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Last update : Friday, September 22, 2006
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The City on the Move Institute talks about architecture
Shown on four continents and translated into five languages, the ‘Architecture on the Move! Cities and Mobilities’ Exhibition proves that urban mobilities are universal. Through five themes and forty-two projects, the city on show to the public here is the contemporary city – keyword fluidity. Going beyond the single-function thinking implicit in the question of transport provision and other techno engineering approaches to transport, “Architecture on the Move!” focuses on new ways of living the city. The catalogue is bilingual French/English and distributed in Europe by Actar. Presses de la Construction Chinoise have published a Chinese version that is currently out of print.Initially shown in its French-English version, the exhibition is touring China in Chinese, to Xi’an , on September 22-25, 2006, at the International Architecture and Technology Conference.
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 ‘Mova arquitetura ! Cidade et mobilidade’ exhibition opened in São Paulo
Exhibition Catalogue
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‘Mova arquitetura ! Cidade et mobilidade’ opened in São Paulo)
 With the participation of Wolfgang Schuster, Mayor of Stuttgart; Raul Alcaino Linh, Mayor of Santiago de Chile; François Ascher, Professor at University Paris 8 and Chairman of IVM’s Scientific and Strategy Committee, and Ricardo Abuauad, Director of the Diego Portales School of Architecture.
The exhibition will be showing at the Diego Portales School of Architecture from October 19 to November 30. Downloads (french version).
Journey to the centre of planet mobility
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Published in May 2003 for the first Rotterdam Architecture Biennial dedicated to Mobility, the catalogue of the exhibition-manifesto ‘Architecture on the Move! Cities and Mobilities’ is the first digest of the new urban practices brought about by mobility. Whether in terms of transport facilities or more generic amenities, the loci of movement need to be both urban and urbane.
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At a time when intermodality is the watchword, this book is aimed at everyone interested in the contemporary issues of the new loci of mobility, both users and practitioners of the city, especially municipalities and partners in urban development (architects, town planners, landscapists), but also students working on the city of tomorrow.
These selected buildings and public spaces represent an international panorama in Europe (Germany, Austria, Belgium, Spain, France, Great Britain, Italy, Netherlands, Switzerland) and in Asia (China, Korea, Japan). Each project is a case study in its own right; there is a diversity of approaches and a diversity of scale: from a small bicycle park under a regional railway bridge in eastern Paris, to the emblematic ferry terminal at Yokohama in Japan, to a city square built above the Barcelona beltway in Spain.
The book is in two parts, two different rhythms;
1/ Ideas developed through a series of essays:
 Introduction by François Ascher, chairman of IVM’s scientific council: ‘Movement at the heart of modernity’;
An analysis by the exhibition curators:
Francis Rambert ‘Learning from Las Palmas’, a reflection on mobility, and Didier Rebois ‘architecture in the dynamic of infrastructure networks’.
An interview with the architect Bernard Tschumi on the subject: ‘architecture is always in confrontation with movement’.
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2/ A highly graphic presentation of 45 examples divided into 5 themes:
 Travelling/Serving: the Nanterre viaduct (Decq et Cornette, architects); Carrasco Park in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (West 8 architects); Brembo head office in Stezzano, Italy (Jean Nouvel, architect) etc.
Changing/Exchanging: the Yokohama Ferry Terminal in Japan (FOA architects); the Marseille harbour station (Lanoire-Courrian et Poggi, architects); the Hoenheim tram terminus in Strasbourg (Zaha Hadid, architect) etc.
Parking/Living: the Salzburg shopping centre in Austria (Massimiliano Fuksas, architect); the Amsterdam car park complex in the Netherlands (NL architects); the Oita agricultural centre car park in Japan (Toyo Ito, architect) etc.
Cohabiting/Coexisting: the new station in Stuttgart, Germany (Ingenhoven Overdiek, architects), the Shanghai intermodal station in China (Arep, architecture); and the Square of the 50 Hostages in Nantes (Fortier et Rota, architectes) etc.
Crossing/Accessing: the Granja stairs in Toledo, Spain (José Antonio Martinez Lapena, architect); Bercy-Tolbiac Bridge in Paris (Feichtinger architects); the Flon intermodal station in Lausanne, Switzerland (Bernard Tschumi architect).
200 pages (17x24), colour; 30 Euros, bilingual French-English text, published by the Institut pour la ville en mouvement, edited by Francis Rambert, distributed by Actar |
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