Diary.AR'S CHOICE OF CURRENT INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS AND EVENTS For an expanded and constantly updated list, go to our website: www.arplus.com/exhibitions CANADA ARCHITECTS' BOOKS Until 26 September CCA (1) (Common Cryptographic Architecture) Cryptography software from IBM for MVS and DOS applications. (2) (Compatible Communications A , Montreal History of the architect's book beginning with the mid-sixteenth century, when architects began to seriously document their work, to the more experimental present day. www.cca.qc.ca GERMANY BAWA--GENIUS OF THE PLACE Until 17 October Deutsches Architektur Museum, Frankfurt Major retrospective of Sri Lankan architect Geoffrey Bawa, regarded as one of the most important and influential Asian architects of the twentieth century. Prolific and inventive. Bawa established a whole canon of prototypes for buildings in a tropical Asian context and developed notions of sustainability long before they became more widely fashionable. www.dam.de GREECE MONUMENT TO NOW Until 31 December DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens Big show of contemporary art from super collector Dakis Joannou Dakis Joannou is a Greek Cypriot industrialist based in Greece. He is considered to be one of the leading collectors of European contemporary art (the earliest work in his collection is from 1985). , including work by Chris Ofili Chris Ofili (born 1968) is an English born painter noted for artworks referencing aspects of his Nigerian heritage. He is one of the Young British Artists. He is a Turner Prize winner and his work has been a source of controversy. , Olafur Eliasson, Shirin Neshat, Gabriel Orozco Gabriel Orozco (b. 1962) is "One of the most influential artists of this decade, and probably the next one too." - Francesco Bonami, Parachute, 1998. He was born in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico and educated in the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plasticas between 1981 and 1984. and Gillian Wearing, among many others. www.deste.gr UNITED KINGDOM DENNIS GILBERT Dennis Gilbert is professor and chair of sociology at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and has taught at the Universidad Catlica in Lima, Peru, Cornell University and joined Hamilton college in 1976. AND JON MAY Until 11 September Photofusion, London Two photographers who share a strong interest in architecture explore the relationship between the built environment and how it is represented. www.photofusion.org UNITED STATES TALL BUILDINGS Until 27 September MoMA, Queens, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Show focuses on skyscrapers and their place today, illustrated by scale models of 25 significant high-rise structures worldwide. www.moma.org |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion