- Summary of the debate and the film of the marathon event. City. Money. Architecture.
An international debate and conference on architecture as a political act in an economy based on cultural values, attended by architects, expert city planners, practitioners experienced experienced in interventions in difficult contexts, city managers and government representatives, various urban policy specialists, economists, NGOs active in the field.
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The international architecture and urban culture magazine Zeppelin is an editorially and financially independent publication, managed by the Zeppelin Association.
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Zeppelin evenings are a series of conferences dedicated to architecture, design and urban culture, an education and communication project launched in early 2008. Starting with 2011, the event takes places in the Aula of “Charles I” Central University Library. This open platform accumulated, in 45 editions (December 2012) to over 11,000 participants and regularly proposed meetings with architects, designers and artists all over the world. The project of zeppelin evenings means an open scene for art and intellectual interaction. The topic of that interaction is always the city, architecture, urbanity, but in a transcultural perspective, with mixes of ideas and content, fertile and original. The aim of the evenings is to support cultural practice based on dialogue, cooperation and interdisciplinary.
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Bucharest, A photo mapping, 2004–2012
exhibition, website & workshop by Ștefan Tuchilă & Zeppelin
10–30 October 2012, National Museum for Contemporary Art, BucharestIn the last 8 years, Ștefan Tuchilă climbed over 80 buildings and took several thousand photographs of Bucharest: another kind of urban research, a methodical and spectacular urban mapping. And a support for the recollection of a city that is constantly reinventing itself.
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bilingual edition [EN / RO]
To preserve all the old layers didactically, to reuse the existing substance, to appeal rather to acupuncture and to discrete novelty are some simple statements that unite the ~20 projects grouped in this volume [also selected in a homonymous exhibition]. Some examples:
* The Suceava Water Plant. Centre of Architecture, Urban Culture and Landscape (Project: Chamber of Romanian Architects, North EasternBranch)
* A slice of town. The Theresia Bastion, Timişoara (Project: Archaeus)- Recommend on FacebookTweet about it
exhibition
2 November 2011 – 10 January 2012, National Museum of Contemporary Art, BucharestThe project proposed a study of the recent independent initiatives in Romania and a selection of 14 projects which may be seen as effective models of action and restoration – of abandoned spaces, of the identity of a place, of good techniques and habits, of the relationship with the world, promoting thus a culture of the urban civic activism.- Recommend on FacebookTweet about it
conferences & debate
16 December 2011, National Museum of Contemporary Art, BucharestAlmost 6 hours into a marathon, structured in two sessions of conferences, each one followed by one debate. The event brought together architects, urban planners and expert economists from Romania, the Netherlands and Germany who explored study cases, failure or success scenarios for urban development, formulae to increase the attractiveness of cities for locals and investors, opportunities and solutions for new urban projects.
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itinerant exhibition
10 November – 12 December 2011, National Museum of Contemporary Art, BucharestThe exhibition presented almost 14 projects completed by young architects from Germany which were carried out abroad, mostly after 2004. Selected examples in architecture, interior design, urban planning and landscaping highlighted the way in which they approach a new and foreign environment, change and redefine already existing buildings and build new ones in extraordinary conditions: sensitive solutions to current challenges, always considering the future, the sustainabilit and the new technologies.- Recommend on FacebookTweet about it
25 and 26 November 2011, Bucharest, South-West
Section of the Heritage as a resource programme, the project proposed – as a dedicated pilot project mainly to architects, members of organizations and civil society – to visit seven industrial ensembles in the capital: Filaret Factory, Wolff-Hesper Factory, Matches Factory, Astronomic Observer, the Stamp Factory, Bragadiru Palace and Factory, Customs Warehouse – the Ark.- Recommend on FacebookTweet about it
May-December 2011, Belgrade, Budapest, Sofia
The first conference at the launch of the #1 Urban Report volume part of the Belgrade International Architecture Week took place on 11 May 2011. The event, hosted by Belgrade City Museum, covered a presentation of the platform and programme delivered by Constantin Goagea, a conference on the Serbian contribution and its relevance in the project delivered by Ivan Kucina and two screenings (Looking for Oktober and Balkanized Deutsche Bank).
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