March 8

WOOD SUMMIT SMÅLAND 2010

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Remember the call for Architecture of Necessity we published some time ago on behalf of the Virserum Art Museum in Sweden? Here’s the program for their WOOD SUMMIT SMÅLAND 2010 (which you can also download here). The event is a seminar on architecture, sustainable development and sustainable urban planning taking place on June 29 and 30, also enriching the Wood 2010 exhibition going on from May 9 to September 19 at the konsthall.

TUESDAY 29 JUNE – THE ARCHITECTURE OF NECESSITY
Topics of the day include: Sustainable urban planning; recycling and regeneration; the Architecture of Necessity; who are the city meant for?
WOOD SUMMIT SMÅLAND 2010 coincides with Virserum Music Days and this will be reflected in series of concerts throughout the seminar. All events on this day will be conducted in English.
07:30–10:00 REGISTRATION
Breakfast. Morning concert featuring Ismahni on harp and Gunilla von Bahr on flute.
CLAES CALDENBY: THE ARCHITECTURE OF NECESSITY
Caldenby is a professor in architectural theory and history at Chalmers Technical College, Sweden. He is also the moderator for the day.
MICHELLE KAUFMANN: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE WITH MODULAR SYSTEMS
Michelle Kaufmann is an architect and designer from California, USA. She is a leading figure in the field of sustainable design and was, among other things, named “2009 Green Advocate of the Year” by the National Association of Home Builders.
LUNCH
Presentation of specially invited Swedish architecture agencies and their proposals for the Architecture of Necessity. Concert in the Paperhouse.
RICCARDO VANUCCI, FARESTUDIO: ARCHITECTURE OF NECESSITY
Riccardo Vannucci is an architect at FAREstudio in Italy. The agency won the WAF 2008 Health category with their Centre pour le Bien-être des Femmes in Burkina Faso.
KENGO KUMA, KENGO KUMA & ASSOCIATES: ANTI-OBJECT
Kengo Kuma is a Japanese architect known for his refined minimalist style. His buildings get their identity from the use of traditional materials such as bamboo, stone and metal.
17:00 TOUR OF EXHIBITIONS AND PRE-DRINKS IN THE PAPERHOUSE EVENING BANQUET
Followed by a concert in Virserum church. After that there is the possibility of enjoying a drink at the River Pub. Read more

February 15

Dopo La Crescita. Idee sul futuro della dispersione

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Che cosa sta succedendo ai territori della dispersione?

Cosa alla città diffusa e ai suoi manufatti a bassa densità?

E’ attorno a queste domande che il seminario Dopo La Crescita. Idee sul futuro della dispersione chiama a riflettere alcuni tra i protagonisti della stagione di studi sulla dispersione degli anni ‘90 e li invita ad ipotizzare nuovi scenari di evoluzione. Interverranno Cristina Bianchetti (Politecnico di Torino), Stefano Boeri (Politecnico di Milano), Pippo Ciorra (Università di Camerino), Arturo Lanzani (Politecnico di Milano), Chiara Merlini (Politecnico di Milano). Read more

January 4

Yearbook Survey 2009 #1
Last year’s best according to 0300TV.com

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Before the end of 2009 we asked some of the most interesting blogs and magazines around a few questions about the last year, what projects they though were best and what issues they expect to be most debated in the following year. Today we are showing you what the best of 2009 is according to 0300TV, an amazing Chilean video-based blog with lots of interviews with international architects from Chile to China, dealing with specific projects as well as with crucial issues in architecture and planning (we specifically wrote about the site on this very old post). Since this post is the first of a series, stay tuned for more!

What do you think are the 3 most representative posts you published this year?
1. Chile: Public Works 1997-2007

2. Pezo Von Ellrichshausen Architects: Context & Work System

3. François Roche Interview / R&Sie(n) (part 1) (part 2)

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October 15

Quale storiografia per quale storia?

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June 12

Words in Postwar Architectural Discourse

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April 27

Reflexe der Moderne

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Here’s something all of you guys in Turin should check out (and the others might also consider visiting, depending on their reach). The travelling exhibition Reflexe der Moderne – Thoughts and positions of Contemporary Architecture in Germany is opening today. The show will be hosted by the exhibition area of the Faculty of Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino (Castello del Valentino) in the Valentino’s Castle (“Sala delle Colonne”) until May 8.

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April 17

Portaluppi Foundation presentation at Palazzo Litta

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(All images courtesy of Portaluppi Foundation)

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Study for S.K.N.E. skyscraper, New York, 1920.

The following days promise to be full of meetings and cultural spurs. Milan is in a state of ferment, not only for the 2009 Milan Salone del Mobile, for which people are coming from all over the world, but also because of the traditional National Culture Week, a yearly celebration promoted by the Ministry for the Arts and the Environment and taking place from April 18 to April 26.

The event, which first made its début 24 years ago, aims to promote national heritage through specific events and opening all public cultural institutions. This year’s tagline is Culture belongs to anybody: join in, well represents the spirit of the Culture Week: supporting popular attention on arts through exhibitions, lectures, workshops, concerts, shows, movies, guided tours and exceptional openings in every Italian region. Private institutions, local and territorial authorities, foundations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and abroad italian institutes for culture are all contributing.

Out of the many events, we’re particularly happy to announce the presentation of the Piero Portaluppi Foundation, taking place this monday April 20th, at 5 p.m, at Palazzo Litta, corso Magenta, 24, Azzurra Hall. Read more

March 5

Second Bienal de Canarias
The Belly of Architecture

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Sla – Elisio – the celestial space over AroS 2007

The second Bienal de Canarias of Architecture, Art and Landscape opens today. This year’s edition is committed to a critical reflection upon the concept of contemporary landscape, as applied to the Canarian Islands themselves and the other atlantic archipelagos now “repositioning” in the international network and trying to safeguard their natural heritage from touristic massification at the same time.
Events, seminars, conferences and roundtables are scheduled in Tenerife and Gran Canaria until April 30. In particular, we’d like to highlight the March 23 and 24 seminar ” “The Belly of the Architecture (space and landscape). Space inside, space in-between”, curated by IUAV’s DPA director Renato Bocchi. Read more

December 24

Decolonizing Architecture @ Bozar, Brussels

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If architecture is more about the ways it can connect a community than its trend-conditioned physical shapes and styles, in many occasions building becomes the second choice, after a conscious and context-savvy re-using.

In post-colonial areas, infrastructures can mean so much more than they look like, and they are often a decaying heritage of a burning, and still too near, past. An exhibition titled Decolonizing Architecture at the Bozar in Brussels presents several “tactical interventions” and perspectives for a post-colonial environment, where, instead of becoming abandoned buildings or polluting rubbish, colonial structures are converted into functional spaces. Read more

October 20

Park Nights: Manifesto Marathon @ Serpentine Gallery, London

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Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Marathons are famous by now, and we’re proud to say The 2008 Skira Yearbook of World Architecture was displayed in last weekend’s Manifesto Marathon at the Frank Gehry-designed Serpentine Gallery Pavillon in London.
The Yearbook was presented as a Manifesto you could read amongst those exposed by various artists, and our editor-in-chief Luca Molinari was also there attending the event.
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