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ARCH MOSCOW May 26-30, 2010
15 international exhibition
of architecture and design
Central House of Artists, 10, Krymsky val

ARCH MOSCOW 2010: post-release

15th International exhibition of architecture and design ARCH Moscow and 2nd Moscow Architecture Biennale have finished their work

 

A total of 22, 602 people visited the Central House of Artists between May 26 and 30. The total exhibition area in 2010 amounted to 11,000 square meters and the participants numbered 210, including 34 foreign participants. Expositions from 14 countries were presented during the exhibition: Austria, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Russia, the USA, Ukraine, Finland, France, and Switzerland.

 

The space at the Central House of Artists was divided into commercial booths for the companies participating in the ARCH Moscow exhibition and projects of 2nd Moscow Architecture Biennale. Biennale projects were united in 5 basic groups by curator Bart Goldhoorn:

 

1) «Modernisation of Modernism» (reconstruction of residential and social buildings of the 1960s-70s) – 15 exhibition projects;
2) «Transforming the city» – 21 projects including 9 exhibitions devoted to Perm project;
3) «Perestroika city» – 4 social projects at the Hall of CHA (Ground floor);
4) «The Future Megalopolis» (3 expositions);
5) «Guest projects».

 

ARCH Moscow presented its customary exposition in the sections «Architecture», «Exterior and Interior decisions», «Light in Architecture», «Details» and a new section «Furniture Design». Within Arch Moscow several special exhibition projects were organised. The Dupont company showed how it is possible to modernise panel buildings with the help of Corian. The Magazine AD presented an installation in honour of its guest, the American architect Peter Eisenman.

 

The Russian Union of Architects and the Moscow Union of Architects presented projects of the winners of a young architects competition for the «Perspective-2010» Award, and organiszed a separate lecture hall.

 

The jury particularly noted special project ARCH Cafe made by several architectural bureau for OBJEKT magazine.

 

The huge object in the central part of exposition– the curatorial project of architects Vlad Savinkin and Vladimir Kuzmin executed for the company «Mir parketa», – was best remembered for all visitors and a well-known architectural critic Grigory Revzin.

 

The lecture programme included 100 events, from business presentations to master classes by world stars of architecture, on five stages for five days. The lecture by Peter Eisenman generated the greatest interest.

 

At the traditional annual round table Breakfast of Architect where topical themes are discussed, architects talked about «City consolidation», about recreating the morphology of the city with the historical line of street facades, quays and boulevards. Vladimir Plotkin (architect of the year) expressed an interesting point of view. Houses used to be built to last ‘«for centuries’», but now modern architecture does not imply eternity, but basically «temporary » buildings whose expected life-span is rapidly diminishing. That is why it is important that they remain the best and brightest examples of the era, creating a memory and depth of cultural perception of the city.

 

The award ceremony of ARCH Moscow and 2nd Moscow Architecture Biennale on May 29 named Vladimir Plotkin Architect of the Year.

 

The list of other nominations and winners

 

The upcoming 16th International exhibition of architecture and design ARCH Moscow will take place at the Central House of Artists on May 25-29, 2011