B NIEUWS 1 #08 21 FEBRUARI 2011 INHOUD

B NIEUWS

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21 FEBRUARI 2011

PERIODIEK VAN DE FACULTEIT BOUWKUNDE | TU DELFT

I AM X! ARCHIPRI

INHOUD 2/3 Nieuws A village for students Stylos naar Brazilië Vertical Village

4 Nieuws Trying to make study more Web 2.0 Vernieuwing van de stadsvernieuwing

5 BK In Focus INDESEM 2011: Losing ground

6/7 Interview Han Meyer and Daan Zandbelt Discussion about the European Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism at the TU Delft and beyond.

8 BK In Focus Field Academy: Reconstructing Rotterdam

9 Project The Dutch urban block and the public realm

10 Forum Steering the faculty by Tahl Kaminer Cartoon: Henning Jansen Column: Louche

11 Streets of BK What do you think of the new architecture sign over the main entrance?

12 Agenda

TAHL KAMINER “BOUWKUNDE NEEDS TO INVEST LESS EFFORT IN PRODUCING NEW STRUCTURES, AND MORE IN ITS MAIN ASSET, THE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO INHABIT THE PLACE”

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E-point closed E-point will be closed from Monday 21st till Friday 25th of February. During this week there is no education, but the faculty will be open. The modelhall and the library will use the regular opening hours.

Casablanca excursion Do you want to get in touch with other cultures during your studies, like the AfricanIslamatic? Join the excursion! Casablanca is not only the biggest city in Marocco, it also offers a lot of possibilities for a great citytrip, because of its historical and cultural heritage. The program starts on Sunday 27th of February untill Thursday the 3th of March. The costs will be 300 euros including your flight and stay. The deadline for registration is the 24th of February. For more information and your registration, send an email to:

A.O.S.Karkukli-1@student. tudelft.nl

Casablanca mosque

A VILLAGE FOR STUDENTS THE STUDENT PROJECTS AT THE FACULTY ARE OFTEN FICTIONAL, EVEN IF THEY ARE MOSTLY SITUATED ON A REAL SITE. THE RMIT MSC1 STUDIO ’HET RODE DORP’ GOES FURTHER: STUDENT PROJECTS FROM THIS STUDIO MIGHT END UP INFLUENCING THE ’REAL’ PROJECT! BK CITY Het Rode Dorp (the Red Village) is an small area of around 130 dwellings that sits quite comfortably near The Hague’s Hollands Spoor Station. Built in 1871 as small dwellings for the anti-social (young people and the elderly), the area has never ranked very high on people’s wish list. In 1985, the houses received their last makeover, a prefab extension that housed the toilets and showers. Now it seems that they could be occupied by the students of the nearby Haagse Hogeschool. Then, Staedion, the corporation that owns the dwellings, announced that they would be demolished and a new block might be erected in their place. Hoewever, the plans seem to have changed. The corporation now seriously considers renovating the dilapidated dwellings and turning them into student houses. “Our former dean, Wytze Patijn, met some of the board members of Staedion corporation last summer and the idea for this student project just came up”, says Alexander de Ridder, the teacher responsible for the studio. While this is quite rare, it is certainly not unique, and according to De Ridder “collaborating with this type of institutions offers many opportunities; they want students’ ideas, but they do show us around and we can rely on their drawings and experts.” But why keep the original dwellings? “The

area of Schilderswijk suffers from urban decay and there have been many urban renewal projects by notable architects that did not always fit the historical or the physical context. Het Rode Dorp is more typical of Schilderswijk” De Ridder says. Furthermore, as the students of the studio pointed out, the area is well suited for student dwelling, as it is centrally located within The Hague, but also near the train station and walking distance from Hoogeschool. Furthermore, the students of the Haagse Hogeschool have also been asked to make plans for the area. And even though plans are being developed by others, there is still an opportunity that the students’ ideas will be taken seriously. “Currently there is a project by Braaksma&Roos, but we hope that our projects might offer new ideas that could be added to the final one”, De Ridder continues. One of the students, Terry Pater agrees. “While most of the projects you do here remain on paper, this one is a step closer to reality”. It is clear that the corporation and the municipality are committed to this idea: there will be a public debate and presentation of the student projects on 1 April, that Wytze Patijn, the municipality alderman and the representative of Staedion will attend. (PS)

More info: [email protected]

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IN DE ZOMER VAN 2011 ORGANISEERT STYLOS EEN STUDIEREIS NAAR BRAZILIË. WE NEMEN 25 STUDENTEN (ZOWEL BACHELOR ALS MASTER) EN ÉÉN PROFESSOR MEE. IN DRIE WEKEN TIJD BEZOEKEN WE VIER STEDEN: SÃO PAULO, RIO DE JANEIRO, CURITIBA EN BRASILIA. DOOR QUIRIJN PETERSEN BK CITY In de zomer van 2011 organiseert Stylos een studiereis naar Brazilië. We nemen 25 studenten (zowel Bachelor als Master) en één professor mee. In drie weken tijd bezoeken we vier steden: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba en Brasilia. Brazilië is een snel opkomende economische kracht op het wereldtoneel. Dit brengt zowel problemen als mogelijkheden met zich mee voor het land. Daarnaast komt het land ook in de spotlights te staan doordat het land het WK voetbal van 2014 en de Olympische Spelen van 2016 organiseert. Hierdoor komen tevens de sociale, economische en de duurzame situatie van Brazilië onder de aandacht van de mondiale media. Wij willen verschillende aspecten

van duurzaamheid gaan onderzoeken in Brazilië. We kiezen hiervoor telkens het meest kenmerkende onderdeel van de stad betreffende duurzaamheid om hier vervolgens dieper op in te gaan. Bij dit onderzoek zoeken we ondersteuning bij de universiteiten in Brazilië. Het doel is om te leren van de verscheidenheid aan duurzame uitgangspunten en de complexiteit hiervan en dit meer onder de aandacht te brengen bij een breder publiek. In voorbereiding van de casussen zoeken wij ondersteuning bij een

professor van de faculteit Bouwkunde van de TU Delft. Daarnaast wordt er gekeken of het onderzoek in samenwerking met bedrijven gespecifieerd kan worden binnen het duurzame vraagstuk. Voorafgaande aan de studiereis wordt extra aandacht besteed aan de specifieke onderwerpen in de vorm van lezingen, films en documentaires. Na afloop van de studiereis zullen de bevindingen gepubliceerd en tentoongesteld worden. Voor meer informatie houd de website in de gaten: stylos.nl

INFO - 25 studenten (BSc en MSc) - 1 à 2 docenten - Accent op studiereis - Richtprijs 1000 – 1200 euro - 3 weken in juli 2011

TAKING THEIR VERTICAL VILLAGE PROJECT DESIGNED AT THE WHY FACTORY’S MSC 2 COURSE, RAJIV SEWTAHAL, YUSHANG ZHANG, RIEMER POSTMA AND QIANGIAN CAI RECENTLY WON THE INTERNATIONAL D3 HOUSING TOMORROW COMPETITION.

During the time spent at the Why Factory under the supervision of Alexander Sverdlov, students were asked to develop ‘vertical village’ strategies for a plot of 50 m by 50 m. Each of the proposals explored the idea of a medium-density housing project that combines all of the joys of village life without occupying the

Nu we net weer op gang zijn, is het alweer tijd voor een pauze. De voorjaarsvakantie!? Hebben we hier onze meivakantie voor ingeleverd en waarom ook alweer? Ooit hoorde ik een verhaal over een deal tussen de drie technische universiteiten, zodat de studenten onderwijs kunnen volgen in Eindhoven, Enschede en Delft zonder afhankelijk te zijn van drie verschillende roosters. En Eindhoven trok aan het langste eind, want in het Zuiden moest en zou iedereen vrij zijn met carnaval. Eerlijk gezegd kan ik dat wel begrijpen. Zeker als student, want Halbe-boete of niet, die vier dagen in het jaar mag je best te diep in het glaasje kijken, toch? Maar nee, het blijkt een fabeltje! Weg meivakantie en weg carnaval, want dat is pas de tweede week van maart, terwijl wij hier in Delft nu al een weekje uit onze neus zitten te eten. Maar dat betekent wel, dat we eens rustig naar de beste afstudeerplannen van de Nederlandse ontwerpopleidingen kunnen kijken, helaas wel op de lelijkste presentatiewanden ter wereld. De Nederlandse Archiprix inzendingen staan nog in de Zuidserre tot het eind van onze vakantie. Mocht je thuis zitten en niet weten wat je met je tijd moet, schrijf je dan nog op tijd in voor InDeSem, before losing ground! En verder kan je eens lekker gaan zitten voor deze verse B Nieuws.

VERTICAL VILLAGE

BK CITY The competition asked for projects that explored natural systems that lead to new architectonic strategies. Striving to advance sustainable thinking and performance, The organisation was in search of projects of a bottom up nature, where performance based solutions are created that result in limitless building typologies, functional programs and material conditions.

Nog even wachten

Vertical Village by R. Sewtahal, Y. Zhang, R. Postma and Q. Cai

same amount of land that traditional villages do. The first part of the project by Rajiv, Yushang, Riemer and Qiangian analysed and understood the positives and negatives of village life and urban high-rise typologies. These aspects were then fused together through the concept of a ‘3D plot division’ system inside a vertical volume, creating their own vertical village.

own cell strategy creating both practical and dramatic spaces defined by the 3D plot division system. The rest of the cells are then occupied for circulation, and public and collective activities. This creates a collective housing typology that is not only a simple stacking of layers but a more complex and organised coexistence of unique and individual domains within a vertical village.

This system was created using a 3D Voronoi algorithmic system that results in a specific volume being divided into individual and unique cells. Most of these individual cells are then occupied by a family who can define their

Combined with this publication in B Nieuws, the project is set to appear in the Dutch journal ‘de Architect’ in the near future illustrating the inventiveness and future potential that exists in the projects ideas. (SS)

Deze keer opvallend veel artikelen die gerelateerd zijn aan de hedendaagse stedenbouw. En er gebeurt niet alleen veel binnen de muren van onze BK City, maar ook daarbuiten. Het 'echte' werk van de Veldacademie in Rotterdam bijvoorbeeld. En wie wist dat Delft een European Postgraduate Master opleiding in Urbanism had? Check pagina 6 & 7! Trouwe lezers zullen misschien een column van de decaan verwachten. Deze moeten we u helaas nog even schuldig blijven, maar in de komende edities zijn wel prachtige columns te lezen van Hans Wamelink, Dick van Gameren, Ulrich Knaack, Job Roos en Maurits de Hoog. Maar geniet tot die tijd nog even van deze!

Floris Redactie

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VERNIEUWING VAN DE STADSVERNIEUWING “TRYING TO MAKE STUDY MORE WEB 2.0” LAST SEMESTER, AUTUMN 2010, JOHN HEINTZ, IMPLEMENTED SOMETHING NEW TO HIS COURSE, DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT. THE BLACKBOARD ENVIRONMENT OF THE MSC-1 RE&H COURSE FEATURED A WIKI: AN ONLINE COLLECTION OF COURSE MATERIAL SUMMARIES, COMPILED BY THE STUDENTS. BK CITY “The project started off as a way to save time, to efficiently handle the course material,” says Heintz. “With the introduction of the Bachelor-Master Structure the time reserved for this course was brought back from a year to only half a semester. But the literature and the demands for the students had not changed.” The assistant professor at Design and Construction Management was thus charged with finding a way for students to learn and internalize the many pages of literature, apart from just giving them the reading list and seeing them again at the exam. Enrolling in the Blackboard course revealed the extensive literature list and the wiki. Made and edited by the students, the wiki is an accumulation of student work, built up week by week as new summaries of the literature are added. The course was attended by about 80 students, divided in study groups of six or seven students, who made the summaries and presented them to the other groups. Heintz: “In doing so, I wanted to encourage active learning. You only really learn about a subject if you teach others about it.” The wiki thus had a double function: to actively get the students to learn and discuss the subject matter of the course, while dealing with a large amount of study material in a relatively short time. In an evaluation of the course, it became clear that the wiki could be implemented more smoothly into the MSc1 curriculum. As the literature was coupled to a design ‘case’ (the main subject of MSc1 RE&H), it wasn’t uncommon that the wiki was not given enough priority, focusing too much on the length of the summaries instead of on the quality. “Still,” says Joëlle Lokhorst, one of the attending students, “we did recognize that a wiki is a very innovative education method, promising much for future implementation. One of the recommendations we put forward is that we grade each other’s summaries, like how it’s done on Ebay.” While this course is not the first one to publish summaries or student work on Blackboard, it is one of the most interactive. It’s not going to be publicly accessible however. Heintz: “Making the wiki itself is part of the learning process. If we make this wiki publicly accessible, there’s the danger that students go back to the There passive way of learning: reading other people’s actually were tw work and forgetting everything right after the o one for R wikis: E&H an exam. The wiki-method is applicable to all d one for E x courses, if elaborated upon somewhat further. The RE& plorelab. H wiki w as It’s an interesting way of interactive educamore ela borate tion, also over longer distances with students howeve r. contributing from home for example. It’s trying to make studying more Web 2.0.” (MS)

IN SEPTEMBER 2011 START EEN NIEUW AFSTUDEERATELIER MET ALS TITEL ‘VERNIEUWING VAN DE STADSVERNIEUWING’. HET PROGRAMMA IS OPGEZET DOOR DE NIJL ARCHITECTEN IN SAMENWERKING MET DE LEERSTOEL TYPOLOGIE VAN GEBOUWEN EN KEI, KENNISCENTRUM STEDELIJKE VERNIEUWING. BK CITY Het afstudeeratelier neemt opnieuw de stadsvernieuwingsgebieden van de jaren ’70 en ’80 onder de loep in enkele belangrijke historische steden in de Randstad (Amsterdam, Leiden, Den Haag, Rotterdam, Dordrecht). Het programma, dat bestaat uit een onderzoeksdeel en een ontwerpdeel, beoogt nieuwe (ontwerp)strategieën te ontwikkelen voor de aanpak van stadsvernieuwingsgebieden van de jaren ’70 en ’80. Veel stadswijken die toentertijd vernieuwd zijn, worden nu nog steeds als probleemwijken gezien (‘Vogelaar-wijken’). In plaats van de grootschalige fysieke herstructurering van toen wordt nu gepleit voor een ‘natuurlijke wijkvernieuwing’: beperkte interventies gericht op voorzieningen en openbare ruimte. Daarnaast wordt onderzocht of de aanpak van deze gebieden kan worden gekoppeld aan transformaties in de omgeving, zoals functieveranderingen in voormalige werkgebieden of aanpassing van stedelijke infrastructuur. Het ‘Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur’ heeft in het kader van het ‘Programma Stedenbouw’ een subsidie voor dit ontwerpend onderzoek toegekend. Het programma moet de rol verduidelijken die architecten/stedenbouwkundigen kunnen spelen bij

deze nieuwe aanpak. De studies zullen met name gericht zijn op de mogelijke betekenis die voormalige stadsvernieuwingsgebieden kunnen hebben voor de ontwikkeling van de stad als geheel. Daarbij wordt gebruik gemaakt van het onderzoek ‘Steden van de Randstad Holland in kaart’, dat de afgelopen jaren vanuit de leerstoel ‘Typologie van Gebouwen’ en de leerstoel ‘Geschiedenis’ van de Faculteit Bouwkunde TU Delft is verricht. De eerste periode van de stadsvernieuwing stond vooral in het teken van ‘bouwen voor de buurt’. Voor ‘vernieuwing van de stadsvernieuwing’ lijkt een bredere oriëntatie nodig met betrekking tot algemene processen van stedelijke herstructurering. De ontwerpstudies van architecten/stedenbouwkundigen vinden plaats in samenspraak met ‘contactteams’ ter plaatse. Bij de uitwerking van het programma zullen verschillende leerstoelen van de architectuurafdeling en de afdeling Urbanism worden betrokken. Het werk zal in het najaar van 2012 worden gepresenteerd in een tentoonstelling bij de EAAE-conferentie die dan in Delft zal plaats vinden. (FvdZ) Studenten die meer informatie willen over het programma mail: H. Engel, [email protected]

Professors published in OverHolland Willemijn Wilms Floet, assistant professor Architecture in the chair of Building Typology, send B Nieuws a message after reading BN07. She responded on the request for a book in which all BK City architecture professors would be published. The OverHolland series already published two books that present the work of several BK City Architecture professors. In ’OverHolland 7, 5x5 projecten voor de Hollandse stad’ designs by Jo Coenen, Dick van Gameren, Michiel Riedijk, Bob van Reeth and Henk Engel have been published. It shows proposals for

the cities of Haarlem, Gouda, Leiden, Delft and Dordrecht, as the railway would be underground. ’OverHolland 9’ discusses the exhibition in the CAFA Beijing, where the highlights of the twentieth century are shown, along with recent projects by Coenen, Kaan, Riedijk, Fretton, van Gameren, De Nijl.

BK IN FOCUS 5 Dutch interactive-installation artist Daan Roosegaarde, the famous Dutch-American sociologist Saskia Sassen, as well as Marcos Novak and theorist/digital design-architect Neil Leach. Naturally, Herman Herzberger will take part in the event as well. Furthermore, InDeSem is also currently discussing collaboration with other well known architects and theorists.

Dune 4.1, an interactive installation by one of the confirmed speakers, Daan Roosegaarde.

INDESEM 2011: LOSING GROUND “HAVE YOU ALREADY USED THE 'LIKE' BUTTON TODAY?” HAS BECOME A KIND OF MANTRA FOR INDESEM 2011, HAVING BEEN REPEATED COUNTLESS TIMES ON VARIOUS ARCHITECTURAL WEBSITES AND BLOGS. HOWEVER, THE TOPIC OF THIS YEAR'S SEMINAR GOES DEEPER THAN THIS FACEBOOK-INSPIRED PHRASE SUGGESTS... BY PETER SMISEK BK CITY InDeSem, or International Design Seminar is a biennial event that has been set up by students and supporting staff as early as 1962, and it has drawn big architectural names since its inception. The first event featured some of the most renowned architects of its time like Peter Smithson and Aldo van Eyck. Since then, a long succession of famous names followed, ranging from Rem Koolhaas to Adriaan Geuze and Jean Nouvel. One architect in particular who has been involved with InDeSem since its beginning is Herman Herzberger, who still finds time every two years and tries to attend as much of it as he possibly can. “The theme explores the manner in which people interact with each other and the changing interfaces they use to do so. Not so long ago, people used to interact in public space that was given form by the architect or the urbanist. These days, however, more and more people spend their

time interacting online, giving rise to new virtual public spaces. Students will be encouraged to challenge the time-worn notions of public space and invent not only new ways in which architects can deal with this space, but also give form to it,” says Joris Hogeboom, the chairman of the InDeSem Committee. Furthermore, the reconnection of the physical and virtual reality is key to this, but not through designing “gadgets”. “We do not see this design challenge simply as a way to ask students to design an internet kiosk or a long bar with touch-screens,” Hoogeboom continues “it should be more fundamental than that”. Speaking of fundamentals, the workshop is also always supervised by a senior member of the faculty. In the past, Michiel Riedijk (2009) and Winy Maas (2007) have taken their position, and now, it is Deborah Hauptmann, the director of the Delft School of Design (DSD) who will help the organizing committee grapple with the theory. Coincidentally, Hauptmann recently

co-edited a book on Cognitive Architecture that included a chapter on the changes in the human perception that arise from the proliferation of internet and other networks. A seemingly perfect fit... InDeSem itself consists of two parts. Firstly the week long workshop in which 40 students from Delft and 40 international students from abroad take part. This is accompanied by a series of public lectures by well-known architects and theorists. The board informs B Nieuws that InDeSem 2011 has had a great response. So far students from over twenty different countries have signed up for the competition. Students from as far as Japan, Malaysia and even Sierra Leone showed interest in the event. This interest is no doubt generated by the choice of the highly actual topic; the first potential participants signed up before there was any indication of possible speakers or a more defined direction. Thankfully, InDeSem 2011 can now confirm a couple of speakers, including the

And it is not just the keynote speakers that had been contacted. The workshop of 80 students is actually split into smaller groups, each group being led by two tutors, one for theory and one for design. For this, mostly Dutch, but also international tutors have been invited. Some of the confirmed mentors are Tomasz Jaskiewicz, Henriette Bier and MarkDavid Hosale from Hyperbody and Ekim Tan from the department of Urbanism. InDeSem was aiming to find knowledgeable tutors with a background in the subject, but the idea is that they each add their own twist to it, according to their specific expertise and ideas, and their quest is now almost finally over. This, coupled with the students enormous enthusiasm for the project should produce very diverse and innovative solutions to the workshop's main task. Because of the interest that InDeSem generates, the potential participants are asked to do a small assignement ahead of the main workshop in order to show their understanding of the topic, but also to provide feedback to the organizing committee about how the participants perceive the topic at hand. The task is to take a familiar social space and redesign it to reconnect the physical and virtual reality. The deadline for the competition entry is Monday 7th March 2011, the participants will be announced on the 10th March.

INFORMATION InDeSem 2011 takes place at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft from 13 May until 20 May. There are 40 places reserved for Delft students. In order to participate, send in your competition entry by 7 March 2011. For more information go to indesem.nl or send an email to [email protected]

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EUROPEAN URBANISM

IT RECENTLY EMERGED THAT JO COENEN IS STARTING A NEW EUROPEAN POSTGRADUATE MASTERS IN ARCHITECTURE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MAASTRICHT THIS SEPTEMBER. INTRIGUED BY SUCH AN EDUCATIONAL TRACK, B NIEUWS DECIDED TO LOOK INTO ONE OF OUR FACULTIES LESSER KNOWN COURSES: EUROPEAN POSTGRADUATE MASTERS IN URBANISM. TO FIND OUT MORE B NIEUWS WENT FOR A CONVERSATION WITH COURSE DIRECTOR HAN MEYER AND COURSE COORDINATOR DAAN ZANDBELT.

BY SEAN SIMPSON

Prof. Dr. Ir. V.J. Meyer During his practicing career Han Meyer has been involved extensively in the urban renewal of Rotterdam. He has also been involved in development strategies for several other Dutch cities and has contributed to the development of cities in countries such as France, Portugal and Belgium. Combined with his ongoing fields of research he has published no less than seventeen books on urbanism while also contributing to a vast array of other national and international books and journals.

Ir. D.D. Zandbelt Co-founder of the office for architecture, urban design and metropolitan research in Rotterdam, Zandbelt & van den Berg, Daan Zandbelt has studied at the TU Delft and the UIC Chicago. Through Zandbelt & van den Berg he has published six books on cities such as London, Paris and the State of California while also publishing in several other magazines and journals.

The European Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism (EMU) is a joint program between the TU Delft, KU Leuven, UPC Barcelona and IUAV Venice. Initiated due to the world-wide need for postgraduate education in urbanism, the course takes four semesters with students studying in at least two of the universities involved. The program is a design orientated course aimed at students who are already academically trained in a related subject. Most of the students in the EMU appear to have degrees in Architecture prior to attending the program. Are there any students that have a degree in Urbanism before starting the EMU? Daan Zandbelt: Nope, that is also not the aim group because the outcome or result is also a Masters in Urbanism. So you come from a different discipline and I think that makes the EMU very interesting. You train people multi-disciplinary, because you have an architect, a civil engineer or even a planner trained as an urban designer. In that sense it’s also a kind of legal double track with an international dimension. I was curious as to why there are no Dutch students taking part in the EMU. In the UPC and IUAV there seems to be a lot of Italian and Spanish students. Han Meyer: If you are interested in urbanism and you are a student here at the faculty then it is very simple, you choose for the master

track in urbanism and then you are allowed to be an urbanist. If you study in Italy in the faculty of architecture there is no special track in urbanism. So you are a graduate in architecture and you have some elementary things learnt about urbanism but you are still not really trained as an urbanist. So for many Italian architects who want to be urbanists, the only possibility is to do an extra post-graduate course like the EMU. DZ: I think that is even the case in Leuven and in Barcelona. Delft is the only university where you have a double option, where you can do urbanism as a masters or post-masters. HM: In the future I think it will become more interesting or appealing for people who graduate in architecture and who are now unemployed, or people who are looking for a broader spectrum of skills to also do a Postgraduate in Urbanism. As the course grows and becomes more popular do you think Dutch students will start enrolling in the course? DZ: Yeah, absolutely. I also think that you will see more and more students who have a Bachelor or Masters degree, who then work for a few years, go back to education again. I think that is also a smooth entrance to the EMU. The EMU is accredited by the Dutch government. This means you are a recognised urbanist here once graduated. That’s not the case in the other universities. HM: The other universites should have accreditation according to

the agreement of Bologne, but there is no real pressure to get it. The reason why we got this pleasure is because of the change of the immigration rules some years ago. DZ: We only had non-European students and they were only able to get their visa if their education was part of an education system that was accredited. So they could not get in if the education was not official. HM: To get this accreditation you have to apply for it and it is an enormous process that takes several months including a site visit to the faculty by a special accreditation committee. Leuven is now a work in progress. They found themselves in the same situation as us with non-European students and they were forced to seek accreditation. The EMU is rather anonymous in the faculty, or at least very few people outside of the course really know about it. You don’t see the course represented along the BK Street. DZ: Because it’s part of the international scene it’s much more known within the non-European scene. So if you’re stuck in this structure it’s hard to get out, but we need to get out. We were not allowed in the street because it was not a masters. We had a big struggle and fight for it. HM: Is that true about the boards in the corridor? As a matter of fact we should be represented in the corridor. DZ: We have been trying hard since September but we were kicked out because only the

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EMU. Dynamic Delta City. Regional Plan by T. Keimanesh, S. King, D. Luna Quintanilla, C. Pisano, V. Saddi, V. Tsioutsiou

EMU. The Ronde Venen by L. Chen, T. Keimanesh, T. Kimura, S. King, D. Luna Quintanilla, C. Pisano, V. Saddi, V. Tsioutsiou

“TWO YEARS AGO WE DEVELOPED TWO SEPARATE STRATEGIES FOR ROTTERDAM... BOTH ARE NOW PART OF A DEBATE WITH PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE... THE DELTA COMMITTEE... THE PROVINCE...AND THE CITY OF ROTTERDAM.” general masters programs were allowed to show its program there. HM: It’s very stupid. DZ: It is stupid, we should continue to fight the moment it’s reasonable again, so we are trying to be there. Each university focuses a lot on the region where they are located. Should the EMU focus more on other locations? HM: It happens partly in the courses of the first semester. In the projects that we organise every year about constructing the city, we always make a comparison with other European cities as part of the studio. So part of this is always a trip or an excursion, sometimes to another city. Last year the students split up and they all went to a different European city. They made a comparison and put forward what we can learn from others and what others can learn from The Netherlands. The second thing is that Leuven spends a lot of their studio time studying other European cities. They are not focusing on Belgium so much. Mostly they tend to go to Belgrade or Vietnam or Mumbai. DZ: Part of the answer is that we make the studio part of something bigger. The second answer is that students shop in

all of the cities as you are obliged to spend one semester in another university to get a broader scope, and the thesis projects are used in a broader dimension. So all the European aspects are most of the time applied to a home condition, being Milan or Mexico or Shanghai. So I think that really shows the diversity and richness of the program and in this diversity, lessons come from all over the place. Does the TU Delft offer something more that the other EMU universities? HM: I think that each university already offers something that is special for its university and its country. We made a little change in the program so every university offers two semesters and that one semester you go abroad. In these two semesters that we offer the topics are in a special way related to the Dutch tradition. One is about mobility, networks and regional planning. That is a kind of field that you will not find in many places in the world on such an integral level as here in the Randstad. The second is about urbanisation in the delta condition that is also something that is a specific quality of Dutch urbanism. This is rooted historically in this type of Dutch urban development. DZ: I think that we strike a nice

balance in that the assignments are familiar in many places in the world but the way in which we deal with it is very specific for Delft. I think it’s interesting for the students to see a combination of this, a recognisable assignment with a very specific approach, comparing them to each other. Of course in Delft the EMU program is not the only program, so they also find themselves attached to a much larger urbanism cluster in lectures with other students and other studios with more knowledge. And there is also the faculty library. I think those are some of the things that are very specific for Delft which is less present in the other universities. What is in the future for the EMU? HM: Well the future is that we are considering the inclusion of other middle, east and northern European universities. The program is northeast European and Mediterranean orientated. One discussion is with the University of Prague who are very interested in linking to the EMU. Perhaps after that we can look for a sixth university, maybe in Scandinavia. Have any projects by the EMU students been developed beyond the university? HM: In these two topics about

mobility and regional development, and in delta urbanism, there are collaborations with the professional world. In the first project a number of students worked in the Studio South Wing of South Holland as they focused on that region. Concerning the second, the delta urbanism topic, we have a close collaboration with the Dutch delta program, with the water boards and with the municipality of Rotterdam which of course are the focus areas of the program. We just wrote an article for a Dutch magazine about the results of these studies. Two years ago we developed two separate strategies for Rotterdam considering all kinds of developments concerning climate change but also concerning the development of the port. Both are now part of a debate with professional practice, people from the delta committee, people from the province and people from the city of Rotterdam. That is one of the attractive things also for the students to be involved in.

INFO For more information on the EMU program, take a look at emurbanism.eu. More info on the new EMA by Jo Coenen coming soon.

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B NIEUWS 01 JANUARI 2010

RECONSTRUCTING ROTTERDAM FIELD ACADEMY (VELDACADEMIE) BRINGS STUDENTS INTO CONTACT WITH REALISTIC TRANSFORMATION ASSIGNMENTS IN ROTTERDAM. THE LINKAGE OF EDUCATION, POLICY AND IMPLEMENTATION SHOWS AN IMPORTANT INCENTIVE FOR STUDENTS AS FOR A STEP TOWARDS A PROFESSIONAL CAREER. BY ERIK BURGMEIJER & FIEKE TISSINK ROTTERDAM What will be the role of an architect/urban planner within the future practice of urban development? This question puts the focus on the transition of a task, which largely consists of inner-city transformation and redevelopment. The field of play is not exclusively spatial, but consists of a large amount of dynamic social contexts. In order to function properly within this complex context, it is important to gain experience in the field situation and to set up appropriate and integrated academic education programs. The Field Academy arose from cooperation between TU Delft (Faculty of Architecture) and the Municipality of Rotterdam (Bureau Frontlijn). The innovative premeditation of this academy in the field not only offers the possibility of practical experience in combination with formal education, but also the opportunity to actively contribute to urban policy and implementations. Students collaborate with corporations, developers, municipal services and residents. Assignments have various backgrounds and occur on urban, district and building scale. The municipal programme ‘existing housing stock’ is concerned with the redevelopment of nearly 10.000 homes. Throughout the eponymous research unit, coordinated by former Architecture student, Sander Smoes, graduate students are making plans for the redevelopment of flats, merging typologies, and life-resistant housing. Olindo Caso is head supervisor. Part of the graduate programme is the actual project realization of a merged housing assignment. The entire process from feasibility study, planning, building preparation to construction supervision

Field Academy (Veldacademie) location Rotterdam Oud-Charlois

will be completed. Harriën van Dijk, graduate in the studio, explains: “I was attracted by the link between theory and field. The theories, acquired during our education are now being applied in practice, so you actually develop more than you design. You don’t look at it from above, but you find yourself right in the middle of the area you’re actually investigating and designing! Due to the interaction, feedback of the inhabitants is created, which makes the task even more challenging!” During his bachelor, Jurrian Arnold did research on informal meeting points in the district of Oud-Charlois and discovered that there are public spaces to be redeveloped, as Gouwplein, and residents develop their own plans and are willing to commit

INFO Concept & project management: Otto Trienekens & Ruth Höppner Coördinator Minor: Remon Rooij Coördinator Msc 1&2: Stefan van der Spek Coördinator Msc 3&4: Machiel van Dorst Contact: [email protected] www.veldacademie.nl

themselves; “At Field Academy you find out who you are actually designing for, but you also discover that design is merely a piece of a jigsaw puzzle in a much larger social process, in which neighbourhood transformation is involved”. In the meantime active residents decided to tackle the Gouwplein and asked if Jurrian was willing to manage the process through the Field Academy. “I provide continuity and ensure that all the parties, both residents and district organisations as well as social services, are properly informed, so residents who take initiative are given attention and support.” This experimental approach can count on much appreciation. Recently, Jurrian presented the entire process to the enthusiastic Alexandra van Huffelen, councellor of outdoor space and sustainability. Establishment, quality and management of outdoor space was also the main theme of the recently completed interdisciplinary Minor ‘Feijenoord, a socially sustainable neighbourhood.’ Students from Architecture, Industrial design, and from the faculty of Social Sciences of Erasmus University, collaborated on plans for the sustainable

redevelopment of the district. Melek Erdogan, student public administration: “Due to the fact that you are dealing with reality, makes you identify yourself more with the research and motivates you” and: “While we were exploring the district I noticed Architecture students viewing the district from a design perspective, and us in a public administrating perspective. The combination broadens our view of the world and offers the best results for a well-founded design.” Students presented their findings and recommendations in the council chamber in the presence of inhabitants, policy makers and members of the executive board. The results are integrated into a professional policy consult. Subscription for the next Minor studio opens soon. Currently, Field Academy is active in 13 districts of Rotterdam. This year we will open new establishments in Kralingen-Crooswijk and City Centre. Cooperation with educational and research institutes will be expanded. Besides TU Delft, presently also the Hogeschool Rotterdam, Erasmus University and TNO are participating. If you are interested in being involved in these developments and want to participate in reconstructing Rotterdam, feel free to join us!.

PROJECT 9

THE DUTCH URBAN BLOCK AND THE PUBLIC REALM BY SUSANNE KOMOSSA

The importance of the physical public realm becomes more and more evident, if not vital for the future of our cities. For architects, like Rem Koolhaas, Aldo Rossi and Venturi Scott Brown it forms the main topic of today’s reflections upon the city and its architecture. Also theorists, for instance Richard Sennett, Jürgen Habermas and Henri Lefebvre reflect upon the relationship between the physical structure of the city and the nature of the public realm. The book ‘The Dutch urban block and the public realm; models, rules, ideals’ is the re-worked and extended publication of my PhD-thesis. As such it continues the research of the ‘Atlas of the Dutch urban block’, which was published 2003/2005. Foremost, the ‘Atlas’ documents in text and drawing paradigmatically Dutch urban blocks dating from 1600-2000. Having the chance to continue the work on the Atlas has been an absolutely fascinating journey into the inner logic of architecture and urbanism. Close-reading and plan analysis of maps, drawings and texts unfolds an amazing narrative about the city as a stage of our everyday life as citizens and designers. The PhD research moves beyond the Atlas by analysing and interpreting the rules related to the transformation of the Dutch urban block through time and space. Additionally it reveals the ideals that formed the driving forces for this transformation, especially in regard to the public realm. Basically it is a comparative study addressing the two great Dutch cities Amsterdam and Rotterdam and their subsequent urban and block models. The investigation not only focuses on blocks as areas of dwellings but also includes reflections upon the position of public buildings and commerce within the city tissue. In fact I discovered that public buildings, urban blocks and city tissue maintain a dynamical relationship. Within the framework of this investigation the term ‘public realm’ refers to isotopic spaces, and ‘urban enclave’ to heterotopic ones. Without this contrast between isotopy and heterotopy, a city is not a city. Now that so many city centers and former industrial and harbour areas are restructured, transformed, and densified we must ask ourselves two questions. How many heterotopic spaces – how many enclaves – can a city bear? And how much isotopic space – how much public realm – does it need? As said, the book deals with the public realm of the building block as well as urban models in the two great Dutch cities Rotterdam and Amsterdam during the last 400 years. It addresses the phenomenon of continuity and discontinuity in the Dutch ‘city of homes’ and introduces the socio-philosophical notions of public, private and collective from different perspectives. It also enters into the topic of ‘architects as makers’ of everyday life. Subsequently the elements and features of transition from private to public of a wide range of prototypical blocks are documented, analysed and interpreted. The second part of the book establishes a relationship between the urban economy, the public realm and the physical structure of the city. Five urban models from past and present are analysed to discover the way in which the public realm is designed as a constituent feature of the city. ‘The Dutch urban block and the public realm’ was conducted within Chair Public Building. More specifically it addresses the Architecture masters studios of Public Building – Composition, Hybrid Architecture – Typology, Dwelling and Interior which all in one way or the other deal with the question of today’s public space and sphere.

More information: vantilt.nl or Waltman’s Faculty bookshop

Cover and illustrations from the book The Dutch Urban Block and the public realm (GWL terrain, Amsterdam)

10 FORUM COLUMN

Gebroken dromen Verbaasd keken de jongelui om zich heen. Is dit dan alles? - Samenvatting van de emoties die vrijkwamen nadat de nieuwe aanwas studenten een rondleiding had gehad door het Bouwkunde gebouw, en daarbij dwars door de pretenties heenkeken, die de steunberen van de overgrote meerdheid van de zich aan hen tentoongespreide projecten vormen. - Wat hierboven staat is een fictioneel scenario, door mij zelf verzonnen, zojuist. En ik kan wel zeggen dat het aan alle kanten onzin is. Werkelijk. - Al het hierboven geschrevene is tot mij gekomen in een droom. Een rood-wit gestreepte tijger (vermoedelijk uit een reclame van tv, ofzo) dicteerde me wat ik moest schrijven, inclusief de plot-twist waarin blijkt dat het slechts fictie was. - Dat is een leugen. Ik heb dat helemaal niet gedroomd. ’s Nachts slaap ik. Overdag is het tijd om te dromen. En die droom zet ik dan op papier. In tekeningen. Komt zo uit m'n hoofd, via mijn pen, op een blank vel terecht. Wonderbaarlijk. - De vorige paragraaf was een wens. Een geïdealiseerde versie van mijn kunde. Ik wou dat ik zo gedetailleerd kon dromen. En dat ik dat dan zo kon neerpennen. Maar dat kan ik niet. Als ik een pen over het papier haal, kan er van alles verschijnen. Ik heb daar werkelijk geen enkele controle over. Doodeng. Laatst tekende ik per ongeluk een vliegtuig. Ik ging eigenlijk voor een gelijkzijdige driehoek. - Dat is natuurlijk overdreven. Ik kan wel een beetje dromen. En soms probeer ik daar wat van te maken. Daar krijg je meestal helaas geen ECTS voor, of salaris. Maar het kan je wereld wel een beetje leuker maken. Dat geldt eigenlijk voor een heleboel dingen: reizen, commissies, dronken worden met vrienden enzo. Maar niets is zo vaag en nutteloos als dromen... ..als je er verder niks mee doet. Liefs, Louche.

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Deep-rooted sentiments? Interesting views? Use forum as your discussion platform! Send your articles and letters to [email protected]. Texts may be edited for length or clarity. Steering the Faculty In hindsight, it is now possible to discern that the burning down of the Bouwkunde building almost three years ago was not the most devastating of transformations the faculty has experienced in recent times. The fire and the destruction it sowed pale in comparison to the gradual but steady pressure to integrate higher education into the market, with the logic of profit and accumulation implemented in fields which are strictly defined as ‘non-profit’. This trajectory is by no means limited to our faculty or to TU Delft, but is a widespread phenomenon, as demonstrated by the raising of tuition fees coupled by cuts in government support in the UK recently and in California last year, by the shutting of a prestigious philosophy department at Middlesex University because of accounting issues, or, generally, by the expansion of programmes which benefit universities’ budgets while reducing or eliminating programmes which are a budget liability. The latter is an effect of businessoriented management for whom mergers and cuts in spending are signs of success. Whereas cost-effectiveness and budget balancing seem a reasonable demand, this is not quite the same as subjugating education and university policies to the penny-pinching philistine with the exchange-value calculator. The changes express a preference of quantity to quality, and a curtailing of innovation – the object of desire of both universities and the economy. In the postwar period, the role of higher education was to level the field, providing access to universities to those from both privileged and under-privileged backgrounds. In Europe, higher education was an instrument in reducing ingrained class differences, and in the US, higher education policies were streamlined to support President Johnson’s War on Poverty. However, since the implementation of neoliberal policies in the US, social mobility in America has declined, primarily as a result of the limited access to prestigious – or any – universities by the lower echelons of society. This remains one of the biggest challenges to European universities: whether to emulate the excellence of American universities (which typically rank at the top of global rankings) at the expense of their successful social role — exclusiveness vs. inclusiveness.

The transformation of our faculty in recent years is thus tied to the implementation of a neoliberal agenda in higher education, one of the last bastions of resistance – not necessarily because of an ideological stance, but because of entrenched structures and sizable organizations which are not easily changed. One of the hallmarks of the new economy is over-investment in management and under-investment (‘cost-cutting effectiveness’) in other fields, and an emphasis on branding and communication. The investment in the faculty’s building and its furniture, producing a dazzling environment, is in line with current priorities (producing ‘symbolic capital’), and creates a photogenic and impressive image, thus taking part in the branding of the faculty. However, this is merely a veneer, as many of us know, and the structures of the faculty, while increasingly pressurized to integrate the logic of the market into their procedures, have hardly changed: our faculty has experienced only partial transformation so far. Currently, students and staff are lost in a byzantine bureaucratic labyrinth, where everything has a rule and protocol but no one seems to know them, where the rules are evoked only at moments

of conflict. The complex power structures, the opacity of budget, the absence of transparency of vital decisions, the lack of genuine consultation – all these are part of the stifling rather than invigorating condition of our faculty, a condition which stands in contrast to the image projected by the branding. If the continued implementation of flawed neoliberal policies is irreversible, then the faculty should consider some of the incentives used by the new economy to motivate its subjects, incentives which depart from the opacity of power, bureaucracy, and the stiff structures of the previous economic and social paradigm, namely, the encouragement of innovation by allowing autonomy, relatively lax and flexible structures, and support of new ideas and initiatives. We are experiencing some of the downsides of neoliberal policies without benefiting from their promise, however limited in scope. Perhaps it is useful to recall here the preliminary results of the research visitation committee at the faculty, which suggested that Bouwkunde needs to invest less effort in producing new structures, and more in its main asset, the young people who inhabit the place. Tahl Kaminer, DSD

CARTOON

“And here you can clearly see the importance of a well-designed detail, it even integrates an automated cigarette-extinguisher” by Henning Janssen

STREETS OF BK CITY 11 IN EACH ISSUE WE ASK ONE QUESTION TO PEOPLE WE MEET IN THE CORRIDORS OF BK CITY. THIS TIME THE QUESTION WAS:

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE NEW ARCHITECTURE SIGN OVER THE MAIN ENTRANCE?

Bart Pieters, MSc2 Building Technology It‘s starting to look like Las Vegas here with that sign and also all the neon lights in the Street. I don‘t understand why they need to spell all those different words. I think it's unnecessary. I don‘t even think the logo itself is that necessary.

Pauline Marcombe, just graduated Border Conditions I think that they should better spend their money on staff rather than decoration. We had a lot of trouble trying to keep our teachers, because we needed an extension and the faculty didn't want to pay them. I don't really understand why the letters need to light up at different times, although I get the ‘TU’ thing. Overall, I'm not a fan. COLOFON

Sarah Chebaro, MSc2 The Why Factory I just saw it last week, my friend pointed it out to me actually as I saw the ‘ARCH’ part lighting up. I haven‘t seen it much since, because at night, you want to get out of the faculty and not keep looking behind. It doesn‘t bother me. Maybe a red colour would be better, that way it catches people‘s attention more.

Bas van Leeuwen, MSc4 Interior I think it‘s horrible. It is a giant display that I don‘t think the building needs. It should be able to represent itself. It‘s the nicest faculty on the campus and things like this don‘t do justice to it. Similarly, I also dislike the coloured windows. I do not mind the Street of BK, because it is an architectural and structuring intervention, whereas this is just ugly decoration.

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Cover illustration Illustration made for the European Postgraduate Masters in Urbanism

Roy Noordermeer, MSc4 RMIT I always use the Espressobar entrance, so I haven‘t seen it yet. I saw it for the first time on the B Nieuws cover. But what I‘ve heard of it, it looks good. It‘s placed symmetrically on top and it even has the TU logo with the little flame. I‘m not sure whether the font of the sign corresponds with the font used throughout the faculty though.

Marina Starrantonaki, MSc2 Building Technology I think it‘s too descriptive, but I still think it‘s funny, because it reminds me of a school. What would be really interesting is to make a competition for all the students and see what they can come up with.

Print Drukkerij Tan Heck, Delft Contributors Henning Janssen Susanne Komossa Louche Tahl Kaminer Quirijn Petersen Erik Burgmeijer Fieke Tissink

Lidwana Spoormans, teacher BSc6, MSc3 RMIT I think it‘s interesting, because at a certain point in the sign, I believe that the colour changes very slightly (ARCH and ITECTURE). I don‘t find it very beautiful, but it‘s clear and done pretty well. I wouldn‘t compare it to the coloured windows, because I actually quite like them.

Barthold Thijssen, MSc4 Interior I saw it directly after Christmas break and I first thought “why would somebody put HITEC on our faculty?” and then I saw that there were other words being spelled. Since the coloured windows, I don‘t seem to mind much anymore, maybe we should put up more of that kind of rubbish up there.

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WEEK 08

WEEK 09 De money world volgens Middelkoop

21.03.2011 Sociaal-geograaf Ton Heijdra zal spreken over de geschiedenis van Amsterdam Nieuw-West. Vereniging Ons Amsterdam / Amsterdam / 20:00 / €5 onsamsterdam.com

28.02.2011 Willem Middelkoop, auteur van ‘Als de dollar valt’ en goudhandelaar, zal ingaan op wat er gebeurt als de dollar of de euro valt. Het Prinsenhof / Delft / 20:15 sg.tudelft.nl

Deadline

Symposium

24.02.2011 From 27 February to 3 March, the Public Building studio organizes a city trip to Casablanca, Morocco. The excursion is open to all faculty members. Subscribe before 24 February if you want to join! Costs: €300 subscribe at: [email protected]

01.03.2011 A masterclass on visual identities, organized by VRIJE RUIMTEN ZUIDAS Artists in Residence. Virtueel Museum Zuidas / Amsterdam / 14:00 - 18:00 / €0 virtueel-museum.nl

Excursion Casablanca

Lecture

Radicalizing the Local: Inclusive Urban Strategies 24.02.2011 Rick Lowe (artist and activist) will speak about redefining the architectural and artistic practice in times of crisis and how conflict itself can be a tool to redefine architectural and artistic practice. Academie van Bouwkunst / Amsterdam / 20:00 / €0 academievanbouwkunst.nl

Lezing

Stedelijke vernieuwing, identificatie en thuisgevoel 24.02.2011 De Nederlandse socioloog Jan Willem Duyvendak, hoogleraar sociologie aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, zal onder meer spreken over de effecten van de stedelijke vernieuwing op de identificatie en het thuisgevoel van bewoners in achterstandswijken. De Dépendance, Schieblok / Rotterdam / 20:00 / €5 (€3 for students) nai.nl

Dutch Archiprix Exhibition

Lezing Studium Generale

Lezing

Nieuw-West

SPOTLIGHT!

Life after planning

Lecture

Radicalizing the Local: Inclusive Urban Strategies 03.03.2011 Mustafa Tazeoglu (economist) will speak about redefining the architectural and artistic practice in times of crisis and how conflict itself can be a tool to redefine architectural and artistic practice. Academie van Bouwkunst / Amsterdam / 20:00 / €0 academievanbouwkunst.nl

Lezing / Debat

Architects talk: NL architects & 51N4E 03.03.2011 De architecten Pieter Bannenberg en Walter van Dijk van het Amsterdamse NL Architects en Freek Persyn van het Brusselse 51N4E spreken over de relatie tussen architectuur en de publieke ruimte. Ze tonen projecten waarin architectuur op de publieke ruimte reageert door de representatie van de ruimte te veranderden en verschillend gebruik van de ruimte te stimuleren. De Dépendance, Schieblok / Rotterdam / 20:00 / €5 (€3 for students) nai.nl

WEEK 10 Deadline

InDeSem 07.03.2011 If you want to participate in InDeSem 2011 be sure to submit your entry by 12PM! indesem.nl

Until 25 February, all 27 entries for the Dutch Archiprix are exhibited in the model hall of BK City. The Dutch Archiprix is an election of the best graduation project of the previous academic year (20092010). The Faculty of Architecture TU Delft is represented by no less than nine projects. You can find a description of these projects in B Nieuws 05 of 22 November 2010. The winner of the Dutch Archiprix will subsequently contend for the International Archiprix, due this year at MIT, Boston. The jury has already visited the faculty, so the winner will be announced soon! archiprix.nl archiprix.org

Lecture

Friedensreich Hundertwasser 07.03.2011 Lezing over de Oostenrijkse architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser, pionier op het gebied van mens- en milieuvriendelijke architectuur. Volksuniversiteit / Amsterdam / 19:30 / €11 / inschrijven verplicht volksuniversiteitamsterdam.nl

Lecture

Radicalizing the Local: Inclusive Urban Strategies 10.03.2011 Mick Wilson will speak about redefining the architectural and artistic practice in times of crisis and how conflict itself can be a tool to redefine architectural and artistic practice. Academie van Bouwkunst / Amsterdam / 20:00 / €0 academievanbouwkunst.nl

TENTOONSTELLINGEN International Archiprix

BK City / Delft / until 27 February

Cubic constructions collection Graatsma

Vivid Gallery / Rotterdam / until 27 February / vividvormgeving.nl

Hans Wilschut - Perforated Perspective Boijmans van Beuningen / Rotterdam / until 17 April / boijmans.nl

Angry

Nederlands Fotomuseum / Rotterdam / until 12 June / nederlandsfotomuseum.nl