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Alexander D’Hooghe and ORG for Permanent Modernity
PRESENTATION followed by a dynamic discussion between the architect & audience
> Is the landform an architectural proposition to structure suburban growth ?
> Is the generic building an aesthetic principle of anti-expressionist architecture ?
These are two propositions subject to Home-Room #14 judgment and discussion.

“Title: Design for a big-box neighborhood based […]

HOME-ROOM #10 Guests Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu: SO-IL win design competition for summer installation
We are very happy for Florian and Jing that they won the prestigious PS1 / MOMA Young Architects Program.
That means they will do this years installation in the art center courtyard. The courtyards installation is also venue for the famous Saturday […]

PRESENTATION followed by a think tank with the architects
Some thoughts on Space, Networks, and the Future of Knowledge Creation” by AUM studio – Carla Leitão & Ed Keller
What happens when the Library of Congress can fit in your pocket?
What will the consequences of informational ubiquity be in the next decade?
Home-room is starting-up 2010 with […]

“Mirage” (Fata Morgana, Germany 2007) is an intense play on trust and dependence of a couple, stranded in the desert. The movie captured everybody’s attention not only with its amazing landscape imagery.

After the screening film maker Simon Groß, author Nana Ekvtmishvili and editor Stefan Stabenow shared their insights of making a movie and the […]

One worked for SANAA. One worked for Herzog & de Meuron. Their paths crossed through the ETH.

Peter Sigrist of Müller Sigrist Architects (Zurich) has his offece set up in Zurich. Florian Idenburg of Solid Objectives – Idenburg Liu (Brooklyn) has his office set up in New York.

Peter and Florian were talking about their different experiences […]

FRIDAY, NOV 13 7 pm:
SCREENING followed by a talk with cinematographer, director and co-autor
Laura and Daniel, a young European couple, are traveling in the Moroccan desert when their car suddenly breaks down. The enigmatic Nick comes to their aid, repairs the car and promises to take them back to Agadir. Instead, however, he takes […]

SUNDAY, MAY 17
5 pm Architecture Face-Off: Peter Sigrist + Florian Idenburg
8 pm Experimental Musician: Rafael Toral
Home-room is going international! With the opportune visits of a Swiss architect and a Portuguese Musician as well as a high-in-demand Brooklyn-based Dutch architect, we are hosting our first-ever double feature for double the fun, with […]

In anticipation of winter, we are reviving our cozy salon series with heated talks, spicy debates and fireside chats focusing on the agency of design. With the current global financial crisis, the ability of architecture and its allied disciplines to reach beyond disciplinary boundaries and to engender an activist approach is ever more critical. […]

From the outside it probably looked like an insanely impulsive move to uproot my life in New York, quit my job, kiss all my friends farewell, buy a car, and then drive it 1300 miles south to start all over in a city where I knew six people…New Orleans baby! However, if New York can […]

Finally, we uploaded all our Home-room Videos for stream or download.
Since Wordpress (BlogSoftware) allows easy integration of videos we took another step and reformatted and clipped out video footage.
New home-rooms coming soon since we managed to get this part up to date. Check the Videos out: >VIDEO TAB

Abigail left New York and the Home-Room team to teach at LSU Art&design in New Orleans. Above: Goodbye Party with Russian Dinner @ Primorski Restaurant 282 Brighton Beach Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11235

The home-room room turns more and more into some kind of an office from where Silvia and Axel are doing some architectural work. Recently there were good news: a first price in the Europan competition with the site in the larger metropolitan region of Lisbon. We’re hoping that the competition will develop into a real […]

A field trip brought Silva and Axel to Portugal with students of the University of Pennsylvania’s Design School. Organizing the trip kept us busy for another while but it was great to see some great architecture and some great offices. The highlights were the office visits at Alvaro Siza’s and Manuel Aries Mateus’s. The best […]

October 1st was the day of Architecture. The Architecture association in Porto was hosting a conference in the honor of Fernando Tavora, who had been one of the most influential architects in Portugal. Silvia was the main speaker with her presentation of her research. Preparing the presentation took many late evenings and created a lot […]