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Total Space: Considering Dutch Structuralism Today

Dirk van den Heuvel — Fri, 17 Feb 2017 05:30:00 +0000

In this article, Dirk van den Heuvel links (Dutch) Structuralism to current day developments – more specifically in the digital realm. The following essay was first published by Volume in their 50th issue, Beyond Beyond, the editorial of which is available to read here.

'An Installation In Four Acts' - Exploring Structuralism At Rotterdam's Nieuwe Instituut

James Taylor-Foster — Mon, 05 Jan 2015 01:00:00 +0000

Great movements in architecture are usually set in motion by a dull societal ache or as a response to a sudden, unforeseen reorientation of a community at large. The Dutch city of Rotterdam - vast swathes of which were cast into oblivion during the blitz of May 1940 - has been at the forefront of many shifts in approach to the built environment. It is therefore fitting that the latest exhibition at the Nieuwe Instituut (formerly the NAi), simply titled Structuralism, is being held in the city that was recently named Europe’s best.

Inside "Open: A Bakema Celebration" - The Dutch Pavilion at the 2014 Venice Biennale

Nico Saieh — Tue, 08 Jul 2014 01:00:00 +0000

"We consider Bakema not so much an architect of buildings, but an architect of a new idea of what Holland could be--a new national identity, a new national landscape…with an architect in the center of this particular ambition." - Guus Beumer, co-curator of the Dutch Pavilion at the 14th Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale 2014: Dutch Pavilion to Rethink the Open Society

Karissa Rosenfield — Fri, 09 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This year for the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, the Dutch entry Open: A Bakema Celebration will reflect on the idea of an open society through the work and research of Jaap Bakema (1914-1981).