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The Elephant in the Gallery
Melis Uğurlu commentates on her unique experience of Elephant West, a gallery that relieves visitors from the fatigue of white cubes
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Social Design for Beginners
Curated by Angeli Sachs, Social Design exhibition in the Museum for Gestaltung Zurich aims to discuss implications of growth economy on human beings, environment and design. Banu Çiçek Tülü reviewed the exhibition as a good example of inclusiveness in a country where democratic design processes emerge in urban scale.
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From Central Park Of Manhattan To Central City Of Mannahatta
This project is a “de-urbanization” project and tries to introduce a visionary model, in which free and equitable human communities’ organization cooperates with nature to restore ecosystems and regenerates lives which have vanished during the last 400 years.
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We Learnt Everything from the Designers
Learning something new is an exchange. It starts with a humility of not knowing, it grows into a shared challenge, and if stuck to, evolves into the unexpected.
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Design in the Chain of Being
The notion of the Anthropocene acknowledges the impact of human civilization and capitalism on the planet
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RSVP for Location
The transformation in the urban structure that led to social and cultural change has also initiated a new form of underground party scene, driven by the growth of the electronic music
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Heterogenoeus Architectures and Vitra Campus
The form in architecture initiates with the instincts of humankind to provide safe haven and protection and later on differs depending on the understanding of each period of history
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Dignity of Social Housing
The most important question we have to ask is whether Robin Hood Gardens is really sufficient to meet today’s requirements. If not, would demolishment be the one and only solution to be brought up?
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Seeking the Potentials of Space
What kind of contributions will Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara make to the architecture scene with this open-ended Freespace theme? This is something that we will see in time.
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Working and Establishing Dialogue in Common
There is no stronger contrasting image to the notion of free space than the one of borders, dividing territories and restricting access through definitions of nationality and citizenship.
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Dynamic Intervals within the Static
If I have to summarize the biennale in one word, it would be “foggy”. And the main reason of the fogginess is the theme itself.
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No Worries!
This year’s biennale felt as if we had tried a lot as architects to change the world for the better and failed
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What is an Architecture Biennale?
The pressure of the prestige makes the Venice Biennale highly hierarchical, hence, every recent general curator has been someone already well reputed in the architecture community.
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Taking Care of Exhibitions: Notes on the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale
When it comes to curatorship in architecture the position of the curator is much less debated.
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Participatory Design is the New Black
Cities are complex organisms that are able to develop themselves at an incredible speed and in different conditions.
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The Culture of the Ephemeral, Conglomerate, and Transient
Sex and the So-Called City exhibition investigates the factors that shaped the city’s urban lifestyle and cultural trends during late 1990s and early 2000s.
09.04.2019
