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InternationalArchitecture & Design Showcase 2012
Part oneJune 21 – August 17 2012
Welcome to part one of the International Architecture and Design Showcase 2012, a summer gathering of exceptional architectural and design projects from across the world.
Between 21 June and 23 September, more than 50 of London’s embassies and national cultural institutes will be participating in the showcase, inspired by the international focus on London for 2012.
Part one, which begins with the London Festival of Architecture, offers the chance to experience a range of international responses to the theme of ‘the Playful City’. The pineapple – an international symbol of friendship and welcoming – is the emblem of this year’s festival. Join us for a giant architectural pineapple hunt, with prizes for finding carved, cast and stencilled pineapples on buildings across the city. For further details see page 2.
On pages 10 to 46 of this guide, you will find details of dozens of international exhibitions, talks, installations and film-screenings. Many of the projects highlight the role of transformative nature of architecture and design: Don’t miss a specially commissioned film about architecture and heritage from the world’s newest nation, South Sudan.
We are indebted to all the participating embassies and cultural institutes for their ideas and commitment to this programme. The International Showcase is a unique opportunity to exchange ideas about the importance of architecture and design in a fast-changing world. We hope you find it enjoyable and inspiring!
Ruth Mackenzie, Director Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 FestivalVicky Richardson, Director of Architecture, Design, Fashion, British Council
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Most of the events listed in this guide are free, and the full programme is part of the London 2012 Festival, the finale of the Cultural Olympiad. For more information about the festival, view: www.london2012.com/festival
For the best national contribution at London Festival of Architecture
The Silver Pigeon Award
London’s answer to the Golden Lion at the Venice Architecture Biennale is the Silver Pigeon award, which was launched at the International Architecture Showcase 2010 and won by the Japanese Embassy. The Silver Pigeon provides an opportunity to recognise excellence in the contributions to the programme by London’s embassies and cultural institutes, who work with leading curators and designers from around the world.
On 5 July the Silver Pigeon will be presented to the best national contribution during the London Festival of Architecture. The winning project will be selected by a panel of leading international voices in architecture and culture, who will look for work that demonstrates a combination of vision, inspiration and innovation.
The 2012 trophy has been co-commissioned by British Council and the Embassy of Japan, winners of the 2010 Silver Pigeon Award, and will be designed by Tomoko Azumi.
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Professor Richard Burdett Director, LSE Cities Programme Gunter Klix Architect, Dar es Salaam/Zurich Rowan Moore Architecture Critic, The Observer Comfort Mosha Publishing Director, ANZA Magazine Vicky Richardson Director, Architecture, Fashion, Design, British Council Catherine Slessor Editor of the Architectural Review Victoria Thornton OBE Founder and Director, Open-City Eckhard Thiemann Producer, Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival Tamsie Thomson Director, RIBA London Mirko Zardini Director, Canadian Centre for Architecture
While London spruces itself up for the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the London Festival of Architecture will be in full swing. The theme of ‘the Playful City’ responds to the context of the Games and brings architects and communities together to explore how to make London a better place. The Festival is led by the city’s leading architectural and cultural institutes: the Architecture Foundation, the British Council, New London Architecture and RIBA London; and relies on the dynamism and diversity of London’s architectural talent.
The festival opens with a focus on The City and Southwark. Highlights include the Developing City exhibition at the Walbrook Building, where teams of architects present their visions for London 2050. On 23 and 24 June, you can enjoy a preview of the London Pleasure Gardens, next to the Olympic venue at ExCel. The 60,000sqm site includes specially commissioned follies, pavilions and public furniture, and will be fully open as a family-friendly festival from mid-July 2012.
Between 6 and 8 July, visit Hoxton Square for a collaborative installation from architects Harry Dobbs and interactive design studio Troika, or visit David Rockwell’s imagination playground at Kings Cross – and don’t forget to hunt for those pineapples around the city throughout the festival!
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Australia Andrew Burns in conversation with Sarah Eberle (p11) 23 June, 16.30
Japan Living in Sendai (p25) 25 June, 18.00
Czech Mies van der Rohe and the Villa Tugendhat (p17) Republic 03 July, 15.00
Czech Beyond The Glass Room: (p17) Republic The Many Lives of the Villa Tugendhat 03 July, 18.30
Germany Gloria Zein in conversation with Stephanie Rosenthal (p21) 03 July, 19.00
Tanzania Introducing ANZA (p6) 03 July, 18.30, Ambika P3
Finland HEL/LO – Let’s Talk About Games (p20) 06 July, 18.00
Turkey Istanbul on the way to ‘Londonisation’ (p44) 06 July, 18.30
Switzerland Swiss Positions: Christian Müller (p41) 17 July, 18.30
Croatia Between Utopia and Pragmatism: (p15) Architecture and Urban Planning in Yugoslavia 24 July, 18.30 British Architecture as Antidote: Should cities make us fit? Council 04 July, 19.00, Wellcome Collection Auditorium, 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE
University of Expanded Territories (p6) Westminster 05 July, 14.00–17.00, Ambika P3
Design Events and discussion series (p6) Diplomacy 28 June – 15 July, Ambika P3 This series of discussions examines how design can be
used as a diplomatic tool for engagement. Tackling everything from the importance of international design events, to the design of diplomatic buildings, the series begins at the Architecture of Change group exhibition, presented in collaboration with the University of Westminster. For further information and booking details, please visit: designdiplomacy.blogspot.co.uk
International Design Discussions
Between June and September, designers, curators, architects, academics and artists from over 50 countries will participate in the International Showcase. Honouring the Olympic values of friendship, excellence and welcoming, the showcase is an opportunity to share knowledge, discuss challenging issues and highlight topics of global concern in architecture and design.
Highlights (see opposite for details)
Talks and Debates
Architecture as Antidote: Should cities make us fit?
A panel of architects and health experts debate the role of architecture and cities in creating healthy lifestyles. Should architects be part of the growing campaign for ‘fit cities’, or does this represent the medicalization of architecture?
The debate will be chaired by Claire Fox, director of the Institute of Ideas and a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s The Moral Maze. Speakers include Mirko Zardini, director of the Canadian Centre for Architecture and curator of the recent exhibition Imperfect Health. Organised with support from the Embassy of Denmark.
For tickets please visit www.lfa2012.org
Expanded Territories
Professor Lindsay Bremner and Professor Katharine Heron in discussion with participants in the international exhibition Architecture of Change: Four Continents, Five Perspectives.Hosted by the Department of Architecture at the University of Westminster.
Booking is essential: [email protected]
Introducing ANZA
From Dar es Salaam, Africa’s fastest growing city, Anza joins us at London Festival of Architecture for a preview of the magazines work ahead of their project at London Design Festival in September. Anza provides a platform for both specialists and the public to openly discuss the urban and architectural issues connected with the growing cities of East Africa, in September they will be back with a programme of workshops and the launch of their third issue which will have a special international focus. Gunter Klix, Co-Founder, and Comfort Mosha, Publishing Director of ANZA, will join us to talk about East Africa and the initiative behind the magazine.
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Developed by the Museum of Architecture, this exhibition involving several countries from the Middle East and North Africa region, explores the notion of ‘home’ through visual concepts, that reference the materials, forms and environmental contexts that are uniquely Arab.
The home has traditionally been considered the centre of the world, the point of departure and point of return for all journeys: an anchor point. The exhibition examines and challenges these ideas, presenting contemporary Arab architecture that seeks to redefine or reconfirm each participating country’s unique interpretation of the home. Heritage, privacy, personal narratives, family life and the 21st-century home are investigated through the architecture of Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar and Yemen.
The Museum of Architecture (MoA) is dedicated to public engagement with architecture and the built environment. MoA’s mission is to showcase and facilitate the world of architecture through exhibitions, special programming, education and events. It aims to foster connections, promote discussion and deepen our understanding of architecture today and in the future.
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As one of the focal points for the International Showcase, the cavernous space of the University of Westminster’s Ambika P3 gallery will be transformed into a series of unique exhibitions exploring five countries where change has been etched upon their architectures. In the heart of Westminster’s Marylebone campus, Taiwan, Namibia, Serbia, South Africa and the Caribbean will come together to present architecture, cities, structures and ideas that have all undergone radical shifts. A tensile structure of seed-lined cotton threads will span the main hall, designed by Taiwan’s National Cheng Kung University. The evolution of the city is explored by Serbian architects in the ‘dialogue room’, alongside a filmic portrait of Johannesburg. Further contributions include an investigation into an ecological design revolution from the Chinese Culture University in Taipei; a critical understanding of the post-colonial Namibian city, and a 3D look at the changing use of responsive natural materials in the Caribbean. The Showcase Hub Space will also be home to a series of talks and debates jointly organised by the University of Westminster and the British Council, on the themes of ‘Design Diplomacy’ and ‘Expanded Territories’, to investigate how architecture and design can be tools for diplomatic engagement.
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An Education Enrichment programme will run alongside the International Showcase. Designed to inspire young people living within an Olympic host borough about the importance of sustainable design, this project engages Gifted and Talented students to work together in small teams to design and model a temporary building or installation on a site in Hackney, to add benefit to the community as a whole. International and London-based practitioners will work with students to help shape and contextualize their proposals and explore themes and issues relevant to the regeneration of East London and community participation. With the support of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, a specially commissioned photo-film and images of the project have been documented and will be available to view online from the 26th July at: backoftheenvelope.britishcouncil.org
Inspiring Architecture
Many definitions of a ‘sustainable city’ include a statement about people being at its heart, yet often the reality does the opposite. Only by integrating people, place and practice as a two-way process, can fundamental and lasting change be achieved. This conference aims to highlight examples of smarter and creative thinking in the way existing cities are being made more sustainable, showcasing more holistic approaches that generate social and economic alongside environmental benefits. It brings together professionals from the built environment and technology, energy and sustainability sectors and Open House cities. Junior Open House Festival 2012
The City’s first ever children’s architecture festival will be staged in the Square Mile, inspiring kids to become ‘architectives’ over 48 hours, exploring, creating, and building their own designs for now and the future – and all for free. Young architects and artists from around the world, including Lithuania, Germany, Spain, Austria and Poland, will join their British counterparts in designing and running workshops, tours and competitions for 5-12 year olds from Archi-kites to Archi-hats to City of a Thousand Architects.
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Australian architect Andrew Burns and award-winning British landscape designer Sarah Eberle have transformed a cut-through known as Gibbon’s Rent, near London Bridge, into a new, shared green space for local businesses, residents and visitors.
Australia Unlimited is proud to support the event that will launch the space during the London Festival of Architecture 2012. Burns and Eberle will for the first time share their inspiration behind their design concept, and give insight into how the project came into being. They will explore the value of international collaboration when designing innovative solutions in urban landscapes. Their discussion will be followed by the official opening.
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The notion of privacy, central to Bahraini society, and a defining feature of the courtyard house, was generally negotiated through the introduction of a boundary wall. This wall, and the interstitial space it creates, became a common thread between all kinds of housing – even while it was essentially disregarded as a leftover space with no specific use.
This installation explores ‘the wall, the house and the in-between’, considering how this unplanned space, a nostalgic remnant of the traditional courtyard, has the potential to become the most intimate and qualitatively distinct space within the home.
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BahrainHome: Contemporary Architectural Interpretations of the Home in the Arab World
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In London and Vienna, amid the cities’ imposing architecture, there are gaps – incidental spaces in and around the ‘feet’ of buildings – where people meet to take part in impromptu sports such as football, basketball and skateboarding. These places, referred to as ‘urban sport pockets’ (USPs), facilitate personal expression and collective interaction, and colour the city’s urban realm. From the skateboarding vaults under the Queen Elizabeth Hall of London’s Southbank Centre to the freerunning trails through Vienna’s Karlsplatz, sport is always linked to the urban realm.
This exhibition explores the USPs of London and Vienna, investigating their relationship with the surrounding architecture, their national identity and their value as incubators of a city’s sporting talent. Curated by Nick Baker.
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Socialist Yugoslavia (1945–1992) was a country suspended between civilisations, political systems, and Cold War blocs. It produced a remarkable body of modern architecture, which defies easy classification and blurs the lines between the established categories of modernism.
Writer and critic Maroje Mrdulja will reflect on the ideas behind this great era of experimentation and modernisation in Yugoslavia. Assessing the coincidence of efficient modernisation concepts and puzzling deviations from the orthodox modernist norm, he will briefly illustrate some of the cultural and societal contradictions and complexities of the region, which, to some extent, remain unresolved to this day.
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The Caribbean, known for its beauty and brilliant weather, presents architectural solutions to housing and energy problems. The exhibition showcases Caribbean designs and methods of construction that respond to the needs of a Caribbean climate; that are sensitive to social, cultural and climatic requirements; and that use a variety of materials, including those indigenous to the Caribbean.
Through a virtual platform, a large projector screen displaying 3D animated interiors of various ‘green designs’ demonstrates unique solutions to everyday building and planning problems. A special focus on the historical use of natural materials for building and design in the Caribbean is shown through a photo display. Visitors to the exhibition may have the opportunity to meet the architects.
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The Villa Tugendhat in Brno, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928–1930, is one of the finest examples of modernism in Europe.
A UNESCO World Heritage site and the inspiration for Simon Mawer’s Man Booker Prize-nominated novel, The Glass Room, the building is once again set to become a major cultural destination after 72 years of enduring the vagaries of climate, politics and changing functions.
The lecture and discussion celebrate the life of the villa and, with the historians, architects and curators who took part in the recently completed restoration, explore the process of bringing this icon back to life. An accompanying exhibition, The Villa Tugendhat in Context, is presented in the RIBA Library.
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Casa Nostra is a visually striking installation originally created for the Czech exhibition at EXPO 2010 in Shanghai by artist Jan Kalab. It consists of a miniature housing development in which the houses are pierced by a red pipe reminiscent of an urban octopus stretching its tentacles and symbolising life as it progresses from one window to another, reproducing itself.
Kalab (aka ‘Point’) is a leading Czech graffiti artist known for dynamic compositions with playful colouring who also intervenes in urban space with his 3D sculptures. His street art piece in the Kupka al Fresco series can be seen at the City Road Basin area in Islington until September.
Part of Czech Open 2012, the Czech cultural season in Islington.
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One day houses will be turned inside out like gloves. – Paul Éluard
Shahira Fahmy Architects, in collaboration with artist Hala Elkoussy, explore the Egyptian home as a vessel for the physical and emotional needs of its inhabitants, transcending traditional definitions and separations of space and function.
A contemporary reading of an Egyptian home exposes a superstructure that cuts across and blurs boundaries to conform to the specific nature and needs of its dwellers, generating an environment where emotive qualities embedded in the understanding of the home take over.
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Out of Architecture marks the 50th anniversary of Danish architect Arne Jacobsen’s celebrated St Catherine’s College, Oxford. The design drew inspiration from the college’s sense of tradition, which Jacobsen expressed in his modern architecture and repeated in his innovative furniture and products, to define the new college’s emerging identity.
The exhibition includes examples of the St Catherine Easy Chair and Stool, and the Oxford Series, designed by Jacobsen and made by Fritz Hansen, together with products from Jacobsen’s collaborations with Vola and Louis Poulsen. Designed by Friend and Company Architects, the exhibition in the ARUP gallery is also a poignant reminder of the contribution made by Danish engineer Ove Arup.
Royal Danish Embassy, St Catherine’s College & Arne Jacobsen Foundation
DenmarkOut of Architecture
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develop works in honour of the reopening and 50th anniversary of the Goethe-Institut London. Zein’s installation reflects the transdisciplinary nature of her art, with works that allude to the multifaceted role of the institute in London, Great Britain and North-West Europe and the dedication of its staff, operating within a dynamic network of artistic fields.
Zein responds to the architecture of the newly restored building with references to its historical significance and to the cultural objectives of the Goethe-Institut. Sculptures have been installed both outside the building and in working areas, and Zein has developed a striking colour concept for the main stairwell.
Goethe-Institut London
GermanyGloria Zein
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The Finnish Institute in London is pleased to present HEL/LO – Let’s Talk, in collaboration with Blueprint magazine. HEL/LO brings together Finnish and British architecture and design professionals for a lively exchange of ideas, and an exploration of the design cultures in each capital and the pressing issues architects and designers face.
The HEL/LO talk event during the London Festival of Architecture 2012 takes place at the White Building, an exciting new canal-side Olympic-edge cultural venue, run by SPACE and designed by David Kohn Architects.
Comprising four events in total and launched in May 2012, the HEL/LO series is part of the World Design Capital Helsinki programme.
Finnish Institute
FinlandHEL/LO – Let’s Talk
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AMBS Architects incorporate Iraqi vernacular architecture in their exploration of simple, efficient technology that will both improve living standards and strengthen the community ties of the Iraqi people. A non-site-specific schema is presented as a possible model for a nationwide solution.
Focusing on the traditional courtyard – a key element in social interaction – the configuration of maisonettes creates new courtyards, and encourages neighbours to develop a sense of belonging. With pedestrian and green areas, visual and imaginative senses are stimulated and communities are transformed.
Embassy of the Republic of Iraq & The Museum of Architecture
IraqHome: Contemporary Architectural Interpretations of the Home in the Arab World
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Polypolis, is a mindset-shifting board game. In the rapidly deteriorating Athens centre, players are assigned life-roles; immersed in an urban environment of economic recession, illegality, city-phobia, rising violence and human desperation, the Athenians (Greeks, immigrants, shop owners, unemployed, land owners, investors inhabitants, entrepreneurs, intellectuals, etc.) enter into an agonising and antagonistic struggle to reset the city’s human, physical and natural resources. The players keep reflecting and acting upon ‘real’ city conditions, and watch the outcome of their decisions unfold on the game board. The Athenians of the Polypolis social game stand up to the challenge of the crisis and have the power to transform the materiality of their city. Be one of them.
Embassy of Greece & SARCHA (School of ARCHitecture for All)
GreecePolypolis Athens: Become an Athenian and experience a city in crisis
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‘Yatai’ are Japanese mobile street stalls set up to sell food and other forms of merchandise in cities. This exhibition tells the stories of the journeys of a number of ‘mobile play-station’ yatai.
In Yatai Here Yatai There, specially constructed yatai, purpose-built for recreation, are used as vehicles for seeing the city through the medium of play. These yatai have travelled around London and to the north-eastern Tohoku region of Japan, offering activities to young people on their way. Each yatai has returned to the exhibition, bringing back with it records of particular events and stories from its travels, which unfold as series of moving images, and traces made by the participants themselves. Anticipate playful live links between a family of yatai in communities 9,000 km apart.
Embassy of Japan
JapanYatai Here Yatai There
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This exhibition looks at design house Pininfarina. With a history dating back to 1930, Pininfarina is founded on the values of creativity, experience, and innovation without forgetting tradition. It combines avant-garde style with technical solutions aimed at functionality.
If Pininfarina is known worldwide for car design, Pininfarina Extra (specialising in product and interior design, architecture, nautics and aeronautics) expresses its design philosophy in all areas of life where beauty combines with elegance, functionality and comfort.
Among the iconic objects displayed in London are the Torino 2006 Olympic Torch, the Lavazza coffee machines, the Calligaris Orbital table, the Panatta Sport bike, and a wooden scale model of the Cambiano concept car.
Italian Cultural Institute
ItalyPininfarina in London: Italian Design and Engineering
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Riga: metropolis of the Baltics and capital of Latvia, was also an important Hanseatic port. Since its founding in 1201, different peoples have approached the city from different directions – Swedes from the north, Poles and Germans from the south, Russians from the east. All have left their imprint, making Riga national and cosmopolitan, Latvian and multicultural, its centre a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Riga is a symbol of Latvia, and we recommend approaching it from the sky. From above, we can appreciate the aerial mosaic of the city, and follow the Daugava River through the centre to the Baltic Sea. We see the urban structure, tracing main transport arteries and bridges, framing ancient fortifications, and outlining church steeples and contemporary buildings. We celebrate Riga’s dynamic life together.
Embassy of Latvia
LatviaRiga from Above
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This exhibition showcases approaches by Kenyan architects to the goal of vitalising urban areas and urban living. The projects are a response to the deterioration in the quality of urban life in Kenya. Exploring the idea of ‘context-specificity’ and the process of implementation, they hint at the growing confidence in Kenya about the nation’s future, set in the context of a vibrant economy and a liberalised political and social setting. The massive infrastructure expansion currently being undertaken, and the space afforded by a new constitution and by the Kenya Vision 2030 national development blueprint, inspire architects to explore new thinking about the urban environment.
Architectural Association of Kenya
KenyaRunning Ahead: Vitalising Urban Areas and Communities
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Kilo Architectures have focused on the Moroccan Diaspora, Moroccans who live abroad but carry something of their home with them. By exploring what ‘home’ means to those who are far from it, the notion is detached from its temporal, architectural and geographical moorings, allowing us to identify the essential elements of Moroccan identity.
Embassy of the Kingdom of Morocco & The Museum of Architecture
MoroccoHome: Contemporary Architectural Interpretations of the Home in the Arab World
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In Lebanon, an urban myth constructed and inflated to promote tourism alleges a season of ‘climatic overlap’, where one can ski and swim within half an hour’s drive (‘from the mountain to the sea’, as the expression goes).
One-Door House, by design collective LEFT, is a hypothetical Lebanese house that takes this urban myth and scales it down to the domestic space. We are asked to imagine how the house might transcend the aesthetic and stylistic norms and preconceptions that are closely bound up with formal biases within the Lebanese traditional context.
Embassy of Lebanon & The Museum of Architecture
LebanonHome: Contemporary Architectural Interpretations of the Home in the Arab World
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A timely nod to London’s Olympic year, Nolympics is a celebratory exhibition showcasing unrealised Dutch Olympic architecture. This includes high-quality projects connected to bids to become an Olympic venue in the past, versions of Olympic designs that were never realised in their original form and, more excitingly, Olympic architecture that may still happen.
Making creative use of an interesting architectural space, the public are invited to live the Olympic dream as envisaged by the likes of practices such as BDP, KCAP and MVRDV, amongst others.
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
NetherlandsNolympics: Unrealised Dutch Olympic Architecture
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This exhibition seeks to trace the complex production of space throughout Namibia’s turbulent history, and to develop a critical understanding of the contemporary, post-colonial Namibian city. Different definitions of space coexist both socially and spatially. Two decades after independence, social inequality is growing amid global economic entanglements; urbanisation, although radically on the increase, still develops along embedded patterns of apartheid planning, while the country continues to portray itself to the outside world as the land of wide-open spaces. National heritage mostly means German colonial buildings, and new forms of monumentality are imported from foreign countries once again, while other places are being transformed to embody the decolonisation of spaces and minds.
Namibia Directorate of Arts (MYNSSC) & Polytechnic of Namibia
NamibiaDefinitions of Space
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The Museum of Architecture
QatarHome: Contemporary Architectural Interpretations of the Home in the Arab World
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Thomas Modeen, an architect and academic currently based in Doha, has collaborated with London’s Independent Architects Ltd, to fabricate a range of unique designs taking their inspiration from traditional Islamic ‘Mashrabiya’ screening.
During the exhibition, individual pieces will be displayed in the street facing windows of the Mosaic Rooms, interweaving traditional iconography with digital means, to create bespoke view paths for visitors.
With its hidden yet highly creative layers, the pavilion is intended as a showcase for Palestinian cultural identity. As such, it consists of a mixture of live projects alongside more speculative and anticipatory components, which hint at new spatial possibilities.
Emblematic of the local birdlife is the beautifully coloured Palestine sunbird, a common sight in a region known for being a major bird migration corridor. The little bird’s physical structure and busy animation suggests a freedom of movement and a hopefulness that seem to lie far beyond the control of any enforced borderlines. Likewise, the Sunbird Pavilion seeks to merge the everyday, not-so-ordinary life of the West Bank and Gaza Strip with architectural projects that propose a more vivid, emancipatory aesthetic for the built environment in Palestine.
Palestine Regeneration Team
PalestineSunbird Pavilion
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This exhibition follows the fascinating story of the development of sport in Russia over the course of the 20th century, as reflected in posters. The show includes little-known examples of Soviet design of the 1920 and 1930s.
A series of accompanying events representing contemporary Russian creativity will complement the exhibition at the London office of the Federal Agency for International Humanitarian Cooperation.
Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation
RussiaTo the Stadiums! Russian Sports Posters of the 20th Century
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Vlad Tenu’s award-winning sculpture, Minimal Complexity, is a product of architectural research focused on the form-finding and fabrication of minimal surface structures. Computationally generated, the surfaces use an algorithmic process inspired by principles of self-organisation found in nature, while conforming to various construction and digital fabrication parameters. Modularity and efficiency are improved through the repetition of identical components, creating intricately complex surfaces with only a few types of component. Such surfaces have applications in architecture, product design and even fashion design.
Vlad Tenu is a Romanian architect based in London. His ongoing research focuses on generative computational methods, digital fabrication techniques and interactive design.
Romanian Cultural Institute
RomaniaMinimal Complexity
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The exhibition Metahousing presents Stubline, a Neolithic settlement near Belgrade with more than 300 above-ground houses, and a segment of a modern Belgrade settlement consisting of six 16-storey skyscrapers. Our intention is to show how the appearance of the dwellings and settlements is connected to the ideological, economic and sociocultural constructs of the Neolithic, and post-Socialist worlds. Who were/are the builders and inhabitants of these houses? What was/is their perception of their environment like? How did/do they interact with their neighbourhood? What shapes a sense of community? How do social transformations influence the built environment? Finally, how and why are such settlements born; and how do they die out?
Metahousing is presented in association with Belgrade International Architecture Week & Association (BINA) & the Association of Belgrade Architects.
Embassy of the Republic of Serbia & Belgrade City Museum
SerbiaMetahousing
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Discover some hidden gems of the UK’s capital with London VeloNotte, a great midsummer night bike tour of the East End, accompanied by a live Resonance FM broadcast by architectural commentators describing the areas they and their fellow cyclists are riding through.
From Dickens to the Olympics, the tour will take in landmarks of the rapidly changing east: avant-garde social housing, pubs and music halls, anarchists and hi-tech architecture. The speakers will include Richard Rogers, Peter Ackroyd and David Adjaye. The VeloNotte series, created by historian Sergey Nikitin, has already been brought to Moscow, Rome and New York.
And for those who survive the 35-kilometre ride, there will be a party at dawn in Docklands, with Trinity Laban string orchestra and English five o’clock tea – in the morning!
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Designing_SouthAfrica (D_ZA) investigates and records the impact of mega-events on cities, beginning with the 2010 FIFA World Cup, with a particular focus on architecture, urbanism and design.
Via photographs and multimedia the D_ZA exhibition will present the ideal opportunity for a wider audience to engage with South African cities and also with the issues and opportunities around mega-events as London prepares for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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Over the course of its history, Mogadishu has been influenced by the diverse cultures of its various rulers, residents and visiting traders; a combination of influences that strongly informed the city’s subsequent social, cultural and physical characteristics. However, Mogadishu’s pre-civil war architecture and built form largely owes its morphology to the region’s former colonial power, Italy, the last of the European powers to join the ‘scramble for Africa’.
Forgotten Pasts and Distant Futures is an image and sound installation designed by Rashid Ali, which charts the urban transformation of Mogadishu, from the late 19th century to the first few decades of the 20th century. The unique, site-specific presentation allows, for the first time, a broader audience to engage with this aspect of the city’s history.
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The travelling exhibition Swiss Positions: 33 Takes on Sustainable Approaches to Building is a collection of photographs of 33 key projects realised by the Swiss construction sector over the past twenty years, all of which have links to the theme of sustainable development.
Swiss Positions presents these architectural achievements through the eyes of talented photographers, exploring different aspects with regard to engineering techniques, materials, ecology and protection of the environment. What all these architectural works have in common – whether viewed from the technological, organic, vernacular or bioclimatic angle, or from the social perspective – is that they interact with the setting in which they’ve been created.
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Frederique Cifuentes undertook photographic and filmic research in Sudan between 2004 and 2010. One of the most important outcomes of her travel was the creation of a new and unique body of work that documents the remnants of the colonial experience in Sudan from the Ottoman, Egyptian, and British periods. Offering an alternative way of looking at imperial history, this exhibition includes photographs and videos made by Cifuentes in the course of her research, as well as materials from Durham University’s Sudan Archive. The exhibition is an illustrated history of a unique cultural landscape, examining different aspects and forms of the rich colonial architectural heritage of Sudan, before it vanishes completely.
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[Cenchrus]A genus of about 25 species of grasses producing their seeds within spiny ovoid envelopes or burs. The burs float in the wind, travel when passing by, and adapt to their tough surroundings.
[Bicycle wheel]A rigid circular ring connected by spokes to a hub, designed to turn around an axle passed through the centre. It carries passengers and provides mobility.
A collaboration between students and teachers, nature and artifacts, architecture and art, this project is presented by the Department of Architecture, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. The installation uses ordinary objects – regularly seen but easily neglected in daily life – to generate a spatial and visual spectacle.
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Climate change is evidenced in the increasing frequency of natural disasters such as hurricanes and tsunamis. Correspondingly, environmental sustainability has become an urgent concern, especially in architecture and urban design. Presented by the College of Environmental Design, Chinese Culture University, this exhibition combines four principles to guide projects during the design process:
Eco-city + Green buildingGreen + LiveableCulture Culture + Creativity
These principles call for the design revolution of the urbanised environment, and stand for the quality of life.
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TaiwanEco-Architecture and Urban Design
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This exhibition describes four restoration projects of special cultural importance to Venezuela. First, the ‘Yellow House Antonio José de Sucre’, a National Monument and home to Venezuela’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The restoration includes the neoclassical building and furnishings of heritage value. Next, the 16th-century Church of San Francisco in Caracas, where Simón Bolívar was given the title ‘El Libertador’ in 1813, currently in its second phase of its restoration. Thirdly, ‘Miranda House’ in London, home of Venezuelan patriot Francisco de Miranda between 1802 - 1810, where he first met Bolívar and other national heroes. Finally, the landscape and architecture development within Warairarepano National Park, which includes the restoration of the Hotel Humboldt on the mountain summit, overlooking Caracas.
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Over the last 15 years, Istanbul has undergone a rapid transformation, developing in parallel with globalising trends within Turkey’s conservative/neo-liberal political and economic policies. Without doubt, the effect on urban memory has been detrimental. To some, the city is being ‘sold’, with little regard for its intrinsic nature – what it really is.
The situation recalls London during the Thatcher era, with the effects of neo-liberal free-market economics now taking physical form on the streets of Istanbul. It leads us to ask the question: Is Istanbul experiencing a kind of ‘Londonisation’?
At a time when even newly built mosques become part of the world of spectacle, Emre Arolat Architects adopts a specific critical position in relation to this chaotic and constantly changing metropolis. A key player at the very centre of this great urban transformation, EAA’s experience is inevitably profound and direct.
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The British Council is the UK’s international cultural relations organisation. We work in over 100 countries worldwide to build engagement and trust for the UK through the exchange of knowledge and ideas between people. The Architecture, Design, Fashion department, as part of the global Arts team, develops exhibitions, seminars, workshops, collaborative projects, educational initiatives and specialists’ visits with our overseas colleagues and partners.
The International Architecture Showcase was established in 2008 by the British Council and the Architecture Foundation as part of the London Festival of Architecture. To find out more about the work of the British Council’s Architecture, Design, Fashion department, please visit: backoftheenvelope.britishcouncil.org
British Council 2012 Programme
The British Council is committed to make the London 2012 Games a truly international and inclusive experience. Working in partnership and drawing on an international network, and our expertise in the arts, education and English language, we are helping to ensure that the London 2012 Games will touch the lives of people all over the world. Other initiatives include showcasing international artistic collaborations during the London 2012 Festival, forging new school links, and developing educational and language learning materials to satisfy the huge global interest in the Games. www.britishcouncil.org/new/london-2012
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The Daw‘an Mud Brick Architecture Foundation, led by Salma Samar Damluji, works with Yemeni and Hadrami building disciplines. In this exhibition various traditional materials and techniques are examined within the framework of a contemporary installation. This serves as an investigation into the unique urban culture generated by the continued practice of these building activities. The contemporary home is also explored, through the renovation and development of traditional methods and techniques.
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London 2012 Festival
The London 2012 Festival is a spectacular 12-week nationwide celebration running from 21 June until 9 September 2012 bringing together leading artists from across the world with the very best from the UK. It is the culmination of the four-year Cultural Olympiad, the largest cultural celebration in the history of the modern Olympic and Paralympic Movements. For more details on the programme and to sign up for information visit: www.london2012.com/festival London Festival of Architecture
The London Festival of Architecture 2012 is organised by the Architecture Foundation, British Council, NLA and RIBA London and sponsored by Berkeley Group, Land Securities, The Mayor of London and supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. www.lfa2012.org. Ambika P3
Ambika P3 is a distinctive space for contemporary art and architecture which presents a public programme of solo and group exhibitions, education projects, talks and events. Recent exhibitions and commissions include Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh, Richard Woods, Heiner Goebbels, Bill Woodrow, Richard Wentworth, Jannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Thomas Demand, Jim Goldberg, Anthony McCall and David Hall. www.p3exhibitions.com
The Architectural Review
is the world’s favourite architecture magazine, read and enjoyed in over 130 countries. First published in 1896, The Architectural Review provides you with a luxury magazine boasting the most thoughtful, well-respected and critical vision of contemporary architecture from around the world.
Open-City
Open-City is London’s leading independent architecture organisation. It highlights the value of well-designed places and spaces in making a liveable and vibrant city, and the role everyone plays within it, through engaging the public, educating future generations, and enabling communities and neighbourhoods. In its 20th anniversary year of 2012, Open-City’s initiatives will focus on the fundamental relationship of people, place and practice: how changes in the physical environment, public attitudes and professional practice are transforming our city. www.open-city.org.uk RIBA
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is the UK body for architecture and the architectural profession. It champions better buildings, communities and the environment through architecture and its members. The RIBA runs an ongoing public programme of talks, exhibitions and late evening openings at its landmark Art Deco building at 66 Portland Place, London. www.architecture.com
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners is an award winning architectural practice based in London. Over three decades, it has attracted critical acclaim with innovative projects across Europe, North America and Asia. Employing around 180 people in offices in London, Shanghai, Sydney and Madrid, the practice employs a democratic approach to its work, to enable all staff to collaborate and contribute their individual expertise. www.rsh-p.com Royal Horseguards Hotel
The award winning Royal Horseguards Hotel has graced the banks of the Thames in the political and cultural heart of London as a true architectural icon since 1884. www.guoman.com
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Page Credit Cover Photo © Frédérique Cifuentes Morgan (Trainyard)Inside back Image © Tim Hetherington & Sullivan Khallon (Freetown children on the steps of a Krio House, Freetown)2 Image © Studio Weave (Aldgate Structure)2 Image © Carmody Groarke (Kings Cross Filling Station)3 Image © David Ward/University of Nottingham (Silver Pigeon Award 2010)4 Image © ANZA Magazine (ANZA Magazine Issue 1)6 Image © Ambika P3 (Ambika P3)7 Photo © Camille Zakharia (Bahrain, Hamad Town)8 Photo © Open-City (Junior Open House)9 Photo © Benedict Luxmoore (Mossbourne Academy)10 Image © AMBS Architects (Home)11 (AUS) Image © Andrew Burns 12 (AUT) Photo © Hamish Park13 (BHR) Photo © Camille Zakharia 14 (CRB) Image © John Allsop, Amonle Studio Workshop15 (CRO) Image © Andrija Mutnjakovic 16 (CZE) Image © Jan Kalab17 (CZE) Photo © David Zidlicky 18 (DNK) Photo © St Catherine’s College Archive19 (EGY) Image © Shahira Fahmy Architects & Hala Elkoussy20 (FIN) Image © The Finnish Institute in London21 (DEU) Photo © Richard Bryant, the artist & Goethe-Institut London22 (GRC) Photo © SARCHA 23 (IRQ) Image © AMBS Architects24 (ITA) Image © Pininfarina 25 (JPN) Image © Egashira Shin26 (KEN) Image © Kigara Kamweru 27 (LVA) Photo © Juris Kalniņš28 (LBN) Photo © LEFT design collective29 (MAR) Photo © Kilo Architectures30 (NAM) Photo © Nicola Brandt, 201231 (NLD) Image © KCAP Architects, 201232 (PSE) Images © Palestine Regeneration Team33 (QAT) Image © Virginia Commonwealth University & Independent Architects 34 (ROM) Image © Vlad Tenu 35 (RUS) Artist: M.Nesterova, 1940 36 (RUS) Photo © Sergey Nikitin37 (SRB) Image © Belgrade City Museum38 (SOM) Photo © Laboratorio di Ricera Documentazione Storica Iconografica, Rome Tre University39 (ZAF) Photo © Andrew Bell and Guy Adam Ailion40 (SDN) Photo © Frédérique Cifuentes Morgan41 (SUI) Photo © SeARCH42 (TWN) Image © Chinese Culture University43 (TWN) Photo © National Cheng Kung University44 (TUR) Image © Emre Arolat Architects45 (VEN) Image © Embassy of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela46 (YEM) Photo © Salma Samar Damluji
Commissioned by:
Vicky Richardson Director, Architecture, Design, Fashion, British Council
Curator:
Tamara Horbacka
Project Manager:
Lauren McKirdy, British Council
Project Assistants:
Nadia El-Sebai, British Council
Alex Maxwell
Architecture of Change exhibition:
Edward Wainwright, Project Manager
Jonathan Samuels, Technical Manager
Graphic Design and Branding:
Bibliothèque
Printers:
Pureprint
Press:
Alex Bratt, British Council
We would like to thank the following for their generous support:
The embassies, national cultural institutions and project organisers participating in the showcase; Peter Murray, Sarah Ichioka, Nick McKeogh, Tamsie Thomson and Jessame Cronin at the London Festival of Architecture; Mike Althorpe, Argent Group PLC, Tomoko Azumi, Ricky Burdett, Katharine Heron, Gunter Klix, Cherie McNair, Rowan Moore, Comfort Mosha, Mosaic Rooms, Kate Ryan, Catherine Slessor, Victoria Thornton, Eckhard Thiemann and Mirko Zardini.
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Coming in part 2 of the International ShowcaseThe International Architecture and Design Showcase 2012 continues to 23 September. Here are some highlights of what’s still to come. . .
Sierra Leone: The Architecture of Freetown
An exhibition of photographs and measured drawings documenting three Freetown neighbourhoods within the immediate topographical and historical city context.
Tanzania: ANZA Magazine Launch
ANZA, a new magazine of East African architecture, will launch a special, internationally focused issue, accompanied by a host of interactive magazine-making workshops.
USA: New America – Design 2012
Ahead of the first official New York Design Week in 2013, New America: Design 2012 aims to kick-start the upcoming ‘year in design’, bringing emerging talents and manufacturers in furniture and product design to a global stage.
London Design Festival (14–23 September 2012)
Celebrating its 10th birthday in 2012, the London Design Festival will feature hundreds of events – including those in the International Architecture and Design Showcase – taking place across London. The inaugural World Design Forum will bring together leading voices and key figures to set the global agenda for design, showcasing the city’s pivotal role in global design.
The International Architecture and Design Showcase 2012 Guide Part 2 will be available from 17 August 2012.For further information please visit: backoftheenvelope.britishcouncil.org