2008 copyright by .horhizon
Horhizon is a research network by design that brings together individuals and associations across various disciplines to create and conduct research themes or topics, in the mission to generate a wider architectural discussion and to bring forward new and evolutionary thinking for the twenty first century.
Its inter-disciplinary research intersects between architecture, urban design, landscape design, industrial and product design. Research groups are located in various locations, with the current principals based in London.
Its active members and principle researchers are involved with various projects and participate in exhibitions, workshops, lectures, conferences, and has affiliations to teaching in various schools of architecture. The works by Horhizon is often formed by collaboration across its sub-parties of networked groups and individuals.
eva' s films *.scape and palimpsest will be shown at beyond media festival 2009 in florence.
July 9-17, 2009
Beyond Media Festival 2009
BEYOND MEDIA is one of the main events worldwide dedicated to the most current visions on contemporary architecture and on the outcomes of the intense relations which exist between architecture and the media.
The next edition of BEYOND MEDIA (July 9-17, 2009) will present 80 videos which have been selected among the over 600 submissions received from all over the world.
the following link will guide you to the festival program:
Lorene Faure / Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui have been awarded 1st place winner at D3 Natural Systems Competition 2009
June
Urban Agriculture: Hybridized Farm Bridge as City Garden
“Most cities in the world rely on a vulnerable system of food supply, hence they are most likely to directly experience the effects of an acute food shortage. In the UK, it is estimated that Londoners consumed 6.9 million tons of food per year of which 81% comes from outside the country. The country´s food supply is almost entirely dependent upon oil consumption with 95% of food consumed in the UK being oil-dependent. If the oil supply to Britain was suddenly cut-off, figures indicate that it would take only three full days before social strife ensued and law and order broke down.” Please use link to read full description
.Horhizon member Bruce Davieson and Tobias Klein published in P.E.A.R.
Talk on the 24th June
From the inside out: Escaping Transcendence through Narrative Embodiment.
P.E.A.R. is an exciting new architectural fanzine, presenting work from a variety of contemporary architectural practices, researchers and individuals working in Europe. P.E.A.R. aims to re-establish the fanzine as a primary medium for the dissemination of architectural ideas and Horhizon members Tobias Klein and Bruce Davieson were happy to contribute to the first issue with the article: Furthermore a talk with Prof. Jonathan Hill, Kate Davies and Emmanuel Vercruysse from Liquidfactory as well as Bruce Davies and Tobias Klein will be held in the AA Bookshop on the 24th of June.
.Horhizon part of the Royal Academy Summer Show 2009
8 June—16 August 2009
Now in its 241st year, the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition 2009 continues the tradition of displaying a wide range of new work by both established and unknown artists in all media including painting, printmaking, photography, sculpture and architecture.
.horhizon is proud to announce that a number of works of various members have made it in the Royal Academy Summer Show. Amongst the works is the collaborative work of Tobias Klein and Ben Cowd called: Contoured Embodiment the works of Sara Shafiei titled: Invisible University, L.A.W.U.N Project 21 and ʻBeaconʼ of sunflower island and the solo work of Tobias Klein titled: Resonating Bodies in Viscous Space This year's co-ordinators, Royal Academicians Ann Christopher, Eileen Cooper and Will Alsop have selected works for the exhibition around the theme of 'Making Space'. Since the founding of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768, the annual Summer Exhibition has become the worldʼs largest open-submission contemporary art exhibition.
.Royal College of Art final year show
Open 26 June – 5 July, 11am – 8pm
The architectural design studio 1 - ADS1 - led by .horhizon member Tobias Klein and Roberto Bottazzi invites you to come along to see the 2009 Royal College of Art Summer Graduate Show.
SHOW RCA is the culmination of Royal College of Art postgraduate studentsʼ studio work and research. It offers a glimpse into the ideas factory of the College itself as well as an opportunity to open our doors to the public. The final part of the graduate shows includes work by students from the following courses: Animation, Architecture, Communication Art & Design, Conservation, Critical and Historical Studies, Design Products, Design Interactions, Fashion Footwear and Accessories, History of Design, Industrial Design Engineering, Textiles and Vehicle Design.
.Horhizon-Paris was awarded 3rd place winner for the Farmer’s Market Design Competition
10th March, 2009
Authors & design team: Lorene Faure / Kenny Kinugasa-Tsui
Supported by Studio Lau . Kinugasa-Tsu
Denver, Colorado-based Sprocket hosted an open competition in the historic Highland Square district of Denver to engage the DESIGN community in a public forum. The specific goal was to create a discussion of innovative concepts for designing, occupying and programming public space. The competition endeavored to explore the concepts of community and sustainability through the union of an innovative programming, the exchange of goods and service, and public art.
See Death By Architecture article:
.Horhizon part of workshop between AA London and IE - Madrid, Spain
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workshop IE - Madrid
Tobias Klein was part of a workshop organised by Ricardo de Ostos and run by a collaboration between the Architectural Association and the IE school in Madrid spain. The workshop explored public spaces and in particular the hybrid elements between virtual google space and actual public spaces.
.Horhizon member Dietmar Koering interviewed by Wired.co.uk magazine.
02 April 2009
Pylons that soar out of the landscape
The architect behind these unusual-looking pylons says they were designed to look as if they had grown out of the environment, rather than standing out as incongruous, as so many manmade forms are. Koering explains that he was inspired by the idea of pylons serving as a spine supporting today’s society, "which enables us all to live at such a high standard and in an age of easy communication." For the full interview please check Wired.co.uk
.De Montfort Show/Architectural Atelier
spring-summer 2009
.Congratulations to all students from the module for a great show and successful year.
Architectural Atelier show is the culmination of a selection of De Montfort postgraduate students studio work and research under the tuition Sara Shafiei and Ben Cowd. An exhibition of contemporary work that offers a glimpse into the ideas factory of the module itself as well as an opportunity to open our doors to the public. The show includes work by students Joseph d’Abbro, Manpreet Kaur, Krupa Bulsara, Tom Fenton, Jonathan Haskins, Richard Issleib , Andreas Noussas, Diane Starkey.
Visit the exhibition at Leicester School of Architecture | De Montfort University:
.special lecture at LSBU
in April, 2009
.horhizon lecture
.Horhizon is invited to speak at a special occasion at the London Southbank University in the end of April. We will keep you posted about dates and times and hope to see you all there.
.end of the lecture series at London South Bank University- LSBU OS2
12th March, 2009
LSBU:OS2
with Didier Faustino as a lecturer Kenny Kinugasa Tsui and Tobias Klein ended the lecture series LSBU:OS2, which included speakers such as Peter Cook, Neil Spiller, Odile Decq, and Anthony Dunne. Thanks to all that made their weekly way to South and we hope to see you in the next term in April for our special lecture.
.lecture at Brighton University, UK
4th March, 2009
.horhizon presents
Kenny Kinugasa Tsui, Tobias Klein and Dietmar Koering are invited to give a lecture about the connections, correlations and synergetic effect of their work and the work of Horhizon. They will show some unpublished callaborations, competitions and new research.
.lecture at Lund University, Sweden
10th February, 2009
.synthetic syncretism - spatial densities and other try-ou
Tobias Klein will give a lecture titled 'synthetic syncretism - spatial densities and other try-out' at Lund University, Sweden with the Albelardo Gonzalez Studio. The lecture explores in depth the relation between his work 'soft immortality' and the 'synthetic syncretism; project. Furthermore first revelations of the Horhizon work that is not yet on the webpage.
."Bartlett School of Architecture "
(nomadic) L I M I T S. B O R D E R S. B O U N D A R I E S
13th January 2009
Eva Sommeregger will lecture about (nomadic)
L I M I T S. B O R D E R S. B O U N D A R I E S
12:30 Wolfson House Haldane Lecture Theatre / Bartlett School of Architecture
."Lunch Lecture Series " Eva Sommeregger will lecture about "Architecture applied on a Slow Sculpture"
12th January 2009
Eva Sommeregger joind the "Lunch Lecture Series" for the First Year program at the Architectural Association in London. She will talk about "Architecture applied on a Slow Sculpture"
."Digital Dreamland" Workshop at Brighton University by .horhizon
5th to 9th January 2009
Digital Dreamland is a theoretical experimentation to explore the digital poetics in a filmic space. Students will be asked to examine various snapshots from selected popular films, and insert their own imaginary intervention into the scene to manipulate, speculate, annex, intensify, elucidate, decipher, depict, and to design.
Popular film industry over the past century has been a theoretical and philosophical discipline that has developed side by side with architecture. The experimentation in recording/re-creating/visualizing has tickled the discourse of architecture as a major impact. The wide range of cinematic palette is perhaps driven by the society’s curiosity to learn from the past, to fantasize, to find origins of beliefs, and to understand the development of human cultures/ behaviors/ ecology but more importantly, to entertain. Its creative nature has helped to uncover the architect’s true calling… But can the design of a filmic space also become a methodology for proposing a possible future? After all, the buildings we design today could become the remains or fragments that were once imaginary and could now fascinate future generations.
School of Architecture / Brighton University
."BDA Cologne-Monday Colloquy " Dietmar Koering will lecture about "Evolution & Poetry in Architectural Space"
15th December 2008
" Position 11X7 "
Invited are
BFR Lab, Prof. Daniel Baerlecken, Matthias Frei, Judith Reitz, Köln / Langenthal CH
bk2a architektur becker karzel gbr, Köln
bob-architektur, Robert Wetzels, Köln
he.lo architects, Sonia Nunes Henriques + Jan-Maurits Loecke, Köln / London
Heiermann Architekten BDA, Köln
Ludwig Heimbach Architektur, Köln / Berlin
Prof. Marco Hemmerling, Köln / Detmold
MOCA. Medine Altiok, Baesweiler / Zürich
Arphenotype c/o Dietmar Köring, Delbrück / London
BDA Koeln
."Lunch Lecture Series " Dietmar Koering will lecture about "Systematics in images"
1st December 2008
Dietmar Koering joind the "Lunch Lecture Series" for the First Year program at the Architectural Association in London. He will talk about systematics in images and his method of working.
."MANUFACTURED SPACES FOR THE MOVING IMAGE" WORKSHOP ADS1, RCA by Eva Sommeregger
25th to 29th November 2008
Postmodern hyperspace’s capitalist society works within different speeds of production - signs, signifiers, simulacra and real virtualities rule. Space becomes scape and (computerized) network culture.
“Simulation,” Deleuze and Guattari write, “does not replace reality . . . but rather it appropriates reality in the operation of despotic overcoding, it produces reality on the new full body that replaces the earth. It expresses the appropriation and production of the real by a quasi-cause.” [..] This [..]overcomes the polarity between the model and the copy by treating them both as second-order productions, as working parts in the same machine. REALER THAN REAL The Simulacrum According to Deleuze and Guattari; Brian Massumi in: Copyright,1987
Facing these entangled complexities, the question to be asked is: How does that change how architecture is consumed at the moment / projected into the future? Architecture, which is believed to mediate between the present NOW-HERE and the utopian NO-WHERE?Figure-ground relations as presentations of architecture are to be abandoned, architecture is reading and writing space- which makes space being an intertwined tissue. A presentation of architecture within a 2d projection leaves out loads of opportunities.
The moving image is believed to be able to cope with this accelerated mode of production. It opens up to a new realm of possibilities. Rather than offering a singular frame of truth, it is a means without end.
it stands for this very threshold where present reality and future imagery meet.
."how do you design?" roundtable discussion with .horhizon
7th November 2008
roundtable discussion regarding the process of design
led by Johan Voordouw
The roundtable was an opportunity for Tobias Klein and Dietmar Koering with myself, Johan Voordouw to discuss various and differing notions of design process and methodologies in order for the first year history and theory class to understand and realise the importance of process as a fundamental and integral aspect to design development. The discussion focused on the notion of the idea, through a series of precedent studies and its application to formulate solutions to cognitive or practical issues, using architecture, and its formal and spatial dimensions, as a means to articulate design solutions.
."Digital Architecture Now: A Global Survey of Emerging Talent" features work of .horhizon members Tobias Klein
12th October 2008
Digital Architecture Now: A Global Survey of Emerging Talent by Neil Spiller
Product Description
The latest wave in digital architecture, featuring over 40 firms and 200 projects from around the world.
The practice of architecture has changed more radically in the last fifteen years than perhaps at any time in its entire history. The commercial availability of complex software and its reliant hardware technologies have resulted in a fast, accurate, and globally transferable design culture.
While the first generation of digital architects was often preoccupied by pure formal experimentation, the new practitioners—most of whom have only known digital tools, fabrication methods, and communication—address a more diverse agenda. From the environment to social responsibility, they have an acute awareness of the built world that informs and animates their architecture.
Have a look trough or buy it at
.AD "Neoplasmatic design" features work of .horhizon members Tobias Klein
12th October 2008
Neoplasmatic Design edited by Marcos Cruz and Steve Pike
Product Description
Investigating the current groundswell of experiments and creative work that utilises design as a method to explore and manipulate actual biological material, Neoplasmatic Design presents the impact of emerging and progressive biological advances upon architectural and design practice. The rapid development of innovative design approaches in the realms of biology, microbiology, biotechnology, medicine and surgery have immense significance for architecture, being as important for their cultural and aesthetic impact as for their technical implications.
* Featured architects include Peter Cook, Tobias Klein, Kol/Mac, MAKE, R&Sie, Neil Spiller and VenhoevenCS.
* Longer contributions from medical practitioners, architects and artists: Rachel Armstrong, Marcos Cruz, Anthony Dunne, Nicola Haines, Steve Pike, Yukihiko Sugawara, and Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr/SymbioticA.
* Features international research projects undertaken at the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, the Royal College of Art in London, the University of Western Australia and the Nagaoka Institute of Design in Japan.
Have a look trough or buy it at
.AD "Protoarchitecture: Analogue and Digital Hybridsfeatures" features work of .horhizon members Sara Shafiei, Tobias Klein, Kenny Kinugasa Tsui and Ben Cowd
10th October 2008
Protoarchitecture: Analogue and Digital Hybridsfeatures edited by Bob Sheil
Product Description
The illusive and uncertain world of translating ideas into matter is a negotiation between the ideal and the real and a central preoccupation of architectural production. By invading the toolbox of digital fabrication, design has transgressed into protocols of manufacturing previously the domain of other disciplines and skills sets. Craft, assembly and installation, once the realm of trades, are qualities that are now dependent upon design information and its status as an instruction to make. The ensuing loop between the physical and tactile, the imaginary and speculative, has defined a new expectation in making architecture as a construct that is part real, part ideal.
With contributions from Lebbeus Woods, Evan Douglis, Theo Jansen, Shin Egashira and many more, Protoarchitecture presents an explicitly diverse collection of works from leading and emerging practitioners, educators, researchers and visionaries from all corners of this innovative field.
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.publication "Drawing" by Peter Cook features work of Tobias Klein
08th October 2008
Product Description
Focusing on the creative and inventive significance of drawing for architecture, Drawings highlights the work of key contemporary figures who have, through their drawn work, affected the course of architectural thinking. Bringing this together is a chapter-by-chapter series of essays that broadly charts the forward movement and expansion of drawing iconography, techniques and methodologies. Thus it will move from such conditions as Victorian romanticism; Modernist heroics, Minimalism, Diagrams, the representation (and inspiration) of movement, technology and motive power; through to notions and examples of digital automatism. In this way, the advent and challenge of computer-based drawing vis-à-vis ‘sketching’ or technique based drawing will be argued as a natural progression rather than a radical explosion. In particular, there are many examples of hand-in-hand development of a project using several techniques.
Also includes drawings by Sverre Fehn, Mark Goulthorpe, Zaha Hadid, Ron Herron, Tom Kovak, Enric Miralles, Marcus Novak , Cedric Price, Wolf Prix, and Lebbeus Woods.
Have a look trough or buy it at
.Sara Shafiei wins this years Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Drawing Prize
02nd October 2008
Sara Shafiei won this years Royal Academy Summer Exhibition Drawing Prize.
The Award was judged by John Patridge RA, David Cole-Adams, Roger France, John Ball and Dr. Mervyn Miller.
Previous winners include prof. CJ Lim (2006, 2007)
.Sara Shafiei becomes one of the new authors at deletedscenes magazine
29th September 2008
We have great pleasure to announce the appointment of Sara Shafiei as one of the authors of the magazine deletedscenes.
have a look for yourself www.deletedscenesmag.com/
.Kenny Kinugasa Tsui and Tobias Klein co-edited the publication OS1:LSBU
booklaunch: 25th September
We have great pleasure inviting you to join us for the launch of the publication OS1:LSBU lecture series 2007/2008 at the London South Bank University on Thursday the 25th of September. It is a joint occasion and cause for celebration, the official launch of the book OS1:LSBU which contains the first series lectures, drawings and images. Secondly, Peter Cook who prefaced the book opens and gives the first lecture for OS2: Techne and Poiesis, the second lecture series.
The evening starts with the book launch at 6.30pm, followed by the second series inaugural lecture, finished with drinks and canapes. We very much hope you can attend, enjoy the discussions, meet last years speakers and some of this year’s also, and pick up a copy of the book.
Please RSVP to Katie Atkinson at info@lsbu-openseries.com
Best wishes, see you there
Tobias Klein & Kenny Kinugasa Tsui
.Johan Voordouw joins .horhizon
15th September 2008
.new member @.horhizon
Johan Voordouw is a graduate of marcosandmarjans Unit 20 at the Bartlett School of Architecture 2007. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Manitoba, Canada in 2003 after an internship in the Netherlands.
Currently he is in his second year of lecturing History and Theory of Architecture at London Southbank University. Johan has also been a guest critic for LSBU and Paris’s Ecole Speciale d’Architecture in 2008.
Johan has won a number of international competitions and exhibited in Canada, the United States and London. At the Bartlett Summer Shows they won best Unit in two consecutive years from Paul Finch in 2006 and Lord Richard Rogers in 2007.
Johan’s work attempts to elicit an emotional response through the digital atmospheric, the work seeks to create spaces for exploration and discovery setting up complex theatrical programs that require active participation and interaction with the physical built-form.
.Tobias Klein @ Architectural Association
Tobias Klein will be teaching at the Architectural Association in London. He is starting there in October 2008 and will, additional to his involvement at the Royal College of Art (he runs the postgraduate unit ADS1 together with Roberto Bottazzi), work as a tutor in the First Year program.
.Eva Sommeregger joins .horhizon
15th August 2008
.new member @.horhizon
It is with utmost pleasure that we welcome Eva Sommeregger as a new part of the .horhizon network.
Eva studied architecture in Vienna, Austria before graduating Masters of ArchDesign at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London with Distinction.
Drawing influence from professional practice in both hemispheres, ranging from a DIY-voluntary project (Emmanuel Day Care Kindergarten, designed and built by 20 young architects in Johannesburg and awarded the Austrian Building Prize 2006) to building madness in the Emirates, her work seeks to relate architecture with the moving image.
Eva’s work overcomes the tendency of (digital) film being mere representation of architecture and suggests film itself becoming architecture. Her films have been screened on festivals across Europe, such as “Anifest” film festival Prague, “audiovisiva” experimental media festival Milan, “full pull” experimental music, art & video Malmö, “Zebra Film Festival” Berlin and at the “dislocate 08” exhibition and symposium in Yokohama, Japan.
Her lastest work, a collaboration with Itai Margula and Shimon Takasaki for the Aaron Betsky Competition, will be showcased at the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice.
.OS2: Techné and Poïesis - How Do You Design?
.Tobias and Kenny proudly present the architectural lecture series 2008/2009 at the London South Bank University
OS2: Techné and Poïesis - How Do You Design
Opening Lecture - Peter Cook - 25th of September
location: The Event Theater
Keyworth Center
London South Bank University
SE1 0AA
further information: http://www.lsbu-openseries.com/
Open Series’ second year is under the theme of techne and poïesis - the process of design. It explores the ontological question of design and allows reflection, criticism and exposure to relevant questions in design.
Techne is often translated as craftsmanship; it is the rational method involved in producing an object or accomplishing a goal or objective and is quintessential to architecture. Poïesis, derived from the ancient Greek term ποι?ω, meaning ‘to make’, describes a verb, an action, in its purest sense. Neither technical production nor creation in the romantic sense, poïetic work reconciles thought with matter, and time and man with the world. This pair of techne and poïesis are extremes in architecture but are essential and together create a tension field which is explored through the agenda of OS2.
The series invites and encourages inspiring architects, thinkers and designers to express and debate their views through this symbiotic relationship, reflecting their own practise as well as analysing the past, capturing today and projecting upon tomorrow. This creates a crossbreed between vision, utopia and the inspiring fields in-between.
* 08 / 25th of September Peter Cook
* 08 / 2nd of October Paul Davies
* 08 / 9th of October Andrew Wai-Tat Yau
* 08 / 16th of October Karsten Huneck & Bernd Truempler (OSA)
* 08 / 23rd of October Shrikant Sharma
* 08 / 30th of October David Garcia
* 09 / 5th of February Neil Spiller
* 09 / 12th of February FAT
* 09 / 19th of February Odile Decq
* 09 / 26th of February Achim Menges (OCEAN)
* 09 / 5th of March Anthony Dunne
* 09 / 12th of March Didier Faustino
.Dietmar Koering @ Heide Museum of contemporary Arts, Australia
28th June till 3rd August 2008
.Exhibition .horhizon
An exhibition of the short-listed entries for the Di Stasio competition is being held at Heide Museum of Modern Art from Saturday 28th June to Sunday 3rd August 2008.†Heide Museum of Modern Art is one of Australiaís leading public art museums, the original home of John and Sunday Reed who were champions of the modernist art movement in Australia.†For more information about the Heide Museum of Modern Art visit†www.heide.com.au
.Semester 5 Studio Green.Ecole Speciale d¥Architecture Paris
24th June till 23rd August 2008
.Exhibition .horhizon
Kinugasa Tsui exhibition space Ecole SpÈciale d'Architecture Paris exhibition Ecole SpÈciale d'Architecture Paris†Awards ceremony. Odile Decq and guest opener Masimiliano Fuksas with Tamsin Green & Kenny Kinugasa Tsui, with students of Studio Green . Ecole SpÈciale d'Architecture 254,bd Raspail - 75014 Paris tÈl. : + 33 (0)1 4047 4016
.Royal Collage of Art Summer Show
21th June till 05th July 2008
.Exhibition .horhizon
SHOW RCA is the culmination of Royal College of Art postgraduate studentsí studio work and research. A series of four individual exhibitions of contemporary work, it offers a glimpse into the ideas factory of the College itself as well as an opportunity to open our doors to the public. It is also a public testing of research ideas and a calling card on behalf of all these talented exhibitors who are in the process of launching themselves into their various professional worlds. The show includes work by students from the following courses: Animation, Architecture, Communication Art & Design, Conservation, Design Products, Design Interactions, Fashion Footwear and Accessories, History of Design, Industrial Design Engineering, Textiles and Vehicle Design. Tobias Klein and Roberto Bottazzi are the Studio masters of the Architectural Design Studio (ADS) 1, presenting the studentís work on one of their research projects, the Topo-table. The studio was very successful with 3 prices given to the students including the Will Alsop prize for Urbanism (John Zahng), the Conran Foundation prize (Jonathan Pugh) and the nomination for the RIBA Silver medal (John Zahng). Congratulations to all students from ADS1 for a great and successful year. www.show2008.rca.ac.uk
.Tobias Klein @ Bartlett Summer Show 2008
20th June, 2008
.Exhibition .horhizon
"the body occupies space [... ], where do the confines of the body run? Where does the body end?" by Martin Heidegger Tobias Klein is showing his installation at the Bartlett Summer Show 2008
."Hidden Tales of Digital Decipherment" by Tamsin Green and Kenny Kinugasa Tsui
25th May, 2008
.Exhibition .horhizon
Hidden Tales of Digital Decipherment Public lecture at†Ecole SpÈciale d'Architecture Paris Lecture Series curated by Odile Decq
.saraben-studio joins .horhizon
16th May, 2008
.New Members.horhizon
Sara Shafiel and Ben Cowd from SaraBen-Studio www.saraben-studio.com are joinig .horhizon
.digital design workshop at Lund University, Sweden
8th - 13th April, 2008
.Workshop.horhizon
Kenny Kinugasa Tsui runs digital design workshop at Lund University, Sweden with Albelardo Gonzalez Studio