BANGKOK - What if there was no more paper in this world? Well, architects don’t mind because they can still continue to work on their design projects - even without paper - as seen in the “Architecture Without Paper 2010″ at the ASA Centre, Siam Discovery until March 26. The exhibition features 15 art pieces that combine architecture, landscape, art installation and composition. Parts of the current exhibition were also displayed in the Spanish Pavilion at Venice Biennale 2008. “Without Paper” is the result of the architects coping with the challenges of their times. In addition, the current exhibition also features architectural works from other cultures apart from the Spanish and Portuguese styles. Architecture is not just an art form. It links to ideas, designs, perception and the imagination of the people who live in it.
Seminars are being held today and on March 20, at 1pm. “Thai Architects Don’t Use Paper” will be showcased on March 20. Free admission.
“Marvels of Modernism” at The Andy Warhol Museum celebrates landscape architects’ “experimental and innovative” public and private spaces that, until recently, “have been misunderstood and under appreciated.”
What would it be like if buildings began to dream?
In DataDrum v2.0, Australian artist Sohan Ariel Hayes collaborates with Laetitia Wilson in the culmination of an Asialink visual arts residency at Objectifs – Centre for Photography and Filmmaking. Video is mapped onto miniature architectural models and participants drum electronic pads to interact with the work, triggering sound and image events.
A reflexive relation unfolds between player and artwork as the solid architectural façade is made permeable, revealing unexpected interpretations of geometry, dimension and place, expressed through graphics, sound and movement. The sounds are gathered from specific locations around Singapore and partnered with the moving images to morph the architectural façade, to imagine it dreaming, imagine its interior/other possible worlds.
Don’t miss this one night only show!
Free admission.
Who: Sohan Ariel Hayes, Objectifs Where: Post Museum, 107+109 Rowell Road, Singapore When: 02.10.2009 Fri 07.30pm till 02.10.2009
2009 marks a special year for the Singapore Design Festival with Singapore hosting the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) World Design Congress 2009, and INDEX: Award Exhibition 2009 as the first INDEX: Partner City. The Festival will also present the best of design in Singapore with the President’s Design Award 2009 Ceremony and Exhibition, Singapore Creative Circle Awards and more.
Singapore Design Festival 2009 is a meeting place for designers, design thought leaders and design clients of the world to establish “Design 2050″. It is inclusive in outlook, featuring prominent international and Singapore creative personalities and outstanding works at events including country presentations, conferences, exhibitions, workshops, open houses, product launches and award ceremonies. The 2009 Festival is expected to attract over 100,000 people participating in more than 100 activities island-wide.
Who: Sonny Liew, Koh Hong Teng Where: 19 Tanglin Road, #02-33 Tanglin Shopping Centre (S) 247909 When: 04.09.2009 Fri 11.00pm till 25.09.2009
Lucky Plazas’, a two?man show at Mulan Gallery, presents the works of noted comic illustrators and artists Sonny Liew and Koh Hong Teng, in a reflective mood, exploring aspects of their homeland, Singapore.
While offering narratives that grapple with Singaporean issues that are both subtle and deep, both artists also present engaging visuals that proliferate with minute observations. The paintings of these artists are not just complementary in style but also subject matter. While the views of the unseen parts of Singapore on politics and politicians in Sonny Liew’s works are delightful, with the clever humour of classic political cartoons.
Exhibition:Thinking About Architecture, Thinking About Architects. Ideograms by Leon van Schaik AO The Singapore Viewing: 12-26 September 2009, Mon-Fri, 1000hrs - 1700 hrs Place:WOHAGA, 29 HongKong Street, Singapore 059668
WOHA Gallery cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition of the Australian architect and critic, on Saturday, 12 September 2009 at 5:30PM.
To imagine that Leon van Schaik’s ideographs represent a thinking process would be to miss the point. They are not representational but rather they are the thinking. Thinking in action if you will, concretised in a drawing. To make this claim in our post-Socratic world is radical in that it suggests that the movement of the arm and hand are integral, it is to claim that the body thinks.
Leon van Schaik AO, LFRAIA, RIBA, PhD, is Professor of Architecture (Innovation Chair) at RMIT, from which base he has promoted local and international architectural culture through practice-based research. He is author of several books: Mastering Architecture, Design City Melbourne and Spatial Intelligence (Wiley). His next book, Procuring Innovative Architecture will be released by Routledge in 2010.
Please RSVP for the exhibition opening by Friday, 4 September 2009 to Serena Khor at 65-6423-4555 or . If you wish to bring groups of more than 5 to the exhibition, please arrange an appropriate date and time with the undersigned.
“The premise of this exhibition, whose title I borrowed from Cherian George’s book of essays entitled “The Air-Conditioned Nation” is to pose the question about how Singaporean artists view their country as it transitions into a fully developed nation at a time of unprecedented global economic upheaval.
A particular imperative I set myself was to select artworks that were already in existence or in the process of being made. None of the works were created specifically for this exhibition. And as with any meaningful survey of Singapore art, I started with three senior artists whose art has always questioned and challenged conventional wisdom, namely Tang Dawu, Amanda Heng and Jimmy Ong.
But since this is a contemporary survey, I made a conscious decision to mine the internet for more examples of artists and artworks that question and challenge. So in finding many of the younger artists in this survey, my research tool was Google and You Tube. It is also on You Tube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEQvM71BD64 that you can view and listen to a valedictorian speech by a fresh graduate filmmaker Loo Zihan where he reminds us that the role of the artist in society is, “to think, to question, and to challenge.” ”
Participating artists: Alan Oei, Alecia Neo, Amanda Heng, Cheo Chai-Hiang, Ghazi Alqudcy & Ezza Rahman, Jason Lim, Jason Wee, Jimmy Ong, Jing Quek, Junaidi Waee, Lynn Lu, Michael Lee, Safaruddin Abdul Hamid, Tang Da Wu and Tan Seow Wei.
Opening night performances by Amanda Heng and Lynn Lu.
The exhibition runs from 5 - 30 August 2009.continue >>>
In what seems to be 11 separate attempts to blur architecture’s polar realities of being and without, the second year students of the National University of Singapore’s studio FOUR will be putting on a show at the NIGHT + DAY Gallery, opening 8pm this Friday the 7th of August.
Location: No.139 Selegie road
Singapore 188309
For Queries call : +65 68845523 or contact Q at yk@nightandday.com
BDOnline.co.uk visits the Bartlett School of Architecture in London; famed for its proteges’ highly atmospheric and sometimes wildly intricate architectural representations, and finds a refreshing elaboration on what it is to be subjective:
With the luxury of time, persistence reveals some remarkable internal changes happening within the stronger units. View the incredible Boulléesque pencil-rendered sections of the City of London Monastery (Unit 12) or the small laser-burned line drawings, unfortunately unlabelled, (Unit 20). An alternative language haunts the Ballardian film-animation-motion graphics (Unit 15) that shock and depress with the inventiveness of their future fictions, while Tetsuro Nagata’s (Unit 14) memory machine, a 1:1 installation that detaches shadow and delays reflection, deftly upends assumptions of perception and sense of self.
Under the post-Cook committee-style leadership, certain units are quietly evolving fresh identities and sophisticated arguments. Outstanding in this respect is Unit 17, led by Niall McLaughlin and Yeoryia Manolopoulou whose 2008-09 brief, entitled The Recovery of the Real, questions the way subjectivity is used as a design tool at the Bartlett, describes the characteristics of a typical Bartlett project and then suggests how a truly public building allows for a multitude of subjectivities
SYDNEY.- Discover why Glenn Murcutt is Australia’s best-known and most influential international architect when the exhibition Glenn Murcutt: Architecture for Place opens 13 June at the Museum of Sydney.
Originally presented at the prestigious Gallery Ma in Tokyo, the exhibition has been brought to Sydney by the Architecture Foundation Australia.
In practice for nearly 40 years, Glenn Murcutt has designed more than 500 buildings. His groundbreaking designs are celebrated for their focus on the sustainability of the natural environment, harmony with nature and resonance with Australia’s diverse climate and topography.
Murcutt has received numerous national and international awards including architecture’s top prizes; the 2002 Pritzker prize — considered the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for architecture — and the 2009 American Institute of Architects Gold Medal.
On display for the first time in Australia, the exhibition Glenn Murcutt: Architecture for Place presents a selection of Murcutt’s works through his own drawings, through scale models of some of his houses and through photographs by Anthony Browell that capture the essence of Murcutt’s architecture — harmony between building and nature.
692 discarded oil cans make up the Jugaad pavilion in Delhi by artist and designerSanjeev Shankar. The pavilion is suspended in the air with pullies “like the ones you use to pull up buckets of water from the well”, says Shankar, and it brings some welcome shade for the inhabitants of the Rajokri district of the Indian capital.
“The original idea came from my travels in India to document the lives of the people,” says Shankar. “I found myself naturally drawn to the oil can, and I actually started stalking it and followed it to all kinds of places in the city.”
Jugaad is an Indian word that describes the process of making something with the resources you have to hand. It’s this process that Shankar applied to the oil cans used in this public art project, commissioned by the 48°C Public.Art.Ecology festival last autumn.
To complete the project, Shankar asked for the help of Rajokri locals…
An exhibition marking the May 12th Wenchuan earthquake has opened at the National Art Museum of China. Entitled “Crossing: Dialogues for Emergency Architecture” the exhibition showcases 16 ingenuous designs, aimed at raising awareness over the prevention and relief of natural disasters and epidemics.
Over twenty architects from around the world brought their designs to the National Art Museum of China for the opening on Tuesday afternoon, one year after the Wenchuan Earthquake in Sichuan Province last May.
For about 4 weeks at Sculpture Square, the Artists Caravan group had the opportunity to observe, interact and engage with the environment and public in Bugis.
Uraban Playground forms a culmination of these exploratory activities, and through their diverse work methodologies and approach to content specific to the area, they present their own perspectives of this urban landscape.
A collaborative journalistic exploration on the site around Art space, Sculpture Square
This blog is a collaborative art work of 3 artists, Joey Soh, Michelle Tan and Ong Xiao Yun.
Together, they will each contribute their individual perspective on the site around Art Space, Sculpture Square.
The 3 artists hope to understand and investigate more about the various interconnected elements that creates this interesting place in the city of Singapore.
This is held in conjunction with their residency undertaken in Sculpture Square in March 2009.
The artists also seek the audience to participate in the discussions initiated by the thoughts of the artists.
Part of the Artists Caravan edition II art project 2009 and residency program of Sculpture Square.
Where: AFC Studio, TradeHub 21, 18 Boon Lay Way, #07-143, Singapore 609966
When: Friday, 20th March 12.00pm till 18th March 2009
Reminiscing on Paper is an exhibition of selected charcoal drawings of architectural spaces on paper by Tang Ling Nah. Created during 2002 to 2008, they range from full-on drawings to preparatory studies of her large-scale site-specific works (dimensions from 40 x 60cm to 160 x 210cm).
Tang’s work seeks to reflect and address the conditions of the modern city, particularly its speed and the lack of interpersonal intimacy in urban life. She is inspired by the city’s transitory spaces such as the public housing’s void decks, alleys, shopping malls and Mass Rapid Transit stations. Her works are important documentation of changes of Singapore’s urban spaces.
Opening Reception: Thu, 19 Mar 2009; 6:30–9:30pm
