Διάλεξη: Κωνσταντίνος Χατζηνικολάου

December 3, 2015 by aporrox

Κωνσταντίνος Χατζηνικολάου

Για τον Bruce

Super 8 | Slides | Τετράδια

Διαλέξεις Εργαστηρίου Τέχνης / Αρχιτεκτονικής στη Δημόσια Σφαίρα

Τρίτη 8 Δεκεμβρίου στις 4:00 στο Σ5

Τμήμα Αρχιτεκτόνων Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών

Who owns our cities – and why this urban takeover should concern us all

November 25, 2015 by aporrox

Who owns our cities – and why this urban takeover should concern us all

Saskia Sassen

But today, rather than a space for including people from many diverse backgrounds and cultures, our global cities are expelling people and diversity. Their new owners, often part-time inhabitants, are very international – but that does not mean they represent many diverse cultures and traditions. Instead, they represent the new global culture of the successful – and they are astoundingly homogeneous, no matter how diverse their countries of birth and languages. This is not the urban subject that our large, mixed cities have historically produced. This is, above all, a global “corporate” subject.

It’s time to rethink the entire role and language of architecture

November 24, 2015 by aporrox

Our challenge must be to go beyond architecture and speak the languages of these other disciplines, before translating our discussions into formal design proposals.

The Bakara market area of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. Next year’s Venice Biennale seeks to document those ‘working in the margins, under tough circumstances, facing pressing challenges’. Photograph: Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images

GRACE OF INTENTION: PHOTOGRAPHY, ARCHITECTURE AND THE MONUMENT

October 26, 2015 by aporrox

Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture and the Monument Oct 15 — Dec 23, 2015

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY, 600 S MICHIGAN AVE, CHICAGO, IL 60605

Opening Reception: Grace of Intention

Image credit: Jan Kempenaers, Spomenik #3 (Kosmaj), 2006

Monuments are deliberate gestures – objects or structures created to commemorate an event, person or era. Their meaning is usually imposed, and they often serve as vehicles for the communication of civic qualities like valor and duty, or to underscore a foundational political narrative. But their meaning can transform, changing over time as the relevance of their symbolism ebbs and flows due to social and political shifts. Like monuments, architecture and photography are also inflected with a grace of intention, and both have the ability to commemorate or represent a nation, event, time or place. Like monuments, their meaning often shifts due to time and context. Furthermore, the act of photographing monuments and buildings transforms them, sometimes revealing some of their original qualities and more closely evoking the responses that they were originally intended to have.

Grace of Intention: Photography, Architecture and the Monument examines the work of eight international artists, some of whose work addresses actual monuments, some whom look at architecture and its relationship to memory and how its importance and symbolism can shift over time, and others approach the idea of the future monument.

Sound Acts in Victoria Square @newtransits

October 23, 2015 by aporrox

Η διπλωματική εργασία της Αγγελικής Διακρούση Ενδυνάμωση της φωνής του φύλου: Ηχητικές πράξεις στην Πλατεία Βικτωρίας, στο πολύ ενδιαφέρον newtransits, τεύχος 5, Οκτώβριος 2015.

(re:)Thinking the Street Urban Encounters Conference 2015

October 22, 2015 by aporrox

Diego Ferrari, Urban Habitat II Berlin 2013. Courtesy of the artist. — Diego Ferrari, *Urban Habitat II* Berlin 2013. Courtesy of the artist.

Urban Encounters is pleased to announce its eighth annual conference focusing on street-based urban photographic practices. As part of a wider programme of events around London exploring critical ideas addressing how ‘the street’ might be experienced, imagined, represented, performed and archived; Urban Encounters hosts a number of international artists, photographers, urbanists and academics concerned with theorizing, researching and creating visual work around street spaces.

The conference panels re-examine what is traditionally understood by the genre of ‘street photography’, an increasingly popular but also highly contentious and at times, problematic set of practices. Speakers discuss issues relating to aesthetics; the politics and ethics of street-work; notions of locality and flow; performativity, mediation and the disruption of ‘authenticity’.

This year’s conference opens on Friday 23 October, 18.30–20.00 with a keynote address by London based artist Rut Blees Luxemburg, whose large-scale photographic works explore the public spaces of the city. The keynote event is followed by a drinks reception to celebrate the opening of this year’s Urban Photo Fest. The keynote on Saturday 24 October is given by internationally acclaimed sociologist Saskia Sassen. Further speakers include Mitra Tabrizian, Julia Schulz-Dornburg, Vanley Burke and Charlie Phillips. The second day of the conference also includes a series of breakout seminars designed to encourage audience participation within research, theory and visual practice, which aim to build upon the conference presentations and audience discussions. Only one seminar can be selected. Please book for the whole conference by following the link on your chosen seminar.

Urban Encounters is part of the five day Urban Photo Fest programme supported by Openvisor, the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, Kingston University and Photofusion.

Hilla Becher, Photographer Who Chronicled Industrial Scenery, Dies at 81

October 15, 2015 by aporrox

Hilla Becher, the German photographer who, with her husband, Bernd, meticulously documented coal mines, steel mills and other features of the industrial landscape, straddling the worlds of archival documentation and conceptual art, died on Saturday in Düsseldorf. She was 81.

Hilla Becher posing next to her photo series “Kühltürme” (Cooling towers) at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville in Paris, in 2002. CreditDavid Ebener/European Pressphoto Agency

Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited

October 15, 2015 by aporrox

Le Corbusier’s Architecture and His Politics Are Revisited

By RACHEL DONADIOJULY 12, 2015

PARIS — Was the paradigm-changing architect known as Le Corbusier a fascist-leaning ideologue whose plans for garden cities were inspired by totalitarian ideals, or a humanist who wanted to improve people’s living conditions — a political naïf who, like many architects, was eager to work with almost any regime that would let him build?

Architecture Exchange: How is Architecture Political?

October 15, 2015 by aporrox

Architecture Exchange: How is Architecture Political?

16 January 2015

Featuring leading theorists in the field, the symposium demonstrated the vital importance of architecture’s political dimension

How is architecture political? That was the question being asked at the Architecture Exchange’s second annual symposium, this year held at the Architectural Association. The respondents, each of whom made a half-hour presentation on the subject, included Reinhold Martin (Director of the Buell Center in New York), Pier Vittorio Aureli (cofounder of Dogma and teacher at the AA), Ines Weizman (specialist in Soviet-era dissident architecture) and Sarah Whiting (Dean of Rice Architecture School, Houston). However, the star of the event was undoubtedly Chantal Mouffe, one of the world’s leading political theorists (as demonstrated by book titles like Agonistics: Thinking the World Politically, On the Political and The Return of the Political).