Posts Tagged ‘architecture’
Berlin Arch Link: Olafur Eliasson’s New Building Illuminates Reykjavik
by Gabriella Picone // Sept. 20, 2011
When most foreigners think of Iceland, their first associations are Björk, erupting volcanoes, and the recent economic crash. However the new Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavík, Iceland…[read on]
Berlin Arch Link: Take it to the Mountain, or Dominions at Program Gallery
by Elizabeth Feder // Sept. 11, 2011
Program presents Dominions, a commissioned exhibition by Julian Charrière and Andreas Greiner that breaches the gulf between national and microbial scales…[read on]
BERLIN ARCH LINK: The Great Babylon Circus
Blog entry by Elvia Pyburn-Wilk – in Berlin; Friday, July 15, 2011.
The Great Babylon Circus, curated by the Berlin-based critic and curator Lukas Feireiss in collaboration with the MU in Eindhoven, Netherlands, brings together cutting-edge creatives from the filed of art, architecture and design to engage in the continuation of the never-ending design of the Tower of Babel.
BERLIN ARCH LINK: TESTIFY! Lukas Feireiss on Architectural Consequences
Blog entry by Elvia Pyburn-Wilk – in Berlin; Friday, July 8, 2011.
Testify! The Consequences of Architecture, originally conceived for the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam by Lukas Feireiss, intentionally challenges the cross-examination of our built environment as the sole provenance of the architect and attempts to interweave architectural discourse into the very fabric of society.
QUYNH VANTU: Ease Labyrinth
Blog entry by Clare Ros – in Berlin; Friday, July 1, 2011.
Quynh Vantu received her Master of Architecture from the Cranbrook Academy of Art and her Bachelor of Architecture from Virginia Tech in the United States. Although trained and licensed as an architect, Quynh does not discern between architecture and art. Her work explores our physical relationship to the built environment and how we interact with our spatial surroundings. Drawing from her upbringing in the American “South”, Vantu’s work stems from influences of porch culture and “southern hospitality”, enacting social virtues and exchanges in the architectural interventions she creates.
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