Post—City: Considering the Luxembourg case.
Exhibition
29.08. - 25.11.2012
Address
Ca’ del Duca
Corte del Duca Sforza
Venice
Commissioner
Fondation de l’Architecture et de l’Ingénierie, Luxembourg
Represented by
Christian Bauer, Tatiana Fabeck, Mathias Fritsch, Stefano Moreno,
Andrea Rumpf
Exhibitors
Yi-der Chou, Radim Louda, Philippe Nathan
Supported by
Ministry of Culture, Luxembourg
Rather an attitude towards the city than an urban proposal, Post—City tries to magnify the already existing forces of Luxembourg’s built environment. In order to tackle the larger-scale issues the country is – and will be – facing, as well as its relationships towards the development of the 21st century city in general, we propose to deal with the territory through a sensitive analysis.
Based on an assumed subjective approach, Post—City works as a zoom-out process. Starting with the exploration of the particular, Post—City proposes to link five specific environments of contemporary Luxembourg. Considered by us to be equally important, Belval, Berchem, Ingeldorf, Kirchberg and Schengen are connected by a dense corridor of urban scenes.
Made of an extremely pragmatic infrastructure and an accumulation of existing and fictional built situations, Post—City acts as a visual concentration of urban realities and potentials.
As a natural consequence of the process, a triangular urban fabric with a connected heart cuts through Luxembourg, creating, as a leftover, an undefined landscape, a territory of all possibilities.
Post—City: an almost romantic approach with an almost totalitarian consequence. Or, how the contemplation of a local case led us to a total urban tale.
Exhibitors
Yi-der Chou
Architect (Taipei, Taiwan, 1984)
Graduated with honors as an architect in 2008 from the ISACF La Cambre in Brussels (Belgium). In 2008, she worked at CAT SAO in Brussels and simultaneously worked as a teaching assistant at the Bachelor 1 design studio at ISACF La Cambre in Brussels before leaving in 2009 for the division office of Tange associates in Taipei. Today, she collaborates part time with GCArchitectures in Brussels and runs the Brussels operations for the Luxembourg based architecture office “2001”.
Radim Louda
Architect (Prague, Czech Republic, 1984)
Graduated with honors as an architect in 2009 from the ISACF La Cambre in Brussels (Belgium). The same year, his diploma project was awarded with “Le Prix La Cambre Architecture”. From 2009 to 2010, he worked with Anorak agency in Brussels and is currently based in Ljubljana as a project architect at Bevk Perovic arhitekti. Regularly he is invited as a jury member in Brussels and Ljubljana. Since 2008, different collaborations and solo projects were awarded and exhibited in Brussels, New York and Tokyo. Recently, he has been selected for the third edition of “(Re)Nouveaux Plaisirs d’Architecture”, as one of nine emergent Belgian architectural figures.
Philippe Nathan
Architect (Esch-Alzette, Luxembourg, 1982)
Graduated with great honors as an architect in 2009 from the ISACF La Cambre in Brussels (Belgium). In 2006, 2007 and 2008 he was successively awarded with “Le Prix La Cambre Architecture”. From 2007 until 2010, he first worked as an intern and later as project architect at the Brussels based office 51N4E. In 2010 he founded the Luxembourg based practice “2001”. In 2010 he was invited as lecturer and jury member at the “Faculté d’architecture ULB Horta-La Cambre”. In the summer of 2011, he participated at the IAW2.0: “Ishinomaki Architecture Workshop” in northern Japan. That same year, he was shortlisted with 2 projects for the Luxembourg Architecture Prize.
