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February 17, 2018
Points of Contact | 2nd Experimental Roundtable
The exhibition and public program POINTS OF CONTACT brings together multimedia responses and investigations into the architecture of the built environment in Lebanon, and its impact on a human bodily experience. The participating artists, theorists, activists, lawyers and architects will explore an interpenetration of private and public spheres that takes effect through capitalism and conflict.
The exhibition will change and evolve over its duration, being constructed, and reconstructed as each participant presents their work through screenings, conversations, performative lectures, and walking tours, taking place across two experimental roundtable events on January 27 and February 17, 2018.
The exhibition will change and evolve over its duration, being constructed, and reconstructed as each participant presents their work through screenings, conversations, performative lectures, and walking tours, taking place across two experimental roundtable events on January 27 and February 17, 2018.
The project is prepared by the Media Lounge of Goethe-Institut Libanon and curated by Helene Kazan, in collaboration with the Arab Center for Architecture and the British Council Lebanon.
To see the schedule of day 2, follow this link.
To see the schedule of day 2, follow this link.
January 27, 2018
Points of Contact | Exhibition Opening & 1st Roundtable
The exhibition and public program POINTS OF CONTACT brings together multimedia responses and investigations into the architecture of the built environment in Lebanon, and its impact on a human bodily experience. The participating artists, theorists, activists, lawyers and architects will explore an interpenetration of private and public spheres that takes effect through capitalism and conflict.
The exhibition will change and evolve over its duration, being constructed, and reconstructed as each participant presents their work through screenings, conversations, performative lectures, and walking tours, taking place across two experimental roundtable events on January 27 and February 17, 2018.
The exhibition will change and evolve over its duration, being constructed, and reconstructed as each participant presents their work through screenings, conversations, performative lectures, and walking tours, taking place across two experimental roundtable events on January 27 and February 17, 2018.
The project is prepared by the Media Lounge of Goethe-Institut Libanon and curated by Helene Kazan, in collaboration with the Arab Center for Architecture and the British Council Lebanon.
To see the schedule of day 1, follow this link.
To see the schedule of day 1, follow this link.
November 15, 2017
"Home Beirut" Exhibition at the MAXXI
The Arab Center for Architecture is participating in the "Home Beirut" exhibition at the MAXXI, Rome.
The exhibition aims to present some of the most prominent trends in creative investigations of current reality as it is manifested in the evolution and fate of cities. It features 36 artists, architects, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, researchers, and activists negotiating between critical reflections on recent history of conflicts, through archiving and re-enacting memories, and visions of the future, through attempts at urban transformation and global outreaching, all of which will be periodically interrupted by urgent problems and frustrations of the present.
It is divided into multiple parts to depict efforts to construct dwellings in a complex metropolitan environment that accommodates varied intellectual claims, creative imaginations, and political viewpoints.
Read more here.
The exhibition aims to present some of the most prominent trends in creative investigations of current reality as it is manifested in the evolution and fate of cities. It features 36 artists, architects, filmmakers, musicians, dancers, researchers, and activists negotiating between critical reflections on recent history of conflicts, through archiving and re-enacting memories, and visions of the future, through attempts at urban transformation and global outreaching, all of which will be periodically interrupted by urgent problems and frustrations of the present.
It is divided into multiple parts to depict efforts to construct dwellings in a complex metropolitan environment that accommodates varied intellectual claims, creative imaginations, and political viewpoints.
Read more here.
November 6, 2017
Modern Heritage in Lebanon: Opportunity or Threat
The Arab Center for Architecture invites you to the conference Modern Heritage in Lebanon: Opportunity or Threat held at USEK on 6-7 November.
A parallel exhibition titled, “Heritage of Urban and Architectural Modernities in the Arab World”, curated by the Arab Center for Architecture and commissioned by UNESCO World Heritage Center, will run until November 17, 2017, at the USEK Archaeological Museum.
In addition, a lecture by Mosbah Rajab and guided tour by George Arbid will take place at the Rashid Karame International Fair in Tripoli on November 8.
The program is found here.
The program is found here.
May 26, 2017
UQAM & LAU: Modern Architecture in Beirut and Montreal
The Arab Center for Architecture contributed to the Modern architecture collaborative workshop between UQAM Montreal and LAU. George Arbid, ACA director gave a tour of the Hamra district and a lecture at ACA on May 16, 2017.
Read more about the collaboration here.
Read more about the collaboration here.
May 20, 2017
Interactive Workshops | CIS School
The Arab Center for Architecture collaborated with Beirut Madinati's Neighborhood initiative in Zokak El Blat and Save Beirut Heritage to give interactive workshops to the CIS School. The goal of the program is to better introduce students of the 6-8 grades to the city they occupy and the history of the built environment.
More on that here.
More on that here.
May 19, 2017
Zokak el-Blat Experiments
The exhibition "Zokak el-Blat Experiments: Heneine Palace and Other Possibilities," a series of displays centered on the issue of heritage in Zokak el-Blat, is now on display in Mansion.
As a result of educational seminars on cities, heritage, and public space, held by the Arab Center for Architecture and Beirut Madinati's "Zokak El-Blat Neighborhood Group," students from the nearby City International School created models. There will also be a video on display. On Saturday, March 20th, students will present their projects.
Read more here.
As a result of educational seminars on cities, heritage, and public space, held by the Arab Center for Architecture and Beirut Madinati's "Zokak El-Blat Neighborhood Group," students from the nearby City International School created models. There will also be a video on display. On Saturday, March 20th, students will present their projects.
Read more here.
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