museum architecture:exhibition and symposium

November 12. Friday

19.30 Opening reception

20.20 Special edition of Pecha Kucha on changing institutions

November 13. Saturday

16.00-20.00 Symposium on museum architecture Part I.

Selected projects from the exhibition will be presented by the designers, focusing on the degree of influence and ambitions architects have in influencing institutional programs; how architects can interpret museums as branded sites of consumption; and how public opinion and political narratives can be considered in the design process.

With the participation of exhibiting architects (details later).

20.00-22.00 Modeling duel between architects Péter Kis (Atelier Péter Kis) and Gábor Zoboki (Zoboki-Demeter & Associates Architects). Moderator: András Földes journalist (index.hu)

November 14. Sunday

16.00-20.00 Symposium on museum architecture Part II.

Selected projects from the exhibition will be presented by the designers, focusing on the degree of influence and ambitions architects have in influencing institutional programs; how architects can interpret museums as branded sites of consumption; and how public opinion and political narratives can be considered in the design process.

With the participation of exhibiting architects (details later).

November 15. Monday

16.00-20.00 Symposium on museums as institutions today

The symposium explores the transformation of the museum as an institution through its spatial context. Some questions: how does a program for a new building or an extension get shaped? How can a director and an institution adapt to the uncalculable results of competitions? How do the spaces shape the program, the activities and the mission of an institution? What are the unexpected and the planned elements therein? How does the rebranding of museums change their activities and directions?

Participants:

László Baán (director of the Hungarian Museum of Fine Arts)

László Csorba (director of the Hungarian National Museum)

Heléne Guenin (curator of Centre Pompidou Metz)

Maria Welzig (architecture curator, her focus is Museumsquartier Wien)

Andrej Smrekar (former director of Ljubljana National Gallery)

Tomasz Fudala (curator of the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art)

Moderator: Samu Szemerey architect, urbanist

November 16. Tuesday

16.00-19.00 Symposium on modeling technologies

The symposium explores the relationship beteween design practices and advanced fabrication technologies. The topics cover the changing design approaches which integrate intelligent modelling and rapid prototyping, manufacturing technologies from models to buildings and DIY construction, and software environments which facilitate the expansion of the architectural practice.

Participants:
András Juhász Márton (Fab Lab Budapest)
Autodesk Revit
Géza Csizmazia (LimesModell)
Béla Káli (ONL Hungary)