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The Barcelona Pavilion, the masterpiece with which Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich staged their revolutionary ideas in 1929, changed the History of architecture forever. It only existed for eight months but paradoxically its image was always alive in the minds of generations of architects around the world, becoming one of his greatest influences.
The Pavilion is still surrounded by myths and mysteries that this documentary addresses, framing the building into a portrait in two acts of the Barcelona that made possible its cons- truction in 1929 and its reconstruction in 1986. We immerse ourselves in a reflection on the transformative capacity of art, the emotional perception of space and the concept of master- piece.
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During the last nine years we have had the pleasure of filming the Barcelona Pavilion on nu- merous and varied occasions: video art, advertising spots or transformation interventions that artists like Ai Weiwei have made in this space. It is a scenario of endless perspectives, lights and reflections, a living building that changes at every hour of the day and at any season of the year. Each time you record it, the Pavilion surprises you with a new reflection or a new vi- sual composition, and you discover that fourth dimension that Mies created with the game of materials and perspectives. A universe where the composition of each frame easily becomes art within art because the Pavilion generates and multiplies beauty. This documentary is a ci- nematographic essay within this space of Miesian architecture, at once abstract and rational, finite and infinite.
For more info and trailers visit www.miesonscene.com
Drones will transform cities, revolutionising how people travel, how goods are delivered and how buildings look and are constructed, according to a documentary by Dezeen.
“Aerial highways” will relieve pressure on roads as deliveries and human transportation take to the skies in unmanned electric vehicles.
Architecture will change dramatically as the ground floor entrance is replaced by rooftop landing, parking and recharging zones and deliveries arrive via specially constructed portals on the sides of buildings.
This vision of the future is set out in Elevation, a new documentary created by online architecture magazine Dezeen (www.dezeen.com).
Humans will soon be travelling by drone
“Delivery drones are here right now, said designer Paul Priestman, chairman of PriestmanGoode, in the trailer. “You can go online and see them delivering objects. And I think the next step is going to be humans travelling by drones.”
He added: “Ten or fifteen years ago drones were immensely expensive, complex objects. Now you can buy them at a toy shop.”
“I think you could well see the development of aerial highways,” said architect Norman Foster, founder of Foster + Partners.
“There are a lot of implications of drones changing the way architecture is perceived and also in the future the way architecture is built,” said Hans-Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries.
“Parking for drones will be on the top of buildings. Recharging will be on the top of buildings,” said architect Mark Dytham, co-founder of Klein Dytham Architecture. “It’s going to be this cloud of wasps everywhere.”
“Drones are like an expanded consciousness; an extra eye that allows us to reach places that otherwise we would never reach,” said Marina Otero, director of research at Het Nieuwe Instituut.
Drones are “potentially as disruptive as the internet”
Speculative architect Liam Young said: “Now that drones are in the hands of every person in the street, they’re potentially as disruptive as the internet.”
The documentary features interviews with Norman Foster, Paul Priestman, Mark Dytham, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Liam Young, Anab Jain, Marina Otero Verzier, Ammar Mirjan, Clemens Weisshaar and Ed Reeve.
Before the documentary is screened in Prishtina the European Premier of the Movie will be launched during the Venice Biennale Vernissage at Casa Flora. For more info on the screening and other event Dezeen is organizing at the Biennale go to: https://www.dezeen.com/…/dezeen-casa-flora-venice-architec…/
Dezeen founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, who also co-directed Elevation, is available for interview.
For press enquiries contact:
Pauline Zberro
pauline@dezeen.com
+44 (0)20 3327 1230
The CAFx Summer School 2018 will focus on architectural space as a tool for social integration in Skagen.
The town of Skagen is the northernmost town in Denmark, located on the top of the Jutland peninsula. It is widely known for the Scandinavian artist colony ’Skagensmalerne’, who assembled and worked in Skagen from the late 1870s until the turn of the century. But it is also one of Denmark’s main fishing ports, and the unique nature in the area in addition to the large number of architectural and cultural sights attract up to two million tourists annually, making it what you might call a seasonal town.
Since 1980, the population of Skagen has decreased by almost 50% and the city is currently home to around 8.000 inhabitants – a sharp contrast to the vast number of tourists that fill the streets during the summer. Since the EU’s eastern enlargement in 2004, many Eastern Europeans have come to Denmark to work. The outskirts of Denmark have experienced a particularly large influx. Out of the 8.000 inhabitants in Skagen, about 300 are Romanians, the majority of whom share apartments in Mosegården and have only minimally integrated into the community. They typically work in the factories, the hotels, restaurants and campsites.
Skagen has integrated foreign fishermen, alternative artists and other newcomers from near and far throughout its history. So how is the town meeting and incorporating these newcomers into the social structure of Skagen in 2018? The participants will investigate the spaces of social integration and work with documenting and/or staging in order to create short cinematic portraits of the architecture of these cultural intersections.
Join the Summer School in Skagen and explore the architectural spaces of social integration under the guidance of filmmakers and architects. The summer school is a collaboration between the Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx) and the Association Onsdagsskolen, headed by architect Susanne Eeg. During the week you will also meet renowned documentary filmmaker Lea Glob, scenographer Maja Ziska, filmmaker and photographer Sidsel Becker and sociologist Solveig Meier-Nielsen as well as local architects, cultural associations, businesses and citizens. Through the medium of film, they will all work with the participants to investigate and make portraits of the spaces of social integration in Skagen- be it in the fish factories, restaurant kitchens, local halls, shared apartments or maybe even imaginary.
Participants will work individually or in groups to sketch, build scale models, create small installations, photograph and finally film. The final films will be screened publicly to a wider audience in the Skagen cinema.
If you are a student, a professional in the fields of architecture, film, spatial design or visual anthropology or if you are simply interested in these fields and have basic experience working with film, sign up now for our summer school in August 2018.
The 2018 Summer School has been conceived by CAFx with support from Frederikshavn Municipality and DFI and realized in collaboration with the Association Onsdagsskolen.
The CAFx summer school is open to both students and professionals with a background in relevant fields or those who are interested in exploring new interdisciplinary environments. Applicants are expected to have basic experience working with film.
To apply, please submit a 1 page motivational letter and a short portfolio / showreel (via a file sharing link) to: summerschool@cafx.dk no later than June 11th 2018, which will form the basis for the selection of participants.
Please note that the number of participants is limited. Furthermore, we kindly ask you to bring your own technical equipment such as camera, computer (+ editing software) and further recording or editing devices, as we unfortunately cannot provide any of these technical tools.
Once the admission is approved, the selected participants will receive further information regarding payment of the participation fee.
For general inquiries and questions regarding the 2018 Summer School, please contact Susanne Eeg: susanneeeg@gmail.com
The participation fee is 4.000 kr. per person and includes tuition fees, accommodation and full board.
The summer course is going to take place in the cinema and workspaces at the Culture House Kappelborg in the centre of town. All participants will be accommodated in a former farm, Toftegården, which has recently been renovated into a modern hotel. We can only offer shared rooms (2-3 beds in each room). Communal meals will be prepared by the participants.
Please note that all participants traveling from abroad are responsible for securing any visa required.
Kosovo Architecture Foundation calls all students and enthusiasts of architecture from Kosovo and beyond to contribute in organizing the Kosovo Architecture Festival, which will be held from the 2nd of July till the 1st of October 2018.
The potential candidate should be available for at least 7 days from the 29’th of June till the 9’th of July. All interested should send a short CV together with their contacts till 15th of June to media@prishtinaarchitectureweek.com
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Fondacioni Kosovar i Arkitekturës fton studentët dhe entuziastët e arkitekturës nga Kosova dhe jashtë saj për të kontribuar në organizimin e Festivalit të Arkitekturës në Kosovë që do mbahet nga 02 korrik deri me 01 tetor 2018.
Kandidatët potencial duhet të janë në dispozicion së paku 7 ditë nga data 29 qërshori deri me 9 korriku.
Gjithë të interesuarit duhetdërguar një CV të shkurtër së bashku me kontaktet e tyre deri me datën 15 qërshor në
media@prishtinaarchitectureweek.com
We specialize in the right ingredients such as artificial intelligence or virtual reality. A mixture combined with the void of ideas wanting to be realized, but such a dish requires the knowledge of timing, collaboration, growth and an agile foundation. The final product – a soup of engagement, addictive by design. In its DNA you can sense all of us, our hunger to impact the end-user experience and its viral spread.
POLITBYRO (Paçarizi Architecture Studio)
Focuses on urban renewal through establishment of new regional identity. They develop an critical approach to the urbanism and architecture of Kosovo, with social and human responses. New density and diversity are proposed through micro interventions in Kosovar complex urban situations. Swiss touch and low-tech regional reinterpretations could be the definition of Politbyro’s, high quality, local production.
Gezim Pacarizi – born in Prizren, Kosovo, lives in Switzerland since 1989. He graduated architecture in Geneva University in 1993. He is a partner of PHARC architects in Geneva and POLITBYRO (Paçarizi Architecture Studio) in Prishtina. Generosity of thought space, simplicity of form, developed with materials in a way that reveal the nature of architecture are the principles of his work.
Open Studio
An inside look into small Politbyro office hidden in Vellusha, Prishtina oldest neighbourhood. The recently finished office building is in itself an example of micro-urban renewal.
Skrei began its practice in 2009 with an inquiry into the qualities of Portuguese raw materials. By experimenting with mortars and construction tools, Skrei was able to develop specific materials and started administrating its own works. It has become a workshop of architects of experimental constructions where construction techniques and craftsmanship have combined with sophisticated engineering for refined clients. Skrei’s architectural practice is based on a close relationship between design, construction, and cultural production. It’s an approach that shows how materials can incorporate knowledge and how this knowledge can be instrumental in defining the praxis of architecture.
Skrei was founded by Pedro Jervell and Francisco Adão da Fonseca. The two Portuguese architects, graduates of the Architectural Association and Delft University respectively, were initially attracted to the built environment because of ‘the plain physiognomy of things’ and the ‘naïve appeal of form’. Rapidly, they realized that it is all the ‘invisible dynamics’ shaping forms that are much more fascinating – politics and economics, technology and the environment, education and power. They traded things for processes.
Francisco Adão da Fonseca is an Architect and MSc from the Technical University of Delft, Faculty of Architecture. Member of the Dutch Architects Association and the Order of Architects in Portugal. He collaborated with Leembouw Nederland in the study of low-energy building techniques (2004-09). In 2010 he started Skrei Lda, which is today a leading collective in the field of sustainable architecture in Portugal.
Francisco will be speaking about the “Integrative Architecture – a working model for contemporary architecture”.
Current architecture seems unable to tackle grand questions of our time, from the scarcity of resources to energy and water security, questions of identity and privacy. Skrei’s integrative practice is a working model that extends the architect domain into areas such as sourcing of materials, building construction, engineering, and applied research so that architecture may effectively take a role in answering these questions.
#HAPËZEROSPACE represent Albania at #BiennaleArchitettura2018. The theme Freespace is interpreted as the metamorphosis in liberating of the space on Tirana’s ground floor, in a total freedom of acting as an entirety of personal individual performances of the citizen, creating a city-scale plaza where everyone serves something to the fellow citizen. AlbanianPavillion2018 is conceived as a multisensory experience through an installation of spatial, visual and acoustic stimuli where the visitor is invited to perceive the free space and true essence of the city.
Commissioner: Mirela Kumbaro, Ministry of Culture of Republic of Albania.
Exhibitors: Dorian Tytymçe, Florian Pollo, VARKA Arkitekturë – Jurtin Hajro, commonsense.studio – Enri Leka, Fablab Tirana.
Curator: Elton Koritari, EJAlbum.
Elton Koritari – Curator
Elton is the co-founder of EJAlbum, an important communication hub in Albania. Moreover, he is a project manager and curator of art events, lecturer of photography in different universities, schools and cultural associations, author of art projects collaborating with almost all the galleries, museums and art institutes in Albania. He works for years in marketing & communications representing in Albania some of the most important international brands in that sector. He is the co-author of the book “Knots – 163 Contemporary Artists from Albania” and the Project Manager and Curator of Imago Mundi in Albania.
Jurtin Hajro – Architect
Jurtin is an architect, founder of commonsense.studio, an international office based in Tirana. Graduated in 2006 in the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, since 2009 he has been a lecturer in the Department of Architecture at Epoka University. In 2013, he established CoRDA – Center of Research and Design in Architecture in Tirana, becoming the first director of the design office within the university. He is also the architect of Epoka Social Center, a building that has received international attention in awards, nominations and academic publications. Jurtin has been awarded in many international competition and is the creator and curator of Modeling the Idea, Pavilion Days, an event calling for interdisciplinary collaboration between artists and architects.
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Nils-Peter Fischer, Dipl.-Ing.
Associate Director, Zaha Hadid Architects
Nils joined Zaha Hadid Architects in 2004 and has developed a large design portfolio spanning Europe, the Middle East and Asia, with a focus on cultural facilities such as Performing Arts Facilities and Museums as well as projects involving novelty design, engineering and construction solutions. In recent years, he has been working on complex high-rise structures.
Nils co-leads Cluster 1, a business unit within Zaha Hadid Architects focusing on large cultural, infrastructure and transportation projects.
Nils has an academic background in experimental computational geometry. He studied in Germany and Italy and graduated from the Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Germany with a degree in architecture in 2002.
At Zaha Hadid Architects, he co-founded the computational design research group CODE, developing next-generation technologies for contextual design, form finding and rationalization, and exploring the potential of computational design from object to urban scale environments. Beyond in-house research, the CODE group engages in academic workshops and research partnerships with universities around the world.
Nils has worked on a range of projects for ZHA, including the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum in Michigan/ USA, the Dubai Opera House and Cultural Centre in Dubai, the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre and the Nanjing Youth international center, a mixed-use development featuring a 315m twin tower. He is also responsible for the Grand Theatre de Rabat currently under construction in the Kingdom of Morocco. A recent research focus are “post-automotive cities“, exploring walkable high density urban environments both inexisting and future metropolises.
The keynote lecture closed the July Event session at the 2018 Festival.
image credits: Jacopo Spilimbergo
www.zaha-hadid.com/people/nils-fischer/
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Nils-Peter Fischer, Dipl.-Ing.
Associate Director, Zaha Hadid Architects
Nils ju bashkua Zaha Hadid Architects në 2004 dhe ka zhvilluar një portofol të gjërë të dizajnit që përfshin Evropën, Lindjen e Mesme dhe Azinë, me një fokus në objektet kulturore si Objekte për Artet performative, Muze, si dhe projekte që përfshijnë dizajn të ri, inxhinieri dhe zgjidhje ndërtimi inovative. Në vitet e fundit, ai ka punuar në strukturat komplekse të ndërtesave të larta. Nils bashkë-drejton Cluster 1, një njësi biznesi brenda Zaha Hadid Architects duke u fokusuar në projekte të mëdha kulturore, infrastrukturore dhe transportuese.
Nils ka një sfond akademik në gjeometri eksperimentale kompjuterike. Ka studiuar në Gjermani dhe Itali dhe në vitin 2002, ka diplomuar në degën e arkitekturës nga Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Gjermani. Në Zaha Hadid Architects, ai bashkë-themeloi grupin kërkimor të dizajnit kompjuterik CODE, duke zhvilluar teknologjitë e gjeneratës së ardhshme për dizajnin kontekstual, gjetjen e formës dhe racionalizimin, dhe duke eksploruar potencialin e dizajnit kompjuterik nga objektet në mjediset në shkallë urbane. Përtej hulumtimeve brenda vendit, grupi CODE angazhohet në punëtori akademike dhe partneritete kërkimore me universitetet në mbarë botën.
Nils ka punuar në një sërë projektesh për ZHA, duke filluar me Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum në Michigan/ USA, the Dubai Opera House and Cultural Centre në Dubai, the Abu Dhabi Performing Arts Centre dhe the Nanjing Youth international center. Ai është gjithashtu përgjegjës për Grand Theatre de Rabat aktualisht në ndërtim e sipër në Mbretërinë e Marokut. Një fokus i hulumtimit të kohëve të fundit janë “qytetet pas veturave”, duke eksploruar mjediset urbane me fokus në këmbësor me dendësi të madhe në metropolet e së ardhmës.
Ligjerata e Nils-it përmbylli sesionin e aktiviteteve të muajit Korrik në Festivalin e 2018-tës.
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Our September event activities will begin with the lecture by David Basulto the founder and CEO of the most visited architecture website in the world “ArchDaily”.
Architect David Basulto graduated from Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile in 2006. He is Founder & CEO of ArchDaily, “the world’s most visited architecture website;” published globally in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Chinese. ArchDaily’s mission is “to improve the quality of life of the 3 billion people who live in cities in the next 40 years, by providing inspiration, knowledge, and tools to the architects who fill face this challenge.” He has served on juries for several awards, and design competitions in Latin America, North America, Europe, and Asia. He is a member of the Mies Crown Hall America Prize International Advisory Council, housed in Chicago. He is recognized as an Endeavor Entrepreneur from the Endeavor Foundation in New York, and received the National Award of Innovation from the Chilean Government in 2012. Basulto served as curator of the Nordic Countries Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale.
The Value of Architecture in the Internet Age
ArchDaily is an evolving project of the Internet – an experiment in archiving, disseminating discourse and sharing content related to architecture and urbanism on a scale that was not possible as little as two decades ago. Since its founding in 2008, it has operated based a single mission: to bring knowledge, inspiration and tools to the people who are, and will be, designing the urban centers, which will accommodate our planet’s (exponentially rising) population. Most importantly, ArchDaily is continually connecting people from around the developed and developing world by building a platform to ensure that important discussions are available to the widest possible global audience.
In this context of the global hyper-urbanization, ArchDaily operates as a start-up, applying a scalable mind-set to its mission. in his presentation, founder and director, David Basulto will talk about how to build an architecture start-up, the meaning of globalization, identity, consciousness, and the necessary redefinition of the architect’s role.
The lecture will be held on the 12th of July at the Kosovo National Library starting from 8.00 PM.
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Aktivitetet e muajit Shtator do fillojnë me ligjeratën e David Basulto, themeluesit dhe CEO’s së webfaqës më të klikur të arkitekturës në botë “ArchDaily”.
David Basulto diplomoi në Universiteti Católica de Chile në vitin 2006. Është themeluesi dhe CEO i ArchDaily, “faqja më e vizituar e arkitekturës në botë”, botuar në mbarë botën në gjuhen angleze, spanjolle, portugeze dhe kineze. Misioni i ArchDaily është “të përmirësojë cilësinë e jetës së 3 miliardë njerëzve që do jetojnë në qytete në 40 vitet e ardhshme, duke u dhënë inspirim, njohuri dhe mjete arkitektëve që plotësojnë këtë sfidë.” David ka qenë pjesë e jurisë së disa çmimeve, dhe konkurseve të projektimit në Amerikën Latine, Amerikën e Veriut, Evropë dhe Azi dhe është anëtar i këshillit ndërkombëtar për Çmimin Amerikan “Mies Crown Hall”, në Çikago. David njihet si “Endevor Entrepreneur” nga Fondacioni Endeavour në Nju Jork dhe mori Çmimin Kombëtar të Inovacionit nga Qeveria Kiliane në vitin 2012. David Bazulto shërbeu si kurator i Pavijonit të shteteve Nordike në Bienalen e Arkitekturës së Venedikut të 2016-ës.
Vlera e Arkitekturës në Epokën e Internetit
ArchDaily është një projekt online në zhvillim- një eksperiment mbi arkivimin, shpërndarjen e diskursit dhe lajmeve që lidhen me arkitekturë dhe urbanizëm në një shkallë që nuk ishte e mundur dy dekada më parë. Që nga themelimi i faqës në vitin 2008, ka vepruar bazuar në një mision të vetëm: të sjellë njohuri, frymëzim dhe vegla për njerëzit që krijojnë dhe do krijojnë qendrat urbane, të cilat do të akomodojnë popullsinë e planetit tonë që vazhdimisht po rritet. Më e rëndësishmja, ArchDaily vazhdimisht lidh njerëz nga bota e zhvilluar dhe në zhvillim duke ndërtuar një platformë për të siguruar që diskutimet e rëndësishme janë në dispozicion të publikut më të gjerë të mundshëm botëror.
Në këtë kontekst të hiper-urbanizimit global, ArchDaily vepron si start-up, duke aplikuar një mendje të shkallëzuar në misionin e saj. Në ligjeratën e tij, themeluesi dhe drejtori, David Basulto do të flasë për mënyrën e ndërtimit të një start-up në arkitekturë, kuptimin e globalizimit, identitetin, vetëdijen dhe ridefinimin e nevojshëm të rolit të arkitektit.
Ligjerata do mbahet me 12 Shtator në hapësirat e Bibliotekës Kombëtare të Kosovës duke filluar nga ora 20:00.