El Museo de Arquitectura y Diseño (MAO) de Ljubljana, Slovenia, anuncia la convocatoria internacional para participar en la 23era. Bienal de Diseño -exhibición internacional y competencia de diseño- BIO. En esta oportunidad, las curadoras son Margriet Vollenberg y Margo Konings del estudio “Organisation in Design”. El tema seleccionado para la exhibición es “Relaciones de Diseño”.

Online entries for exhibitors: 6 February–30 March 2012
Established and emerging young designers, commissioners, manufacturers, tutors, students, design labels, creative collectives, cultural institutions and others are invited to apply for BIO 23 exhibition; the deadline for entries is 30 March 2012. On-line entries for exhibitors

The curators are authors of well-known design events Ventura Lambrate® at Salone del Mobile; Ventura Berlin 2011 at Qubique, and collaborators of designers, companies and organizations, such as Maarten Baas, Kiki van Eijk, Nodus, Hermes, Cappellini, Swarovski, Louis Vuitton, Design Miami, Art Museum Tokyo and Moooi. According the curators BIO 23 will show fresh new ideas and explore how design relates to the social, the sustainable, and the cultural, while displaying crossovers between culture and commerce, crafts and industry. They will select the works to be exhibited from the submissions they receive in response to the Call for Entries. Designers, commissioners, producers, students and design organisations, from anywhere in the world, have time until 30 March 2012 to submit products, concepts and projects, from any area of design, which have been created in the past two years.

BIO Design Awards and international jury
The works exhibited at the Biennial will be competing, for the 23rd time, for the BIO Design Awards. The awards given at BIO represent recognition of quality in design. A jury comprising design experts Giulio Cappellini, Sven Jonke, Sophie Lovell, Jimmy MacDonald and Vasa J. Perović will present awards to the best of the exhibited design works. The BIO Gold Medal, BIO Green Award, BIO Honourable mentions, and the Award for a Student Work will be presented at the opening ceremony of the Biennial on 27 September. The BIO awards are given in accordance with professional standards set by the organiser and the international design experts who constitute the jury. The award-winning works will be included in the International Design Collection of the Museum of Architecture and Design.

New Developments with BIO 23
Preparations are under way for a fresh and exciting Biennial. With the aim of further modernising and internationalising the event, the Museum of Architecture and Design has invited the well-known curators and design promoters Margo Konings and Margriet Vollenberg of the studio Organisation in Design to collaborate with it on this year’s Biennial. Thus, in its 48th year, the Biennial exhibition has received a thematic concept and title and has expanded its scope to include all areas of design.

With BIO 23, the name of the event has changed as well: the Biennial of Industrial Design has become the Biennial of Design. Today it is clear more than ever that it is impossible to set limits on design; the different fields of design are overlapping, while one of the strengths of design is its ability to make connections and supplement its work both within the profession and with fields outside of it. The notion that design is one of the most responsive disciplines to social and cultural change has also informed the new developments in the content and organisation of Ljubljana’s Biennial of Design.

More information > http://www.bio.si 

Fuente: BIO 23, Call for Entries

Después de un exitoso estreno en el London Design Festival 2011, la próxima presentación de la exposición ‘Silent Revolutions: Diseño Contemporáneo en Eslovenia’ será en Eindhoven, del 22 al 30 de octubre durante la Semana del Diseño Holandés 2011.

Silent Revolutions – Contemporary Design in Slovenia (Eindhoven)

Silent Revolutions – Contemporary Design in Slovenia (Eindhoven)

Silent Revolutions – Contemporary Design in Slovenia (Eindhoven)

After a successful premiere at London Design Festival 2011, the next presentation of the exhibition Silent Revolutions: Contemporary Design in Slovenia will be in Eindhoven, at Zona Ventosa from 22 to 30 October during Dutch Design Week 2011. The exhibition will be opened on Tuesday 25 October at 7 pm by the Ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia, His Excellency Leon Marc. The keynote speaker will be Hans Ibelings, editor of A10 new European architecture.

The Silent Revolutions exhibition, which brings together more than 25 selected works set in dialogue with historically iconic design objects, is the first extensive international presentation of Slovene product design of the last two decades. It was a success in London with around 9,200 visitors in four days and received a positive response from visitors and experts with several invitations for presentation and cooperation abroad. Slovenia’s rising contemporary design scene has attracted international interest; among other events when presented along with established names from the world design scene, with Nika Zupanc’s presentation at Superbrands London, and through Gigodesign’s participation in Blueprint Magazine’s discussion at 100% Design. The exhibition has also been selected for inclusion in the Icon Design Trail, the only independent guide to the LDF, which highlights only the most interesting, new, and must-see events and shows at the festival.

The Silent Revolutions comprises a selection of design that marks the first two decades of this young European country. Rather than showing a sweeping overall view the show focuses on outstanding individual cases. The selected design exhibits embody the passion and obsession of individual artists, the drive, innovative development and high-quality production, ranging from the filigree turn-tables by Franc Kuzma and the seductive Black Cherry Lamps by designer Nika Zupanc to Seaway’s Greenline 33 Hybrid, the world’s first large hybrid boat, and Trimo’s Qbiss One with ArtMe modular façade systems. The exhibition also presents certain key productions from the country’s largest actors in the industry, including Elan’s revolutionary series of WaveFlex skis designed in cooperation with Gigodesign studio, Alpina’s Racing Elite cross-country ski boots developed in cooperation with Jure Miklavc studio, and Gorenje’s Simplicity home appliance line by Gorenje Design Studio. The exhibition that illustrates important or even turning-point moments in the history of Slovene design, albeit in terms of a new design mentality or new development trends, is accompanied with an extensive publication that does not focus only on the products and individual designers and studios, but also on clients and producers who played an important role in the implementation of these projects.

By combining economics and culture, together with concerted cooperation with government institutions active in creative industries, this project aims to represent the best of Slovene production and companies and, in so doing, raising Slovenia’s profile through industrial design. The exhibition in London is just the first step toward better recognition of Slovenian companies that appear on foreign markets independently and with their own products, trademarks, and market strategies. After its premiere in London and now Dutch Design Week, the exhibition will be also on display in other important European centers, such as Milan and Helsinki.

More information > http://www.mao.si/Exhibition/Silent-Revolutions-Contemporary-Design-in-Slovenia-%28Eindhoven%29.aspx

Fuente: Silent Revolutions – Contemporary Design in Slovenia (Eindhoven)

The Museum of Architecture and Design presents the exhibition SILENT REVOLUTIONS, a selection of design that marks the first two decades of this young European country. Rather than showing a sweeping overall view the show focuses on outstanding individual cases.

Silent Revolutions – Contemporary Design in Slovenia, Exhibition at LDF 2011

Silent Revolutions – Contemporary Design in Slovenia, Exhibition at LDF 2011

Silent Revolutions – Contemporary Design in Slovenia, Exhibition at LDF 2011

The selected design exhibits embody the passion and obsession of individual artists, the drive, innovative development and high-quality production, ranging from the filigree turn-tables by Franc Kuzma and the seductive Black Cherry Lamps by designer Nika Zupanc to Seaway’s Greenline 33 Hybrid, the world’s first large hybrid boat, and Trimo’s Qbiss One with ArtMe modular façade systems. The exhibition also presents certain key productions from the country’s largest actors in the industry, including Elan’s revolutionary series of WaveFlex skis designed in cooperation with Gigodesign studio, Alpina’s Racing Elite cross-country ski boots developed in cooperation with Jure Miklavc studio, and Gorenje’s Simplicity home appliance line by Gorenje Design Studio. The exhibition that illustrates important or even turning-point moments in the history of Slovene design, albeit in terms of a new design mentality or new development trends, is accompanied with an extensive publication that does not focus only on the products and individual designers and studios, but also on clients and producers who played an important role in the implementation of these projects. This exhibition that brings together more than 25 selected works is the first extensive international presentation of Slovene product design of the last two decades. By intertwining economy and culture, together with concerted cooperation with government institutions active in the field of creative industries, the project is aimed at representing the best of Slovene production and companies and in so doing, making Slovenia more widely recognised through industrial design.

List of Designers and Companies (Product, designer, producer)
Exhaust systems, design: Igor Akrapovič, Akrapovič / Alpina Racing Cross-country ski boots, design: Jure Miklavc and team, Alpina / Bags and Jewellery, design: Lara Bohinc, Lara Bohinc / WaveFlex skis, design: Gigodesign and Elan Research Department, Elan / Flow water set, design: Tanja Pak, Glesia / Simplicity household appliances, design: Gorenje Design Studio, Gorenje / Gwig lighting fixture, design: Asobi, Intra lighting / Wall-mounted coatrack, design: Toni Kancilja / Stabi S Turntable, design: Franc Kuzma, Kuzma / Black Cherry Lamp, design: Nika Zupanc, La Femme et la Maison Nika Zupanc / Criatura, design: Leonora Jakovljević, Leonora Mark – ave femina / Holey Roket Stove, design: Rok Oblak, co-author Larry Winiarski / Squareplay play space, design: Oloop / Sitty foldable seat, design: Gigodesign, Petrič / Taurus Electro G2 glider, design: Ivo Boscarol and team, Pipistrel / Motor yacht Greenline 33 Hybrid, design: Jernej and Japec Jakopin, Seaway / Chairs, design: Katjuša Kranjc and Rok Kuhar, Stol & stol / Lajt chair, design: Janez Suhadolc / Efekt shovel, design: Rinz, Pavlinec in Pavlinec, Tehnos / Qbiss by Trimo and Artme, design: Trimo, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Gorenje Design Studio, Trimo / Slim lamp, design: Bevk Perović arhitekti, Vertigo Bird / Siti armchair, design: Arne Vehovar, Zilio Aldo & C. sas.

The Museum of Architecture and Design is a partner of London Design Festival.

Dates and Opening Hours
22, 23, 24, 25 September 2011
10am–8pm, Thurs–Sat
11am–6pm, Sun

Location
- Tent London @ Dray Walk Gallery
- Old Truman Brewery
- Brick Lane
- E1 6QL London, UK

Organization: Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia, www.mao.si

Curator: Maja Vardjan

Coordinators
- Ministry of Culture Republic of Slovenia
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs Republic of Slovenia
- Ministry of the Economy Republic of Slovenia
- Public Agency of the republic of Slovenia for Entrepreneurship
- Government Communication Office

Additional information and photos
Museum of Architecture and Design, mao@mao.si, P: 00386 1 5484 270
Anja Zorko: anja.zorko@mao.si; P: +386 1 5484 273, M: +386 41 606 436
Pika Leban: pika.leban@mao.si; P: +86 1 5484 274

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About London Design Festival
The London Design Festival is a city-wide celebration of design that takes place over nine days. This year’s Festival takes place 17–25 September 2011. Now in its ninth year, the London Design Festival will be the largest and most significant yet, with an expected 180 partners and more than 250 events celebrating the world’s creative capital.

About the Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO)
Museum of Architecture and Design will be presented at the London Design Festival for the first time. The Museum of Architecture and Design is a national Slovene organization for the architecture, industrial design, visual communication and photography. MAO systematically collects, stores and studies materials related to these fields of activity and displays them in temporary and permanent exhibitions, making it possible for visitors to understand the past and the future of architecture, design and photography. It offers visitors a diverse experience with modern, attractive exhibitions, presentations and programmes with content for people from different backgrounds and all ages. Through various educational events museum is establishing itself as an innovative space for creating, gathering, exchange and learning.

Fuente: Silent Revolutions – Contemporary Design in Slovenia, Exhibition at LDF 2011

Productos con diseño de vanguardia y proyectos arquitectónicos y urbanísticos sustentables se exhibirán en el Green Good Design que abrirá del 6 de abril al 19 de junio de 2011 en el Contemporary Space Athens, Grecia.

Contemporary Space Athens is located at 46-48 Megalou Vassiliou, Rouf/Athens, Greece. An Opening Reception is scheduled for Wednesday, April 6 from 8:00-10:00 PM. “Green GOOD DESIGN™” is curated by the Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine, Finnish/American architecture critic and Director of The Chicago Athenaeum. Organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, “Green Good Design” features over 150 awarded industrial and product designs, architecture, landscape architecture, and urban planning projects in the historic awards program from 2010. Founded in Chicago in 1950 by architects Eero Saarinen and Charles and Ray Eames, Good Design is the world’s oldest and most significant global program that awards the best of the best design in terms of visionary products and environments.

Green Good Design Awards 2010
Every year, thousands of leading industrial and graphic design firms, manufacturers, and leading FORTUNE 500 companies vie for this prestigious award worldwide. The familiar Good Design logo, a circle inside a square, designed by Chicago graphic designer, Mort Goldsholl in 1950, is one of the world’s most visible and highly recognized public branding marks. In 2008, The Chicago Athenaeum and The European Centre added a “Green” edition to this historic Awards Program as a way to emphasize and promote the best new products and environments that are leading today’s “Green Revolution” in order to make a public education statement about the importance of sustainability for consumer product design and our global architecture. The aim of Green GOOD DESIGN is to bring a public appreciation and awareness of a new design paradigm led by a current generation of visionary architects, designers, urban planners, corporations, governments, individuals, and private and public institutions. Designs are based upon the ideals of energy conservation; the reduction of toxic waste and greenhouse gases; the diminishing dependence on fossil fuels; and a sensitivity for waste, pollution, and the depletion of the world’s energy resources. For 2010, the Green GOOD DESIGN Awards recognized cities, governments, organizations, research, programs, and people who are blazing a new path toward a sustainable environment together with new products, buildings and landscape and urban planning projects. The 2010 awarded product designs and architecture are the “best of the best” in new Green thinking from the world’s leading FORTUNE 500 manufacturing firms and most prestigious design offices from over 31 nations. Green Architecture and Green consumer products from the following countries are included in the exhibition: Argentina, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Indonesia, Israel, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Saudia Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, Vietnam, and the United States. A total list can be seen in the European Centre’s website at www.europeanarch.eu.

At the top of the list, both institutions honored The City of Madrid as one of the “Greenest” cities on our planet. Madrid is full of abundant huge green parks, magnificent tree-lined boulevards, flowers, emblematic green-scapes, vertical gardens, a boating lake, and an enormous sprawling parkland making the Capital of Spain one of the world’s leading examples of urban beautification and a Green Renaissance in our 21st Century. Other 2010 Awards were also bestowed to foundations, new research/technology, and people including the University of Houston, The German Prof. Peter Latz of Latz + Partners GbR., Kranzberg, Germany was cited for this efforts environmental contributions for sustainability and Green Architecture. Also featured in the exhibition are leading new consumer and building products geared for the mass market audience from some of the world’s most renowned names in manufacturing: Allsteel Inc., Armstrong World Industries, Inc., Artemide SpA., Autodesk Inc., Belux AG., Bodum AG., BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausergäte GmbH., Electrolux Major Appliances, Dell, Inc., Grohe AG., Hansgrohe AG., Haworth, Inc., Herman Miller, Inc., Indesit Company, Johnson Controls Inc..Keramik Laufen AG., Mannington Commercial, Moen Incorporated, Pano Logic, Inc., Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications Design, Steelcase, Inc., Sustainable Solutions International (SSi), UPM-Kymmene Ojy., Valcucine SpA., Velux A/S, and VKR Holding A/S. The latest innovations for the Green automotive industry were also awarded in 2010 to and are featured in the exhibition by BMW AG, Critical Move, Daimler AG., and Mercedes-Benz. Other leading the awarded Green Products are new designs for furniture, lighting, washing machines, refrigerators, ovens and cooktops, dishwashers, floorcovering, and packaging design that forward the principals of regeneration, energy efficiency, ecological consequence, deforestation , and renewable energy while providing the latest and most innovative design. These Green consumer designs are the visionary work by some of the foremost industrial design firms worldwide: Almadesign, BMW DesignworksUSA., Daimler AG Werksdesign, fuseproject, Marken Design Bosch, Matteo Thun & Partners, No Picnic Packaging & Design AB., Phoenix Design, Ross Lovegrove, Strømme Throndsen Design, Studio AMDL, srl., Whipsaw Inc., whiteout & glare GmbH., and X-Technology Swiss R&D AG. Numerous architecture, urban planning, and landscape architecture firms were also awarded in 2010 for improving the environment, sustainability, and building energy efficiency—one of the most cost-effective ways to decrease greenhouse gas emissions.

• “We initiated this special Green Edition of the annual Good Design program to emphasize the most profound and enlightening developments in this new world era of design for sustainability,” states Kieran Conlon, Director/COO, The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies from his office in Dublin, Ireland.

• “Good Design” is not about color, style, impression, or trends but instead about thoughtfully considering the use and user of the product or building, the experience, the social and environmental context, and the impact a building or object has on the surrounding environment,” states Christian K. Narkiewicz-Laine.

• “Green Design is Good Design,” he adds. “No design can be considered good design unless it attempts to address all these concerns. We believe in the original modernist ideology of the original GOOD DESIGN program as forwarded by Saarinen and Eames in 1950 that form and function are intertwined in design. Style and substance are not mutually exclusive. Buildings and products are environmental.”

Deadline for submissions for the 2012 Green GOOD DESIGN Awards is September 1, 2011.
Applications for 2012 and more information is available on line at The European Centre’s website > www.europeanarch.eu | lary@chicagoathenaeum.org

Fuente: Green Good Design Competition

A co-production Studio Tommaseo and Trieste Contemporanea Sponsored by the Regione Autonoma Friuli Venezia Giulia opening Saturday 19th of February, 6 pm

Gianpietro Carlesso exhibition “Curvatures”, in Trieste

A series of in-depth encounters and a catalogue-project with the contribution of scholars of various disciplines will accompany the exhibition, which will be open until the 9th of April.

Event
Gianpietro Carlesso “Curvatures”
Trieste, Studio Tommaseo
19th of February – 9th of April 2011

Fuente: Gianpietro Carlesso exhibition “Curvatures”, in Trieste

Japanese designers Nendo present new work at Art Stage gallery in Singapore this month. (more…)

Fuente: Dancing Squares by Nendo

London designer Simon Heijdens has applied a special film to windows at the Art Institute Chicago that creates constantly-changing shadows in response to weather conditions outside. (more…)

Fuente: Shade by Simon Heijdens

Dutch designer Hella Jongerius presents 300 porcelain vases coloured with layers of mineral and chemical glazes at the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam. (more…)

Fuente: 300 Coloured Vases by Hella Jongerius at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

Concertinaed paper-like ribbons swoop through an exhibition about performance art and movement designed by London firm Amanda Levete Architects at the Hayward Gallery in London. (more…)

Fuente: Move: Choreographing You exhibition design by Amanda Levete Architects

Johannsen Gallery in Berlin present an exhibition of wallpapers by Milanese collective Carnovsky that change under different lighting conditions. (more…)

Fuente: RGB by Carnovsky

Tokyo 2010: designer Emmanuelle Moureaux presented eda, a prototype lightweight, modular product that combines to  create cloud-like forms, at DesignTide Tokyo 2010 earlier this month. (more…)

Fuente: eda by Emmanuelle Moureaux

French photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us these images of an installation by Belgian architects Joris De Schepper and Thomas De Ridder at S.M.A.K – Museum of Modern Art in Ghent, designed to give visitors an idea of the museum’s work behind-the-scenes. (more…)

Fuente: Inside Installations by Joris De Schepper and Thomas De Ridder

Dutch Design Week 2010: design studio Moon/En/Co curated a pop-up exhibition restaurant for the fifth consecutive year during Dutch Design Week last month,  featuring pieces by designers including Kiki van Eijk and Maarten Baas. (more…)

Fuente: Eat Drink Design at Dutch Design Week

An exhibition of furniture by American designer Jonah Takagi will be on show at Civilian Art Projects gallery in Washington  next month. (more…)

Fuente: Jonah Takagi: New American Designer at Civilian Art Projects

New York design office Leong Leong has completed a temporary, foam-covered concept store for menswear designer Siki Im in New York. (more…)

Fuente: Siki Im concept store by Leong Leong

Tokyo 2010: the LLOVE exhbition currently on show in Tokyo comprises a hotel with rooms created by Dutch and Japanese designers, including this one by Pieke Bergmans filled with an enormous undulating mattress. (more…)

Fuente: LLOVE Exhibition

Fashion designer Hussein Chalayan presents work including these moulds used to make his Inertia series of dresses (see our earlier story) at Spring Projects in London. (more…)

Fuente: B-side by Hussein Chalayan at Spring Projects

Haz a los demás lo te gustaría que te hicieran a ti. Nuevas realidades para cambiar los estilos de vida.
Nos enfrentamos a un futuro en muchos casos, lleno de incertidumbres; al mismo tiempo, sin embargo, somos conscientes de los muchos problemas que tenemos por delante: la lista es larga, pero sólo por mencionar algunos, tenemos que hacer frente a la integración, la seguridad personal, la seguridad alimentaria, la seguridad energética y las fuentes, la economía, la seguridad de los desechos, la seguridad de los recursos, la degradación del barrio, etc… Para luchar contra nuestros miedos tenemos que encontrar la manera de proceder con una planificación sensible, creativa e interesante que pueda producir ideas, propuestas y respuestas capaces de garantizar una mejora de la calidad de vida, para nosotros, para nuestros hijos y la gente que nos rodea. Es una idea de la felicidad que construimos al arremangarnos, y que es generada por diferentes personas que comparten la intención de vivir juntos para crear nuevas comunidades. Esta idea se traduce en cuatro nuevos lugares, cada uno de ellos narrado a través de cuatro modelos hiperrealistas imágenes y dibujos.

The 4 projects

New communities, new polarities.
How a small center becomes a large center.

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

New communities, new polarities

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

New communities, new polarities

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

New communities, new polarities

A campus in the fields.
Venice agri-techno valley.

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

A campus in the fields

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

A campus in the fields

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

A campus in the fields

Superbazar.
A place to live, meet, buy, sell, swap.

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

Superbazar

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

Superbazar

Rural urbanism.
The city enters the countryside, the countryside enters the city.

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

Rural Urbanism

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

Rural Urbanism

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

Rural Urbanism

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

Rural Urbanism

Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

Fuente: Rethinking Happiness, Biennale di Venezia

Seis equipos resultaron finalistas de la convocatoria ‘V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen’. Los diseñadores fueron invitados a presentar propuestas para un edificio que refleje el deseo de colaboración de V&A con la ciudad de Dundee, con el objetivo de estimular su comercio y su interés, tanto para su comunidad local como para los visitantes de Escocia y de todo el mundo. Los estudios seleccionados son: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Kengo Kuma & Associates, REX, Snøhetta, Steven Holl Architects and Sutherland Hussey Architects.

The ‘V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen’ exhibition features work from the six shortlisted teams of world-class architects and designers who have put forward outstanding ideas for a landmark building that will house the V&A at Dundee and dominate Dundee’s waterfront. The six shortlisted companies who feature in the exhibition are: Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, Kengo Kuma & Associates, REX, Snøhetta, Steven Holl Architects and Sutherland Hussey Architects.

Designers were invited to make proposals for a building that reflects the V&A at Dundee project partnership’s desire to stimulate commerce as well as local and visitor interest.
The V&A at Dundee will:
● be a rich and inspiring resource for design and creativity.
● attract visitors from Dundee, Scotland and further afield to world-class travelling and permanent exhibitions.
● improve the attractiveness of Dundee and its region to business.

The shortlisted teams:

Delugan Meissl Associated Architects were formed 15 years ago and are based in Vienna. Their first major buildings were two large-scale housing projects in Vienna: the “Beam”, built in 1998 and the “Mischek Tower”, which was completed two years later. More recent projects include the Global Headquarter Sandoz of the Novartis Company (2003), “Ray1”, the often published house on a rooftop near Vienna’s city centre, the “City Lofts” and the “High Rise” in the Wienerberg district.
Besides multiple successes in international competitions, Delugan Meissl’s contribution for the first Architecture Biennal in China attracted international attention. The completion of the new Porsche Museum, the forthcoming building of the Filmmuseum in Amsterdam and an ex-aequo first-prize selection for the “Darat King Abdullah II Cultural Center” of Amman, Jordan (2008) are evidence of the firm’s further steps into international work.
Delugan Meissl is based on an open structure which encourages interaction and interdisciplinary exchange which are in their view crucial parameters for each professional challenge they face. They believe that interaction between disciplines such as natural sciences, arts and music leads to the most creative new results and to surprising coherences. Their structure resembles a wide spread network rather than a hierarchic organization, in which each member contributes by sharing their ideas and using their specific talents and abilities. According to this general approach, their office cooperates with individually formed groups of renowned partners and specialists for the realisation of international projects.

The design team led by Delugan Meissl includes Wenzel+Wenzel (Germany), Werner Sobek (Germany) and Büro Kiefer (Germany).

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

Kengo Kuma & Associates is a middle-size architectural practice founded in 1990 in Japan with their European offices based in Paris. They are involved in a wide range of design scales from furniture and product design to architecture and urban scale planning.
Kengo Kuma is a Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture at the University of Tokyo and has won many awards including the prestigious Architectural Institute of Japan Award in 1997. His stated goal is to recover the design of traditional buildings and to reinterpret it for the 21st century utilising the inspiration of light and nature to help achieve this.
The essence of their approach is the use of natural materials in order to create airy, open spaces filled with sunlight. They believe that their architecture must be flexible and open; structures must harmonize with and be “friendly” towards the human body. Everything must be light and gentle; from the planning of the structure and the ventilation system to the designing of the way light filters through the building. These principles are the complete opposite of what a concrete building normally stands for. Only by taking this path do they believe architecture finally blends into and becomes one with nature.
Two recent examples of this approach are; the 12,000sqm Art Museum for the City of Nagasaki in Japan completed by Kuma in 2005, and their designs for the Contemporary Arts Centre in Marseille, France, which is currently under construction.

Kengo Kuma’s team for the V&A project includes cre8architecture (Scotland), ARUP (UK), Optimi sed Environments Ltd (Scotland) and CBA (Scotland).

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

REX is an internationally-acclaimed architecture and design firm based in New York City, USA. Their recently completed work includes the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre for the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas, Texas, and the Istanbul headquarters for Vakko and Power Media (Turkey’s preeminent fashion and media companies).
Other cultural projects in progress include Museum Plaza, a 62-story mixed-use skyscraper housing a contemporary art center in Louisville, Kentucky, and the new Central Library and Music Conservatory for the city of Kortrijk, Belgium. REX is designing a large residential development in Songdo Landmark City, South Korea.
Notably, within the past year REX received second prize in two international competitions; one for the new Edvard Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, and the other for the Finnish Innovation Fund’s Low2No sustainable development in Helsinki, Finland.
REX actively works at all scales of design, from the urban masterplan for Governors Island, an invitation-only design competition of 172 acres in New York City, USA, down to the tiny (Doll)House for Calvin Klein’s flagship store in New York City, USA.
REX was originally founded in 2000 by partners Joshua Prince-Ramus and Rem Koolhaas as OMA New York, an American affiliate of the Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). In 2006, OMA New York severed its strategic alliance with OMA and Prince-Ramus renamed the firm REX. While serving as OMA New York’s Principal, Prince-Ramus was Principal in Charge of the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum, the Guggenheim Las Vegas Museum and the Seattle Central Library, hailed as Time magazine’s 2004 Building of the Year and by the New York Times architecture critic Herbert Muschamp as “the most exciting new building it has been my honor to review in more than 30 years of writing about architecture.” In 2005, the Seattle Central Library was awarded the top honours bestowed by the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), and the American Library Association (ALA). It also was the first LEED-Silver rated building of its type in the United States.

The REX design team for the V&A project also includes Magnusson Klemencic Associates (USA), DCI (USA), Buro Happold (UK), Bureau Bas Smets (Belgium), Lord Cultural Resources (USA) and Urban Splash Group (UK).

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

Snøhetta is an integrated architecture practice established in 1989 upon winning the international design competition for the Alexandria Library in Egypt. Since its completion in 2001, this historic building has received many awards and prizes, including the highly valued Aga Khan award in 2004. The company currently has around 120 people, based in Oslo with a smaller branch office in New York and soon to be represented in the Middle East.
The practice has a long track record of delivering world class arts and cultural buildings across the world. Their concern for cultural buildings has sustained the practice throughout its life and is reflected in their current portfolio that includes the 1,600 seat Norwegian National Opera in Oslo, the World Trade Centre Museum in New York, and the Cultural House in Sandvika, Oslo.
Snøhetta’s long-standing experience in the international marketplace has been characterized by several unique characteristics. Its emphasis upon larger projects, especially larger international public projects such as theatres and museums has given it the capacity to create unique architectural designs using the most contemporary methods of planning. Snøhetta is equipped to undertake a holistic design process due to its rich mix of architecture, landscape and interior disciplines.

The Snøhetta multidisciplinary team for the V&A project includes Gareth Hoskins Architects (UK), Lord Cultural Resources (Canada), Davis Langdon (Scotland), Adams Kara Taylor (UK) and th e BDSP Partnership (UK).

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

Steven Holl Architects is a US-based, internationally recognised, design oriented firm with locations in New York and Beijing. Steven Holl founded the firm in 1976, and it now has a total staff of 50. The firm has been recognized with numerous awards, publications, and exhibitions for quality and excellence in design, including ten AIA (American Institute of Architects) National Honor Awards, 27 AIA regional awards, the 1998 Alvar Aalto Award, the 2001 Grande Medailles D’Or from the French Academie D’Architecture and the 2009 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
Named by Time Magazine as America’s Best Architect, Steven Holl has a unique design sensibility for “buildings that satisfy the spirit as well as the eye.” SHA specializes in works for the arts and higher education such as the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art (Helsinki, Finland); the University of Iowa’s School of Art & Art History; Seattle University’s Chapel of St. Ignatius; and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO), which The New Yorker calls “one of the best museums of the last generation.” Recently, SHA completed the Linked Hybrid (Beijing, China); the Herning Center for the Arts (Herning, Denmark); and the Knut Hamsun Center (Hamarøy, Norway). The firm’s current work includes a new building at the Glasgow School of Art (with jmarchitects), the Arts Building West at the University of Iowa, and the Center for Creative and Performing Arts at Princeton University.

The design team led by Steven Holl includes jmarchitects (Scotland), Guy Nordenson & Associates (USA), ARUP (Scotland), Thomas & Adamson (Scotland), Michael van Valkenburgh Associates (USA) and Transsolar Energietechnik (Germany).

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

Sutherland Hussey Architects was established in 1997 and is based in Edinburgh. The office has a diverse range of work ranging from large urban planning proposals and public and private commissions to small one-off commissions for private clients. Their portfolio of projects has come about through thirteen years of building up a reputation for high quality design. Although they have yet to receive significant commissions in Scotland, their skills and commitment are bearing fruit abroad and they now have a wide portfolio of work ranging from Master-planning to the design of Embassies, Hotels, Museums, Factories, Commercial developments and residential work.
Completed projects to date include private residences (The Barnhouse, Highgate, was awarded the AJ First Building Award at the 2002 Stirling Prize ceremony), an Art Gallery in Inverness and a cheese factory in Cornwall (also being awarded an RIBA award and the Civic Trust Special Award in the ‘rural buildings’ category in 2003). Their arts project in Tiree was awarded the RSA Gold Medal, a RIBA Regional Award , the RIAS Architecture award, and was short-listed for both the Stirling Prize in 2003 and the Mies van der Rohe Award for Architecture in 2005. It was also recently featured in the Guardian’s round-up of the last decade of architecture and was featured on a Royal stamp.
More recently they have been working on two major museums in China which are both now under construction. In 2007 Sutherland Hussey won the International Competition to design the Chengdu City Museum in Sichuan, China. This 60,000sqm museum includes gallery space, puppet theatre, administrative facilities and commercial outlets. In 2008 they were appointed as architects for a £25m Archaeological Museum in Neihulang, Inner Mongolia, China.

The V&A design team led by Sutherland Hussey includes 3DReid Architects (Scotland), AECOM (Scotland), Morham & Brotchie (Scotland), Gross Max (Scotland) and KSLD (Scotland).

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

Fuente: V&A at Dundee – Making it Happen

British architect John Pawson has sent us these snaps of the model he used when designing the forthcoming exhibition of his work at London’s Design Museum, which opens next week. (more…)

Fuente: John Pawson: Plain Space at the Design Museum