sep 23rd, 2012 | Architectuur, Design, Publicaties
Het Stedelijk is na een acht jaar durende tranendal van financiële en bouwkundige ellende weer open. Op de feestelijke opening gisteravond – de laatste van vele – was de opluchting overal hoorbaar. ‘Wat fijn dat het er weer is!’ was de meest gehoorde opmerking. De opluchting overheerste zelfs zo, dat de criant lelijke badkuip van kogelvrij polyester die Benthem Crouwel aan de achtergevel hebben gehangen, onbenoemd bleef, net als de magere, vreugdeloze huisstijl van Mevis en Van Deursen. Lees hier mijn interview met hen voor NRC. Read the article…
sep 20th, 2012 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Publicaties
In De Groene schrijf ik over de Architectuurbiënnale in Venetië. Daar is dit jaar te zien hoe de sterrencultus rond architecten plaats maakt voor gemeenschapszin en burgerinitiatief. ‘Als architecten er nog toe willen doen, moeten ze kijken wat er écht in de stad gebeurt.’ Lees hier mijn stuk voor het NRC Handelsblad. Read the article…
sep 14th, 2012 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Publicaties, Stedenbouw
David Chipperfield called the 2012 edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale which he curated ‘Common Ground’. It was a call to his fellow architects to build for the common good rather than creating costly icons. At a panel at the Biennale Harvard’s Rahul Mehotra echoed his sentiments when he said: “Impatient capital is running the world and architecture has become a slave to it.” In this article for the American online magazine Next City Tracy discusses how in many places ordinary citizens are now bypassing professional architects and planners and are taking the lead in shaping their own environment.
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sep 6th, 2012 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Publicaties, Stad
How long is the life of a building? The question is the title of the Estonian contribution to the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. It is a poignant, relevant, well-conceived investigation into the nature and the fate of the Linnahall, a humongous Soviet-era pile of concrete reminiscent of an Aztec pyramid at the harbor of Tallinn. Read the article…
sep 3rd, 2012 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Publicaties, Stad
With beer, Latin food, loud music and salsa dancing, Urban Think Tank’s Venezuelan bar was of course the hottest venue at the 2012 Architecture Biennale, which closes this weekend. Architecture’s bad boys Alfredo Brillembourg and Hubert Klumpner, together with co-curators Justin McGuirk and photographer Iwan Baan, won the Golden Lion for the Biennale’s best project with their portrait of Torre David, a ‘vertical slum’ in downtown Caracas. Read the article…
sep 2nd, 2012 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Publicaties, Stad
They call it ‘chairbombing’. Just the simple act of putting a chair on the sidewalk and sitting in it is a protest against a 2011 law that forbids people in San Francisco to sit or lie in public space. These chairs, and the initiative, came from Brooklyn-based design collective DoTank, which makes these chairs from old shipping pallets. In San Francisco they pinned a note to them, saying: ,,These are more than places to sit. They are a visual resistance to the privatization of public space.”
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