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Presentation ACT! is a new review devoted to architecture and art exploring a variety of critical stances and perspectives and offering a refreshing alternative to existing architecture reviews published in France today. Unlike most countries across Europe, the Americas and Asia, France boasts only one bilingual specialist review in this field. It would be both arrogant and futile to think that French as a language is so superior that publications content to overlook English, the language of international exchange, would have any chance whatsoever of communicating their message to foreign readers. We have no intention of saturating the market with yet another review, simply satisfied with providing smug advertising for this or that passing vogue in architectural design. Rather, our approach will be inherently partial, fervently committed and willingly controversial, allotting pride of place to the architects and artists we hold so dear and whose work we esteem. No punches will be directed at the all-powerful star-system â&#x20AC;&#x201C; for if truth be told, we are hardly aware of its existence. ACT! is profoundly rooted in the city of Bordeaux and the wider Aquitaine region and its aim is to give greater visibility to those whose voice is too often smothered by the mainstream press. The review will be a published yearly, with 432 pages and 5000 copies distributed across the globe. It will be amply illustrated and printed on high quality specialist papers (with an ecofriendly label), using innovative graphic design techniques (fonts, image processing) and printing processes (silver ink combinations, flexographic offset). The review itself will be a place of formal experimentation, in tune with the blackbox book published by overworld in 2008 exploring the work of Cecil Balmond. Our editorials will look at the worlds of art, graphic design, photography, writing and cinema and each volume will investigate new fields of speculation.

Readership The launch of ACT! will benefit from Overworld Editionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s well-stocked address book of contacts, both in France and abroad. E-mails will be sent out to target our wide range of contacts from the world of politics, academia, diplomacy and international relations, architecture, landscape design and photography, not forgetting public-sector decision-makers, the directors of architecture and contemporary art centres, urban design agencies and museums. Overworld is lucky to count among its most loyal readers a wide range of key figures from the world of architecture, design and contemporary art. Our readership also includes a good number of students, architects, urban-planners, landscape designers and amateurs from among the general public in France and abroad. A specific ad hoc subscription form will also be sent out to them.

Distribution ACT! will benefit from the international distribution network of publishing house overworld (specialist bookshops, libraries, architecture centres, urban design agencies, museums and cultural institutes specialising in art, design and photography, schools of architecture, universities with departments teaching architecture and urban design, design, graphic design, photography and the plastic arts).

ACT! is inspired by: Cecil Balmond, Chet Baker, Batman, Thomas Bishop, William S. Burroughs, Michelangelo Buonarotti, Kurt Cobain, Maurice G. Dantec, Albert Einstein, Bret Easton Ellis, Jean Ferrat, Leonardo Fibonacci, Youri Gagarine, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Genet, Glenn Gould, Hiroshima, James Joyce, Stanley Kubrick, T.E. Lawrence, Alain Merlet, Issey Miyake, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, la station Mir, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Robert Musil, New York City, Friedrich Nietzsche, Pan Sonic, le mur de Planck, Robert Rauschenberg, Vincent van Gogh, Throbbing Gristle, EugĂ¨ne-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc, Virgin Prunes, Ayrton Senna, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Yohji Yamamoto, Sonic Youth, 22:22.

ACT!

an architecture and art review with attitude

TOWER POWER? The generic city (de)constructed

Towers have always and doubtless will always play an essential part in both the urban fabric of our cities and the collective unconscious, arousing a bewildering combination of fear and fascination, abhorrence and veneration. Yet the inescapable environmental and urban stakes of the world we live in today are permanently relegated to the sidelines. A number of important questions beg urgent answers – but what exactly is the situation and what will the future hold? The first issue of ACT! seeks to address the question of high rise and its pertinence in the context of our contemporary world. How should the future of tomorrow’s cities be determined? What role do towers have to play? There is no one word answer to such a complex issue, but by reflecting on our past and exploring new modes of thinking, new approaches, a future can be imagined. A future which is there for the taking. Researchers, urban designers, engineers, critics and artists from a variety of backgrounds all have important contributions to bring to the debate. Multiple perspectives lead to multiple horizons. Art does not serve a merely illustrative function in this review, the texts are not just paraphrases and the form of the whole not just a meaningless envelope. The global economy has ushered in a new urban form, a form we call the generic city, riding roughshod over historical models and dissolving individual character into insipid uniformity. Sustainable development is also today a matter of the utmost urgency, obliging us to consider such questions as insulation, building use, adaptability and lifestyle. All those involved in managing and building our cities should be encouraged to look at alternative construction techniques and designs. Towers are not inexorable and eco-districts are worthy of the closest consideration if our high rise fate is to be escaped. Each and every one of us is responsible for the ills of our modern world, ills which possess within them antidotes for a healthier, happier future for all. Our vocation is international, global. Specifically French examples will be considered in this light, and lessons from across the globe for a brighter future gratefully received. ACT!

n°1, December 2010 432 p., in French, English and Russian

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Cecil Balmond OMA-Rem Koolhaas Arons en Gelauff architecten BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group B720 Fermín Vázquez C+T Architectures C. F. Møller Arkitektfirmaet David Chipperfield Architects Delugan Meissl Associated Architects Frédéric Druot Architecture Foster + Partners Frits van Dongen / de Architekten Cie Gigon/Guyer Architekten Herzog & de Meuron Steven Holl Architects Toyo Ito & Associates, Architects Kristin Jarmund Arkitekter AS Lacaton & Vassal LAN Architecture Ateliers Lion Mecanoo Architecten Dominique Perrault Architecture Petrén Merom Arkitekter Renzo Piano Building Workshop Pietri Architectes Scheiwiller Svensson Arkitektkontor AB Ian Simpson Architects Eduardo Souto de Moura 51N4E

ACT! 1 Contents Editorial

In France

Current Events

Historical Perspectives and Current Developments in the World of High Rise in France. Urban design, social housing, business districts, land use across the country… The above themes will be explored through a selection of academic articles, investigative documents and reports, works of art and interviews, in the aim of airing a wide variety of approaches and points of view. All this in the light of the work and ideas of leading Reconstructionist, architect and urban designer – Charles Delfante (Grand Prix d’Urbanisme 1959 and 1961, urban designer of the Part-Dieu, Lyon, an architect with numerous housing and offices blocks to his name) Special Guest – Exclusive Interview

Panorama ‘The Architecture of Towers through History, from the Origins of the Myth to 19th, 20th and 21st Century Creations’, by Marc Saboya, history of art professor, University Bordeaux 3

Towers in symbols and images

When literature, art and politics get hold of the question. What towers embody – power, fear, fascination, oppression… Pascal Grandmaison (artist) Special Guest – Exclusive Interview

Éric Martinez, ‘American Sky-Scrapers in French Architecture Reviews (1880-1940) – How Warm was the Welcome?’ Alain Bublex (plastic artist), The Plan Voisin for Paris Francis Cuillier (Grand Prix d’urbanisme 2006), ‘High Rise Paris - Any Room for Towers in France?’ (interview)

Towers and Territory

Michael Najjar | Netropolis

Thierry Paquot (Institut d’urbanisme de Paris, editor of the review Urbanisme) ‘Paper Skyscrapers.’ Rachel Whiteread (plastic artist, Turner Prize 1993), Embankment. Sanford Kwinter (University of Columbia, USA), ‘9/11’ Anne Raulin (Université Paris 8), ‘Tower by Tower in Lower Manhattan. Full and Empty Spaces in the Wake of 9/11’ Semâ Bekirovic (plastic artist), Props. Peter Root (plastic artist), Low Rise. Philippe Fontes (artiste), The Sugar Tragedy (followed by an interview with Yann Saboya). Véronique Schiltz (plastic artist), The Disasters of Masters: Babel. PETERS (isfi), ‘The Very Big Library and its Avatars: /The Tower/The Book’

Agnès Baudot & Alan Gentil (architects, photographers), ‘At the Foot of the Clouds (Émile Aillaud, architect, Nanterre). Impressions.’ Gulschan Göthel (artist), An Episode in 25 Details Jean-Christophe Garcia (photographer), ‘Common Places, the linking elements, in-between spaces, stairwells, elevators, passageways and footbridges of the towers we live in.’ Bertran Renaudin (architect, photographer), Demolition of the Cité Yves-Farge in Bègles. ‘Everybody’ (Philippe Jacques & Karen Gerbier, architect and associated artist) ‘The High Life and Unfolding Territories – Artistic Situations, Poetic Constructions based on the Words of the Inhabitants.’

Hubert Blanz | Four Elevators

Discussion and Debate Towers in our Urban World - Environment, Density, Sprawl, Building Cities for Tomorrow. What Other Alternatives Are Available? Reports, thoughts and reflections, round tables with clients, architects, developers and industrialists from across the Aquitaine region, analysis from expert economists and urban designers and new light shed on this hotly debated issue from inspired artists. Mike Davis (University of California, Irvine), ‘Dead Cities of Quartz.’ Special Guest – Exclusive Interview

work lies at the basis of some of contemporary architecture’s most emblematic buildings. Cecil Balmond (engineer) Special Guest – Exclusive Interview Louis Sullivan (architect), ‘The Tall Office Building Artistically Considered.’ Jean Castex (art historian, prix ‘La ville à lire’ 2010), ‘The History of Sky Scrapers. From the Tubular Structures of Chicago to the CCTV building in Beijing.’

Maurice Goze (University of Bordeaux), ‘Town planning: high Rise, Urban Planning and Human Habitat.’ Gérard Portal (architect and urban designer), ‘What’s Up with Towers?’ Pascal Grandmaison (artist), I See You Upside Down, Double Mist Aude Moreau (plastic artist), Going Out Vincent Debanne (photographer), Troops of Defence

Round Table with architects and publicsector decision-makers from the Aquitaine region Innovations, new forms of process, new ways of envisaging the town… ‘To Tower or not to Tower –Exchanging Points of View ’ (in partnership with AMO Aquitaine and la Maison de l’Architecture Aquitaine) Laurent Dequick (photographer), Urban Convulsions Delphine Costedoat (art historian), ‘Deadly Cities.’ Michael Najjar (photographer), Netropolis Michael Wolf (photographer), Architecture of Density, The Transparent City

Structure & Research Towers and how they are built from past to present. How are towers designed and set in mortar, how they fit into our global thought patterns - engineering, theory and aesthetics. At the heart of this dossier is our interview with special guest Cecil Balmond, architect and engineer, whose Cecil Balmond, engineer | CCTV | Beijing | China OMA-Rem Koolhaas, architect

Semâ Bekirovic | Props series

Mikael Levin (photographer), Margins Michel Jacques (architect), ‘Tower Power according to Rem Koolhaas / OMA : a New Aesthetic is Born.’ Hubert Blanz (photographer), Four Elevators Delphine Costedoat (art historian), ‘Engineering – Past, Present and Future.’ Bernard Blanc (property developer), ‘Contrasting Relationships between Clients and Architects in the 20th and 21st Centuries.’

Towers in fiction Towers in the Creative Imagination: Fictions and Inventions. The secret life of the tower, towers which exist for real and those which are yet to come into being. Bruce Bégout (philosopher, writer) Special Guest - Exclusive Interview Xavier Rosan (writer, editor), ‘Towers in Cinema since Metropolis.’ Zhongjie Lin (University of North Carolina, Charlotte), ‘Metabolist Utopias.’ PETERS (isfi), ‘The Separation at the Eiffel Tower, variations in text and images on the work of Jean Cocteau.’ Alex Lukas (plastic artist), Untitled Alain Bublex (plastic artist), Plug-in City

BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group | Escher Tower | Copenhaguen | Denmark

Renzo Piano Building Workshop | The New York Times Building | New York City | NY | USA

Toyo Ito & B720 Fermín Vázquez | Torres Porta Fira | L’Hospitalet de Llobregat | Spain

Dominique Perrault Architecture | H么tels NH-Fiermilano | Milano | Italia

Steven Holl Architects | Linked Hybrid | Beijing | China

Herzog & de Meuron | 56 Leonard Street | New York City | NY | USA

Extract from The Sugar Tragedy DX. Sucre #4 temps 01 ÂŠ Philippe Fontes

Semâ Bekirovic Hubert Blanz Alain Bublex Vincent Debanne Laurent Dequick Philippe Fontes Jean-Christophe Garcia Gulschan Göthel Pascal Grandmaison Philipe Jacques & Karen Gerbier Mikael Levin Alex Lukas Aude Moreau Michael Najjar Bertrand Renaudin Peter Root Véronique Schiltz Rachel Whiteread Michael Wolf

Our Editorial Committee Directors of publication : PETERS isfi (Delphine Costedoat and Pier Fossey). Delphine Costedoat, editor-in-chief and director of Overworld Editions, art historian and architecture critic, senior lecturer at Bordeaux University and Bordeaux School of Architecture and Landscape Design, regular associate of arc en rêve centre d’architecture since 2003, author of numerous books and publications on contemporary architecture and a wide selection of articles published in reviews in France and abroad. Pier Fossey, plurimedia specialist, internet site designer, videast, graphic designer, worked as a consultant with the Bordeaux department of urban design from 2004 to 2009 and with the CFDU (Conseil Français Des Urbanistes) since 2009. He has been also consultant with Cap Sciences - Bordeaux since 2009. He has been the creative spirit behind a wide range of installations of international significance, such as those designed and created for arc en rêve centre d’architecture since 1999, exhibitions on the work of Lacaton & Vassal at the AA School of Architecture in London (2004) and the Villa de Noailles (2006), Agora, the architecture, urban design and creative design biennial of the City of Bordeaux (2006) or the recent French pavilion for the Venice architecture biennial (2008). Delphine Costedoat and Pier Fossey (PETERS isfi) founded Overworld in 2007, and created ACT!, an architecture and art review with attitude in 2009.

Editorial director: Éric Martinez Editor-in-chief: Pierre Perrollet Sub-Editor-in-chief : Julie Maigret Sub-Editors : Julia Parhomenko, Stéphanie Dauget, Fanny Delmotte, Adrien Merlet Assistant-Editors: Mathieu Branger, Samuel Drapeau, Thomas Massabuau, Arthur Perbet, Margaux Puech. Marketing director : Érik de Fontanges Distribution : Antoine de Lassée, Florence Nisse, Yann Saboya General Secretary: Franck Bourdais Accounting: Christophe Ratier Editorial committee : Francis Cuillier, consultant urban designer, associate professor at the University of Bordeaux 3, Grand Prix de l’Urbanisme 2006, President. Patrick Baggio, architect-urban designer, president of AMO Aquitaine. Robert Coustet, emeritus professor of history of art at Bordeaux University. Marc Saboya, professor of history of art at Bordeaux University. Michel Jacques, architect, co-founding member and artistic director of arc en rêve centre d’architecture. Bernard Blanc, property developer, Director General of Aquitanis. Alan Gentil, architect, project manager with arc en rêve centre d’architecture from 1999-2009, co-founder of architecture agency Le Bureau Baroque, 2009. Translation team : Lucy Edwards (English), Serguei Mambetov, Julia Parhomenko, Yulia Palukhina (Russain), Jeanne Saboya (Italian), Tristan Coignard (German), David Vernet (Dutch), Grégory Seiller, Masato Hara (Japanese), Shao Baoqing (Chinese), Abdessamad Lamarti (Arabic).

Exhibitions The launch of ACT! will be accompanied by a series of exhibitions in Bordeaux and abroad during the year following publication. From May to December 2010 a number of events have been programmed. The first took place on 19th May last with architect and urban planner Patrick Baggio, President of AMO; Bernard Blanc, director general of Aquitanis; Philippe Barrieu, President of Tourny Meyer; Alain Triaud, architect; Pascal Teisseire, architect and president of the Maison de l’Architecture Aquitaine; Norbert Fradin, property developer; Daniel Palmaro, director of Clairsienne; Jean-Denis Mège, director of development and social affairs with Foyer Rémois; Delphine Costedoat, director of Overworld editions; Francis Cuillier, consultant urban designer, associate professor at Bordeaux University, Grand Prix de l’urbanisme 2006, president of the Editorial Comittee of ACT!

This round table was filmed and a transcription will be published in the review and distributed across five continents, as part of our desire to give a voice to those people in the Aquitaine region involved in planning and building the future of the cities we live in, a means of expressing their ideas and identity across the globe. The second conference will be held in September and will bring together key players from across the Aquitaine region involved in urban design and architecture and once again in partnership with AMO Aquitaine at 308, Maison de l’Architecture, Avenue Thiers, Bordeaux. On 20th October landscape designer Michel Desvigne will be giving a conference on his specific approach to cities as part of a wider urban context. The conference will be followed by a round table and public debate and will be held at 308, Maison de l’Architecture. From September to December 2010, a two-part exhibition will be held to show the works of the artists and architects involved in the first edition of ACT! at L’Atelier Dartois, Rue Tourat, Bordeaux. The scenography of the exhibition will be designed by architect Bertrand Nivelle and PETERS isfi. Another event will be held during this period to show the videos designed by Pascal Grandmaison at Galerie EPONYME, Rue Cornac, Bordeaux. From January 2011, a further series of exhibitions, conferences and events will be held around the work of the tutelary figure of ACT!, engineer Cecil Balmond, and will take the shape of sensitive reworkings and transpositions of his production by PETERS isfi in exhibition centres across Bordeaux, France and the international stage.

Peter Root | Low-Rise

ACT!

an architecture and art review with attitude

n°2, December 2011

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