Instant City (IC) - Archigram Archival Project. Instant City forms part of a series of investigations into mobile facilities which are in conjunction with fixed establishments requiring expanded services over a limited period in order to satisfy an extreme but temporary problem.
[Instant City is] A research project based on the conflict between local, culturally isolated, centres and the well serviced facilities of the metropolitan regions. Investigating the effect and practicality of injecting the metropolitan dynamic into these centres by means of a mobile facility carrying the information – education – entertainment services of the city, extended through the establishment of this together with the national telecommunication network.
The initial study for this project is to be published in May. Grant approval for the main stage is under negotiation at this time. This project is carried out in co-operation with the Architectural Association. Archigram The Notion A Background to Archigram Work A Programme Background. Archizoom « CUPtopia. I 1 Vote Haus-Rucker-Co were a Viennese group founded in 1967. Flyhead (Environment Transformer) by Haus-Rucker-Co, Wien 1968. Lesson / Koan : Stay in character. The work of Haus-Rucker-Co explored the performative potential of architecture through installations and happenings using pneumatic structures or prosthetic devices that altered perceptions of space. Oase No. 7 (1972), in Kassel, Germany by Haus-Rucker-Co. Last week at Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering ( Columbia University – GSAPP ) there was not a single mention of Haus-Rucker-Co. Haus-Rucker-Co were exploring on the one hand, the potential of architecture as a form of critique, and on the other the possibility of creating designs for technically mediated experimental environments and utopian cities.
If the participants of Permanent Change: Plastics in Architecture and Engineering had ever worn the ‘ Fly Head ‘ they may have seen the below project by Haus-Rucker-Co. Zenghelis notes. Last Friday night, Elia Zenghelis gave a lecture at EPFL's Laboratoire Bâle (laba), a studio focuses on urban and complex architectural design led by Harry Gugger.
Titled "Athens: Labor, City, Architecture. Towards a common architectural language," the lecture was primarily about a studio Zenghelis taught at the Berlage Institute in the last academic year. It was very proper old school and intellectual - no sexy renderings or bold manifestos. But it was actually quite refreshing to see a knowledgeable scholar's approach to urbanism. Zenghelis started off by reviewing several keywords/themes of the studio:Formal. Generic. Now I realized all the emphasis on history and politics was trying to understand the issues. ANTIVITRUV & SUPERBRUNELLESCHI. Superstudio, Cristiano Toraldo di Francia, Gian Piero Frassinelli, Alessandro Magris, Roberto Magris, and Adolfo Natalini.
ENDS OF THE EARTH: LAND ART TO 1974. Developed by MOCA for Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, this interactive feature maps key artworks included in the exhibition, pinpointing their original locations to demonstrate the global nature of Land art and its relationship to real places and times.
Click on an artist’s name to begin. Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974 is the first large-scale, historical-thematic exhibition to deal broadly with Land art, capturing the simultaneous impulse emergent in the 1960s to use the earth as an artistic medium and to locate works in remote sites far from familiar art contexts. Organized by MOCA Senior Curator Philipp Kaiser and co-curator Miwon Kwon, Professor of Art History at UCLA, the exhibition highlights the early years of untested artistic experimentations and concludes in the mid-1970s before Land art becomes a fully institutionalized category. Major support is provided by Barbara Kruger and L&M Arts, LA. The exhibition is also made possible by Kathi and Gary Cypres. John Körmeling. DAMNation, a contemporary culture republic - Agendas.
13 April 2014 Exhibition, South London Gallery, Peckham Road, London, until 1st of June.
The South London Gallery presents a restaging of the group exhibition, Welcome to Iraq, originally shown as part of the National Pavilion of Iraq in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. Works in a variety of media by eleven contemporary artists, most of whom live and work in Iraq, were selected to highlight the breadth of artistic practice in Iraq and a creativity borne out of necessity in extraordinary historical circumstances. Jamal Penjweny, Saddam is Here, courtesy the artist and RUYA Foundation theiraqpavilion.com/ 12 April 2014 by Upcoming exhibition, Third Floor galleries, New Museum, New York, April 30–June 29.
Through an array of unconventional media, Roberto Cuoghi’s projects explore ideas of metamorphosis, hybridity, and violence. Roberto Cuoghi, Šuillakku – corral version, 2008–14. Newmuseum.org more > 11 April 2014 by Upcoming: Luxembourg Biennial 'Into the Process', from 23rd April to 15th June. Modern Architecture in Dresden.