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RICHARD MEIER -RECENT WORKS-
AUDITORIUM G.MONZANI MARCH 2004

 

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“RICHARD MEIER” – RECENT WORKS AUDITORIUM G. MONZANI, MODENA 6-28 MARCH 2004

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GranitiFiandre S.p.A., in collaboration with the Bank “Banca Popolare dell’Emilia Romagna”, Poltrona Frau, Grottini, Technokolla, Martini Luce, Fantoni, Albini&Fontanot, Comune di Modena, D.A.P.T. and Alma Mater Studiorum Bologna, is pleased to present an event linked to the Recent Works by Richard Meier. Over 30 years of activity, a huge number of buildings to his name, works undergoing completion and projects that from an initial residential theme have progressively expanded onto an increasingly more urban scale of complex systems: from the United States, to Europe and beyond.

This, in brief, is a summary of Architect Richard Meier’s background, tenaciously followed up on a level of cultivated research and steady extension of the values of tradition. That modernist style, brought to realisation within a creative sequence including technique in the intrinsic values of the exploratory tactics of project systems and manipulation of the perceptive and functional system of spaces, on whatever scale. The implementation of this method, stressed through the sharpening of a by now tried and tested system with parameters that were obvious from the very start, has enabled the architect to outline operational sectors, moving thresholds for closely interlinked experiments that bit further ahead each time.

These experiments will be on show from 6th March 2004 at the auditorium “G. Monzani” in Modena, in via Aristotele n° 33. The Auditorium will in fact host a “well thought out” selection from a professional history leading to the latest creations, which will be presented by the designer himself at the inauguration. The Exhibition and catalogue published by Skira have been organised by the Architect Silvio Cassarà, a long-time careful observer of overseas design phenomenology.
Once again GranitiFiandre S.p.A., in collaboration with the most important representatives of international design and together with a chosen circle of partners, is supporting a culture of cutting edge architecture.

REM KOOLHAAS INTERVIEW

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Rem Koolhaas founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. Having worked as a journalist and script writer before becoming an architect, Koolhaas graduated from the Architectural Association in London and in 1978 published Delirious New York, a Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. In 1995, his book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections between contemporary society and architecture. At this moment Rem Koolhaas is heading the work of OMA as well as AMO - the conceptual branch of OMA, a think tank focused on social, economic, and technological issues.Rem Koolhaas is a professor at Harvard University where he conducts the Project on the City, a research program investigating changing urban conditions around the world. The projects include a study on China’s Pearl River Delta (published as Great Leap Forward), an analysis of the role of retail and consumption in the contemporary society (The Harvard Guide to Shopping), and studies on Rome, Lagos, Moscow and Beijing.

The work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA has been celebrated as well by several international awards, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2000) and the RIBA Gold Medal (2004). In 2005 Rem Koolhaas received the Mies van der Rohe Award for the Netherlands Embassy, Berlin. This award is presented every two years by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe (Barcelona) to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe. The jury singled out OMA’s design of the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin for the extraordinary relationship established with its surroundings. In making their decision to award the Netherlands Embassy, the jury commended the "quality of the urban reflection and intelligence of the concept implemented, especially as regards the unprecedented concept of 'trajectory' and the new potential it brings to this project of great complexity".

Frank O. Gehry, Frank O. Gehry Associates: "Current and Recent Work"

 
March 6, 2002 - Stafford Little Lectures
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ZAHA HADID SPEAKS!

Listen to the speech of Zaha Hadid taken from the opening ceremony of the Science Center Phaeno. The Phaeno building, created and realized by Zaha Hadid Architects, London and Mayer Baehrle Architects, is already a milestone in the history of architecture. VernissageTV shows pictures of the Phaeno Science Center and the installations of Joe Ansel during the opening ceremony. Impressions from the opening reception, November 24, 2005.

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Exclusive Andrés Duany Interview: Architect & Urbanist,Co-founder of New Urbanism Movement

It has been 25 years since Andres Duany and his colleagues brought the concept of new urbanism into the American community, with Seaside, Fla. But the architect is far from resting on his laurels. Partner at his firm Duany-Plater-Zyberk in Miami and founder of the Congress for a New Urbanism, he's working with communities and cities across the country to deal with these intriguing issues: How do you fit 50 million new households into America in the next 20 years while wrestling with density issues, NIMBY, environmentalism and the rest? CLICK HERE TO LISTEN (MP3 FORMAT)

PETER CALTHORPE INTERVIEW WITH SCOTT LONDON - THE CITY OF TOMORROW

Over the past 30 years, Peter Calthorpe has become one of the design community's influential innovators.  His work has centered upon an environmental approach; projects he has completed in the past concentrated on new solutions for energy efficiency and passive solar design.  He has written several books, including, Sustainable Communities, The Next American Metropolis: Ecology, Community, and the American Dream, and his most recent, The Regional City, and has taught architecture and planning courses at several prominent universities in the United States.  He founded Calthorpe and Associates in 1983 to bring his theories to work in the real world under his own control.  Calthorpe is also the founder of the Congress for New Urbanism, an organization that promotes neo-traditional design and planning techniques and theories. INTERVIEW

PLUS: Scott London talks with innovative architects and urban planners (including Peter Calthorpe) shaping "a new metropolitan vision." (RealAudio)

Steve Holl Discusses Architecture

Steven Holl is an American academic architect best known for the 1998 Kiasma Contemporary Art Museum in Helsinki, Finland and the controversial 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. In June 2007 the much celebrated Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri opened to the public. The success of steven holl's architecture derives from his sculptural shapes, his interest in the poetics of space color, and material, as well as his fascination with scientific phenomena. his work refers to urban history and the potentials of modern science. In a Columbia University Lecture, Steven Holl, noted architect and professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, discusses architecture as a catalyst for improving urban development and its potential to create positive change, as illustrated by his current projects.

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Steven Holl Discusses Architecture as Catalyst for Improving Urban Development

In a Nov. 1, 2005 University Lecture, Steven Holl, noted architect and professor at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, discusses architecture as a catalyst for improving urban development and its potential to create positive change, as illustrated by his current projects. 
 
Alan Brinkley, Introduction by Provost Alan Brinkley

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Steven Holl, Impact on Surrounding Streets, Neighborhoods, Cities Are 'Urbanistic' Aspects of Holl's Architecture

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CHARLIE ROSE ARCHITECTURE SERIES WITH WORLD LEADING ARCHITECTS - EXCLUSIVE HERE!

RICHARD MEIER

REM KOOLHAAS + REM KOOLHAAS

FRANK GEHRY

FEINSTEIN/TSCHUMI/ALTSHCUL

SANTIAGO CALATRAVA

RENZO PIANO + FRANK GEHRY

REBUILDING GROUND ZERO

STEVEN HOLL

ZAHA HADID

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