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David Garcia Studio thanks everyone for the smashing success of the MAP 001 Film Festival. Three fantastic days of film and discussions. As a preambul to the upcoming publication MAP, we are showing three films on Antarctica, from the 18th to the 20th of August at 9:30 pm, at DAVID GARCIA STUDIO. All welcome and bring your own chair or pillow and refreshments. TUESDAY AUGUST 18th 9:30 pm “The Crystal Ocean” 1999 Director: Michael Single - Duration: approx 52 mins Award-winning filmmaker Michael Single won an Emmy for his beautifully cinematic look at the icebergs of Antarctica. WEDNESDAY AUGUST 19th 9:30 pm “The Thing” 1982 Director:John Carpenter - Writers:John W. Campbell Jr. and Bill Lancaster Plot: Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people that it kills THURSDAY AUGUST 20th 9:30 pm “Encounters at the End of the World” 2007 Director:Werner Herzog - Writer:Werner Herzog Plot: Filmmaker Werner Herzog travels to A...

David Garcia Studio was invited to Pecha Kucha night in Copenhagen Denmark 2009. Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presenter is up. This keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show. Pecha Kucha (which is Japanese for the sound of conversation) has tapped into a demand for a forum in which creative work can be easily and informally shown, without having to rent a gallery or chat up a magazine editor. This is a demand that seems to be global – as Pecha Kucha Night, without any pushing, ha...

David Garcia Studio and architect Alanna Baudinet collaborate on a competition for a mobile arctic unit. The design is to be an open source mobile architecture system capable of functioning in extreme as well as temperate climates and containing mass, industrial and amateur production and manufacturing potential. The unit is to serve as a model for mobile research in extreme cold environments, designed to incorporate high tech solutions while utilizing sustainable resources. The ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE – THIRD CULTURE project is supported by the European Commission Culture 2007-2013.

DAVID GARCIA STUDIO is invited to the Danish-Japanese design exhibition "Second Nature", Copenhagen, Denmark. From 8th of August to 20th of September. The exhibition features furniture, lighting, textiles and pottery at the boundary between design and art, with a fascination for untamed nature and a minimalistic/aesthetic world. All exhibitors are innovative and expressive professional artists and designers, and their groundbreaking works demonstrate passionate commitment to minimalistic ideals. They are all masters of their craft, and capable of telling present-day stories based on the values of the past. The sublime expression of their works connects with the future, giving them a contemporary and modern expression which surprises and yet seems familiar at the same time. www.rundetaarn.dk www.second-nature.dk

COMPETITION SHORT LISTED The architectural competition for the National Wildflower Centre in Leeds, England, desired an extension to their existing installations, that expressed nature's mathematical order that is not necessarily immediately apparent in nature, but found upon closer inspection. To test how this building could become an expression of this, Fibonacci series based curves were placed on the site to test the interaction with the available site. From these curves and the site area constraints, the floor plan geometry of the building was derived. A well to collect rainwater was then placed within each of the floor plans. An arch with optimal bearing section was then drawn between the outer curve and the well, and then swept between the two, to create the three dimensional structure of the buildings. Pragmatically the public and operational areas of the centre are separated into two buildings. Although these two areas are physically distinct from one another, the dialogue ...

Lecture at the AHO, OSLO The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) is an autonomous institution in the Norwegian system of universities. AHO is a scientific institution providing education within architecture and industrial design, awarding the titles of PhD, master of architecture, master of industrial design and master of landscape architecture. In addition, AHO offers post-graduate master degrees in urbanism and architectural heritage. The Thursday Lecture Series 05 Mar Guest lecture: David Garcia 12 Mar Guest lecture: Francis Kere 19 Mar Guest lecture: Knut Eirik Dahl 02 Apr Guest lecture: Helen & Hard 16 Apr Guest lecture: Un-Plugged Italy 30 Apr Guest lecture: Deane Simpson www.aho.no