Berlage Institute

Future Outdoors

Jan 2011

By Kelly Minner — Filed under: Misc , Berlage Institute

Perspective rendering of "future outdoors" building

Focusing on projecting new living conditions circa 2085 in the Netherlands, “A Wonderful World” master class with Wiel Arets at the Berlage Institute Postgraduate Research Laboratory, challenged participants to rethink the proposition of living in a metropolis, high-rise building. Researching and redefining the map of the world, all of the continents were being projected to be within a 288 minute radius with a maximum travel distance of 72 minutes between continents. The basic question put forward: How will the city develop within our extremely exciting, complex, but shrinking world?

The Future Outdoors team shared with us their research and proposal to this question. Follow the break for a description and drawings.

Project Team: Juan Carlos Aristizabal, Gabriel Cuellar, Silvia
Gioberti, Samia Henni, Ivan Nasution, Githa Ong
Photographs: Courtesy of Future Outdoors

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“The City as a Project”: New PhD program from Berlage Institute and Delft University of Technology

Feb 2009

By Sebastian J — Filed under: Architecture News , Berlage Institute, Delft University of Technology, PhD Programs

The Berlage Institute is offering, in conjunction with the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology, a new three-year PhD Program in Architecture devoted to the study of how the form of the city can be theorized, represented, and projected. The program encourages speculations that take positions towards the city-at-large by questioning and using architectural knowledge itself. This knowledge of architectural forms and representations will be used to speculate about the city and its political, social, and cultural organization.