An Architektur. Produktion und Gebrauch gebauter Umwelt

07/2010 Out Now: An Architektur 23: On the Commons Issue + three leaflets see issue

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November 12 – 21, 2009, New York City
Ten Days for Oppositional Architecture
Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces
Co-presented by Performa and Storefront for Art and Architecture for Performa 09

For more information please visit:
www.oppositionalarchitecture.com

03 + 04/07/2009 Towards Post-Capitalist Spaces: On the Meaning of Commons Two events on the commons, An Architektur at Athens Bienniale 2009, July 3+4 During the two events we want to discuss the potential of the concept of commons as a political discourse and practice that sets a limit to capitalist accumulation but that also goes beyond it – a strategy of de-commodification and re-appropriation that tries to recognize and articulate the already existing though maybe minor and often micro-level alternative practices. Commons are an optimistic alternative, a grounded vision based on existing struggles but fundamentally questioning the hegemonic logic of today's society. We want to explore the notion of commons in different historical situations and see how it can be actualized today. What are its potentials, limitations and can it be turned into a social and political force and perspective towards post-capitalist spaces? Friday, July 3: 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm, at Floisvos beach, Athens Public Interview with Massimo de Angelis and Stavros Stavrides Saturday, July 4: 11.00 am – 3.00 pm, at Floisvos building, Athens Open Workshop with Massimo de Angelis, Stavros Stavrides and further guests from Athens Massimo de Angelis is Professor of Political Economy at the University of East London Stavros Stavrides is Assistant Professor of Architecture, National Technical University of Athens An Architektur in cooperation with the Athens Bienniale 2009 as part of “live”, curated by Dimitris Papaioannou and Zafos Xagoraris www.athensbiennial.org see full announcement

06/2009 Against the Grain: Email interview Interview with An Architektur on oppositional architectural practice and planning in Belin in relation with "Undoing the City" in Copenhagen on Openhagen's website. view interview

11/2008
Agency: An AHRA Conference on Agency in Architecture
exhibition and student workshop related to An Architektur/Mathias Heyden: Community Design. Involvement and Architecture in the US since 1963
School of Architecture, The University of Sheffield
www.ahra-architecture.org

09/2008 Out Now: An Architektur 22: GAMMA Grid, 1953. The End of CIAM and the Bidonvilles of Casablanca Release: October 25, 7pm subsequent to the conference "The Cononial Modern" Kiosk on the roof of the "Haus der Kulturen der Welt" John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin Haus der Kulturen der Welt view issues

09/2008 Out Now: An Architektur 19-21 Community Design. Involvement and Architecture in the US since 1963 Project / Texts / Public Interviews view issues

20/06 – 23/08/2008
Sozial Diagramme. Planning Reconsidered
contribution to the exhibition related to An Architektur/Mathias Heyden: Community Design. Involvement and Architecture in the US since 1963
Künstlerhaus Stuttgart
www.kuenstlerhaus.de
program booklet dt/eng

18/08 – 29/08/2008 Space. Power. Property: Divided Inheritance in Vorarlberg Workshop as part of Antipodium, Summer School of the Vorarlberger Architektur Institut, Dornbirn, Austria Antipodium is a long-term interdisciplinary project researching the interrelationship of building culture and social dynamics in Vorarlberg, Austria. It is in this context, that the Vorarlberg Architecture Institut offers summer workshops in Bregenz for students and graduates of architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture, media design, arts and sociology. From 18.08 – 29.08.2008 An Architektur will conduct a workshop on divided inheritance in Vorarlberg. How does this mode of dividing property produce and structure space? What are the economic conditions of this practice and what is its impact on everyday life and social space? Where might lie possibilities of alternative planning? Vorarlberger Architektur Institut, Realschulstrasse 6\|7, A 6850 Dornbirn, T +43 5572 51169 view documentation of the workshop

15/04 – 12/06/2008
No Place – like Home. Perspectives on Migration in Europe
contribution to the exhibition and lecture related to An Architektur 15: European Migration Geographies, Poland
Argos, Brussels
www.argosarts.org

Material from the production of Architektur 19; exhibition and talks on:
Community Design. Involvement and Architecture in the US since 1963
A project by An Architektur and Mathias Heyden

Design Assistance, Community Building, Hands-On Experience, Social Equity Planning, Self-Help Housing.
The radical democratic context of the American civil rights movements in the 1960s inspired advocacy planners to politicize the field of architecture by working for groups in society who were previously excluded from planning processes. Their legacy has had an impact on a variety of Community Design Centers which have widened and professionalized this socially committed approach. With a display of material from the production of An Architektur 19, the exhibition "Community Design" introduces and discusses these progressive practices in a European context.

Exhibition: March 30 till April 20, 2008
Opening: Saturday, March 29, 8pm

Sunday, March 30, 5pm
Talk with Damon Rich (Center for Urban Pedagogy, New York) and Michael Rios (University of California, Davis)

Sunday, April 20, 5pm
Talk with Roberta Feldman (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Henry Sanoff (North Carolina State University, Raleigh)

exhibition and talks will be in English

exhibition and talks take place at:
arttransponder, Brunnenstrasse 151, 10115 Berlin
opening hours: Thu 12am – 5pm, Fri + Sat 2 – 7pm
www.arttransponder.net

press release (german)
iinvitation card (german)

11/02/2008
An Architektur in "Publish and be Damned", New York
information found in die tageszeitung
see article (german)