september 2007
division of Archi-Europe


 Editiorial


The planet is at risk. In the Western media, disaster scenarios are on the increase. Opinions are being voiced about the threat of global warming. Only a single solution seems possible and that is the rapid and active control of sustainable development. Its application to architecture and to urban planning concerns us all.

In response to Davis Guggenheim's documentary "An inconvenient truth", which allowed the environmentally conscious Al Gore to speak out about issues that humanity will be facing in the short-term, we set out to question 12 of the most prominent architects of our era on their environmental approach to architecture. A journey throughout the world, from Japan to Brazil, through China, Italy, the United Kingdom, the United States, and tens of thousands of miles travelled, in order to film their testimonials and their projects, which fall within the scope of sustainable development. Twelve personalities, 12 environments, 12 perspectives, which we will soon present to you. "The challenge today is great, French architect Françoise-Hélène Jourda, proclaims forcefully. I even believe it's no longer a challenge, it is simply a matter of survival".





What to do? Working differently in order to build differently and do everything in order to protect our vulnerable environment. Solar energy, renewable materials, targeted changes in city design, passive houses and bioclimatic architecture, are the many answers possible to define a highly topical issue. Without wanting to teach a lesson, Archiworld®'s film "Last Call For Planet Earth®" aims to draw, with critical hindsight, the outline of a true "cultural revolution", which will do away with architectural biases.

The film's preview will be shown at Kinepolis in Hasselt (Belgium) on 12 October 2007.

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 Portrait of the month


Françoise-Hélène Jourda

Truly a key figure in sustainable development. For a long time the French architect has positioned her personal work to "contribute to curbing the catastrophic phenomenon, which will only end in the destruction of the quality of life of our environment in the more or less short-term". And, as usual with relentless energy, she tried to see her approach through to the end, dragging along her partners and clients. Her goal was to encourage them to live differently, under different conditions, in order to stop harming all of the environment.

In order to do so "all of one's architectural practice must be called into question". Her daily actions and even her teachings at the Vienna technical school bear this out. It starts with certain ethics vis-à-vis the order, subsequently by taking into account the geography, the climate and existing local resources, it means working primarily with renewable materials, minimising the use of materials that generate pollution in their production, it also involves recovering rainwater, banning air conditioning, treating the buildings' shells as efficiently as possible, using non-polluting energies, solar energy, photovoltaic cells, etc. Despite their technological sophistication, her buildings prove that bold design can be produced through ecological solutions.

As regards residential architecture, Françoise-Hélène Jourda feels that the charm of living in general consists of a type of nomadism in one's own house where comfort is adapted to the activity of the moment and where we no longer believe that only heating and air-conditioning are able to improve this comfort. Consequently the building can be considered as a type of protective shell that is undressed at times or dressed differently. "I am all for living skins, buildings that react to their environment".  

"Sustainable development means rediscovering man, the architect affirms. And to do so, to take great care of the environment." It is first and foremost a humanistic approach. High-tech is not part of her vocabulary. To her only "low-tech" exists. However, the reality of her work is well anchored in society and culture. "The architect is not a designer, not a creator of images, of shells, of dresses, of skirts around a building. The architect is there to ensure that people live more happily tomorrow than yesterday. In any case, this is what motivates me."
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2. Akademie Mont-Cenis


3. Bordeaux botanical museum


4. Bordeaux botanical museum


5. Office building project in Paris


6. Office building project in Paris

Legends of the pictures

1. Françoise-Hélène Jourda
2. Akademie Mont-Cenis - 1998
At the centre of the Ruhr coal basin, the former Mont-Cenis site houses a complex that, in a very structured way, develops the principles of bioclimatic architecture. Based on the creation of a tempered microclimate within a 12,000-m² greenhouse, the building takes advantage of a number of devices aimed at preserving and improving the environment. The structure is made up of 62 complete pine trunks used as columns. Solar energy takes up a choice position: 10,000 m² of photovoltaic sensors in the roof cover electricity/hot water needs and natural ventilation is controlled by an automatic motorisation system.
3 & 4. Bordeaux botanical museum - 2006
An example in terms of sustainable development, this unique museum was created on the basis of three types of architecture interconnected in a very unexpected way: glass greenhouses, wooden boxes and large “pebbles” used along the museum's itinerary. This project speaks to the means to be implemented today to respect the planet (wooden structure, photovoltaic cells, etc.) and to a somewhat disconcerting architecture, very gentle, very human.
5 & 6. Office building project in Paris - ongoing
This run-of-the-mill office building is, however, part of a sustainable development approach. Its construction techniques allow for easy dismantling and the identification of the various types of materials in view of recycling. This is a "Zero Energy" building, with very low energy consumption. Photovoltaic panels will provide the additional electrical energy required for heating and natural climate control will be implemented by means of intelligent ventilation systems.



 Project of the month


Federal Building San Francisco
Arch. Thom Mayne (Morphosis)

   
 

This bold project is based on the concepts of movement and interaction between private and public spaces. Covering 56,206 m², the San Francisco Federal Building is one of the most ambitious projects by the Morphosis agency in terms of high environmental quality. This first-rate urban landmark redefines at the same time a social culture in the workplace by improving comfort and productivity of employees whilst shaking up the traditional administrative hierarchy. While Thom Mayne, 2005 Pritzker prize, is not a "green" architect as such - he often displayed a lack of interest, even a slight disdain vis-à-vis the principles of green architecture - the project is truly the result of a desire for sustainable development. In the last few years, an actual change took place within the Morphosis firm, notably with Tim Christ, project leader. At the same time, Morphosis worked in Europe where very strict standards apply to energy efficiency matters (Hypo bank, Klangenfurt/Austria). These lessons would later benefit projects in the United States.

That is how the federal building includes a long list of views sensitive to the environment. The narrow shape of the building precisely matches the dimensions, allowing natural light and fresh air to reach the middle of each level of offices. Covering the south façade, the system of perforated metallic panels, which is somewhat reminiscent of that of the Caltrans building in Los Angeles (2004), is used to provide solar protection to office spaces, avoiding, among others, the use of air conditioning. These panels extend at the bottom of the tower onto the public square. On the other hand, the building uses a more sophisticated version of the lift system implemented in the Caltrans project. Lifts only stop every three levels to open onto corridors decorated with Ed Ruscha's drawings. There are practically no parking spaces in the underground car park for most of the 1,700 employees working in the building on a daily basis, thus promoting the use of public transport.
The project is the result of a simple and powerful architectural gesture. Nevertheless, technological data is complex. Ove Arup Engineering and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory spent two years working on elaborating the measurement system in order to reduce the energy bill. "It's a giant step for us, Thom Mayne admitted. The federal building represents the synthesis of the architectural and ethical act." This proves that it is possible to combine sustainability with a heightened sense of creativity.

 

 








 Product of the month

The new, patented AirDeck® flooring system for more creative, more efficient and more profitable construction, but above all allowing to decrease by 35% the use of raw materials (steel, sand, cement, gravel, etc.).

AirDeck® constitutes a true revolution in construction. Suitable for all multi-level constructions - residential buildings, offices, hotels, hospitals, industrial and commercial buildings or car parks - this monolithic flooring system with bidirectional load-bearing capability is made up of a formwork panel and ultralight hollow elements in recycled polypropylene, referred to as Airboxes, which are fitted on a 300 x 300 mm grid and do not adhere to concrete. They are available in four different thicknesses in order to be able to achieve floor thicknesses from 280 to 450 mm. Due to its robust structure, the Airbox is designed to withstand very heavy specific loads. Materials are recoverable and recyclable. The formwork flooring integrates into the lower framework. The lattice trusses in the bottom shell serve as lifting points, stiffen the shell during handling and installation, and provide perfect bonding with the cast-in-place concrete. This process constitutes a technical prowess, in addition to allowing for freedom of design (spans can exceed 14 x 14 m for large free spaces), gain in materials, gain in structure height (for every eight floors in height, one floor is gained, which is of critical importance in an urban environment), lighter foundations and loadbearing walls.

With the activation of the concrete core wall, as in the SKBS Oost Watergraafsmeer project in Amsterdam (arch. Kraaijvanger Urbis/2007), the building's concrete mass is used to store energy so as to satisfy the heat requirement with much lower water temperatures. In the summer it is possible to circulate the water from the basement in these pipes in order to cool the entire building mass. 

For information: activation of the thermal mass of concrete = low temperature heating (+-26°) and high temperature cooling (+-18°).

  













 Agenda

- GERMANY -

  • German Urban Planning Award 2006
    (> 18/10/2007) - Berlin
    Award for Future-oriented planning culture and the arts of urban architecture

    The award ceremony took place on 16 November 2006. Since then, an exhibition of the distinguished projects has been touring Germany and is now put on display on a more extensive scale by AedesLand at Savignyplatz in Berlin. The project boards of this exhibition are complemented by explanatory pictures, publications, films and spatial.
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  • Josephine Meckseper
    (> 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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  • AND - Interdisciplinary Creative Arts from China
    (> 8/11/2007) - Berlin
    Aedes Am Pfefferberg

    The exhibition focuses this time on Beijing architect Yung Ho CHANG, whose projects, according to European - not even to mention Chinese - standards, are not about mass but possess a high intellec-tual quality and a - for Chinese standards - high quality of construction.
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  • Living the Modern_Australian Architecture
    (> 11/11/2007) - Berlin
    Deutsche Architektur Zentrum

    The exhibition shows the independent development of Australian Architecture by means of innovative, excellent architectural solutions that are intriguing on an international scale, and yet still widely unknown. The 25 offices presented have transformed, interpreted, used, reformed and converted aspects of modernism within the past 15 years, and deliver insight to their buildings as well as to the culturally and environmentally specific development of modern architecture in Australia.
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  • Patente Lösungen. Neue Architektur aus Katalonien
    (> 18/11/2007) - Francfort/Main
    DAM

    This exhibition presents innovative solutions and complex buildings in specific environments, experiments for new construction technologies.
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  • Preis der Europäischen Union für zeitgenössische Architektur
    Mies van der Rohe Preis 2007
    (> 18/11/2007) - Francfort/Main
    DAM

    The exhibition presents the Mies van der Rohe Prize winners - Emilio Tuñon Álveres + Luis Moreno Mansilla for the M.U.S.A.C Project (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León), Matija Bevk and Vasa J. Perovic for their project Faculty of Mathematics in Ljubljana and other projects selected by the Jury : the Centro de Artes in Sines/ Portugal from Manuel Aires Mateus and Francisco Aires Mateus, the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart from UN Studio, the America's Cup building in Valencia from David Chipperfield, the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg from Zaha Hadid, the School for Management in Bordeaux from Anne Lacaton & Jean Philippe Vassal as well the Centre chorégraphique nationale in Aix-en-Provence from Rudy Ricciotti.
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  • Architecture, People and Resources | Baumschlager & Eberle 2002-2007
    (11/10/2007 - 13/01/2008) - Munich
    Pinakothek der Moderne
    Since its establishment as a partnership in 1985, the architectural practice of Baumschlager & Eberle in Lochau / Vorarlberg has completed well over 300 construction projects and building studies, earning itself an international reputation. Recent representative works include large-scale projects such as the Vienna airport extension, the MOMA high-rises in Beijing, the WHO / UNAIDS building in Geneva and the 1,000-bed hospital in Kortrijk (Belgium). Key to the Baumschlager & Eberle philosophy is that architecture is a complex entity requiring the integration of many different elements, to which justice can only be done if a building meets all the demands made on it in terms of structural intelligence, ecology, economic efficiency and social acceptability. This philosophy is reflected in the division of the »Architecture, People and Resources« exhibition into three distinct parts.
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  • Le Corbusier
    (29/09/2007 - 10/02/2008) - Weil am Rhein
    Vitra Design Museum
    The work of Le Corbusier remains highly significant and relevant in today's architectural discourse. Yet during the past two decades, no major museum show has addressed the many aspects that still make Le Corbusier's work such an important point of reference for contemporary architecture and urbanism. To fill this void, the Vitra Design Museum is now joining forces with the Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Royal Institute of British Architects in the production of an international retrospective.
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  • IKK
    (8 - 10/02/2008) - Stuttgart
    International trade fair for refrigeration, air conditioning and ventilation
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- AUSTRIA -

  • Architektur 24/7 - eine alltägliche Beziehung
    (23/09 - 13/11/2007) - Graz
    Haus der Architektur
    This exhibition reveals the daily life in the architecture photographies because architecture is lived 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
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  • Helmut Richter
    (27/09 - 21/10/2007) - Vienna
    Architekturzentrum Wien - Hall F3

    In October 2007, after teaching for sixteen years and having supervised more than 500 degree theses Helmut Richter will be made emeritus professor. A chance to say thank you to this nonconformist, constantly researching architect who is, without any doubt, one of the most influential architects in this country.
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  • Omer Fast
    (5/10 - 20/01/2008) - Vienna
    Museum Moderner Kunst
    Omer Fast was born in Israel and has been residing in Berlin for five years. His previous projects frequently concerned places that can be considered historical collections or archives. These projects included an open-air museum of 'living history' in Virginia, and a disused movie set in Cracow, where Omer Fast explored the ways in which our media-driven society transforms historical events into contemporary tales. Omer Fast's solo exhibition at Mumok will present a new video installation.
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- BELGIUM -

  • Transitions - light on the move
    (23 - 25/10/2007) - Brussels
    A road show featering containers, designed by leading architects and lighting designers who have expressed their creative visions on architectural lighting solutions.
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  • Esthétique Domestique / home appliances 1920-1970
    (> 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 and1970. Some 375 items relating to the themes "Food and drink", "Heating and cooling", "Cleaning and getting cleaned" will be displayed.
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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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  • Henry van de Velde: architecture
    (> 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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  • La Belgique vue par l'homme-oiseau
    (> 7/10/2007) - Saint-Hubert
    Palais abbatial
    65 photographies of Michel Clinckemaille, the only professional Belgian photograph taking pictures by kite.
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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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  • Utopia, de l'Atlantide aux cités du futur
    (> 28/10/2007) - Mons
    Mundaneum

    Surprising architectural projects on utopía.
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  • Jong Design
    (5/10 - 4/11/2007) - Brussels
    Design Vlaanderen Galery
    The works selected for this exhibition are especially designed by Flemish and Brussels designers for young people from 0 to 21 years (furniture and accessories).
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  • Stockmans limited, Take care!, Artwork!
    (> 9/12/2007) - Brussels
    Gallery Royal Boch
    Pieter Stockmans, one of the most famous contemporary Belgian ceramist has created small series of objects, artistic items and architectonic installations.
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  • Vienne-Bruxelles
    (> 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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  • Des Fantômes et des Anges
    (6/10 - 6/01/2008) - Hornu
    Musée des Arts Contemporains du Grand-Hornu (MAC's)

    On the occasion of its fifth anniversary the Museum welcomes an exceptional exhibition coming from the collections of the Musée d'art moderne Lille Métropole - Villeneuve d'Ascq.
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  • Quai des orfèvres
    (13/10 - 10/02/2008) - Seneffe
    Château de Seneffe
    Five Belgian designers and personnalities (Franco Dragone, Alain Hubert, Olivier Strelli, François Schuiten et Dimitri Weber) display antique silverware in the lounges of this pretigious 18th Century cassle.
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  • Willy Van der Meeren
    (27/09 - 30/03/2008) - Brussels
     Atomium
    The exhibition presents the differents periods of the exceptional professional life of the Belgian architect and designer Willy Van der Meeren (1923-2002).
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  • Design September
    (> 30/09/2007) - Brussels
    Events during a period of three weeks will take place in various sites of Brussels. All the design fans will be very happy with these presentations wich will be repeated every year.
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- CURAÇAO -

  • 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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- DENMARK -

  • 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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  • The Frontiers of Architecture I: Cecil Balmond
    (> 21/10/2007) - Humlebæk
    Louisiana Museum
    The series The Frontiers of Architecture is about new and alternative architectural movements today. The series explores and reveals the potential of the new ideas and images generated by rapid technological development. This first exhibition should be seen as elucidating the relationship between science and architectural design, and gives a clou to where architecture is heading today - implementing new geometries, ideas and computergenerated forms with close affinity to the way nature itself works. Cecil Balmond of ARUP is the leading figure in this development.
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  • Copenhagen Changing
    (> 21/10/2007) - 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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  • End
    (> 28/10/2007) - Copenhagen
    Danish Museum Art & Design

    International ceramics exhibition project The artists behind the exhibition END are the three English ceramists Richard Slee, Alison Britton and Martin Smith; Marit Tingleff from Norway, along with the Danes Karen Bennicke, Peder Rasmussen and Martin Bodilsen Kaldahl. All artists that have made an impact internationally and nationally - all with very different artistic expressions. The exhibition is guaranteed to provide an entertaining ceramic meeting between spatial minimalism, pop art, ceramic figurine tradition, expressionism, digital form aesthetics and even more.
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- SPAIN -

  • Paula Rego
    (25/09 - 30/12/2007) - Madrid
    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
    This retrospective of the Portuguese painter Paula Rego (Lisbon, 1935) presents 80 paintings, 60 drawings and 60 litographies.
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  • Art in the USA: 300 Years of Innovation
    (11/10/2007 - 28/02/2008) - Bilbao
    Museum Guggenheim
    This exhibition features a compelling selection of approximately 200 artworks culled from a range of private and public collections in the United States. Six historical periods demonstrate how the art of each era both reflected and contributed to a complex visual narrative of a nation during times of discovery, growth and experimentation.
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- FINLAND -
  • Vuokko Nurmesniemi - Fashion Designer
    (> 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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  • Shigeru Ban's Artek-pavilion
    (> 23/09/2007) - Helsinki
    Design Museum
    Artek - Pavilion designed by Shigeru Ban reconstructed in Helsinki is produced by Artek, UPM, Design Museum and Museum of Finnish Architecture. The main theme of the exhibition in the pavilion is renewing wood and its multiple use in design, industry and architecture.
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  • Made in Finland
    (> 7/10/2007) - Jyväskylä
    Alvar Aalto Museum
    Exhibition of the Alvar Aalto Design Seminar
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  • Rural Architecture in the Eastern Black Sea Region
    (> 11/11/2007) - Helsinki
    Museum of Finnish Architecture
    Scattered in the breathtaking mountains of north-east Turkey off the eastern Black Sea there are houses and groups of houses based on the local building tradition, many built at the turn of the 20th century. These handsome buildings are made of stone and wood and decorated with elaborate ornaments. They are perfectly fitted in the surrounding landscape. The area also has beautiful old mosques built of wood and ancient churches. Many of these buildings are neglected and now threatening to vanish. Milli Reasurans T.A.S.
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- FRANCE -

  • Purs décors ? Chefs-d'œuvre de l'Islam aux Arts Décoratifs
    (11/10/2007 - 13/01/2008) - Paris
    Musée des Arts Décoratifs
    Les Arts Décoratifs has a collection of over 3,000 works of Islamic Art. Exceptional both in size and quality, it includes a number of unique masterpieces (carpets, textiles, ceramics, miniatures, etc.). Three hundred of these works show the influence of the Arts Décoratifs collection in the applied arts at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries and emphasise the role the institution has played in this field.
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  • Jensen Skodvin Arkitectkontor, Oslo
    (> 28/09/2007) - Paris
    La Galerie d'Architecture
    The 2nd exhibition concerning the Norvegian architecture presents the latest Works of Jan Olaf Jensen & Borre Skovdin : the Mortensrud church and the architecture centre Norskform in Oslo, the new Cistercian monastry in Tautra, the ferryboats terminal in Ropeid,...
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  • Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA architectes, Tokyo & Walter Niedermayr artiste, Bolzano
    (> 28/10/2007) - Bordeaux
    Arc en rêve centre d'architecture
    Ainsi 12 diptyques et une double projection vidéo prendront place dans la grande galerie d'arc en rêve accompagnés de mobiliers et d'objets conçus par SANAA. La galerie blanche accueille une sélection de maquettes, dessins, et albums de chantier de projets récents dont le Louvre à Lens, leur premier projet français.
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  • RIBA Conference 2007
    (26 - 27/10/2007) - Paris
    The RIBA's annual conference is the highlight of the architectural calendar and has proven to be increasingly popular over recent years.
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  • Éloge du vide architectonique
    (9/11/2007 - 08:00pm) - Paris
    Société Française des Architectes
    Lecture of José Cruz Ovalle
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  • SALON DU PATRIMOINE CULTUREL
    (8 - 6/11/2007) - Paris
    The benchmark event that gathers every area of heritage life
    Theme: heritage & environment
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  • MAPIC
    (14 - 16/11/2007) - Cannes
    Marché international de référence des professionnels de l'immobilier commercial
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- GREAT-BRITAIN -
  • The Burrell Company / The First 25 Years
    (> 7/10/2007) - 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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  • Designers in Residence
    (> 14/10/2007) - London
    Design Museum
    This annual exhibition that forms part of the London Design Festival. A group of talented new product and furniture designers, all of whom have graduated within the last five years, are invited to transform an area of the Design Museum. Presenting original concepts combined with unconventional techniques and sophisticated new technologies, the exhibition captures some of the prevailing themes in contemporary design culture. The Designers in Residence for 2007 are Sarah van Gameren, Chris O'Shea, Tomás Alonso, Richard Sweeney and Finn Magee.
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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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  • The World is My Imagination
    (> 3/11/2007) - Manchester
    CUBE
    Media-Model-Miniature Nine artists and collectives are exploring the miniscule as an artistic interface in video, networked and interactive installations, digital sound sculptures and photography, found objects and custom built environments. Striking and picturesque model worlds replicate real and imaginary spaces while reflecting existences and habitats, personal memories and longing - the shift in scale ultimately commenting on our surroundings within social and cultural and technological changes.
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  • Curtis Moffat: Experimental Photography and Design, 1923-1935
    (> 13/01/2008) - London
    Victoria & Albert Museum Architecture Exhibition Gallery
    Curtis Moffat created dynamic abstract photographs, innovative colour still lives and some of the most glamorous society portraits of the early 20th century. He was also a pivotal figure in Modernist interior design. Moffat's archive, containing over 1,000 photographic prints and negatives as well as press cuttings, scrap books and ephemera, was generously donated to the V&A in 2007 by Penelope Smail. The donation is celebrated by featuring some of its highlights in this display. It also acts as a starting point to study Moffat's pioneering but hitherto little-known work in more depth.
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  • Louise Bourgeois
    (10/10 - 20/01/2008) - London
    Tate Modern

    This first major survey since 1995 of the work of the French-born artist Louise Bourgeois (b.1911) will provide an unprecedented opportunity to reassess her work. Over a long career, Bourgeois has worked in dialogue with most of the major international avant-garde artistic movements of the twentieth century, from Surrealism to Conceptual art, but has always remained uniquely apart, powerfully inventive and often at the forefront of contemporary practice.
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  • Seduced: Art and Sex from Antiquity to Now
    (12/10 - 27/01/2008) - London
    Barbican Art Gallery
    It is a major exhibition focusing on representations of sex from diverse eras and cultures. Provocative and ambitious, it includes around 250 works, spanning over 2000 years, including Roman marbles, Indian manuscripts, Renaissance and Baroque paintings and sculptures, Chinese paintings and prints, Japanese woodcuts, 19th century photographs and contemporary video. Drawn from important public and private collections from around the world, some of the works have never been seen in public, others rarely shown and many have never been exhibited in the UK.
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  • Xpo 2007
    (5 - 6/10/2007) - London
    Barbican Art Gallery
    The UK's premier Alternative Lifestyle Event
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  • Tall Buildings in the London Landscape
    (12/10/2007) - London
    Institute of Historical Research
    This symposium will bring together new research on towers of every type, their promoters and uses, the symbolism and associations of high-rise architecture, its cumulative presence in the metropolitan landscape, and the issues posed by new tall building for historic skylines and landmarks.
    olwyn.myhill@sas.ac.uk

- GREECE -
  • Dikos Byzantios. In search of the lost glance
    (> 5/10/2007) - Athens
    Benaki Museum
    An exhibition dedicated to the work of painter Dikos (Konstantinos) Byzantios, a genuine representative of the abstract avant-garde of the renowned School of Paris. The exhibition will present two of his three creative periods, Drawings and Forms. Drawings (1974-1978), large scale works made solely with graphite and charcoal, are a criticism of the world of consumption, speed and alienation. Forms (1985- ) mark Byzantios's return to the austerity of painting.
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- ITALY -
  • Victor Vasarely. Non il cuore ma la retina
    (4/10/2007 - 27/01/2008) - Milan
    Triennale Bovisa

    By presenting 80 large size paintings and 50 drawings and grafic works the exhibition wants to underline the influence of this artist on contempory culture.
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  • MARMOMACC
    (4 - 7/10/2007) - Verona
    International Exhibition of Stone Design and Technology
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- LUXEMBOURG -

  • 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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  • Glenn Ligon: Some Changes
    (13/10/2007 - 18/02/2008) - Luxembourg
    MUDAM
    The work of the American artist Glenn Ligon is exploring concepts like the construction of an individual identity, as well as being a part of something bigger - socially, politically or sexually -, in a country emerged out of immigration.
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- NETHERLAND -

  • 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 focuses on three parts of the Stedelijk Museum collection: design, video and photography.
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  • Working Apart Together - Young Amsterdam Architects
    (22/09 - 17/11/2007) - Amsterdam
    ARCAM
    Young, start-up architects introduce themselves and comment on the quality of the city's