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PILE UP® - Zukunftslabor Wohnen
(14/07 - 26/08/2007) - Berlin
Deutsche Architektur Zentrum
The well known Swiss architect Hans Zwimpfer has been developing and realizing PILE UP® since 2002 - his vision of a »stacked« single-family house in an urban environment. This housing concept is distinguished by flexible grids and generous room hights of 5,60m. The European-wide patent has recently raised great attention in and beyond Switzerland. PILE UP® will be presented for the first time in Berlin in the DAZ_FORUM. Exhibition with accompanying program.
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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.
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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«.
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Young Americans. Neue Architektur in den USA
(> 2/09/2007) - Francfort/Main
DAM
A view on the new american generation of architecs such as AB Architects (NY), Studio Luz Architects (Boston), Johnston Marklee & Associates (Santa Monica), Terry Boling Architect (Wyoming).
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Josephine Meckseper
(14/07 - 28/10/2007) - Stuttgart
Kunstmuseum
The Kunstmuseum Stuttgart is dedicating a first solo exhibition to the accomplishments of Josephine Meckseper: In a 1,200-square-meter space, over 150 exhibits will give an overview of Mecksepers work, from her earliest creations to brand new pieces created especially for the Stuttgart show. Meckseper works with all media and uses a wide variety of techniques. She builds large installations and window displays, creates sculp-tures, paintings, photographs and films.
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Az West: Home Stories / An Inside Look at Single-Family Houses in Austria
(> 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.
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Margherita Spiluttini. Atlas Austria
(> 24/09/2007) - Vienna
Architekturzentrum Wien - Old hall
The exhibition addresses the translation of architecture into the visual language of a single photographer. Using slide projections in a range of formats from large to small, the documented buildings and landscapes, the selection of their special pictorial narratives, develop a unified visual language with depth, comprising an Austrian pictorial atlas, a conceptual art installation with the key message architecture.
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Sigmar Polke / Eine Retrospektive
(> 7/10/2007) - Vienna
Museum Moderner Kunst
Presenting more than 170 works, it is the first great exhibition in Austria of the German painter Sigmar Polke, one of the most important after war artists.
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De Nieuwe Oogst
(> 19/08/2007) - Brussels
Design Vlaanderen Gallery
The works selected by Design Vlaanderen for this exhibition show the great creative potential of designers from Flanders and Brussels (furniture, industrial design, grafic design, jewellery, ceramics, glass or textiles).
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Hommage aan Charles Eames
(> 30/09/2007) - Ghent
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.
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Esthétique Domestique / home appliances 1920-1970
(14/07 - 30/09/2007) - Ghent
Design Museum
In the past 30 years the French collector Jean-Bernard Hebey managed to amass an impressive collection of home appliances from the period between 1920 and 1970. Some 375 items relating to the themes "Food and drink", "Heating and cooling", "Cleaning and getting cleaned" will be displayed.
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Henry van de Velde: architecture
(14/07 - 30/09/2007) - Ghent
Design Museum
Henry van de Velde, a designer with a long career, died 50 years ago. He was a European artist avant la lettre. Van de Velde managed to present himself as a great master of art nouveau who became a pioneer of modernism through the years.
He built no less than four houses for himself. In addition he was also the architect of several schools of art, museums, theatres, monuments and libraries.
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Eero Saarinen : Shaping the Future
(> 7/10/2007) - Brussels
CIVA
The exhibition explores the work of one of the most prolific, unorthodox, and controversial masters of 20th-century architecture.
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(De)formations - Rétrospective Xavier Lust
(> 14/10/2007) - Hornu
Grand-Hornu
A « carte blanche » was offered to Xavier Lust, one of the most internationally reknowned Belgian designers. His famous furniture created for MDF Italia, Extremis, De Padova, Driade orZeritalia are exhibited next to brand new products.
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Vienne-Bruxelles
(26/06 - 23/12/2007) - Brussels
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...
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Caribbean Civic Architecture
(30/09 - 3/10/2007) - Curaçao
VIth FCAA Biennial - Exhibition & Conference
The Biennial features a competition, which will showcase recent architectural works by Caribbean architects, a three-day conference and a workshop. The theme of the conference will be "Caribbean Civic Architecture". Civic Architecture refers to buildings that are necessary for exercising the tasks of the government such as parliament buildings, ministries, the public registry, court buildings and prisons.
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Made in China
(> 5/08/2007) - 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.
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Furniture and Space
(> 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.
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Comimg Up! Transforming Copenhagen
(> 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.
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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.
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Anselm Kiefer
(> 3/09/2007) - Bilbao
Museum Guggenheim
The exhibition, organized within the context of the Museum's Tenth Anniversary, is structured thematically around a large series of works that the artist has been working on since the 90s.
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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.
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- City Home / New Residential Architecture in the Helsinki Region
(> 2/09/2007) - Helsinki
Museum of Finnish Architecture
The various scales of planning and design, from residential areas to individual homes, are demonstrated as paired exhibits revealing the wide-ranging and even conflicting challenges and solutions of residential architecture.
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- Wood Works
(> 2/09/2007) - Helsinki
Museum of Finnish Architecture
The goal of the Wood Program at Helsinki University of Technology Department of Architecture is to design and construct a demanding and interesting building by using the simplest means possible. This offers a learning experience not available in books. The exhibition presents 18 projects from 1994-2007.
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- 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.
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Christian de Portzamparc. Rêver la ville.
(> 16/09/2007) - Paris
Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine - Palais de Chaillot
Recent works, from Paris to New York, from Rio to Beyrouth.
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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.
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Dalí & Film
(> 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.
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The Burrell Company / The First 25 Years
(27/08 - 10/10/2007) - Glasgow
The Lighthouse
The Burrell Company is an innovative property development company dedicated to the regeneration of urban areas. The objective of The Burrell Company is to employ excellence in design within the wider concept of sustainable development. The Burrell Company has set new standards of design in urban regeneration in Scotland by commissioning some of the most interesting projects in our cities. This exhibition charts their remarkable portfolio of built and un-built projects over the quarter century.
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Zaha Hadid Architecture and Design
(> 31/10/2007) - London
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.
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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.
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Jean Cocteau and Greece
(> 29/07/2007) - Athens
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.
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Dune Formations for David Gill Galleries
(> 31/08/2007) - Venice
Scuola dei Mercanti
The body of work has been created exclusively for the David Gill Galleries London and is a continuation of Hadid's research and exploration into the dialogue of material geometry. Always questioning the restrictions imposed by an orthogonal arrangement, the total luidity of her work continues to push the boundaries of architecture and design.
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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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"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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Tomorrow Now
(> 24/09/2007) - Luxembourg
MUDAM
The exhibition explores decoration elements 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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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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Scènes en sporen - Vormgeving, video, fotografie en installaties
(> 25/11/2007) - Amsterdam
Stedelijke Museum
This exhibition focuses on three parts of the Stedelijk Museum collection: design, video and photography.
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Sol LeWitt
(> 15/07/2007) - Porto
Fundação Serralves
Since the inclusion of his serial project 1 in Aspen Magazine (USA) in 1966, Sol LeWitt has produced roughly 50 books. The "artist's book" occupies an important place in LeWitt's work. Without seeking to be didactic, he has developed a conceptual system in this area that allows him to understand the way in which his work is constructed. In the title, or on the first page, he clearly enunciates the overall concept of the book in just a few words.
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Triennale d'architecture
(> 31/07/2007) - Lisbonne
Fundação Serralves
Un festival de l'architecture portugaise, prétexte pour un forum international dédié à la réflexion, le débat et la prospection.
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Martin Stollenwerk / Max Vogt's Swiss Railway Buildings
(> 26/07/2007) - Zurich
ETH Zürich Architekturfoyer
Max Vogt (born 1925) signed on as a design architect with the Swiss Federal Railways (SBB). He worked all around Zurich, producing impressive concrete structures distinguished by their unstinting functionalism and radical modernity. Zurich photographer Martin Stollenwerk (born 1962) spent several years on a project devoted to Vogt's landmarks, painstakingly documenting the entire work of the architect, now over 80, and thus creating the first-ever complete overview of his buildings.
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Visualizing knowledge
(> 26/07/2007) - Zurich
ETH Zürich Architekturfoyer
In "Visualizing Knowledge", the new Chair of Information Architecture at the ETH Zurich's Faculty of Architecture offers a look at the varied forms in which the visual is made manifest. A selection of analogue images, digital creations and interactive applications of art and science will demonstrate the enormously versatile way data, information and the visualization of both are present in our everyday lives.
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The International Situationist : 1957 - 1972
(> 5/08/2007) - Basel
Museum Tinguely
The Museum presents the most extensive exhibition hitherto on the Situationist International that was founded on July 28, 1957. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of its foundation, 400 exhibits will illustrate this last important avant-garde movement that counted 72 artists among its members, with sections in Germany, Holland, America, North Africa |
A few years ago, the Spanish agency AMP received international recognition thanks to the government building in the Canary Islands. Everyone hailed its expressive analogy with the landscape. Built in concrete with an irregular finish, combined with local stone and wood, the building sharply contrasted with the minimalism that dominates contemporary Spanish architecture in a spectacular manner. Indeed, Felipe Artengo Rufino and José Pastrana have a sculptural approach to architecture. Their creative impulse draws its inspiration from the immediate surroundings, a land rich in contrasts, made of volcanic rock, deserts and exuberant vegetation, a land only limited by the infinite horizon of the Atlantic Ocean. This essential aspect also characterises these architects' latest works, putting the emphasis on concrete in combination with local materials, forceful buildings directly inspired by the Canaries' landscape. The location's own resources, especially as an insular place, enables research to evolve and a clearly defined architecture to be developed. For AMP, thinking about architecture in the context of the archipelago means interpreting its power and beauty in a critical way, by searching for its essence, not only from the morphological point of view, but also by interpreting it as a constructive principle. Every reference to the genus loci is transformed into a subtle metaphor. 
