Can you look through the windows? / Kanokwan Trakulyingcharoen
Behind these walls and tiny voids lie a few lives. Living as they would if separated from the speed of this ever-changing world. Following years of urban sprawl, the social fabric of Bangkok has disappeared so that the construction of a single house in such a metropolis has moved toward the creation of a singular […]
Montenegrin Pavilion in Venice 2016 / Bart Lootsma & Katharina Weinberger
The Project Solana Ulcinj, curated by Bart Lootsma and Katharina Weinberger, will be the Montenegrin contribution to the 15th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The Montenegrin pavilion will host four projects outlining four different sustainable futures for the former saline “Bajo Sekulic” near Montenegro’s most southern town Ulcinj. The projects will be developed […]
Maribor 2112Ai 100YC
Over the last decade, architecturaltheory.eu has been continuously present at the Venice Architecture Biennale in different capacities. 2012 Bart Lootsma was personally invited to Maribor 2112Ai 100YC, a project curated by Prof. Tom Kovac of RMIT Melbourne for Maribor 2012 Cultural Capital and the Slovenian Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale. The 100 Year […]
The Big Gizmo/ Bart Lootsma
Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion House is probably as much about Chicago as Le Corbusiers Pavillion de l’Esprit Nouveau is about Paris – and both are as different from each other as Chicago and Paris are. Le Corbusiers pavilion was not just a prototype for a house; it also contained a presentation of the Plan Voisin for […]
Architectural Theory / Bart Lootsma
The English word “theory” derives from the ancient Greek verb “theorein”, which means “seeing” or “observing”. The focus of architectural theory is thus the observation and interpretation of architecture and all its aspects. As is generally the case in cultural theory, the theory of architecture does not just address one selected or canonized segment of […]
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly or: Sympathy for the Devil / Bart Lootsma
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly or: Sympathy for the Devil Bart O. Lootsma The photo shows Joep van Lieshout, leaning on a self-made 50mm gun on the loading platform of his customized Mercedes pick-up truck. A man of the world, he is sporting a shirt with flags, held together round his stomach by […]