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Small ideas for a big city

exhibition & conference
17.10 – 15.11.2008, Museum of Romanian Peasant, Aquarium hall, Bucharest

The exhibition promoted 16 alternative projects to improve public spaces in Bucharest. Small ideas, costwise, which could truly improve the quality of life for communities and certain urban situations. Designed by the members of the organization and by young invited architects, the proposals submitted to authorities and the wide audience addressed various places, from abandoned sites to the great housing neighbourhoods, and spaces in the heart of the historical centre. 

35 cities, lots of pixels, some coffee

exhibition of contemporary architecture photography
17 October – 15 November 2008, Bucharest Art Galleries
photos by Cosmin Caciuc and Ştefan Tuchilă; curator: Constantin Goagea

A journey in the history of contemporary architecture, talking about the condition of the modern architect in his function as a tourist/world observer, with an attempt of a look less interested by the seduction of surfaces and more focused to decoding the hidden sides of places and objects. 

Urban activations in Romania – catalogue

This catalog accompanies the exhibition Urban Activations in Romania, that took place in November 2011 at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Bucharest. The program is part of the Zeppelin Festival 2011. 

Urban Report #2

The Conditions of the Self Regulated Urbanity
– to cultivate an enabling knowledge on self regulated urbanity, its concepts, conditions and developing strategy.

Team: Ivan Kucina, Todor Atanasov, Peter Torniov, Miklós Péterffy, Samu Szemerey, Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Cosmina Goagea, Constantin Goagea.
Institutions: BINA, SAW, ZEPPELIN, KEK, Transformatori.
Thanks for their contribution at UR Volume #2: Boris Žerjav, Milica Topalović, Archis Interventions, Hackenbroich Architekten, Space Syntax Romania, ATU, Levente Polyak, Club Electroputere, Fabrica de Pensule, Luminiţa Klara Veer, STEALTH.unlimited – Ana Dzokic & Marc Neelen, Srdjan Jovanović Weiss, Valeri Gyurov.

Urban report #1

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

NO / Romanian public space

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.

Magic Blocks 2010 – brochure

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.

Hyperlocked

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.

Jukebox City

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.

Remix! 2007

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).