ACTAR is launching its New York office on Thursday the 16th, from 6.30 to 9.30pm at the Van Alen Institute. Come see Blue Monday, AUDC's first book as well as a preview of Infrastructural City: Los Angeles, which I am editing as a co-production of the NetLab and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, November 16, 2006, 6:30 ”“ 9:30 pm
EXHIBITION
Thursday, November 16 ”“ Friday, November 24, 2006
Van Alen Institute is located at 30 W. 22nd Street, 6th Floor. Take the Q, N, R or F, V trains to 23rd Street.
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ACTAR is launching its New York office on Thursday the 16th, from 6.30 to 9.30pm at the Van Alen Institute. Come see Blue Monday, AUDC's first book as well as a preview of Infrastructural City: Los Angeles, which I am editing as a co-production of the NetLab and the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.
The invite reads as follows:
VAN ALEN INSTITUTE welcomes ACTAR to New York
with an Exhibition and Reception
at the Van Alen Institute, 30 W. 22nd Street, 6th Floor
OPENING RECEPTION
Thursday, November 16, 2006, 6:30 ”“ 9:30 pm
EXHIBITION
Thursday, November 16 ”“ Friday, November 24, 2006
Van Alen Institute is located at 30 W. 22nd Street, 6th Floor. Take the Q, N, R or F, V trains to 23rd Street.
Van Alen Institute cordially invites you to an exhibition and reception for ACTAR, an international publisher of innovative books on art, architecture, photography and design based in Barcelona. As a leading nonprofit organization dedicated to architecture and public practice, Van Alen Institute is pleased to support ACTAR’s growing presence in North America. The exhibition will celebrate ACTAR’s publishing history and will mark the launch of ACTAR New York.
The opening reception on Thursday, November 16, 2006 will include remarks by:
Farshid Moussavi, Professor in Practice, Harvard Graduate School of Design and Director, Foreign Office Architects, London
Reinhold Martin, Director, Ph.D. Program in Architecture, Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, New York
Ramon Prat and Michael Kubo, Directors of ACTAR Barcelona and ACTAR New York
Adi Shamir, Executive Director, Van Alen Institute
ACTAR explores the shifting boundaries across the fields of art, architecture, photography and design, generating projects through independent research as well as in collaboration with external authors. ACTAR’s books are based on overcoming the current gap between the producers of works ”“ artistic, architectural, photographic, graphical or industrial ”“ and those who describe them. Previous books have involved collaborations with architects including OMA / Rem Koolhaas, Foreign Office Architects, Toyo Ito, MVRDV, UN Studio, Massimiliano Fuksas, Diller + Scofidio, and Kazuyo Sejima / SANAA.
ACTAR New York, led by Michael Kubo, an architect and editor who has previously worked in Barcelona and Rotterdam, is organized in collaboration with Base Design, a leader in creative direction and brand identity development, with offices in New York, Paris, Brussels, Barcelona and Madrid. The ACTAR New York office is committed to pursuing connections to the current architecture and design scene in North America, and is currently collaborating with various authors and institutions, including Farshid Moussavi and Eve Blau of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, Reinhold Martin and Kazys Varnelis of the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, authors Sanford Kwinter and Beatriz Colomina, and architects Reiser + Umemoto and Aranda / Lasch.
Over the course of the past century, Van Alen Institute has consistently cultivated a fellowship of architecture and design practitioners and scholars, awarded excellence in design, and fostered dialogue about architecture as a public practice. Today, as conventionally defined fields of knowledge give way to new disciplines and alternative methodologies, Van Alen Institute reclaims its legacy as an architectural institute that is dedicated to critical inquiry surrounding contemporary forms of public space and new configurations of spatial practice.