Hans Ulrich Obrist Interviews at the 2010 Venice Biennale

To me, one of the most interesting moment of Venice Architecture Biennale was the 3 days long marathon interviews by Hand Ulrich Obrist. He basically interviewed all the Biennale participants. The dialogue were taking place in the middle of the main exhibition hall, the Giardini, were a t.v studio was set up. So the crowd was watching all the interviews both live and on lcd screen. Between an installation and a press check-point, a media monster.

Here are some of the interviews, posted on youtube.

OCCUPATION: Movements II & III (Syscape#4)

Beautiful animation by  video artist Eric Schockmel. I love the aesthetic he uses here. And the soundtrack is pretty cool too.

AGENDA

Our architect fellow, the amazing Julien de Smedt is presenting his new book AGENDA this Thursday, December 10th at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City. Julien and his team will even sign the book for the fans that we are.

PIN-UP

Beautiful new issue of Pin-Up Magazine. Magazine for Architectural Entertainment.
Love the pink, black and white layout and the cool picture of Richard Meier.
More on Pin-Up Magazine

LabDORA Opening

A recent work, the amazing M'ugly Tower.

more on labdora.com

Dynamic City Foundation

Dynamic Density - the organic reality behind China's master plan


Neville Mars from the Dynamic City Foundation will give a lecture at Columbia University, NYC on the 6 of October 2008.

Neville is currently in a lecture tour around the world, promoting his new book " THE CHINESE DREAM - a society under construction ", wich i strongly recommande. Its an amazing prospective book about chinese urbanity, questionning paradoxes of China's struggle for change.
More info on Dynamic City Foundation
Those young architects, based in Beijing, are also developing a very good collaborative research wiki Burb Tv.
Among the dozens of projects showed on this plateforme, Neville Mars and his team have been produced some amazing theorical works. The Beijing Boom Tower seems to me as a manifesto. Not to mention the quality of the production, especialy with this amazing oversized interactive model :






All visuals by DCF / Burb TV

SANAA : Works 1998-2008 / video

A lesson of diagrammatic architecture by SANAA

SANAA : Works 1998-2008 at The New Museum

Now on view at The New Museum , in New York city until June 15 2008, a beautiful and very refreshing exhibition about the work of the japanese architecture studio SANAA. An interesting detail is that the radical and minimalistic New Museumhas been designed by SANAA. Located on Bowery  , this building shows that there are possible alternative to condos in high density urban context, in terms of contemporary architectural design.

The exhibition shows a lots of models, full of details and creativity. It's about lights, flowers, simple geometries and complex programs. At the opposite of 3D rendering exhibitions that we are used to see nowdays.

Bertrand Segers lecture in Paris

maison arbre - encre de chine sur arches by Bertrand segers
Bertrand Segers, Architecte - Colporteur, will give a lecture next Wednesday the 27 of February, at Paris-Malaquais school of architecture in Paris. He will speaks about the limits of the representation of living space.
maison in/out 2 - aquarelle au bleu de Lectoure sur arches by Bertrand Segers


In french , OUARPO : limites de la représentation et de l'espace habité.

Dans le cadre du cycle de conférences "Dessin et Représentation : comment communique-t-on les idées ?"

" Le dessin occupe une place importante dans mon travail d’architecte et d’artiste. Il me permet de répondre aux rôles de praticien, enseignant et chercheur. C’est sur ces trois modes que la présentation s’articulera en revêtant le dessin de statuts différents, de la posture critique à la systématisation de l’explicitation en passant par l’analyse et la carte de voyage, et en le frottant à d’autres outils de la représentation de l’architecture. "
Bertrand Segers

Ecole paris Malaquais
Mercredi 27 février 2008 à 18h30
Amphi 2 des Loges / Entrée libre

maison pont levis - aquarelle au bleu de pastel sur arches by Bertrand Segers



sheds - aquarelle au bleu de pastel sur arches by Bertrand Segers

la tour la plus haute du monde - aqurelle et encre sur arches b y Bertrand Segers





résidentialisation - aquarelle sur arches by Bertrand Segers

Bertrand is a real searcher,always looking for new solutions ans new way of expressions, and he has also a great sens of humour, i am sure its gonna be a very good moment. So be there. And as i cant be in Paris at this time, i will be glad if someone can do a report of the lecture and tell me more about it ...

Blockbuster for architects

A new docu-blockbuster for architects is out now.
It's call BIRD’S NEST - HERZOG & DE MEURON IN CHINA, Featuring of course Herzog & De Meuron , and more characters like the chinese conceptual artist, curator, architect and journalist Ai WeiWei .

Its a film by Christoph Schaub and Michael Schindhelm, two swiss director.

Among the website, " it's shows how the Chinese culture affects the construction work of the architects: The specific architectonic form and the struggle to achieve it give us information about the society, the culture and everyday life in China. The film explores how these prestige buildings are being built in China. On the one hand, the documentary attempts to understand the two architects’ very own method of contextual building applied successfully again and again. On the other hand, it explores the Chinese side: their intentions, their expectations, and their strategies in this complex creation process.".

looking forward to see it.

more info on herzogdemeuron-film.com

Virgin Galactic spaceport by Fosters + partners and URS

Virgin Galatic spaceship


The Foster + partners and URS team has won a competition to build the first private spaceport in the world. The shape of the building in the landscape and its interior spaces seek to capture the drama and mystery of space flight itself.
The spaceport is located in New Mexico, USA. It will opened in 2009.
You can book a flight at virgin galactic.

Hotel Blue Wave by Andreas Angelidakis

a beautifull video, so relaxing

Hotel Blue Wave is a medium sized building stemming from a single blue wave module.It's design by greek architect Andreas Angelidakis. The project studies modes of temporary habitation such as the beach (put your towel down and claim your spot), and the squat (choose your room, stay for a few months), and they way they can socially and aesthetically enrich the hotel experience.

Jeddah international airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia by O.M.A

For 33 days per year the new Jeddah Airport will host the influx of two million Muslims for the holy Hajj period in Mecca. No other airport in the world can claim such overwhelming specificity of its use. These programmatic requirements form the base for a new approach to both the organization of the airport and its architecture.

Partner: Rem Koolhaas
Associate: Fernando Donis
Team: Gustavo Guimarães, Laurent Troost, Miho Mazereeuw, Katrin Betschinger, Joshua Beck, Haiko Cornelissen, Léonie Wenz, Filipe Balestra, João Amaro, Inge Goudsmit, Joao Ruivo, Ben Milbourne, Tiago Branco-Sampaio