Non-Places of immaterial labour – architecture’s dildotopia? / Andreas Rumpfhuber
As in Beatriz Preciado’s contra-sexual manifesto, we can understand the program of architecture as a technology. We need to accept that architecture as such is political, that it organizes practices and that it judges whatever practices there are: be it public or private, be it institutional or homely, be it social or intimate. And we […]
Black Holes in Megalopolis / Bart Lootsma
For better or for worse, in all its fragmentation, Houston is also a city that may give us some indications of how in the future megalopolises could become more than the sum of their parts. It may come as a surprise to many, but even if Houston is this endless, quasi-comatose city that for the […]
A Conversation between Toyo Ito and Bart Lootsma
Without a doubt Toyo Ito is one of the most remarkable and influential architects from the last decades. Houses like ‘White U’ for his sister, in the nineteen seventies, were silent universes in themselves. In the nineteen eighties, Ito’s work celebrated nomadic life and the mediatisation of our world with light and open constructions, like […]
The Crystal Cathedral Scenes / Wendelien van Odenborgh
Milica Topalovic’ double video projection Sunday Canon is edited to show one hour from a three and a half hour process, which happens on Sundays, observed and recorded twice from the same point of view, with a seven weeks interval. The setting is the Crystal Cathedral in Los Angeles, one of the best known television […]
The Working Glamour / Andreas Rumpfhuber
From Monday, 26th May until Sunday, 1st June 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono work publicly in bed. From there they are present in all of North America, are ON AIR. They give interviews via telephone, welcome guests from their bed and work in dense spatial conditions for their mission: Peace for the World. Timothy […]
Snøhetta’s Artificial Mirages / Bart Lootsma
The 2009 Mies van der Rohe Award went to Snøhetta for their design of the Oslo Opera. Snøhetta seems to be one of the first architectural offices to have worked on a global scale from their very beginning. Even if the office was founded in Oslo as a collaborative studio of architects and landscape architects, […]
A Conversation between Olafur Eliasson and Bart Lootsma
Interviewed on 20 July 2005 in Berlin. Bart Lootsma: I’m very curious about this BMW project. What’s your interest in cars? Olafur Eliasson: Well, to put it simply, I involve myself in a new field almost every time I take on a project, but the topics I research into are always somehow related to our […]
Bas Princen, Of Other Spaces, (re)vis(it)ed / Bart Lootsma
A summary of the places appearing in Bas Princen’s photographs has an effect which is strange and a little disturbing: a) muddy strips between a camping site and horticultural glasshouses in South Holland, b) a former commercial forest in Brabant which was also used as a military training area for a while, c) a canal […]
Insiders, The Style of Choice / Bart Lootsma
“The style of choice”, Rem Koolhaas writes in Generic City, “is postmodern, and will always remain so. Postmodernism is the only movement that has succeeded in connecting the practice of architecture with the practice of panic. Postmodernism is not a doctrine based on a highly civilized reading of architectural history but a method, a mutation […]
Trauma and Disappointment, a conversation between Bart Lootsma and Pier Vittorio Aureli
Gert Jan Willemse was a Dutch architect whose major work consists of a series of books. Consisting of small pencil drawings that could take several weeks to make and inspired by literary sources, these books seem to show a ‘Design for a world without people’, to quote the Austrian writer Peter Rosei, who was one […]
Utopian Debris: a conversation with Bas Princen / Marc Pimlott
Marc Pimlott interviews Bas Princen on his most recent photographic works. This article will be published in the forthcoming OASE 76 and is published here with kind permission of the editors of OASE.
Landscape Fictions Based on True Stories / Bas Princen, Milica Topalovic
Landscape Fictions Based on True Stories is a research through the world of artificial landscapes in the Netherlands and engineered mountainous slopes of Tyrol – its present day and its historical becoming. The historical and contemporary practice, meaning, form, rationale and poetry of man-made landscapes are looked at through different viewpoints. On one hand, we […]