Next to the Almere project the students worked with computer programs to deliver new designs. The students studied o.a the CNC machine and Lasercut techniques. After the presentations in Almere the students presented there work on the department.
Second year students participates with the exposition ‘making Almere’. A Three months long workshop together with Paul Kroese resulted in projects about what could happen in the future with Oosterwold, a part of the new city Amere. The workshop is based on the program of MVRD, who’s responsible for the new urban planning. Agricultural living is a central point in the exhibition.
Architectuurmanifestatie Making Almere
21 april / 29 juli 2012
Free entrance
Adres: Belfort 13, Almere
alzheimer-architecture.nl is a new research platform. Architect, lecturer and researcher Henri Snel aims to improve living conditions of Alzheimer patients with a focus on haptic architecture.
As a three-dimensional travel guide, this presentation takes you on a 45-minute historical tour of Amsterdam.
Carefully selected highlights, including new exhibits and loan items, tell the interesting story of this multifaceted city in seven chapters. In each chapter, one exhibit forms the basis for the story of that period. These stories are told through exciting animations which are projected onto big glass screens in the middle of the gallery. Every visitor is given a travel guide which can activate the animations of each period in one of the ten languages offered, from Italian to Russian and Japanese.
20/04/2012 - 09/06/2012 In mei wordt de Gouden A.A.P. 2012 uitgereikt. Deze Amsterdamse architectuurprijs wordt jaarlijks toegekend aan architect en opdrachtgever van een in het voorafgaande jaar gerealiseerd project dat volgens de jury boven alle andere uitsteekt. De jury bestaat dit jaar uit architectuurhistorica Fredie Floré, architectuurcritica Indira van ‘t Klooster en architect Peter Defesche. Eerdere winnaars waren Dok architecten (2008), Claus en Kaan Architecten (2009), Wiel Arets Architects (2010) en SeARCH (2011).
Dit jaar wordt voorafgaand aan de uitreiking een expositie geopend waarin de maquettes van de genomineerde projecten worden gepresenteerd. De opening wordt op vrijdag 20 april om 17.30 uur verricht door Arjen Oosterman, hoofdredacteur van Volume.
On Monday the 16th of april students from the basic year have come to see the interior architecture department.
We showed and shared experiences with them about some topics that we are busy with now: seances, video, workshops… and more
Travelling through the landscape is a passion characteristic of current times. Usually this means crossing a distance from A to B as fast as possible, rather than experiencing the landscape through walking. The latter happens only if you allow the process of spatial and temporal penetration of a landscape to unfold.
German photographer Georg Küttinger does a lot of travelling. He photographs landscapes in endless digital series, emphasizing specific characteristics, traces and transformations. For his photo works he does not choose a fixed viewpoint, preferring to act more as a remixer composing a completely new image for each new photo work of the landscape, and as a juggler creating dozens of possibilities within one single photo work.
Een installatie die nu te bezichtigen is aan de achterkant van centraal station en aan de andere kant van het water in Noord. Het is gebouwd voor de opening van het Filmmuseum.
Ruud Bakker zoekt zijn onderwerpen in zijn eigen stad Utrecht. Daarbij komt hij vaak uit op het individu versus collectief, overheid versus eigenheid. Rond dit thema presenteert hij o.a. een documentaire over vrije kavelbewoners in Utrecht, korte stadsimpressies en archiefmateriaal over stadsvernieuwing in de jaren zeventig.
Toegang: 5 euro. Kaartverkoop aan de zaal vanaf 15 minuten voor aanvang. Voorstelling start om 20:30 uur. Theater Vrijburcht, Jan Olphert Vaillantlaan 143, 1086 XZ Amsterdam
Project: Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, research and intervention (foto at the NAI in Rotterdam)
In this design course you learn to do research and recognise the architectural and cultural values of the existing buildings in the urban context. A design for redevelopment of a building complex needs preconditions from an architectural historical point of view to respond to certain demands of aesthetics, building technology and function.
The institution for fine arts and design located in Amsterdam is founded in 1924 after a fusion of three older art academies. In the 1960s Dutch architect Gerrit Rietveld designed a new, more functional building for the institute. Gerrit Rietveld died quite some years before the realisation of the building and to honour its architect, the academy was renamed in 1968 to Gerrit Rietveld Academie.
At this present moment the academy needs more functional space. The intention to move to a bigger building, like the former GAK-building, wasn’t continued last year. The academy stays at her current location, but needs an extension. The theme of this extension will be ‘connecting and meeting’. The monumentality of the building, the technological problems of the building climate, the artist Gerrit Rietveld, the former intervention of Benthem Crouwel, densification and the urban context are aspects of study. We have a combination of studios of Architectural Design of the Gerrit Rietveld Academie Amsterdam and MSc2 RMIT TU Delft. The kick off of this combined studio will be in the afternoon of Monday 11 January at the NAi, Rotterdam and will continue in February.
On Monday the 1st of March there will be an open brainstorm session about the new interior of the Architectural design department. Come with plan’s, drawings, propositions, idea’s, comments, open mind and a bag to collect your old works.
Project proposal ‘The Never Used Church ’ Nutteloos is an artist collective focused on finding un-used spaces and transforming them into spaces for site-specific art installations. These spaces become an entrance in which to connect to the history of the site and to the community around. This project we want to realize in a church in the village Chateaugay in France. The reason we chose this specific church is because of its unique history. It was built in secret in the back yard of two sisters as a gift for the village, but because of the circumstances the authorities of the village never acknowledged the church building, and it was not officially consecrated. The few church activities that took place in the church had to be performed in secret. The church remains a sensitive subject in the village still after 200 years. This led us to a discourse on when is a church a church and how does a space relate to its use. We want to make an exhibition about ‘Traces’ in the church. As a group we would like to take the chance of getting inspired on the location to realize an authentic site-specific project. The investigation on the spot is the central aspect in our working method. For us it is very interesting that the church never had an official religious purpose but that the community has found so many alternatives uses for the building. Two-hundred years of existence must have left physical evidence of activity in the church. We are eager to investigate the traces that are left behind. We will begin with documenting traces that catch our interest. We are planning to use the traces to create stories or emphasize certain qualities and characteristics. We are not only aiming to find out more about the church’s history. We are also interested in exploring what the traces tell us and what happens if we try to form our own story from those traces. As a result we see a collective installation using the full potential of the unique space including different media such as sculpture, video, installations, drawing, interventions, and sound. The mayor of the village has agreed on letting us use the location in the period of 26th of July to the 15th of August. The participants of the project are nine students from different departments of the Rietveld Academie. The method of the Rietveld is to teach its students to work independently and to become autonomous artists. This is an initiative brought together by this spirit and as such it should be encouraged. It is an important step to take the initiative to form a collective in which we can work together towards future projects that could not be realized by anyone of us on our own. We are a group of very motivated and hardworking students and learning to realize a project of this size would be a very important step in our developments as artists. For the project we need financial support to cover the costs of material and publishing. See attached budget. Vincent Knopper (BK), Maria Gondek (VAV), Emilia Bergmark (VAV), Julia Fischer (Architecture), Tim Mathijsen (BK), Anne van Duren (BK), Rosa Sijben (BK), Sandra Christiensen (BK), Linn Hallstrom (VAV), Nadja Voorham (VAV), Ada Kruszynsky (BK) Stichting Nutteloos.
“Let us accept once and for all that a truly unprecedented and advanced work is not that which uses superficial brilliance to make a temporary and sensational impact, or that which seeks to take one by surprise by means of ostentatious, acrobatic contortions, based on momentary ‘finds’, but only that which is justified by a continuing, living tradition, that which endures because it is put to the test again and again, within each new context, so that it expresses afresh inner experiences, secretly nurtured disciplines, forms that have truly been handled over and over again. What we may accept as reality cannot possibly be what we see ready-made around us, but much more what we attempt to visualize in a dream, all of us together and each one of us separately, the dream of a new - truly new - life, shaped like a poem.”
Kenneth Frampton, ‘Studies in Tectonic Culture’
There is one major conclusion that can be drawn: in contemporary architectural practice architectonic form no longer tends to be generated from single building materials. There are multiple parameters that define the architectonic shell on different levels. The strong need for energy efficient buildings leads us to multi-layered façades or skins that tend to break up the idea of material consistence into particular aspects. Although every single layer is solving a precise task perfectly there appears a significant lack of material expression in the whole arrangement In splitting up of formerly strongly unified categories in architecture, we perceive a loss in building culture that leads to the absence of rchitectural language.
The workshop will be an opportunity to study the tectonics of architecture in detail. By building prototypes and structures, the project will try to motivate the participant to experience the essential principles of constructing. Working with specific materials will raise questions concerning principles of statics, the generic character of the material and the possibilities of making a whole from the parts. The workshop includes project work in groups, sketching ideas and on-site construction in scale 1:1. Before the hands-on building, a thatcher will give a workshop on ‘working’ thatch and building with it. Student groups are invited to prepare a talk concerning the specific construction system they are adopting during the course of the workshop.
On the last day the executed projects will be presented and discussed with the teachers. The project will be documented in a post-workshop phase and will be published as a booklet. This booklet will illustrate the entire process in all its various aspects. The publication will also be available in digital format.
Some items that may be useful to take with you:
Camera, Sketch book, Tools, Water container, Working gloves, Suitable footwear (boots, wellies/laarzen), Blister cream, Waterproofs, Tarpaulin/Zeildoek
Programme of workshop:
DAY_01
MORNING
By car to ferry crossing for Tiengemeten.
Introduction and welcome word from Roel Posthoorn and Jan Wouter Bruggenkamp in the visitors centre.
Presentation general programme of the workshop. Personal introduction of participants.
Setting up camp at designated camping site.
AFTERNOON
Thatching workshop.
Harvesting and preparation of reed.
Walking round the three working locations (Aarappelloods, Vliedberg, Oostelijke Haven).
DAY_02
MORNING & AFTERNOON
Building.
Aardappelloods (16 students), Vliedberg (4 students), Oostelijke Haven(12 students) groups of 3-4
Reed and mud assigned to the groups.
Mealtime at the camping ground followed by presentation of each group’s approach to building.
Camp fire.
DAY_03
MORNING
Building.
AFTERNOON
Walking along the final projects and evaluation of the workshop.
Screening Madam Dakar
Movie by Sabine Mooibroek: Madam Dakar.
The movie is a result of the research within the lectoraat: ‘art and public space’.
Thursday 23/09
15.00-17.00 uur
Room 104 (old building)
De BNI-prijs is dé aanmoedigingsprijs voor startende interieurarchitecten en wordt dit jaar uitgereikt op 23 september bij projectinrichter Kembo in Veenendaal In juni en juli bezochten de BNI-bestuursleden de academies die opleiden tot interieurarchitect om afstudeerprojecten te bekijken. Van elke opleiding werd een student genomineerd voor de BNI-prijs 2010. De genomineerden zijn: Angela van Gils (Zwolle), Gabor Disberg (Amsterdam), Bram Vromans (Den Haag), Kim Wildhagen (Groningen), Eva Rius van Teeseling (Rotterdam), Marieke van Dijk (Utrecht), Roos Zondervan (Breda) en Joep Esseling (Maastricht).Van 10 tot 23 september zijn hun projecten te zien in de showroom van Kembo. De BNI-prijs jury bestaat uit Koos Frederiks (Frederiks & van der Nat), Abbie Steinhauser (Merkx + Girod), Ellen Sander (Sander Architecten) en Jaap Huisman (Smaak). Deze vakkundige jury beoordeelt de afstudeerprojecten van de genomineerden en selecteert een winnaar die op 23 september de BNI prijs 2010 in ontvangst mag nemen. Feestelijke prijsuitreiking bijwonen? Meld je aan voor 18 september middels het inschrijfformulier op www.kembo.nl.
Makers Festival
Garage Notweg, Notweg 38, Amsterdam Nieuw-West
Vrijdag 1 oktober van 11.00 – 18.00 uur
Ontdek op het Makers Festival nieuwe ontwikkelingen op het gebied van maken. Laat je inspireren door de verrassende resultaten van samenwerkingen tussen ambachtelijke makers en ontwerpers, architecten en kunstenaars. Of maak zelf wat in het Makers Lab.
Met oa Les Canaux de la Mode, Beam Systems & BeamLab, FabLab, Urbaniahoeve/Debra Solomon, Unfold, Joachim Rotteveel, Cityplot, Pal West, Motion Cabinet & Walter, Elmo Vermijs/Dirk Overduin ism het Hout-en Meubileringscollege en vele anderen.
Makers Route
Vrijdag 1 oktober en zaterdag 2 oktober van 11.00 – 18.00 uur
Op de Makers Route nodigen ambachtsmensen je uit een kijkje te nemen in hun werkplaatsen. Een routekaart is te krijgen bij de Garage Notweg.
Toegangskaarten
Kaarten voor de eerste editie van het Makers Festival zijn slechts 2,50 euro. De Makers Route is gratis.
Kaarten zijn te koop bij de entree.
Makers+co is een programma dat het actuele en eigentijdse van ambachtelijk maken onder de aandacht brengt. En de waarde ervan voor de ontwikkeling van de creatieve sector én het maatschappelijk belang wil benadrukken. Wil je meer weten? Kijk op www.makersenco.nl of neem contact met ons op via info@makersenco.nl.
Met dank aan de Mondriaan Stichting, het Fonds voor Cultuurparticipatie, Hoofdbedrijfschap Ambachten, Platform Ambachtseconomie, Gemeente Amsterdam / Stadsdeel Nieuw-West en Platform Arbeidsmarkt en Onderwijs, Ymere, Goods Design en de inzet van vele anderen.
We hopen je te zien op 1 of 2 oktober!
Diana Krabbendam
Annedien van der Veen
Wina Smeenk
Noor van Doesburg
Mira de Graaf
Faculty of Architecture to open permanent exhibition of famous chair collection
Paul Schnabel is to open the new permanent exhibition of TU Delft Faculty of Architecture’s famous chair collection on 5 October. The extensive collection, which is very important from a historical point of view, has now been given a place of honour in the Faculty of Architecture’s new premises in Julianalaan in Delft with financial support from the Sofa Foundation.
Saved from the fire
On 13 May 2008, the famous chair collection was saved from the fire that fully destroyed the original Faculty of Architecture under the watchful eye of former Minister of Education, Culture and Science Ronald Plasterk. For a long time after the fire there was no dedicated accommodation for these special chairs in the new BK City because there was insufficient space and money. The chairs were stored, hidden from public view, in the Rijksmuseum depot in Lelystad and the TU Delft depot in Rotterdamseweg.
The Sofa Foundation and the Faculty of Architecture
With the aid of the Sofa Foundation – whose objective is to promote the art of furniture – the Faculty of Architecture has now realised a new venue for displaying the chair collection in BK City. Architectural firm Kossmann & deJong delivered the design for the permanent exhibition set-up.
Study materials and permanent exhibition
The collection, consisting of more than three hundred chairs designed by Gerrit Rietveld and contemporary designers such as Marcel Wanders and Chris Kabel, will be presented in a large rack in which the chairs can be viewed at different levels. The permanent exhibition will be located in the hall near the Architecture library and will be on display for everyone the whole year round without charge. The chair collection will, furthermore, form a source of study material for TU Delft students and scientists.
Programme opening
16:00 Welcome by Dean Wytze Patijn;
16:10 Sofa’s last trick;
16:20 Opening ceremony conducted by Paul Schnabel;
16:35 Drinks at the exhibition.
As you may all know, coming friday will be a ‘big’ day for culture in the Netherlands. On Friday the 8th, there will be a national manifestation in The Hague against the proposed cuttings in cultural life in Holland by the new right-wing government. Students, artists, art-consulents, curators, art-critics, theatermakers, writers, musicians and art-lovers in general will come together to have their voice heard.
Apart from the question of the effects of such a manifestation, apart from the question of ‘whose side are you on’, and how to choose the best strategy to protest, I think this mass demonstration will be a great opportunity for students who signed in to my ‘Radicalism – Up my ass’ projectgroup, to go together to The Hague, and see how democracy nowadays works, how protests are being fuelled, and to what effects.
Are we too active to act, or not?
Practical stuff:
Startingpoint manifestation 11 o’clock, Plein, The Hague (next to the building of the Tweede Kamer)
Dresscode: black
Pony Talks #2
Soft data in Detroit, Preliminary findings in the new Wild West
The Pink Pony Express formed in 2009 to investigate the positive effects of population decline within the city of Detroit.
A multitude of external conditions paved the way for the slow breakdown of infrastructure in Detroit, ranging from the almost total extinction of public transportation to the closing of supermarkets. These deconstructed conditions demanded strategies to ensure survival in a place which has become the new Wild West.
Throughout this landscape, barely detected networks are emerging.
During the summer of 2010 The Pink Pony Express lived in Detroit; and set out to identify and map these evolving networks.
Please join us in the manege when we present a collection of projects plotting neighborhood revival, food distribution, opportunistic communication, and steam.
Pony Talks #2
Zachte data in Detroit, voorlopige uitkomsten in het nieuwe Wilde Westen
De Pink Pony Express is opgericht in 2009 om de positieve gevolgen van de bevolkingsdaling in Detroit te onderzoeken.
Een scala aan factoren heeft geleid tot de langzame teloorgang van Detroits infrastructuur, uiteenlopend van het bijna geheel verdwijnen van het openbaar vervoer tot het sluiten van supermarkten. De veranderde omstandigheden vragen nieuwe manieren om te overleven in een stad, die het nieuwe Wilde Westen is geworden.
In dit landschap komen tot nu toe nauwelijks blootgelegde netwerken aan de oppervlakte.
In de zomer van 2010 woonde de Pink Pony Express in Detroit om deze zich ontwikkelende netwerken te benoemen en in kaart te brengen.
U bent van harte uitgenodigd voor een lezing in de manege waar wij een selectie uit het onderzoek presenteren, van het in kaart brengen van verborgen buurtnetwerken, tot voedseldistributie, opportunistische berichtgeving en stoom.
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Donderdag 21 oktober (Thursday October 21, 19:00)
19:00
Vondelstraat 140
1054 GT AMSTERDAM
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The Pink Pony Express is Jessica Hammarlund Bergmann (SE), Cecilia Hendrikx (NL), Tara Karpinski (USA) en Annemarie van den Berg (NL).
http://pinkponyexpress.blogspot.com/
Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 November 2010
Opening hours: 11 a.m. - 7 p.m.
Admission fee including publication 5 euros, with reduction pass (CJP, Pas 65, Stadspas and Student card) 3 euros, weekend pass 6 euros, children up to 12 free
The Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam is a working and meeting place for artists from all over the world. Fifty resident artists can work for one or two years on research, experiment, projects and production. In addition to extensive technical workshops, the facilities include a library, artists’ documentation and art collections. Once a year you get the opportunity to see the work of the artists in their studio.
For a retrospect of previous years and more information please go to the website www.rijksakademieOPEN.nl
This weekend, an exhibition on the work of H.P. Berlage, architect and designer will be opened in the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague. The Gemeentemuseum celebrates its 75th anniversary this year with an exhibition on the internationally renowned architect H.P. Berlage (1856-1934), who not only designed the building of the Gemeentemuseum, but is amongst others famous for the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam, Jachtslot Sint Hubertus in Otterlo and the urban design of the Southern part of Amsterdam (Plan Zuid). Furthermore, Berlage also designed beautiful furniture, glassware and typographie.
All this will be shown at the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague from 27 November 2010 till 27 February 2011. Openinghours: Tue-Sun 10AM-17PM
For more information, check the site of the Gemeentemuseum: www.gemeentemuseum.nl
After more than 25 years of continuous innovation, the time for an oeuvre exhibition on the work done by Wiel Arets Architects has come. With more than 250 projects, 20 monographs, a series of products in production, countless lectures and professorships given by Wiel Arets, and four new office publications in the works, the timing seems right.
STILLS
Wiel Arets Architects was founded in 1983 and has expanded to become a well-known name both nationally and internationally. It has its roots in the Southern Limburg region and has offices in Amsterdam, Maastricht and Zürich. STILLS shows the development of the oeuvre, shows the projects, expands upon the theoretical background and offers insight into the sources of inspiration and fascination of Wiel Arets himself. From his very early beginnings to his striking and unique personal vision on the future of urban development exemplified by the utopian ‘Zuidstad’ model.
Attention will also be paid to the product designs created by the multi-talented architectural office, including those created for Lensvelt, Gutzz, Quinze & Milan and Alessi. In six short documentaries, the architect leads the visitor through the cities of Tokyo, Zürich, Berlin and Milan and gives his vision of the future of architecture and urban construction.
18/12/10-13/02/11 at SCHUNCK, Heerlen; for more info: www.schunck.nl
Tuesday 8 Feb (20:15 - 22:00) Marieke Stakenberg from Bureau Mijksenaar (very well known from their wayfinding systems at international airports like Schiphol Amsterdam and JFK New York) will give a lecture on wayfinding and waysigning at Pakhuis De Zwijger. Entrance is free.
Haas&Hahn is the working title of artistic duo Jeroen Koolhaas and Dre Urhahn. They started working together in 2005, when they filmed a documentary about hip hop in the favelas of Rio and São Paolo for MTV. Inspired by this visit, they embarked on a journey to bring outrageous works of art to unexpected places, starting with painting enormous murals in the slums of Brazil together with the local youth.
Jeroen Koolhaas (Rotterdam, 1977) studied graphic design at the Design Academy in Eindhoven and has been working as a freelance audio-visual designer and illustrator for the New Yorker magazine since graduation. www.jeruniverse.com
Dre Urhahn (Amsterdam, 1973) has worked as a journalist, copywriter, and art-director and has set up successful companies specializing in different fields, from event management to television production.
Once flowers have already bloomed, they are usually thrown away. To be enjoyed for longer and to create something of value from the waste, Zoubida Tulkens made wallpaper from rose petals.
The senses play a crucial role in the perception of the world around us. What we see, hear, smell, taste and feel determines how we experience the world. To what extent are interior designers making use of their perception of stimuli? Does good interior design stimulate the senses?
The first lecture in the series Spatial Senses organized by BNI, will be provided Rick Schifferstein, researcher in the field of sensory perception. In his lecture, he is looking at the role that the different senses play in the (interior) architecture.
Jason Lee is an Associate Senior Architect and Director of Cie. Asia at de Architekten Cie. Amsterdam. He has been project architect on numerous winning competition entries for the firm including: OPEN Horeca on Westerdokseiland in Amsterdam, Tianjin Urban Planning Museum, the Seoul Gangnam District Design Masterpiece Housing Project, and most recently, the A101 Urban Block competition in Moscow. Jason has presented his own research on retail and urbanism in Shanghai entitled “LuxurySpace” at the International New Towns Institute conference: New Towns for the 21st Century: The Planned vs. the Unplanned City, and in MONU - Magazine on Urbanism (issue # 12) . Currently, He is project architect and project manager of the Seoul Gangnam District Design Masterpiece Housing Project - a high density residential complex comprising 1400 housing units, retail, commercial and community functions in the city of Seoul, South Korea.
Create a complete design for the decoration of the solid base of Heesterveld 75 (walls, floor, ceiling, lighting) and for the interior, including a clear plan in which you describe how you are going to obtain the needed materials (without or with minimal budget).
Briefing 9 March 14:00 - 17:00 on Heesterveld 75. Deadline 18 March. Pdf. Briefing design pitch
Thursday April 7
09.30: Introduction on the workshop by Dorine van Hoogstraten
10.00: Lecture Jaap Evert Abrahamse: the historical background of the 17th century urban structure of Amsterdam
Monday April 11
09.30: Introduction by Oene Dijk & Henri Snel
10.30: Lecture by Dick de Gunst, architect at Hans van Heeswijk Architecten: How to deal with a monument; the Hermitage as an example
15.30-16.30: vakklas contact
17.30: Visit Herengracht 448-456 in 2 groups (entrance Herengracht 454)
Tuesday April 12
9.30: Lecture by Dorine van Hoogstraten: the practice of monumental care in the Netherlands; theory on dealing with historical buildings and structures
11.00: Discuss first ideas, work on strategy and concept
Wednesday April 13
9.30: Work; feed back from available teachers
Thursday April 14
9.30: Work; feed back from available teachers
15.00-17.00: Presentation of the models and closing debate with all involved
17.00: Drinks
Henri Snel start a research with students from the Nola Hatterman Institute about haptic installations in relation to aging.
Somerset Maugham, the British novelist, once wrote “the researcher cannot afford to wait for experience to come to him; he must go out and search for it”. This will be in essence, the basic approach of this research project.
On the 19th of December 2011 the first years had done their assessment and had finished their semester.
They have shown 4 different projects:
The first project was to re-design a Dutch ‘plein’ for Landscape Design class by Rosetta Elkin. For Interior Design class by Erik Slothouber they had to design an interior item with one function as separation, the other function was free. For Urban Design class by Paulien Bremmers, two projects were presented: a duo-project where two students worked on a model of transformation of a living space. The other project was to relate to a public space of choice in Amsterdam and present your findings.
On the 22nd of December 2011 the Second years had done their assessment and had finished their semester.
They have shown 2 different projects:
The first project was to re-design a section in a Dutch street: The Overtoom for Landscape Design by Rosetta Elkin. For Installation Design by Femke Bijlsma they had to create an installation space in a international airport. While working for their projects they were also engaged with a competition given by the GGZ (Geestelijke Gezondheid Zorg) for the re-design of their canteen.
Friday the 27th of january was the open day. A lot of work was shown. Presentations, interactive ice blocks and swinging chairs made the day to a success. A lot of people came by.
The second year students have been working on re-design the canteen of the GGZ building InGeest Amstelmere in Amstelveen. The past 5 months they worked in groups to come-up with an innovative design that fits the needs of the different users. The four proposals were presented on the 30st of january 2012. “The brain concept” by Tom Bremer and Michal Wolffs was the winning group.
With the ‘new’ building plans in mind, a law change on the Architect title, the 2nd year of a new master’s programme at the Sanberg Institute and yet the demand for substantive consequences for the Department of Architectural Design in the Bachelor’s programme, Ben Zegers dean of the Rietveld Academie in conversation with head of department Henri Snel.
From 17 September 2011 to 16 March 2012, the Hermitage Amsterdam will present a stunning selection from the Flemish art collection of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. With 75 paintings and about 20 drawings, this definitive survey will include numerous masterpieces by the three giants of the Antwerp School – Peter Paul Rubens, Anthony van Dyck, and Jacob Jordaens – accompanied by the work of well-known contemporaries.
Three Dutchartistsrelatedwith each otherin an exhibition.Daan vanGolden,Dodd AlexandreandAnnesasAppel.Apenchant forgraphic patternsand the use ofrepetitionas a stylistic devicearesimilar propertiesin their work.It is thefirst majormuseumsoloexhibitionsof VanKreij andApplein the Netherlands.
Friday, March 9asARCAMorganizesa publictheme day under the title‘Designingagainst thevacancy.In the morningthere is a city safari, afternoonand thena public debateis an exhibitionat ARCAM.
The Rembrandt House Museum in Amsterdam is exhibiting more than a hundred drawings by seventeenth-century Netherlandish artists from the collection of the Hamburger Kunsthalle.
location: Rembrandt House Museum Amsterdam
Exhibition: 21 January - 22 April 2012
link website: http://www.rembrandthuis.nl/index.php?item=100&lang=en&page=14
For the first time since 1969, a major retrospective of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) in the Netherlands. He became world famous with his open wire sculptures, his amazing Cirque Calder (1926-1931) and mobiles which are characterized by their immateriality and movement.
Gemeente museum Den Haag. 11 februari 2012 t/m 28 mei 2012
Berndnaut Smilde’s cloud creations within rooms. The Amsterdam-based artist was able to achieve this with the combination of smoke, moisture, and dramatic lighting. It is interesting how the his work only exists for that brief period of time physically, but can still have a powerful impact after it is gone.
Smilde often experiments with the concept of ”the physical presence of transitional spaces”.
Het Stedelijk Museum presenteert in het Vondelpark in Amsterdam een ambitieus project van de internationaal bekende Britse kunstenaar en regisseur Steve McQueen. Voor Blues Before Sunrise zullen twee weken lang alle 275 straatlantarens blauw licht geven, in plaats van wit. Daarmee wordt het nachtelijke beeld van het bekendste park van Nederland geheel getransformeerd.
McQueen gebruikt in dit project verlichting om de omgeving te veranderen, door het gebruikelijke warme witte licht te vervangen door een ingetogen kleur blauw. Met de ingrijpend veranderde sfeer zal de omgeving open staan voor allerlei nieuwe associaties. Net als bij geluid of muziek, heeft licht grote invloed op de beleving van een plek, en op de perceptie van een ruimte. Zo vermengt McQueen in Blues Before Sunrise het zintuiglijke en het cinematografische.
Interesting Lecture in pakhuis de Zwijger!!In recent yearsthe Dutchproduct designersshowgrowing interestin an investigativeway of designing.Not thefinal productbutthe creative processis central.
Designers; Christien Meindertsma en Lex Pott, Droog-directeur Renny Ramakers, hoofdcurator van het Zuiderzeemuseum Kris Callens en moderator Jeroen Junte.
InConnectingConceptsthey showthe process behindthe design.These processes- collaboration betweendesigner and client, applicationof new, orothertechnology, thewillingness ofpartiesto sometimesliterallywant to inventthe wheelagain. An overview of different designers.
Besides hisvery active roleas a collector he enjoyedfame as afurniture designer. His house (design be Gerrit Rietveld and Aldo van Eyck) is now a national monument. In this exhibition more then one hundred collector’s items are shown of his private collection !!
in collaboration with TU Delft; The exhibition‘Alison& PeterSmithson,The Artof inhabitation‘shows the work ofthis British architectcouple -Alison(1928-1993)and Peter(1923-2003)Smithson- the mostprominent andcontroversialoeuvresfrom the second halfof thetwentieth century. The exhibition presentsthe ideas of theSmithsonsonthe house:a place thatthe residentsshould be able to‘appropriation‘.
An Exhibithion of bright,intensely and coloredlandscapes and cities.In the photographsof GuyTillimthe landscapeshows itselfas new,topical andfull of life.
From his broad international experience in the field of design, education and policy, Jo Coenen will speak in the context of “Redefining Architecture”.
(only dutch)
Locatie: De Brakke Grond, Nes 45, Amsterdam
Aanvang: 20.15 uur
Toegang: € 10, studenten € 7,50
Kaartverkoop: ARCAM, Prins Hendrikkade 600, en op de avonden zelf, indien voorradig, aan de zaal vanaf 19.30 uur. Reserveren is niet mogelijk
Capita Selecta is a series of lectures, organized by the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture, dealing with thematic, topical subjects in the field of architecture, urbanism and landscape architecture. The lectures are open to the public and take place at the Academy, Waterlooplein 213, Amsterdam. All lectures start at 20.00 hrs. and admission is free.
The conference Relocating Subalternity will be a space for political and theoretical confrontation among different conceptual and normative positions that emerged in feminist, postcolonial and queer theory. Speakers will be Nikita Dhawan (Goethe-University Frankfurt), Elsa Dorlin (Panthéon-Sorbonne University), Dhruv Jain (Jan van Eyck Academie), Jasbir Puar (Rutgers University), Srila Roy (University of Nottingham), Asha Varadharajan (Queen’s University), Jamila Mascat and Sara de Jong (both JvE Academie). The conference is organised by the Jan van Eyck Academie.