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Living Under the Crescent Moon
(23/02 - 31/08/2008) - Weil am Rhein |
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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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MVRDV H2O Water City Projects
(> 27/07/2008) - Berlin |
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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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Drawn in sand - Unrealised visions by Alvar Aalto
(> 31/09/2008) - Munich |
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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 |
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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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Belgique 58
> 21 December 2008 - Brussels |
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Drawings, photographies, posters and furniture representing the style of 58 in Belgium
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Design September
(> 26/09/2008) - Brussels |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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L’héritage de l’esprit 58 (Workshop)
(> 9/09/2008) - Brussels |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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La peau. Entre texture et ossature
(> 31/12/2008) - Paris |
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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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Mega City in China
10 May – 31 July 2008 - Toulouse |
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Centre Méridional de l'Architecture et de la Ville
Urban development in China
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Dominique Perrault
11 june – 22 september 2008 - Paris |
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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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Le design au pouvoir
(> 27/07/2008) - Toulouse |
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Mobilier Nacional, Galerie des Gobelins
The work of the designer Pierre Paulin for Le Mobilier Nacional
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Surreal Things
>7 September 2008 - Bilbao |
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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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Javier Riera
(> 1/09/2008) - Madrid |
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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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Francesc Torrent. Da Capo
(> 28/09/2008) - Barcelona |
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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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Roots
30 May – 16 August 2008 - Amsterdam |
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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 May – 21 September 2008 - Rotterdam |
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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 |
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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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Docomomo international conference
(17 - 18/09/2008) - Rotterdam |
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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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Andreas Fogarasi 2008
>14 September 2008 - Vienna |
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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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Linz Texas. A City Relates
(> 8/09/2008) - Vienna |
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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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Julian Opie. Recent Works
(> 21/09/2008) - Vienna |
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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 |
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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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Made in Cassina
>7 September 2008 - Milano |
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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 September – 23 November 2008 - Venice |
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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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Quadriennale d'arte di Roma
(19/06 - 14/09/2008) - Rome |
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Palazzo Esposizioni
15th Art exhibition, an event taking place every 4 years.
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La Citta Continua (Workshop)
(30/07 - 3/08/2008) - Camerino |
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Centro Culturale Universitario
International Seminar and Architecture & Urban Culture Award Architecture and landscape in urban areas
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Bodil Manz
(13 March – 3 August 2008) - Copenhagen |
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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 |
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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 |
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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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Image and After
(> 11 January 2009) - Helsinki |
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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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Summer Nights and Winter Days
(> 28/09/2008) - Helsinki |
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Design Museum
Installation of jewellery and other objects by silversmith Juhani Heikkilä....
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Building. Designing. Thinking (Workshop)
(> 31/08/2009) - Jyväskylä |
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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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Richard Rogers + Architects. From the House to the City
24 April - 25 August 2008 - London |
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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
5 May – 19 October 2008 - London |
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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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Campaj Collection
(> 30/12/2008) - Lisbon |
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Gulbenkian Museum
Works in the fields of the surrealims, expressuionism and neo realisme of the forties and fifties.
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East of Eden. A Garden Show
17 May – 31 August 2008 - Bern |
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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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Gray Perry: My Civilisation
(19/06 - 22/09/2008) - Luxemburg |
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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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Clip/Stamp/Fold. The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X
(15 May – 3 August 2008) - Oslo |
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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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Gert Wingårdh: 11 houses
(> 31/08/2008) - Stockholm |
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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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THE 3RD CHINA INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURAL EXPO
28-31/10/2008 - China International Exhibition Center, Beijing |
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China International Architectural Expo is the No.1 event integrated architectural design, building materials and building construction in China. It is held every Autumn in Beijing, every year, famous architectural designing institutes, building materials companies and building technology enterprises will gather together to discuss the hot issues and display their latest works and technologies, it has become a perfect platform for architects and relative building products providers for interchange and communication.
In October 2008, the 3rd China International Architectural Expo will be held following the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. Famous institutes and companies of architectural design and building materials will gather again in Beijing to display their latest concepts and technologies to demonstrate the theme of "Innovation Promotes Development, Material Enriches Design". Besides, various academic activities and interchange programs will be held the same time.
Exhibits Profile:
Architectural Design
Building Material
Building Equipments and Technologies
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