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minus20degree 2018
May 07, 2018In February 2018 the fourth edition of minus20degree Art and Architecture Biennale was organized in Flachau. The theme World of Wellness touched for the first time the very present context of tourism. A village of 2.700 inhabitants hosting over 10.000 guests with the help of an additional work force of about...
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From City Pond to Central Park
May 06, 2018In a two days workshop a quick scenario for the future development of Ekaterinburg city center has been developed. A group of 12 people tried to answer the question how the Yelstin Center can be better incorporated in its neighborhood and how it could open itself more to the outside,...
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Ruhrmoderne 1967/2017: Ein kurzer Sommer der Utopie
January 18, 2018Theo Deutinger, Philipp Oswalt, Timo Panzer, Kassel University Press, ISBN-10: 373760486X
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Handbook of Tyranny - Exhibition I
January 10, 2018In April 2018 the “Initiative Architektur” hosted the “Handbook of Tyranny” exhibition. The design concept by Brendan McGetrick presented fragments of the book chapters Slaughterhouse, Walls and Fences and Prison Cells in the scale 1:1. Visitors blend with the technical illustrations and inhabited them for the time of the exhibition.
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Handbook of Tyranny - the book
January 08, 2018Handbook of Tyranny portrays the routine cruelties of the twenty-first century through a series of detailed non-fictional graphic illustrations. None of these cruelties represent extraordinary violence – they reflect day-to-day implementation of laws and regulations around the globe.
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Aerial Community - Flying Plaza - Studio Tomás Saraceno
December 18, 2017The Essay Aerial Community was published in the book Flying Plaza. Work Journal 2012-16 on the Artistic Practice of Studio Tomás Saraceno. The book was edited by Philipp Oswalt and published by Spector Books in 2017, Leipzig, ISBN: 978-3-95905-029-6, 2018.
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The Colours of Terror
August 25, 2017Currently, there are over 180 terrorist organizations worldwide. Unlike secret criminal societies like the Mafia, whose main objective is economic profit, terrorist organizations are threatening the power monopoly of existing nation states. To be recognized as a genuine opponent of a sovereign state and to distinguish itself from comparable movements,...
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Europe in Africa @ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
August 21, 2017Our proposal for the new city "Europe in Africa" is presented in the exhibition "Solution or Utopia" at the Stedelijk Exhibition in Amsterdam.
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Ruhrmoderne Summer Academy
August 21, 2017For the period of half a year, students from five universities have been part of the Ruhrmoderne Summer Academy. The focus area was Marl, a city in the north of the Ruhrgebiet, an area where in the 1960s and 1970s Germanies most radical urbanistic and architectural ideas have been realized.
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Green Fortress
July 25, 2017Nothing is more deceptive than human preconceptions, one of the more persistent being that beauty is good and ugly is evil. Today there is hardly anything that can compete with our image of nature as something good and beautiful.