interior work

While the lec­ture that Ale­jan­dro Zaera Polo held in April 2008 es­sen­ti­ally si­gnal­led the start of his ex­ami­na­tion of the re­la­tion bet­ween buil­ding vo­lume and po­li­tics, he is now working on a ge­ne­ral theory about The En­ve­l­ope. N…

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 con­str…

The «Cabanon«, a ‘primitive hut’ using rough pine boards on the ex­te­rior, it is set in a ma­gni­fi­cent land­scape where Le Cor­bu­sier was able to com­bine plea­sure with con­cen­tra­ted work, now being shown at the ETH Zu­rich, Höng­ger­berg. Be­…

According to the web­site the ex­hi­bi­tion was to open at 1 o’clock. I ar­ri­ved 20 mi­nu­tes early and wan­de­red around the buil­ding. Sud­denly I no­ti­ced an open door that led to the inner gar­den of the art cam­pus. I loo­ked around, saw no-on…

Tilburg is ano­ther town with am­bi­tious plans to present its­elf as a place of cul­ture, and so it asked Kör­me­ling to make a work of art. As an ode to the ter­race house with through li­ving room, the Eind­ho­ven ar­chi­tect came up with a ver­si…

The Cha­nel Con­tem­porary Art Con­tai­ner, un­mis­t­aka­bly de­si­gned by Zaha Hadid, opened at the end of Fe­bru­ary 2008 in Hong Kong, the first venue among 8 ci­ties. Fol­lo­wing the idea of Chanel-designer Karl La­ger­feld, the tem­porary mu­seu…

It be­came clear du­ring the sym­po­sium that each spea­ker not only in­ter­pre­ted mo­der­nism dif­fer­ently but also ap­proa­ched the re­vi­ta­li­sa­tion of he­ri­tage in a dif­fe­rent way. For one spea­ker mo­der­nism was a mo­ve­ment lin­ked the …

The Ame­ri­can In­sti­tute of Ar­chi­tects, AIA named its 10 re­ci­pi­ents of the 2008 Young Ar­chi­tects Award. The list of names, along with short bio­gra­phies were an­noun­ced at the end of Ja­nu­ary 2008. The bes­to­wal will take place at the AI…

After stu­dy­ing at the Royal Aca­demy of Art in The Hague from 1956 to 1961, Peter Struy­cken (1939) pain­ted in a fi­gu­ra­tive style. He was fa­sci­na­ted by the dif­fe­ren­ces and si­mi­la­ri­ties in vi­sual rea­lity. A row of trees in­te­rested …

From 1926 on­wards Van Does­burg worked with hus­band and wife Hans Arp and So­phie Täu­ber. They were in­iti­ally com­mis­sio­ned for the project but asked him to as­sist in re­no­vat­ing the in­te­rior of the eighteenth-century Au­bette. The bar­ra…

Sint Lucas in Box­tel has been 'pimped' and that’s re­sul­ted in a school com­plex that loo­ked dated as soon as it was opened. It al­re­ady looks like al­te­ra­ti­ons will need to be car­ried out very soon. That’s not only down to the …

A diamond-shaped white con­crete Casa da Música [CdM] slowly emer­ged in the most cen­tral round­a­bout of the local mo­dern ur­ba­nity. From the very be­gin­ning, the pro­cess was po­li­ti­cally and urban dis­tur­bed. This fact pla­ced its con­…

'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…

In the same week as the pre­sen­ta­tion of the bulky de­sign book False Flat, five pro­mi­nent for­eign cu­ra­tors con­clu­ded that Dutch art is in a state of slum­ber and is of no in­ter­na­tio­nal im­port­ance. The re­a­son, they claim, is the harm…

My first visit to Jor­dan two years ago made a deep im­pres­sion on me, par­ti­cu­larly the coun­try­side and the hos­pi­ta­lity of the in­ha­bi­tants. Mee­ting people who have next to not­hing yet who still share their food with you is a very spe­ci…