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Questions for arch. Dorin Stefan

How does it feel to be the winner of a large international architectural competition, which are the secrets of creating such a project, how can you get higher on the pages of architectural journals, how to conquer the world from Romania and many other things that you wanted to they learn about Flying Observatories.

The winners of the Bucharest Architecture Biennale 2010 presented their projects and the ideas behind them. How do they see the directions in which we grow, how to relate to current practice in the west or east, which is the key to success in the Romanian context and any other questions is waiting for the answer in this meeting – debate. 

The most avant-garde contemporary art and technology festival in Europe, with the strangest future projects. Yet this year’s edition of Ars Electronica is speaking about a new philosophy of sustainability. Ideas that could change tomorrow’s corporate world, the architecture of the future and why not yourself. Start the repairs. 

People meet in architecture is the theme of the Venice Biennale – 2010, curated by Kazuyo Sejima, one of the most important figures in contemporary architecture.For this edition, the Japanese curator wants to speak directly about space, transforming the whole event in a live demonstration of architecture’s power to respond to economic, cultural and social changes. Insight, answers, problems or questions about the essence of architecture and the space inhabited by people. 

cosmina & constantin goagea
Thursday, 24 June 2010 – Bucharest, French Institute, Elvira Popescu Hall, 77 Dacia blvd.

Kak Zhit? (how do we live?) is the theme of the first edition  of International Architecture Biennale from Moscow, dedicated to post-socialist city.
An analysis of utopias, old or new, a revision of the great architecture discourses and of some stories not at all soft.

20 May 2010 – Bucharest, French Institute, Elvira Popescu Hall, 77 Dacia Blvd

A slight madness and fidgetiness: this year edition of Milano Design Week, fresh presented by Cristina Sabau.

Friday, May 14, from 17.00h
Cluj – Cinema Victoria – Bulevardul Eroilor
Speaker: Constantin Goagea

Scenarios for socialist collective housing estates in Bucharest.
When it comes to contemporary urban development Eastern European countries lend themselves to be regarded as a testing ground: their striving to catch up with Western Europe is matched by rapid, often brutal changes.

Thursday 29 April
3/4 MNAC art gallery, Bucharest National Theatre 
structure-spaces

A special edition of zeppelin with buildings from rough concrete or digged into massive concrete, spatial cells, plots that are too little or too big, insertions into historical texture, outskirts and transitional suburbs.

Thursday March 25 from 19h till late
Bucharest, PAVILION UNICREDIT, 1 Nicolae Titulescu (Victoriei Square)

Boundary cities, cities of the future, situationist urbanism, communities and post-utopias. The German architect Wilfried Hackenbroich will tell us how the urbanism can be cool and creative and also about new instruments and concepts and case studies elaborated within the Bauhaus college.

Monday 16 November 16h
Romanian Peasant Museum (Horia Bernea Hall) 
Invitees: Kai Vöckler (Archis Interventions, Berlin), Michael Obrist (Feld 72, Vienna), Ivan Kucina (Belgrad); Justin Baroncea (Point 4, Bucharest)