October 30

Resistenze. Momenti dell’Arte Contemporanea a Napoli.1 exhibit @ Hermann Nitsch Museum

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Resistenze. Momenti dell’Arte Contemporanea a Napoli.1
Hermann Nitsch Museum
Vico Lungo Pontecorvo 29/d
80135 Napoli
Tel. +39 081 5641655
Fax +39 081 5641494
info@museonitsch.org

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October 30

CCA exhibit “Actions:What You Can Do With the City” now at Chicago’s Graham Foundation

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(All materials courtesy of CCA and Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; all photos: Actions: What You Can Do With the City, installation view at the Graham Foundation Madlener House, © Michelle Litvin, Chicago)

The CCA’s exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City travels to Chicago’s Graham Foundation. Opened on october 16, the exhibit will go on until 13 March 2010.

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After the great critical and public acclaim while it was on view in Montreal (November 26, 2008 – April 19, 2009), the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) has announced that its exhibition Actions: What You Can Do With the City is now presented by the prestigious Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts in Chicago until 13 March 2010.

Featuring 99 actions that instigate positive change in contemporary cities around the world, the exhibition documents seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening that are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition. Their experimental interactions with the urban environment show the potential influence personal involvement can have in shaping the city, and challenge fellow residents to participate.

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Conceived and curated by CCA Curator for Contemporary Architecture Giovanna Borasi and CCA Director and Chief Curator Mirko Zardini, the exhibition and its accompanying publication present specific projects by a diverse group of activists whose personal involvement has initiated vital transformation in today’s cities. These human motors of change include architects, engineers, university professors, students, children, pastors, artists, skateboarders, cyclists, pedestrians, municipal employees, and many others who address the question of how to improve the urban experience. Read more

October 29

Urban Simulacra

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(Text by Nicola Bozzi)

Ion Bitzan, Map (1978)

It’s no surprise Polis has recently opened one of their articles with the same Jorge Luis Borges quote as Jean Baudrillard did in his introduction to “Simulacra and Simulation“. The quote comes from a story about an insanely detailed 1:1 scale map of an empire, eventually shredding apart and leaving scattered remains on the very soil it used to discipline.

The reason why Borges’ vision is so important today is not only the recent popularization of mapping, especially on the internet, but its evolution into a virtualized and pervasive layer overlapping with both our online and offline experiences. If Christopher Alexander’s “Notes on the Synthesis of Form“, although focused on architectural design and civil engineering, has also influenced software writers, augmented space and virtuality make the conceptual relationship between city design and network design intersecting rather than isomorphic. Read more

October 28

Ecohouse by Filippo Taidelli and OneOffice in Curno, Bergamo
2009 SAIE Selection award

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(Text by Angelica Di Virgilio, all images courtesy of Filippo Taidelli Studio)

Saie Selection. Low cost & low energy sustainable housing
Exhibit and convention, SAIE 2009
from October 28 to October 31, 2009.

Within the International Building Exhibition, SAIE 2009, the Low cost & low energy sustainable housing exhibition opens today. The event features a selection of 24 low-cost and low-energy sustainable housing projects selected after the SAIE Selection competition promoted by BolognaFiere in co-operation with Archi-Europe Group, Edilio and under the sponsorship of ArchitettiBologna, Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori and of Coordinamento Nazionale dei Giovani Architetti Italiani. The jury together with chairman architect Mario Cucinella selected 24 projects and concepts (12 for young architects and 12 for students) in 4 categories: brick, metal&glass wood and concrete. We use this occasion to present the project which has attracted our attention the most, that is the Ecohouse designed by architect Filippo Taidelli and OneOffice.

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This project, which was originally elaborated on a previous ideas competition on sustainable housing promoted by Agogroup last spring, shows an interesting balance between the sustainable and technical strategies and the architectural pattern. Starting from a simple parallelepiped and specific studies on the orientation, the volume is developed towards two directions in order to allow the single flats to enjoy a good exposure to the sun and consequently a remarkable energy saving. Read more

October 28

Yona Friedman @ Politecnico di Milano

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On the day before the opening on his first exhibition in an Italian private gallery (in Brescia, check it out here), Yona Friedman will be in Milan for a conference at Politecnico di Milano.

POLITECNICO DI MILANO - DIAP - MULTIPLICITY.LAB

PRESENT
YONA FRIEDMAN
MODERATOR
STEFANO BOERI
PARTICIPANTS
MARCO BELPOLITI
MAURIZIO BORTOLOTTI
FRIDAY, 30 OCTOBER 2009
H 17:30 – 19:00
SPAZIO MOSTRE
POLITECNICO DI MILANO
FACOLTA’ DI ARCHITETTURA E SOCIETA’
VIA AMPERE, 2
20133 MILANO
+39.02.23992678

multiplicity.lab@polimi.it

October 27

Tadao Ando – Museums
Book presentation

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Skira is pleased to invite you to the presentation of the book Tadao Ando – Museums, edited by Luca Molinari, on Thursday October 29 at 6.30 pm, at Triennale di Milano (via Alemagna 6).

Along with the editor, Gae Aulenti and Giancarlo Calza will also participate in the presentation.

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October 27

Rethinking Bon Pastor. Idea competition to renovate the popular Barcelona neighbourhood.

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(Text by Chiara Ingrosso)

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Bon Pastor is a working-class neighbourhood in the Sant Adreu quarter in nort-east Barcelona. Originally, area included 784 terraced one/two-storey brick houses. 145 houses have been knocked down and in 2007 new buildings have replaced them. In ten years the whole old Bon Pastor is going to be demolished.

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A sarcastic obituary by the Bon Pastor residents

A new block of 1000 flats, divided in 5-storey buildings and 3 towers (9 or 10 storeys high), will be built further exploiting the territory. Read more

October 26

The Function of Form by Farshid Moussavi just released by Actar

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(All materials courtesy of ACTAR)

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“Form follows function.” There has never been a more seductive dictum in the history of architecture. In The Function of Form, internationally acclaimed architect, Farshid Moussavi, provides a provocative critique of the historically opposing relationship between function and form to reveal the contradiction at the heart of modernism. We need to move away from the definition of function as utility, she argues, to align it with how function is defined in mathematics, biology or music. Form, on the other hand, should be considered not only in the way buildings are produced, but also how they perform sensorially. Function and form, considered together in architecture, stand in opposition to the dualism which defined our approach to the built environment throughout the twentieth century.
For Mies van der Rohe, buildings were a refuge from ‘the acute anxiety of the metropolitan experience,’ while Rem Koolhaas describes the building as a “machine to fabricate fantasy”. Deftly guiding readers through the historical and theoretical arguments around the production and performance of form in architecture, Moussavi, a Harvard professor and co-founder of the award-winning Foreign Office Architects, cites works by Palladio, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and OMA, as well as references to Islamic and Gothic architecture, and writings by theorists including Gottfried Semper and Gilles Deleuze, to illustrate the shortcomings of considering form and function independently in today’s increasingly molecular/hybrid reality. Read more

October 23

Snapshots from Creativity Festival

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(Photos © Ludovica Brigalli – Foto © Ludovica Brigalli)

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Urban Metamorphoses: from Montreal to Brasilia, passing by Dubai. Exhibition in the City Talk department – Metamorfosi Urbane: da Montreal a Brasilia passando per Dubai. Mostra all’interno del dipartimento City Talk

Montréal, Medellin, Buenos Aires, Milano, Parigi, Dubai, Il Cairo, Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, Belem, Curitiba, Fortaleza, Sao Paulo, Brasilia. E’ andato lontano lo sguardo del Festival della Creatività, quest’anno! Il progetto Metamorfosi Urbane ha voluto indagare le trasformazioni in atto in alcune città del mondo: Seoul, capitale mondiale del design nel 2010 e Shanghai sede dell’expo 2010 che ospiterà l’ambizioso progetto del padiglione Italia, “Better city. Better life”. E ancora, Il Cairo e gli interessanti casi della città dei morti e del garbage village attraverso i contributi del Cospe e di alcuni antropologi. Non ultimo, gli ambiziosi interventi urbanistici che trasformeranno alcune zone di Milano in previsione di Expo 2015 e di Parigi (progetto del Grand Paris). Read more

October 23

Radisson SAS Iveria Hotel designed by GRAFT in Tbilisi opening today

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(All materials courtesy of GRAFT, photos © Soenne)

Grand Opening Radisson SAS Iveria Hotel, Tbilisi
opening: 23.10.2009, 7:30 pm
location: Radisson SAS Iveria Hotel, Rose Revolution Square 1, Tbilisi, Georgia

The Radisson SAS Iveria Hotel designed by GRAFT celebrates its Grand Opening this very day. The conversion of a 60‘s hotel high rise building into a five star Radissons SAS Iveria Hotel accommodates 249 rooms, including 44 Business Class rooms, 15 Suites and one Executive Suite, Italian Restaurant Filini, Surface Restaurant and Lounge Bar, a conference centre with fully equipped 10 meeting rooms including divisible Ballroom with a maximum capacity of 450 persons, a bank office and a travel agency. A two-floor roof top ANNE SEMONIN spa and wellness facility and the roof top Oxygen Bar provide stunning views over the city of Tbilisi and to the Caucasus. A two-level Casino Iveria is affiliated to the hotel.

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photo © Soenne

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photo © Soenne

The project’s goal is to transform an urban landmark building of the so-called international style by anchoring it in the local environment of the city centre and by reconnecting it to the world of today. Read more

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