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New season’s exhibitions at the National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC Bucharest

Thursday, November 10, 2016, at 7 pm, in the presence of His Excellency, Mr. Werner Hans Lauk – the Ambassador of Germany in Bucharest, seven new exhibitions will open to the public at the National Museum of Contemporary Art – MNAC (The Palace of Parliament)

Call: Designers and Reporters for New Public Hub

Are you willing to change the future of libraries transforming them in public hub? Are you a designer or a reporter with a passion for the human centered design approach? Answer to this call and participate in the selections of the best designers and reporters for 5 LIB#LAB with libraries in Europe promoted by the European project New Libraries.

Bucharest Art Week 2016: The Lesson of Nature

November 4 – 12, 2016 -Bucharest, Romania

The third edition of the Bucharest Art Week (BAW) International Festival examines the way in which contemporary artists, curators and theorists place themselves with respect to the theme of nature and the tradition of the landscape.

Concrete House. Experimental architecture and cultural project

In September 2016, Zeppelin moved into one of the top innovative buildings produced in Romania in the last years. We wrote about it, promoted intensively. Now we change the role of the critic to the one of the dedicated user.

The House is integrally built from a locally developed thermo- and hydro-insulating concrete, and the result of a partnership between open and responsible clients, an architect with vision and courage and strongly involved construction partners.

Zeppelin at European Academy of Participation International Conference

Cosmina Goagea – representing Zeppelin Association – was one of three speakers (along with Merlijn Twaalfhoven – Netherlands and Michelle Browne – Ireland) who presented examples of participative practices at the European Academy of Participation International Conference, held on 27 and October 28, 2016 in Dublin.

ABRUPTARHITECTURA: From sheltering cars to sheltering people

Beyond the archetypal interpretations and a unique recycling of some prefabricated garages, the small house on the periphery of Bucharest is a shelter in all the senses of the word.

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Mutations. Carlos Arroyo Architects: 2 headquarters for Erretres, The Strategic Design Company, Madrid

Project, text: Carlos Arroyo Arquitectos
Photo: Miguel de Guzmán, imagensubliminal.com

Same company, same architects, two consecutive office spaces. A lot of care, attention to needs and an elegant design that is built-up starting from the context and the client’s professional identity.

Open Office. Republic of Architects and their neighbors

Text: Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Photo: Mihai Ţuţu

A building site and a laboratory instead of a wrapped-up operation: that’s what Republic of Architects tried to express in the interior design of the new atelier. 

INTERMEDIA BODY: artistic research meetings

Artists:
Antony Rayzhekov (AT/BG), Simona Deaconescu (RO), Gerhard Funk (AT), Mihaela Kavdanska (RO/BG), Cătălin Crețu (RO), Cinty Ionescu (RO), Raluca Nestor-Oancea (RO)

Wednesday, November 9 at 12 PM – 4 PM @ National University of Music Bucharest (Auditorium Hall) – Știrbei Vodă street no. 33, 4th floor

Mayor for 10 minutes. A participatory action within the project “Actopolis. The Art of Action / Bucharest‑South”

In late May, nearly a hundred residents of the southern part of the city became, briefly, city mayors. In an exercise of imagination and responsibility, ideas and decisions came out of a mobile mayor’s office which moved in three districts in the area. We gathered the participants’ opinions and proposals and soon we will make them public. After completing the action, the pavilion was carried to Belciugatele village, Calarasi County, where Arhipera Association and a team of volunteers have reassembled it, as street furniture, in the park in the village centre.

H2O Exhitibion. Swedish contemporary architecture

18 October – 15 November 2016 @ MNAC Dalles
Opening: Tuesday, 18th October, 7 pm

7 Swedish project in an exhibition dedicated to sustainability, identity and aesthetics in Swedish contemporary architecture. The architecture offices taking part are: Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture, Kjellander Sjöberg, Notedesignstudio, Petra Gipp Arkitektur, PS Arkitektur, Wingardhs and IceHotel.

Building Blocks – a small workshop for big wood constructions

Saturday, 15 – Sunday, 16 October: pavilion @ Creative Est Festival (Industria Bumbacului & Nod MakerspaceSplaiul Unirii 160, Bucharest)

Opening: Saturday, 5 pm