The Essence 2013 shows works of all departments during 2012–2013. The annual exhibition is the highpoint of that academic year. Spotlighting the semester themes, it reflects the multiplicity of artistic disciplines and frequent crossings of media boundaries found at the “Angewandte.”
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Movement as an architectural form of expression
In an endeavor to explore alternative possibilities of movement as a new architectural form of expression the Studio Greg Lynn at the Institute for Architecture focused on projects experimenting with dynamic structures involving volume transformations on the scale of entire buildings. During the winter semester, a sport complex was designed in the United Arab Emirates, whereby three event facilities of varying dimensions had to be covered. During the summer semester, the same assignment was applied to a “flagship store” in Tokyo-Ginza. Both projects gave rise to the same basic idea of a structural interior in continual transformation, and in the urban context of a dynamic silhouette on a scale that is seldom encountered in architecture... (art&education 2013)
