The Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design invites you to the release party of their recently published book, Jour Fixe – zeitgenössische Positionen in Architektur, Design, Kunst (DOMpublishers, Berlin) which documents a series of 14 lectures from 2008-2009 by various thinkers  including Julien De Smedt.

Tuesday, 27 April:

INTRODUCTION TO BOOK 18.30
JOUR FIXIE LECTURE 19.00
BOOK RELEASE PARTY 21.00

Am Weißenjof 1, 70191 Stuttgart; Mehrzwecksaal, Neubau II

http://www.architektur.abk-stuttgart.de

UNTITLED STATES OF DOOM & SYMMETRIC SIDE EFFECTS / BROOKLYN DRONE TEMPLE DOOM BABY

SPEEDISM IN BALTIMORE

MICA Maryland Institute College of Art invites Speedism to present their work at Open Space Baltimore.

Speedism will perform “Untitled States of Doom & symmetric side effects”, a live photoshop journey through layers of their doomed universe.

Driven by a live soundtrack, we’ll click and click deeper into an empty place, a no-risk land.

We zoom and zoom and zoom and discover the house of the architect of architects and ISO-DOG.

Come accelerate and shine!

Untitled States of Doom & symmetric side effects. Wednesday April 7 / 7pm / Open Space / 2720 Sisson St / Baltimore MD USA

More info on http://openspacebaltimore.com

SPEEDISM IN NY

Skade Studios, Perlin Studios and Metropolitan Exchange present Speedism’s other Spring 2010 lecture-performance in the US:

“Brooklyn Drone Temple Doom Baby” drags you across the mystical splendor of fictional constructs.

Doom is the new dream!

A black mess it will be, hymn of symbolic symmetry and black mirror dust.

With drones, temples, doom and babies..

Brooklyn Drone Temple Doom Baby. Friday April 9 / 9pm / Metropolitan Exchange / 33 Flatbush Avenue / 6th floor / Brooklyn NY USA

More info on http://metropolitanexchange.org

VISIT the SPEEDISM website
VISIT the SPEEDISM facebook group

Speedism is a group of two young architects/artists.  Julian Friedauer (Germany) and Pierterjan Ginckels (Belgium) cleverly mix fragments of  architecture with theory, urban mythology and very diverse material in story-boarded drawings that stand as metropolitan chronicles on acid.

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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Some highlights from AGENDA:

“We see our production as one continuous body of work across a multiplicity of scales, from a bowl or a shelf to a city, and even things that don’t have a specific size but discuss the issue of space itself”
-Julien De Smedt

“I’m a great believer in crisis.”
- Bruce Sterling

“If I were an architect, I think I would like to just work with one kind of brick, and see what I could make with it.”
- Lars von Trier

“…If you can’t afford a stone mason, you simply build a garden to attract crows. Exotic forms – falcons and rare butterflies – appear on every side, pigeons crowding round the rim of your building like a halo, looking down at amused residents. It was genius. Other species are our architectural ornaments; this is the modernist legacy.”
- Geoff Manaugh

“Gravity is like our jail, but it is also our identity, our possibility, our loyalty.”
-Ernesto Neto

“For too long architects and urban planners have been neglected in governing a city. The cities who have had an ambition for the city involving architects and planners, like Manchester and Barcelona, are the cities that progress.”
- Pascal Smet

“Perhaps this is the origin of crisis’s new life as a verb.”
-Brendan McGetrick

“The expansion of the European Union forced the authorities in the city to confront the obvious reality: there was no architectural structure in Brussels that unites the European multinational workforce, no architecture that represents the political values of the European Union. It was time to do something.”
-Barbara Vanderlinden

“The ‘Third Industrial Revolution’ is a decentralized energy system based on a distributed production of energy. I think that it will probably create a new freedom for architecture.”
-Angelo Consoli

“The focus on the social dimension of architecture is also a remarkable characteristic of the work of De Smedt.”
-Rotterdam-Maaskant prize 2009 Jury: Tom Avermaete, Hans Ibelings, and Robert Winkel

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Edited by: Jesse Seegers, Benedict Clouette, Ryan Neiheiser, and Julien De Smedt

Designed by: Korczak and Vereecken

Published and Distributed by: Actar

Contributions from: Hans Ulrich Obrist, Lars von Trier, Bruce Sterling, Ernesto Neto, Pascal Smet, Michael Speaks, Geoff Manaugh, Brendan McGetrick, Barbara Vanderlinden, Sozyone Gonzalez, Angelo Consoli, Bruno Brunet, Hans Ibelings, Tom Avermaete, Robert Winkel, Eric Corijn, Roland Legrand, Hugh Maaskant, Cleon Peterson, Albert Ravestein, Seleção Brusseleira

TECHNICAL INFO:
Paperback: 544 full color pages
Publisher: Actar (November 2009)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-84-96954-98-4
Dimensions: 210mm x 270mm x 26mm

PRE-ORDER ON ACTAR’S WEBSITE.

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