The search for a paradise garden
Ourselves and history
A table for eight
Square one
A Discourse
Link to article
vrijdag 12 december 2014
Sir Geoffrey Alan Jellicoe on Landscape architecture
An article on Landscape architecture published in the IFLA yearbook around 1980
The search for a paradise garden
Ourselves and history
A table for eight
Square one
A Discourse
Link to article
The search for a paradise garden
Ourselves and history
A table for eight
Square one
A Discourse
Link to article
zondag 30 november 2014
What history tells us 2 _ #Robert Moses #Jane Jacobs
Jane Jacobs
vs Robert Moses: Urban Fight of the Century
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Video on Youtube: Jane Jacobs vs Robert Moses
What history tells us 1 _ #Robert Moses
Een stripverhaal / a comic
Het levensverhaal van Robert Moses, de architectstadsplanner
die het uitzicht van het huidige New York bepaalde. Graphic novel die je een
andere kijk geeft op de Big Apple.Scenario van Pierre Christin: Ravian, Lena en
vele albums met Enki Bilal.
The
achievements of one man changed the the face of an entire city. Robert Moses:
the mastermind of New York. From the subway to the skyscraper, from Manhattan's
financial district to the Long Island suburbs, every inch of New York tells the
story of one man's mind: Robert Moses, the architect who designed it all. Now,
in Pierre Christin and Olivier Balez's new graphic biography, the rest of
Robert's story will be told.
zondag 2 november 2014
2014 _ Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris
The Grotto
By
Frank Gehry (Architeture)
Olafur Eliasson (Artwork)
Een herinterpretatie van een Grotto
A reinterpretation of a Grotto
zondag 19 oktober 2014
maandag 13 oktober 2014
woensdag 8 oktober 2014
maandag 6 oktober 2014
STADSSALONSURBAINS
STADSSALONSURBAINS
A meeting
point for urbanites
The city is
the future? Most definitely! Throughout the last decade many new ideas and
insights have been presented in the field of Urban Studies. At the
STADSSALONSURBAINS we invite renowned international professors to present their
ideas to the Brussels audience.
The
STADSSALONSURBAINS are a brand new series of lectures and documentary
screenings for urban professionals, students and all city lovers. A meeting
point for urbanites on Fridays in the Beursschouwburg, just before the weekend
starts.
10 October,
24 October, 7 November, 28 November and 12 December 2014
from 17:30
until 19:30
at
Beursschouwburg (rue Auguste Orts 20-28, 1000 BXL)
Lectures in
English
Autumn
programme
We kick off
on Friday 10 October with a lecture by Patrick Le Galès, professor Sciences Po
in Paris and expert on the detransformation of cities, European regions and
large cities worldwide. Friday 7 November, we welcome Susanne Heeg,
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, who is analysing the effects of the
liberalization of financial and property markets on cities. We will screen the
documentary “The Human Scale”, a critical view on the way we build and use our
cities by Andreas M. Dalsgaard and Jan Gehl Architects. And the 1980
documentary “The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces” by William H. Whyte, that
has gained a cult status in the field of urban studies.
Friday 10
October 2014
STADSSALONSURBAINS
#1
PATRICK LE
GALÈS (SCIENCES PO, PARIS)
GLOBAL
MINDS, ROOTS IN THE CITY. EUROPEAN MIDDLE CLASSES IN EUROPEAN CITIES
Political
scientist and sociologist Patrick Le Galès recently finished a research project
on transnationalism and urban practices with two colleagues in Milan and
Madrid, containing 500 interviews about the way professionals and managers
combine a slow increasing transnationalism with solid roots in cities. The book
will be published in december. At our very first STADSSALONSURBAINS, Patrick Le
Galès will give you a preview of the research findings.
By
comparing four European cities (Paris, Lyon, Milan and Madrid) Le Galès
explores the role of urban upper middle classes in the transformations
experienced by contemporary European societies. He reveals how segments of
Europe’s urban population are adopting exit or partial exit strategies in
respect to the nation state.
Friday 24
October 2014
STADSSALONSURBAINS
#2
THE SOCIAL
LIFE OF
SMALL URBAN
SPACES
A
DOCUMENTARY BY WILLIAM H. WHYTE
With an
introduction by Pol Ghekiere
This 1980
documentary became a highly influential film in architecture and planning
circles. In the film urban planner William H. Whyte analyses the success and
failures of urban spaces in New York. Observing the natural order of spaces and
the way people move through them, Whyte provides an intuitive critique of urban
spaces and ways these spaces can be improved.
Friday 7
November 2014
STADSSALONSURBAINS
#3
SUSANNE
HEEG (GOETHE-UNIVERSITÄT, FRANKFURT)
THE POWER
OF FIGURES: CALCULATIVE PRACTICES IN THE REAL ESTATE INDUSTRY
Urban
geographer Susanne Heeg examines the role and importance of calculative
practices in the process of establishing a global property market. These
practices have contributed to the transformation of the property market into a
calculable relation, which makes it possible to perceive and assess the real
estate market and its objects internationally. Comparability – which includes
the transformation of social, political and economic conditions into numbers –
has created the context in which investment decisions take place because they
suggest transparency and calculability. These practices are created and shared
in a network of global real estate professionals and go along with strategies
of territorializing and delineating markets.
Friday 28
November 2014
STADSSALONSURBAINS
#4
BRIAN
DOUCET (UTRECHT UNIVERSITY)
CAN’T
FORGET THE MOTOR CITY: DETROIT IN TEN BUILDINGS
Detroit is
the most intensely scrutinised city in America today: bankruptcy, abandonment,
arson and the small-scale creative revival of Downtown. But there is so much
more to understanding what has happened to Detroit and what it means for the
rest of the urban world. The aim of this talk is to go beyond the normal
discourses on the city to challenge what we think we know about Detroit. We will experience the Motor City by way of a
virtual driving tour, stopping at ten buildings in the city and its suburbs to
further explore the lessons from Detroit, visions coming out of the city and
why what happens in Detroit matters for other places as well.
Friday 12
December 2014
STADSSALONSURBAINS
#5
THE HUMAN
SCALE. BRINGING CITIES TO LIFE
A
DOCUMENTARY ON JAN GEHL BY ANDREAS M. DALSGAARD
With an
introduction by Jens Aerts (Cosmopolis VUB, BUUR)
The Danish
architect and professor Jan Gehl has studied human behavior in cities through
40 years. He has documented how modern cities repel human interaction, and
argues that we can build cities in a way, which takes human needs for inclusion
and intimacy into account. “The Human Scale” meets thinkers, architects and
urban planners across the globe. It questions our assumptions about modernity,
exploring what happens when we put people into the center of our planning.
Practical
The
STADSSALONSURBAINS take place on Fridays at 17.30 at the Beursschouwburg, rue
Auguste Ortsstraat 20-28 in the city center of Brussels (premetro La Bourse,
metro Sainte-Cathérine, metro De Brouckère). Access is free and you don’t need
to make a reservation. You just have to listen to the invited speaker when he
or she lectures. That’s all. Be welcome!
An
initiative of the Brussels Academy and the Brussels Studies Institute.
Cosmopolis
Centre for Urban Research
Cosmopolis
is a research centre within the Department of Geography of the Vrije Universiteit
Brussel and is dedicated to research and teaching in geography, spatial
planning and urban design. Committed to pursuing both academic and practice
relevant research, Cosmopolis actively engages policy makers, governments,
citizen networks and other urban partners to transform knowledge into action.
woensdag 24 september 2014
Landezine – Landscape Architecture App
maandag 22 september 2014
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vrijdag 12 september 2014
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zondag 31 augustus 2014
Tuin en chaos / garden and chaos
2014 : les Drones prennent le contrôle de la Demeure du Chaos / Abode of Chaos
It takes a lot of chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. F. Nietzche
Link: Video http://vimeo.com/87859684
Tuin/Garden La demeure du chaos
zaterdag 23 augustus 2014
In a successful modern city, the car must no longer be king
Our love
affair with automobiles has shaped our cities and our lives – but mature
metropolises are finally realising that the needs of people are even more
important.
Link: In a successful modern city the car must no longer be king.
Book 1 :How to study public life.
Book 2
dinsdag 19 augustus 2014
The Pedway: Elevating London (Documentary)
The Pedway: Elevating London is a documentary on the post-war redevelopment in the City of London - focusing on the attempt to build an ambitious network of elevated walkways through the city. Featuring interviews with professor of town planning Michael Hebbert (UCL), architecture critic Jonathan Glancey, city planning officer Peter Wynne Rees and writer Nicholas Rudd-Jones (Pathways), the film explores why the 'Pedway' scheme was unsuccessful and captures the abandoned remains that, unknown to the public, still haunt the square mile.
Planned & Constructed by Chris Bevan Lee
Link to video: The Pedway
BOOK: To design footpaths, you can become inspired by:
vrijdag 8 augustus 2014
Shelf Life: 33 Book Recommendations From Architects & Designers
Architects often don’t make time to read. Students and professionals alike will admit that the unread books on their shelves outnumber the ones they’ve read - which is unfortunate because literary contributions to the field of architecture, from Vitruvius toLe Corbusier, have shaped the way we build and use buildings for centuries. With this in mind, ArchitectureBoston polled their readers, asking them to share their favorite architecture and design titles, to compile a list of important architecture books you should set aside some time for. The list covers a wide range of subjects, from historical theory to the practicalities of starting a firm. See all thirty-three titles, after the break.
1. Bookwork: Medium to Object to Concept to Art by Garrett Stewart
An inventive and sophisticated study of the book form as sculptural medium. These “bibliobjects,” as the author calls them, reside at the nexus of artists’ books and conceptual art and point to new modes of literacy. Good Dada-fun: Duchamp meets Buzz Spector! - Martin Antonetti, curator of rare books and director of the book studies concentration, Smith College Libraries2. Radical Cities: Across Latin America in Search of a New Architecture by Justin McGuirk
Some cities in Latin America have become paradigms of urban renewal, with design, architecture, and politics at the core of positive transformation. McGuirk renders a portrait of a complex continent that is so hard to get to know, but that we can learn a lot from. - Paola Antonelli, senior curator, Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art3. House by Tracy Kidder
Published 30 years ago, House remains an outstanding narrative about the design and construction process, and about the birth of an architecture firm. - Stephen Schreiber FAIA, program director in Architecture + Design, University of Massachusetts/Amherst4. Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production edited by Gail Peter Borden and Michael Meredith.
Offers an expanded architectural design practice and education — one that tests spatial and material ideas through fabrication at multiple scales, in new time frames, to re-imagine architecture and our experiences. - Karen Nelson, head of the School of Architecture, Boston Architectural College5. Sir Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture
The foremost history of Western architecture, extensively illustrated.6. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein
A compendium of pieces that, when linked through examination of the natural world, create wholes, to the delight of the people who use buildings.7. The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
A small and personal analysis of the features of architecture that bring joy into our lives.8. The RSVP Cycles: Creative Processes in the Human Environment by Lawrence Halprin
Architecture as the choreography of people in the built landscape.- Diane Georgopulos FAIA, MassHousing9. The Shingle Style and the Stick Style by Vincent J. Scully, Jr.
Changed how we see 19th-century architecture and how we design in the 20th and 21st centuries.10. The Highway and the City by Lewis Mumford
Passionate and eloquent essays; why don’t we write and argue about architecture like this today?11. The Power Broker by Robert A. Caro
The best book ever written on how the American city is built and unbuilt.12. Hav by Jan Morris
A tantalizing travel guide to a city you never heard of.13. Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell
Nobody looks more closely, listens more carefully, or writes better about New York. - Jay Wickersham FAIA, Noble & Wickersham14. Chicagoisms: The City as Catalyst for Architectural Speculation by Alexander Eisenschmidt and Jonathan Mekinda
That rare book able to interest both academics and non-architect city lovers, “Chicagoisms” is a catalog of smart, readable essays and illustrated interludes uncovering the city’s appetite for the spectacular (Ferris’ wheel, Burnham’s Plan, Kapoor’s Cloud Gate), balanced with fascinating new scholarship on, among other things, Chicago’s surprisingly large influence on European urban theory.15. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas
Before S, M, L, XL, there was Delirious, the book that made Rem’s name. In his hands, New York becomes remythologized as a gridiron palimpsest of architectural capitalism.16. From Bauhaus to Our House by Tom Wolfe
Wolfe’s retelling of the Modern Movement is acerbic, hilarious, and often wrong, but a useful reminder to architects of the suspicion Modernism still arouses in America.17. Architecture in the United States by Dell Upton
Less a comprehensive history than a project to reclaim architecture from architects, Upton’s wry prose casts a gimlet eye onto the pretensions of “art-architecture” from the colonial era to the present.18. The Details of Modern Architecture, Volumes 1 and 2 by Edward R. Ford
As the pioneeering Modernists were inventing new forms, so were they inventing new constructional methods. Ford’s astonishingly researched study, illustrated with invaluable drawings, reveals the ingenuity of this ad hoc tectonic, as well as its misalignment with Modernist rhetoric.- Ian Baldwin, lecturer at Rhode Island School of Design19. A Guide to Archigram 1961–74 by Dennis Crompton
The impact of the Archigramproject was in shifting the architectural site of inquiry from the building and urban scale to a smaller human scale and then scaling up again. In 1994, when the first edition of this monograph was released, students were still wrestling with Deconstruction and the fallout of Postmodernism. Archigram filled a void that many of us felt in attempting to engage architecture at a more human, visceral level — one where the human/user was integral to a larger system of factors and networks.20. Incorporations (Zone 6) by Jonathan Crary and Sanford Kwinter.
What Archigram seemed to prefigure in technological and mechanical terms at the scale of the body, Incorporations more deeply addressed through explorations in biology, neurology, art, and film. This edited collection of “dossiers” spoke directly to the idea that the body was not necessarily becoming a site of architecture, but that organism of the body, in all its complexity, was precisely the site of architecture. At a deeper level, the book planted the idea that a failure to think this way was quickly becoming a failure to think architecturally at all. - Lee Moreau, principal at Continuum21. The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses by Juhani Pallasmaa
The first half is the history of how we have developed, since the Greeks, as a culture around sight; the second half is about how architecture (together with landscape) can awaken our other senses—smell, touch, hearing. Written by a Finnish writer/philosopher with great examples that span art, design, and buildings.- Tamara Roy AIA, principal at ADD Inc22. Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China by Paul Theroux
Experience the lesser-known China by rail at the juncture of socioeconomic upheaval, through the eyes of a prolific travel writer who details people, places, and ambiance with brutal honesty.23. Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Imaginary conversations between the Venetian traveler Marco Polo and the aged Mongol ruler Kublai Khan frame approaches to thinking about cities and the forms they might take.- Sho-Ping Chin FAIA, principal at Payette24. Design with Nature by Ian L. McHarg
Post-Katrina and Sandy, McHarg’s vision of communities hugging the high ground while floodplains are used to manage water flow and provide productive land for agriculture is more relevant than ever.25. TASCHEN’s Architecture Now! series by Philip Jodidio
Essential catalogs of the best work globally, these inspiring books represent an efficient means of instruction across the design professions.- Charlotte Kahn, former research analyst at The Boston FoundationARCHITECTURE BOSTON STAFF RECOMMENDATIONS
26. Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger
Raises awareness of proportion, scale, space, texture, materials, shapes, light, and memory; in doing so, readers appreciate and experience the built world anew.27. Fifty Typefaces That Changed the World by John L. Walters
A witty discussion about the meaning and influence of type, from the ancient world to the digital future.28. A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture by Virginia Savage McAlester
An invaluable easy-to-use resource for everyone who wants to know more about the culture and history of their own homes and communities.29. The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
A typographer-poet combines the practical, theoretical, and historical in this masterful style guide.30. The Library: A World History by James W. P. Campbell; photographs by Will Pryce
Each age and culture has reinvented the library, and this combination of authoritative text and stunning photography illuminates the story in a single volume.31. The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
This irresistible, deeply researched true story parallels Daniel H. Burnham’s meticulous construction of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair with the diabolical building plans of H.H. Holmes, a fraudster and serial killer who exploited the fair for riches — and victims.32. Design Writing Research: Writing on Graphic Design by Ellen Lupton and J. Abbott Miller
This beautifully illustrated study is a vital source on the art and history of books, letter forms, symbols, advertising, and theories of visual and verbal communication.33. 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick
A jargon-free zone of clarity and utility. Not a substitute for a master’s degree, but an invaluable supplement.Link:archdaily
donderdag 31 juli 2014
zondag 13 juli 2014
zaterdag 28 juni 2014
2 Tuinen van Jean Canneel-Claes / Two gardens of Jean-Canneel Claes
Tuin te Sint-Pieters-Woluwe
Tuin aan de Houtmarktstraat te Liedekerke
Tekeningen uit : 1947 - Huib Hoste - Bouwen op het platteland
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