noA.architects (Brussels/Bruges) was founded by An Fonteyne (born 1971), Jitse van den Berg (born 1971) and Philippe Viérin (born 1969).  An Fonteyne studied architectural engineering at Ghent University and worked with DKV in Rotterdam, David Chipperfield Architects in London and Höhne & Raap architects in Berlin.  Jitse van den Berg studied architectural engineering at the Technical University in Berlin and also worked with David Chipperfield Architects in London and Sauerbruch Hutton Architects in Berlin.  Philippe Viérin studied architectural engineering at Ghent University and worked with Stéphane Beel Architects in Bruges and KCAP in Rotterdam.  The practice’s restoration and expansion of the town hall in Menen was nominated for a 2009 Mies van der Rohe award.

http://www.noa-architecten.net/

Lagos: Wide and Close, 2005, dir. Bregtje van der Haak, 120 min
A documentary on Rem Koolhaas’ perspectives of a volatile moment in Lagos’ evolution.

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Saxophonist John Butcher, originally a physicist and a musician whose work ranges from improvisation and composition to the exploration of unusual site-specific acoustics, will be improvising to Audialsense’s installation in the auditorium.

With a performance by wind ensemble Tambourine Trio and the ASD Choir who will perform traditional and experimental works from the 15th century to the present by Guillaume Dufay, William Cornyshe, King Henry VIII, Pierre Passereau, Jan Wuytack and Vaughan Williams, including an arrangement of Cathy Berberian’s onomatopoeic piece Stripsody for choir and Stimmung for voices and radio by artist and ensemble member Sam Belinfante.

Bar opens 6.30pm
Doors: 7.00pm
Concert: 7.30pm
Admission: £5.00

Tickets will be available at the door. Seating in the Forum is limited.
To avoid disappointment, please click here to book your tickets.

Opening times
26–28 March 2010
Friday 10am – 7pm
Saturday and Sunday 10am – 3pm

www.audialsense.com

Beate Hølmebakk works with both factual and fictional architecture. The projects of her and partner Per Tamsen’s firm manthey kula, span from industrial structures to investigations into specific programmatic fields. The office’s first project to be realized, a hydro power station, was nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2009. A series of houses exploring the potential for architectural interpretation of literary texts has been exhibited widely; the series received a medal from The Erich Schelling Architecture Foundation. Parallel to practicing Hølmebakk is teaching, from 2003-2005 as Artistic Professor at the Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, from 2007 as professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design.

The Architect And The Old City, 2004, dir. Catarina Alves Costa, 72 min
A documentary on Alvaro Siza’s attempt to regenerate a historical city in
Cape Verde, Africa.

Nottingham has a history as a place for contemporary art, for performance and time based practice as well as for object based work. This legacy recalls the artist run spaces of downtown New York in the late 1960s, and the work of artists like Gordon Matta Clark and Trisha Brown whose work directly engaged the spaces of the city around them.

We wondered if the history and urban qualities of the site in Nottingham’s Lace Market, which has parallels to the cast iron district of downtown New York, offered an opportunity to make art spaces that were unusually engaged with the cultural and topographical qualities of their site. The legacy of the downtown loft lives on in places like PS 1 in New York, Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and the De Pont Foundation in Tilburg, buildings whose artistic programmes fully exploit the strong and specific character of their found interiors.

Our project for Nottingham Contemporary sets out to offer a wide inventory of interiors that have the variety and specificity of found spaces, within a new building.

Chaired by Geoff Shearcroft / AOC

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Peter Cusack, based in London, works as a sound artist, musician and environmental recordist with a special interest in acoustic ecology. Projects range from community arts to research into the role that sound plays in our sense of place. His project ‘Sounds From Dangerous Places’ examines the soundscapes of sites of major environmental damage.

He produced ‘Vermilion Sounds’ – the environmental sound program – for ResonanceFM Radio, London, lectures on ‘Sound Arts & Design’ at the London College of Communication and is a Research Fellow on the multidisciplinary multi-university ‘Positive Soundscapes Project’. CDs include ‘Your Favourite London Sounds’ (Resonance), ‘Baikal Ice’ (ReR), ‘Favourite Sounds of Beijing’ (Subjam).

Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara graduated from the School of Architecture in University College Dublin in 1974, where they have been teaching since 1976. They established Grafton Architects in 1978 and are founding members of Group ‘91 Architects who won the International Competition for the Regeneration of Temple Bar, Dublin. Co-directors Philippe O’Sullivan and Gerard Carty joined the practice in 1992 and 1993.

The work of Grafton Architect includes educational buildings at Trinity College and University College in Dublin and the University of Limerick; the Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, County of Meath; Government Department offices in Dublin; and numerous Department of Education & Science schools.

In 2008, Grafton Architects won the World Building of the Year Award for the Bocconi University Project in Milan and were one of the five Finalist for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2008. Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara received RIBA International Fellowships in 2010. Both Yvonne and Shelley lecture and teach internationally and are visiting Professors at the Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio and the Graduate School of Design, Harvard.