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KRUH
MSA is a Brussels based office involved in many kinds of projects, from the design of public space to the elaboration of masterplan for larger territories. In May 2017, MSA has received the MIES AWARD 2017 in the category „emerging architect" for the realization of a small social apartments building localized on a plot to seemed impossible to be built.
Jiří Novák, Jiří Borl, Jiří Sozanský
In July 1981, when Sozanský created his first work in Most, Jiří Putta came to take photographs at the place and the Film and TV School graduate Michal Baumbruck together with the cameraman František Brabec recorded on film there. The resulting film depicts not only the sculptures but also performances with actors which Sozanský staged for the film purposes. The film was called Evacuation and it was shown just few times during the 1980s at meetings of the artist's friends.
Keller Easterling
At a moment of digital ubiquity, it may be easier to treat the data from digital platforms as primary in contemporary innovation and to believe that, if coated with sensors in an internet of things, the stiff, dumb world will suddenly become responsive and “smart.” But the heavy lumpy components of space are themselves information systems that don’t really need digital devices to make them dance.
Dirk Somers
The lecture will guide you through a heterogeneous series of projects that are developed by associative thinking. Historical precedents mix up with everyday references, generating designs that aspire a densely layered and surprising character.
Kader Attia
Kader Attia deals with colonial and post-colonial history and sensitively unfolds the complicated and “imbalanced” relationships between the Western and non-Western world and their mutual cultural, political, social, and technological exchange. One of his interests is architecture and the setting it creates with its spatial and political dimension. Using modern architecture as a critical example of an – often – malfunctioning living environment is an occurring subject of Attia’s work.
Dieter Leyssen
Since 2017, 51N4E is part of the incubation of new use in the monofunctional Brussels’ North District. Together with others, they housed for two years in the emblematic WTCI & II towers and currently in the nearby CCN building. In parallel, they were chosen as architect for the new project of the ZIN project, an adaptive reuse project turning the monofunctional WTC towers into a mixed-use development.
Louis Armand, Vít Bohal, Dustin Breitling + 2 more
The drone integrates functions of a vehicle intended for destruction, razing urban communities and assassinating from the air, with those of a reconnaissance and artifactual tool which has resurrected interest in contaminated and exclusion zones inaccessible or dangerous for human intervention. Furthermore, it has exhibited its potential as a habitat builder, and proved its capabilities for land and real estate surveying, gathering data and visuals that are amenable for market-end purposes.
Paul Rajakovics, Barbara Holub, transparadiso + 2 more
The strategies used by art in public space include a broad range of artistic approaches. Art can show us more environmental and ethical ways of treating one another. It can offer an opportunity for collective participation and self-expression, for reflecting on history, and for community dialogue. It can influence our social, spatial, and political topologies by promoting new social models or designing and improving the physical infrastructure. However, it can also legitimize economic or political interests that are not beneficial to the general public.
Joseph Schwartz
The lecture from the new series Constructions introduces Swiss structural engineer and professor of structural design at ETH Zurich Joseph Schwarz. He speaks about his projects in collaboration with architect Christian Kerez and others.
Tom Muller, Štěpán Špoula
Two lectures by landscape architects present possible ways of transformation of greenery in cities. Tom Muller talks about a climate-proof, sustainable, manageable and biodiversity-supportive process that is embraced by the public. Štěpán Špoula presents projects and strategies aimed at a river in the city.
Michelle Delk, Thomas Kissling
The May lecture from the Land/Scape series featured New York landscape architect Michelle Delk from Snøhetta and Swiss landscape architect Thomas Kissling from VOGT Landscape Architects. The topics were inspirational places for contemporary life, the connections between people and their surroundings, and water in the landscape.
Vojtěch Sigmund, Karolína Kripnerová, Janek Rous
The project Bellevue di Monaco takes place in several buildings in the centre of Munich. The buildings were supposed to be demolished in order to build new luxury apartments there. However, the plan was thwarted by a group of activists and their guerilla reconstruction of one of the flats. Consequently, the migration crisis in 2015 incited the foundation of an official cooperative involving several hundred local residents who rented the houses and turned them into a multifunctional centre.
Xaveer De Geyter
Ideally architecture is not about fixing activities, fluxes or programs, or worse, about solving spatial problems. On the contrary, it is about opening up possibilities: the potential of a site, the hidden opportunity of a particular situation in time, of a programmatic conflict. It is about dealing with uncertainty, about enabling different and unforeseen scenarios. In that sense, architecture and urbanism are not opposed disciplines with different outcomes, but similar mediators, on different scales and in different degrees of complexity, with the same goal of enabling life.
Alessandro Marchi, Kristina Fingerlandová, Ondřej Buddeus + 9 more
Rather than an exhibition, it is an authorial environment – architecture within architecture. The vision for this solution is based on the motif of an island, a changing landscape, lithospheric plates, and the story of the mill complex itself. The basic conceptual framework creates space for collective and individual multi-genre artistic and curatorial work.
Tom Balsley
Tom Balsley (SWA/Balsley) is a renowned architect with a wealth of experience based in New York. He has been transforming social and cultural spaces into sustainable and vibrant urban landscapes for over 35 years. In New York alone, he has completed more than 100 parks and squares.
An Fonteyne
An Fonteyne, Jitse van den Berg and Philippe Viérin are interested in the traditions of architecture, the potential that comes from familiar and ordinary settings and the possibilities that emerge from translating these ideas through construction and the employment of material. A meandering walk following thoughts, sketches, projects and buildings will explore the affinity the architects have with literature, visual arts and politics.
How and why the 4AM Forum for architecture and media was founded and how do its members see its management? How did their priorities change since the start, how can one finance organization, such as theirs and how do their plans and orientations evolve?
Janek Rous, Karolína Kripnerová
When looking at the reasons why someone has nowhere to sleep, we inevitably start to ask ourselves some pressing questions. What are our values? What relationship do we have to the weakest members of society? How is this manifest in the public space? What effect does the environment have on people? How many segregated areas and people in social exclusion do we have? Are we racist? What is our attitude to housing – is it a human right or must it be earned? Does our society create homeless people on its own?
Roger Diener
Diener has a long-term interest in the reconstruction of monuments and is a member of several foundations and commissions dedicated to this topic. The studio’s main projects include, for example, the completion of the eastern wing of the Natural History Museum in Berlin or the local Swiss embassy.