November 26

What’s up in the skies of Milan…

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(All photos © Dunia Rahwan)

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November 2

Unveiled Jordan

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(Text, images and video by Nataleen Daas)

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Unveiled Jordan along Via Dante

During the past week (October 22-30), Milan had the chance to experience a tour in Jordan’s culture and get to know more about Jordanian products and arts.
The Jordanian week started with “Giordania Svelata” (Unveiled Jordan), photo exhibit launched by the Jordan Tourism Board (JTB) featuring 60 spectacular images taken in different parts of the country by Italian and Jordanian photographers and displayed along the pedestrian Via Dante.

This special week was inaugurated by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah and developed around three main locations: outdoor along Via Dante, in Via Dante Quattordici Gallery and in Galleria Meravigli. The event at “Via Dante 14 Gallery” was a photo exhibit too, while in Galleria Meravigli a real Jordanian market took place selling Jordanian handmade products and artworks. All images displayed in the gallery were on sale; the revenue will be assigned to various charity projects promoted by the Jordan River Foundation (JRF). Read more

March 20

Architecture snaps on Flickr

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Let’s face it: reading on the internet can be pretty boring. Even the most interesting text can be impossible to digest when it comes as a solid block of tight black-on-white pixels, and that’s why people try and post as many pictures as they can. Plus, you get to share your own view on things you’ve seen and places you’ve been, which is good. For you architecture-starved blog-readers, here’s an amazing collection of architecture photos from Flickr sets around the world, spotted and categorized by guaduatedegree.org. Categories range from general attitudes towards architecture to specific locations or decades (check out some examples below).

Architectural Paparazzi – photo by Trout Factory

Architecture Porn – photo by Optimieron
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January 30

The Places We Live

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In 2008, for the first time in history, the worldwide urban population got bigger than that of rural areas. Slums are the fastest growing living environment and provide shelter to one billion people all over the world, but the conditions in which their dwellers survive everyday are often subhuman. Between 2005 and 2007, Magnum’s Jonas Bendiksen travelled across the world to document the most populated slums and the people living in them. Overpopulation, lack of sanitation, electricity and water, violence and crime are the main problems we always hear about in the media, but Bendiksen’s work gets deeper into the infinite nuances and experiences of the very people who struggle every day through poverty in the slums of Caracas, Kibera, Dharavi, Jakarta. He entered their households, took pictures, interviewed them, had them narrate their anecdotes and talk about their daily routines. His experience became a book and a multimedia exhibition at the Nobel Peace Center in Oslo, focusing in particular on the human dimension of slums: the households themselves. If you don’t have the chance to check out the exhibition or buy the book, luckily there is also this amazing website.

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December 8

Marina Ballo Charmet – Il Parco

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Marina Ballo Charmet
Il Parco

December 11, 08 – January 18, 09

Location: Triennale di Milano

Free admission

Central Park, Hyde Park, La Villette. We know parks are a nodal place in contemporary cities, the only space where the urban frenzy of major metropolises gives way to a healthier, enjoyable living environment for their citizens. A missing beat in the neck-breaking pace of Western living, a pause on a bench while beholding the public greenery is always good for your soul. On the border between public and living space, parks often sew close all the most significant articulations in urban environment: inside/outside, private/public, center/suburb. Read more

December 3

Some pictures from the Cina // Tibet selection

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Here are some pictures by photographers Filippo Romano and Alberto Giuliani. More info back here.

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December 1

Cina // Tibet, a book by Alberto Giuliani and Filippo Romano

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Filippo Romano has been traveling across China between 2005 and 2008, documenting its most populated urban areas and highlighting the relationship between their big, anonymous spaces and their inhabitants. We’ve already shown you some of his work here. His portrait of a two-speed China (the country’s progress vs the people’s living), along with fellow photographer Alberto Giuliani’s depiction of rural Tibet, is the object of CINA // TIBET, an upcoming photo book commissioned by Amnesty International and soon to be presented at Mi Camera in Milan.

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November 20

Tenerife Arts Space by Herzog & De Meuron

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(photos © Federico Garcìa)

Spain: Herzog & De Meuron strike again. After the Caixa Forum in Madrid, here’s the second art-related project in one year. The swiss architects’ latest work has been unveiled just a few days ago in Tenerife, where it adhers to the rocky walls of Barranco de Santos, right next to the city’s historic core. Read more

November 14

Contemporary Architectural Photographs
Recent Works by Iwan Baan

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(all photos © Iwan Baan)

The brilliant dutch photographer Iwan Baan, whose pictures are published in prestigious magazines like Domus, Abitare, The New Yorker, New York Times, TIME magazine, A+U, ICON, MARK and FRAME, is now exhibiting some of his most recent works at the AA Gallery in London until December 10.

Yearbook 2008 features some of his photos of the colossal Steven Holl’s Linked Hybrid in Beijing. Check out some of his shots and, if you happen to be in London, don’t miss the exhibition! Read more

October 22

Filippo Romano goes to China

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Shortly before the last Olympics, Yearbook friend and contributor Filippo Romano went to China and portrayed Herzog & De Meuron’s Beijing National Stadium. Here are some of the pictures he took.

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