A tease of theArchitects event a few days ago. Video by Tom Harris and Matt Messner.

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Sharing a project sent by Mark Nicol, who was part of this team:  

Fourfoursixsix Architects, EOS and Ogle Models teamed up to create a laser-sintered egg for the Fabergé Big Egg Hunt that happened in London this Spring as part of a group of 200 unique eggs produced to raise fund for charities Action for Children and Elephant Family.

Fourfoursixsix’s Daniel Welham points out that “the design works around a rational grid of components that have been configured to react to both light and scale across the surface of the egg. Each component incorporates an aperture within its design that can adjust to control the amount of light entering the internal space of the form.”

“Criticism is a matter of getting the critical function of architecture, of how architects reflect on the world, to a wider public while also bringing critical ideas to bear on the discipline.”

Pedro Gadanho, MoMA’s new curator for Contemporary Architecture discusses his program and practice, and expands on his first show, opening in September. An interview by Kazys Varnelis for Domus.

For Craft. Wood type of printmaker Don Kilpatrick for Manual Labor.

(Site where photographers were beaten at Wangjiamatou street in Huangpu District. Photo by Zha Minjie.)

Yong He, an award-winning Shanghai news photographer was beaten up yesterday when he was taking pictures at a demolition site in downtown Huangpu District.

Two workers from the Tonghai construction company, surnamed Ding and Wang, were detained and fined for beating the photographer and two other Shanghai journalists at the site. (Shanghai Daily)

For those of you in Chicago, do not miss the opening of “Manual Labor” tonight. Organized by The Post Family.

Photo by Pedro Kok

Photo by Iker Gil

Photo by Iker Gil

Public interventions by Filthy Luker (via Fubiz)

The Garbage Wharf on Soochow Creek in the 1930s. From Virtual Shanghai collection.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Design Program is a modernist vision for an optimistic future. The logo (often referred to as the “worm”) evokes qualities of unity, technical precision, scientific capabilities and uniqueness. Reduced to its simplest form; the one width, continuous-stroke letters are as contemporary today as when the logo was first introduced by Richard Danne (Design Director) and Bruce Blackburn (Designer) at Danne & Blackburn, New York, NY) more than 37 years ago. (Display)

Instituto Cervantes of Chicago

Parque Bibliotea ESpaña by Giancarlo Mazzanti. Photo by Sergio Gomez.

Orquideorama by Planb Arquitectos. Photo by Sergio Gomez.

Bogota Chamber of Commerce by Daniel Bonilla Architecture & Urbanism. Photo by Rodrigo Davila

La Independencia School by +UdeB Arquitectos. Photo by Sergio Gomez.

Bureche Kindergarten by Juan Manuel Pelaez. Photo by Juan Manuel Pelaez

Exhibition space. Photo by Maria Villa.

Exhibition space. Photo by Iker Gil.

Exhibition space. Photo by Iker Gil.

Opening night. Photo by Maria Villa.

Opening night. Photo by Mariía Villa.

In the fall of 2010, the Instituto Cervantes of Chicago with MAS Studio established an ongoing architecture and urban lecture series with the goal of establishing a cultural connection between the architectural discipline in Europe and the US.

In the fourth edition of the series, we organized the exhibition “Colombia: Transformed: Architecture=Politics.” This exhibit, curated by Vladimir Belogolovsky and Fernando Villa, traces ten recently built social projects by five leading voices in contemporary Colombian architecture: Daniel Bonilla and Giancarlo Mazzanti from Bogota, and Felipe Mesa, Juan Manuel Pelaez, and Felipe Uribe from Medellín. These visionary and socially conscious works: daycare centers, kindergartens, schools, a sport complex, and a library – mostly winners of architectural competitions, which have become the norm for building public projects in Colombia– reflect significant social shifts that are taking place in Latin America today. They demonstrate ideas of social inclusion as well as innovative architectural forms and spaces, which have been steadily transforming Colombian cities and the nation.

To accompany the exhibition, two lectures were organized: David Escobar, current Planning Department Commissioner of the City of Medellin, Colombia gave the inaugural lecture introduced by exhibition co-curator Fernando Villa. Architect Giancarlo Mazzanti gave the second lecture, introduced by exhibition curator Vladimir Belogolovsky.

The exhibition and lectures were made possible thanks to the close collaboration between the Instituto Cervantes and MAS Studio as well as Chicago Sister Cities International, the General Consulate of Colombia in Chicago, the Sociedad Colombiana de Arquitectos and Avianca.

Type: Engagement
Location: Instituto Cervantes, Chicago
Series Director & Exhibition Designer: Iker Gil
Curators: Vladimir Belogolovsky (International Curational Project) & Fernando Villa
Panel Design: Maria Villa (Emphasize LLC)
Year: 2012
Status: Completed

The 13th International Architecture Exhibition Common Ground sees the collective force of architecture as a value to rediscover through engagement. An architecture report from Venice by Laura Bossi (Domus)

Side note: We are thrilled to be part of the US Pavilion with our project Cut. Join. Play.!!!!

© eme3

Our project Cut. Join. Play. has been included in the 7th International Festival of Architecture Eme3 in Barcelona. The project will be presented as part of the “Share It” section.

From the official website: “In a changing environment like the current, where the foundations of our system are constantly questioned and challenged, a series of actions, which to date had a fairly minor implementation in developed societies, emerge now strongly, relying on creativity and innovation to fight this moment of crisis and uncertainty.”

The 7th International Festival of Architecture Eme3, and titled BOTTOM-UP, will run from June 28 until July 1st, 2012 in Barcelona.

For more information about this year’s edition of Eme3, please visit the official website.

© Spontaneous Interventions

Our project Cut. Join. Play. has been included in Spontaneous Interventions: Design Actions for the Common Good, the official U.S. presentation at the 13th International Venice Architecture Biennale.

From the official website: “Spontaneous Interventions will frame an archive of compelling, actionable strategies, ranging from urban farms to guerilla bike lanes, temporary architecture to poster campaigns, urban navigation apps to crowdsourced city planning. These efforts cut across boundaries, addressing architecture, landscape, infrastructure, and the digital universe, and run the gamut from symbolic to practical, physical to virtual, whimsical to serious. But they share an optimistic willingness to venture outside conventional practice and to deploy fresh tactics to make cities more sustainable, accessible, and inclusive.”

The 13th International Architecture Exhibition, directed by David Chipperfield and titled Common Ground, will run in Venice from 29th August through 25th November 2012 (Preview on August 27th-28th).

For more information about this year’s edition of the Biennale, please visit the official website. For this year’s US Pavilion, please check Spontaneous Interventions.

© Mark Hallet

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“Off the road.” A project by Jennifer Meakins

fuckyeahbrutalism:

Pilgrimage Church, Neviges, Germany, 1965-68

(Gottfried Böhm)

Photo by Iker Gil

© Arquia/Proxima

Inside Marina City has been selected for the 2010-2011 Arquia/Proxima catalogue among 120 projects from 1445 submissions and 991 architects.

Arquia/Próxima is a cultural program organized by Fundación Caja de Arquitectos in order to offer support to Spanish architects in the first 10 years of their professional career promoting the value of their work and principles as architects.

This edition’s jury was composed by Ariadna Cantís (curator), Francisco Cabrera, Ricardo Devesa, José María Ezquiaga, Eva Franch, José Morales, Carlos Quintáns, Rogelio Ruiz and Martha Thorne.

Thanks so much for the recognition!

(A Boy in Front of the Loews 125th St. Movie Theatre,  Harlem,  NY,  1976 (printed by 1979). Photo by Dawoud Bey) 

Can’t wait to see this show at the Art Institute of Chicago:

“In 1979 African American photographer Dawoud Bey (born 1953) held his first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, showing a suite of 25 photographs titled Harlem, U.S.A. Bey had been in residence at that museum for one year, and he had made the surrounding neighborhood a subject of study since 1975. Though raised in Queens,  Bey and his family had roots in Harlem, and it was a youthful visit to the exhibition Harlem on My Mind at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, that had given Bey his determination to become an artist.”

(A Boy in Front of the Loews 125th St. Movie Theatre,  Harlem,  NY,  1976 (printed by 1979). Photo by Dawoud Bey) 

Can’t wait to see this show at the Art Institute of Chicago:

“In 1979 African American photographer Dawoud Bey (born 1953) held his first solo exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem, showing a suite of 25 photographs titled Harlem, U.S.A. Bey had been in residence at that museum for one year, and he had made the surrounding neighborhood a subject of study since 1975. Though raised in Queens,  Bey and his family had roots in Harlem, and it was a youthful visit to the exhibition Harlem on My Mind at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1969, that had given Bey his determination to become an artist.”

(via Iain Claridge Via Most ExeRent)

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Iker Gil presenting during ARCHIZINES LIVE symposium
© Jacob Chartoff

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Christian Stoll captures some of the world’s largest corporations in wide-angle splendor. (Fast Company)

Photo by Iker Gil

Photo by Iker Gil

Photo by Iker Gil

Photo by Iker Gil

Photo by Iker Gil

Photo by Iker Gil

Designed for a young couple in a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, the 914 square-foot transparent house contrasts the typical concrete block walls seen in most of Japan’s dense residential areas. Associated with the concept of living within a tree, the spacious interior is comprised of 21 individual floor plates, all situated at various heights, that satisfy the clients desire to live as nomads within their own home. (Archdaily)