Architecture seminar at rXa opening

ARCAM is presenting the results of a knowledge exchange between Brazilian and Dutch architects regarding future perspectives for Amsterdam and Recife, a city in northeastern Brazil. The exhibition will be opened on 14 October at 17.15, preceded by a seminar. The project can be followed via arcam.nl and the blog: recifeamsterdam.blogspot.com.

“We need to go from blueprint to zone planning” (Amsterdam team)

“We need to go from zoning to blueprint planning” (Recife team)

Both cities are on the threshold of major changes: In Amsterdam, the economic crisis appears to have put an end to the traditional top-down planning culture once and for all, whereas Recife,
by contrast, is searching for ways of lending cohesion to bottom-up driven developments. A dialogue between the two cities is interesting because of their spatial similarities, born of their
historical ties. Recife, originally a Portuguese sea-port, was enlarged by the Dutch in the seventeenth century and, like Amsterdam, is a water city. What can be learned from that so very different city, which was in essence once the same?

With: a brief overview of Amsterdam’s and Recife’s history by means of a visual timeline; four high-profile future projects; film; T-shirt Exchange (swap your Amsterdam T-shirt for a limited edition rXa shirt from Recife).

Seminar rXa / 14 October 2011 / 14.00 – 17.00

Opening Exhibition rXa / 14 October 2011 / 17.15

rXa - Exhibition / 15 October – 26 November 2011

rXa – Museum Night at ARCAM / 5 November 2011

Blog: recifeamsterdam.blogspot.com

Open: Tuesday – Saturday 13.00 – 17.00. Entrance to exhibition free of charge.

The project is part of the Brasil Festival Amsterdam and the Ano da Holanda no Brasil (Holland Year). See also www.brasilfestival.nl.

The event ‘rXa – Recife Exchange Amsterdam’ has been made possible in part by the Netherlands Architecture Fund, the Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, the Brazilian Embassy in the Netherlands, the Dutch Embassy in Brazil and Microsoft.