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2004
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"Apartment Building & Neighbourhood"
Annual Exhibition by the Union of Estonian Architects
16
Jan – 29 Feb 2004
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European architectural competition EUROPAN 7:
"Sub-urban challenge, urban intensity and housing diversity"
4 March
– 4 April 2004
* "Architectural
drawing 2"
May
2003 – May 2004
"Architectural
Drawing 2" was a new exhibition of the year of the Museum of Estonian
Architecture.
It was a sequel to the exhibition called "Architectural Drawing as a
Document
of Era" from 1993, which had been the first time when museum presented
its
collections publicly.
The
exhibition of the year continued the tradition of annually changing permanent
exhibitions
– the story of Estonian architecture was told through a different medium
every
year. With last year's installation being five slideshows with special
musical
background,
the present one focused on traditional drawing.
The
exhibition introduced a selection of most interesting architectural drawings
and
projects
from the museum's collections, most of them were exhibited for the first
time.
The selection began with coloured drawings of Villa Amend in Art Nouveau
style
(architect
Frithiof Mieritz, 1904), and ended with projects from the 1990s, when
architects
started to prefer mouse to pencil. Most recent additions to the collection
are
drawings by the well-known Estonian architects August Volberg, Edgar Velbri
and
Valve
Pormeister. Some of them were also exhibited here.
Exhibition
design by architect Hanno Grossschmidt.
* Madame
Yevonde, Be Original or Die
The photo exhibition of society portraits and advertising works
from 1930s
20
April – 23 May 2004
A solo
exhibition of photographs featuring the work of Madame Yevonde, the
pioneering
photographer who set up her first studio in London in 1914 and
developed
a method of producing vivid colour prints, particularly associated with
her
famous
portraits of society women as Greek and Roman goddesses.
A British
Council International touring exhibition.
Exhibition
was designed by Liina Siib.
* "President
Konstantin Päts and Tallinn in the 1930s"
Spatial
effect projects in the city centre in the 1930’s
27
April – 23 May 2004
Strong
heads of state/personalities have been great builders throughout history.
The
exhibition
of Tallinn in the Konstantin Päts Era set up a question: how
could
authoritarianism
in city construction be evaluated? The exhibition Tallinn in the
Konstantin
Päts Era induced the viewer to think about the continuity of city
construction
as well as the role of the city and the state in ensuring this continuity.
* The
Luther Factory. Plywood and Furniture. 1877-1940
18
Juny – 5 Sept 2004
The
present exhibition had aim to introduce and represent A. M. Luther's history,
which
has been undeservedly overlooked by design historians, and to emphasise
its
important
role both in plywood production and furniture design.
*Estonian
Architect Alar Koti (1904-1963)
3 July
– 5 Sept 2004
Designer
Tarmo Maiste.
* A
Matter of Art
Contemporary Architecture in Switzerland
11
Nov – 12 Dec 2004
The
purpose of this exhibition was to provide a "section" of Switzerland's
most recent
architecture,
with a focus on sixteen buildings constructed between 1997 and 2001.
The
reason why contemporary Swiss architecture has aroused so much interest
is
arguably
because it projects the notion of architecture as an art form. In the
selected
buildings the architecture was underpinned by functional and contextual
givens,
enabling us to appreciate the architecture for itself, though not in a
way we
were
accustomed to. Because - architecture, it's a matter of art.
Organizers
Centre Culturel Suisse – Pro Helvetia, Arts Council of Switzerland.
Curator
Jacques Lucan.
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