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August 24, 2009
  • The New York Times
    As Heroes Disappear, the City Needs More
    The New York Times – news
    The death of Charles Gwath­mey early this month has pro­vo­ked a lot of nost­al­gic re­mi­nis­cence in the New York ar­chi­tec­ture world: not just about Mr. Gwath­mey him­s­elf, but also about the New York Five, a group of in­flu­en­tial ar­chi­tect…
August 6, 2009
  • The New York Times
    Charles Gwathmey
    Architect Loyal to Aesthetics of High Modernism, Dies at 71
    The New York Times – news
    Charles Gwath­mey, an ar­chi­tect who tur­ned his love of Mo­der­nism and pas­sion for geo­metri­cal com­ple­xity into a se­ries of com­pel­ling hou­ses and so­me­ti­mes con­tro­ver­sial pu­blic buil­dings, died on Mon­day in Man­hat­tan. He was 71 a
February 20, 2009
April 2, 2008
  • Detail Online
    World Architecture Festival Award – call for entries
    Detail Online – news
    The World Ar­chi­tec­ture Fes­ti­val is one of this year's big­gest ar­chi­tec­tu­ral events, which will take place from 22-24 Oc­to­ber in Bar­ce­lona. As part of the fes­ti­val a pres­ti­gious ar­chi­tec­tu­ral award opens for ent­ries on April 15,…
March 31, 2008
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Charles Jencks, Strange Attractor
    After the lecture by Charles Jencks, delivered at the NAi Maastricht on March 13, a former student of Delft University of Technology asked me if a snapshot was taken of Jencks. 'He is an icon', she continued. 'Twenty years ago it was all theory, and look what he does now!'
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    In this ar­ti­cle, I try to take se­riously Jencks’s re­mark that cul­ture should find an ico­no­gra­phic lan­guage to con­nect us to the uni­verse. Jencks’s lec­tu­res, an­s­wers and gar­dens seem to re­sem­ble the cosmos when it comes to be­gin­nin…
February 2, 2006
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Rem Koolhaas in the Berlage
    On February 7 in a packed Berlage Institute - it's about time they got round to making a decent lecture theatre there - Rem Koolhaas delivered the final lecture in the Projective Theory series that started with Peter Eisenman on October 11 last year.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Given that Kool­haas thinks of the Ber­lage as his back gar­den, we weren't in for a real pre­sen­ta­tion but sim­ply some 'collected material'. It began in very se­rious fa­shion. Who starts a lec­ture by sho­w­ing a pic­ture of the Par­thenon? He d…
July 1, 2005
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Cities: Grand Bazaar of Architectures
    'Grand' it most certainly was, and 'bazaar' too. At the 22nd UIA World Congress architecture put itself on display in grand style with a series lectures, workshops, discussions and presentations. And almost out of the blue there was another nice Declaration.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Istanbul played host to the 22nd UIA Con­gress from July 3 to 7. (UIA stands for Union In­ter­na­tio­nale des Ar­chi­tec­tes, a NGO that re­pres­ents ar­chi­tects throughout the world through na­tio­nal ar­chi­tec­tu­ral as­so­cia­ti­ons ) Under the …
March 23, 2005
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Nominations Archiprix International 2005
    The nominations were selected out of a total of 186 submitted projects. These projects were selected by 186 schools for architecture, urban design and/or landscape architecture from 67 countries as their best graduation project of the last two years.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    The re­s­ponse grows every edi­tion. With par­ti­ci­pants from 67 dif­fe­rent coun­tries from all con­ti­nents the event dis­plays a uni­que in­sight of trends in de­sign and ideas about edu­ca­tion.The jury (Ian Gil­zean, Hi­to­shi Abe, Zvi Efrat, G…
March 1, 2005
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Too many good intentions?
    On 6 February in Amsterdam the results of the competition One Land Two Systems were announced and a discussion about the relation between planning and human rights in Israël. Urit Luden about the competition, organisation and the pitfalls.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    The Is­raeli play­w­right, Ha­noch Levin, made a Tou­rist in ar­rive at the Na­tio­nal Li­brary, which is not­hing but a match­box han­ging on a string. The Tou­rist re­fu­ses to be­lieve it. The Taxi Dri­ver gets angry. The Guide ad­mits that it is …
July 3, 2000
  • ArchiNed.nl
    The Politics of Restoration
    On Sunday May 14 the Balie in Amsterdam held a conference about the master plan for the village of Lifta near Jerusalem. The title of the conference was Reconstruction of Memory. Micha de Haas reports.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    'A fri­end of my mo­ther used to live in this house. Han­ging from the win­dow­sills of her lovely house were the most be­au­ti­ful flower­pots. As child­ren we often se­cretly tried to pick the flowers, but she al­ways saw us and said, »Carry these …
May 1, 2000
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Case Study Houses
    Taschen has just published the beautiful book Case Study Houses, The Complete CSH Program 1945-1966 - a feast for enthusiasts according to fan Piet Vollaard.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    John Ent­anza, edi­tor of the ar­chi­tec­ture ma­ga­zine Arts & Ar­chi­tec­ture, in­itia­ted the Case Study House Pro­gram in 1945. As the in­tro­duc­tion to the book out­li­nes, Ent­anza saw the pro­gramme as a way to 'offer the pu­blic and the …
March 8, 2000
  • ArchiNed.nl
    Peter Greenaway and architecture
    Englishman Peter Greenaway is currently working for the Via>Dorkwerd festival: for the Groninger Museum he is designing the exhibition Hell and Heaven: the Middle Ages in the North, he has designed an exhibition pavilion, a number of so-called proscenium arches, and he is responsible for the pavilion's interior layout. ArchiNed spoke to Greenaway about his relationship with architecture.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    Peter Greenaway (1942) is best known for such films as The Belly of an Ar­chi­tect, Drow­ning by Num­bers, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, and Pil­low Book. In ad­di­tion, he has worked on ope­ras, he wrote the li­bretto for Wri­ting to …
January 7, 2000
  • ArchiNed.nl
    OMA Designs New Headquarters for Central Chinese Television Giant CCTV in Beijing
    There were already some rumours but now it is officially announced, OMA will build the new headquarters for the big Chinese television co-operation CCTV in Beijing.
    ArchiNed.nl – news
    CCTV's new 550,000 m2 head­quar­ters will be com­ple­ted for the Bei­jing Olym­pics in 2008. The total con­struc­tion cost is esti­ma­ted at 600 mil­lion euro. The CCTV head­quar­ters will be one of the first Eu­ro­pean sky­scra­pers to be built in C…
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