KOMATSU PREVIEW

Here is a preview of the project for KOMATSU KFD. We are collaborating with CEBRA architects.

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LECTURE ON AAA

Lecture by Flavio Janches
at Aarhus school of Architecture november 22 at 15.00 p.m.
The lecture will be about the significance of public spaces in the most vulnerable parts of society, and what part the designer/architect/landscape architect and urbanist have to play.
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ARTICLE FROM "Politiken" ON THE SOCIOLOGIC DEVELOPMENT OF BIG CITIES

Considering the circumstances of which VAERKSTED came to be, I thought this article (published in POLITIKEN on saturday november 17, 2007) was sheding some light on the tendecies in the present urban development, and especially the movement between megacities and large cities.

It describes how the cities that have been existing in the shadow of the succes of megacities, are now experiencing a shift of focus from the general public. The main reason is that these cities have been competing with megacities, during the revolution of the information society. The megacities had the advantage in numbers of inhabitants, and other cities were left in the wake to become demobilized as remains of a former era, the industrialization. But wat has happend is, a new economical and social power has appeared. The demands of the creative people was forgotten in the megacities, which were typically planned to satisfy the general population. The new creative class, who were to define the character of a new society, had a need to inflict their vision, on the city in which they were to live and work. And at the time of the shift, the economy of creative people depended on succes, thereby only allowing a few percentage of these people to have a business. This was mainly due to the high prices of residential and office space in the megacities. What the megacities could not provide, was a frame work where the content were yet to be applied. This frame work was the large, volumious structures from the industrial era. The new "creative cities" now had something to offer. And because it is in the nature of the creative mind to, do new things, that does not depend on anybody having done it before, the cities which have attracted these people, now consists of great varieties of urbanity, and are becomming the new centers of focus from the outside world.
This put in to an Aarhus context, is for me quite relevant. The article talks about these tendencies in a very large scale, from megacity to large cities, but it really is a tendency which can be seen in all urban contexts. In Aarhus, as in many other cities of the same scale, there has been an explosion in real estate prizes, which makes it hard for new creative businesses, without a lot of capital, to get of to a good start. But anyway the tendency has been a reluctancy to move out of the city center, because of insecurity about lack of attention, even though the economical advantages has been obvious for a long time.

I see the establishment of studios like VAERKSTED, offices like PLUMROSE and galleries like MOGADISHNI as the first step towards a creative decentralization of Aarhus.

MORE dermalogica

Here is some pictures from our interior project for the dermalogica in Aarhus, Denmark. The project is now finish and the SKIN BAR is now open to customers.

LECTURE AT AARHUS SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE

ALAN BERGER lectures at Arkitektskolen Aarhus
Thursday november 15th/10.00 a.m./Auditoriet, Nørreport

The fascinating illustrations from the book "Reclaiming the American West" (Princeton Architectural Press 2002), at once made Alan Berger known outside North America. They show reclamation-projects in a grand, but for most unknown american landscape, scared by the exploitation of the ground for raw materials.
Alan Berger is a professor in landscape architecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he is the founder ansd director of P-REX (the Harvard Design School Project for Reclamation Excellence), who perform research as well design tasks in the field of landscape architecture. With his latest release "Drosscape: Wasting Land in Urban America" (Princeton Architectural Press 2006), he is yet again expanding his field of operation and shifting focus towards the de-industrialised areas and the rapid, horizontal, urbanizition, which we also recognize form a european context.
The works of AlanBergers are published in a number of renowned magazines such as AA Files, Landscape Journal, Praxis and others. Before Harvard Berger was an associate professor at University of Colorado and has taught and lectured at several univerities in the US and Europe.

Alan Berger is a guest professor at the Institute of Urban Planning and Landscape this semester.

NEW PARTNER IN KRADS ARCHITECTURE

KRADS has gone from 3 into 4 partners during this month!