Upcoming AKV Events for May and June 2013!

Join us this Saturday (20.04) at 7pm at MOTTO Berlin for an informal talk on our latest releases:

Max Stocklosa and Daniel Wolter from AKV and STRATAGRIDS present:

Inexhaustive Overview Of Immaterial And Material Information Handling, (view>>)
by Max Stocklosa (ed.)

Marzahner Promenaden Geologie
(Geology of Marzahn – AKV edition), (view >>)
by Daniel Wolter / STRATAGRIDS

address: Motto Berlin (link >>)
Skalitzer Str. 68, im Hinterhof
10997 Berlin
U1 Schlesiches Tor

more info on Marzahner Promenaden Geologie:

Geology of Marzahn is an investigation project into the construction material of the former GDR prefabricated concrete slab housing estate in Berlin-Marzahn. It creates a link between the concrete of Marzahn’s socialist architecture and the geological landscape of Berlin’s environment. Tiny pebbles aggregated in concrete were determined by geological means. The cement’s way can be retraced to a limestone deposit close to Berlin. Built in the 1970s, the concrete elements consists of up to 1.6 billion years old rock material. The Geology of Marzahn aims to expose the geological dimension hidden within the public space that is architecture. Research results were published in a catalog which is distributed for free within the public area of the investigation estate.

paperback catalog 11,5 x 18 cm, 56 pages, offset print, colour poster 35 x 56 cm, colour, 3 postcards 10,5 x 14,8 cm, colou package edition of 33

10€

NEW RELEASE!!

Inexhaustive Overview Of Immaterial And Material Information Handling

by Max Stocklosa (ed.)
(2013) English texts

Foldable two-sided poster + supplementary paper
Folded: 15,5 x 21,5 cm
Unfolded: 67 x 48 cm
Color, B/W Offset print
edition of 200
5 Euro

view >>

I.O.O.I.A.M.I.H. is an inexhaustive overview of the human efforts to handle the past, present and future production of information. Based on 9 representative examples, a broad spectrum of human operations unfold and reveal the massive - highly incomprehensive - endeavors to create tools and theories which are concerned with the production of ever growing information. The ambitious economic and archival instinct to record, file, store and distribute the steady increase of information via ever-new instruments, materials and methods of info induction, can be observed physically and mentally. Inscribed onto and into the earth surface as well as in deep space, the human info-venture has turned us and our landscape into info-digesting and ordering specialists, which are at the same time able to accept that they will never succeed the quixotic task of keeping all information in a tidy order. The same can of course be said about the editor of this project, who attempted a similar impossible task; to assemble information about information in an information chart by using the most common source to harvest information - the internet – where the original information, extracted for the chart, might have already been morphed or turned into a dead link that is unable to retrieve.

The Archive of Intuitive Structures >> and Loofy Magazin >> invited to the Archizines exhibition in Melbourne, Sydney and Los Angeles!

The exhibition opens on 1 February at the brand new Design Hub in Melbourne. The exhibition will then be presented by the University of Technology, Sydney at Object: Australian Centre for Design, and the Perloff Gallery, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design in Los Angeles. 

Melbourne 1 February – 28 March 2013 RMIT Design Hub >>

Sydney 4 – 27 April 2013 Presented by University of Technology, Sydney at Object: Australian Centre for Design >>

Los Angeles 12 April – 31 May 2013 Perloff Gallery, UCLA Architecture and Urban Design >>

ARCHIZINES (www.archizines.com) celebrates the resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing around the world. The touring exhibition, curated by Elias Redstone and initiated in collaboration with the Architectural Association, now features 90 architecture magazines, fanzines and journals from over twenty countries that provide an alternative to the established architectural press. Edited by architects, artists and students, these publications provide new platforms for commentary, criticism and research into the spaces we inhabit and the practice of architecture. They make an important and often radical addition to architectural discourse and demonstrate a residual love for print matter in the digital age.

The exhibition features titles from the collection alongside video interviews with their creators. Each publication has selected one issue to represent their approach to publishing and they are all available for visitors to read. The Melbourne version of ARCHIZINES will be the biggest yet, including new and more recent publication additions such as POST from Melbourne, FAKE CITIES / TRUE STORIES from Bratislava, Proposals from Helsinki, and the Archive of Intuitive Structures from Berlin. The original ARCHIZINES collection will be transferred to the National Art Library at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

Print-ready images, interviews and the full list of publications available on request.