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Urban Report is a cross culture programme bringing together theories and critical discourse on contemporary urban phenomena in 4 countries: Romania, Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria.

Urban Report team:
Ivan Kucina, Todor Atanasov, Peter Torniov, Miklós Péterffy, Samu Szemerey, Ştefan Ghenciulescu, Cosmina Goagea, Constantin Goagea

Institutions : 
BINA, SAW, ZEPPELIN, KEK, Transformatori

photo installation by Ştefan Tuchilă
17 Oct. – 15 Nov. 2008, Museum of Romanian Peasant (Foyer), Bucharest

The project outlined, through the photo installation proposed by Ştefan Tuchilă, in a deliberately challenging, almost polemic, action the current Romanian urban background to its basics: the conflict between the city and those who populate it.

Beyond the concrete curtain / brochure

The activation of central urban areas along socialist boulevards in Bucharest. Case Study – Calea Mosilor.

Project initiated by Zeppelin Association, Point4, Archis Interventions and Hackenbroich Architekten and supported by Erste Stiftung, the Union of Architects of Romania, Bucharest Goethe-Institut, Centre for Visual Introspection and National Cultural Fund Administration.

art installation by Radu Comşa
17 Cct – 15 Nov 2008, Museum of Romanian Peasant, Bucharest

The Hyperlocked installation was designed to function as a support to introduce the Hiperbolism in circulation, which could define an architectural trend at the end of the 20th century and featuring an exhaustive use of succession of spherical and hyperbolical surfaces.

exhibition
18.10. – 18.11. 2007, met-room Gallery, Barcelona

An exhibition of Bucharest architecture presented in Barcelona. Apparently, our capital is a colage of fragments, a place of colission of architectures and identities; actually, an incredible laboratory of modernity.

exhibition in Basel and Bucharest

The interactive project representing Romania at the 10th edition of the Venice Biennale in 2006, where it had 50,000 visitors and 3,500 active participants, was presented in 2007 to the Basel audience (in November, at the Swiss Museum of Architecture, under a great festival dedicated to Romania, Culturescapes) and in Bucharest (June 2007, Dalles Hall).

Starting from the fragmentary character of the Romanian reality, the exhibition presented nine basic types: energies and potentials, public space, housing models (dream house), social segregation (gentrification as opposed to extreme poverty), environmental issues, monuments and heritage, the city, the village and, finally, the planning. Alternative approaches were also presented – democratic urban planning, responsible architecture, social projects – which try to balance global trends.

The Zeppelin team organized the 2004-2010 editions of the Bucharest Architecture Biennale, which travelled in 10 cities in the country later on, the competition-exhibitions of the most valuable Romanian works of architecture. During the 7 (2044-2011) years when the zeppelin team built the identity and the programme of the biennale, the number of entries in the competition, the visitors of exhibitions and the international exposure of the Romanian architecture production were constantly growing.

exhibition of Japanese contemporary architecture
8 November 2006 – 30 January 2007, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest

Sensai, the word providing the title of the exhibition, a typical Japanese concept which could be translated as beauty, delicacy, subtlety, sophistication. It means human touch, delicate approach, craftsmanship and is, in a way, opposed to technology and industrial elements.

exhibition of Japanese contemporary architecture
8 November 2006 – 8 January 2007, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest

The exhibition presented a particular way of relating to tradition, reflected by the current Japanese architecture. The continuity is not about the perpetuation of a “Japanese style”, but one could notice that Japanese architects are rather inclined to look for ideas, concepts, background at the bottom of traditional architecture, rather than typologies or models.