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Rien ne va Plus
dal 15/9/2010 al 20/11/2010
Tuesday - Sunday 12 - 19, Mondays - Closed

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15/9/2010

Rien ne va Plus

Pavilion Unicredit, Bucharest

Architecture in times of crisis. This last boom was caused by the financial structures of real estate loans and speculation. Architecture became a means of wealth rather than well-being, a speculation feeder and a marketeer. The exhibition is not a conclusion on how to make a better practice, neither does it offer immediate solutions; it aims to open a conversation, firstly, about the necessary shift in our overall mindset and then about possible answers to these crises.


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The impact of the financial crash on architecture was unforeseen and unprecedented. The question, "what's wrong with our financial system?", could be followed by the question, "what's wrong with our architecture?"

This last boom was caused by the financial structures of real estate loans and speculation. Architecture became a means of wealth rather than well-being, a speculation feeder and a marketeer. From the socially committed origins of modernism, to postmodernism, to fashion and icon architecture – what is left of the moral authority that the Modern Movement had given to architecture? And if architecture is no longer socially committed, how can it provide for much-needed sustainable solutions? How can we create architecture that is based on long-term qualities rather than on short-term profits?

Rien ne va Plus started as a research project based on the assumption that we are today witnessing three crises. First, an economic crisis caused by excessive speculation on housing, secondly, an environmental crisis giving rise to unprecedented climate changes and thirdly, a generational crisis caused by the retirement of the biggest generation ever.

The exhibition is not a conclusion on how to make a better practice, neither does it offer immediate solutions; it aims to open a conversation, firstly, about the necessary shift in our overall mindset and then about possible answers to these crises.

The exhibition itinerary is organized by zeppelin, Arhitectura magazine and the Union of Architects from Romania, in collaboration with PAVILION UNICREDIT, as an event inside the Bucharest Architecture Biennale 2010, and is supported by the Royal Netherlands Embassy. Partner: BAB 2010: ROCA.

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Image: Rien ne va Plus, crédits: Johannes Schwarz

Opening: September 16, 2010, 19.00 hours

Pavilion Unicredit
Sos. Nicolae Titulescu, 1 (Piata Victoriei), Bucharest
Hours: Tuesday - Sunday 12.00 - 19.00, Mondays - Closed
Free admission

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