Art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon travels through time to unlock the world of Russian art. But best of all is a ride up the Shukhov tower, an amazing construction built by the engineer Vladimir Shukhov between 1919 and 1922. If it's not quite as ignored as AGD suggests (its restoration is after all the focus of a major UNESCO campaign) it is still an astonishing construction that is wonderfully well filmed in this BBC video.
25/03/2012
Shukhov's High-tech architecture in Moscow - 1922
By Russia Beyond The Headlines. BBC. [U.K.] [VIDEO]
The video, which is part of a film, fully incorporates the ride around this great work by Vladimir Shukhov, Russian engineer, made shortly after the Russian Revolution. For any architect or engineer has always been an exceptional piece that surprisingly and thanks to UNESCO even today remains in perfect condition, because a few years ago was about to be demolished. Truly exceptional.
23/03/2012
La RADIO del Museo Reina Sofía (RRS)
MNCARS. [MAD]
RRS. Radio Reina Sofía is the Museum's web radio station. It is a web portal that makes the Museum's programming in the areas of exhibitions, the Collection and public programs, available in audio format. It also produces its own original pieces and sound experiments in digital space.
RRS was conceived to be the sound membrane of the Museum, a space where listeners can hear curators, art critics, artists and researchers, but also where they can contemplate exhibitions, the Collection and Museum activities with the benefit of extra information.
The name of the project makes reference to its two-fold function. On the one hand, it is a web page, and thus makes use of the new formats, distribution channels...
23/03/2012
HAT CINEMA: THE FALL
II Ciclo Miradas sobre cine y arquitectura. Mirada VII [VAL] 29/03/2012
Once again, Hat Gallery opens its hat in order to promote debate and dialogue between art disciplines. Gaze 7 “the fall” – March 2012.
Venue: Hat Gallery: Sanahuja Asociados Arquitectura. c/ Denia 37, bajos. Valencia
Date: Thursday 29th March, 8pm.
Free of charge / Places limited, please RSVP via email info@hatgallery.org between 22 and 29 March.
Collaborators: www.gan-rugs.com /...
23/03/2012
NEW EXPRESSION On Housing 2
Revista/Magazine
Their second issue of NEW EXPRESSION is available on the App Store. Following the research started on their first issue, On Housing 2 focus on the limits of domestic architecture, where they publish experiments and prototypes by artists and architects, working on subjects like Open Source, Flexible Systems, Shared Logics and others. All our support and good luck!
NEW EXPRESSION On Housing 2 can be download for free from the App Store to celebrate the change to MAG+ publishing platform.
NEW EXPRESSION On Housing 2
Following the research started on our first issue, On Housing 2 focus on the limits of domestic architecture, where we publish experiments and prototypes by artists and architects, working on...
22/03/2012
Today more lectures "RESET 11.03.11 #New Paradigms"
anywheredoor + COAC [BCN] 22/03/2012
Today series lecture in "RESET – Nuevos paradigmas", with Shuichi Kobari (Toyo Ito Arquitectos Asociados en España), Masahiro Harada (Mount Fuji Architects Studio)
and debate with Enric Massip (Estudi Massip-Bosch Arquitectes). The events in Barcelona are being really interesting, what a pity that in Madrid a year later, the COAM does not remember. For those of you who you can spend, do not forget it, we must congratulate because all the broad panorama of studies, works and visions of the country of the Rising Sun. Congratulations to the organizers!
Lecture program – 講演会プログラム
March 22 at 19:00 - in the COAC (Plaça Nova, 5, 08002, Barcelona)
3月22日 19時より COAC (Plaça Nova, 5, 08002, Barcelona) にて
Lecture: Shuichi Kobari (Toyo Ito Arquitectos Asociados in Spain)
Lecture: Masahiro Harada (Mount Fuji Architects Studio)
...
22/03/2012
CALL FOR PROJECTS EME3_2012
eme3 2012 [BCN]. 15/04/2012.
Architecture, Art, Conferences, Design, Exhibitions, Prizes, Projects, Recommendations, Urbanisme, Competitions
Always interesting, active and one related consolidated conference here this eme3 2012. Once more, we open the period for the submission of projects to take part in the 7th edition of eme3 Festival that will be held in Barcelona from June 28th to July 1st 2012 in COAC (Official Catalan Chamber of Architects) while the exposition will remain open until July 15th.
New this year is the addition of a second embodiment of the competition, which will raise the option of active intervention in public space, apart from the usual expository section of the Festival.
Under the theme of Bottom-up, bet this year eme3_2012 visible and promote an architecture based on participatory development processes.
SHARE-IT:
It aims to show both realized...
21/03/2012
Ana Sánchez, Recent Works.
Astarté Gallery. [MAD] until 24/03/2012.
Ana's work has always interested. Her roles, her libraries, her fragments, are disturbing and different. Her work is always a breath of fresh air, bright and now you have the opportunity to see her latest works in the Gallery Astarte until the weekend. A good opportunity to see the work by Ana Sanchez. Congratulations, Ana!
After numerous exhibitions, Ana Sánchez (Salamanca, 1964) begins her new journey with the Astarte Gallery presenting her latest work focused on the study of the tactile and sensory qualities of paper. One more step in an artistic career that, if previously noted for its visual language, now throws a fine arts discourse to be stripped of all the expendable for the evaluation of the subject as a trigger for the experience.
...
20/03/2012
Transformation of Housing Block by Druot, Lacaton & Vassal
by Druot, Lacaton & Vassal. [PAR] France
A few years ago seemed which to break down was simple, inexpensive and logical. Really? In fact, you had to think less, not had to think about how to talk with preexistence. It was cheap, but exponentially more expensive in increasing ecological footprint that we all pay and unpayable in the loss of the ontological conditions of the place. And logical?, No, not logical, absurd yes. So this summer when Anne Lacaton calmly explained her project to remodeling a building in a suburb of Paris - next project-, it appeared that the logic and intelligence recovered, in other hand, was simple, so simple that it seemed obvious . Here we leave your project and, Hat tip! for Lacaton and Vassal.
Built in the early sixties along the ring road of Paris, this high rise block of 16 storeys includes 96 apartments. The demolition, firstly envisaged, has been avoided and a project of transformation decided. The project propose a generous extension of the apartments.
New floors, built as a self-supporting structure, are added on the periphery of the existing building at every floor, to extend the living rooms, create...
20/03/2012
Going Public - Telling it as it is?
Symposium about artistic practice and public art, organized by ENPAP.[BILBAO] Spain. 22, 23 & 24 March, 2012
Going Public – Telling it as it is? is a three-day symposium aimed at exploring storytelling as a mode of production and reception of public art. It features a series of lecture performances and artist commissions spread throughout the city of Bilbao, and is accompanied by a closed network meeting in Vitoria-Gasteiz that draws together selected professionals in the field.
* Submission fee: 40 EUR (Students, under 18YR and unemployed: 20 EUR) Admittance includes: Symposium 22-23 March + symposium booklet + coffee, lunch, dinner + party + Bus to go/return to the party.
* Submission fee for the performances and concerts (Party) in Pabellon6 ZAWP 10€. Tickets on sale: Anti-Liburudenda (2 de mayo), Serie B (Lotería, 2) and consonni (Conde Mirasol,13).
Participating...
20/03/2012
The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces
By William H. Whyte
Small fragment of William H. Whyte’s witty and original film about the open spaces of cities and why some of them work for people while others do not. Applying more thought to why people choose the spaces they choose is a really interesting way to see a deeper connection between us and architecture.
Via an article by Kio Stark over at the The Atlantic.
William Hollingsworth "Holly" Whyte (1917 – 12 January 1999) was an American urbanist, organizational analyst, journalist and people-watcher.
While working with the New...
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