CITAMBULOS_ A Journey to the Mexican Megalopolis
Mexico City is an exemplary case for diverse strategies in dealing with the challenges of globalisation. The exhibition “Citámbulos” presents the city through a number of specific locations, situations and processes. The exhibition focuses on the city’s inhabitants: how do people adapt their daily lives according to given urban processes, and in what way do people shape their physical environment themselves?
The exhibition “Citámbulos” is arranged along a travelogue through daily life in Mexico City which appeals to all the senses. “Citámbulos”, the research collective by the same name, has assembled statements from artists, planners and architects for this presentation which provide insights into urban phenomena that are characteristic for Mexico City and also serve as relevant models within the context of a wider discussion on the future of megacities worldwide. The spontaneous and creative way in which people deal with the city’s problems in a context of urban expansion and globalisation are as much part of the exhibit as are the reactions to the challenges of urban densification by professional architects and planners. “Citámbulos” presents these phenomena through a variety of media to form an overall portrait of the megalopolis that is Mexico City.
PROGRAM: Exhibition > 24.07.-21.09.2008
Opening > 24.07.2008 | 8pm. Speakers: S.E. Jorge Castro-Valle K., Ambassador of Mexico in Germany, Wolfgang Nowak, Alfred Herrhausen Society and Introduction by the Curators Kristien Ring, DAZ and Members oft he Citámbulos Group.
Colloquium: “CITAMBULOS_Urban Strategies, a Mexico City – Berlin Dialogue". A dialogue between experts from Mexico City and Berlin will present informal urban strategies on one side and formal governance of the other. The discussion will focus on current political challenges and planning strategies. > 19.09.2008 | 10am. – 5.30 pm. at DAZ Taut Saal.
Public lecture: “Operational System Mexico: Beyond crisis, beyond megacityness“ By: José Castillo, Architect and Director of Arquitectura 911sc, Professor at the Universidad Iberoamericana School of Architecture, Mexico City. Curatorial advisor of the CITÀMBULOS exhibition for the Alfred Herrhausen Society. > 19.09.2008 | 5:30pm. – 6.15 pm. at DAZ Taut Saal.
PUBLICATION: „CITAMBULOS_ A Journey to the Mexican Megalopolis“ Edited By: Ana Álvarez, Fionn Petch, Valentina Rojas Loa, Christian von Wissel, CITÁMBULOS with Kristien Ring, DAZ, deutsch/englisch/spanisch, Flexocover 22 x 28 cm, 272 Pages with over 200 color Images, ISBN 978-3-939633-76-1 ©Jovis Verlag / 2008
CREDITS: Curators: Kristien Ring, DAZ with CITÁMBULOS: Ana Álvarez, Fionn Petch, Valentina Rojas Loa, and Christian von Wissel. Exhibition concept and installation: CITÁMBULOS Exhibition Team DAZ: Steffen Morenz, Andreas Schleuder
The exhibition is a collaboration of the DAZ, the research collective ‘Citámbulos’ (Mexico City) and the Alfred Herrhausen Society, Berlin and is under the patronage of the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit.
We thank the support of: The Alfred Herrhausen Gesellschaft / Stiftung Deutsche Kassenlotterie Berlin / Ciudad de México / Secretaría de Cultura / Fundación Colección Jumex / Goethe Institut Mexiko / Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Hístoria / Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes / Embajada de México / Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores / Ringoplast
Images: 1. Mexico City, photo: Dante Busquets 4. „Ciudad Milusos / Multipurpose City“, photo: Citámbulos: Everyday objects are recycled as building materials, for instance plastic boxes assembled as a wall. 5. „Central de Abastos“, photo: Ana Álvarez (Citámbulos): Central market of Mexico City and also the biggest Market of Latin America.
Traveling Exhibition Emerging Identities EAST in Budapest
BUDAPEST, Hungary: 06.02 - 02.03.2009 KIK, Hungarian Centre for Contemporary Architecture
Emerging Identities EAST Berlin - Bratislava - Budapest - Ljubljana - Prag - Riga - Tallinn - Vilnius - Warschau
Further Stations:
> MOSCOW, Russia: 18 – 22.10.2006 International Architecture Festival / and following, until 03.2007 at the gallery of the Russian Federation of Architects
>HELSINKI, Finnland: 01.10. 2007 – 01.02.2008 Finnish Architecture Museum
> VENICE, Italy: 14.04 – 01.07.2007 at the Architecture Gallery Progettocontemperaneo
Traveling Exhibition Emerging Identities EAST in Venice
VENICE, Italy: 14.04 – 01.07.2007 at the Architecture Gallery Progettocontemperaneo
Emerging Identities EAST Berlin - Bratislava - Budapest - Ljubljana - Prag - Riga - Tallinn - Vilnius - Warschau
Further Stations:
> MOSCOW, Russia: 18 – 22.10.2006 International Architecture Festival / and following, until 03.2007 at the gallery of the Russian Federation of Architects
>HELSINKI, Finnland: 01.10. 2007 – 01.02.2008 Finnish Architecture Museum
> BUDAPEST, Hungary: 06.02 - 02.03.2009 KIK, Hungarian Centre for Contemporary Architecture
Traveling Exhibition Emerging Identities EAST in Helsinki
HELSINKI, Finnland: 01.10. 2007 – 01.02.2008 Finnish Architecture Museum
Emerging Identities EAST Berlin - Bratislava - Budapest - Ljubljana - Prag - Riga - Tallinn - Vilnius - Warschau
Further Stations:
> VENICE, Italy: 14.04 – 01.07.2007 at the Architecture Gallery Progettocontemperaneo
> MOSCOW, Russia: 18 – 22.10.2006 International Architecture Festival / and following, until 03.2007 at the gallery of the Russian Federation of Architects
> BUDAPEST, Hungary: 06.02 - 02.03.2009 KIK, Hungarian Centre for Contemporary Architecture
Traveling Exhibition Emerging Identities EAST in Moscow
MOSCOW, Russia: 18 – 22.10.2006 International Architecture Festival / and following, until 03.2007 at the gallery of the Russian Federation of Architects
Emerging Identities EAST Berlin - Bratislava - Budapest - Ljubljana - Prag - Riga - Tallinn - Vilnius - Warschau
Further Stations:
> VENICE, Italy: 14.04 – 01.07.2007 at the Architecture Gallery Progettocontemperaneo
>HELSINKI, Finnland: 01.10. 2007 – 01.02.2008 Finnish Architecture Museum
> BUDAPEST, Hungary: 06.02 - 02.03.2009 KIK, Hungarian Centre for Contemporary Architecture
Emerging Identities EAST: Berlin I Bratislava I Budapest I Ljubljana I Prague I Riga I Tallinn I Vilnius I Warsaw
More than 90 young architects and their offices have been introduced at the exhibition „Emerging Identities – EAST!“ at the German Center for architecture DAZ. Starting in Berlin, the exhibition presented an architectural journey through contemporary built culture of the Central and Eastern European cities of the European Union. The focus of this journey, which is documented in the exhibition and catalogue, is the young generation of architects and their built projects. These themes will be explored in depth at the opening symposium "Positions" as well as in a country specific accompanying programme.
Emerging Identities – EAST! focuses the still undiscovered, vibrant, young architectural scene of Germany’s Eastern EU neighbours.
Emerging Identities – EAST! Introduces this new generation and fosters international dialogue.
Emerging Identities: through the common language of built space trends, positions, planning goals and cultural developments of a country become readable. Emerging Identities – EAST! focusses on the driving forces and protagonists of new architecture in Europe’s East from Berlin to Tallinn and Ljubljana. It is, for instance, not only the new public buildings, but far more the many small built interventions that represent current cultural tendencies in those cities. It is the young, not yet internationally published architects that develop projects out of their own initiative and idealism that define the emerging architectural scene.
30 of these built projects are presented and explored in detail in the exhibition curated by Kristien Ring. The buildings embody, independently from their country of origin, strong conceptual thinking and consequent implementation of the concept. Additionally, `country islands’ with country specific projects will illustrate: what and how much is built in the single states, and in which urban environment. Finally, every participating architect selects a building of relevance from his/her country for the `country islands’.
Emerging Identities – EAST!, in this way, also represents a personal perspective on the built culture of Slovenia, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and the Baltic States. ( See down for a list of EXHIBITION at the German Center for Architecture (DAZ): 24. 11. 2005 - 20. 02. 2006
CREDITS:
Curator and Project Initiator : Kristien Ring
Exhibition Team: Franziska Eidner, Anne-Kathrin Hoehler, Andrea Nakath, Kristien Ring, Franziska Rusch
PUBLICATIONS:
„Emerging Identities-EAST!“ BERLIN - BRATISLAVA - BUDAPEST - LJUBLJANA - PRAGUE - RIGA - TALLINN - VILNIUS – WARSAW, More than 90 offices of the young generation of architects, 34 projects in detail, addresses and links for further research on contemporary Central and Eastern European architecture, Edited by Kristien Ring, English/German, 178 Pages © 2005 jovis Publishers, ISBN: 3-936314-69-1
”EASTERN EUROPE: TENDENCIES”, published in: L`industria della costruzioni, Italian/English, No. 392 Nov/Dec 2006, p.1-77, aprox. 100 color images. Guest Editor
”EAST EUROPE: ARCHITECTURE 88 Giovani Architetti Presentano i Loro Progetti” Exhibition catalogue for the traveling exhibition in Venice, Italian/English, 108 Pages, Editor: Kristien Ring, 2006, ISBN 978-88-88121-14-7
>ONLINE SITE about Eastern European Architecture in collaboration with Baunetz. www.baunetz.de/arch/east ( and also together with www.world-architects.com) based on the exhibition project “Emerging Identities EAST”, curated by Kristien Ring.
TRAVELING EXHIBITION:
> MOSCOW, Russia: 18 – 22.10.2006 Architecture Festival /and until 03.2007 at the Russian Federation of Architects Gallery
> VENEDIG, Italien: 14.04 – 01.07.2007 at the Architecture Gallery Progettocontemperaneo
>HELSINKI, Finnland: 01.10. 2007 – 01.02.2008 Finnish Architecture Museum
> BUDAPEST, Ungarn: 06.02 - 02.03.2009 KIK, Hungarian Centre for Contemporary Architecture
Architects and Offices:
Czech Republic: 4A, A69, Goa Architects, Ivan Kroupa, LENNOX architekti, C+HO_aR + Tomáš Pejpek architectural office, u/s/a, VYSEHRAD Atelier
Estonia: 3+1 architects, Alver Trummal Architects, Architect Martin Aunin, Architects Muru & Pere, Architectural bureau Plus, ArhitektuuriAgentuur, Head Arhitekti, JVR Architects Ltd, Eek & Mutso AB, HG Architecture Office, Kavakava, KOKO, KOSMOS, Urban Mark Architecture.
Germany: abcarius+burns architecture design, AS-IF Architekten, Bernd Bess Architekten BDA, Deadline, Graft Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, Haberland Architekten BDA, Hoyer Schindele Hirschmüller + Partner Architektur, Kersten + Kopp Freie Architekten, Knebel & von Wedemeyer Architekten BDA, Pysall.Ruge Architekten with Bartlomeji Kisielewski, raumlabor_berlin, Realities United, RS_ARCHITEKTEN with Studio Architekten, Robertneun Architekten, Zoomarchitekten.
Hungary: 3h office for architecture, aether architecture, Bánáti + Hartvig Építész Iroda Kft., CZITA Architects Ltd., DÓM Építészműterem Kft, Földes és Társai Építésziroda Kft., GEON Architects, LiTraCon Bt., minusplus_architects, Péter Kis Architects, sporaarchitects, THEYCOM Art & Architecture, Zsuffa és Kalmár Építész Mûterem Kft.
Latvia: 8am & Lejnieku projektesanas birojs, Architektu Birojs Silis, Zabers + Klava, Design group ARHITEKTONIKA LTD., Arhis, DEPO Projekts, f.l.tadao & lukshevics, Arhitskts Juris POGA, SINTIJA VAIVADE_ ARHITEKTE, STANDARDSITUATION, Vizuálás Modeléšanas Studija
Lithunia: 4+ Architects , Audrius Ambrasas Architects, ARCHIPOLIS, R.Paleko ARCH studija, Vilius ir partneriai
Poland: Bulanda i Mucha Architects, Centrala, HS99 Herman i Smierzewski, Ingarden & Ewy Architects, JEMS Architects, KWK Promes Architects, Biuro Projektow Lewicki Latak, medusa group, nsMoonStudio, kuba wozniczka + anna panek architects
Slovakia: cakov-makara, Halada, Jurani&Toma, zerozero, Lúbomir Závodný, Studio For/ Martin Kvasnica, u/s/a
Slovenia: Dekleva Gregoric Arhitekti, Elastik, Enota, Maechtig Vrhunc Arhitekti, OFIS Arhitekti, Sadar Vuga Arhitekti, Scapelab
ROBERTNEUN™ office portrait and Interview
ROBERTNEUN™, Edited by Kristien Ring, German, 16 Pages. pdf download>> ROBERTNEUN_PORTRAIT
SMAQ architecture urbanism research (Office Portrait and Interview)
„SMAQ architecture urbanism research, Environments – Umwelten“, Edited by Kristien Ring, 16 Pages, German.
BHSS Architects: GLASHAUS_08 Exhibition at the DAZ
»thing XPS« Bhss-architekten (Leipzig) is one the most successful architectural practices in East-Germany, where they have realized projects as a school for blind children in Chemnitz (2007), an educational center for the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenakademie (2001) and the Campus Center Breitenbrunn (2007). One of their current projects is Solar Valley Mitteldeutschland, one of Europe’s largest centers of the solar industry.
The architects understand the Glashaus as »space between inside and outside, idea and realization, building material and art work«. Thing XPS is the subtitle of the exhibition coined by the bhss principals Heiko Behnisch (1965), Stefan Hermus (1964), Michael Schinko (1962) and Uwe Schumann (1961). »Thing« stands for the »place of negotiation« and for the decision making process at bhss, which is always a result of negotiation. »XPS« is the name of a foam concentrate, a material for model building and information medium, which can be modified into different scales. A loop made of XPS connects the exhibition space to the working methods of bhss and becomes the frame for the presentation of selected projects. www.bhss-architekten.de
OFFICE PORTRAIT: "NYC Young Architects" Edited by Kristien Ring, 16 Pages, German. pdf download
PROGRAM: Exhibition > 25.05. - 18.07.2008
Opening > 23.05.2008 | 7pm, Introduction by Kristien Ring, DAZ, and BHSS Architects
CREDITS:
Curator of the GLASHAUS Series: Kristien Ring, Director, DAZ
Text Editing and PR.: Franziska Eidner
Exhibition concept and installation: BHSS Architects
Exhibition Team DAZ: Steffen Morenz, Andreas Schleuder
NYC: GLASHAUS_07 Exhibition at the DAZ
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