aug 31st, 2012 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Publicaties
Lord Norman Foster’s spectacular installation in the Arsenale is all about people; the buildings are the décor. At a heart-stopping pace images flash around the four walls, images of people sharing an experience. Those range from the ecstatic to the traumatic: a pilgrimage, a goal in the stadium, a charge by the riot police. Meanwhile the names of hundreds of architects from all ages and places – from Borromini to Bunshaft, from Sert to Fuller – swirl in white letters over the black floor.
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aug 23rd, 2012 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Publicaties, Stedenbouw
De molen die Tadashi Kawamata heeft gebouwd op het bolwerk in Middelburg heeft nooit bestaan. Raar aandoenlijk ding van losse planken, verkeerde verhoudingen, ondermaatse wieken. En toch kerkennen we het meteen: ha, molen! Facade 2012, de kunstroute die nu in Middelburg te zien is, gaat over authenticiteit. Lees hier mijn stuk voor het NRC Handelsblad. Read the article…
aug 22nd, 2012 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Publicaties
Cameron Sinclair went from being a ‘CAD-monkey’ twelve years ago to being the driving force behind the world’s largest design non-profit, Architecture for Humanity, which puts architecture at the service of people in need. He used his TED-prize money to establish the open source Open Architecture Network. Read my interview with him here.
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aug 22nd, 2012 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Design, Events, Publicaties
It’s not architecture if it doesn’t get built. Cameron Sinclair, co-founder of the non-profit Architecture for Humanity, is a fierce believer in building for those in distress. I interviewed him in Amsterdam, where he spoke in the spring of 2012 at the conference What Design Can Do. It was published on the blog of the Loeb Fellowship at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design
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aug 1st, 2012 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Design, Publicaties, Stad
The city of Rotterdam asked a group of artists to help rejuvenate the former harbor area of Katendrecht through the use of light. the winner of the competition was Rudolf Teunissen of Daglicht & Vorm. His award-winning design projects a wavy pattern on the street and siewalk and narrow pennants of lights on the facades of the social income housing. In the beginning the inhabitants were wary, but now they’re proud of the way that lighting project ‘Broken Light’ has softened the look and feel of the street. Read my story for Architectural Record here. Read the article…
aug 1st, 2012 | Architectuur, Artikelen, Design, Publicaties, Stad
As part of the rejuvenation of Rotterdam’s old harbor area of Katendrecht, known for its sailors’ bars and whorehouses, the city commissioned a combined art and lighting project. The winner was ‘Broken Light’ by lighting designer Rudolf Teunissen of Daglicht & Vorm. In the August issue of Architectural RecordI describe how his lighting gives the street a tranquility and a dignity it has never before known.
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