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IoA Sliver Gallery [Applied] Foreign Affairs: Ghana, until June 11, 2012
IoA SLIVER GALLERY
[APPLIED] FOREIGN AFFAIRS: GHANA
Opening: Monday, June 4th, 2012 7pm at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Lichthof A
Speakers: Wolf D. Prix, Baerbel Mueller, Jürgen Strohmayer
Duration: June 5 - 11, 2012
The [Applied] Foreign Affairs, a new lab at the Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vien- na investigating spatial and cultural phenomena in rural and urban Sub-Saharan Africa, started off this year investigating the status and potential of Guabuliga, a remote village located in the tree savannah of Northern Ghana. Research started in Vienna with the goals of defining growth parameters and projecting growth patterns for the village. Guabuliga’s chief had invited [a]FA to collaborate and to articulate strategies towards an ecological future for his village. During a three week fieldwork phase in February 2012, an interdiscipli- nary team of six students extensively mapped the current physiognomy of the village. Guabuliga’s founding myth – the well by the thorn tree – is the conceptual starting point for coming up with contextual but novel spatial and programmatic scenarios, variations on ideal growth forecasts for Guabuliga 2022. Parallel to these investigations of planning scale, each participant worked individually on a narrative mapping, in which a specific ‘intensity’ of Guabuliga was identified, captured, and translated into an artistic, documental, or scientific piece.
Students: Christian Car, Ioana Petkova, Joseph Hofmarcher, Jürgen Strohmayer, Stefanie Theuretzbacher and Theresa Theuretzbacher. [A]FA is led by Baerbel Mueller, an architect and Assistant Professor at the IoA, University of Applied Arts Vienna.
[A]FA GHANA has been taught in collaboration with the architects Bernhard Sommer and Joe Osae-Addo, the artists Nikolaus Gansterer and Bernard Akoi-Jackson, and is implemented in partnership with the NGO Braveaurora and Chief Salifu Mahama Tampurie.
Presentation: Join us on Sunday, June 10th, 2012 4–6pm at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Lichthof A
Guest Critics: Bernard Akoi-Jackson, Andrea Börner, Daniel Rössler, Lisa Schmidt Colinet, Bernhard Sommer, Reiner Zettl
UPCOMING SLIVER EVENT 2012
June 5th: Francesca von Habsburg, Chairman TBA21, Vienna
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Diploma- and Final Reviews
19. 6. 2012, 10 am
Final Review Studio Hani Rashid
Carson Chan, Brian Deluna, Marie-Therese Harnoncourt, Stefan Rutzinger
24.6.2012, 10 am
Final Review Studio Zaha Hadid
Philippe Block, Achim Menges, Ali Rahim
25. 6. 2012, 11 am
IoA-Diploma Reviews
Studio Greg Lynn, Studio Hani Rashid, Studio Zaha Hadid
Jury: Klaus Bollinger, Brian Cody, Wolf D. Prix (Head), Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn, Hani Rashid, External Examiner: Achim Menges
26. 6. 2012, 9.30 am
Final Review Studio Greg Lynn
Guests: Kristy Balliet, David Erdman, Peter Noever, Karl Emilio Pircher, Fidel Peugeot
26. 6. 2012, 4 pm
Urban Strategies
Final-and Diploma Review Excessive (Hernan Diaz Alonso)
Guests: Kristy Balliet, Klaus Bollinger, Matias del Campo, Erick Carcamo, David Erdman, Tom Kovac, Greg Lynn, Peter Trummer, Wolf D. Prix
Studio Urban Strategies: Vordere Zollamtsstraße 3, 1030 Vienna
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IoA Sliver Lecture Francesca von Habsburg, June 4, 7pm
Francesca von Habsburg, Chairman TBA21, Vienna "Commissioning, not Collecting Architecture"
Born in Switzerland in 1958, Francesca von Habsburg is founder and Chairman of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary. Her studies led her from Switzerland to London where she studied art at St. Martin’s School of Art and History of Modern Art at the ICA, as well as to New York and Los Angeles. In 1989, von Habsburg became chief curator of special exhibitions of the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection at the Villa Favorita in Lugano. In 1991, she founded ARCH Foundation, which is dedicated to the preservation and restoration of cultural heritage. She received the Merit Award in Gold of the province of Vienna in November 2009 for her cultural engagement in Vienna.
In 2002 Francesca von Habsburg founded Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21). The foundation is committed to supporting the production of contemporary art and is actively engaged in commissioning and disseminating unconventional projects that defy traditional disciplinary categorizations.
June 5, 2012, 7pm, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Lichthof 2
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IoA Sliver Lecture Ben van Berkel, May 22, 7pm
Ben van Berkel, UNStudio, Architect, Amsterdam
UN, Vienna and Us
Ben van Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Ams- terdam and at the Architectural Association in London, receiving the AA Diploma with Honours in 1987.
In 1998 Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos established UNStudio (United Net). UNStudio presents itself as a network of specialists in architecture, urban development and infrastructure. Current projects are the restructuring of the station area of Arnhem, the mixed-use Raffles City in Hangzhou, a masterplan for Basauri, a dance theatre for St. Petersburg and the design and restructuring of the Harbor Ponte Parodi in Genoa. Ben van Berkel has lectured and taught at many architectural schools around the world. Currently he is Professor of Conceptual Design at the Staedelschule and for the Spring term 2011 he was awarded the Kenzo Tange Visiting Professor‘s Chair at Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Central to his teaching is the inclusive approach of architectural works integrating virtual and material organization and engineering constructions.
May 22, 2012, 7pm, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Lichthof 2
UPCOMING SLIVER EVENTS 2012
June 4th: Sliver Gallery [applied] Foreign Affairs: Ghana
June 5th: Francesca von Habsburg, Chairman TBA21, Vienna
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Statement IoA
I am using the current situation to make a point of stating that our Institute of Architecture has nothing to do with this embarrassing and incomplete presentation of the competition project of Wolfgang Tschapeller in the entrance hall of our University.
The project for the Extension of the University of Applied Arts was nominated as the winning proposal by an "internationally renowned
jury" *).
Wolf D. Prix
(Dean of the Institute of Architecture)
(*)
Kobermaier, MA 19 Vienna
Stich, MA 21 Vienna
Sokol, BIG Vienna
Dürhammer, BIG Vienna
Kada, BIG Architektur Beirat Vienna
Pruscha, Vienna
Kwinter, New York
Tagliabue, Barcelona
Decq, Paris
Cook, London
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