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  • Architonic-Letter: Verner Panton

    Zürich. Architonic presentiert zum 10. Todestag von Verner Panton die offizielle Website des Jahrhundert-Designers. Mehr>

    Zuerich. Architonic presents the official webportal for Verner Panton to the tenth anniversary of Verner Paanton’s death. More>

  • Walking as a Method of Town PerceptionGehen als Methode der Stadtwahrnehmung


    Walking is the easiest and most natural kind to explore a town. Our mobility has changed not only our surroundings, but also our look at the world. Therefore, arrangements like Luminale are so popular because they stimulate new routes through the everyday area. In September the congress examines such type of the town perception. The walk science – or also Promenadology – was developed in the 1980s by the Swiss sociologist and planning theorist Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) and deals with our perception and mobility as well as their consequences town planning. Info to the congress: More>Gehen ist die einfachste und natürlichste Art, sich eine Stadt zu erschließen. Unsere Mobilität hat nicht nur unsere Umgebung geändert, sondern auch unseren Blick auf die Welt. Deshalb sind Veranstaltungen wie die Luminale so beliebt, weil sie zu neuen Routen durch das eigentlich vertraute Gelände anregen. Im September untersucht der Kongress „Gut zu Fuß“ diese Art der Stadtwahrnehmung. Die Spaziergangswissenschaft – oder auch Promenadologie – wurde in den 1980er Jahren von dem Schweizer Soziologen und Planungstheoretiker Lucius Burckhardt (1925-2003) entwickelt und beschäftigt sich mit unserer Wahrnehmung und Mobilität sowie deren Auswirkungen auf das Planen und Bauen. Informationen zum Kongress: Mehr>

  • The World’s First Sustainable DanceClub Just OpenedErste „nachhaltige“ Disco der Welt eröffnet


    Rotterdam. WATT is a hotly-anticipated, experimental pop venue in the Netherlands. WATT has street cred, yet it also shows that nightlife, sustanability and a commercial enterprise can go together to make a successful business. WATT is ahead of the game in terms of sustainable business practice within the industry and is at the cutting edge of innovation. More>Rotterdam. WATT ist einer der ganz heißen Popkultur-Locations in den Niederlanden. WATT hat eine hohe Glaubwürdigkeit bei der Zielgruppe und zeigt, dass Nachtleben, Nachhaltigkeit und Kommerz zu einem erfolgreichen Geschäft zusammen geführt werden können. WATT ist vorn im Wettbewerb um nachhaltige Geschäftsentwicklung und steht mit an der Spitze der Innovation. Mehr>

  • Tipp: „o.T.“ by Hans Peter Kuhn in NeumünsterTipp: „o.T.“ von Hans Peter Kuhn in Neumünster

    Neumünster. Lichtkunst-Freunde in Neumünster haben die Arbeit „o.T.“ von Hans Peter Kuhn angekauft. Übergabe ist am 23. September. Sie wird in der Ausstellung nordskulptur:licht gezeigt. Mehr>

    Neumünster. Light art-friends in Neumünster have bought the work „o. T. “ from Hans Peter Kuhn. Art opening is on the 23rd September. The installation is part of the exhibition nordskulptur:licht. More>

  • September 2008September 2008

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    Amsterdam: Redlight Design / Project of DROOG während der ExeriperimentaDesign 08

    Celle: Kunstmuseum Celle – Das erste 24 Stunden-Kunstmuseum der Welt zeigt Otto Piene

    Prag: tina b. Festival / Section: Darkness is Noon

    Bukarest: Noptea alba

    Madrid: Noche en blanco

    Seoul: 5. Media Art Biennale: Turn and Widen / Light, Communication and Time

    New York: MoMa / Vincent van Gogh und die Farben der Nacht

    Studio Taschide (Luminale-Projekt Lili-Tempel) in London

    Philips LEDs On Tour: verschiedene Orte

    Wieselburg: Kongress Licht und Farbe

    Dresden: Stiftung Lebendige Stadt / Klimaschutz-Kongress

    Stuttgart: Chris Bosse / Watercube Beijing

    Belgrade: Belgrade of Lighting / Transnational Lighting Detectives

    Dortmund: Ausstellung zum 80. Geburtstag von Otto Piene. Mehr>

    Linz: Ars Electronica Mehr> Luminapolis Report>

    Venedig: Updating Germany /Biennale di Venezia Mehr>

    Frankfurt: 14. Saisonstart der Galerien Mehr>

    Ilmenau: Licht 2008 / TU Ilmenau Mehr>

    Wiesbaden: Nacht der Kirchen Mehr>

    Mühlheim/Ruhr: RuhrLights – Lichtkunst entlang der Ruhr Mehr>

    Karlsruhe: 2008/2009 zumtobel group award im Architekturzentrum Mehr>

    Darmstadt: TU Darmstadt: Tagung Automobilbeleuchtung

    Paris: Lumiere du Japon

    Darmstadt: Lange Nacht der Museen

    Köln: The Sky is no Limit / plan 08

    Köln: The Sky is no Limit / plan 08

    If you want announce a date, please mail to: luminale@westermann-kommunikation.de

    Amsterdam: Redlight Design / Project of DROOG during ExeriperimentaDesign 08

    Celle: Kunstmuseum Celle – The first 24hours-Art Museum of the world presents Otto Piene

    Prague: tina b. Festival / Section: Darkness is Noon

    Bukarest: Noptea alba

    Madrid: Noche en blanco

    Seoul: 5. Media Art Biennale: Turn and Widen / Light, Communication and Time

    New York: MoMa / Vincent van Gogh and the Colors of Night

    Studio Taschide (Luminale-Project Lili-Tempel) in London

    Philips LEDs On Tour: serveral cities

    Wieselburg: Congress Light and Color

    Dresden: Stiftung Lebendige Stadt / Climate Protection-Conference

    Stuttgart: Chris Bosse / Watercube Beijing

    Belgrade: Belgrade of Lighting / Transnational Lighting Detectives

    Dortmund: Exhibition 80th birthday of Otto Piene. More>

    Linz: Ars Electronica More> Luminapolis reports>

    Venice: Updating Germany / Biennale di Venezia More>

    Frankfurt: 14th start of the gallery season More>

    Ilmenau: Light 2008 / Conference More>

    Wiesbaden: Night of the Churches More>

    Mühlheim/Ruhr: RuhrLights – Light art along the river Ruhr More>

    Karlsruhe: 2008/2009 zumtobel group award at the Architekturzentrum More>

    Darmstadt: Lange Nacht der Museen

    Köln: The Sky is no Limit / plan 08

  • Darmstädter Architektursommer: Solar House Coming Home

    Darmstadt. Am 31. August ab 10.00 Uhr ist das energieeffizienteste Solarhaus der Welt zu besichtigen. Entstanden ist es an der TU Darmstadt. Jetzt wird es dauerhaft auf der Lichtwiese errichtet. Mehr> Siehe auch Luminapolis-Report Raumcontainer

    Darmstadt. 31st August from 10h the most energy-efficient solar house of the world can be visited. It comes from the University of Technology of Darmstadt. Now it is established permanently on the Lichtwiese (light meadow). More> Look also Luminapolis-report space container.

  • Olympic Lighting in Beijing

    Peking. Die Regie für die Feierlichkeiten der Olympischen Spiele führte der international bekannte Filmregisseur Zhang Yimou. Laserlicht, LEDs, Feuerwerk mischten High Tech mit Tradition. Technischer Direktor Yu Jianping verwendete zur Steuerung des Events Software aus dem chinesischen Raumfahrtprogramm. Martin Professional lieferte allein 1.100 automatisierte Scheinwerfer. Andere Technologie-Partner: HD-Projektion/High End Systems und Moving Lights/Vari*Lite und Clay Paky. Beeindruckend die Feuerwerks-Inszenierung von Cai Guo Qiang. Der Künstler ist international bestens bekannt. Er stellte unter anderem auch im Deutschen Guggenheim in Berlin aus. Im Team auch der Deutsche Andree Verleger aus Düsseldorf. Hier einige Links zu Hintergründen: Interview mit Zhang Yimou und seinem Team Mehr> Der Entstehungsprozess Mehr> Technology details and pictures Mehr>

    Beijing. Internationally well known director Zhang Yimou led the direction for the festivities of the Olympic games. Laser light, LEDs, fireworks mixed hightech with tradition. Technical manager Yu Jianping used software from the Chinese space program to manage the event. Martin Professional delivered 1.100 automated luminaires. (Read the interview with chinese lighting designer Sha Xiao Lan). Other technology partners: HD-Projection/High End Systems and Moving Lights/Vari*Lite, Clay Paky. Especially impressively the fireworks invented by Cai Guoqiang. The artist is perfectly known internationally. Among the rest, he also exhibited at the German Guggenheim in Berlin. Member of team also was the German Andree Verleger from Duesseldorf. Here some links as backgrounds: Interview with Zhang Yimou and his team More> The making of More> Technology details and pictures More>

  • Green Energy: Kennedy’s Photovoltaic Curtains

    Boston. Aufsehen erregende Neuigkeit vom Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT aus Boston). Sheila Kennedy, die sich mit der Integration von Solarzellen in die Architektur beschäftigt, hat Strom erzeugende Vorhänge entwickelt. Das Büro Kennedy Violich Architecture betreibt auch seit längerem das Projekt „Portable Light„, das in Entwicklungsländern zu einer vom Netz unabhängigen Beleuchtung in den Abendstunden beiträgt, die beispielsweise für die Bildung nach Feierabend genutzt werden kann.

    Aber lesen Sie selbst: „Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy. These new materials, known as solar textiles, work like the now-familiar photovoltaic cells in solar panels. Made of semiconductor materials, they absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity.

    Kennedy uses 3-D modeling software to design with solar textiles, generating membrane-like surfaces that can become energy-efficient cladding for roofs or walls. Solar textiles may also be draped like curtains.“Surfaces that define space can also be producers of energy,“ says Kennedy, a visiting lecturer in architecture. „The boundaries between traditional walls and utilities are shifting.“

    Principal architect in the Boston firm, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd., and design director of its materials research group, KVA Matx, Kennedy came to MIT this year. She was inspired, she says, by President Susan Hockfield’s plan to make MIT the „energy university“ and by MIT’s interdisciplinary energy curriculum that integrates research and practice.

    This spring, Kennedy taught a new MIT architecture course, Soft Space: Sustainable Strategies for Textile Construction. She challenged the students to design architectural proposals for a new fast train station and public market in Porto, Portugal.

    For Mary Hale, graduate student in architecture, Kennedy’s Soft Space course was an inspiration to pursue photovoltaic technology in her master’s thesis. „I have always been interested in photovoltaics, but before this studio, I am not sure that I would have felt empowered to integrate them into a personal, self-propelled, project,“ she says.

    Kennedy, for her part, will pursue her research in pushing the envelope of energy-efficiency and architecture. A recent project, „Soft House,“ exhibited at the Vitra Design Museum in Essen, Germany, illustrates what Kennedy means when she says the boundaries between walls and utilities are changing.

    For Soft House, Kennedy transformed household curtains into mobile, flexible energy-harvesting surfaces with integrated solid-state lighting. Soft House curtains move to follow the sun and can generate up to 16,000 watt-hours of electricity–more than half the daily power needs of an average American household. Although full-scale Soft House prototypes were successfully developed, the project points to a challenge energy innovators and other inventors face, Kennedy says. „Emerging technologies tend to under-perform compared with dominant mainstream technologies.“

    For example, organic photovoltaics (OPV), an emergent solar nano-technology used by the Soft House design team, are currently less efficient than glass-based solar technologies, Kennedy says.

    But that lower efficiency needn’t be an insurmountable roadblock to the marketplace, Kennedy says, because Soft House provides an actual application of the unique material advantages of solar nano-technologies without having to compete with the centralized grid.

    Which brings her back to the hands-on, prototype-building approach Kennedy hopes to draw from in her teaching and work at MIT. „Working prototypes are a very important demonstration tool for showing people that there are whole new ways to think about energy,“ she says.“

    Links to Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd.>

    Links to the non-profit project portablelight.org>

    Link to Luminale/Boston connection>Boston. MIT news reports: Sheila Kennedy, an expert in the integration of solar cell technology in architecture who is now at MIT, creates designs for flexible photovoltaic materials that may change the way buildings receive and distribute energy. These new materials, known as solar textiles, work like the now-familiar photovoltaic cells in solar panels. Made of semiconductor materials, they absorb sunlight and convert it into electricity.

    Kennedy uses 3-D modeling software to design with solar textiles, generating membrane-like surfaces that can become energy-efficient cladding for roofs or walls. Solar textiles may also be draped like curtains. „Surfaces that define space can also be producers of energy,“ says Kennedy, a visiting lecturer in architecture. „The boundaries between traditional walls and utilities are shifting.“

    Principal architect in the Boston firm, Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd., and design director of its materials research group, KVA Matx, Kennedy came to MIT this year. She was inspired, she says, by President Susan Hockfield’s plan to make MIT the „energy university“ and by MIT’s interdisciplinary energy curriculum that integrates research and practice.

    This spring, Kennedy taught a new MIT architecture course, Soft Space: Sustainable Strategies for Textile Construction. She challenged the students to design architectural proposals for a new fast train station and public market in Porto, Portugal.

    For Mary Hale, graduate student in architecture, Kennedy’s Soft Space course was an inspiration to pursue photovoltaic technology in her master’s thesis. „I have always been interested in photovoltaics, but before this studio, I am not sure that I would have felt empowered to integrate them into a personal, self-propelled, project,“ she says.

    Kennedy, for her part, will pursue her research in pushing the envelope of energy-efficiency and architecture. A recent project, „Soft House,“ exhibited at the Vitra Design Museum in Essen, Germany, illustrates what Kennedy means when she says the boundaries between walls and utilities are changing.

    For Soft House, Kennedy transformed household curtains into mobile, flexible energy-harvesting surfaces with integrated solid-state lighting. Soft House curtains move to follow the sun and can generate up to 16,000 watt-hours of electricity–more than half the daily power needs of an average American household.

    Although full-scale Soft House prototypes were successfully developed, the project points to a challenge energy innovators and other inventors face, Kennedy says. „Emerging technologies tend to under-perform compared with dominant mainstream technologies.“

    For example, organic photovoltaics (OPV), an emergent solar nano-technology used by the Soft House design team, are currently less efficient than glass-based solar technologies, Kennedy says.

    But that lower efficiency needn’t be an insurmountable roadblock to the marketplace, Kennedy says, because Soft House provides an actual application of the unique material advantages of solar nano-technologies without having to compete with the centralized grid. Which brings her back to the hands-on, prototype-building approach Kennedy hopes to draw from in her teaching and work at MIT.

    „Working prototypes are a very important demonstration tool for showing people that there are whole new ways to think about energy,“ she says.

    Links to Kennedy & Violich Architecture, Ltd.>

    Links to the non-profit project portablelight.org>

    Link to Luminale/Boston connection>

  • iGuzzini illuminazione in Beijing


    The National Grand Theatre, located in the centre of Beijing, approximately 500 metres away from Tiananmen Square, is a real island of culture in the centre of a lake. iGuzzini illuminazione worked with Paul Andreu and the lighting designer Kaoru Mende to create artificial lighting in the public spaces and the foyer. The relationship between the building and the landscape by day and by night was a fundamental consideration in the design process. More>Das National Grand Theatre, im Zentrum von Peking, etwa 500 Meter vom Tien-An-Men-Platz und der Verbotenen Stadt entfernt, ist eine wahre Insel der Kultur in der Mitte eines Sees. iGuzzini illuminazione hat mit Paul Andreu und dem Lichtdesigner Kaoru Mende an der Realisierung der künstlichen Beleuchtung der öffentlichen Bereiches und des Foyers zusammen gearbeitet. Das Verhältnis zwischen dem Gebäude und der umliegenden Landschaft bei Tag und bei Nacht war von grundsätzlicher Bedeutung bei der Planung. Mehr>