Macht, machtsmisbruik en dus machthebbers: dat zijn de obsessies van de Spaanse kunstenaar Fernando Sánchez Castillo. Zijn werk is nu op twee plaatsen in Nederland te zien. „Het is zwaar om deze geschiedenis met me mee te dragen, als Spanjaard en als kunstenaar”, zegt hij in mijn interview met hem voor NRC Handelsblad. „Hoe kan ik aan Franco ontsnappen?”
Barcelona is one of Europe’s hotspots for street art – the name for both graffiti, with personal tags, and for artistic paintings. I decided to find out more about what I’m seeing, in the hope that I will then see more. I booked a Barcelona Street Style Tour.
The Edge was designed to advance workplace standards with an energy-neutral building that not only lowers the cost and environmental impact of power consumption but also enhances the occupant experience. For Architectural Record I wrote about this extraordinary office building on Amsterdam’s Zuidas that was completed in 2015.
International design congres What Design Can Do is holding a Refugee Challenge this year. The refugee crisis is asking for new and innovative ideas. An incredible amount of 631 submissions from 69 countries are now eligible for review & nomination. I’m in the selection committee that will take on the massive task of establishing a shortlist that finally will be judged by the international jury on 29 June. Read the article…
Short&Sweet: een interview met designer Maarten Baas.
Maarten Baas: In 200 years time you should have this massive chair, I really wanted it to be this thick chair so that it needed to be a development of 200 years.
Short&Sweet: een interview met designer Pieke Bergmans.
Pieke Bergmans: It started off with the question why neon is always in a linear tube and I was just questioning if I could somehow also put gas inside a more organic shape.