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Du 20 novembre 2007 jusqu’au 30 janvier 2008 REORIENT à l’Institut Hongrois / Paris

Architecture pas chère. Le pavillon hongrois de la Biennale de Venise 2006 arrive à Paris. Fruit d’une collaboration des jeunes artistes, designers, créateurs d’interaction et historiens de l’art hongrois, le projet propose une nouvelle vision de l’architecture et du design du futur. Read the rest of this entry »

The architect and artist Zbigniew Oksiuta is experimenting with the possibilities of designing biological spatial structures.
At al&d he will present ‘Breeding Spaces’ a project that envisages vegetable matter as a live habitat, an isolated spatial entity that takes up, transforms and synthesizes matter and energy from its surroundings by biological means and controls all functions and events by internal information. Read the rest of this entry »

ART+COM are a well known and highly regarded German interaction design studio who have done a number of public interactive installations. Joachim as a director spoke about their practice and their approach to using media technologies to create dynamic spatial experiences.For a new building complex in downtown Tokyo, ART+COM has developed an artistic installation. It is located on the bank of an artificial pond at the exit of the metro station Osaki. The project deals with the duality between liquid / solid, real / virtual and water ripples / light waves…+infoS
via interactive architecture dot org

Jeudi 22 et vendredi 23 novembre I Cinéma Le Novel/ MJC Novel - 2 jours de projections de films d’architecture organisés par la Maison de l’Architecture de la Haute Savoie
En quoi nos usages et pratiques façonnent-ils l’architecture? Les architectes se positionnent. De la maison démontable de Buster Keaton à l’habitation modulable du 21è siècle, la qualité de vie, le lieu et l’environnement peuvent être coulés dans les fondations des bâtiments où l’on réside, travaille et circule. +infoS
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Future City
“But how can a building site be a work of art? Why is something undefined considered a finished work?
When we think of a building site, we never pause to consider its value in terms of energy, poetry or, to borrow an idea from the artist, “elegance”, nor do we even think about the concept of the building site itself, but often only of its function, as a thing that exists solely to give rise to something else.”
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Colloque Architecture & technologie 12-14 Novembre 2007

L’objectif de cette manifestation est de contribuer à la critique des relations entre architecture et technologie sur la base des réflexions de Walter Benjamin. La conférence commencera par l’analyse historique de l’architecture du XIXème et du XXème siècle, pour Read the rest of this entry »

Since I’ll wonder around Switzerland soon I had to check the terrain and I’ve found Fabric | ch. Founded by architects Christophe Guignard and Patrick Keller, a telecom engineer Stéphane Carion and a computer engineer Dr Christian Babski to become studio for architectural, aesthetics and technological research.
They’ve been around since 1997 and they are working in the architectural domain. They are looking for the relationship we maintain with our habitat, our workspace, our living environment and try to evolve it into a contemporary space which combines physical and digital territories.

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“Reflexive Architecture” - l’architecture “réfléchie” casse toutes les conceptions du bâtiment comme objet architectural statique. Ce titre fournit une vue d’ensemble des technologies conçues pour créer les bâtiments “reflexives” qui évoluent et répondent Read the rest of this entry »

“La Tour Dexia” place Rogier à Bruxelles, est haute de 145 mètres et comporte 4200 fenêtres qui peuvent être colorées individuellement, transformant la façade en un support unique en son genre. Pendant toute la durée des fêtes de fin d’année, Dexia convie chacun à exprimer sa créativité Read the rest of this entry »