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Architecture Week 2005

2005年英國建築週Architecture Week即將於6月17日~6月26日於英國各地展開
這個於1997年開始的一系列當代建築藝術活動
是由英國皇家建築師協會RIBA與英格蘭藝術協會Arts Council England所共同舉辦
活動除了各類可以全家參與的展覽與論壇之外,最吸引我的就是有一系列的建築參訪活動可以參加....許多英國當代有名的建築物於活動期間會免費開放參觀,也包含一些赫赫有名的建築師事務所如Sir Norman Foster...等
有興趣的朋友(尤其剛好在英國的)可以點閱以下網站了解一下

http://www.architectureweek.org.uk/

點入深入閱讀有重點活動內容Key Events喔!

Events in Architecture Week: The national celebration of architecture (17-26 June 2005)

Get closer to architecture! Everyone has an opinion on the buildings they see around them, the places they live or work in, and the forces that change their environments. Whether they want to build a dream home or explore the latest skyscraper, Architecture Week provides a focus for public interest, nation-wide, and a chance to think about the way we live.

What makes a perfect home?  Where do we spend our free time? What will architecture be like in ten or twenty years’ time? Architecture Week typically showcases over 500 events with celebrities and celebrated architects, ranging from opportunities to see inside new buildings to exhibitions, talks and tours - and even the chance to get an architect to help redesign your own home!

This year the British Film Institute, National Theatre, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery, Royal Academy, the new Home Office building, inIVA, The Soane Museum, Whitechapel Art Gallery, De La Warr Pavilion and The Milton Keynes Gallery are all involved.

Key events include:

Ten Years of the RIBA Stirling Prize – 22 June–16 October (V&A, free).

A major exhibition at the V&A illustrating the history of the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize as it reaches its tenth year, through models, photography, plans and talks. Previous winners include 30 St. Mary Axe, London; Gateshead Millennium Bridge; NatWest Media Centre, Lord’s Cricket Ground, London; The American Air Force Museum in Britain, Duxford. Associated events are planned across the country at RIBA Stirling Prize-winning buildings.

RIBA Architect in the House – 17-26 June (national).

This event - organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects - partners members of the public with RIBA Chartered Architects throughout the country to discuss the design potential of their homes.  For up to an hour long consultation, participants are asked to make a minimum donation of £25, which goes to Shelter, the housing and homelessness charity – over £400,000 has been raised to date.

To participate in RIBA Architect in the House, register at www.architecture.com .

National Theatre ‘ArchiTours’ - 18 & 25 June at 10.15am & 12.00pm (NB: TWO tours at each time – 30 per tour; £5.00/£4.00 concessions).
Guest architects join National Theatre guides for special tours of the NT, looking at both the inside and outside of Lasdun’s building from a design, structural and practical point of view.

South Bank ‘ArchiTours’ – 21, 22 & 23 June at 7.00pm (Single tour [East or West] £5.00/£4.00 concessions; pair of tours [East and West on all dates] £10.00/£8.00).
The South Bank offers a remarkable selection of architecture from the remnants of the Festival of Britain to the Tate Modern. Starting from the National, each of these architect-led tours will take a route along the South Bank, either going East (Oxo Tower, Tate Modern, Globe) or West (Hayward Gallery, Festival Hall, London Eye). After the tour, there will be a small reception where you can talk further with the architects about some the finer points of the South Bank.

The Stadium: Architecture for the New Global Culture – Monday to Saturday, 17 June–16 July (Florence Hall, RIBA; free).

This exhibition features drawings and models from sports architecture specialists, HOK sport architecture, including the new Wembley Stadium, Ascot Racecourse, Emirates Stadium (Arsenal) and new Dome Arena. The exhibition demonstrates how stadia have evolved to act as catalysts for city regeneration. The exhibition is accompanied by extracts from the new book The Stadium : Architecture for the New Global Culture by Rod Sheard, Senior Principal of HOK sport architecture.

Urban Space by Design exhibition - 8.00am-8.00pm Monday to Friday, 3–30 June (Greater London Authority, City Hall).
40 projects, both built and unbuilt, from the recent Urban Space by Design competition are included in this exhibition. They explore urban spaces, the influence that they have on their local environments, and the physical and social relationships produced by a fusion of designs.

Sir Terry Farrell at the RENEW Rooms - 23 June (RENEW Rooms, Liverpool).

The architect of the new Home Office building in London will be taking part in an RIBA and The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce event during Architecture Week, giving a lecture at the RENEW Rooms, followed by a drinks reception and book signing at the new RIBA book shop.

Jacques Herzog and Rowan Moore: The Elements of Architecture – 6.30pm, 21 June (Starr Auditorium, Tate Modern; £7, £5 concessions).

The first of a series of conversations investigating the elements of architecture in contemporary life. Do the Vitruvian principles of commodity, firmness and delight still hold good? What is the value of sensuousness or of spectacular shape-making? With the rise of digital and virtual technologies, what is the value of the material properties of architecture? In the first event Tate Modern's architect Jacques Herzog is in conversation with The Architecture Foundation’s director Rowan Moore. In subsequent events - on June 30, July 7 and 14 - artists, writers and critics discuss their personal views on the contemporary elements of architecture: see Tate website for full details. Tickets: 020 7877 8888.

Open Practice – 21 June (London, free).

Architects' offices often become a test-bed for new materials and ideas.  Open Practice, organised by the RIBA, invites you into these spaces, to see how architects work, their influences and the environments in which they design.  This is an opportunity to see the offices of big names such as Norman Foster, as well as work by young and funky practices. See www.architecture.com for more details.

Whitechapel – Structuring Social Space - 16 June (free).

This talk explores how architecture can affect the social environment.  How do ghettos happen? Iain Borden and Sarah Featherstone look at the influence of black culture on the built environment. Tickets: 020 7522 7888.

Theatre and Architecture: The National Theatre Architecture Platform - 17 June (£3.50/£2.50 concessions).
A discussion about the specific challenges and contemporary thinking behind theatre architecture at the beginning of the twenty-first century with practitioners currently working in the field. Tickets: 020 7452 3000.

ARCHITECTURE, MEMORY & ERASURE inIVA Chat Room in collaboration with the British Museum – 24th June (£5/ £3 concessions).

‘Things are not universally correct in architecture and universally incorrect in men.’ Adorno.

Texts can be invented, but buildings do not lie. Architecture is characteristically perceived as a fixed entity, central to validating history yet simultaneously, existing outside it. Increasingly, however, architectural form and archaeological process are recognised as powerful weapons in forming our collective recollection.

How is architecture represented or misrepresented through time? What role does architecture play in contesting or reinforcing cultural memory? This discussion explores the connection between architecture, memory and cultural legitimacy. Speakers include Professor Colin Renfrew (academic and author), Robert Bevan (journalist and author) and Susan Hiller (artist). Tickets: 020 7323 8181.

‘ My Party this Way’: four artists’ alternative tours of London - 18 & 19 June at 2pm. 

Shop * Drink * Ride * Barge your way around London: Four artists invite you on a personal tour of the city, taking in some of London’s best-kept architectural secrets. Each tour starts at a central London location, where the artists will invite you aboard their own minibus with driver, for a three-hour treat. Entertaining, informative, political and challenging, this series explores the real life of the city experienced through its architectural delights and misdemeanours. See www.architectureweek.org.uk for tickets.

Mat Fraser; ‘Everything you wanted to know about access to buildings in the City but were too afraid to ask’. A polemical whistle stop tour of the best and worst the capital has to offer, in terms of accessible spaces; physical, intellectual, sensory and political. From the insistent issues of disabled access, to the new climate of security and paranoia in public spaces.

Lisa Wesley; ‘Pub Crawl’. Lisa Wesley initiates the audience into the hidden delights of London pub life, from the stylish to the down right ugly, with fact and fiction woven into an intriguing narrative fiction. Themes and issues contained in her work concern living in contemporary Britain, the blurring of reality and fantasy, the ironic play between fact and fiction, sexual stereotyping, the deconstruction of the theatre event and a preoccupation with dialect and class structures.

Marcia Farquhar; ‘Shopping Spree’. From Fortnum’s & Mason in Piccadilly to Marcia’s favourite corner shop, from the Freemasons shop in Covent Garden to specialist rubber wear retailers and rare cheese outlets and beyond, an investigation of class and notions of Englishness.

Robin Deacon; ‘TERMINAL DECLINE’. Ex-model railway enthusiast, Robin takes the audience on a journey around the railway stations of London, by minibus, train and tube, musing on the delights of city travel, from the stylish Eurostar terminal to the grungy station waiting room at Euston and back.

Architecture and…what we like - 3:00pm-4:30pm 25 June (V&A lecture theatre; details below).

From journalists and television presenters to competitions and professional talking heads, our views on architecture are constantly being constructed for us. But what makes a good building, who decides and is it really what we like?  Here is a chance to answer back -discussion and audience participation is encouraged. To purchase tickets ring the Bookings Office on 020 7942 2211.  Full price £8.50; V&A Members, Patrons, RIBA Members, students and senior citizens £5.50, disabled people (accompanying carer admitted free) and ES40-holders £3.50.

Open Day at the RIBA+V&A Study Rooms - 10.00am-5.00pm 20 June (4th floor, Henry Cole Wing, V&A; free).
The recently opened new research facilities, designed by Wright & Wright give free access to over a million architectural drawings and archives, and offer a wide range of information services.  The Open Day will show off the complementary architectural collections of both the V&A and the RIBA, including new accessions, historic drawing instruments and rarely seen treasures. Curators from both collections will give talks about items on display. At 11.00am and 3.00pm there will be guided visits to the Architecture Gallery, led by curators from the collections.

bfi & TATE and Architecture Week:

·        Alphaville (Jean Luc Godard, France, 1965) – 7pm 18 June (£4). 

Godard's hugely influential sci-fi thriller was originally called Tarzan vs. IBM, a title indicative of its pop art/pulp fiction sensibility and suggestive of its theme: the alienating, dehumanizing effects of contemporary corporate/computer culture.

·        The Films of Gordon Matta-Clark - Programme One: Fresh Kills - 6.30pm 22 July (£4).

The late chainsaw-wielding artist Gordon Matta-Clark is best known as an 'anarchitect' who literally deconstructed abandoned buildings and industrial spaces. Much less known are his works as a filmmaker, works that reveal his performances and installations more fully and create their own cinematically arresting terrain.

·        The Films of Gordon Matta-Clark - Programme Two: City Slivers - 6.30pm 23 July (£4).

Richard Nonas, artist and former member of the Anarchitecture group, introduces five more films that delve deep into Matta-Clark's obsession with buildings, gaps, cuts, slices...and fish?

Tickets: 020 7877 8888.

How to Save Money and Save the Planet! - 9.00am - 12.00pm, 1.00pm - 5.30pm 17, 20-24 June (Koru Design, 4A Burton Villas; £20 donation to The Centre for Alternative Technology).

Small Hove practice Koru Design discusses the sustainable design potential of your home/workplace.

Secrets and Crimes – 17, 22, 24 June 10.00am - 2.00pm, 18, 25 June 10.00am - 4.00pm, 20, 21 June 10.00am - 7.00pm, 23 June 10.00am - 7.00pm (Jubilee Library, Brighton; free).

An opportunity to look at the library as place of mystery and secrets, knowledge and revelation. At Brighton's new Jubilee Library by Bennetts Associates.

Hard-hat tour of the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill - 6.00pm - 7.30pm 23 June (free but pre-booking essential).

The Centre of the Universe in Oxford University Parks – 17-22 June (University Parks, Oxford; free).

A 30 foot high radio telescope (and sculpture) right in the middle of the parks! Visitors will be able to visit Jem Finer in his on-site lab and hear the sounds of the universe received through the telescope.

Tour the Crescent Community Resource Centre, Reading – 20 June (free).

The Centre is designed to meet the needs of voluntary organisations and the local community. Tour the Centre with its architect, John Cook of Jessop and Cook Architects.

Look Who’s Talking - 18 June (Milton Keynes Gallery; free).

Michael Stanley, Director of Milton Keynes Gallery, offers his personal perspective on Milton Keynes Gallery’s Langlands and Bell exhibition (7 June to 24 July) in this informal talk

For the full guide to Architecture Week events, visit www.architectureweek.org.uk .

Architecture Week 2005 is organised and managed by Arts Council England.

Architecture Week 2005 is an Arts Council England and Royal Institute of British Architects joint initiative in association with the Architecture Centre Network.

Notes for editors:

1.      For further press information on Architecture Week and images please contact Jonathan Morrison at the RIBA on 020 7307 3884; jonathan.morrison@inst.riba.org or Julienne Webster at Caro Communications on 020 7336 8488; julienne@carocommunications (NOT FOR PUBLICATION)

2.      For further information on RIBA Architect in the House, please contact Jonathan Morrison at the RIBA or Helen Bird at Shelter on 020 7505 2051; helen_bird@shelter.org.uk (NOT FOR PUBLICATION)

3.      Shelter believes everyone should have a home and helps 100,000 people a year fight for their rights, get back on their feet, and find and keep a home. We also tackle the root causes of Britain's housing crisis by campaigning for new laws, policies and solutions.  Shelter launched the Million Children Campaign in April 2004 aimed at getting the Government to commit to ending bad housing for the next generation of children.