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processes such as increasingly market-driven urban development, growing inequality, migration, se... more processes such as increasingly market-driven urban development, growing inequality, migration, segregation and surveillance capitalism. In order to act in this unstable urban terrain, spatial professionals such as urban planners, architects, landscape architects, heritage managers and policymakers may need to seek alternatives to conventional codes and models of spatial development. These univocal diagnoses and rigid planning methods, based on precise cost-benefit calculations and hypotheses regarding the predictable effects of architectural interventions, are no longer reliable or feasible, and often fail to Further readings de Sola-Morales, I. (1995). Terrain vague. In Territorios (pp. 123-132). Gustavo Gili.
Place focuses on the role of history and memory in literary and architectural practices. The inte... more Place focuses on the role of history and memory in literary and architectural practices. The interest in memory has branched out from the overlapping of the humanities and the neuro-and social sciences to include increasingly popular forms of writing and discourse such as personal memoirs and autobiographies. Recollection, confession and being a witness help us to reflect upon the meaning of both individual and collective memory and experience. Memory and its manifestations also touch very significantly and deeply on questions of identity, of nationalism, of power and authority-issues that nowadays fracture our public space as well as our social tissue.
ArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Het zwembad aan de open zuidwestzijde van het huis The swimming pool on the open southwest side o... more Het zwembad aan de open zuidwestzijde van het huis The swimming pool on the open southwest side of the house Het ecohuis
The question this contribution poses,' Marko says, 'is how to write about politically charged mat... more The question this contribution poses,' Marko says, 'is how to write about politically charged material.' 'I share Naomi's position,' Kim says. 'It's a context in which I know nothing except through the author. Probably as a result, there were a lot of resonances for me with the guided walk we went on yesterday.' 'A mixing of writerly genres,' Robin says. 'Travelogue, autobiography-including accounts of professional liaison, as well as the more personal-but also interwoven with a hint of a more familiar architecture history writing.' 'A description as of a tourist or traveller venturing into a city,' Hélène says. 'Perhaps written as a city guide. An architect and a critic, whose glance is deeply interested. A series of architectural tectonic moves and moments.' 'You truly dispose of the art of rendering spatial and architectural qualities tangible,' Anne says, 'which is very different to architecture critique, because it is embedded in the storyline of your auctorial voice.' 'There is a lightness, gentleness perhaps, to your approach to critique, and to the writerly voice, which would be a shame to lose,' Marko says. 'At the same time, the position regarding the material would need to be more clearly defined, if it isn't to come across as lacking in attitude and produce a depoliticized result with politically charged material. The discussion-maybe here, maybe with Anne's, perhaps with both-suggested the notion of "highly flammable" material. How do we, as writers, deal with flammable material?' 'Also, the nature of incomplete projects,' Kim says. 'Like the platform that was never built at the train station. This happens in all sorts of places. In Cape Town, Reading of Klaske Havik's Skopje: The Multiple Faces of the City Compiled by Marko Jobst 'Directing your student's eyes, their design thinking,' Naomi says. 'What kind of designs would your students do?' 'There is the premise, and promise, of a future that never materialized,' Marko
The Journal of Architecture, May 19, 2022
This contribution takes the notion of situated experience as a starting point for explorations in... more This contribution takes the notion of situated experience as a starting point for explorations in practices of moving and making. Striving to privilege embodied experience and situated meanings, this contribution presents an experimental educational project at a former industrial site in Finland. The on-site intervention has been developed by the Master of Architecture research and design studio 'Transdisciplinary Encounter: Choreographing Architectural Values' by combining philosophical reflections on the experience of place and situation with a practical perspective. Twenty-four students from the studio based at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) worked in a context that encompassed a former pulp factory and a manor house in Tampere, Finland. Engaging this urban site in the direct vicinity of forests and lakes, and foregrounding our bodies' capacity to 'make space', the studio explored research and making methods derived from the field of dance and choreography, particularly focusing on the relationship between movement and 'situatedness'.
Universitaire Pers Leuven eBooks, May 18, 2022
processes such as increasingly market-driven urban development, growing inequality, migration, se... more processes such as increasingly market-driven urban development, growing inequality, migration, segregation and surveillance capitalism. In order to act in this unstable urban terrain, spatial professionals such as urban planners, architects, landscape architects, heritage managers and policymakers may need to seek alternatives to conventional codes and models of spatial development. These univocal diagnoses and rigid planning methods, based on precise cost-benefit calculations and hypotheses regarding the predictable effects of architectural interventions, are no longer reliable or feasible, and often fail to Further readings de Sola-Morales, I. (1995). Terrain vague. In Territorios (pp. 123-132). Gustavo Gili.
Place focuses on the role of history and memory in literary and architectural practices. The inte... more Place focuses on the role of history and memory in literary and architectural practices. The interest in memory has branched out from the overlapping of the humanities and the neuro-and social sciences to include increasingly popular forms of writing and discourse such as personal memoirs and autobiographies. Recollection, confession and being a witness help us to reflect upon the meaning of both individual and collective memory and experience. Memory and its manifestations also touch very significantly and deeply on questions of identity, of nationalism, of power and authority-issues that nowadays fracture our public space as well as our social tissue.
ArchitectureArchitecture and The Built Environmen
Het zwembad aan de open zuidwestzijde van het huis The swimming pool on the open southwest side o... more Het zwembad aan de open zuidwestzijde van het huis The swimming pool on the open southwest side of the house Het ecohuis
The question this contribution poses,' Marko says, 'is how to write about politically charged mat... more The question this contribution poses,' Marko says, 'is how to write about politically charged material.' 'I share Naomi's position,' Kim says. 'It's a context in which I know nothing except through the author. Probably as a result, there were a lot of resonances for me with the guided walk we went on yesterday.' 'A mixing of writerly genres,' Robin says. 'Travelogue, autobiography-including accounts of professional liaison, as well as the more personal-but also interwoven with a hint of a more familiar architecture history writing.' 'A description as of a tourist or traveller venturing into a city,' Hélène says. 'Perhaps written as a city guide. An architect and a critic, whose glance is deeply interested. A series of architectural tectonic moves and moments.' 'You truly dispose of the art of rendering spatial and architectural qualities tangible,' Anne says, 'which is very different to architecture critique, because it is embedded in the storyline of your auctorial voice.' 'There is a lightness, gentleness perhaps, to your approach to critique, and to the writerly voice, which would be a shame to lose,' Marko says. 'At the same time, the position regarding the material would need to be more clearly defined, if it isn't to come across as lacking in attitude and produce a depoliticized result with politically charged material. The discussion-maybe here, maybe with Anne's, perhaps with both-suggested the notion of "highly flammable" material. How do we, as writers, deal with flammable material?' 'Also, the nature of incomplete projects,' Kim says. 'Like the platform that was never built at the train station. This happens in all sorts of places. In Cape Town, Reading of Klaske Havik's Skopje: The Multiple Faces of the City Compiled by Marko Jobst 'Directing your student's eyes, their design thinking,' Naomi says. 'What kind of designs would your students do?' 'There is the premise, and promise, of a future that never materialized,' Marko
The Journal of Architecture, May 19, 2022
This contribution takes the notion of situated experience as a starting point for explorations in... more This contribution takes the notion of situated experience as a starting point for explorations in practices of moving and making. Striving to privilege embodied experience and situated meanings, this contribution presents an experimental educational project at a former industrial site in Finland. The on-site intervention has been developed by the Master of Architecture research and design studio 'Transdisciplinary Encounter: Choreographing Architectural Values' by combining philosophical reflections on the experience of place and situation with a practical perspective. Twenty-four students from the studio based at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) worked in a context that encompassed a former pulp factory and a manor house in Tampere, Finland. Engaging this urban site in the direct vicinity of forests and lakes, and foregrounding our bodies' capacity to 'make space', the studio explored research and making methods derived from the field of dance and choreography, particularly focusing on the relationship between movement and 'situatedness'.
Universitaire Pers Leuven eBooks, May 18, 2022
Presenting a double reading of architectural spaces, this article aims to bring together works of... more Presenting a double reading of architectural spaces, this article aims to bring together works of the architects Alvar Aalto and Rogelio Salmona and identify some shared themes in their architectural approaches. While using literary description as a mode of architectural investigation, it shows how the use of writing in architectural analysis can bring to the surface some of the more ephemeral aspects of architecture, such as embodied perception, memory and use-aspects that contribute to the very meaning of architecture but that are hard to describe in purely factual terms. By experiential descriptions, the article will give an account of two projects of each architect, based on my own repeated visits to these buildings over the past two decades. The projects include Centro Gaitan in Bogotá, the Virgilio Barco Library in Bogotá, Colombia (Rogelio Salmona, 2001), Helsinki University of Technology and the Viipuri City Library of Alvar Aalto. The comparitive descriptions will show that the resonances between the work of both architects goes beyond their similar use of brick and their preferences for certain geometries, but rather concern the humanism that lay at the basis of both their architectural practices, a human interest translated into form, materiality and light.