March 8

Costruire secondo natura

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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 12

Jean Prouvé. The Technical Object Poetics @ Mendrisio Academy Gallery

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(All materials courtesy of Mendrisio Academy of Architecture)

Next week Mendrisio Academy Gallery opens its doors for “Jean Prouvé. La Poetica dell’Oggetto Tecnico” (“Jean Prouvé. The Technical Object Poetics“) curated by Bruno Reichlin and Franz Graf. The solo exhibition will feature a notable selection of design pieces (chairs, armchairs, tables, desks, beds and lamps), architecture elements and models – among others: Paris Aluminium Centenary Pavilion, Niamey Tropical house (Niger), Prouvé House in Nancy – dating back 1924 up to the 70’s. The exhibit is evidence of the versatile and innovative talent of Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) who designed pieces which are 20th century classics and succesfully combined entrepreneurship and professional ethics. The first steps as blacksmith apprentice, a true passion for handicraft and details, the knowledge of industrial application and mechanism allowed the french designer to become a furniture builder, an architect and a highly esteemed professor at Paris Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers. His works were mass-produced even if economical reward see-sawed. Read more

January 19

Aldo Lanzini – Dopo le cause, prima delle conseguenze

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Aldo Lanzini @ Triennale Bovisa Milano
from February 3 to 28 – dal 3 al 28 febbraio
Opening on Tuesday February 2, h.6.30pm – Inaugurazione martedi 2 febbraio dalle 18.30

Aldo Lanzini’s exhibition is the first of a series of shows, workshops, and events curated by do-knit-yourself and taking place at Triennale Bovisa from February to June 2010.

Together with crocket hook pieces conceived around the theme of identity in costruction, already shown in the photographic version during the Dritto-Rovescio exhibition in March 2009, Lanzini also presents a series of multi-media pieces (drawing, sewing, writing, photography, music and video) some of which have been realized for the occasion. In the spirit of Triennale Bovisa’s activities, where exhibitions become ateliers, during the show (February 2010) the artist and do-knit-yourself will hold Talking Hands, a few open workshops on manual tecniques. Read more

December 28

The ways of Fashion and Design

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Aversa – Facoltà di Architettura SUN
Chiostro di San Lorenzo
December 16, 2009 – January 7, 2010

Between hand-made and Made in Italy, an intricated close-up on clothing and objects outlines the ways of fashion and design, drawing unusual visual paths shaping a history that’s yet to be written.

The exhibition is part of the “Storie per il design” class, in the Design and Fashion course’s first year, curated by professor Francesca Castanò and professor Ornella Cirillo. Le vie della moda e del design aims at highlighting the existing connections between the campanian textile tradition and industrial-bred innovation on national scale during the XX century. Read more

December 22

More pictures from the Marina Ballo Charmet exhibition

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(All photos courtesy of Marina Ballo Charmet)

Berlino

Parigi

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December 21

At Land: Bodyscape & Cityscape
Marina Ballo Charmet @ Storefront, NYC

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At Land: Bodyscape & Cityscape – Photographs and Video by Marina Ballo Charmet
Curated by Jean-François Chevrier
Nov 19 2009 – Jan 9 2010
Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11:00AM – 6:00PM
Closed Sunday and Monday.

The work of photographer and artist Marina Ballo Charmet, whose formal training is as a psychoanalyst, is centered on what she describes as “inattentive, unintentional observation, irrational and without direction”.
This retrospective exhibition, curated by critic and writer Jean-Francois Chevrier, presents a selection of photographic and video works produced since 1995 that investigate a variety of subjects ranging from the ordinary and the mundane in the urban landscape to the human figure. Ballo Charmet’s work constitutes less an attempt to provide a pictorial rendition of these subjects than an endeavour to evoke the “unperceived” in our daily experiences. Her photographs of the urban landscape concentrates on shreds of the city: details of sidewalks, the upper levels of buildings that pulse in and out of the margins of our field of view; her exploration of the human body concentrates on specific areas such as the area between the breast and the mouth, the first field of view a baby becomes familiar with.

The images featured in her Parks series – an ongoing project that has taken her to public parks in Milan, London, Berlin, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Madrid, Lisbon, Palermo and New York – are photographed close to the ground, revealing each park as its own universe. Ballo Charmet’s work is less an exercise in representation of her chosen subjects – whether they be details of cities, urban landscapes, portions of the human figure or parkscapes, than an investigation of how we perceive them. Read more

December 15

9 architetti x 9 paesaggi italiani. Photogallery

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(Text by Angelica Di Virgilio, photos © Vincenzo Caputo)

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A couple of weeks ago we presented you 9 architetti x 9 paesaggi italiani, held in Bari and open until January 30, 2010. Today we show you a selection of photos of the exhibition display by Vincenzo Caputo. The setting was realized by architect Mauro Sàito within Teatro Margherita, a location still on the stocks waiting for a more definitive future and use.

Entering the foyer you find yourself in a long peninsula-shaped area, an hypothetical section of Italy presenting, from North to South, the showcased project models realized by the architects invited to join the exhibition (Stefano Boeri, Cecchetto & Associati, Gambardellarchitetti, Garofalo Miura Architetti, Metrogramma, Nowa, Mauro Sàito, Beniamino Servino, Studio Archea): from the Domus Malles project by Metrogramma in Bolzano, to Nuovo Ospedale del Golfo in Formia (Latina) by Garofalo Miura Architetti, up to the deep south with the ICS Square project by Nowa in San Michele di Ganzaria (Catania). Read more

December 1

9 architetti x 9 paesaggi italiani
Project slideshow video

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Here’s a slideshow video showing projects featured in the 9 architetti x 9 paesaggi italiani exhibition curated by Luca Molinari.

November 30

L’architettura italiana è un frammento di paesaggio!

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(Text by Luca Molinari and Angelica Di Virgilio)

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Il lavoro di nove autori dell’architettura italiana contemporanea come frammenti attivi del nostro paesaggio. Questo è il punto di partenza della mostra e, in fondo, la provocazione culturale che sottende questa iniziativa.
L’architettura, con la sua presenza fisica e la sua forza iconica, diventa, ogni volta, un nuovo frammento che può contribuire, o meno, al rafforzamento e al cambiamento del territorio in cui si inserisce. Ma non solo.
L’architettura contemporanea italiana, dopo almeno tre decenni di pesanti stravolgimenti delle coste, delle campagne e delle nostre città, ha una decisiva responsabilità culturale nell’indicare alcune, potenziali, strade da seguire nella ridefinizione di un paesaggio in cerca di una diversa identità. Read more

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