BARQ Festival – International Architecture Film Festival Barcelona

Fundació Mies van der Rohe is thrilled to announce the launching and invites to take part in the Barcelona International Architecture Film Festival, BARQ. “An initiative of the production company NIHAO Films with the support of Fundació Mies van der Rohe, ARQUIN-FAD and Col·legi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya. The BARQ Festival is a film festival aimed at vindicating films on architecture as a specific genre and at deepening the relationship between architecture and the seventh art. Cinema uses architecture to show and create worlds that explore social realities, and architecture uses cinema to encourage reflection on the most current issues regarding…

Exhibition “Modernism and Refuge – Georg Kolbe’s ‘Sensburg’ as an Architectural Monument of the Nineteen Twenties”

“The Georg Kolbe Museum is devoting its main exhibition of this fall season to the extraordinary architectural structure in which the exhibition venue has resided since its founding exactly 70 years ago: the former residence and studio of the sculptor Georg Kolbe. For the erstwhile builder-owner, who maintained close ties to the modern architecture of the nineteen twenties and its protagonists, the house was closely related to his own sculptural production. Based on never-before-seen archive material, the exhibition traces the interplay between space and sculpture that was of great importance for Kolbe throughout his career. It offers insights into the…

Kosovo Architecture Festival 2020

“In its 8th edition, the Kosovo Architecture Festival will be addressing the issue of Publicness in our cities with a focus on Prishtina. The invited Future Architecture emerging creatives will be presenting to the local & global audience tools, methodologies and strategies of analyzing and reinterpreting publicness. KAF announced the Kosovo Architecture Festival 2020 program with more than 35 public lectures featuring 8 Future Architecture creatives and keynotes from Carlo Ratti the head of the Senseable City Lab at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nadar Tehrani the Dean of the Architecture School at Cooper Union, Malkit Shoshan of Harvard GSD &…

Convegno di Studi sulle Architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia [Conference and exhibition: Architecture from the 20th century in Basilicata and Puglia]

“9 x 100 = 900, 9 itinerari per 100 architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia” is the title of the conference and exhibition dedicated to the modern movement architecture, organized by Docomomo Italy, 11th September 2020, in Carovigno. On September 11th, the conference, taking place at the Castello Dentice di Frasso,  will deal with the relationships between architecture, history, landscape and modernity in the South of Italy. Followed the international conference on the architecture of the 20th century in Basilicata and Puglia, the traveling exhibition “9 itinerari per 100 architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia”, organized by the…

BORDERS Festival 2020

ITSLIQUID Group, in collaboration with Venice Events and ACIT Venice – Italian-German Cultural Association, is proud to announce BORDERS FESTIVAL 2020 that will be held in Venice at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space and at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello, from July 23 to August 21, 2020, with the participation of more than 120 artists from more than 30 countries. The openings will take place on the 23rd of July at THE ROOM Contemporary Art Space and on the 24th of July at Palazzo Albrizzi-Capello and they will last all day long, by appointment only. Here below all info to book your visit. OPENING July 23, 2020 THE…

“NO DEMOLITIONS! Forms of Brutalism in Prague” – Exhibiton with the participation of Docomomo Czech Republic

Docomomo International is glad to announce the participation of the Docomomo Czech Republic on the exhibition about architecture of the 1960s and 1970s in Prague. The exhibition is introduced in the National Gallery in Prague. “The architecture built in Czechoslovakia throughout the 1960s–1980s, both glorified and deplored, is a heatedly discussed and highly controversial subject. The public may still regard it negatively, owing to a lack of information or an adverse experience with the country’s regime before the Velvet Revolution. The exhibition NO DEMOLITIONS! Forms of Brutalism in Prague presents buildings in Prague (including projects in preparation but never realized) influenced…

MIES.5OYEARS.PORTO I “The Measure of Mies” online session series

The 50th anniversary of the death of the German / American master Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) will continue to be celebrated in Porto. The exhibition highlights one of the characteristics of Mies van der Rohe’s work that is rarely remembered: his ability to shape public places in the modern city, through architecture and integrating preexisting nature and urban fabric. It is mainly dedicated to its American phase. The exhibition opened, at Casa das Artes, on March 7, with the testimony, in voice, of the former collaborator of Mies van der Rohe, Peter Forbes. Alongside the exhibition, on March…

Exhibition Iconic Australian Houses

Docomomo Australia is sharing the exhibition Iconic Australian Houses by Karen McCartney, in partnership with Architecture Foundation Australia (2017). Karen McCartney takes us through 11 case studies of iconic Australian houses and the architects who designed them.   Russell Jack – The Jack House Peter McIntyre – The Butterfly house Peter Muller – The Audette house Robin Boyd – The Walsh street house Enrico Taglietti – The Dingle house Bruce Rickard – The Marshall house Ken Woolley – The Palm beach house Barrie Marshall – The Phillip Island house Andresen O’Gorman – The Mooloomba house Durbach Block – The Droga…

MIES.5Oyears.PORTO – Matter: white conferences

Matter: white conferences evokes the 5Oth anniversary, of one of our main references’ death, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), through MIES.5Oyears.PORTO, a set of actions that discuss his line of thought and body of work, beginning mid-December 2019, extending up to April 2020. Library Installation_ Exhibit display/Hub Mies van der Rohe: Architecture is not a Martini Cocktail FAUP – library, December 19th to March 7th, 2020 Exhibition Mies van der Rohe: Un´idea di città [Uma ideia de Cidade] Casa das Artes, March 7th to  April 19th, 2020 Opening event: March 7th, Saturday, 4pm. The exhibition is organized in partnership…

Women In Design 2020+ International Conference & Exhibition

The HECAR Foundation is organizing “Women In Design 2020+”, an International Conference & Exhibition scheduled for the beginning of 2020, in Mumbai, India. The Conference will be held at the Nehru Auditorium, Worli, Mumbai on 8th, 9th and 10th January 2020. Curated and organized by The HECAR Foundation and Somaya & Kalappa Consultants-SNK, Women In Design 2020+ International Conference & Exhibition, aims to encourage a dialogue on design, architecture, urban design, planning and social issues. The three-day event is planned as a thought-provoking program discussing the role of women in multidisciplinary design and construction professions worldwide. The event will host presentations, discussions and screenings…