Andreas Angelidakis

Sound Mirror Orchestra

2009-07-11T08:22:00.000-07:00

I need to stop blogging about work real soon,
though this is a project that opened last week
in Alden Biessen castle in Belgium,
curated by Christophe de Jaeger.

Based on Sound Mirrors, the WWII ancient bunker-like radars,
we proposed a set of musical buildings for the park surrounding the castle.

These structures, arranged in the park like instruments in an orchestra,
would catch the sounds of the trees an maybe people having fun around them,and who knows what it would sound like.

They could also be your home.

Menir House at Expanded Ecologies exhibition, EMST

2009-07-08T14:28:00.000-07:00

During this past busy June, the Expanded Ecologies exhibition opened at EMST

curated by Daphne Vitali.

I'm showing a big poster of Menir House

and two 3D prints on sand dunes
(its a beach house)
soon we'll go back a re-photograph everything

Recently in some magazines

2009-06-30T13:14:00.001-07:00

Apart from abandoning this blog for the longest time,
I also havent updated the press section in ages...Here's Forum magazine which featured Cloud House on its May cover
and an extensive piece on "The Stockholm Exhibition"
then, my personal favourite PIN-UP Magazine features

a spread by the lovely Mr de la Barra on the 3D printed maquettes
coolest magazine of the moment, italian Kaleidoscope

features and interview on the subject of Heaven and the 2nd Athens Biennialwith some really interesting questions

upcoming favorite Fantom edited by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz and Selva Barni
(with Christodoulos on the cover!)feature my Iolas burglury photos, along with a nice account of the day by Sylvia Kouvali
Mark Magazine has a little mention on Menir House

L'Officiel features an interview
Italian ELLE Deco features an interview, by lovely Maddalena Fossati

with photos taken at our house

and models shot in the office

finally another magazine I found in the press scan folder

and a German magazine randomly claiming these things could never be built (?)

Some photos of HEAVEN, 2nd Athens Biennale

2009-06-26T02:51:00.000-07:00

The last couple of weeks have been kind of crazy busy,

and I've almost abandoned this blog
but here are some photos from the 2nd Athens Biennial which kept us busy
the mirror corridor entrance
zooms in to nothing
World Question Center, curated by Chus Martinez

leaning concrete board walls make up the space

For the Straight way is Lost, curated by Diana Baldon

Splendid Isolation, Athens, curated by Cay Sophie Rabinowitz

Hotel Paradies, curated by Nadja Argyropoulou

How many angels can dance on the head of a pic, curated by Christopher Marinos

HEADQUARTERS: an exhibition of Andreas Angelidakis + Angelo Plessas at Rebecca Camhi Gallery

2009-06-09T12:57:00.000-07:00

Last March, and upon the suggestion of lovely Maria-Ines Rodriguez, curator at Jeu de Paume in Paris, Angelo and me collaborated on 'The Angelo Foundation: The Headquarters". We had so much fun doing that (and that project is still going on) that we decided to also do a show together that expands on the idea of Headquarters, and also on life together.
The show includes both solo and collaborative pieces

Neon AP, Chair AA, IPG Castle AA+AP

video AA+AP

Good Pyramid (AA+AP) , Neons AP Angelo Social Networking Observatory maquette (AA+AP),
observing the headquarters (AA+AP)

the show is quite complex
Temple of Truth waiting room
AP
AP

AA+AP

life and art and architecture
brand new Troll Building (AA)

The Stockholm Exhibition

2009-05-19T11:52:00.000-07:00

For almost a year we have been working on a super interesting project in Stockholm, the remake of the famous "1930 Stockholm Exhibition" which introduced Modernism and the Swedish Welfare State. After being officially presented to the city of Stockholm, the project website was launched this week and I can finally blog about it!. The Stockholm exhibition project was initiated by our faithful Stockholm partner, the fantastic Mr Jan Aman, who together with Mr Leif Saletti put this project together, commissioned by the city of Stockholm. In a start departure from the 1930 exhibition, The Stockholm Exhibition is placed in Jarva, an uninhabited and slightly unwelcoming strech of green between the suburbs of Husby, Kista, Tensta and Rinkeby. These suburbs are typical immigrant areas, which is Stockholm are softly and invisible cut-off from anything else, and even separated from each other. The projects strategic placement tries to both adrees this larger issue while resolving an awkward piece of the larger Stockholm map.

Our job was to "design" this exhibition, but together with Jan we early on decided that "design" was really not the main issue here. We started by looking at what currently connects the suburbs surrounding Jarva, what how we could inject some energy and some pride into the landscape.We positioned attractorslit up an existing path

suggested urban grids in the fieldthought of scattered houses
and ceremonial rocks

We invited Francois Roche and R&Sie to propose something related to the idea of pavilion. In typical genius R&Sie fashion, they came up with the "Things That Necrose" pavilion, an exhibition space which essentially biodegrades
Mia Hagg together with Habiter Autrement in Paris chose the lighting path as their site, proposing an "energy pavilion" which is really a totally new way to look at energy.
Foreign Office Architects together with artist Carsten Holler came up with a Slide Tower, an infrastructural device that addresses issues such as spectacle, infrastructure and security in a manner of unique ways.
Apart from the planning research, we contributed a series of suggested structures, such as the conversion of Eggeby farmhouse into a social center, a wooden hut turned into a glass pavilion.

as generic exhibition space, a "Philosophy Farmhouse"an ISO Stack, a pavilion made out of the remaining ISO boxes which the exhibition would use during construction.

Our "official" pavilion is Dolmen, a social space organized under a magnified dolmen structure
perhaps on a plinth

and finally this, which might even get built after all these years (and on the occasion made it to the cover of Forum magazine in Stockholm)
For more info on the exhibition, visit http://www.stockholmexhibition.com/ , download the planning research PDF from here and the storyline PDF from here

More collaborations to be announced soon

I never been to Teufelsberg

2009-05-10T01:03:00.000-07:00

This is Teufelsberg: I've never been there
but I know it is an American Cold War Tapping Control Center,
(whatever that means)
My facebook friend Samson, a.k.a. Scout Wölfli,
whom I have never met
had his birthday there a while back.

so obviously I didn't take these photosI don't know about tapping center, this place looks like a dick

the landscape is amazing especially through triangular buckie fuller dome cutout windows
half life tower
say hi to Samson

The Temple of Truth

2009-05-08T10:12:00.000-07:00

Here's some stills from the second part of the six part Angelo Foundation Headquarters collaborative project that we have been working on with Angelo Plessas, commissioned by Jeu de Paume, curated by lovely Maria Ines Rodriguez and launched this past April. Apparently we promised that every month there will be a new segment, though June is looking mighty difficult

Gold and Green Plexi masterpiece

2009-05-07T07:30:00.000-07:00

Ok, dont call this Plexiglas, because plexi was not even invented back then. I never knew my favorite chair ever would be a Jean Prouve, but here it is: The prototype for the garden furniture used in the U.A.M. pavilion in 1937, all gold perforated frame and composite acrylic too expensive for boring reality transparent plastic heaven

House of cards

2009-04-24T00:00:00.000-07:00

Mistake no3

2009-04-21T13:02:00.000-07:00

Last week in Paris

2009-04-12T13:22:00.000-07:00

Was just great, though most of it was spent inside Jeu de Paume for the multiple openings of The Angelo Foundation Headquarters, my collaboration with artist Angelo Plessas, curated by Maria Ines Rodriguez. Still, here are some stills from the few daysthe lonely postmodernism of Les Halles
CDG always under construction
Sculptures at the Tuileries
Miro playground
accidental sculpture
and broken tree sculpture
and scribble prints by Yi Zhou

If you're in Paris tonight

2009-04-06T08:58:00.001-07:00

...come to the Jeu de Paume, for the opening of the AngeloFoundationHeadquarters.com, a collaborative project with Angelo Plessas curated by lovely Maria Ines Rodriguez, of course. Also opening tonight are Agathe Snow, and Harun Farocki/ Rodney Graham in the main space.

Poême électronique

2009-03-28T12:22:00.000-07:00

Just saw the fantastically amazing "Poême électronique"

by Le Corbusier, Iannis Xenakis and Edgard Varèse
at the recently re-located EMST, as part of their Iannis Xenakis tribute.

EMST is now hosted at the ground floor of the also fantastic
National Conservatory in the nicest area of Athens,
in a recently raw space that is both brutalist and elegant,
in a marble-and-concrete kind of way

Seven partly underground rooms for water, ice and midgets

2009-03-28T04:02:00.000-07:00

I was finally able to get my hot little hands on Mary Ann Ray's "Seven partly underground rooms for water, ice and midgets", Pamphlet Architecture No20
I had seen excerpts from this study ages ago (and I literally mean ages, as in decades)\
back when I was at SciArc
the book (or pamphlet to be accurate) presents MAR's study of sever oblique,
eccentric buildings in Rome
with her unique combination of archaeology, research and design
the book is just perfectly designed
but makes me wish it were published in a more luxurious edition
so we could really enjoy the fantastic photos and drawings

Like an Eagle

2009-03-23T02:54:00.000-07:00

Been listening to this track for months now on the pod, but I had no idea what it was or where it came from. According to headphonesex it is Dennis Parker, the man behind the porn alias Wade Nickols, who shot himself after he found out he had aids. And he made a disco album on Casablanca Records, famous for Donna Summer of course. and the video is probably the most inappropriate thing to be watching on a hectic Monday morning. So watch this on a Saturday night.

Parrot bay

2009-03-22T15:17:00.000-07:00

These pictures of parrot houses have been lying in the blog folder for so long that I forgot why I was collecting them.

Last week in New York

2009-03-16T13:38:00.001-07:00

we enjoyed passing by the Morgan Library every day
( I thought it was a 60's building until I learned it's a Renzo Piano from the 2000s)
saw John Armleder glitter drips
Angelo's International Portrait Gallery
a collection of photos of stuff that looks like faces
and neons of faces that look like stuff
plastic fire at the Armory
great Derek Jarman at X (ex Dia)
Adrian Williams great rehearsal performance at the Art Production Fund Lab,
curated by Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz
the white education space at the New Museum
funny Olaf Breuning sculpture
a girl sitting on a golden lion
great John Gerrard at Simon Preston
a cute pink and black building
mirror and plywood shoe display at Project 8
where Angelo tried on some plants
photocopy neoclassicism
fire door window door at Reena Spaulings
rotating face spiritual healing
yellow black under construction
chef reflection
some more yellow black, and it looks like its gonna be less interesting when its built
the building with the worse reviews in NY, suddenly looks cute in the fuzzy weather
another Monet
(looks good from far away but up close its a mess)
great AVAF wool and neon at Modern Restaurant
awesome Kippenberger at MOMA
the Dreamland show at Moma, with unpublished Hans Rucker co. collages
(and there is no catalogue!)
and funny interesting SOM
one of my favorite chairs, Libro by GRUPPO DAM
melting Oldenburg soft ice cream
Yves Tanguy obsession
Thomas Hirshhorn at Gladstone
a universal gym
with sunset posters,
great way to say goodbye

Random Rules

2009-03-12T02:15:00.000-07:00

Here's a quick pick from the Random Rules project, a channel of artists' selection from You Tube. Random Rules is curated by Marina Fokidis and had its first screening during the Pulse Art Fair in New York.

Ahmet Ögüt

Aids-3D

Angelo Plessas

Annika Larsson

Assume Vivid Astro Focus

Dominique Gonzales-Foerster

Mathieu Laurette

Pablo Leon de la Barra

Rodney Graham

and me...

check out the complete channel at youtube.com/randomrules09

Eternal Flatness

2009-03-02T20:05:00.000-08:00

After Palm Springs we headed to Joshua Tree and the Hidden Valley

apparently discovered after an explosionAngelo seemed to like the Joshua trees
he made friendsand shot friendly monsters for his IPG
that kept appearing everywhere
we stopped to check the 29palms inn
loved the lush oasis, but chose a military motel instead

next day,
fuzzy endless descent into Death Valley,
almost hallucinatory
flatness of forever
and ever
the lowest point on the western hemisphere
for hours on end
finally the legendary Zabriskie point, and it all makes sense

somehow
Shpinx
and highway pyramids
the goldness of Mandalay

and the Wynn bronzeness

strange water homes
for green giants

abandoned mines that could have been houses

and houses that look like mines

faraway screens
white cross drugs
towns with funny names

and roads with bizarre but somehow familiar names that eventually take you to

the edge of the western world

Some more Palm Springs

2009-02-28T00:53:00.000-08:00

While in PS, Jim took us on a architectural tour of whats great. Here a glimpse of the Kaufmann Housev by Richard Neutra, one of the architectural treasures which recently was renovated (for a rumored 15 mil...
this white walled-in stunner Craig Ellwood
the Albert Frey city hall
and some neighboring Wexler
Though I must admit I was equally, if not more drawn to the weirdness of lesser gems
like this Bank of America styled after Le Corbusier's famous church
which we could not help nicknaming Wrongchamp
or these bizarre rocks that were apparently too natural looking , so they got painted taupe, to fit better in the landscape (it was a wash, not opaque paint so some of the naturalness shows through...)or this cute white-rock facade
and this style that we didn't know how to describe (pizza-hut classic?)

as we hit the freeway, we knew things would get weirder, when we saw ourselves reflected in a truck
we passed cowboy skyscrapers
and stucco pueblo geodomes

snakes to light your wayand dinosaurs with security exits
and welcoming tails

Chez Mr Isermann

2009-02-24T22:20:00.001-08:00

Been having the pleasure of staying
at my good friend Jim Isermann's house in Palm Springs
a prefabricated steel house designed by Donald Wexler
Bridget
Angelo
Sunshine swimming pool
Isermann
Panton
Hello sky, hello mountains
lunch

and an unbeatable rock post box

Oscar Sunday

2009-02-23T22:34:00.000-08:00

It was Oscar Sunday and we decided to go museum hopping in downtown LA

we stumbled upon California Plaza next to MOCA

post modern belated delirium tremens

with reflected banality

in Chinatown we passed by Grandview gardens

and nylon covered rocks

and as the night drew, we saw weird plant-covered boutiques

and scared pumpkin cats that got no oscars

Found Zenetos

2009-02-15T13:23:00.000-08:00

For the longest time I thought I had list this out-of-print book on the great Takis Zenetos

suddenly it appeared behind some other random books at my parents' place
it features some nice shots of the Electronic Urbanism maquete
the legendary project which basically predicted everything from the internet to almost the iphone (1952- eat your heart out Archigram)
the very cute Medrano restaurant project
which I think was never built

and this great drawing of the villa in Glyfada, with the surrounding rock garden

which was of course built but unfortunately demolished a couple years ago

Podium Friends

2009-02-14T02:22:00.001-08:00