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Exploded reactor nr 4, courtesy of the AP. The Studio will be launching its fifth issue of MAP on Chernobyl, this week. We are delighted to be lecturing during the launch at the Chernobyl Museum and visiting the exclusion zone and we will be performing a series of tests on the radiation blocking properties of different materials during our visit. Many thanks to Solo East Travel and The Chernobyl Museum, and to Parvinder Marwaha for their help and support. Model of exploded reactor, courtesy of the Chernobyl Museum.

The Studio is presently exhibiting at The Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York. This is the second time we have the pleasure to exhibit in this prestigious venue and we are happy be part of such a collective. Archizines exhibits a selection of architectural publications, and MAP is represented. Images courtesy of Storefront.

DAVID GARCIA STUDIO is again in Greenland for our second workshop for the Venice Biennale. Together with Henning Larsen Architects and KITAA Arkitekter, and the rest of the teams, we have been in Ilulissat for a week of meetings with local authorities, workshops and travels, in a further attempt to engage reality with our projekt. During our travels, The Studio took the opportunity to test materials at 30 degrees below zero, and under wind and pressure, via kites and shelters.

The Studio, together with the architectural practice PMO of the Maldives, is designing a ten floor residential building in the heart of the capital Malé.

EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS AND FUTURE LANDSCAPES master course presents a full action day, with crit and triple lecture. Liam Young, teacher at the AA in London and Ricardo de Ostos, teacher at the AA and The Bartlett, Christer Malström, director of the Architecture School in Lund, and David Garcia, Guest Professor and director of the master course will take part at a morning and early afternoon critique of the work being developed by the students at the course.
At 17:00, Liam Young, Ricard de Ostos and David Garcia, will take part in an unprecedented experiment: The "BOUNCE Lecture Series". Can a lecture be improvised between three speakers? In an effort to break the linearity and planned nature of lectures, this platform will attempt to improvise by association. Each speaker, with the web and their laptops at hand, will link to the previous speakers image and comments in a successive bounce of ideas and visual journey.
Come along for a full day of visions into a world inspired b...

David Garcia Studio will be exhibiting its Quarantinable Farm and Domestic Isolation Unit projects at the CCA's exhibition "IMPERFECT HEALTH"  which includes OMA, SANAA, Morphosis, MVRDV. If you are in Montreal, make sure to drop by. Health is a focus of contemporary political debate in a moment of historically high anxiety, but are architects, urban designers and landscape architects seeking a new moral and political agenda within these concerns? Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture examines the complexity of today’s interrelated and emerging health problems juxtaposed with a variety of proposed architectural and urban solutions. Pollen, pollution, toxic materials that make up the built environment, globalized industrial food production, reclaimed manufacturing landscapes, unbalanced population demographics, sedentary and indoor lifestyles, and efforts to fight death are becoming imperfect materials for architecture to explore. Emerging as trends like hea...

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.