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Richard Rogers & Architects
The detailed survey of the v^^ork of Richard
Rogers and his partners over the last 40
years starts with his early projects with Nor-
man and Wendy Foster and Su Rogers at
Team 4 in the 1960s, but also looks at the
design of the Centre Pompidou in the 1970s
and his extensive work with Richard Rogers
Partnership.
From Lloyd's of London to Terminal 4 at Ma-
drid Barajas Airport, from the Zip-Up House
of 1968 to the proposals for Shanghai's Lu
Jia Zui's urban development, the exhibition
presents a substantial survey of past and
current projects and illustrates Rogers' vi-
sion of architecture's formative social role.
21 November 2007 to 3 March 2008, Centre
Pompidou, Paris, v^ww.centrepcmpidou.fr
The Architecture of Yemen
The extraordinary multi-storey buildings that
constitute the heart of many Yemeni cities,
dating back hundreds of years but continu-
ally renewed and rebuilt by their inhabitants,
are an interesting example of iiving
sustainable architecture that is both tradi-
tionai and contemporary.
Celebrating the rich building traditions and
architecture of Yemen, the exhibition
focuses on four major provinces, Daii',
Yafi', Shabwah and Hadramut, and explores
how this building culture and the fabric and
environment of Yemeni towns, is increasing-
ly under threat from commercial construc-
tion and corporate urban development.
8 November 2007 to 19 January 2008,
RIBA, London, www.architecture.com
Emerging Architecture
Now in its eighth year, the annual Architec-
tural Review Awards has become the
ieading programme for architects and
designers under 45, regularly attracting
over 500 entries from around the world.
An immense diversity of projects, covering
areas such as buildings, interiors, prod-
uct design, engineering structures, urban-
ism and landscape, provides a fascinat-
ing snapshot of architecture's emerging
generation.
1 December to 28 February 2007, RIBA,
London, www.architecture.com
Richard Meier: Art and Architecture
This retrospective soio exhibition gives an
overview of Meier's international architectur-
al creations together with an exploration of
his sculpture, collages, drawings, photo-
graphs, furniture and product design over
45 years.
Richard Meier remains the youngest recipi-
ent of the Pritzker Prize (1984).
He is renowned internationally for cultural
projects.
Opened 12 October 2007, The Louise T
Blouin Institute, London,
www, itbfoundation.org
Jean Prouve
The radical, functional and inspiring vrark of
the French designer and engineer Jean
Prouve (1901-1984) will be shown with ex-
amples of his furniture design, architecture,
drawings, film and photographs. The exhibi-
tion will present the influence of Prouve with-
in the history of 20th century design.
7 December 2007 to 23 March 2008,
Design Museum, London, www,designmu-
seum.org
London's Learning
London is experiencing one of the biggest
investments in education and skilis infra-
structure since the 1960s. Architecture and
construction face several challenges in this:
not only must they deliver an ambitious pro-
gramme of new educationai buildings for
the capital but also be a part of the educa-
tion process - delivering traditional and new
skills in design and construction.
1 November 2007 to 5 January 2008, New
London Architecture, London, viAvw.newlon-
donarchitecture.org
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future will ex-
amine the architect's wide-ranging career
from the 1930s through the eariy 1960s.
Saarinen's international array of buildings
will be featured, as well as his path-breaking
designs for furniture and his master plans
for civic centres and universities,
17 November 2007 to 30 March 2008, Oran-
brook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Ml,
USA, vww.cranbrookart.edu
Michael Maltzan Architecture: The Dark
Side of the Moon
A new site-specific installation of Michael
Maitzan Architecture introduces a new
threshold in the gallery, creating a space
between two worlds that provokes interac-
tion and a simultaneous experience for, and
between, visitors. As viewers enter the gal-
iery, a surface descends above them, arc-
ing across the entirety of the space and
gradually bending toward the gallery fioor.
Expanding the role that this 'fifth fagade' has
piayed in Michael Maltzan Architecture's re-
cent projects, the exhibition transforms the
soffit of the gallery into a unique space.
Until 9 December 2007, Southern California
Institute of Architecture, Los Angeles,
www. sci arc, edu
Marcei Breuer: Design and Architecture
The exhibition wili focus on Marcel Breuer's
achievement in furniture and interior design
and at the same time, it will provide an op-
portunity to reintroduce Breuer's architectur-
al work with its significance in the history of
modern architecture,
3 November 2007 to 17 February 2008,
Nationai Building Museum, Washington, DO,
vww.nbm.org
Reports 599
Barkow Leibinger. Reflect
Andres Lepik (Hg.), Hatje Oantz, Stuttgart
2007, 130 pp., hardcover, ISBN 978-3-7757-
1954-4, C27.16; US$55: €39,80
Seoul is one of the five most densely popu-
lated cities in the world, spiliing out beyond
its confines at a tremendous rate to incorpo-
rate surrounding areas devoid of history or
context. The experimental fagade devel-
oped for the Trutec Building is a broken cu-
bic surface structure embodying complete
autonomy, while kaieidoscopically refiecting
and communicating with its surroundings
under the influence of light. Atmospheric
photographs show an endless variation of
reflections and retractions, illustrating the
permanently dynamic state of alteration of
the fagade in the course of one day. Design
and building process sketches coupled with
informative text material, make this book a
very interesting guide on how to make use
of new technical developments. The en-
closed film introduces the components of
time and space. This city simply does not
stand still. In a faceless setting without histo-
ry, the buiiding nevertheless achieves a mo-
mentary pause, by capturing the aesthetic
element ofthe moment and creating the illu-
sion that fragments of the past may be con-
cealed therein. Peter Popp
Hiroshi Sugimoto Architecture
Museum of Ocntemporary Art, Ohicago,
Hatje Cantz, Stuttgart 2007, Text dt., engl.,
ISBN 3-7757-2056-4, £36.60; USS75; €58
Known for his long-exposure photographic
series of empty movie theatres and drive-
ins, seascapes, museum dioramas, and
waxworks, Hiroshi Sugimoto has been turn-
ing his camera on international icons of
20th century architecture since 1997. His
deliberately blurred and seemingly timeless
black-and-white photographs, shot distinctly
out of focus and from unusual angles, are
not attempts at documentation but rather
evocation - meant to isolate the buildings
from their contexts, allowing them to exist
as dreamiike. uninhabited ideais.