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Postmodernism
Where: Victoria and Albert Museum
Rooms 38 and 39, and North Court, London, UK
When: Saturday, September 24, 2011 - Sunday, January 08 2012
Admission charge will apply
The ideas of Postmodernism emerged first in architecture. While the Modernist slogan had been ‘less is more’, architects like Robert Venturi, Michael Graves and Aldo Rossi insisted that ‘less is a bore’. They took a new interest in buildings from the past, and from popular phenomena such as highway strip malls. Though few of these early Postmodern buildings were actually constructed, the ideas forwarded by this “paper architecture” became hugely influential on everything from furniture to graphics.
The exhibition will also look at the popular side of Postmodernism, especially the music of the time: raves, New Wave, Hip-hop and graffiti art. With the help of the new design medium of the pop-promo video, the new Postmodern celebrities-like Grace Jones, Boy George and Madonna-became famous, most of all, for being famous. Their relationship to the media was more self-conscious, more ironic, and more artfully designed than the popular culture icons of any previous period.
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Beam: Imagination and participation in the public realm
Starts: May 21 2011 10:00am
Ends: September 10 2011 4:00pm
Beam Gallery, The Orangery, Back Lane, Wakefield, WF1 2TG
Cost: Free
n exhibition celebrating Beam’s creative activity in architecture, art, training, and education over the past 10 years—- dedicated to all those people we’ve worked with and those we will work with in the future.
The exhibition explores Beam’s creative approach and range of projects, with an eye to the future of public spaces and places throughout Yorkshire and beyond. It covers Beam’s activities in public art, community participation and leadership support, continuing professional development and knowledge-sharing. In the past decade Beam has engaged with hundreds of artists, architects, councillors, and professionals in local government, education, culture, health, and regeneration, and ‘ordinary’ citizens of all ages. People are at the core of our work.
Over the next few months The Orangery Gallery will play host to an array of photographs, films and commissioned artwork alongside other media, charting Beam’s unique spread of activities and interactions from Wakefield to London, Finland, and Japan.
For more information visit: http://www.beam.uk.net or phone 01924 215550.
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A Sense of Space - Good Practice Seminar
Wednesday 9th February 2011
9:45am - 7:30pm
The Orangery, Back Lane, Wakefield, WF1 2TG
A professional development seminar and workshop for public realm managers, outdoor artists, producers, programmers, designers and landscape architects.
What is the role of 'Outdoor Arts' and what do we mean by 'public realm'?
How is public space designed & managed, and why?
In the context of 'the Big Society' and the 'well-being' agenda, how can all the professions involved work better together to facilitate imagination in the pubic realm?
Experts confirmed so far..
Irena Bauman - Architect, Bauman Lyons
Sarah Gaventa - Director of Public Space, CABE
Sponsored by ISAN, delivered by Beam.
To book your place contact Catherine Hawksley at Beam by phone 01924 215550
or e-mail cathy@beam.uk.net For more information visit:
http://www.beam.uk.net/news
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Transforming the Boroughs
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
What the 33 boroughs are up to with a focus on Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, The City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Lambeth, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Southwark, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth and the City of Westminster.
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Major London Issues
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
This evolving display studies twelve environmental sectors that play a part in development and construction in London. Exhibits and monthly events - seminars, talks and briefings - that relate to each topic will track the major drivers within each sector and assess the impact of government and mayoral policies.
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Pipers Central London Model
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
The Pipers Central London model forms the centrepiece of the NLA galleries and is built to a scale of 1:1500. Measuring some 12m, the model covers an area from Paddington in the west to The Royal Docks in the east and from Battersea in the south to King's Cross in the north. Major new and proposed buildings with planning permission are highlighted in white, including the Olympic masterplan and a range of new tall buildings set to transform London's skyline.
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London Olympic and Paralympic Games
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
The Olympic Park is the defining element of the London UK Events
Global Events
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Transforming the Boroughs
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
What the 33 boroughs are up to with a focus on Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, The City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Lambeth, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Southwark, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth and the City of Westminster.
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Major London Issues
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
This evolving display studies twelve environmental sectors that play a part in development and construction in London. Exhibits and monthly events - seminars, talks and briefings - that relate to each topic will track the major drivers within each sector and assess the impact of government and mayoral policies.
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Pipers Central London Model
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
The Pipers Central London model forms the centrepiece of the NLA galleries and is built to a scale of 1:1500. Measuring some 12m, the model covers an area from Paddington in the west to The Royal Docks in the east and from Battersea in the south to King's Cross in the north. Major new and proposed buildings with planning permission are highlighted in white, including the Olympic masterplan and a range of new tall buildings set to transform London's skyline.
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London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
The Olympic Park is the defining element of the London 2012 Games. During the Games it will provide a central circulation spine and parkland setting for the sporting venues, and after, it will be transformed into the largest urban park created in Europe for more than 150 years.
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The Olympic Wall - London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - On permanent display
The Olympic Park is the defining element of the London 2012 Games. During the UK Events
Global Events
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Transforming the Boroughs
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
What the 33 boroughs are up to with a focus on Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, The City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Lambeth, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Southwark, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth and the City of Westminster.
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Major London Issues
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
This evolving display studies twelve environmental sectors that play a part in development and construction in London. Exhibits and monthly events - seminars, talks and briefings - that relate to each topic will track the major drivers within each sector and assess the impact of government and mayoral policies.
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Pipers Central London Model
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
The Pipers Central London model forms the centrepiece of the NLA galleries and is built to a scale of 1:1500. Measuring some 12m, the model covers an area from Paddington in the west to The Royal Docks in the east and from Battersea in the south to King's Cross in the north. Major new and proposed buildings with planning permission are highlighted in white, including the Olympic masterplan and a range of new tall buildings set to transform London's skyline.
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London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
The Olympic Park is the defining element of the London 2012 Games. During the Games it will provide a central circulation spine and parkland setting for the sporting venues, and after, it will be transformed into the largest urban park created in Europe for more than 150 years.
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The Olympic Wall - London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - On permanent display
The Olympic Park is the defining element of the London 2012 Games. During the Games it will provide a central circulation spine and parkland setting for the sporting venues, and after, it will be transformed into the largest urban park created in Europe for more than 150 years. This permanent exhibition displays plans for the Olympic Park and the Olympic and Paralympic venues, and will be updated as plans progress.
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Online Exhibitions
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This virtual exhibition charts the growth of the city by looking at maps of it through the ages. The exhibition is broken down into seven themes, each broadly covering a different period in the city's history.
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Clare Strand and John Kippin were each commissioned by Fotonet-south to research and produce work, specifically for this website, on one or more of the New Towns in Southern England. They have each produced two very different exhibitions online which successfully offer new ways of viewing the contemporary New Town.
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by Clare Strand takes a play by Eugene Ionesco as a starting point for stories of contemporary life in a new town - the Theatre of the Absurd visits Utopia in Surrey to the music of Steve Reich.
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by John Kippin is a cool ironic look at the Developer's Brochure with a scale model of the dream habitat.
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Exhibitions and museums dedicated to urbanism, architecture and design.
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URBIS(continous)
Place: Cathedral Gardens, Manchester, M4 3BG
Urbis is an exhibition centre about city life. Visitors can explore exhibitions about contemporary art & design, urban gardening, the city environment and the people who make our cities what they are.
Five floors of changing exhibitions offer unique insights into the culture of the modern city, about Manchester, art and culture including innovative explorations of design, architecture, graffiti, music and the urban environment.
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Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design (Continous)
Place: Klingelhöferstraße 14, 10785 Berlin, Germany
The Bauhaus was the twentieth century's most important school of design, architecture and art. Its programme and products have maintained their influence on design up to the present day.
Objects from the Collection, which is the world's largest on the subject and represents the entire spectrum of Bauhaus activities, are presented in the spacious UK Events
Global Events
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Transforming the Boroughs
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
What the 33 boroughs are up to with a focus on Barking & Dagenham, Barnet, The City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Lambeth, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Southwark, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth and the City of Westminster.
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Major London Issues
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
This evolving display studies twelve environmental sectors that play a part in development and construction in London. Exhibits and monthly events - seminars, talks and briefings - that relate to each topic will track the major drivers within each sector and assess the impact of government and mayoral policies.
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Pipers Central London Model
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
The Pipers Central London model forms the centrepiece of the NLA galleries and is built to a scale of 1:1500. Measuring some 12m, the model covers an area from Paddington in the west to The Royal Docks in the east and from Battersea in the south to King's Cross in the north. Major new and proposed buildings with planning permission are highlighted in white, including the Olympic masterplan and a range of new tall buildings set to transform London's skyline.
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London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Dates: On permanent display
Place: NLA, The Building Centre, 26 Store Street, London WC1E 7BT
The Olympic Park is the defining element of the London 2012 Games. During the Games it will provide a central circulation spine and parkland setting for the sporting venues, and after, it will be transformed into the largest urban park created in Europe for more than 150 years.
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The Olympic Wall - London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games - On permanent display
The Olympic Park is the defining element of the London 2012 Games. During the Games it will provide a central circulation spine and parkland setting for the sporting venues, and after, it will be transformed into the largest urban park created in Europe for more than 150 years. This permanent exhibition displays plans for the Olympic Park and the Olympic and Paralympic venues, and will be updated as plans progress.
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Online Exhibitions
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This virtual exhibition charts the growth of the city by looking at maps of it through the ages. The exhibition is broken down into seven themes, each broadly covering a different period in the city's history.
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Clare Strand and John Kippin were each commissioned by Fotonet-south to research and produce work, specifically for this website, on one or more of the New Towns in Southern England. They have each produced two very different exhibitions online which successfully offer new ways of viewing the contemporary New Town.
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by Clare Strand takes a play by Eugene Ionesco as a starting point for stories of contemporary life in a new town - the Theatre of the Absurd visits Utopia in Surrey to the music of Steve Reich.
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by John Kippin is a cool ironic look at the Developer's Brochure with a scale model of the dream habitat.
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Exhibitions and museums dedicated to urbanism, architecture and design.
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URBIS(continous)
Place: Cathedral Gardens, Manchester, M4 3BG
Urbis is an exhibition centre about city life. Visitors can explore exhibitions about contemporary art & design, urban gardening, the city environment and the people who make our cities what they are.
Five floors of changing exhibitions offer unique insights into the culture of the modern city, about Manchester, art and culture including innovative explorations of design, architecture, graffiti, music and the urban environment.
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Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design (Continous)
Place: Klingelhöferstraße 14, 10785 Berlin, Germany
The Bauhaus was the twentieth century's most important school of design, architecture and art. Its programme and products have maintained their influence on design up to the present day.
Objects from the Collection, which is the world's largest on the subject and represents the entire spectrum of Bauhaus activities, are presented in the spacious galleries of the Museum.
The building (1976-79), designed by Walter Gropius, also houses a shop, a cafe, a lecture and the archives which hold an extensive multi-disciplinary book and magazine collection available to view and study.
Audio guides in several languages are available at the reception.
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Shanghai Urban Planning Exhibition Centre (Continous)
Place: 100 Renmin Dadao, People's Square 200002, Shanghai
This museum showcases Shanghai's rapid ongoing development through models and multimedia displays.
