Zollverein School of
Management & Design
2006
SANAA : Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa
Release 29Feb 2008:
3rd internet project (interactive video-lecture, 42 min.) + catalogue
(DVD)
SANAA (Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, Tokyo): Zollverein School of
Management and Design
20 February - September 2008 on www.gaaleriie.net main page
In June 2007, I had the opportunity to see the exhibition of the work
of Japanese architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa (SANAA, Tokyo)
at Stockholm Museum of Architecture. What particularly impressed me was
their method of handling space. I was particularly intrigued as to how
their buildings function in real life.
The School of Management and Design is the first new building constructed
by SANAA in Europe. The building was completed in summer 2006. In October
2007, when we came to Essen to film the video, the school has a year of
"lived experience" behind it. (Wim Wenders, German film director
filmed his latest film - The Palermo Shooting - at Zollverein School a
week before us.) Our video is based on interviews with people, who were
or have been in everyday's contact with the school.
In general context the School of Management and Design is a part of former
mine Zollverein reviving programme. Zollverein has been a part of UNESCO
World Heritage List since December 2001. The revival programme is mainly
focused on culture and design. Famous architects were invited to cooperate:
Zollverein Master Plan and Museum of Cultural and Natural History were
designed by Rem Koolhaas and Floris Alkemade (OMA); Design Center of North
Rhine-Westfalia was designed by Sir Norma Foster (Foster + Partners).
team:
cameraman: Toni Laznik
sound: Michal Deliopulos
editing: Anna Ryndová
graphic design: dgú, Petr Knobloch, Tomáš Celizna
programming: Ji?í P?tvaldský
English text corrections: Kevin B. Johnson
curator + production: Alena Hanzlová
we used parts of the following documentary films:
Zollverein School Der Neubau, direction and production Erwin Wiemer
Kohlenwäsche Der Umbau, direction and production Erwin Wiemer
Zollverein Der Film, Zollverein Development Association
Historical Material by the Historical Archive Zeche Zollverein e.V., Zollverein
Foundation and Archive Herbert Gunia
photos by:
Simon Bierwald (DZ NRW), Thomas Mayer (Thomas Mayer Archives), Martin
Wallbaum (industriedenkmal.de), Nigel Young (Foster + Partners)
special thanks to:
- Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, SANAA
- Andreas Krawczyk, SANAA
- Andrej Kupetz, Annekatrin Sonn, Yvonne Daschek, Dorian Seeliger, Zollverein
School of Management and Design
- Ute Durchholz, Zollverein Foundation
- Barbara Wendling, Zollverein Development Association
- Ulrich Borsdorf, Regional Cultural and Natural Museum of NRW
- Astrid Ruta, Sabina Schnedler, Design Zentrum NRW, Red Dot Design Museum
- Isabel Pagel (PR), Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
- Alexander Lang, HG MERZ,
- Josephine Cutts (PR), Jade Niklai (Curator of Exhibitions and Events),
Foster and Partners
- Erwin Wiemer, Martin Wallbaum
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contemporary architecture. This internet-based project is founded on interactive
video-lectures (40 - 60 min). Project open with a live (non-virtual) lecture
by the featured architect or video projection. A standard printed catalogue
is also published for each exhibition project.
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Zollverein School of
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