Living in colour

The Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp together with the University of Antwerp, in a joint venture with ISC-Interior Design have organized an International Conference  . Colour is often an essential aspect of art, interior architecture and architecture. It can for instance contribute to a particular meaning for the artist, it can articulate architectural elements in buildings – or eliminate the contours of a space. In short, colour can be an important means for artists and designers. Not accidently is the colour chart an indispensable tool for interior architects. However, the attention to the use of colour in architecture has…

Vasco Vieira da Costa: Library of details

The opening of the exhibition “Vasco Vieira da Costa: Library of Details”, will take place at Casa-Atelier Marques da Silva, Porto, on November 14th at 6.30 pm. To mark the occasion, there will be held a round table composed by three Vieira da Costa’s collaborators: António Madureira, José Quintão and Manuel Correia Fernandes. Vasco Vieira da Costa (1911-1982) was an Angolan architect with a degree in architecture from the School of Fine Arts of Porto (1949) and urbanism from the Faculty of Sciences of Paris (1948). He worked with Le Corbusier between 1947 and 1948, and returned to Angola in…

Architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia [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 week dedicated to the modern movement architecture, organized by Docomomo Italy, from 15th to 23rd November, in Matera. On November 15th, to mark the beginning of the week, the traveling exhibition “9 itinerari per 100 architetture del ‘900 in Basilicata e Puglia“, organized by the Basilicata and Puglia sections of Docomomo Italy will be inaugurated at the Cinema Teatro Duni (by the architect Ettore Stella, from Matera, 1949); guided tours to Matera’s modern architecture will take place during the…

Mies in Translation

The Farnsworth House – Barnsworth Gallery is presenting the exhibition Mies in Translation, which will open on the 15th September with the presence of the exhibition curator William Huchting of makeArchitecture. The exhibition will feature architectural models of selected projects designed by Mies van der Rohe, including the Barcelona Pavilion, the 1940 IIT Campus plan, and the unbuilt Brussels Pavilion. These projects embody the evolution of Mies’s signature “free plan”– a framework of structural order giving way to unobstructed, free-flowing open space – from a residential to an urban scale. They will be framed through the lens of the writings of…

Photography & Furniture Exhibition: Masters of Modern: Bauhaus Masters and Shu

“Early in 2019, the design and architecture world lost one of the icons of mid-century modernism and the International style: Florence Knoll Bassett. As a student of Mies van der Rohe and the Bauhaus in general, Florence shaped the very essence of contemporary interior and furniture design. She obtained exclusive rights to reproduce Mies’ designs, including the famous Barcelona chair and also much of the furniture found in the Farnsworth House today. The second exhibition honoring the Bauhaus 100, created exclusively for the Farnsworth House by Knoll, Inc., focuses on the life work of Florence “Shu” Knoll, the influences that…

Photography Exhibition: The MIES Project: To Chicago From Berlin – Arina Dähnick

“Over the past seven years, Berlin-based photographer Arina Dähnick has used her Leica M-System camera to capture the special atmosphere that can only be experienced at Mies van der Rohe’s buildings around the world. The third Barnsworth Gallery exhibition of 2019, consisting of excerpted photographs from Fr. Dähnick’s upcoming book, will preview her Fall 2019 installation at Illinois Institute of Technology’s Crown Hall and the Goethe Institute.” Opening Preview Sunday, August 4th, 2:30-5:30 PM. Special presentation by IIT Architecture’s Dr. Michelangelo Sabatino with opening remarks by renowned architect Dirk Lohan For further information, please visit: website.

L’Amazonie en construction [The Amazon under construction]

The Research Centre of Modern Architecture in the Amazon (Núcleo Arquitetura Moderna na Amazônia – NAMA), the Modern Amazon Journal (Revista Amazônia Moderna) and the Federal University of Amazonas (UFAM) hold the exhibition L’Amazonie en construction: l’architecture des fleuves volants [The Amazon under construction: the architecture of the flying rivers], from July 19 to August 3 at the Maison du Brésil in Paris, in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of this iconic building designed by Le Corbusier. This is the first time that the Brazilian Amazon will be exhibited in Europe from an architectural point of view. “The Amazon under…

Guided Tour: Convent Clarissenklooster / Visit: exhibition “Destruction and reconstruction. Ostend 1944-1958”

Saturday, July 06 at 13:45 Docomomo Belgium organizes a guided tour of the Convent Clarissenklooster (Paul Felix, 1957-1965) by architect Marc Felix and Zsuzsanna Böröcz; and, at 16:30, a visit with the curator Marc Dubois to the exhibition “Destruction and reconstruction. Ostend 1944-1958”. Architect Paul Felix (Ostend, 1913-1981), important and leading figure in the Belgian architectural landscape after the Second World War, designed the Convent Clarissenklooster (protected monument since 2002) in 1957 and 1965 The convent perfectly illustrates its typical position: architecture is not an individual matter for the architect, but a combination of forces that are beyond the reach…

Exhibition: Le Corbusier. Linkeroever Antwerp – Chandigard

“How do residents make use of a city after the architect has gone? And what does the area of Linkeroever in Antwerp have to do with the Indian city of Chandigarh? Discover how residents live in a carefully designed city and learn about the underlying vision of the famous modernist architect Le Corbusier. Linkeroever In 1933, Le Corbusier participated in an international competition to design a new, modern city for the Linkeroever (‘Left Bank’) in Antwerp. He wanted to build an ideal city, a ‘Ville Radieuse’, or ‘Radiant City’, which was his response to the inhumanity of the 19th century…

Exhibition: Hervé in Spain: Traditional Mediterranean Architecture – El Escorial

“The photographer Lucien Hervé created an artistic language that earned him wide recognition in both 20th century architecture as well as well as photography; he was a gifted artist with an enormous sensitivity and precision capable of transcending the visual characteristics to encourage profound conceptual reflections. In 1959, Hervé traveled around Spain with his camera and took pictures of Mediterranean houses and the monastery at El Escorial for two photobooks that were never published. However, Hervé continued with these projects and created narrative processes supported by rigorous historic research. The exhibition presents for the first time these two inedited projects:…