibition presents a range of 80 important objects related to the most renowned Belgian and International names from the Art Nouveau period up to now. The scenography signed by Winston Spriet shows these products in an environment inviting the spectator to think over the status of the "design" object.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Hommage aan Charles Eames
    (17/06 - 30/09/2007) - Gand
    Design Museum

    On 17 June 2007 it will be exactly 100 years ago that Charles Eames was born in the American state of Missouri. One century later, Eames has become one of the most important designers of the 20th century. Charles Eames showed how modern design can and must be used to improve the quality of life. The Gent Design museum uses its own collections for this occasion. Also architectural projects, many short films, exhibition designs and multimedia presentations were widely approved.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Eero Saarinen : Shaping the Future
    (> 7/10/2007) - Bruxelles
    CIVA

    The exhibition explores the work of one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial masters of 20th-century architecture.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Vienne-Bruxelles
    (26/06 - 23/12/2007) - Bruxelles
    Musée d'Architecture - La Loge
    The exhibition relates the decisive influence of the Viennese Art on the young generation of architects in Brussels at the beginning of the 20th century. Especially Léon Snyers, but also other architects who were influenced by this revelation : Henry Van de Velde, Léon Sneyers, Paul Hamesse, Jean-Baptiste Dewin, Emile Van Averbeke, Renaat Braem, Louis Herman De Koninck et son épouse, Fernand Khnopff, Edouard Pelseneer, Maxime Brunfaut, Raymond Moenaert...
    --- Go to the site ---
- DENMARK -

  • Made in China
    (> 25/08/2007) - Humlebæk
    Louisiana Museum

    Louisiana has been given a unique opportunity to present just under a hundred works from one of the world's biggest collections of contemporary Chinese art, the Estella Collection,  which has not been known to the public until now. The collection comprises more than 250 works from more or less all genres of visual art: painting, sculpture, photography, installation, video, ink drawings and prints. From these Louisiana has selected about a hundred works which on the one hand offer a fine insight into the many currents that are moving through contemporary Chinese art at present and on the other hand provide an introduction to art which is on its way at lightning speed to an important position on the international art scene.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Furniture and Space
    (15/06 - 26/08/2007) - Copenhagen
    Danish Museum Art & Design

    Furniture designer Bernt turns 70 this year and he can look back on a very prolific production, which spans from finely crafted furniture to modern exhibition design with an industrial expression. Bernt has focused especially on the design of large public spaces like auditoriums, libraries and concert halls. The theme of the exhibition is the fact that furniture does not only create a space of its own, it is also an important architectural component in the space it occupies. There are many demands to be met in order for the relationship between furniture, fixtures and space to come together as a whole.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Comimg Up! Transforming Copenhagen
    (15/07 - 30/09/2007) - Copenhagen
    Dansk Arkitektur Center
    The exhibition shows where the city is changing right now and in the near future. New areas are developing with revolutionary architecture, which will change the urban life and provides us all with new opportunities to use Copenhagen as an urban experience.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • The Danish Design Prize 2007
    (> 14/10/2007) - Copenhagen
    Danish Design Centre
    The Danish Design Centre awards the best new Danish design with the Danish Design Prize 2007. And, for the first time, the Designmatters Award will be awarded to companies that have achieved growth by using design.
    --- Go to the site ---

- SPAIN -

  • Palazuelo: proceso de trabajo
    (> 10/06/2007) - Bilbao
    Musée Guggenheim
    Pablo Palazuelo (1915) is one of the key figures of Spanish art of the second half of the 20th century, although unfortunately, he has still not gained the international recognition that his work so richly deserves. This retrospective exhibition, organized by the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona and coproduced by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, will emphasize the least-known aspects of the work of this artist, incorporating many pieces that have not been shown to the public before. With more than 300 works, Palazuelo: Working Process includes a broad selection of drawings, gouaches, paintings, and sculptures.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Flod
    (> 30/06/2007) - Barcelona
    Ego Gallery
    The latest works of the designer Martin Azua., Enric Granados 9, 08007 Barcelona
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Le Corbusier : Museo y Coleccion Heidi Weber
    (5/06 - 3/09/2007) - Madrid
    Museo Nacional del Prado - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
    The exhibition presents the Heidi Weber collection, works of the famous architect collected since 1950.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • The New Italian Design
    (> 3/09/2007) - Madrid
    Istituto Italiano di Cultura

    A map of new Italian design has emerged, one which is not only limited to furniture design, but also encompasses all the new forms of the 21st century: graphic, fashion, textile, copywriting, jewellery and multimedia design.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Euro Mediterranean Conference on traditional architecture Traditional architecture - Present and Future
    (12 - 15/07/2007) - Barcelona
    --- Go to the site ---

  • BEX 2007
    (18 - 20/06/2007) - Valence
    Third international conference of real estate and built-environment professionals
    --- Go to the site ---

- FINLAND -
  • Rogelio Salmona
    (> 10/06/2007) - Helsinki
    Museum of Finnish Architecture
    Rogelio Salmona (born 1929) is one of the great names of South American architecture together with Luis Barragan and Oscar Niemeyer. In his youth he lived in Paris, where he also worked in the studio of Le Corbusier. The majority of his work is in Colombia. In 2003 he was awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal in Finland.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Vuokko Nurmesniemi - Fashion Designer
    (15/06 - 23/09/2007) - Helsinki
    Design Museum
    This retrospective is the first comprehensive overview of Vuokko Nurmesniemi's extensive oeuvre of over five decades. It also provides an important chapter to the history of Finnish design in the post-war period.
    --- Go to the site ---

- FRANCE -

  • La rue est à nous... tous!
    (> 15/06/2007) - Paris
    Ecole d'architecture Paris Val de Seine
    The exhibition of 50 international projects takes place in the new architecture school Paris Val de Seine and focuses on the new approach of the street.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Le Corbusier - Lucien Hervé, Construction/Composition
    (> 23/06/2007) - Paris
    Fondation Le Corbusier
    Photographies by Lucien Hervé who worked with Le Corbusier between 1950 and 1965.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Musées du XXIe siècle, 26 idées, projets et réalisations
    (> 1/07/2007) - Lyon
    Muséum
    Illustrated by 27 of the world's leading museum building projects, the exhibition presents the most important trends in museum architecture. The projects presented by a selection of sketches, architectural plans, photographs and models, as well as multimedia displays, highlights the diverse personalities of the star architects.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Jardin d'amour
    (> 8/07/2007) - Paris
    Musée du Quai Branly
    Contemporary art and gardens of the Londonian artist Yinka Shonibare
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Choix d'artistes / Artists' choice
    (> 8/07/2007) - Paris
    Institut Néerlandais
    Seven Dutch contemporary artists from the H+F collection invite seven French artists. Han Nefkens, a Dutch art collector, and Hilde Teerlinck, Director of the contemporary art foundation (FRAC) in Nord-Pas-de-Calais, co-designed this exhibition, which emphasises the links between Dutch and French artists.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Mobilité et architecture
    (> 15/07/2007) - Orléans
    FRAC Centre

    Students works on mobility and architecture.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Joe Colombo - Inventing the Future
    (> 19/08/2007) - Paris
    Musée des Arts Décoratifs

    The work of the Italian designer Joe Colombo, a visionary spirit of the Sixties
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Christian de Portzamparc. Rêver la ville.
    (> 16/09/2007) - Paris
    Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine - Palaisde Chaillot
    Recent works, from Paris to New York, from Rio to Beyrouth.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Avant-Après. Architectures au fil du temps
    (> 16/09/2007) - Paris
    Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine - Palais de Chaillot
    150 short movies present architectural projects and urban planning.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA architectes, Tokyo & Walter Niedermayr artiste, Bolzano
    (14/06 - 28/10/2007) - Bordeaux
    Arc en rêve centre d'architecture
    --- Go to the site ---

  • L'abstraction, le passé et la nature : au-delà du minimalisme
    (7/06/2007 - 8.00pm) - Paris
    Société Française d'Architecture
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Ploutocratie et "phallocratie" : le gratte-ciel et la ville virtuelle
    (8/06/2007 - 8.00pm) - Paris
    Société Française d'Architecture
    --- Go to the site ---

  • L'universel et le local : paysage, climat, culture
    (21/06/2007 - 8.00pm) - Paris
    Société Française d'Architecture
    --- Go to the site ---

  • Transformation et invention : relectures de l'architecture moderne
    (22/06/2007 - 8.00pm) - Paris
    Société Française d'Architecture
    --- Go to the site ---

  • L'architecture du XXe siècle dans l'espace sud-ouest européen
    (28/06/2007 - 6.00pm) - Bordeaux
    Arc en rêve centre d'architecture
    Patrick Baggio, Francine Fort, Carlos García Vásquez, Lluís Hortet i Previ, Gilles Ragot and Bernard Toulier.
    --- Go to the site ---

  • 10 leçons européennes sur le projet urbain
    (12/06/2007 - 6.30pm) - Bordeaux
    Arc en rêve centre d'architecture
    Ariella Masboungi, architecte urbaniste en chef de l'État, Paris
    --- Go to the site ---

- GREAT-BRITAIN -
  • Living in Motion - Design and architecture for Flexible Dwelling
    (> 10/06/2007) - Edinburgh
    Edinburgh City Arts Center

    --- Go to the site ---
  • Ettore Sottsass. A Life in Design
    (> 10/06/2007) - Londres
    Design Museum

    Best known as the founder of the groundbreaking 1980's design group Memphis, this doyen of Italian design has also designed glass and ceramics for Alessi and landmark electronic products for Olivetti. To mark Ettore Sottsass' 90th birthday we are exhibiting his most iconic designs drawn from six decades of his on-going career.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Norwegian Wood - Architect Wenche Selmer
    (4/06 - 11/06/2007) - Edinburgh
    The Scottish Storytelling Centre
    An Oslo School of Architecture travelling exhibition
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Luigi Colani. Translating Nature
    (> 17/06/2007) - Londres
    Design Museum
    Luigi Colani is one of the great mavericks of 20th Century design. Born in Berlin in 1928, with an art school training supplemented by studies in aerodynamics, he began his career working in the car industry. The king of customisers, Colani developed his own baroque idiom of boldly sculptured forms that spilled from cars to aircraft, and then into furniture and industrial objects. From 1982 he began to work in Japan, and his swooping sculpted forms transformed among other products, cameras for Canon, and headphones for Sony.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Glasgow Is Made By Us
    (> 27/06/2007) - Glasgow
    The Lighthouse
    How would you re-design your city? Six Cities Design Festival asked Evening Times' readers what were the major issues affecting Glasgow's city centre and what they would like to see redesigned. Issues included litter, traffic congestion, pedestrian facilities, public spaces and the river. The most important suggestions were given to four top designers, who have created designs to respond to these issues. This exhibition showcases their responses and demonstrates how improved design can impact our cities and our lives. Look out for our designers creating new spaces in various locations across the city during the Six Cities Design Festival.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Surreal Things
    (> 22/07/2007) - London
    Victoria & Albert Museum Architecture Exhibition Gallery
    The exhibition aims to explore both how designers were inspired by Surrealism and how Surrealist artists engaged with the wider world of design.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Dalí & Film
    (1/06 - 9/09/2007) - London
    Tate Modern

    Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is one of the most famous and notorious artists of the twentieth century. This unprecedented exhibition brings together more than one hundred works by Dalí, including major paintings, photographs, drawings and films, in order to explore the central role of cinema in his work as both inspiration and an outlet for experimentation.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Zaha Hadid Architecture and Design
    (29/06 - 31/10/2007) - Londres
    Design Museum

    The first woman to win the Pritzker Prize for Architecture in its 26 year history, Zaha Hadid has defined a radically new approach to architecture by creating buildings, such as the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, with multiple perspective points and fragmented geometry to evoke the chaos of modern life.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • Architecture Week 2007
    (15 - 24/06/2007)
    Amenity Space's 'Sonic Sheds' project in association with Resonance fm.
    This year's theme is How Green is our Space?, focusing on critical issues of sustainability and the environment, and the aim is to inspire people to think creatively about the spaces around them.
    --- Go to the site ---
  • NEW DESIGNERS
    (5 - 8/07/2007 ; 12 - 15/07/2007) - London
    The foremost event in graduate design showcases the work, energy and talent of some 4000 designers from 13 countries.
    --- Go to the site ---

- GREECE -
  • Jean Cocteau and Greece
    (> 29/07/2007) - Athène
    Benaki Museum
    The exhibition attempts to introduce the Greek public, for the first time, to the variety of artistic paths taken by the poet and, for the first time internationally, to focus on that portion of his output which was inspired by Greek antiquity. The exhibition is completed by a series of portraits of Jean Cocteau by his friends, fellow pilgrims of the golden years of the French avant-garde: Pablo Picasso, Dora Maar, Bernard Buffet, Paul Nadar, Man Ray and others - which bear witness to the multifaceted brilliance of his complex personality.
    --- Go to the site ---

- ITALY -
  • Renzo Piano Building Workshop / Le città visibili
    (> 16/09/2007) - Milan
    Triennale
    La Triennale di Milano presents an big exhibition on Renzo Piano Building Workshop works, from the prototype of Centre Pomidou to the Lingotto, the Cité Internationale de Lyon and the Potsdamerplatz.
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  • "Strategy Setting to Face the Future"
    (27 - 28/06/2007) - Bozen-Bolzano
    Faculty of Design and Art
    Conference on Design research
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  • "L'architettura oltre la forma: paesaggi urbani sostenibili"
    (29/07 - 3/08/2007) - Camerino
    Palazzo ducale
    International workshop and Architettura e Cultura Urbana Award Camerino 2007
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  • EUPVSEC
    (3 - 7/09/2007) - Camerino
    22nd European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition
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- LUXEMBOURG -

  • Tomorrow Now
    (> 24/09/2007) - Luxembourg
    MUDAM
    The exhibition explores decoration elemnts as well as design itself, the standardized products as well experimental architecture, the most contemporary forms in art as well as the most daring innovations in design.
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- THE NETHERLANDS -

  • Maping the City
    (> 20/05/2007) - Amsterdam
    Stedelijke Museum
    This group exhibition focuses on the relationship between artists and the city from around 1960 to the present day. The show revolves around the way in which artists perceive urban space. The emphasis is on the city as social community, on behaviour, poses, and urban rituals.
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  • Hertzberger's Amsterdam
    (13/04 - 2/06/2007) - Amsterdam
    ARCAM
    The exhibition charts Hertzberger's career, from the early student projects in the mid-fifties to future schemes. The maquettes of all the designs that Herman Hertzberger has made for Amsterdam have been brought together for the exhibition.
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  • In Dienst van de Stad
    (> 22/06/2007) - Amsterdam
    Zuiderkerk

    Municipal urban planning in the 21st century
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  • Power. Producing the Contemporary City
    (24/05 - 2/09/2007) - Rotterdam
    Kunsthal

    International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam
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  • Le Corbusier
    (> 2/09/2007) - Rotterdam
    Nederlands Architectuurinstituut
    > Reconstruction of the living room of the Nouveau Pavilion with original furniture and paintings by Arthur Ruegg and Silvio Schmed, 1987. > Image: Betty Fleck, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich. Le Corbusier is by far the most famous and according to many the most important architect and urban designer of the twentieth century. But he was also a painter, sculptor, photographer and textile designer. Although the oeuvre of Le Corbusier is well known to many, the last major retrospective was in 1987. In this exhibition the NAI is presenting his complete oeuvre in original material for the first time in history. While Rotterdam in this period will be in the grip of the third International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam on the theme of Power, the NAI will show more than 450 original drawings, models, paintings, tapestries, films, photographs, sculptures, items of furniture and interiors to demonstrate the strength and influence - in short, the Power - of Le Corbusier.
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  • Steiner & Lenzlinger. Four Vegetative Sleeping Rooms
    (> 28/10/2007) - Rotterdam
    Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
    The Swiss artists Steiner & Lenzlinger are interested in artificial gardens, natural growth processes and all cross-overs between nature and culture.
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  • Scènes en sporen - Vormgeving, video, fotografie en installaties
    (> 25/11/2007) - Amsterdam
    Stedelijke Museum
    This exhibition focuse