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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Failed Architecture #5: riots and architecture
Talks and Q&A | Wednesday October 5 | starts 20.00h | English | 2,50 Euro
At De Verdieping with: Dennis Bos, Robert Grimm and Arnold Reijndorp
During the 5th edition of our series of talkshows and public discussions we will focus on the riots that recently took place in London and quickly spread to other cities in England, leaving several people killed, dozens of people injured and hundreds of buildings looted and burned. As Churchill famously intoned ‘We shape our buildings and then they shape us’. What is the relation between the material city and conflict? Have new urban forms produced new forms of violence? And what is the role of the architect and urban planner in this respect? Can they be blamed and/or can they provide a solution for this enduring problem?
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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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