November 2011 Diary

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New Energy in Design and Art	PAD New York	World Architecture Festival
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam	Park Avenue Armory, New York	Various venues, Barcelona
Until 26 February 2012	10–14 November 2011	2–4 November 2011
Energy-conscious design isn’t all about ugly lightbulbs and carpets made of hemp. At least that’s what Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is trying to prove with an exhibition on alternative sustainable design. Imaginative projects by Joris Laarman, Dunne & Raby, Philippe Rahm, Tomas Libertiny and other leading artists and designers should make for a fascinating show. www.boijmans.nl	After successful events in Paris and London, the Pavilion of Art and Design fair arrives in New York this month, at the Park Avenue Armory. With a range of decorative and modern art, design, photography and jewellery on show, 49 international galleries will be offering up works from the 1890s to the present for visitors to see and buy. Featured designers include Ron Arad and Michael Eden (pictured). www.padny.ne	World Architecture Festival returns for its fourth year in Barcelona with the theme of Difference. With over 500 worldwide entries competing for a WAF award, including Foster & Partners’ Sperone Westwater Gallery in New York (pictured), jurors include Michael Sorkin, Ben van Berkel and Odile Decq. The event also marks the launch of sister festival Inside, an event dedicated to interior design, including entries by Hooba Design, Gray Puksand and 212 Architecture. www.worldarchitecturefestival.com



Jim Campbell: Exploded View	Terence Conran	The Art of Mapping
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco	16 November 2011 – 4 March 2012	The Air Gallery, London
5 November 2011 – 25 September 2012	16 November 2011 – 4 March 2012	14–26 November 2011
San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell has created a new installation for SFMoMA’s Haas Atrium. Composed of hundreds of computer-controlled LED lights, the piece creates the illusion of fleeting three-dimensional figures. By offering a number of vantage points, Campbell places the viewer at the centre of his work and explores the boundaries of perception and moving-image displays. www.sfmoma.org	The Design Museum marks Sir Terence Conran’s 80th birthday with this major exhibition exploring his impact on contemporary British life. From postwar austerity to the 1951 Festival of Britain, the inception of the Independent Group and the 1960s pop explosion, it traces the transformation of contemporary Britain through archive material, art and design, models and graphics, alongside Conran’s designs. www.designmuseum.org	TAG Fine Arts present an exhibition of creative cartography at London’s Air Gallery this month. A selection of exploratory works by Grayson Perry, Stephen Walter, Heidi Whitman (pictured) and other artists investigate the map’s potential as an art form rather than an objective diagram. We look forward to seeing Simon Patterson’s famously doctored underground map, The Great Bear (1992) and Susan Stockwell’s plan of the British Isles made using discarded computer parts. www.tagfinearts.com



Architecture on Film: Mur Murs/Get Out of the Car	Unbuilt Washington	Imperfect Health
Barbican Centre, London	National Building Museum, Washington DC	Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal
29 November 2011	19 November 2011 – 28 May 2012	Until 1 April 2012
The Architecture Foundation presents a double bill of documentaries inspired by the rich urban scenography of LA this month, as part of its popular Architecture on Film series at the Barbican Centre. Thom Andersen’s 2010 film Get Out of the Car (Icon 090) gives a nostalgic view of the city’s beaten-up billboards and faded signs, while in Mur Murs (1981) Agnès Varda turns her lens on the colourful murals and paintings that give Venice Beach its unique character. www.architecturefoundation.org.uk	This month, America’s National Building Museum presents a selection of architectural proposals for Washington DC that never made it off the page. Alternative designs for the city’s most important buildings, such as John Russell Pope’s 1912 pyramidal structure for the Lincoln Memorial (pictured), give a fascinating picture of what the city could have looked like. The exhibition will attempt to explore the political, economic and technical reasons why plans like Pope’s were never put into action. www.nbm.org	In the latest of its thematic exhibitions, the CCA takes a critical look at the complex relationships between architecture, the city and people’s health – a reflection of a society increasingly concerned with rising levels of obesity, stress and allergies to pollen and pollution. Imperfect Health dissects the ways architects and urbanists have traditionally planned to overcome these issues, questioning their effectiveness at solving real medical problems. www.cca.qc.ca