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HENNING LARSEN ARCHITECTS  and DAVID GARCIA STUDIO are one of the four teams which have been selected to represent the Danish Pavillion at the Architecture Venice Biennale in 2012. The theme of study, FUTURE GREENLAND , aims to look at the challenging future of perhaps one of the most rapidly changing zones in the world.  The Danish teams will be joined by architecture studios and institutions from Greenland, and together will develop the concepts and projects for the exhibition.  The Danish Architecture Centre and Professor Minik Rosing together with NORD architects will be curating the event. A workshop in Greenland in November will start of the collaboration. Congratulations to the Greenland teams,  TNT Nuuk, KITAA Arkitekter, Tegnestuen Nuuk, Clement, Carlsen Arkitekter, Qarsoq Tegnestue and Thomas Riis, and the Danish teams, Vandkunsten, BIG + Superflex, Elkiær & Ebbeskov + Hausenberg, we look forward to seeing you in Greenland. 

MAP 004 FLOODS was launched in the Maldives on the 10th of September, and the sea measuring device survived monsoons and typhoons on two islands. Through out the tests we managed to chart tide surges and sand movements, and we will now continue the project to create an array of measuring devices at selected islands. We would like to thank the people of Kurumba and Bandos for their hospitality and help with the project, The National University for their invitation to lecture and to RIAS for the sponsorship of the materials for the floating device. A very special thanks to PMO for inviting The Studio to the Maldives, for their passion and support.  At The Studio, thanks to the team that built the device, Nynne Blak, Shane Masterson, Nicolas Feihl and Hinke Majoor

MAP 004 FLOODS  will be available to distribute world wide from the 12th of September. The official launch will be on the 10th of September in the Maldives. The firm PMO, have invited David Garcia to an underwater launch of this MAP issue, to underline the challenges that the archipelago faces in the immediate future. MAP 004 FLOODS deals with the spatial implications of inundation, presenting projects in The Netherlands, Italy, the US and the Maldives. Architect Peter Cook writes the introduction to this issue. The Studio is constructing a sea level rise measuring buoy to take to the Maldives as part of the launch. More to come. This issue of MAP has been possible thanks to THE BARTLETT RESEARCH FUND. Thanks to PMO and to RIAS for their sponsorship in the launch.

The Studio has received a third prize for the Jøssingfjord museum international competition in Norway. Placed on the remnants of an old titanium mine and at the mouth of a fjord, the museum proposal plays with relationships between the vertical and horizontal landscape skyline and mining typologies as spatial design.  We are delighted to receive this prize contributing to the studio's track record of 9 out of 10 prized competitions.

Thanks again to BAUHAUS - WEIMAR and the Horizonte lecture series. Impressive publication and and energy at this platform. Here is a link to their call for papers for the next issue. A special thanks to David Bauer, Michael Kraus and Carsten Tetens for saving my laptop, and by extension, my lecture.

The Danish Arts Foundation, architecture review, has awarded David Garcia Studio, 100.000 danish kroner to research on the spatial implications of sea level rise in Denmark in general and in Copenhagen in particular, with special emphasis of speculative proposal to such an extreme scenario. Just recently, The Danish Meteorological Institute has in May published a report detailing recent studies for sea level rise in Denmark, predicting a 49cm to 100 cm rise in the next 100 years, much more than previously though. We are delighted to have been awarded this opportunity to engage in our field of study and we look forward to publishing our results as they develop.

Paul D. Miller has just launched a book on his on going project in Antarctica, including some of our architectural speculations on that continent. Drawing on Antarctica's rich history of inspiring exploration and artistic endeavors, Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky has put together his own multimedia, multidisciplinary study of the South Pole. In light of climate change and tireless human enterprise to be present everywhere on the planet, Miller uses Antarctica as a point on entry for contemplating humanity’s relationship with the natural world. Using photographs and film stills from his journey to the bottom of the world, along with original artworks and re-appropriated archival materials, Miller ponders how Antarctica could liberate itself from the rest of the world. Part fictional manifesto, part history and part science book, Book of Ice furthers Miller’s reputation as an innovative artist capable of making the old look new.