Einladung zum Symposium

WHAT IS POP, WHERE DID IT COME FROM AND WHAT DOES POP MEAN TODAY? WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POP AND ARCHITECTURE?
AND WHAT DOES CONTEMPORARY POP ARCHITECTURE LOOK LIKE? AND: WHERE IS POP HEADED, ANYWAY…?

POP is a cultural phenomenon long associated with music and art but which is now more than ever fi nding relevance in the worlds of architecture and urban theory. Many of today‘s architects aspire to or are becoming POP stars, producing materials and designs which are mass-consumed in ever faster cycles of hyper-mediatisation, in which buildings and whole urban conglomerations operate as backdrops, setting the stage for products or serving directly as icons for individual institutions or even whole cities. The ARCHITECTURE reTURNS to POP symposium establishes a temporary and public platform at the TU/Berlin, dedicated to discussing POP and its relationship to architecture on a horizontal plateau inhabited by architects, international critics and students, all united by a common POP passion. As a public event, ADIP’s 2007 symposium seeks to create a two-day, hybrid platform: part workshop, part open lectures, and part final critiques for student projects, it features a distinguished panel of international guest critics. The project will close with an open, round-table discussion which seeks to understand POP architecture and its current tendencies with an eye towards what role it might play in all of our futures…

ARCHITECTURE reTURNS to POP features the work of ADIP’s 2006/7 POP design students and a range of critics headlined by special jury guests:

SANDRA BARTOLI
THIS WAS TOMORROW
Landscape Architect / Critic
Terraform + Büro für Konstruktivismus

VALÉRY DIDELON
IS POP DEAD?
Architect / Teacher / Critic
Ecole d´Architecture de Versailles

PEDRO GADANHO
VENTURI‘S REVENGE...
Architect / Teacher / Critic
FAUP / University of Porto

IASSEN MARKOV
JERRY THE BULGARIAN GOES POP!
Architect / Critic
IGMA / TU Stuttgart

DR. RIKLEF RAMBOW
COME PLAY WITH ME...
Psychologist / Teacher / Critic
Theory of Architecture / BTU Cottbus

Am 14. und 15.02. im Foyer des Fachbereichs Architektur der TU Berlin, Strasse des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin
Weitere Infos unter: http://www.a.tu-berlin.de/adip/Adip - Tu Berlin