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Besides works by Florian Licht, Juan Carlos Lorza, Filippo Macelloni, Marina Miceli, Francesco Monaco, Tânia Moreira David, Simone Muscolino, Edgar Pera, Luis Urculo, Wanda Yu-Ying Hu, the film Koolhaas Houselife, by Ila Bêka and Louise Lemoîne will be shown. The Maison à Floirac, designed by Rem Koolhaas/OMA in 1998, is here explored from a totally unexpected perspective: it is the point of view of the maid who is in daily and closed contact with every single corner of the house. The document disproves all conventions on architecture documentaries in order to truly reveal the relations between architectural space and its inhabitants.
Image ARCHIVE curates the video program.
[April 19, 2012]. Our company has been following the production of videos related to contemporary architectural research since many years. That's also why we are pleased to inform our friends about the CITY VISIONS. Architectural talks and videos, the series made by Urban Center Metropolitano in Turin, Italy www.urbancenter.to.it, promoted by Film Commmission Torino Piemonte www.fctp.it and curated by Image ARCHIVE www.image-web.org/archive.
Contemporary urban space is the outcome of an accumulation of viewpoints, views, and observations. Cities change while people look at them, and constantly enrich themselves with ideas and visions produced by architects and circulated through media. The series of screenings and talks starts on April 19, 6:00 PM at Urban Center Metropolitano and will happen every month from now until October 2012. Here's the complete program. The first event intends to promote a discussion on the theme The Intimate Look. Alberto Momo, architect and film director, together with Marco Brizzi, from Image, will talk about the videos selected to testify architectural experiences related to an intimate, familiar, emotional relation with built living environments.
Image ARCHIVE curates the contents of the video program.
[July 14th, 2011]. Starting Tuesday July 19 until October 11, Image ARCHIVE participates in the MAXXI's www.fondazionemaxxi.it summer program YAP MAXXI, the first Italian edition of the well-known Young Architects Program launched by the Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 twelve years ago in New York. The exterior spaces of the MAXXI in Rome, transformed into a garden of green isles by the project WHATAMI by studio stARTT www.startt.it, will host the summer events that focus on the diverse aspects of contemporary art. Image ARCHIVE was invited to create an event focused on a series of videos and films that would expose the public to some of the most relevant and experimental projects, works and ideas in the architectural scene internationally. The result is a awe-inspiring journey, divided into six evenings from July to October, which is a testimony to the arduous search for forms of expression and the emergence of a new language in the discourse which Image ARCHIVE has observed for more than a decade.
The program ARCHITECTURE VISIONS. Erratic language in architectural narratives, curated by Marco Brizzi and Paola Ricco, consists of three themed sections, each accompanied by a speaker. "PLAYING ON THE SCENE" (which takes place on the 19th and 26th of June, at 8:30 pm) demonstrates interaction, sometimes playful and spectacular, within architecture and urban space. "THE ARCHITECT'S MICRONARRATIVES" (September 13th and 20th at 8:30 pm) exposes the brief forms that accompany communication of a thought or project in architecture. Finally with "BUILDINGS IN THE SPOTLIGHT" (October 4th and 11th at 8:30 pm) we observe an architecture that manifests through video.
Image ARCHIVE www.image-web.org/archive is the archive that Image has dedicated since 1997 to the collection, preservation and appreciation of architectural videos. Among the archive's purposes is the selection, study and propagation of these audiovisual documents that accompany contemporary architectural production. Image ARCHIVE supports the program of BEYOND MEDIA www.beyondmedia.it, the international architecture and media festival that has taken place in Florence since 1997. Created as a means to present and generate arguments about video works in architecture, the BEYOND MEDIA festival has firmly established its place, in the course of its numerous editions, as one of the most qualified initiatives in the world dedicated to the aspects that tie architecture to media.
The architecture video program ARCHITECTURE VISIONS at the MAXXI is curated by Image ARCHIVE.
[July 12th, 2011]. In occasion of the ARCHITETTURA IN CITTÀ (Architecture in the City) festival that takes place in Turin from the 13th to the 17th of July 2011 http://architetturaincitta.oato.it, Image ARCHIVE www.image-web.org/archive has collaborated with the Ordine degli Architetti di Torino and with the Fondazione OAT, to propose to the public an architecture video program that seeks to interpret the theme "Dove finisce la città" (Where the city ends). We believe that the event and the issues relevant to the topic may be of interest to you. The video works selected from Image ARCHIVE to inaugurate the festival in Turin describe some of the ongoing trends present in the discourse of contemporary architecture: the search for new visual formulas that interpret the changing perspectives and new ideas in the field, the instruments used to observe and to construct urban phenomenon, and the development of narrative forms that focus on the potential inherent in the audiovisual mediums related to architecture and urbanism.
Renewed relationships, confrontations and the exploration of the possible mediums that have supported the emergence of a language through which architecture has in many ways redefined itself and its social role, have alongside numerous video works by artists and video makers, sought to create and interpret new conditions for the design of the contemporary city. Image has followed the evolution of this phenomenon since its inception in 1997, with the creation of the BEYOND MEDIA festival www.beyondmedia.it and Image ARCHIVE. Through careful observation of the strategies used by architects and designers throughout the world, Image attempts to encourage reflection and discussion over a medium from which expression of a significant part of contemporary architectonic production emerges.
Some of the works selected and proposed by Image ARCHIVE: Rob Carter (Metropolis, US 2008), Pilar Ortiz (watching time go by my bedroom window, CL 2008), Plasmatic Concepts (Peripheral Landscapes, US 2007), Marina Chernikova (URBAN SURFING II b/w, NL 2007), Eva Sommeregger (*.scape, UK 2007); Muoto Architectes (Concerto for Infrastructures, FR 2008), Laboratorio Permanente, Pietro Ferrario e Andrea Bot (La conquista dell'orizzonte, IT 2011), Keiichi Matsuda (The Technocrat Retrofit of London, UK 2009) and squint/opera (Post Barnsley, UK 2003). Paola Ricco, the curator of Image ARCHIVE, will be present at the inauguration of the festival ARCHITETTURA IN CITTÀ and will introduce the presentation of the chosen works after the Infopoint di Palazzo Bertalazone di San Fermo on Wednesday 13th of June at 7:00pm. Marco Brizzi will also be participating in the talk show "Dove finisce la città?" on Sunday the 17th of June at the Teatro Gobetti, via Rossini 8, at 8:00pm, for the closing of the festival in Turin.
Image participates in the festival's program.
[July 6, 2011]. PENSARE SPAZI CONTEMPORANEI www.pensarespazicontemporanei.it -from July 7 to December 14 2011 at the SUC space in the Murate and at the Contemporary Arts Center of Florence –Ex3, a series of talks have been organized in order to question the meaning and use of certain words that emerge in the description of architecture regarding the role they play to define the relationship that exists between architecture and city. The program is curated by Marco Brizzi, promoted by Image www.image-web.org and produced in collaboration with the Department of Contemporary Culture of the Municipality of Florence news.comune.fi.it/cultura, the Contemporary Arts Center EX3 www.ex3.it, con la Fondazione Professione Architetto www.architoscana.org, and the publications FFF www.firenzefastforward.it and arch'it www.architettura.it.
A lot has been said and written about architecture. Rarely has the discourse on architecture managed to weave itself into the issues that concern civil society and other forms of contemporary thought. Architecture seems to be meaningless. The ideas that create the urban space, the effects and the interactions of projects with their surrounding context are often described with words whose meaning, in reference to the built environment, are understood in unintended ways by the general citizens and public. Terms such as "heritage", "community", "sharing", "game", "story", to name a few examples, seem to have lost their potential cultural value. The constant use of the same terminology to describe architecture has caused the loss of possibilities, both theoretically and literally. PENSARE SPAZI CONTEMPORANEI therefore proposes a series of talks, some of which base themselves on words and themes that are ever-present throughout architectural publications; whilst others dwell on reflecting upon the role that criticism plays in architecture. On the whole, the intent is to push the boundaries of the imagination and change the definitions of the descriptions used to express the role of contemporary architecture in civic life in order to offer new elements of interaction between the community of designers and society. Precisely for this reason, by virtue of their ability to imagine alternative words and terms from those used currently in the discourse, poets and artists will be tasked to begin the talks and advance reflection on the subject. Each event will be accompanied by videos targeted to inspire visions of contemporary architecture, offered by Image ARCHIVE www.image-web.org/archive, the multimedia archive dedicated to collecting, conserving and promoting architectural film since 1997.
The first event titled: "DOVE SI ANNIDA LA CRITICA. Lo spazio della critica tra riviste, libri e blog di architettura" ("WHERE CRITICISM NESTS. Space for criticism in architectural magazines, books and blogs") will take place on July 7 at 6:30 pmin EX3, in viale Giannotti 81 in Florence. The discussion will be conducted by Marco Biraghi, Pietro Valle, Marco Brizzi, and led by Elisa Poli.
Image is in charge of the promotion and organization of the program.
[March 17, 2011]. We are glad to inform you that Living (in) Italy. Economies, ecologies, and inequalities, the XIV national conferenze of the Italian Society of Urban Planners www.conferenzasiu2011.it, coordinated by Cristina Bianchetti, will take place in Turin, Italy, in the next few days, from March 24th to 26th. Image ARCHIVE www.image-web.org/archive participates in the program by offering a selection of videos which will provide spur for discussion.
The conference (see here for the complete program) deals with the topic of inhabitation. which is intended in a very broad sense, touching upon the relationships between settlements, economics and society as they are evolving today, given the growing environmental risks, social inequalities and urban crises. In this sense, the presentation of videos selected by Image ARCHIVE will complement the conversation between Carmen Andriani (architect) and Marco Brizzi (curator) that will compare the concepts of heritage and inhabitation, ever changing concepts that strongly respond to the urgencies and critical situations of nowadays.
This conversation, scheduled to take place on Thursday March 24 at 8 pm in the Sala delle Colonne at the Castello del Valentino, carries on the discussion that started on the occasion of the Recollecting the Future. The Existing Heritage and Contemporary Cityscapes conference, curated by Carmen Andriani during the 11th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale and presented in the book Il patrimonio e l'abitare (Donzelli, 2010).
Image ARCHIVE's contribution to the conference will offer an overview of architecture videos that distinguish themselves for their high film quality and for their effectiveness in presenting lateral modes of inhabiting spaces. From Michaela Frühwirth's unusual explorations of the urban landscape of Kolkata, to Céline Pétreau and Michèle Pédezert's video describing a traditional living environment for the nomadic peoples of Mongolia; from Francisca Benitez's documentation of an ephemeral city appearing within the permanent city in Brooklyn to the villages that disappeared after Chernobyl's nuclear accident as they are observed by Frédéric Nantois and Fiona Meadows, up to the transformations of Detroit's abandoned neighborhoods investigated by Kyong Park.
The architecture video program is curated by Image ARCHIVE.
[November 16, 2010]. We are pleased to inform you of a new event, titled La casa moderna, promoted by the Fondazione Architetti Treviso www.fondazionearchitettitreviso.it, with the patronage of the Province of Treviso and of the Italian National Council of Architects. On this occasion, the city of Treviso will host the 5th edition of the Cinema-Architettura film show, curated by Beatrice Ciruzzi. Starting November 9 and for the four following weeks, a series of conversations on the topic of the house -as observed and interpreted by cinema in the last decades- will take place at Edera multiplex. In four evenings, when art films will be put side by side with videos and short films, the relationship of man with the house he inhabits will be discussed, every time from a different perspective.
The series, which will benefit from the presence of four observers (Giancarlo Carnevale, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture at IUAV in Venice; Carlo Montanaro, director of the Fine Arts Academy in Venice; Valeria Farinati from the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio; Marco Brizzi, director of the BEYOND MEDIA festival www.beyondmedia.it in Florence), is the outcome of a cooperation among the IUAV Video Library in Venice, the Carlo Montanaro Archive in Venice, the Archive of the Modern at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio and Image ARCHIVE www.image-web.org/archive in Florence, the latter being featured in the evening of November 30. Inception, the last film by Christopher Nolan, will be cue for a discussion that Marco Brizzi will conduct by taking advantage of the interpretations offered by some works collected in the Image ARCHIVE: La petite maison. An architectural seduction by Tânia Moreira David (UK 2009) architecture by Skene Catling de la Peña; Steel Homes by Eva Weber (UK 2008); Un tetto sulla testa by Leone Contini (IT 2008); Habitat by Emanuela Ascari (IT 2009). The topic of the house is interpreted as an intangible, though physical, memory’s realm where the most intimate and inaccessible substance of human beings can be retrieved. The house is where the deepest dreams, those that cannot be easily manipulated, are stored; and it represents a constant reference for architectural design research.
Image ARCHIVE contributes to the program of the Fondazione Architetti Treviso.
[October 14, 2010]. Image www.image-web.org is pleased to announce a new cooperation, as part of its activity of enhancement of video resources in the field of architecture. The Architecture & Design Film Festival www.adfilmfestival.com, directed by Kyle Bergman and premiering in New York City, is the nation's largest film festival celebrating the creative spirit behind some of the world's most remarkable architecture and design. ADFF has started a collaboration with Image, based on a partnership with the BEYOND MEDIA festival www.beyondmedia.it directed by Marco Brizzi.
The rich program of videos, covering an incredible range of design-oriented topics, will premiere at New York City's celebrated Tribeca Cinemas from October 14 to 17, 2010. Among the over 40 selected films is also Olga Spátová's Eye Over Prague, a documentary on Jan Kaplicky's ill-fated design for the National Library in Prague.
Image contributes to the program of the Architecture & Design Film Festival in New York City with a selection of some of the best and most recent architecture videos which were presented to the public during the BEYOND MEDIA festival and which are preserved in the Image ARCHIVE www.image-web.org/archive. With its participation in the New York City festival, Image reaffirms its vocation to collaborate with those institutions worldwide that are sensitive to architecture videos and to their enhancement.
Image ARCHIVE and the BEYOND MEDIA festival collaborate with the festival in New York City.
[October 3, 2010]. Image is exceptionally opening up its architecture video ARCHIVE, unparalleled repository of its kind, to liven up a series of evenings devoted to some hot topics in contemporary architecture: HOT SEASON'S PIX! Newly collected works, gems, latest productions, as well as works that belong to history and that Image ARCHIVE preserves. These videos will be available for viewing and reflection for a small number of guests Image invites in its Florence location. It's a special occasion for design community interested in discussing contemporary audio-visual production.
The HOT SEASON'S PIX will take place starting October 6 every two weeks, on Wednesdays at 9:30 pm, at Image's in Florence (via Venti Settembre 84). A maximum number of 15 guests will be able to attend. In order to participate, those interested should reserve a seat by following instruction on the Image events page on Facebook.
Image ARCHIVE www.image-web.org/archive is the multimedia archive that Image www.image-web.org has devoted since 1997 to collecting, preserving and advancing architecture videos. Among the functions of the Image ARCHIVE are the selection, the circulation and the survey of audio-visual documents accompanying contemporary architectural production. Image ARCHIVE also supports the program of BEYOND MEDIA www.beyondmedia.it, the international festival for architecture and media that takes place in Florence, Italy since 1997. Founded to present and compare architecture videos, BEYOND MEDIA has gradually made a name for itself, edition after edition, and has become one of the most renown events worldwide devoted to investigating the relationship between architecture and the media.
Image has been following for over 13 years the evolution of architecture videos. It supports their production and diffusion and stimulates their role in contemporary architectural production.
[August 19, 2010]. Strelka, a new postgraduate school in Moscow for Media, Architecture and Design, is teaming up with OMA at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition –directed by Kazuyo Sejima and titled People meet in Architecture –for a conversation on architectural education– in Russia and beyond. OMA's think tank, AMO www.oma.com, has developed an educational programme for Strelka www.strelkainstitute.com, which will open its doors to students in October.
IN CONVERSATION: STRELKA, A NEW POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL IN MOSCOW, AND OMA. The event, that will take place at the Teatro Piccolo dell'Arsenale on August 26th, 2010 from 2:30 PM to 3:45 PM, in the very first opening day of the Biennale, reserved to the press, will introduce Strelka to a global audience. Strelka founders Alexander Mamut and Ilya Oskolkov-Tsentsiper will discuss their ambition to raise the standard of architectural education in Russia through this new research platform in the heart of Moscow. Rem Koolhaas will introduce Strelka's educational team –drawn from AMO's global network of collaborators– and present the research agenda, based on five interconnected themes: Design, Energy, Preservation, Public Space and Thinning– issues that are critical worldwide and particularly urgent in Russia. Reinier de Graaf (partner, OMA and director of AMO) and Michael Schindhelm (cultural advisor and writer), both co-authors of Strelka's educational programme, will join the discussion after the keynote presentations. Members of Strelka's Steering Committee Sergey Adonyev, Dmitry Likin and Oleg Shapiro will be present at the discussion.
Strelka and OMA's public conversation is in synch with a key curatorial aim of the Biennale Architettura: to reconsider architectural education and to transform the Biennale programme –its lectures, exhibitions and workshops– into educational opportunities for students and the general public.
Journalists interested in attending the presentation and in interviewing Strelka's founders are invited to contact Image. In our PRESS AREA credited journalists can find the official Press Release and a first selection of images.
Image supports Strelka's program and its communication.
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