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Participating in Sofia Architecture Week 2011

We have been invited by Ljubo Georgiev, co-curator of the Sofia Architecture Week 2011, to contribute to this year’s edition of this annual festival. It will take place between the 1st and the 6th of November and runs under the theme Architecture Unlimited?. SAW11 will deal with the extent, in which architecture can (still) function as a transformative tool for the urban environment in an age in which utopian ideals are replaced by city marketing, and making improvements in the cityscape is often subordinated to making profit.

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30 SEP: Failed Architecture in Copenhagen

On the occasion of the national Day of Architecture on 30 September 2011 the Danish Network for Young Planners (Netværk for yngre planlæggere) invites Failed Architecture to Copenhagen. As the fourth in a series of similar events we will discuss criteria (‘benchmarks’) for quality and failure in modernist housing estates in an international East/West perspective.

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