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February 7, 2008
January 31, 2008
  • Architecture 3.0 or Architecture is there to be destroyed
    ‘He’s not showing any buildings,’ whispered the person next to me a little too smugly. After all, Willem-Jan Neutelings had shown during the Architecture 2.0 symposium that you can talk architecture without showing buildings. But was NAi director Ole Bouman talking about architecture on January 10?
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    ‘Do you want to be relevant?’, was Ole Bouman’s rhetorical opening. ‘Yes’, nodded his audience. Of course, agreed Bouman, and he then showed them five ways to be relevant.  - You keep doing your work like you’ve always done- You try to be contemporar…
July 5, 2007
  • Uneven Metropolitan Development
    Within the framework of the theme ‘Power’, the Berlage Institute organised a debate about ‘uneven metropolitan development’ with Peter Nietzke, Elisabeth Blum and David Harvey. Nietzke and Blum discussed a number of architectural solutions to the problem of uneven development, while Harvey focused on how architecture contributes to this problem.
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    Peter Nietzke and Elisabeth Blum, both architects and authors of the publication FavelaMetropolis, delivered an optimistic story about Brazilian slums like Copacabana and Favela-Bairro. It wasn’t that they were positive about life in the slum, which …
June 1, 2007
  • Visionary Power 1
    The International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam kicked off on Friday May 25 with the two-day conference Visionary Power. The aim was to determine if and in what way architects can make a meaningful contribution to cities at the mercy of the unrestrained forces of tourism, the informal and even (world) politics.
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    The turnout for both days was somewhat disappointing. Were architects too busy working? Or were they enjoying a long Pentecost weekend? The room has only half filled, mainly with speakers, most of them architects attached to schools and architects fr…
October 1, 2006
  • 2ABBeijing
    Every self-respecting country has an Architecture Biennale of its own nowadays. In Beijing (China) the 2ABBeijing (Architecture Biennale Beijing) took place from 26 September to 6 October. As is usually the case with architecture biennales, the themes may have been big, but most of the presentations paid no attention to them whatsoever.
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    The story is familiar to everyone by now. Last year the volume of construction work in Peking equalled that in whole Europe; a skyscraper is completed every single day in Shanghai; and Chongqing numbers 31.7 inhabitants. Every well-intended study of …
March 2, 2006
  • The Projective Bubble
    The discussion generated by the Projective Landscape congress at the TU Delft on March 16 and 17 continues. Dirk van den Heuvel sent the following response to ArchiNed.
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    How can you be engaged in a polemic about something that doesn’t even exist? That depressing thought hit me during the ‘Projective Landscape’ debate staged by Stylos. The aim was to pinpoint the latest developments in architectur…
February 2, 2005
  • More Sign Than Space, Las Vegas Revisited
    'I am not and never have been a post modernist. This is a misunderstanding.” Robert Venturi and his wife Denise Scott Brown visited the Netherlands to promote their latest book ‘Architecture as Signs and Systems’. At the TU Delft they gave a lecture to a large audience and held a seminar with Ph.D. students. At the Netherlands Architecture Institute they were interviewed by Harm Tilman (editor in chief of 'de Architect’) in front of a sold out crowd and had a debate with the Dutch architects Sjoerd Soeters (Soeters Van Eldonk Ponec architecten), Liesbeth van der Pol (Atelier Zeinstra van der Pol), and Haiko Meijer (Onix).
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    'The clues of what we created during our career and wrote about architecture and urbanism can be found in Bob's first building »Mother's House«. From contradiction and complexity to communicative architecture, and from interior public spaces to the »…
July 2, 2004
  • Camp for Oppositional Architecture in Berlin
    There is an obvious lack of awareness today, among the public and architects, about the importance of opposition in architecture and architectural criticism. Critical approaches and critical theory are hard to find. In fact, they have no chance within the daily working routine in architectural practice, and little chance within the academic world.
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    Given the wider economic and social context of late capitalism and all the intensively discussed problems of globalisation today, one has to question the role that architecture and architects play and should play. Oppositional architecture must of co…
April 2, 2000
  • Architecture and Power
    ‘Instant City: The Rise of Dubai’ was the title of the first lecture at the Berlage Institute on Tuesday March 13 in a series that focuses on the relation between architecture, power and political correctness. The announcement promised that the evening would mostly be about social and economic inequalities in this rapidly growing desert city in the Persian Gulf. But alas this wasn’t the case, either in the introductions by Kees Christiaanse and George Katodrytis or in the succeeding discussion.
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    Roemer van Toorn introduced Dubai with a quote from the American writer Mike Davis. In his article ‘Fear and Money in Dubai’ (New Left Review, 2006), Davis writes that Dubai is one big gated community, a neo-liberal dream turned real in…
March 7, 2000
  • Greg Lynn recites from his own work
    Architects like to plan their use of time systematically. Le Corbusier divided his day into three parts - for painting, architecture and urban planning. Greg Lynn devotes 30% of his time to teaching, 30% to commercial commissions and 30% to research. No doubt it was during the remaining 10% that he wrote the sci-fi story he recited at the Berlage Institute. Jeroen Mensink reports.
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    Building ProcessThough even his complex forms cause many a mouth to drop open in wonderment, Greg Lynn's design method is every bit as interesting as the end result. In recent years, however, his pioneering work has shifted emphasis - spurred no doub…
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