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Lecture Patricia Hayes: Photography, city and landscape in africa. Friday 9 march 2012, 11u30 – 13u00, Aud C (introduction: Johan Lagae).

Patricia Hayes is professor of History at the University of Western Cape (UWC) in Cape Town, South Africa. At UWC she runs the Visual History Project, part of which involves researching southern African documentary photography. She co-authored the seminal book The Colonising Camera: photographs in the making of Namibian history in 1998. Together with photographer John Liebenberg she recently compiled a book on Liebenberg’s photographs of the border war in Namibia, entitled Bush of Ghosts. Life and War in Namibia 1986-1990.

In her lecture, Patricia Hayes will focus on the work of two African photographers. The first, Ricardo Rangel is sometimes defined as the “living visual memory of the pre-independence years of Mozambique”. As a politically committed artist, Rangel documented everyday life under Portuguese colonial rule, with some of his documentary photographs providing unexpected glimpses of Maputo’s urban society. The second photographer, Santu Mofokeng is reknowned for his landscape photography, in which he goes beyond a mere political or social commentary and ventures into more spiritual meditations.

http://www.architectuur.ugent.be/media/pdf/news/120208_lezing-patricia-hayes.pdf

More information:http://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues

Nik Naudts, Daan Devree en Pieter Uyttenhove will present a project by Labo Sthat is housed by the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning: Shifting between generic regulation, regional vision and site-specific design. Policy recommendations for spatial planning through the nonlinear practice of research by design.

Students can participate for a reduced fee. More information: www.steunpuntruimteenwonen.be

Dr. Michael Lacasse,  senior research officer at the National Research Council in Canada, will present an overview of ongoing research the 24th of october (auditorium E).
Based on an elaborate series of experiments an advanced numerical heat-air-moisture model was developed, which allows to assess the long-term performance of wood frame wall assemblies for a range of different climates.

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“Progress” opens on October 6th 2011 at the Barbican Art Gallery in London and closes on February 19nd 2012. In preparation of the exhibition, Rotor has gotten unlimited access to the offices, the archives and the buildings of OMA, all around the world.

More information:
http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=12472

“Rooted in the Real” is compiled, edited and introduced by Christophe Van Gerrewey. The book is designed by Ann Bessemans and published by WZW Editions & Productions as number 87 in the series “Vlees & Beton”. International distribution is taken care of by Exhibitions International. The book appears as an hardcover edition of 540 pages with ribbon, and is illustrated with many photographs (sometimes taken from the archives of the author).

The book costs 47 euro. It is possible to order in advance at a reduced price until October 16nd 2011. Pay 40 euros by bank transfer to 035-5774991-40 (BNP Paribas/Fortis. BIC: GEBABEBB – IBAN BE02 0355 7749 9140) with the message “ROOTED”. The book will be send to you immediately after publication.

Rooted In The Real

Although some critics have desperately tried to bring Terragni’s work back within the reassuring fold of the Modern Movement, it has always disrupted the conventional norms of the relationship between the modern and the classical. The Danteum in particular remains a building outside of and beyond time.

Nevertheless, the lecture will try to anchor the project in its time, and discover its exceptional and intimate interactions between literature, architecture and politics. 

Dirk De Meyer is a professor in History of Architecture and Architectural Design at Ghent University. With his students, he has built a large scale model of the Danteum that is currently on show at Perennial.
He has formerly been a Visiting Scholar and Chief Curator at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal. He is the author ofbooks on a.o.Johann Santini Aicheland on Piranesi, and contributed to books published by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte (München), Electa (Milano) and the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris). He published in journals such as the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, theJournal of Architecture, Casabella, Disegno d’Architettura and SanRocco. He has curated international exhibitions in Belgium, Prague and Montréal, on aspects of Baroque architecture in Italy and Central Europe, and on Piranesi.

The lecture will be given in English.

The aim of the competition was the stimulation of a profound and creative debate on the future of the Brussels Courthouse, that was built at the end of the nineteenth century. A selection of the proposals shows what is at stake and how diverse the possibilities of this exceptional building and this place full of history is. The exhibition is curated by Architecture Workroom Brussels, co-founded by Roeland Dudal. Christophe Van Gerrewey wrote the words for the exhibition. More information: http://www.bozar.be/activity.php?id=11190&lng=en

The project will be housed in the exhibition space of the Fondazione Prada, in via Fogazzaro, Milan. Rotor observes: “The Fogazzaro exhibition hall is the space where, each new season, the Prada fashion shows are held. Every one of these shows features a spectacular series of carefully constructed new ideas. To communicate to the audience, these ideas require materialization. Beyond the brief moments of its meaningful existence, that embodiment acquires greater weight. From an idea turned into a form, what is left is just a physical presence.”

The exhibition runs from April 13th until June 5th. Private view on April 13th, from 6 to 9 PM. Adress: Via Fogazzaro 36, Milano

More details on the following links:
Website Rotor
Website Vogue

The event will take place in the Barbican Art Gallery and examines the ‘radical conceptual, formal and material qualities in the buildings of OMA’. OMA has recently been building its first project in London, the Rothschild Bank Headquarters (see picture). Rotor has presented Belgium last summer at the Venice architecture biennale with the well-received projectUsus/Usure.

Morer information: http://oma.eu/news/2011/oma-progress-in-progress

Member of the department and scientific researcher (FWO) Christophe Van Gerrewey wrote a review of A syntax of dependency: by Liam Gillick and Laurence Weiner, on show at the moment in MuHKA in Antwerp.

More information: http://www.art-agenda.com/

On Monday 21 February 2011, the first lecture takes place in auditorium D at 19h00. Hans Op De Beeck (1969, Turnhout) will present his own work, that is realized since the nineties in different media and disciplines, and of which also the scale varies from small watercolours to large spatial installations.
More information: www.hansopdebeeck.com