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The S(E)OUL SCAPE. Towards a New Urbanity in Korea exhibition opening will take place on January 24th, 2008 at 7PM in the SESV gallery in Florence. From here the event, made in cooperation with the Municipality of Florence and the University of Florence, will travel to the main European and international cities, hosted by prestigious galleries and by those institutions which are most sensitive to contemporary architecture.
Six among the most well known Korean architects are the protagonists of this evolution. Their work represents an ongoing research and exploration, a critical view to the processes taking place in this unique context. Chung Guyon, Joh Sung-yong, Kim Young-joon, Min Hyun-sik, Seung H-sang, Yi Jong-ho represent the generation of those who have been able to trigger a debate, an interaction, a research which is aimed at rousing Korea from a feverish moment of great political turmoil. Their architecture testifies the consequences of this transformation. It ripened over time and is permeated by the several investigations and relations with the international experience.
The architects featured in the exhibition will present, after an introduction by Francisco Sanin and Pai Hyung-min, the lines of their research during the conference that will take place on January 24th at 4PM in the Salone dei Duecento of Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Gianni Biagi, Councillor for Urban Planning at the Municipality of Florence, Raimondo Innocenti, Dean of the School of Architecture in Florence, and Marco Brizzi, curator of the SESV gallery of the University of Florence and director of iMage www.image-web.org will attend.
The S(E)OUL SCAPE. Towards a New Urbanity in Korea exhibition is supplemented by a catalogue (80 pages, full color, in English) released by episode publishers www.episode-publishers.nl.
The exhibition is part of the program of traveling exhibitions produced and organized by iMage.
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[November 21, 2007]. In the course of the upcoming months Taiwan will be the meeting point for different design cultures; Western and Eastern, Mediterranean and trans-oceanic. The Northeast Coast National Scenic Area www.necoast-nsa.gov.tw will become an open-air workshop where new residential scenarios will be realized which are in dialogue with the magnificent landscape that opens up 50 minutes from Taipei.
Among the designers invited to participate in the NEXT-GENE project are: GRAFT, Yung Ho Chang, IaN+, Kengo Kuma, MVRDV, and Kris Yao. The advisors that have collaborated on the definition of the plan include Tadao Ando, Zaha Hadid, and Toyo Ito. The client is Tai-Nien Lu, president of Genuine Development Asset Management www.leisure.com.tw. The coordinator of the project is Yu-Tung Liu, founder and present director of the Graduate Institute of Architecture www.arch.nctu.edu.tw of the National Chiao Tung University He is also internationally acclaimed as the founder of the distinguished FEIDAD award in architecture www.feidad.org.
Time for the construction of the project is short. The architects have already completed their surveys of the project site, and construction is scheduled to begin in July 2008. The residences will be completed by December 2009.
iMage is in charge of the international communication of the event.
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[November 10, 2007]. The exhibition FRIGERIO DESIGN GROUP. A Journey in Slow Architecture arrives in the thousand-year-old Arab quarter of Kalsa, in Palermo. From the 15th of November until the 14th of December 2007 the spaces of the EXPA www.expa.org, one of the more vivacious galleries in Italy, will present the architecture of Enrico Frigerio www.frigeriodesign.it, featuring his current works that pay attention to sustainability in design and a strong sensitivity to the environment.
The inauguration is scheduled for 7:30pm, during which Enrico Frigerio and Marco Brizzi will present a brief introduction. The exhibition features the research of the architect, one of the former collaborators of Renzo Piano, and its tour is continuing after the venues in Florence (galleria SESV), Genova (Accademia Ligustica), Milan (Sala Guido Nardi), Ferrara (Castelllo Estense) and Torino (Castello del Valentino).
iMage produced the exhibition and is in charge of its circulation.
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[September 16th, 2007]. The P.A.N. [progressive architecture network] exhibit will open on Thursday September 20th at 5:30 pm at the SESV www.sesv.net gallery in Florence. Prior to the opening, at 3:30 pm, the architects featured in the show will participate in an open debate.
After its success at the Frederieke Taylor Gallery www.frederieketaylorgallery.com in New York City, the P.A.N. [progressive architecture network] exhibit –curated by Winka Dubbeldam and Helene Furján– presents to the Italian public the research and the production of five young architectural offices that are well established on the international scene: Sadar Vuga Arhitekti www.sadarvuga.com (Ljubljana), R&Sie(n) www.new-territories.com (Paris), J. Mayer H. Architects www.jmayerh.de (Berlin), IaN+ www.ianplus.it (Rome), Archi-Tectonics www.archi-tectonics.com (New York). The five groups, that found their initial stimuli at the ArchiLab www.archilab.org meetings in Orléans, organized by Frédéric Migayrou and Marie-Ange Brayer, share a common attitude towards experimentation.
The exhibit was produced in collaboration with CREI Creating Real Estate Innovations www.creirealestate.com and with HENRAUX www.henraux.it. Its Italian launch was supported by Ricci Spa www.riccispa.com and by Toscana Contract. A catalogue, published by Mandragora www.mandragora.it comes with the exhibit.
The event and its publication were realized in collaboration with iMage.
[May 13th, 2007] On the occasion of the re-opening of the headquarters of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Rome www.olanda.it, the MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo www.darc.beniculturali.it/MAXXI hosts from May 17 until July 1 2007 the exhibit HOLLAND-ITALY. 10 Works of Architecture. The exhibit, curated by Gabriele Mastrigli, in cooperation with MAXXI Architecture, directed by Margherita Guccione, with the communication by Lorenza Bolelli, under the coordination of Francesca Fabiani and with interior arrangements by Esmeralda Valente, aims to create a platform for comparison and exchange among the architects of the two countries, allowing for a more in-depth understanding of their works and their ways of conceiving architecture. Promoted by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Rome, the DARC www.darc.beniculturali.it and the MAXXI and supported by The Netherlands Architecture Fund www.archfonds.nl, NAi www.nai.nl and ING www.ing.com, the exhibit is conceived of as a match in which two teams, Holland and Italy, will bring 10 works of architecture to the field, 5 on each side.
The "players", which will take part in this "encounter/comparison", are: Atelier Kempe Thill www.atelierkempethill.com, Crimson www.crimsonweb.org, NL Architects www.nlarchitects.nl, Onix www.onix.nl, Powerhouse Company www.powerhouse-company.com for Holland; baukuh www.baukuh.it, Dogma, gruppo A12 www.gruppoa12.org, IaN+ www.ianplus.it, Beniamino Servino for Italy. The exhibit has 5 categories to be "played on the field": House, Pavilion, Context, Infrastructure, and City. Every one of these categories will be addressed by one Dutch group and one Italian group: the House category will be played by Powerhouse Company and Beniamino Servino, for the Pavilion, we'll see Atelier Kempe Thill and gruppo A12, Context will match up ONIX and Baukuh, Infrastructure will be handled by NL Architects and IaN+, and City will show the ability of Crimson and Dogma.
The exhibit seems to reflect an inversion of tendencies in the architectural culture present in the two countries. On the Dutch side, in response to the weariness with heterodox and muscle-bound design approaches that, for about a decade, have been dominant and today are consumed, there is more space given to an enhanced awareness, in order to further reflection and maturity. And on the other side, with the Italians and their almost chromosomal attitude towards an overly ceremonious respect of tradition, there is finally an opening up towards international encounters and comparisons. As Gabriele Mastrigli explains, "The exhibition thus proposes, both through the comparison of the works of architecture of Dutch and Italian offices and within each single project, a dialectical comparison between pragmatism and theory: the first is seen as the traditional conceptual core of the Dutch approach, but also as the inevitable context of the work of many young Italian designers, while the second is an attitude that is present in the very DNA of Italian architecture, that seems to re-emerge in the Dutch context in order to reconsider architecture in terms of a renewed reflection on its role, which far exceeds the confines of Holland and Italy."
On May 18, starting at 11 am, the 10 groups of architects will present their projects within a symposium to be moderated by Michele Bonino and Roemer van Toorn. A round table discussion will follow.
The HOLLAND-ITALY. 10 Works of Architecture exhibit, organized by iMage www.image-web.org, will be accompanied by a bi-lingual catalogue, edited by Gabriele Mastrigli, and published by Electa www.electaweb.it as part of the OperaDARC book series directed by Pio Baldi. The catalogue will contain a presentation of the 10 exhibited projects with accompanying texts by their authors, including images, photographs and sketch-drawings.
iMage organizes the exhibition, coordinates the editorial project of the catalogue, and is in charge of the communication of the event.
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[March 21st, 2007] Tourism XXL, the European Megalopolis www.intelligentcoast.es, is the first International Symposium that deals with an integral form of development for the Spanish Mediterranean coast. The event will take place on 19, 20 and 21 of July 2007 at the Centre of Contemporary Culture of Barcelona (CCCB) www.cccb.org.
Spain is experiencing the fastest process of growing urban concentrations of the whole own history. Its Mediterranean coast today concentrates 44% of the population and 42% of the GDP. 17 million inhabitants are concentrated only along the coastal provinces on the Mediterranean areas, number that -according to the National Institute of Statistic (INE)- will rise to 21 million in 2020. For that year, it is foreseen that Spain will receive 18 million tourists. Facing the speed of development and the high level of concentration comparable to Shangai, Rio de Janeiro or Tokyo, the Spanish Mediterranean coast has become the first European Megalopolis. Globalization, global warming, resources optimization, urban-planning development, aerial and terrestrial mobility and new phenomena that affect tourist development along our coast will be central subjects of the Symposium that invites national and international leaders from the economic and political field as from the cultural or technical environment. Among the distinguished speakers: Manuel Delanda, Carlos Ferrater, Raimon Martínez Fraile, José Miguel Iribas, Michael Houellebecq, Rem Koolhaas, Scott Lash, Faustino G. Marquéz, Arnaldo Muñóz, Javier Gómez Navarro, Juan Palop, Jeremy Rifkin, George Ritzer, Jordi Robinat, Miguel Ruano, Salvador Rueda, Juan Antonio Sánchez, Edward W. Soja, Federico Soriano, Andreu Ulied, Juan Lopez de Uralde, José L. Zoreda.
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Laura Cantarella)The International Symposium is produced by Intelligent Coast Cultural Association www.intelligentcoast.es, which aims at producing an analytical overview and proposals of new strategies and criteria for coastal development related to the phenomenon of tourism. Beside this International Symposium, the Association leads the Master Program Intelligent Coast, New Tourist Strategies, New Territorial Structuresmade with the Fundació Politècnica de Catalunya www.fundacio.upc.edu, and supported by iMage www.image-web.org and ARCH'IT www.architettura.it. Tourism XXL, the European Megalopolis is sponsored by the Regional Government of Catalonia (Generalitat de Catalunya) and supported by the European Commission, among others. The event is accompanied by a series of debates and conferences that, under the name Intelligent Coast Debates, gather the intervention of important experts at a national and international level.
iMage participates in the communication of the event.
[January 19th, 2007] On Monday January 22nd the program AT THE EDGE 07. Sustainable architecture in the South www.aimargini.net will start in Taranto. The program consists in a series of meetings, exhibits and workshops dedicated to the design of areas which are at the edge of the city. They are the edge both in a physical sense, as they are suburban areas which are not well connected to the rest of the city, and in a functional sense, as they are rejected, abandoned, neglected places, which are apparently lacking of any appeal. The program, proposed by Kinoworkshop www.kinoworkshop.it, aims at exploring these places so as to turn them into the protagonists of new metropolitan scenarios, the witnesses of a fresh and intelligent design approach for the requalification of the most mortified areas of the urban context. Within this framework, the principles of environmental sustainability, ecocompatibility, energy conservation are at the basis of an attentive, sensitive and conscious design.
The journey through places at the edge starts in The Netherlands. Maurice Nio www.nio.nl will present it in the course of his lecture and within the SNAKE SPACE. NIO architecten, produced by iMage www.image-web.org and devoted to the topic of "technical spaces", i.e. those spaces which are recognized in the abandoned, transitory, or maybe forbidden city areas: dumping grounds, highways, parking lots, industrial areas, tunnels, viaducts. It's here that Nio make his architecture exist, adding a soul and life to indefinite, cold landscapes, to rejected and wasted spaces. Besides featuring a series of projects that redeem the marginal areas, the exhibit also represents a very useful tool for identifying those very spaces within the city of Taranto.
Il viaggio attraverso i luoghi ai margini inizia con un caso olandese. Lo presenterà Maurice Nio nella sua conferenza introduttiva e attraverso la mostra SNAKE SPACE. NIO architecten www.nio.nl, prodotta da iMage www.image-web.org e dedicata al tema degli "spazi tecnici", luoghi della città diseredati, di transito o addirittura ad accesso interdetto: discariche, autostrade, parcheggi, aree industriali, tunnel, viadotti. È qui che Nio realizza le sue architetture, donando anima e vita a territori indefiniti, freddi, spazi di scarto e di rifiuto. La mostra, oltre a illustrare una serie di interventi mirati a riscattare territori marginali, intende fornire uno strumento utile per individuare quella stessa categoria di spazi all'interno della città di Taranto.
iMage produced the SNAKE SPACE exhibition and contributed to the communication of the program.
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[November 28th, 2006] The Treasure Islands. New Architectural Visions for Tuscany are ready to be disclosed. From the 5th to the 21st of December all these projects will be displayed in the SESV gallery www.sesv.net of the Florence University, as they will be the protagonists of a preview presentation where 15 projects and 7 videos will feature possible scenarios where memory and innovation, history and contemporary languages coexist. The experience was conceived and produced by iMage www.image-web.org and promoted by the Region of Tuscany (TRA ART/Porto Franco) www.cultura.toscana.it together with a network of 8 Municipaliries. A catalogue (edited by Paola Bortolotti, Marco Brizzi, Paola Giaconia) and a conference will complete the exhibition, which will then travel to a series of Italian Culture Institutes around the world.
The project, curated by Paola Bortolotti and Marco Brizzi, and coordinated by Franco Filippini, involved 8 municipalities in Tuscany, 85 young architects selected from the best Italian schools of architecture, 7 young Italian architecture offices, and all those citizens and cultural associations deeply concerned with the quality of the country they live in. These young architects lived in the historical centers of these cities for a week: Capoliveri, Lastra a Signa, Peccioli, Poggio a Caiano, Prato, Rio nell'Elba, San Gimignano, San Giovanni Valdarno. There they understood the historical lesson of these places and created new possibilities with the contemporary culture of design. Their tutors were 5+1AA, Carlini & Valle, gruppo A12, IaN+, Id-lab, maO, Marco Navarra (NOWA).
In each municipality, a theme and a site were chosen. Both were investigated from the point of view of contemporary art and architecture while also taking into consideration the manifold local cultures. The overall objective was to describe new visions that would enhance these sites and establish connections between the past and the future. On display, therefore, are the extraordinary Chianti landscapes, the parks along the river Arno, the hills of the Sienese countryside, the island of Elba in the middle of the sea. All these places will be told through the voice of contemporary architecture.
The final presentation of the results of The Treasure Islands is scheduled for December 5th 2006 at 4 pm at the SESV gallery (Piazza Ghiberti 27, Florence, Italy). Representatived from all the institutions that promoted the project, the architects, the advisors, the 85 young designers will all be participating. At 6 pm the exhibit, designed by iDU www.i-du.org with Id-lab www.interactiondesign-lab.com.
iMage conceived and produced the event and is in charge of its communication and itinerary of the exhibit.
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