Juin 2008
division of Archi-Europe Group


 Editiorial


The energetic efficacy of buildings, a controversial issue

For over a year, we have been interested in examples of sustainable architecture. Because in the future the latest technology can be used, the controlled management, the progress in CAD and the multimedia, and the construction of buildings is becoming increasingly attuned to the environment. The climatic change has altered the way of building and renovation considerably. That is why we attended a large convention on the Isle of Rhodes, recently organised by the Van Marke firm to help its clients in their choice of sustainable techniques and products. Over 2200 fitters, architects, and engineers took part in this event, which was titled « Change of Climate – Climate of Change ». How can we make clients invest in sustainable techniques? What are the rules, subsidies, and premiums? What is HQE? All these questions and more regarding heating, ventilation, and automation of the home, were focal points in workshops lead by various technicians and professors.

It is evident that we now have the means to lower our energy bills considerably and to replace the boilers that waste so much energy with condensation equipment with sophisticated photovoltaic or geothermic installations. Thanks to various subsidies, the photovoltaic panels are very popular with a number of people, which is also true for thermal solar power. Thermal solar panels are very suitable for domestic use; they can largely provide in our need for hot water and central heating. Since heat pumps use heat in the air or under the ground, it is possible – if they use green energy – to heat, cool, and even produce water with a neutral CO2-content.

At the top of the pyramid of models is the passive dwelling, which uses up to 85% less energy than average. Thanks to proper insulation, good compactness, and effective ventilation systems, we can limit the necessary amount of heat to 10 W/m², or 10 times less than in a classic dwelling. The European guidelines regarding the environmental policy have dramatically influenced the national and regional legislature of each member state, which has mainly resulted in the performance certificates or energy identity cards for existing companies. This official document will undoubtedly become a deciding factor in building negotiations and will entail several big changes.

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 Portrait of the month


Christine Conix, Antwerp

 « During the past 30 years, all my projects were challenges, Christine Conix admits ». The Conix Architects firm is headed by the Antwerp architect with Sylvie Bruyninckx and it now has 80 employees in Antwerp and Brussels combined. The firm does not want to specialise in one particular sector or concentrate on consumer-architecture, which makes it a very diverse firm. Moreover, it works in both on a large-scale and a small scale, ranging from total urbanisation to furniture design. Christine Conix wants us to discover her buildings and learn to love them. There is not one building that will leave you untouched, however discreet they may be. After all, emotion provides the true benefit in architecture and the details become extremely important as well.
Without becoming pedantic, the architect defines four basic criteria in his/her work: the context (each location needs a separate analysis and approach), the human factor (emotion, culture), expertise (ability in technical drawing and knowledge of the budget provided), and the sustainable choice of materials and products. The latter criterion does take up a special position: within the « Energy » cell three people continually keep up with technological progress concerning sustainable development to be able to fit projects into this trend. However, building with sustainable materials, not using too much water and  supporting recycling is not enough. You also need to care about the urban space, the heritage, and building methods. Although Christine Conix has been applying these principles intuitively since the beginning of her career as an architect, her firm has grown so much over the past 10 years that she has had to mark out these principles more formally in order to enable better communication with her various collaborators.
« The human value of architecture depends on the dimension and the materials; it concerns points of contact throughout the space and the volumes, Christine Conix told us confidentially more than 15 years ago. » In the light of these recent projects, the Conix Architect firm shows its grand qualities once again: originality, fresh ideas, clear answers, an open mind, and constant questions. With knowledge and dynamism. Wasn’t her main thought « Continuously in motion »?

1. Christine Conix
2. Renovation of the Atomium, Brussels (2006)
Thanks to an ambitious renovation project, the monument was restored to all its former glory: a technological feat from the fifties and a symbol of the European capital. Because of this work, the location could be interpreted differently, and the surface of the spheres was fully renewed (hollow-core constructions from stainless, mirrored steel). Moreover, the interior now meets the requirements for comfort and safety, while the fifties atmosphere is maintained. The fully cleaned admission platform opens up into a flexible exhibition space.
3. Williot,  Berchem Antwerp (2007)
These dark brick blocks are part of a large project of family housing. The design of these apartments is based on a conceptual quest for diversity in each flat. Conix Architects has tried to communicate the human factor and the individual characteristics. The façade of the main building’s uniformity is rhythmically relieved by a number of windows.
4. Breda & Co Bank, Antwerp (2007)
After years of neglect, the former Goederenstation Zuid once again proves its glorious past. The feat of strength in the realisation was the balance between the original structure and the current elements of the new office building, which is similar to the old station (the same height, verticality and few openings). The façade is covered in black, patinated zinc and it reminds us of the industrial character of the location. Out of mutual respect, the two buildings do not touch, but they are interconnected by a double transparent footbridge.
5. Seamco, Ranst (2007)
The concept of this office building reflects the activity, which is the Seamco firm’s specialisation (machines for manufacturing reusable plastic bottles), mainly light and technological materials. While the upper part consists of one piece, the open and considerable base creates the effect of a floating storey. The double façade wall (high quality, double-glazing, and acrylic tubing) combined with the awning; the intensive ventilation and the alternative HVAC system make this a sustainable building project.
6. Umicore, Hoboken (under construction)
Conix Architects is working on a 110 Ha location in order to restore its structural cohesion and to give the Umicore Company a dynamic image. There were several interventions, particularly the renovation of a number of important buildings, creating green zones and constructing a new office building. The architectural character of this building with its extremely expressive design provides an emotional touch in an industrial context.


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1. Christine Conix


2. Renovation of the Atomium


3. Williot


4. Breda & Co Bank


5. Seamco


6. Umicore



 Project of the month

Chapelle des Diaconesses, Versailles
Architect Marc Rolinet


 

 

 

 




This modern chapel recently won the Special Jury Prize during “Lauriers de la Construction Bois”, awarded at the European Wood Fair in Grenoble. The architect is responsible for Arbresles, a complex of residences and studios, which was built in 2001 in the same location: he took up the challenge of creating a harmonious structure within its natural surroundings. It is a symbolic reflection of the cloth tent, which up to then had been used for the large ceremonies of the Protestant Community of the Deaconesses. The architectural design departed from a certain amount of respect for the local topography and a limited budget. Result: solid simplicity in its shapes and materials, a combination of wood and glass. Looking tall, the new building comprises a place of worship; it entails an organic aspect because of the interconnected wooden beams (each beam was separately arched in a steam bath) and the glass enclosure with triangular peaks, heightened with a roof also made of wooden beams.  A kind of monastery corridor provides the transit between the two. The glass cladding enables the building to breathe inside, while it protects the whole and gives it a balanced and light impression. This way we can relieve the structure as much as possible, extend the span, and decrease the number of steel girders. Light plays everywhere, thanks to the transparent glass or the light filtered through the wooden nave.
In the quest for a natural building with a definite Protestant character, the architect has done the utmost concerning the resistance of the materials. For instance, he uses the curves in the wood as protection against the summer sun. The micro-perforated glass vault provides a good circulation of air.  Out of respect for the environment, Marc Rolinet wanted to realise a bio climatological building regarding design, materials, the optimal use of natural light, and the natural circulation of air.  Thanks to the light structure, a transparent glass unit emerges from the natural scope, where the material resembles an inverted wooden ship. Moreover, the building has the advantage of high quality acoustics, on the one hand, they are a buffer against the intrusive noise of the neighbouring station, and on the other hand, they provide optimal sound quality in the chapel. Thanks to the natural materials and the bio climatological effect of the building, this realisation is part of an HQE development. The slightly rising, triangular shape of the roof provides the chapel with an original look and it reinforces the pure character of the lines.


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 Agenda

- GERMANY -

  • Umsicht - Regards - Sguardi
    (> 22/06/2008) - Berlin
    Deutsche Architektur Zentrum

    The exhibition is a snapshot of sustainable development in Swiss building culture. It presents the results of an award given by the Swiss Society of Engineers and Architects (SIA) for the design of a sustainable environment. Works of different scales are presented, which by demonstrating either an exemplary, or an unexpected and creative engagement with the social and natural environment, lead the way for future development.
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  • MVRDV H2O Water City Projects
    (> 27/07/2008) - Berlin
    Aedes Land

    This is a manifesto illustrating problems and challenges (the urgencies). Projects, visions, studies are juxtaposed to show possible solutions (the escapes). Big prints and movies, models and panels show different projects situated at and around the waterfront, representing more than 25 years of work of Rotterdam-based architects MVRDV. The show provides an overview of recent examples of MVRDV’s water city projects from all over the world – such as the study “climax” on climate change, developed by MVRDV in cooperation with the Cité de Sciences et de l’Industrie (Paris, 2003/4); the Lagoon City master plan for a marina in Istanbul (2006); a master plan for a neighbourhood at Siutghiol Lake in Romania (2007); a prototype for an “escape house” in New Orleans, and many more.
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  • Living Under the Crescent Moon
    (> 31/08/2008) - Weil am Rhein
    Vitra Design Museum

    The exhibition demonstrates the diversity of domestic lifestyles between Morocco, Syria and the Arabian Peninsula - from the nomadic tents of the Tuareg or Bedouins to Moroccan casbahs; from the grand courtyard houses in cities such as Marrakech, Damascus or Cairo to buildings by twentieth-century architects like Hassan Fathy, Elie Mouyal or Abdelwahed El-Wakil. Numerous models and reconstructed room environments provide visitors with an opportunity to physically experience various building types, while domestic objects such as ceramics, textiles, tools and architectural elements offer impressions of everyday customs.
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  • Drawn in sand - Unrealised visions by Alvar Aalto
    (> 31/09/2008) - Munich
    Pinakothek der Moderne
    The exhibition is showing 120 drawings and 18 models of those projects by the Finnish architect and designer that were never realised. The impressive works from the 1950's include international plans for projects such as the Piazza in Montreal, a Columbus Memorial in Santo Domingo and Museums of Art in Shiraz and Tallinn.
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  • Custody 08
    (> 31/09/2008) - Francfort/Main
    Altes Polizeigefängnis Klapperfeldstrasse
    Given the enormous public interest last year, the former police custody building is to be made accesible once again and its site features an altered exhibition.
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  • COLLECTIONE
    (4 - 8/07/2008) - Francfort/Main
    The summertime consumer goods fair for a large-scale retailer or distributor
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  • TENDENCE DECORATE LIFE
    (4 - 8/07/2008) - Francfort/Main
    The new all-in-one trend fair: all seasons, all channels of distribution
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- AUSTRIA -

  • Linz Texas. A City Relates
    (> 8/09/2008) - Vienna
    Architekturzentrum Wien - Old Hall
    The aim pursued by the exhibition is a daring one. 'A City Relates' alludes to individual facets and attributes of the town that link the federal state of Upper Austria to both obvious and apparently absurd aspects of other towns and cities. With this concept an emphatic and atmospheric reading is suddenly opened that goes well beyond previously known methods of representing a town. The result is an adventurous profusion of comparisons intended to refresh the view of the city of Linz and its affinities, and to inspire the imagination.
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  • Andreas Fogarasi 2008
    (> 14/09/2008) - Vienna
    MAK gallery
    In his spatial work, typographical studies and architectural analyses, Andreas Fogarasi investigates the institutional parameters of a geographical and political space and challenges its cultural representations.
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  • Julian Opie. Recent Works
    (> 21/09/2008) - Vienna
    MAK Exhibition Hall
    Born in London in 1958, Julian Opie has been one of the most important exponents of contemporary British art over the last two decades. His works expand the territory between painting and sculpture. For some years moving pictures have also been found in his work, generated frequently by means of LCD and LED signs.
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  • Drawn in sand - Unrealised visions by Alvar Aalto
    (> 31/09/2008) - Munich
    Pinakothek der Moderne
    The exhibition is showing 120 drawings and 18 models of those projects by the Finnish architect and designer that were never realised. The impressive works from the 1950's include international plans for projects such as the Piazza in Montreal, a Columbus Memorial in Santo Domingo and Museums of Art in Shiraz and Tallinn.
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  • Mind Expanders
    (25/07/2008 - 30/06/2009) - Vienna
    Museum Moderner Kunst

    The utopic architecture of the Sixties and Seventies
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- BELGIUM -

  • Pierre Paulin
    (> 18/06/2008) - Hornu
    Grand-Hornu

    First big retrospective about one of the most important designers from the second half of the 20th century. Pierre Paulin has always been linked to pop design and the 60s and 70s.
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  • Voices. Contemporary Ceramic Art from Sweden
    (> 22/06/2008) - Ghent
    Design Museum
    The exhibition displays works by ten contemporary Swedish ceramics artists. Inger Mollin, the exhibition’s curator, selected artists from various generations who are all taking a different approach to ceramics. Each of those has a different voice.
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  • Conversation - Conservation
    (> 22/06/2008) - Ghent
    Verzameld Werk
    Meeting between the designers Matali Crasset (France) and Frank Van Houtte (Belgium)
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  • De Nieuwe Oogst
    (> 17/08/2008) - Brussels
    Design Vlaanderen Galerie
    Exhibition dedicated to 17 young Flemish designers.
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  • Gevers Design
    (> 17/08/2008) - Brussels
    CIVA
    The Works of the interior designer Christophe Gevers (1928-2007).
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  • Design September
    (> 26/09/2008) - Brussels
    En septembre, Bruxelles va vibrer au rythme du design. Le festival Design September initié l’an dernier rassemblera une cinquantaine d’événements ayant comme dénominateur commun le design. Expositions, conférences, projections de films, débats, visites d’ateliers de designers, marché aux puces, circuits urbains, le programme est cette année particulièrement riche et diversifié.
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  • Gre3n Design
    (> 26/09/2008) - Brussels
    Pierre Bergé & Associés
    Une dizaine de designers finlandais, belges et néerlandais présentent des produits créés avec des matériaux recyclés selon les valeurs traditionnelles du design, à savoir esthétique et fonctionnalité.
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  • Still - Design Academy Eindhoven
    (13 - 28/09/2008) - Brussels
    Atelier d’architecture intérieure de La Cambre, Hôtel van de Velde

    Cette exposition de jeunes diplômés de la Design Academy d’Eindhoven semble amorcer un nouveau style de vie plus serein. Le célèbre institut fondé en 1947 a lancé les grands noms de la scène hollandaise actuelle: Marcel Wanders, Hella Jongerius, Tord Boontje, Bertjan Pot, Richard Hutten, Studio Job et Maarten Baas.
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  • Marti Guixé. Open-End
    (5/10/2008) - Hornu
    Grand-Hornu
    Grand-Hornu Images invite Martí Guixé pour une « carte blanche » dans l’Aile Nord et les jardins du Grand-Hornu. Le designer propose pour l’occasion une série de projets originaux produits pour la manifestation et volontairement décalés par rapport aux expositions traditionnelles. Il développe, pour le Grand-Hornu, une démarche centrée sur le feu, la célébration et l’espace public. Il a choisi le Grand-Hornu pour entamer une nouvelle exploration de son univers créatif, après dix ans de création…
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  • Beurs Nieuws (Fair Promises)
    (12/09 - 26/10/2008) - Brussels
    Design Vlaanderen Galerie
    Objects and projects of the « Avant-garde » Flemish designers with a visit in the latest international fairs: Heimtextil, Salons du meuble de Cologne et de Milan, ICFF…
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  • Belgique 58
    (> 21/12/2008) - Brussels
    Musée d'Architecture - La Loge

    Drawings, photographies, posters and furniture representing the style of 58 in Belgium.
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  • L’héritage de l’esprit 58 (Workshop)
    (> 9/09/2008) - Brussels
    CIVA
    Le contexte de la création en Belgique dans les années ’50. Des architectes et designers actifs en 58 (André Jacqmain, Michel Olyff, Jean-Jacques Evrard) seront confrontés à des personnalités œuvrant dans le monde de la création actuelle (Diane Hennebert, Damien Bihr, Elric Petit).
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  • Gre3n Design (Workshop)
    (> 16/09/2008) - Brussels
    Parlement Européen
    Les aspects écologiques, économiques et politiques du design au niveau de l’Union Européenne.
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  • Maarten Baas (Lecture)
    (17/09/2008 à 20h - réservation obligatoire) - Brussels
    Flagey
    Très conceptuel, le design de Maarten Baas se révèle emblématique de l’enseignement de l’Académie d’Eindhoven. En tant que concepteur d’espaces, on lui doit une partie de l’équipement des chambres et du lobby du Gramercy Park Hotel à New York. En avril dernier, Established & Sons présentait une toute nouvelle collection entièrement dessinée par le designer néerlandais.
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  • Jurgen Bey (Lecture)
    (18/09/2008 à 20h - réservation obligatoire) - Brussels
    Flagey
    Parmi les nombreux objets édités du du designer néerlandais, enseignant au Royal College of Art à Londres, on retiendra la St-Petersbourg Chair pour Droog Design, le Minutes Service pour Koninklijke Tichelaar, la lampe Lightshade-shades pour Moooi, le tree-Trunk bench, les meubles Kokon et le Gardening Bench pour Droog Design.
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  • Patrick Jouin (Lecture)
    (23/09/2008 à 20h - réservation obligatoire) - Brussels
    Flagey
    Le designer français a créé un prototype pour Renault, du mobilier pour l’éditeur italien Cassina puis pour Fermob, Moderno, Lexon, Ligne Roset, Murano Due, Kartell et Materialise-MGX. Son travail est caractérisé par un style discret, où l’élégance du minimum révèle le luxe de l’objet pensé et fonctionnel. Aujourd’hui, il relève le défi d’être le designer des plus beaux restaurants du monde.
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  • Ron Arad (Lecture)
    (25/09/2008 à 20h - réservation obligatoire) - Brussels
    Flagey

    Le cycle de conférences de Design September se clôturera en beauté avec l’un des architectes designers les plus en vue de la planète. Les produits manufacturés de Ron Arad sont devenus des icônes du design des années 90 (Bookworm, Well Tempered Chair, Tom Vac, Little Albert Chair). Son design est caractérisé par des formes simples avec un faible pour les courbes… Non dénuées d’humour, ses réalisations sont des expérimentations véritables où manipulation et transformation sont les maîtres mots ! Son projet architecturalpour la Médiacité de Liège est actuellement en construction.
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  • DECOSIT
    (13 - 16/09/2008) - Brussels
    International Exhibition for Home textile fabrics.
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- DENMARK -

  • Cézanne & Giacometti
    (> 29/06/2008) - Humlebæk
    Louisiana Museum
    For the first time in the world an exhibition is being shown that confronts the works of the two artists Paul Cézanne (1839-1906) and Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) with each other.
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  • Bodil Manz
    (> 3/08/2008) - Copenhagen
    Danish Museum Art & Design
    Bodil Manz belongs in the international elite of ceramicists represented in important museums and private collections worldwide. Through 40 years Bodil Manz has developed a craftsmanship of which the parchment-thin and transparent cylinders are the pinnacle. Bodil Manz has always experimented and sought new challenges in expression and technique, she has worked with plaster tableaus, sand-cast porcelain squares and handmade paper. The exhibition at the Danish Museum of Art & Design illustrates the whole spectre of Bodil Manz' work, from the expressionistic pieces of the early years of youth to the cylinders with geometric abstract graphics of the latest years, ‘Transparent Zen’
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  • Living Word
    (> 7/09/2008) - Copenhagen
    Danish Design Centre

    The exhibition is a look at innovative design developments in the Danish wood and furniture industry. Living Wood looks at wood design and innovation in a developmental perspective. The exhibition tells the stories about wood and the companies and designers that define the industry and presents examples of successful Danish products from the wood and furniture industry.
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  • Building Sustainable Communities
    (26/06 - 21/09/2008) - Copenhagen
    Danish Architecture Centre
    The Danish Architecture Centre poses the question how do architects and engineers actually engage in global development and do they recognise the need for corporations to take on their share of social and ethical responsibility for the World.
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- SPAIN -

  • Building, Dwellind, Thinking. Survey of Contemporary Art & Architecture
    (> 6/07/2008) - Valencia
    IVAM
    Centro Julio Gonzalez This exhibition borrows the title of a famous intervention by Martin Heidegger to speak about the relationships between contemporary art and architecture. Beyond the culture of facades and the vertigo of the spectacle, a way of thinking and building develops and addresses the problem of living in a world that, although it is ideologically globalised, presents many inequalities.
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  • Javier Riera
    (> 1/09/2008) - Madrid
    Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
    The production of Javier Riera (Avilés, Asturias, 1964) reveals a purification process that has moved from atmospheric, emotional painting to more descriptive and concrete work, by means of a dialogue between reason and emotion. With an approach close to Land Art poetics and using photography as a support, he projects geometrical patterns of light onto a nocturnal landscape.
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  • Surreal Things
    (> 7/09/2008) - Bilbao
    Museum Guggenheim

    This remarkable exhibition is the first to explore the influence of Surrealism on the world of design: theatre, interiors, fashion, film, architecture, and advertising. Showcasing approximately 250 objects drawn from public and private collections worldwide—many of which have never been exhibited before—Surreal Things emphasizes the tensions that arose from the increasing commercialization of Surrealism’s visual aesthetic.
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  • Francesc Torrent. Da Capo
    (> 28/09/2008) - Barcelona
    Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
    A pioneer of the language of installation art, Francesc Torres (Barcelona, 1948) critically reflects on the diverse manifestations of culture, politics, memory and power through his multimedia installations, which give him a unique place in the art of the last few decades. The MACBA retrospective includes a selection of works carried out from the end of the sixties to the present with recent productions.
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  • HABITAT VALENCIA FORWARD
    (24 - 29/09/2008) - Valencia
    European creavity meeting point (furniture, decoration a accessories)
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  • WORLD ARCHITECTURE FESTIVAL
    (22 - 25/10/2008) - Barcelone
    First annual worldarchitecture event
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- FINLAND -
  • Summer Nights and Winter Days
    (> 28/09/2008) - Helsinki
    Design Museum
    Installation of jewellery and other objects by silversmith Juhani Heikkilä....
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  • Image and After
    (> 22/02/2009) - Helsinki
    Kiasma
    Contemporary art often has nothing to do with images in frames, yet the concept and nature of the image remain fundamental questions of art. Image and After presents work from Kiasma’s collection that approach the themes of image and its absence from a variety of perspectives.
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  • Building. Designing. Thinking (Workshop)
    (> 31/08/2009) - Jyväskylä
    Alvar Aalto Museum
    The 3rd International Meeting on the Research of Modern Architecture, organised by the Alvar Aalto Academy, examines the points of contact, the influences and effects, the interactions and affiliations, the correlations and cross-fertilisations, the bonds and links between thinking, designing, and building. Chaired by Kari Jormakka, the meeting brings together practicing architects and architectural pedagogues, philosophers and art historians, sociologists and cultural theorists. In addition to presentations by distinguished invited speakers, as Pier Vittorio Aureli, Bernard Cache, Leslie Kavanaugh, Kimmo Lapintie, Farshid Moussavi et Jane Rendell.
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- FRANCE -

  • De la feuille à la courbe
    (> 16/06/2008) - Bordeaux
    Musée des Arts décoratifs
    An exhibition dedicated to the 150 silverware pieces of Roland
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  • Brenac et Gonzalez
    (> 21/06/2008) - Paris
    Galerie d'Architecture
    Architectural projects
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  • Architecture cubiste Tchèque
    (> 21/06/2008) - Paris
    Centre Tchèque
    The main people and buidings of the Cubist Movement from 1911 to 1914
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  • Architecture japonaise 1996-2006 / Parallel Nippon
    (> 21/06/2008) - Paris
    Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris

    This exhibition presents 10 years of Japanese architecture and shows how the architects have adapted themselves to the new challenges of a changing world : Tadao Ando, Shigeru Ban, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Kazuyo Seijima...
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  • All'aperto
    (> 25/07/2008) - Toulouse
    Galerie Kreo
    Design collection of Pierre Charpin and Alessandro Mendini
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  • Le design au pouvoir
    (> 27/07/2008) - Toulouse
    Mobilier Nacional, Galerie des Gobelins
    The work of the designer Pierre Paulin for Le Mobilier Nacional
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  • Mega City in China
    (> 31/07/2008) - Toulouse
    Centre Méridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville
    Urban development in China
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  • Dominique Perrault
    (11/06 - 22/09/2008) - Paris
    Centre Pompidou
    The first very important exhibition dedicated to the French architect Dominique Perrault, after Christian de Portzamparc (1996), Renzo Piano (2000), Jean Nouvel (2001), Thom Mayne (2006) and Richard Rogers (2007).
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  • La peau. Entre texture et ossature
    (> 31/12/2008) - Paris
    Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine - Palais de Chaillot
    The building’s skin has always been a challenge for the architects and the builders. The scenography of this exhibition conceived by the architects Hamonic+Masson presents 14 projects recently realized or under construction in France.
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- GREAT-BRITAIN -
  • Surface of Spaces
    (> 21/06/2008) - Glasgow
    The Lighthouse
    Work with a professional interior designer to create a simple sensory model of your home, suitable for 8 years.
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  • China Design Now
    (> 13/07/2008) - London
    Victoria & Albert Museum Architecture Exhibition Gallery

    The exhibition will explore the recent explosion of new design in China
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  • Richard Rogers + Architects. From the House to the City
    (> 25/08/2008) - Londres
    Design Museum
    Recipient of the most prestigious distinction in international architecture, the 2007 Pritzker Prize, Richard Rogers is one of Britain’s most influential architects.
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  • Sign and Texture
    (> 19/10/2008) - London
    Tate Modern

    This display brings together works made from the 1950s onwards by painters who have explored the relationship between experience and abstract mark-making.
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- ITALY -
  • Adventure with objects
    (> 6/07/2008) - Torino
    Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
    Mr Alexander von Vegesack, Vitra Design’s manager, exhibits his prívate collection of 300 objects from the 20th century.
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  • Quadriennale d'arte di Roma
    (19/06 - 14/09/2008) - Rome
    Palazzo Esposizioni
    15th Art exhibition, an event taking place every 4 years.
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  • Made in Cassina
    (> 7/09/2008) - Milano
    Triennale
    Cassina is one of the most well-known italian furniture manufactuers, having produced hundreds of design classics with designers from around the world. to honour the company's rich history. The exhibition will display over 100 pieces by around 20 designers, demonstrating cassina's progression and transformation over the years.
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  • 11th International Architecture Exhibition
    (14/09 - 23/10/2008) - Venice
    Directed by Aaron Betsky the Architecture Biennale is entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building. According to Aaron Betsky, the Biennale "points out what should be an obvious fact: architecture is not building. Buildings are objects and the act of building leads to such objects, but architecture is something else. It is the way we think and talk about buildings, how we represent them, how we build them."
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  • XXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture 2008 (Congress)
    (29/06 - 3/07/2008) - Torino
    Lingotto
    Thema: Transmiting architecture
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  • La Citta Continua (Workshop)
    (30/07 - 3/08/2008) - Camerino
    Centro Culturale Universitario
    International Seminar and Architecture & Urban Culture Award Architecture and landscape in urban areas
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- LUXEMBOURG -

  • H Box
    (> 23/06/2008) - Luxemburg
    MUDAM
    The museum is hosting the travelling project from Hermès, an original display of videos with a cutting-edge sound and image technologies.
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  • Gray Perry: My Civilisation
    (19/06 - 22/09/2008) - Luxemburg
    MUDAM
    The artist is particularly known for his traditionnaly shaped vases ornemented with various elements like drawings, photographs and writings. He enjoys to hustle the social codes trough the development of a whimsical, often chaotic, universe.
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- NORWAY-

  • Clip/Stamp/Fold. The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X
    (> 3/08/2008) - Oslo
    Norsk Design - Architecture Center
    An explosion of architectural little magazines in the 1960s and 1970s instigated a radical transformation in architectural culture with the architecture of the magazines acting as the site of innovation and debate.
    The exhibition takes stock of seventy little magazines from this period, which were published in over a dozen cities. Assembling all these remarkable documents for the first time offers a unique view of a key period of architectural innovation and challenges today's architects to provoke a similar intensity. Illustration: Archigram 1964
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- NETHERLANDS -

  • Roots
    (> 16/08/2008) - Amsterdam
    ARCAM

    In the exhibition, a large number of architectural projects, in which the designer’s roots have unmistakably played a role, are shown by means of photographs, drawings and models. These roots are revealed in the accompanying texts written by the designers themselves: what is so typically Japanese about Blok 65B on IJburg? What is so typically Turkish about the design for a bathhouse in Oosterpark, and how does the design for a interior reflect a Croatian background? Participating architects include: Uri Gilad (Israel), Lada Hršak (Croatia), Sebastian Janusz (Poland), Moriko Kira (Japan), Furkan Köse (Turkey), Felix Madrazo (Mexico) en Arman Akdogan (Turkey), Carina Nilsson (Sweden) and Ana Rocha (Portugal).
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  • NL28 Olympic Fire
    (> 31/09/2008) - Rotterdam
    NAI
    The NAI, in collaboration with the Netherlands Olympic Committee*Netherlands Sport Federation (NOC*NSF), the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and the MVRDV firm of architects, presents ‘NL28 Olympic Fire’, an exhibition in which scale models, film, debate and theatre help visitors to imagine that the Netherlands is organising the Olympic Games in 2028, a century after the Games in Amsterdam. The NAI starts the countdown!
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  • Snap Judgments - New positions in Contemporary African Photography
    (27/06 - 30/09/2008) - Amsterdam
    Stedelijke Museum
    The museum presents an exhibition of work by 35 contemporary African artists and photographers with unique perspectives on their own continent. The exhibition reveals how artists are using photography to respond artistically to the enormous changes currently taking place in African economic, social and cultural life. The artists also break away from lingering stereotypical images of their cultures, histories and countries.
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  • Architectuur debattenreeks 2008 (Workshop)
    (> 19/06/2008) - Hilversum
    Museum Hilversum
    De maat der dingen
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  • Docomomo international conference
    (17 - 18/09/2008) - Rotterdam
    Van Nelle factory
    This renowned Modern Movement icon will accommodate the conference programme of Parallel Paper and Case Study Presentations, Round-table Sessions, the 2nd edition of the International Docomomo Student Workshop and public evening lectures by distinguished invited speakers. Pre- and postconference tours to Dutch MoMo buildings and other landmarks of Dutch architecture will also be part of the conference programme.
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- PORTUGAL -

  • Lines, Grids, Stains, Words
    (> 22/06/2008) - Porto
    Fundação Serralves
    Drawings from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York merge the formal and compositional vocabularies of minimalism with references to the physical and bodily. While ever-present in sculpture, minimalism’s relation to the body is often difficult to discern in drawing where the tactile is often only evident as small inconsistencies that soften the anonymity of lines and grids.
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  • Campaj Collection
    (> 30/12/2008) - Lisbon
    Gulbenkian Museum
    Works in the fields of the surrealims, expressuionism and neo realisme of the forties and fifties.
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- SWEDEN -

  • Gert Wingårdh: 11 houses
    (> 31/08/2008) - Stockholm
    The Swedish Museum of Architecture

    Concepts like desire, memory, nature, everyday and body are illuminated by means of various projects and buildings. The rectilinear VillAnn villa on Särö illustrates the importance of silence and simplicity, while the scheme for a sculpture museum in the German town of Marl addresses the issue of remembering nature, the place and architectural history.
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- SWITZERLAND -

  • Héroïque horizon
    (> 27/06/2008) - Lausanne
    L'ELAC
    The contemporary gallery is hosting Valentin Carron.
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  • Art Machines - Machine Art
    (> 29/06/2008) - Basle
    Museum Tinguely
    In general, we assume that artists make art - but what happens, if machines produce art? Do artists then become engineers? What is the meaning of the apparent withdrawal of artists from the creative act and what consequences does this have for the artwork’s originality and uniqueness? And what is an artwork in the first place: the machine, the product, or the act of its production? What role is granted the viewer in the course of production: interaction or exclusion? Starting with Jean Tinguely’s drawing machines from the 1950s, the exhibition jointly organized by the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and the Museum Tinguely will present art machines from different ages and contexts through to the present day.
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  • East of Eden. A Garden Show
    (17/05 - 31/08/2008) - Bern
    Zentrum Paul Klee
    Exhibitions, installations and events transform the entire Zentrum – and the grounds around it – into a dynamic theme park that places the interior spaces and exterior environment in thrilling and varying reciprocal exchange.
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