Cultural programs

An exhibition about the reactivation of the Romanian architectural heritage
24 September – 17 October 2012, Assembly Hall of Carol I University Central Library of Bucharest.

This exhibition was based on a selection of 20 contemporary interventions to listed buildings. We have not chosen restorations of huge value monuments (where the interventions should be invisible anyway), but operations that breathed new life into old, fragile sites. Respectful repairs, but also infusions of new functions, strategies, community actions, added value for that particular location.

2011. Summary of the debate and the film of the marathon event. City. Money. Architecture.

An international debate and conference on architecture as a political act in an economy based on cultural values, attended by architects, expert city planners, practitioners experienced experienced in interventions in difficult contexts, city managers and government representatives, various urban policy specialists, economists, NGOs active in the field.

The international architecture and urban culture magazine Zeppelin is an editorially and financially independent publication, managed by the Zeppelin Association.

Zeppelin evenings are a series of conferences dedicated to architecture, design and urban culture, an education and communication project launched in early 2008. Starting with 2011, the event takes places in the Aula of “Charles I” Central University Library. This open platform accumulated, in 45 editions (December 2012) to over 11,000 participants and regularly proposed meetings with architects, designers and artists all over the world. The project of zeppelin evenings means an open scene for art and intellectual interaction. The topic of that interaction is always the city, architecture, urbanity, but in a transcultural perspective, with mixes of ideas and content, fertile and original. The aim of the evenings is to support cultural practice based on dialogue, cooperation and interdisciplinary.

Bucharest, A photo mapping, 2004–2012
exhibition, website & workshop by Ștefan Tuchilă & Zeppelin
10–30 October 2012, National Museum for Contemporary Art, Bucharest

In the last 8 years, Ștefan Tuchilă climbed over 80 buildings and took several thousand photographs of Bucharest: another kind of urban research, a methodical and spectacular urban mapping. And a support for the recollection of a city that is constantly reinventing itself.

bilingual edition [EN / RO]

To preserve all the old layers didactically, to reuse the existing substance, to appeal rather to acupuncture and to discrete novelty are some simple statements that unite the ~20 projects grouped in this volume [also selected in a homonymous exhibition]. Some examples:
* The Suceava Water Plant. Centre of Architecture, Urban Culture and Landscape (Project: Chamber of Romanian Architects, North EasternBranch)
* A slice of town. The Theresia Bastion, Timişoara (Project: Archaeus)