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September 29, 2008
- Venice (3): Architecture without Building?
Entitled Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, the 11th Venice Architecture Biennale aims to give new meaning to what we call architecture. ‘Architecture is not building,’ writes director Aaron Betsky in an essay, ‘Buildings are objects and the act of building leads to such objects, but architecture is something else.’ArchiNed.nl – news
Architecture must do more than provide shelter for us. Architecture must offer us a secure home in the confusing modern reality. With this biennale Aaron Betsky wants to stimulate experiments and show how we can establish (new) relationships between …
May 13, 2008
- Neurath’s open-source urbanism
Stroom De Haag recently staged an exhibition on the work of Austrian economist, sociologist and philosopher Otto Neurath (1882-1945) entitled After Neurath – The Language of the Global Polis. Under the motto ‘better late than never’, here follows an introduction to the grandfather of open-sources.ArchiNed.nl – news
After Neurath is an event that seems to grow as spontaneously as the urban development envisaged by Neurath. For two years now – one year longer than planned – Stroom has been programming activities about this idealist. I visited the most recent exhi…
May 9, 2008
- Gareth Hoskins wins competition for Scotlands pavilionDetail Online – news
Gareth Hoskins Architects have won the competition to design the so-called Gathering Space, the Scottish presence at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale. Scotlands first Venice Biennale pavilion ever will be situated in a major piazza during the f…
March 13, 2008
- Prototypes – The Work of Cepezed
The book is as clearly structured as the work of the office. Prototypen is a bulky volume that documents projects by Delft architecture firm Cepezed as well as various aspects of product development, building process and architecture that the office has been involved in over the past 35 years.ArchiNed.nl – news
Divided into three chapters – product, process and architecture – the book includes contributions from eight writers in circles around Cepezed that explore the special position of the office in the field. Each article is followed by a case study of a…
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.ArchiNed.nl – news
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 …
April 1, 2007
- Brussel, Marx & PepsiCo
‘Europe’ turned 50 last weekend: perfect timing. The public presentation of ‘A Vision for Brussels / Brussels Capital of Europe’ by the Rotterdam-based Berlage Institute coincided nicely with the festivities marking the anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. A few thoughts on a mediagenic manifesto in the form of a book and an exhibition.ArchiNed.nl – news
Fanfare, pomp and circumstance surrounded the opening of the public display of ‘Brussels Capital of Europe’ – a studio project now well over two years old – at the Centre for Fine Arts (BOZAR) in Brussels on March 17. The …
November 29, 2005
- The (im)possibility of cultural engagement
The contemporary city is a succession of disparate enclaves, commercial centres and amusement parks. The public character of the public domain is deteriorating rapidly. The city as a place of emancipation and democratisation no longer exists…. A bleak urban scenario? Nostalgic whimpering from the wings? Or can a new revolutionary project for the post-ideological city be distilled from this perspective?ArchiNed.nl – news
BAVO, the Jan van Eyck Academy, and the Academy of Fine Arts Maastricht organised a series of three lectures, as part of Super! 1st Triennale for Fine Arts, Fashion and Design, about the city as a platform for cultural engagement. BAVO, a collective …
September 1, 2005
- 10x10_2: More is Less
The sequel to the successful publication 10x10, in which 10 critics present 10 architects, has just been issued. Yet another weighty volume crammed with architecture. But who’s it actually for?ArchiNed.nl – news
Ask 10 critics, architects and curators to each choose 10 architects. Proclaim that they form '100 of the world's most exceptional emerging architects'. Publish it complete with introductions and acknowledgements in a strikingly packaged 'weighty' to…
June 2, 2005
- Thin Line between being Radical and Naive
Take one of the assigned plots in Antwerp, Belgium and create a design for the headquarters of the Flemish nationalist political party Vlaams Belang. Or draw a concept for it’s rather extreme Islamic opponent AEL (Arabic European League). How should architects operate in such political, ethnic or religious matters? Is there a role for them at all? Is architecture ‘neutral’ and only about aesthetics or is it acceptable that spaces and buildings propagate implicit or explicit messages? If so, to what extend? Maybe architects even can assist in bridging the gap between different ethnic and socio-political groups?ArchiNed.nl – news
These and other questions were at stake at the international design seminar INDESEM, organised by the 'bouwkunde' student association Stylos annually, sometimes every two years. Eighty students took part, half of them Dutch and half of them from abro…
April 2, 2003
- Casa da Musica, Porto
The ‘Casa da Musica’ by OMA was to have been the architectural icon for Porto, European Cultural Capital in 2001. But protracted work on the foundations and unforeseen weather conditions delayed completion of the building. In contrast to the Palace of the Soviets in the 1930s, when similar conditions transformed a communist icon into an enormous swimming pool, Porto persevered in its pursuit of ‘Glokoolhaasination’. Work on Casa da Musica will finish in July 2004. A report on the project.ArchiNed.nl – news
Situated next to Boavista Plaza, one of Porto's busiest roundabouts, Casa da Musica is almost invisible despite its strong formal expression. This is caused in part by the trees on the roundabout, from where the building is best viewed. And it is par… - Incomprehensible: Urban Design
On hefty volumes, quality and quantity, unsound sustainability, design and research, the forever-legitimate question ‘What does the writer mean?’, the field of tension between knowledge and art, the gulf between thinking and acting – and on how Allard Jolles still managed to find happiness in the end.ArchiNed.nl – news
I get the distinct impression that the market for books on architecture is gradually reaching saturation point. That said, the number of books of genuine significance can be counted on one hand. As so often, quantity and quality are at odds with each…
October 1, 2000
- Urban Flotsam, Chora / Raoul Bunschoten
CHORA is an institution co-founded by Raoul Bunschoten, who is also its director and most prominent member. It is a cross between an academic research institute, an urban design office and a think-tank for urban policy. Its recently published book Urban Flotsam manoeuvres between a manifesto, a vision on the contemporary city, and a guidebook for urban design education and research.ArchiNed.nl – news
The institution's main aim is to understand, model and transform dynamic processes in complex urban conditions. To that end, it combines practice with research. The book presents the results of this endeavour in theoretical reflection upon the variou…
July 7, 2000
- Monument with a question mark
Between Brandenburger Tor and Potsdamer Platz in the heart of Berlin, close to Hitler's bunker and his Chancellery, and not far from the Reichstag, is a site crossed by the Wall fifteen years ago. Today the site is a field of grey concrete blocks, the Denkmal für die ermordete Juden Europas (Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe), designed by architect Peter Eisenman.ArchiNed.nl – news
The holocaust memorial was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, after 17 years of plans and heated debate. The initiative came from publicist Lea Rosh in 1998 when she called for the creation of a national memorial in Berlin to commemorate the persecution of…
May 1, 2000
- 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 building industry mod…
April 1, 2000
- Views on OMA's House of Music: Further Mental Exercises
Today it is announced that Rem Koolhaas is the 23rd Pritzker Prize Laureate. As a congratulation on our part we hereby publish an article by Rodrigo Cardoso on OMA's House of Music in Porto.ArchiNed.nl – news
The feelings aroused by the project of the House of Music can perhaps be put together under one category: they are excessive. The City Hall shows excessive pride, the »intellectual elite« shows excessive excitement, the »progressive« people show exce…
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