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A STEP INTO THE FUTURE – an international debate
during the Gala for the 25th Anniversary of the Architektura- murator monthly magazine
We are faced with redefinitions and challenges—climatic, political, and social. Are we prepared? What influence can we wield? What trends are perceived by the panelists in the areas they are responsible for? Are they similar, or different in various places in the world? What are the most important challenges of the contemporary times and how architecture may or should answer them?
1. Marta Thorne, director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, dean of the architecture school at IE University in Madrid, teacher known also for her speeches and actions aimed to promote the role of women in architecture.
The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture It is considered to be one of the world's premier architecture prizes, and is often referred to as the Nobel Prize of architecture. The prize is said to be awarded "irrespective of nationality, race, creed, or ideology."
2. Ivan Blasi, curator of prizes and programs of the Mies van der Rohe Foundation. An active participant in numerous symposia and debates concerning architectural values; promotor of the best models in European architecture.
The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award is a Prize given biennially by the European Union and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona,'to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe'. The Prize was created in 1987 as equal partnerships between the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe. As of 2016, a new category, the Young Talent Architecture Award (YTAA), highlights the final degree projects of recently graduated architects, landscape architects and urban designers
3. Denis Leontiev, co-founder and CEO of Strelka KB in Moscow. He started collaboration of international experts and Russian architects in order to work on the leading-edge infrastructure in cities all across Russia
KB Strelka provides strategic consulting services in the fields of architecture and urban planning, as well as cultural and spatial programing. The Moscow Street Program supervised by Strelka reimagined more than 200 public spaces across Moscow between 2015 and 2017. A project is under way to renovate public spaces in 40 other cities. The company’s profits are invested in Strelka Institute, a non-profit international educational program listed among the top-100 best world architecture schools. “The Terraforming” project announced by Strelka in August 2019 researches ways to design our planet’s cities, infrastructures and ecosystems comprehensively in a situation where by 2030, the progression of climate change needs to be halted.
4. Mirosław Bałka, one of the most eminent contemporary sculptors in the world. He also is involved in drawing and experimental film. Professor at the Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw. His works can be seen in the most important museum collections in the world, such as Tate Modern in London; Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven; MOCA in Los Angeles; SFMOMA in San Francisco; MOMA in New York City; The National Museum of Art in Osaka. Memory, transition, , preservation of traces and death are among the main threads in his art.
In the context of the debate an event of global importance is worth recalling: a work “How It Is” (the title drawn from Samuel Beckett’s story) carried out in Tate Modern in London in 2009. “How It Is” is a gigantic steel container; a walk along a ramp that leads to it and darkness filling its interior opened a way to a sequence of associations, such as the Biblical “whale’s belly”, cosmic “black hole”, Conrad’s “The Heart of Darkness”, metaphor of the Holocaust (as a cattle wagon going to a death camp); it was also compared to conditions in which contemporary refugees escape. According to the artist, feeling this work is more a of a mental than bodily experience.



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Dyskusja z okazji 25-lecia miesięcznika Architektura murator odbyła się 21 11 2019 roku w Warszawie