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March 14, 2009
  • Building for Bouwkunde: the nominees, the winners
    Today the winning entries for the Open International Ideas Competition Building for Bouwkunde were announced at the NAi. The jury selected three first prize winners, three second prize winners and two honourable mentions out of the eight nominated projects that were announced a month ago. And the winners are ...
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    The winners, with full quotes from the jury-report: see also discussion about the results and the judgement (for now only in Dutch, translation will follow soon)First prize (ex aequo, each 15,000 euro)AMALGAM  - Laura Alvarez, laura alvarez architect…
January 8, 2009
  • Searching for spatial justice – without architects
    The relevance of French philosopher Henri Lefebvre to contemporary architectural theory and practice formed the subject of a three-day conference that took place at Delft University of Technology on November 11-13. What the few architects in attendance mainly learned was how to look at the city in Lefebvre’s way, not how to change it.
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    Entitled ‘Rethinking Theory, Space and Production: Henri Lefebvre Today’, the conference reflected the huge revival of interest in the work of Lefebvre today, which most architects are perhaps unaware of. However, if there’s one twentieth-century phi…
November 24, 2008
  • More for less: An optimistic strategy of renewal in sombre times
    The publication PLUS: Large Scale Housing Development - an Exceptional Case makes a convincing argument for the renewal of big housing complexes in France. In the Dutch situation the PLUS strategy can complement the current, one-sided discussion on the renewal of the post-war city.
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    In their practice, the three authors – French architects Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal – work on making careful and continuous changes to the existing city. To them, total demolition followed by new construction is not an opti…
October 10, 2008
December 19, 2007
  • Architecture Biennale Sao Paulo 2007
    The seventh Architecture Biennale — the most important after Venice say the Brazilians — takes place until December 16 in the exhibition building by Oscar Niemeyer in Sao Paolo. Alex van de Beld of architecture firm Onix, one of the participants in the Dutch presentation, visited the Biennale and explored the favelas.
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    Brazil itself is present everywhere at the Biennale with a posse of architects around the Pritzker Prize winners Niemeyer and da Rocha. Europe is poorly represented. Other parts of the world are largely absent, apart from South Africa, which presents…
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 …
February 1, 2007
  • The logo of Bucharest
    The symposium Regimes of Representation: Art & Politics Beyond the House of People was held in the House of People (Palace of the Parliament) in Bucharest (Romania) on January 11. Symposium organisers Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden (Meta Haven: Design Research) explain the significance of this building.
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    The ‘Zone Palatul Parlamentului’ was realised in all its dull monumentality during the Ceausescu regime. The dictator got the idea for the biggest ever grand projet after visiting North Korea, where he saw at first hand what a socialist…
October 2, 2005
  • Team 10: (In Search of) A Utopia of the Present
    Myths, tall stories, tales of adventure: no shortage of them when it comes to Team 10. But fact and fiction are pulled apart in the recently issued book 'Team 10, 1953-81, In Search of a Utopia of the Present', on the new website Team10-Online, and in the major exhibition now on show at the NAi.
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    'Team 10 grew out of criticism within CIAM, as an irritating grain in an oyster', said Aldo van Eyck in 1991. Criticism was directed against what critics saw as the extreme functionalism of Le Corbusier, whom Team 10 members believed wanted to create…
March 23, 2005
  • 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.
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    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, Gilles Saucier, Bridg…
March 2, 2004
  • Maison Folie de Wazemmes - NOX
    This year Lille in France is one of the Cultural Capitals of Europe. Maison Folie de Wazemmes will be one of the locations where events take place.
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    To house the many activities that will take place in 2004, the idea was launched to transform former factories and schools into so called Maisons Folie. In 2001 the municipal of Lille organised a design competition for the transformation of a former …
October 1, 2002
  • Almost Nothing
    This summer Dirk Jan Postel (Kraayvanger-Urbis) won the Benedictus Award for a small pavilion with a roof supported entirely by glass.
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    A minor theme that persistently runs through modern architecture is the quest for (almost) nothing, for the purest possible architecture whose form is determined by the very absence of all that is superfluous. The most striking illustration is the de…
June 15, 2001
  • Performing the City
    From 31st May to 2nd June, the Prototypo Seminar in Architecture entitled Performing the City joined in Oporto 36 distinguished architects to discuss the city in its several dimensions. We hereby present a review of the proceedings sent to us from Portugal.
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    Curated by Paulo Martins Barata (Promontório Architects, Lisbon), with Gerrit Confurius (Editor, Berlim) and Luis Tavares Pereira (Architect, Oporto) with the support of the APM (Portuguese Management Association) and Prototypo (Portuguese architectu…
February 1, 2001
  • Mutations: world = city
    More than half the world's population currently lives in cities. Or rather, in what we call cites. In breakneck tempo urban mass is being produced in Asia, a form of urbanism that largely escapes architectural analysis, while in a completely contrary movement the European City seems to be losing control by not growing but by totally transforming from within. The exhibition Mutations shows fragments of la ville contemporaine.
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    For the exhibition Mutations (designed by Jean Nouvel) the Arc en Rêve architecture centre in Bordeaux, France, allowed a group of architects, photographers, film-makers and critics to record the current state of urbanism. Curators Rem Koolhaas,…
December 8, 2000
  • Results Europan 7
    The winners of the Dutch Europan locations made known.
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    The Dutch Europan organisation received 168 entries. This year theme was Suburban Challenge - urban intensity and housing diversity. There where four locations in The Netherlands: Amsterdam (Geuzeveld Zuid), The Hague (Moerwijk-Zuid), Hengelo (O2) an…
December 3, 2000
  • Absent Architecture
    On Thursday evening the Berlage Institute organised a discussion in conjunction with the Alliance Française and Archilab on the theme of hybrid landscapes. A new generation of French architects uses nature in a playful way to create artificial landscapes, thereby breaking open the traditional relationship between city and countryside. The evening opened with a short presentation the work of Dominique Lyon, Jakob + MacFarlane, and Francois Roche. In attendance were Winy Maas Adriaan Geuze and Aaron Betsky.
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    Dominique Lyon's work includes projects in La Ville Neuve in Paris. He responds to the bizarre convergence of the most disparate buildings in suburbs and establishes connections between them. Many of his libraries do not read as buildings but as an e…
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