İstanbul Architecture Festival is organized by Arkitera Architecture Center to show that architecture in İstanbul, which occupies an important place in the world with its cultural activities, is not only represented by the monuments of the past but is regarded as a living process.
It is aimed for the festival, which is going to take place for the first time in 2004 during the first week of October, to accomplish its purpose by using the internal dynamics of architecture.
The festival will stress the distinct position of architecture both in its relationship with the characteristics of our physical surroundings and in architecture as a cultural act. In 2004 İstanbul Architecture Festival will take place between 4th and 9th of October with Aykut Köksal's curatorship. The week, starting on the United Nations' World Habitat Day will end with an Architecture Party on the 9th of October. İstanbul will live with architecture for a week with architecture meetings, panels, film screenings, exhibitions, excursions and other activities.
Another significant aspect of theFestival is its participation to the 1st European Architecture Festival which is organized by issue that makes the festival, which is one of the largest activities of GAUDI Network (Governance, Architecture and Urbanism as Democratic Interaction), which is supported by the European Union's Culture 2000 program and of which Arkitera Architecture Center has been a member since March 2004.
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İstanbul Architecture Festival will be part of the 1st European Architecture Festival that will be celebrated and followed throughout Europe and will be carried to the international architecture spotlight. The themes and goals of the 2005 İstanbul Architecture Festival will be announced during the international closing ceremonies of the European Architecture Festival and a call will be made for participation at the international level.
Arkitera Architecture Center will also give a presentation introducing the synergy in Turkey at the Venice meeting organized by ICAM (International Confederation of Architectural Museums), which Arkitera Architecture Center has recently joined. In the meeting that will be held in September, Arkitera Architecture Center will present its activities and goals to the international architecture community and also will carry İstanbul Architecture Festival to the international agenda. This interaction will play an influential role in the festival to host participants from abroad, as well.
A modern metropolis on one hand, one of the most important historical settlements of the world on the other, you also should support a unique city like İstanbul turning its face to the future with the Architecture Festival.
Arkitera Architecture Center
> Theme "Light But Heavy"
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