On view at the CCA from 19 June to 14 September 2014 and curated by architectural historian David Gissen, The M ound of Vendöme revisits one key episode of French history when the Commune de Paris in 187 1 voted to demolish the Ve ndöme Column,abolishing all allusions...
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Call for Proposals: Cities Methodologies October 2014, London
Call for Proposals: Cities Methodologies October 2014 http://www.ucl.ac.uk/urbanlab/news/cities-methodologies-2014-call-for-proposals Call closes: 20 June 2014, 5pm Exhibition dates: 28 - 31 October 2014 Cities Methodologies, organised by UCL Urban Laboratory, is a...
CfP Ordinary Beauty: The Photography of Edwin Smith (RIBA, London)
The RIBA invites papers from photographers, researchers, academics, curators and students in conjunction with the first major retrospective of the work of the British architectural photographer Edwin Smith (1912-1971) – Ordinary Beauty: The Photography of Edwin Smith....
Degree Shows from the Leeds Metropolitan University School of Art, Architecture and Design
Degree Shows A cross disciplinary showcase ofgraduatingstudents from the Leeds MetropolitanUniversitySchool of Art, Architecture and Design. Opening night: Friday 6.6.2014 6pm-9pm Public Opening: Saturday 7.6.2014 to Friday 13.6.2014, 10am-4pm Broadcasting Place,...
CCA Exhibition: Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) presents Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines, an exhibition that focuses on experimentation in computation, interaction and the design of virtual environments in the mid-1990s and in the early 2000s. The...
Le monastère royal de Brou présente l'exposition "L'invention du passé. Gothique mon amour… 1802-1830" à partir du 19 avril
http://www.monuments-nationaux.fr/en/news/headlines/bdd/actu/1803/l-invention-du-passe-gothique-mon-amour-1802-1830// Au lendemain de la Révolution, le mouvement romantique voit de jeunes artistes délaisser les sujets antiques et renouveler l’approche de la peinture...
Exposition virtuelle : Auguste Perret. Huit chefs-d’œvre !/?
Auguste Perret a développé tout au long de sa carrière une pratique architecturale exigeante fondée sur des dispositifs compacts reliant le pensé, le graphique et le construit en une puissante mécanique créative. Cette exposition entend renouveler le regard porté sur...
SHIFTS by Powerhouse Company
Exhibition about the economic crisis and its consequences for architecture. From 7 February to 25 May, the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC) in Copenhagen will host SHIFTS, an exhibition by Powerhouse Company and Hans Ibelings. SHIFTS will be part of the exhibition...
Space-Time by Jorge Otero-Pailos at the MIT Keller Gallery
Opening reception of Space-Time and gallery talk by Jorge Otero-Pailos Thursday, Feb. 06. 2014, 5:30 PM Keller Gallery & MIT Department of Architecture, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Room 7-408 Space-Time registers fifty years in one third of one millionth of a second...
Travelling exhibition: The Nature of Art Nouveau
The exhibition aims to draw visitors into an original discovery of Art Nouveau and its relation with nature, showing the evolution of artistic work from the idea to final products in Art Nouveau style, thanks to a richly documented iconography. Organised by the Réseau...
Exhibition: Photographing the Arab city in the 19th Century
Canadian Centre for Architecture, from 30 January to 25 May 2014 The Exhibition explores the beginnings of photography in the Middle East and North Africa as photographers, whether amateurs, pilgrims, parts of scientific missions or commercial photographers, sailed to...
The Model as Ruin – The Oslo Architecture Exhibition
1 November – 15 December 2013 / Kunstnernes Hus, Wergelandsveien 17, Oslo In September 1931, a grand display of contemporary Norwegian architecture was shown in the House of Artists in Oslo. The recently inaugurated Kunsthalle was filled to the brim by scale models,...