Thursday, February 11th, 2010

doors open from midnight

Pakhus 11. Dampfærgevej 2, Copenhagen Ø

LIVE PERFORMANCES BY

SOPHIA MAJ
HENRIK VIBSKOV
MIKKEL HESS
DATAROCK
FREDSKI
TOMAS BARFOD
dj set
SUNNYBEACHHAPPYSLAPMARDIGRAS

set up by JDS Architects / Nikolaj Holm Møller

You are invited to join the DESIGNR.RDV event tonight at THEWHITEHOTEL in Brussels, come and catch us at room 43! Champaign is on us!

Thewhitehotel [map]
Avenue Louise 212
1050 Brussels
+32 (0) 2644 2929

JDS Architects invites you to the AGENDA book launch this Thursday, December 10th at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City.

There will be limited copies available for the discounted price of $20, and Julien and all the editors will be present to sign copies of AGENDA.

Contributors Michael Speaks and Geoff Manaugh will also be present.

TIME: 7 PM – 9 PM
ADDRESS: 97 Kenmare Street, New York, NY 10012 [map]

AFTER PARTY AT BEast FROM 10 PM [map]
DJs = DFA’s Justin Miller | Alex from Tokyo | Silas DK

JDS invites you to the AGENDA book launch + Julien’s birthday party this Thursday, December 3rd at the new Moeder Lambic Fontainas in Brussels.

TIME: 7 PM – 1 AM
ADDRESS: Place Fontainas 8 [view map]

JDS ARCHITECTS invites you to join us and celebrate the release of our new book, AGENDA, next Saturday, November 28th at the (soon-to-be-completed) Holmenkollen Ski Jump in Oslo, Norway.

We will serve champagne and Julien De Smedt will be signing copies of AGENDA.

Saturday, 28 November 2009 from 14.00-16.00
@ Holmenkollen Ski Jump – Visitor’s Centre [map]

You are welcome to bring guests, but please RSVP to press@jdsarchitects.com with the names of those you
wish to bring.

AGENDA is an architecture book that occupies the territory between a monograph, a diary, and a collection of essays, interviews, and conversations. At its most harmless AGENDA is a catalog of 365 days, like a diary or journal: a collective narrative, personal and subjective. It documents the work and thinking of JDS Architects over a specific year marked by crisis, beginning on September 15th, 2008, the day that Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. The form of the book exploits the double meaning of its title, presenting the absurdities of day-to-day architectural practice while also staking our intent.

Rather than a definitive direction, our agenda is a definitive attitude – of eagerness, enthusiasm, and optimism, of criticality and concern, of fun and inquiry. It is a directive, a motivation to act, at times without clear knowledge of where our agenda will lead. “Change,” the buzzword of the last U.S. presidential campaign, is the order of the day, and the task of AGENDA is to explore what kind of change will be needed if architects are to assume a political and social agency in this new landscape.

Bringing together diverse forms of content, AGENDA is a product of vigilant observation, introspection, and engagement with outside thinkers and collaborators – artists, curators, politicians, authors, economists, journalists, developers, educators, and architects.

AGENDA is a record of search and research, providing more questions than answers.

AGENDA is unapologetically naive.

AGENDA is an unorthodox architecture novel.

AGENDA demystifies the practice of architecture, revealing process, research, fun, and failure.

AGENDA looks to both the past and the future.

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There will be book launch parties in the following cities:

ROTTERDAM | Friday, 20 November 2009 from 17.00-22.00 / invite only

OSLO | Saturday, 28 November 2009 from 14.00-16.00
@ Holmenkollen Ski Jump – Visitor’s Centre [map] / RSVP

BRUSSELS | Thursday, 3 December 2009 – TBA / check back soon…

NEW YORK CITY | Thursday, 10 December 2009 from 18.00 – 21.00
@ Storefront for Art and Architecture [map] / open to public

Launches in Copenhagen, Paris, Barcelona, and London will follow in early 2010. More details about the launch parties and about how to obtain your own copy of AGENDA will be posted soon. AGENDA will be available worldwide in December.

PRE-ORDER ON ACTAR’S WEBSITE.

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Face b No.2

Lancement France / French Launch Party

17 September 2009 @ 18h30

Librairie Le Moniteur Odéon

7 Place de l’Odéon, Paris 6e

Check out more event details on facebook

And more about Face b HERE

To celebrate Mátyás’s last day at JDS the Brussels office had a hungarian dinner cooked by Mátyás family, who came over from Hungary!

All good luck for your future and we will miss you Mátyás !!

Mátyás  with HOP T-shirt

Check out the event that PopRally organized, this Saturday, 23 May, 2009 from 20h30-23h00 at MoMA in New York!

Please be advised: the performance will feature strobe lights, a smoke machine, and lasers.

In that case, count us in.

Find out more from PopRally HERE

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Text source:  CPH PRO 09 Press Release

COPENHAGEN SKATEPARK, DVS and SpotLight welcomes you to the 3rd annual CPH PRO. With a Prize purse of $50.000 the only strictly pro competition in Europe is still going strong.

…click read more to see the schedule of events…

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