20.09.2021

- 24.09.2021

Geneva

Taking Geneva as a case study, this workshop explore its transformation at the very ephemeral moment of sunset: how do the changes in the city’s intangible elements, influence the tangible ones as well as our perception of them?

01.10.2021

- 10.12.2021

HEAD – Genève

Cruising Pavilion is a course dedicated to the history of different LGBTQI+ sexual encounter areas, following the eponymous exhibition project presented in Venice, New York and Stockholm.

04.09.2021

- 12.09.2021

Salone del Mobile Milano

The Korova Milk Bar is a fictional night bar from Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film, A Clockwork Orange. Even though the original venue only existed as fiction, its transgressive environment has made the bar a cult, to the point of providing inspiration for several real nocturnal places around the world.

01.12.2020

Plan Libre 179

"Taking pictures by night is very difficult, because you only have 20 minutes, the sun is going down, there is a moment when it is perfect, then it is less perfect, and then you can’t do it, it’s too dark. Because you need to see the outline of the building." Richard Levene, founder of El Croquis. Geneva, 2019

25.06.2021

- 31.10.2021

Design Parade Toulon

In 1965, interior architect Robert Haussmann created the Kronenhalle Bar in Zurich. In 2021 HEAD - Genève revisits the nocturnal side of Kronenhalle for Design Parade Toulon, exploring the role of the original lamps and artificial lighting in the construction of contemporary interiors.

01.10.2021

- 10.12.2021

Geneva

Leading figure of architectural photography, Bas Princen will discuss how unlit spaces define contemporary urban landscape and architecture through the use of photography. In conversation with Javier F. Contreras and Leonid Slonimskiy in the framework of the public lecture TALKING HEADS.

21.02.2020

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One of the most prestigious architectural magazines in the world, El Croquis almost never publishes nocturnal photographs of buildings. In conversation with Richard Levene, the magazine’s founder, Javier F. Contreras and Sven Högger address El Croquis’ evolution while examining its obliteration of night in architecture.

17.02.2020

HEAD – Genève

A virtual edition of El Croquis magazine, combining archive documentation and night photography of contemporary buildings in Geneva, under the direction of Richard Levene, founder of the magazine, with students at HEAD-Genève.

29.05.2019

F’AR Lausanne

Restaurants and bars are the defining nightlife meeting places, scenes of complex human rituals skilfully constructed through interior architecture. Researcher Julien Zanetta explains banquet rituals and associated human behaviours throughout history, the point of departure of a special evening of sharing food served on a long banquet table crafted for the occasion.

24.05.2019

F'AR Lausanne

A performative lecture by Daniel Zamarbide on the importance of peripheral night practices in design history.