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News 2003

Dutch design events in the US

Spotlight on specific Dutch design and architectural events in the United States. In chronological order of start data / publication date.


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Date	Through	Category	Description
20 Aug 2003	23 Aug 2003	Design Events	Dutchdesignevents.com is proud to be an official sponsor of the 2003 International Design Conference Aspen (IDCA) Conference "SAFE" in Aspen! Keynote speakers include Hella Jongerius (JongeriusLab), Guus Beumer, Paul Mijksenaar (Bureau Mijksenaar), and Lucas Verweij (Premsela Foundation) >> for more info, please visit the IDCA web site 20 - 23 August, 2003 Harris Hall, Aspen, CO
13 Aug 2003	16 Aug 2003	Design Events	Dutchdesignevents.com is proud to be an official sponsor of the 2003 Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) National Conference "COOL" in New York City! Keynote speakers include Gijs Bakker (Droog Design), Aaron Betsky (Netherlands Architecture Institute), Ilse Crawford (Design Academy Eindhoven) and Marcel Wanders (Moooi) >> for more info, please visit the IDSA web site 13 - 16 August, 2003 Marriott Marquis Hotel, Times Square, New York City
25 July 2003	28 Sep 2003	Design Events	The Schick Art Gallery at Skidmore College presents Roadshow: Dutch Graphic Design 1990-2001, a survey exhibition with work by more than 70 designers and design studios--both renowned masters and emerging talents--including Studio Anthon Beeke, Jop van Bennekom, Irma Boom, Wim Crouwel, De Designpolitie, Mieke Gerritzen, Kesselskramer, Opera, Thonik, ZEE, and others. >> more... July 25 - September 28, 2003, exhibition Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Note: on September 10, 2003 a panel discussion will be organized, featuring exhibition organizer Toon Lauwen and designers Cornelia Blatter (COMA), Bob van Dijk (a/o. Studio Dunbar), and Annelys de Vet. For more info, please visit Skidmore's website
18 June 2003	7 Oct 2003	Design Events	Reinventing the Home. Parsons School of Design presents transformation: new international design, an exhibition of innovative furniture, lighting, textiles and objects for the home, featuring the works of more than 30 visionary women designers from around the world. Including work by Dutch designers Nicolette Brunklaus, Ineke Hans and Kate Hume. >>more... June 18 - October 7, 2003 Parsons School of Design Gallery, 2 West 13th Street, NYC
8 June 2003	7 Sept 2003	Architecture & Design Events	The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis will present Strangely Familiar, Design and Everyday life, an exhibition about designs that create the backdrop for our everyday lives. Including work by Dutch designers and architects such as Job van Bennekom, Jurgen Bey, Koers Zeinstra Van Gelderen, MVRDV, Marijn van der Poll, Frank Tjepkema and Peter van der Jagt, and Marcel Wanders. >>more... June 8 - September 7, 2003 Walker Art Center, Vineland Place, Minneapolis, MN (Note: this exhibition will travel to the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, winter 2003/2004 - more information will follow)
21 May 2003	10 July 2003	Design Events	The University of North Texas Art Gallery presents Roadshow: Dutch Graphic Design 1990-2001, a survey exhibition with work by more than 70 designers and design studios--both renowned masters and emerging talents--including Studio Anthon Beeke, Jop van Bennekom, Irma Boom, Wim Crouwel, De Designpolitie, Mieke Gerritzen, Kesselskramer, Opera, Thonik, ZEE, and others. >> more... May 21 - July 10, 2003 University of North Texas Art Gallery, Denton TX
21 May 2003	14 June 2003	Design Events	Felissimo Design House in New York City presents a special exhibition "Richard Hutten: Taking Form Making Form." This installation includes furniture and home accessories by Richard Hutten, one of the most successful of the new generation of Dutch designers. His past and present designs are on display, including pieces developed through Droog Design. >>images... May 21 - June 14, 2003 Felissimo Design House, 10 West 56th Street, NYC
29 May 2003	1 June 2003	Design Events	Charon Kransen Arts presents International Contemporary Jewelry at SOFA New York 2003, the Sixth Annual International Exposition of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art. >> more... May 29 - June 1, 2003 Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Avenue at 67th Street, NYC
17 May 2003	19 May 2003	Design Events	Artifort presents new and classic furniture at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in New York, including 2003 designs that were first presented at the Salone Del Mobile in Milan >> more... 17-19 May, 2003 Jacob K. Javits Convention Center >> click here for images of Artifort and Interior Tools booths at ICFF
2 May 2003		Architecture Events	The Architectural League of New York presents "Habitation," a lecture by Winy Maas, principal architect of MVRDV. ~~Friday, May 2, 2003 - 7:00 p.m.~~ postponed ~ new date will be announced soon! >> more... Location: The Great Hall,Union, 7 East 7th Street, NYC This program was co-sponsored by The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union, as part of the "Ideas and Practice Series." League members free, non-members and guests $10. League members may make reservations at 212-980-3767, or info@archleague.org
29 Apr 2003		Design Events	Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles presents a lecture by designer Petra Blaisse of Amsterdam-based Inside Outside. Tuesday, April 29, 2003 - 7:00 p.m. (free and open to the public) >> more... Location: Otis Forum, Ahmanson Building, 9045 Lincoln Boulevard Sponsored by The Environmental Design Department at Otis College of Art and Design, Phone: (800) 527-6847
15 Apr 2003		Architecture Events	The Municipal Art Society's Urban Center Books in New York presents a lecture by Meyer en Van Schooten Architects Tuesday, April 15, 6:30pm Location: The Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue at 51st Street Tickets: $10 for MAS members, students and seniors; $15 others. Seating is limited. Tickets must be purchased in advance on-line or from Urban Center Books, 212.935.3595
9 Apr 2003	14 Apr 2003 Special announce- ment	Design Events	Click image for more information about Dutch Design in Milan during the Salone del Mobile 9-14 April, 2003
28 Mar 2003	29 Mar 2003	Architecture Events	The State of Architecture at the Beginning of the 21st Century conference took place at Columbia University, March 28-29, 2003, with Wiel Arets, Rem Koolhaas, Winy Maas, Kas Oosterhuis, Lars Spuybroek, and Ben van Berkel among the many speakers
26 Mar 2003		Design Events	Opening of US office Bureau Mijksenaar, New York: Dutch information design and consultancy firm, and designers of new wayfinding systems for New York's JFK, Newark and La Guardia airports recently started operations in New York City, Bureau Mijksenaar USA >> more... Announced on March 26, 2003: Bureau Mijksenaar will receive Honor Award Wayfinding from the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD)
25 Mar 2003		Architecture Events	The Architecture & Design Society of the Art Institute in Chicago presents Figments of Falling, lecture by Ben van Berkel (UN Studio) Fullerton Auditorium, The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Avenue, 6:00pm, Tuesday, March 25, 2003 <<click here to view the invite>> CANCELLED: please check back for rescheduled date and time
18 Mar 2003		Design Events	Thomas Widdershoven and Nikki Gonnissen, founding partners of Amsterdam-based studio Thonik®, will be part of the "Insights: Double Vision 2003 Design Lecture Series" at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday, March 18, 2003. Their work includes identity programs, media campaigns, and book design. Thonik® proclaims "the designer as director, as conceptual artist, as strategist, as media expert, and as obstinate busybody," and has created identity programs for documenta XI, the Centraal Museum, Utrecht, and 1ab, the first architectural biennial of Rotterdam.
5 Feb 2003 & 10 Feb 2003		Architecture Events	Publishing Architecture, Converging Practices: Ole Bouman, Editor in Chief of Archis, the leading Dutch "magazine for architecture, the city and visual culture" will lecture at Sci-Arc (Los Angeles, CA) on February 5, 2003 and at Rice University (Houston, TX) on February 10, 2003
17 Jan 2003	22 Jun 2003	Architecture Events	The National Building Museum presents a major exhibition on “green” architecture, titled Big & Green: Toward Sustainable Architecture in the 21st Century. Through in-depth profiles of approximately 50 contemporary green projects worldwide (including work by MVRDV), along with a broad examination of global ecological and economic forces, the exhibition will demonstrate the transformative powers of sustainable design. Big & Green will be on view through June 22, 2003 and will be accompanied by an extensive lecture series.
15 Jan 2003		Design Events	The Battery Conservancy and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation announced on the selection of internationally acclaimed Dutch horticulturist and landscape designer Piet Oudolf to design the Gardens of Remembrance, 10,000 square feet of perennial plantings, flowers and passages for meditation honoring those who perished on September 11th, 2001. Click here for National Public Radio 1/16/2003 coverage of this announcement (includes image gallery)
2 Jan 2003	31 Jan 2003	Architecture Events	Design Ideas for a Mobile HIV/AIDS Health Clinic for Africa, Exhibition of winning and selected ideas on display at the Van Alen Institute in New York. Including a design by Amsterdam-based Joost Hovender and Jan Wingender.
Jan 2003	Dec 2003		Three major European Capitals--Amsterdam, Berlin and Vienna--are joining forces in 2003 and recently launched the brand new web site coolcapitals.com. It provides a wide array of information about the arts, design, food, nightlife & music, architecture, fashion and shopping in these dynamic capitals, as well as cool travel ideas. Several Cool Capital Salons, avant-garde party events for the hip and cool consumer and traveler, are planned for New York and Los Angeles in August and Fall of 2003, and a number of newsletters are scheduled to appear. >> more....
25 Nov 2002	12 Jan 2003	Architecture Events	West 8 Urban Design & Landscape Architecture exhibition 30 – 50% Void: Borneo Sporenburg Residential Waterfront, Amsterdam to be Presented at Harvard Design School Cambridge, Massachusetts

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