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2010-02-27
Moustafa Fathi Retrospective
From March 9 till April 17, 2010, Ayyam gallery Dubai will present a solo show in memoriam for the late Syrian painter Moustapha Fathi (1942-2009). Featuring two decades of Fathi’s work and accompanied by a recently published monograph on the artist, the exhibition will underscore the importance of one of Syria’s most influential contemporary pioneers.

2010-02-21
An exhibition of Syrian painter Thaier Helal
A solo exhibition of established Syrian painter Thaier Helal at Ayyam Gallery, Damascus from March 6 till March 20, 2010.

2010-02-13
Invitation to participate in : International Architectural Competition 2010
Invitation to participate in : International Architectural Competition 2010 “Architectural Research Center” MAG LAB (Syria-Spain) in collaboration with Ebdaat Magazine (Architectural Creations) - ALFA 301 (Spain) And Stardust* (Spain-Italy-Brazil-USA) is Organizing the 2010 International Architectural Competition. The competition invites architects, engineers, designers and artists to continue investigating new ideas and concepts for the 2010 International Architectural Competition. The competition calls for innovative designs which take into consideration the historical and social context, the existing urban fabric, the human scale, and the environment. This competition of ideas will aim to give the students, architects, engineers, artists and designers enough freedom to address the challenges in the most creative and innovative way. All the information and details are available in the competition official website : www.arcompetition.org for more information please contact us through :contact@arcompetition.org On behalf of MAG-LAB, Alfa 301 and Stardust*, we would like to thank you for your interesting in the Architectural Research Competition. We are looking forward to receiving your entry. If you have any questions please feel free to ask contact@arcompetition.org

2010-01-26
Exhibition: Results of the workshop book design
The German Culture Center- the Goethe Institute- in collaboration with Fine Arts Faculty at Damascus University had launched a workshop for Fine Arts students in September 2009 on the art book theme. The workshop lasted for one week and was lead by German expert Mr. Sven Markisch, professor at Higher Institute of Arts in Halle city, in collaboration with his colleague Professor Iyad El-Mahmoud from university of Damascus. Accomplished works during this workshop will be exhibited in Goethe Institute Gallery hall, from26-28/01/2010. Opening will be at 6PM on Tuesday 26/01/2010 with the participation of workshop students and their instructor, Professor Iyad –El-Mahmoud

2010-01-02
The SiciliaOlanda 2.0 Exhibition
The edition number one SiciliaOlanda held in 2007 at "the Chimneys" of Catania was the first extraordinary meeting of what in time became a real cultural partnership between Sicilian and Dutch architects, in which one the protagonists were 49 young Sicilian architects under 40, selected from the competition SiciliArchitettura '06 .
The participants of this today’s second edition are 10 Sicilian architects under 40, have distinguished themselves in recent years by works, awards, publications and endorsements, and ten Dutch architects are same age, selected from the NAI, the prestigious Institute of Dutch Architecture.

Sicilian Incompletion (or Unfinished?)

Researches & Articles| issue 2 2010

Article by Giacomo di Girolamo, journalist.

There is a new generation of journalists, artists, architects, researchers in Italy.
Born between the ‘70 and ‘80 they received from their parents a Country with one of the most high public debt in the world, a blocked social system in which doesn’t exist generational replacement and a landscape and a territory destroyed by little and big abuses.
In Italy for example there are 395 unfinished public buildings: swimming poolS, barracks, schools, monuments under construction since the mists of time and never completed due to the most different reasons.
The artists’s collective Alterazioni Video has tried to create a map of this Italy of the “Incompletion”.
A dot for every unfinished building on the geographical map of our boot. Sicily deserves a special attention. In Sicily the “Incompletion”, became an ordinary element of the landscape. There is not a village in the island without its nice unfinished building in reinforced concrete.
In the past fifty years Sicily produced more than 160 unfinished buildings.
Specially in Giarre, a little city on the volcano Etna’s slopes, close to Catania, there are 12 unfinished buildings. Every building has its own history: some of them have been abandoned before the end of the works due to the bankruptcy of the construction company; others have still building-sites ongoing since many years ago.
“We could do a truistic path” thought Alterazioni Video. And they did it. The project that aim to do of Giarre the “archaeologic park of the Sicilian Incompletion” will be presented during the Festival of the Incompletion that will have place in Giarre from the 2nd to the 5th of July. Three days in which artists, architects, journalists, will dialogue about the incompletions with workshops, debates and installations.

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Lord Richard Rogers

Researches & Articles| issue 2 2010

Lord Richard Rogers One of the most influential British architects of our time, Richard Rogers noted for his modernist and functionalist designs. He was born in Florence in 1933 and attended the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, before graduating from Yale School of Architecture in 1962.
At Yale he met fellow student Norman Foster they set up architectural practice as Team 4. In 1967 the practice split up, and Rogers joined Renzo Piano.

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