Destruction of Architecture

What better way to start the academic year than to forcefully destroy, obliterate, twenty-five pristine analytical models? Layers of white paint and MDF, held together by the blood, sweat and tears of students that have slaved over them—for days, weeks or perhaps even months—gone in a matter of minutes. The models represent a cross-section of […]

Critical explorations of Metabolist avant-garde architecture

Seen from a contemporary perspective, the Japanese Metabolist movement’s foremost, concern was cultural resilience as a notion of national identity. Metabolism responded to the human and environmental catastrophe that followed the atomic bombing of Japan and vulnerability to natural disasters such as earthquakes, with architecture envisioning the complete transformation of Japan as a system of […]

Het framework van de menselijke maat

Het was vooral de sub-urbane context van de Rotterdamse bloemkoolwijk Zevenkamp dat mij, los van al het wipkippengeweld, de schoonheid van de wijk in liet zien.

Critical explorations of institutions for architectural culture

10 Architectural institutions were analysed on their architectural principles. They vary from smaller architectural museums (Toyo Ito Museum of Architecture) to large institutions like the Canadian Center for Architecture. But also houses by famous architects that are currently museums (House la Roche, Jeanneret) or prestigious museums that also considers architecture (MOMA). Scale models The all-white […]

Exhibition: The vanishing point of desire

Does Constant’s New Babylon still appear provocative today? From an architectural point of view, the world of New Babylon is no longer a hypothetic image but a concrete phenomenon in the widest sense. If we still might consider it as a provocative concept, this is probably because New Babylon transformed from a plausible reality to […]

Publication: The attendance of the contemporary New Babylon

The objective of our analysis approach is highlighting the expressive spatial qualities of some of the key high-rise buildings of Hong Kong by visualizing their architectural appearance comprehensible for our perception and imagination as much as possible. For this purpose, we refer phenomenologically to Aldo Rossi’s understanding of analogy. According to Rossi, one of the […]

Stadsdijken : the dikescape of Rotterdam

Het belang van de dijk voor het Nederlandse landschap is onschatbaar. Deze zeldzame vormen van hoogteverschil welke vindbaar zijn in het anders zo vlakke polderlandschap zijn bepalend voor de stedelijke structuren die er door de jaren zijn ontstaan.

Installation: The vanishing point of desire

The seminar consists of two parts. The first part contains a toolbox composed of minimalistic signs and symbols. They constitute the basic language of eight specific graphics illustrating significant phenomena as mentioned by Constant or Huizinga, namely; Role of play; Contest; Labyrinth; Derive; Nomadism; Desire, Atmosphere and Leisure. This part of our research is finally […]

Publication: Philips in Eindhoven

To explore the architectural quantities of Philips legacy, 4 buildings were analysed. These buildings used to function as offices or factories of the company but have been recently transformed into other functions. Both their current purpose as the heritage from their original purpose is analysed to generate a broader understanding of transformational architecture.

Hongkong: The attendance of the contemporary New Babylon

Constant Nieuwenhuys could be seen as one of the major visionary artists of the 20th century. His New Babylon project constitutes the idea of the other man who inhabits a new type of urban space. The natural landscape has been replaced by modern technology and finally become the new artificial nature that must now be […]

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