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American Avant-garde. Fifty Years of Architecture: From Modernism to Minimalism

Modernism, latemodernism, postmodernism, deconstruction,  minimalism. 13 American cities – from New York to Los Angeles. 50 years of modern architecture. 60 famous architects – from Louis Kahn and Mies van der Rohe, to Frank Gehry and David Adjaye. 90 outstanding public buildings – from museums and libraries, to churches and research centers. 410 pictures taken directly from the source. Thousands of miles along and across a continent…

Delivered in book-shops at the beginning of summer holidays and accessible both, for architecture professionals and general public, „laborator01” synthesizes essential ideas expressed on the occasion of Zeppelin meetings and of the interviews taken to their guests (architects, designers, editors and artists). A generous range of aspects concerning buildings, planning, cities, territory, image and development are considered, this publication focusing on alternative approaches.

My Beautiful Dacia is a light hearted and humoristic portrayal of the evolution of Romania from Communism to Capitalism, seen through the eyes of its most emblematic symbol, the Dacia automobile. “In our film, we will follow different generations of Romanians – from the old nostalgic to the young entrepreneurs – showing the present transformation of Romanian society. The connecting point between the different stories is always the Dacia car: first, a symbol of the ambitions of Communist technology and now a reflection of the new global economy. ” (Julio Soto si Stefan Constantinescu)

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

Scenarios for socialist collective housing estates in Bucharest.

Belgrade Days of Oris
Opening: 14 May, Belgrade

Oris magazine continues the tradition of the Days of Oris, presenting for the first time the Belgrade Days of Oris, in Dom Sindikata in Belgrade on 14 May, with start at 14:00.
This event, welcoming some of the greatest names of world architecture and urban planning every year, has put Belgrade on the map of global architectural events and is becoming an unmissable venue for everyone who loves architecture.
The numerous lectures of architects presenting their work and revealing their creative credo enable the visitors to see some of the most important trends in contemporary architecture and to hear some of the most significant architects of our time.
The Days of Oris will not only present the best of world architecture, but also present and promote local and regional contemporary architecture.

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.
Florian Stanciu and Iulia Stanciu from STARH will present completed, under construction or projects that are in preliminary stages; we’ll talk about architecture as a continuous process, about place and the essence of a function, and also about the structure as an essential element of the concept and not as a problem to be solved by the engineers.

Zeppelin 19
Situationist urbanism
Thursday 25 March 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.
soon more details on www.e-zeppelin.ro

The Norwegian Government proposed one of the most impressive design themes in the past few years, worth more than 500 million EUR. Oslo Opera House was intended not only to become the most important cultural and architectural milestone in Norway, but also to bring a new approach to a classic theme – complete creative freedom in designing a building that has always been strictly dedicated to opera and ballet.

The result was astonishing, due to the fresh design solution and the small “surprises” reserved for the visitors, such as the possibility to have a picnic lunch on the roof of the building. The novelty was also the location itself, as the Opera is located in the city’s harbour. A very audacious technical solution allowed for half of the building to be erected on the surface of the harbour landfill and the other half on water.

celebrate the resistance in culture…

Thursday, February 18

… with the Comrades Of Time exhibition (PAVILION UNICREDIT, Sos. Nicolae Titulescu nr. 1, orele 19:00) and with the launching of PAVILION #14 – journal for politics and culture. The evening surprise: you are invited to  Glam Rock / Glitter Punk Party @ CONTROL (Str. Academiei nr.19 – Pasajul Victoriei) starting 22.30. This party celebrates 10 years of PAVILION, BUCHAREST BIENNALE and PAVILION UNICREDIT’ s existence. It’s been 10 years of hard work, hard times and hundreds of events, lectures, exhibitions, and publications.
FREE ENTRANCE AFTER 22.30

www.pavilionjournal.ro / www.pavilionunicredit.ro / www.bucharestbiennale.org

World Architecture Community Calling
Register and add your projects to worldarchitecture.org before 23 April, become internationally recognized

worldarchitecture.org, the first interactive database created to provide an opportunity for all local practices, invites all World architects to register and upload their projects -for free- until 23 April 2010 to be considered in the scope of 20+10+X Architecture Awards 7th Cycle. Over 200 Honorary Members, including Udo Kultermann, Hans Hollein, Fumihiko Maki, Robert Ivy, Wolf D. Prix, Charles Correa and Michael Sorkin, who may wish to take part in online voting constitute the Final Assessment Panel.
20+10+X Architecture Awards 7th Cycle
Deadline: 23 April 2010