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Monography of the project by the architectural firm SANAA about the building that will house the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen, Germany. The cube-like building fuses the site's industrial past with its aesthetically driven future. This study of the structure and its designers includes drawings, plans, and models that depict the complexity of the(...)
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January 2006, Munich / Berlin / London / New York
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa : Saana : the Zollverein school of management and design - Essen, Germany
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Monography of the project by the architectural firm SANAA about the building that will house the Zollverein School of Management and Design in Essen, Germany. The cube-like building fuses the site's industrial past with its aesthetically driven future. This study of the structure and its designers includes drawings, plans, and models that depict the complexity of the project. It chronicles the development of the building's concept and construction and includes enlightening interviews with the architects. With contributions by Floris Alkemade, Nicole Berganski, Ralph Bruder, Kristin Feireiss, Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa, Matthias Schuler, Tom Sieverts, Deyan Sudjic and Roland Weiss.
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Swiss shapes
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Since the nineties Swiss architecture has gained worldwide recognition beyond mere circles of experts. With its minimalist masterpieces between Basel and the Grisons, the so called Swiss Box achieved highest acclaim. In the meantime, a new generation of young architects has left the path to abstraction and turned to new objectives: Moving interest from surface to space(...)
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January 1900, Berlin
Swiss shapes
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Since the nineties Swiss architecture has gained worldwide recognition beyond mere circles of experts. With its minimalist masterpieces between Basel and the Grisons, the so called Swiss Box achieved highest acclaim. In the meantime, a new generation of young architects has left the path to abstraction and turned to new objectives: Moving interest from surface to space marks the works on display. Selected were projects presenting in exemplary fashion these new spatial, functional, constructive, ecological and urban planning qualities.
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In December 2006, close to Zurich airport, Opfikerpark was completed after a construction period of 79 weeks. Central element of the park is a concrete sculpture, over 500m-long, accommodating a lake surrounded by sandy beaches and a reed belt. The idea for the design of the park was the result of an international competition initiated in 2001 and won by Berlin practice(...)
Landscape Architecture, Monographs
July 2007, Berlin
79 KW Zurich : building Opfikerpark
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In December 2006, close to Zurich airport, Opfikerpark was completed after a construction period of 79 weeks. Central element of the park is a concrete sculpture, over 500m-long, accommodating a lake surrounded by sandy beaches and a reed belt. The idea for the design of the park was the result of an international competition initiated in 2001 and won by Berlin practice Kiefer. As the second exhibition at gallery AedesLand, this project will be introduced in June 2007. Contrary to the usual approach, the exhibition does not aim to present an already completed construction but rather make transparent the process of creation and realization of the building project ‘opfikerpark’. The efforts and challenges to create a complex and outstanding structure, which were faced by client, planners, engineers as well as executing contractors, shall be recorded in a commented illustration of the construction work. Building sites are temporary production sites involving a multitude of disciplines and trades which need to be coordinated. The exhibition reflects the progressing technological, organizational and design process as well as the objective and subjective influences in effect and thus aims to convey a realistic image of the building activities. Photographer Hanns Joosten has documented the construction progress at regular intervals. His high-quality, large-scale images communicate the special aesthetics of a building site in all its diversity and affect the atmosphere of the exhibition. The whole exhibition space will be part of the exhibition, even floors and ceilings. In addition, a media installation explains the progress of constructing Opfikerpark where viewpoints of diverse disciplines and participants meet. The players get a chance to speak and express their personal perspective on the building process with spoken commentaries. How is a large park constructed? How does a building site work? What do you need so many planners for? And how do they work together? Based on these questions, spontaneous contributions shall throw a critical and ironic light on the expert discourse.
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Orte der Adoleszenz
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Three places of growing up – the Institution for the Blind at Regensburg, the Cantonal School Rychenberg / Winterthur and the Lecture Hall, Zittau – three concepts for a school environment. A different framework determines the progam and the utilization of each respective building type. Realization of the projects with their specific requirements was preceded by an open(...)
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January 2007, Berlin
Orte der Adoleszenz
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Three places of growing up – the Institution for the Blind at Regensburg, the Cantonal School Rychenberg / Winterthur and the Lecture Hall, Zittau – three concepts for a school environment. A different framework determines the progam and the utilization of each respective building type. Realization of the projects with their specific requirements was preceded by an open competition. Award winners are young offices realizing their first big project with this commission. The works of these young architects are displayed in this exhibition for the first time. The Institution for the Blind by Georg Scheel Wetzel Architekten : a partial or complete loss of the sense of sight determined the layout of the complex. In order to enable children to find their way in the building, a strong focus lies on the senses of touch and hearing. Hence, the building is organized on a single floor and the choice of materials underlines the haptic experience of the interior and outer spaces. Apart from the school rooms, the building also provides units of accommodation for stays up to several days. The Cantonal School Rychenberg / Winterthur by Haberland Architekten,,an extension of the building erected in 1960 – 63 by Eric Lanter and a continuation of the Corbusian composition, at the same time utilizes exposed concrete for its façades. All functions are accommodated within an elongated construction consisting of a base and a cube placed above it. Situated off the existing buildings, the base is accessible from the slope and serves as terrace and recess area. It contains class rooms as well as a multi-use sports gym with weights and gymnastics facilities. The cube accommodates a media center and music rooms and is situated between the main building and the hall. The Lecture Hall in Zittau by Tilmann Bock Norbert Sachs Architekten marks the beginnings of a new location for higher education. The new campus center consists of one large and three smaller lecture halls and is completed by two seminar rooms. The lecture hall building is characterized by a fluid spatial movement and accessibility. Starting from the central campus place, the foyer opens up the internal room plan moving past accesses to the lecture halls and a mezzanine toward the upper floor. The open theater on the roof terrace may be used as "open air" lecture hall or as event space for the university.
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January 2007, Berlin
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The exhibition illustrates the variety of leisure spas and thermal baths realized by the architectural practice 4a Architekten from Stuttgart, Germany. Accessible for visitors from viewpoints resembling starting blocks, the room installation is made up of models and platforms suspended over a water pool. Enhancing the experience of visiting an actual swimming pool,(...)
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March 2007, Berlin
4a Architekten : wasserwelten
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The exhibition illustrates the variety of leisure spas and thermal baths realized by the architectural practice 4a Architekten from Stuttgart, Germany. Accessible for visitors from viewpoints resembling starting blocks, the room installation is made up of models and platforms suspended over a water pool. Enhancing the experience of visiting an actual swimming pool, in-depth information to each project is provided in a row of lockers. Via projections on the walls and on the water surface, visitors also become emotionally involved in the bathing activities and the architectural diversity of 4a Architekten.
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March 2007, Berlin
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Moderating urban density
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The architects Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, over the last ten years, have developed the Caracas/Venezuela based Urban-Think Tank (UTT) into an international network to face the challenges of uncontrolled urban growth in the dense informal centers of the 21st century Mega-cities. The exhibit will include photos, videos and projects that question the notion(...)
Moderating urban density
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The architects Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, over the last ten years, have developed the Caracas/Venezuela based Urban-Think Tank (UTT) into an international network to face the challenges of uncontrolled urban growth in the dense informal centers of the 21st century Mega-cities. The exhibit will include photos, videos and projects that question the notion of contemporary architecture and urbanism that pulls together some of the Urban Think Tanks most consistent propositions. UTT has moved to propose design solutions, to make that crucial passage from protest to project in an effort to make a real impact in Caracas and in Europe and North America, presenting the relevance of their ideas for the Stadtwerk in Salzburg and for a Vertical Gym in Spanish Harlem, New York. ‘Moderating Urban Density’ exhibit shows how negotiation and design can work in the interface between the social conflicts and the production of new urban infrastructures, architecture, and sustainable human environments in the so called “barrios” of the informal mega city.
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December 2006, Berlin
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Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum is one of the most eminent spaces for architecture and architectural culture in the world. Founded in 1980 by Kristin Feireiss and Helga Retzer, Aedes has since put on five hundred important exhibitions on current themes, featuring many of the world’s most eminent architects. After Retzer’s unexpected death in 1994, Aedes has been run by(...)
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January 2021
Faces and spaces: 40 years Aedes Architecture Forum
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Berlin’s Aedes Architecture Forum is one of the most eminent spaces for architecture and architectural culture in the world. Founded in 1980 by Kristin Feireiss and Helga Retzer, Aedes has since put on five hundred important exhibitions on current themes, featuring many of the world’s most eminent architects. After Retzer’s unexpected death in 1994, Aedes has been run by Feireiss, together with Hans-Jürgen Commerell and a large, committed team of collaborators. Faces and Spaces looks back at four decades of the gallery’s lively and multifaceted history.
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In conversation with Kristin Feireiss, Sergei Tchoban reveals what inspires him and what drives his work as an architect, artist, curator, collector und museum founder.
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March 2021
Sergei Tchoban: Lines and volumes.
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In conversation with Kristin Feireiss, Sergei Tchoban reveals what inspires him and what drives his work as an architect, artist, curator, collector und museum founder.
Architecture Monographs
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ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory was launched in 2009 as a physical and intellectual space focused on the inseparable interplay between urban form and social life. Now in its eighth year, ANCB decided to broaden its experimental journey as an independent public platform with an annual magazine entitled The Metropolitan Laboratory that further explores our deliberate(...)
The Metropolitan Laboratory Magazine, Vol. 1. Education: trial and error
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ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory was launched in 2009 as a physical and intellectual space focused on the inseparable interplay between urban form and social life. Now in its eighth year, ANCB decided to broaden its experimental journey as an independent public platform with an annual magazine entitled The Metropolitan Laboratory that further explores our deliberate goal of providing an alternative urban discourse. Entitled “Education: Trial and Error”, this first issue looks at the topic of artistic and architectural education. As a survey of highly progressive pedagogical approaches, it questions the role of education in past, present, and future. The broad spectrum of articles and essays ranges from Black Mountain College, Joseph Beuys, Paul Thek, Cedric Price, and Oswald Ungers all the way to Beatriz Colomina, Olafur Eliasson, Ai Wei Wei, Thom Mayne, Odile Decq, Peter Cook, and Joan Ockmann, to mention but a few. Inherent to all of these contributions is a profound apprehension of the positive surplus of unsolicited changes, uninvited irritants, unanticipated setbacks, and failures as the future seeds of human achievement and progress.
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Now and here: Chengdu
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With a focus on social reality and a respect for local context and vernacular craftsmanship, Liu Jiakun's work shows a rare attempt to translate and transfer traditional Chinese cultural ethos into contemporary architectural language, and represents a fine quality of intertexture between individual and collective memories. Many of these projects throw light on the(...)
Architecture Monographs
August 2017
Now and here: Chengdu
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With a focus on social reality and a respect for local context and vernacular craftsmanship, Liu Jiakun's work shows a rare attempt to translate and transfer traditional Chinese cultural ethos into contemporary architectural language, and represents a fine quality of intertexture between individual and collective memories. Many of these projects throw light on the reciprocal relation between Chinese people's public life and urban cultural space. Aedes exclusively presents mainly local projects in Chengdu including West Village Yard. The exhibition unfolds urban evolutionary history and the genius loci of the city, as well as demonstrates Chengdu's humanistic standpoint in practicing a new model of urbanization. It aims to open a new chapter of urban development dialogue between Germany and China.
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