DOCSLIB.ORG

Invasion of the Dutch Designers

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Invasion of the Dutch Designers by nanci tangeman Invasion of the They’re everywhere! They’re everywhere! Like some B-movie invasion, Dutch designers seem to have con- quered the world. There’s no place to hide (they’re in Dutch our wardrobes and our pedal bins!) and no place to esıgners run (they’ve taken control from Las Vegas to Gdansk). D The only choice is to pull on a pair of G-Star jeans and a MEXX tee shirt, lie back on your Tejo Remy chair, pop marcel wanders open a Grolsch in a Swingtop bottle – and surrender. jurgen bey designer in the world’ according to icon bible on Dutch design, False Flat: Why offices to the boarders on the half pipe On weekends, this temple to design is Magazine. BMW, Vitra, Cappellini and Dutch design is so good. He knows what when it was constructed a few years ago. packed with style-conscious locals; during marcel wanders Maharam all have Dutch designers work- he’s talking about. the week, in-the-know tourists file in, ing for them. Of course, there’s more to the story than quickly folding their maps, trying to look And (dare we take this horror-movie ‘Both the environment and objects are a swamp. There are centuries of govern- hip. It’s the place to find out, first-hand, metaphor one step further?) there are designed with more care here – every- ment policies and the social welfare why Dutch design is so important. even giant blobs ‘attacking’ in the form thing from tax forms to stamps to the system and many other forces at work. of Kas Oosterhuis’ building projects. roads and cities. This comes from the Along the way they brought us guilder ‘I think it’s because we have the right cli- country having deliberate policies to notes that blossomed in bright sunflow- mate,’ say Dick Dankers, founder of Nobody is safe! The invasion is complete. cover these things, and I speculate here, ers, postage stamps that were more works Frozen Fountain. ‘We Dutch have always from this being an artificial country.’ of art than commerce, the first industrial been open to new influences and so have It came from Outer Space: Or did it? Because it started from a swamp. designers (at Philips), bloated postal Road- a natural openness to new designs.’ Looking at designs by Dutch architects runner bike carriers, Gerrit Rietveld’s that have ‘landed’ recently – the Mezz When you create every square meter of Red/Blue chair, Gispen’s tubular steel Dankers laughs about the British design Pop Center in Breda (Erick van Egeraat), land, you’re careful about how you use it, furniture, the CD player – and that’s just store Habitat’s attempted romance with for instance, or the ING Group headquar- what you build on it, and what you use the short list! Amsterdammers. ‘When Habitat came ters in Amsterdam (Meyer en Van while you live on it. here, they were selling the same glass for The invasion is complete. There are no MEXX. Oilily. Laundry Industry. Viktor & Schooten) – it seems like this Dutch Cut to the chase? Today we have a 6 guilders that HEMA sold for 1.50. The more battlegrounds. Dutch designers Rolf. Gsus. invasion came by way of outer space. That mainstay of Dutch society, the polder worldwide invasion of Dutch design. Dutch wouldn’t put up with that. In the have conquered the world on all fronts. They’ve infiltrated our offices, our But in truth – it emerged from a swamp. model – everyone working together; every- US or UK, HEMA would be a top design They’ve taken control of our buildings (at homes, our restaurants, our museums, one happy when they leave the bargaining Take us to your leaders store. Here? It’s just HEMA.’ least their design) and neighbourhoods: and every design headline: Hella ‘The whole country was designed, just in table – also stemmed from these muddy To pay homage to contemporary Dutch Las Vegas’ Guggenheim Museum (Rem Jongerius has commissions ranging from order to inhabit and use it. So I think we roots. It’s a valuable system for deciding design, start with industrial design and But Dankers’ Frozen Fountain is anything Koolhaas/OMA); low-income housing Ikea to the Museum of Modern Art in take more care.’ Aaron Betsky says he’s how land is to be used, according to home décor. In Amsterdam, there are but HEMA. For over two decades, the outside of Madrid (MVRDV); a new mas- New York. Piet Hein Eek collaborates on hypothesizing, but you have to give him Betsky. An example: the Skatepark Blaak, two mandatory stops. First: The Frozen store has featured self-producing (prima- terplan for Gdansk, Poland (Mecanoo). Conran restaurants in London and his some credit. He is, after all, the director a skateboard park on the southern edge of Fountain, a bright orange storefront on rily Dutch) designers and craftspeople. A furniture is sold (and collected) around of the Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam, that seemed to satisfy every- the Prinsengracht that could easily be tour through the store is a tour through They’re hiding in our closets: G-Star. the world. Marcel Wanders is, the ‘hottest in Rotterdam. And he did co-write the one from the workers in the adjoining mistaken for an ice cream store. the top names in Dutch industrial design. 4 april/may 2006 roundabout roundabout april/may 2006 5 Seeing is believing What’s the best way to appreciate what’s around you? Here are ten tips to discovering Dutch design: 1. ‘Get on a bicycle. It’s the best way to see the country. Walking is too slow and a car is too fast. Bicycling allows you to see the country in motion, in time, and appreciate it. The cities are designed by manipulating and using piet hein eek space. The Amsterdam Zuid areas where the housing blocks stretch out along the streets, but the corners have ornaments – there’s almost a theatrical drama when all these buildings are massed together,’ says Aaron Betsky of Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. 2. Fill out your tax form. Get on a yellow and blue train and trundle through the green meadows. Admire a postal work- onl (oosterhuis & lénárd) jurgen bey er riding by on a red Roadrunner, then post a letter with a butterfly stamp designed by Irma Boom. One of the most The metal cases that line the store are by home textiles company in the US, com- bathroom after a shower. Today Droog walk. (Not to mention a change of cloth- made design by the Dutch more remarkable aspects of Dutch culture is how many of the Piet Hein Eek, better known for his furni- missioned work from her. It’s the same in Design has a growing range of ‘afford- ing from MEXX, G-Star, Laundry Industry, liberating. If you are confined by a objects, images and spaces one encounters every day have ture made from wrecked wood. ‘The cases Tokyo and France, where she was design- able’ products, such as the best-selling Gsus or Mart Visser!) legacy, it doesn’t allow you to look been designed. Notice. look like they could have been made in er of the year.’ Despite this alleged lack of Strap, by NL Architects, a style diva’s at fashion as something that is 3. Visit a VINEX location. The Dutch government decided with 1910, but they fit into 2006,’ says fame in her home country, Jongerius’ answer to the bungee cord. Even with all the big names dropping solely contemporary.’ the VINEX Program to build around 750,000 homes Dankers. ‘Piet connects to the big Dutch Nymphenburg Sketches have just been into closets around the world, Dutch between 1995 and 2015 in newly invented compact cities. designers before the war. He picks up acquired by the Stedelijk Museum in Bakker explained in icon Magazine this fashion design is not as prolific as Dutch And from James Veenhof and Steve Says Betsky, ‘This is one of the few attempts in the world their traditions, but not consciously.’ Amsterdam. year: ‘We want to make design more industrial, home or architectural design. TePas, founders of Amsterdam to design sprawl. The Dutch have said that sprawl is hap- normal. You make something more Still, it has its fans. International Fashion Week: ‘Where pening, so what are we going to do about it? See how Inside Eek’s cabinet is a vase by Marcel There’s no question about designer normal when it is accessible to people. Paris and Milan represent the tradi- they’re weaving new buildings with meadows and dense Wanders. Its shape was formed by placing Jurgen Bey’s Dutch fame. He won the Not only the top people.’ ‘I defy any woman from Milan, Paris, New tional couture industry, Amsterdam housing and civic monuments and schools. This is not eggs inside a condom. Dankers trots over Prince Bernhard Culture Fund Award for York or LA to brave the weather on a bicy- offers a younger more dynamic something that is done elsewhere.’ Ypenburg is a typical to his computer to show me another Applied Arts and Architecture last year. Attack of the architects! cle and look as good as a Dutch woman alternative. There is room here for location. www.archex.info. Wanders design: the snotty vase. ‘He And, as for Job Smeets, of Studio Job (also The nation that gave us Amsterdam does,’ says Victor Portes, who has just put new ideas and fresh thinking.’ 4. Be a fashion spotter. ‘Look and you start finding things you filmed people sneezing in slow motion featured at the Stedelijk), says Dankers: School Architecture now gives us marvel- together a book about the Dutch fashion don’t see in London or New York or Paris,’ says Victor and then created a mould that duplicated ‘Job is somewhere in between art and lous creations that have to be seen to be industry.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • The Design and Fabrication of Innovative Forms in a Continuum
    International Symposium File to Factory: The Design and Fabrication of Innovative Forms in a Continuum Host: CMA (Centre for Mediterranean Architecture), Chania, Crete, Greece, 3-4 September 2009 Design and Fabrication The i n a m s u m r Design and Fabrication o u f e n v of innovative forms in a i i t a t T v f2f o file to factory n n n h e i continuum o h e continuum f o T c ISBN 978-2-930301-41-9 editor: Maria Voyatzaki D esign and Fabri c a t i o n c o f o i n n n o v t a t i i v n e f u o r m u s m i n a f2f file to factory continuum Design and Fabrication The i n a m s u m r Design and Fabrication o u f e n v of innovative forms in a i i t a t T v f2f o file to factory n n n h e i continuum o h e continuum f o T c ISBN 978-2-930301-41-9 editor: Maria Voyatzaki D esign and Fabri c a t i o n c o f o i n n n o v t a t i i v n e f u o r m u s m i n a f2f file to factory continuum gn and Fabrication The i n a m s u m r Design and Fabrication o u f e n D e s i v of innovative forms in a i i t a t T v f2f o file to factory n n n h e i continuum o h e continuum f o T c ISBN 978-2-930301-41-9 editor: Maria Voyatzaki D File to Factory: The Design and Fabrication of Innovative Forms in a Continuum esign and Fabri c a t i o n Editor c o f o i n Dr Maria Voyatzaki, DipArch, PhD, RIBA, ARB n n o v t a t i Associate Professor i v n e f u o r Aristotle University of Thessaloniki m u s m School of Architecture i n a f2f file to factory continuum Cover design: Emmanouil Zaroukas Layout design: Dimitris Apostolidis Printed by: Charis Ltd, Thessaloniki, Greece ISBN 978-960-99008-1-2 Copyright © 2010 by the authors All rights reserved.
    [Show full text]
  • Volker 2010 Phd Deciding ... Uality.Pdf
    Leentje Volker In the past few years the image of tender procedures in Deciding which Dutch public clients selected an architect has been dominated by distressing newspaper headlines. Architects fear that the current tender culture will harm the quality of about Design Quality our built environment due to a potential lack of diversity, Value judgements and decision making in the creativity and innovation in architectural design. Due to potential risks clients often allow legal requirements to selection of architects by public clients under overrule their actual wishes. This PhD research addresses the origin of the problems as currently experienced by public European tendering regulations commissioning clients in architect selection and proposes Deciding about Design Quality pragmatic implications for future practice. It is therefore of interest for commissioning clients, management consultants, policy makers and legal advisors but also for designers and researchers in the field of architecture and decision making. Based on four empirical cases the author shows that during architect selection the rational legal requirements clash with the psychological process of decision making. Decision makers only start to make sense of the proposed designs once they are confronted with the alternatives. It is therefore about Design Quality almost impossible for clients to design a selection procedure and announce the criteria and weighting factors up front, as required by procurement law. The scientific underpinning of the findings is found in four theoretical perspectives on value judgements in design and the latest decision theories in which sensemaking, emotion, intuition, and expertise play prominent roles. The thesis proposes fifteen factors for a successful design of a tender procedure to select an architect.
    [Show full text]
  • Gideon Maasland
    Gideon Maasland Director, and Architect, Gideon Maasland (NL), joined MVRDV in 2016. With extensive experience acquired at several high profile Dutch offices, Maasland leads MVRDV’s Studio 8, which is responsible for large-scale, complex buildings in the Netherlands and abroad. He leads the development, and construction of Valley, a 75,000 m2 mixed-use building in Amsterdam, as well as the construction of a 61.800 m2 residential tower project in the Hague, and the transformation of Jaarbeurs in Utrecht, a trade fair of 170.000m2. Besides this, Maasland is working on several projects in Poland, and the UK. Other exceptional projects include the Glass Farm in Schijndel, The Crystal Houses in Amsterdam, and the Balancing Barn in Suffolk, England. “I love to work on buildings that make a difference to the people using them or living close to them. At first glance, you might think these projects will never happen, because they are too difficult, too expensive, or not technically possible, but with the help of a large team of experts, and dedication to relationship management, anything is possible. There are no good projects without good clients.” - Maasland Profession Education 2001-2004 Technical University, Delft, Netherlands Director Architecture and Urbanism Architect 1998-2001 Technical School, Amsterdam, Netherlands Years of experience Bachelor in architecture 16 Professional 2016 / - MVRDV, Rotterdam, NL. Experience Director Nationality experience Dutch 2011/ 2016 Designed by Erick van Egeraat, Rotterdam, NL Qualifications Senior Project
    [Show full text]
  • Corporate University Structures
    ISSUE 9: 2012 DevelopingLeaders Executive Education in Practice Leadership + Choosing the All Change at VG’s Innovation Strategy Right CEO Vlerick Imperative Lonza and St. Gallen Hay Group Dean Philip Haspeslagh for India Find the Formula Interviewed Tuck at Dartmouth Building Towers of Babel? Roland Deiser Considers Corporate University Structures IEDP Ideas for Leaders Bridging the Academic Corporate Gap www.iedp.com Viewpoint Business Models Galore The Colorful and Diverse World of Corporate Universities “It would appear from 15 years of data that a corporate university is whatever a corporation decides it is.” By Roland Deiser his fall, a delegation of 15 executives from major Russian corporations will visit Germany in the course of a learning expedition to find out about great examples of Corporate Universities (CUs). The delegation is led by Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, who is especially ambitious here; they recently opened a flagship university near Moscow that serves not only internal Tpurposes but provides a visibly branded educational institution for Russian society at large. A similar project has been launched by Qatar Petroleum in an effort to strengthen the conglomerates’ capabilities and, at the same time, position the Gulf country as a hub for the knowledge economy. It seems that despite economic turmoil, the concept of CUs is quite alive; it may even face a renaissance. Over the last year or so, activity has also picked up in Western Europe, where CUs have been around now for about 15 years. Major players such as BASF, Bayer, SAP, or ABB, who so far have held back and refrained from joining the club, are currently huddling over blueprints for innovative learning architectures that they hope will help address their complex capability challenges.
    [Show full text]
  • University of Cincinnati
    UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI Date:___________________ I, _________________________________________________________, hereby submit this work as part of the requirements for the degree of: in: It is entitled: This work and its defense approved by: Chair: _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ _______________________________ Digital Mobility An Architecture for the Digital Lifestyle A thesis submitted to the Division of Research and Advanced Studies of the University of Cincinnati in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARCHITECTURE In the School of Architecture and Interior Design College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning 16 May 2007 Mark W. Chachula Bachelor of Architectural Engineering The Pennsylvania State University Committee Chair: Jay Chatterjee Committee Second Chair: Elizabeth Riorden Abstract Being mobile means having the ability to easily access goods, services, information and people from other physi- cal locations. Traditionally this meant traveling from place to place or building to building. With the computer and the internet, however, it is possible to do these things all from one single location regardless of where we are on Earth. This is Digital Mobility. Today with the internet this takes place through a screen using a mouse and keyboard as opposed to through experiencing a variety of buildings and spaces. Architecture for the digital lifestyle will merge our digital experiences with physical experiences by providing a reconfigurable environment that allows us to truly inhabit the internet. Instead of experiencing the internet through the screen it is experienced through the building and the space we inhabit. In this way there is access to many dif- ferent places and environments from one single location.
    [Show full text]
  • Framework for an Architectural Knowledge Ecosystem Through the Distribution of Authorship
    FRAMEWORK FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE ECOSYSTEM THROUGH THE DISTRIBUTION OF AUTHORSHIP A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF NATURAL AND APPLIED SCIENCES OF MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY BY CANAN ALBAYRAK DE BRITO COLAÇO IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ARCHITECTURE SEPTEMBER 2018 Approval of the thesis: FRAMEWORK FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE ECOSYSTEM THROUGH THE DISTRIBUTION OF AUTHORSHIP submitted by CANAN ALBAYRAK DE BRITO COLAÇO in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture Department, Middle East Technical University by, Prof. Dr. Halil Kalıpçılar Dean, Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences Prof. Dr. F. Cânâ Bilsel Head of Department, Architecture Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mennan Supervisor, Architecture., METU Examining Committee Members: Prof. Dr. C. Abdi Güzer Architecture Dept., METU Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mennan Architecture Dept., METU Prof. Dr. Şule Taşlı Pektaş Architecture Dept., Başkent University Assoc. Prof. Dr. Fehmi Doğan Architecture Dept., Izmir Institute of Technology Assist. Prof. Dr. Başak Uçar Architecture Dept., TED University Date: 04.09.2018 I hereby declare that all information in this document has been obtained and presented in accordance with academic rules and ethical conduct. I also declare that, as required by these rules and conduct, I have fully cited and referenced all material and results that are not original to this work. Name, Last name : Signature : iv ABSTRACT FRAMEWORK FOR AN ARCHITECTURAL KNOWLEDGE ECOSYSTEM THROUGH THE DISTRIBUTION OF AUTHORSHIP Albayrak de Brito Colaço, Canan Ph.D., Department of Architecture Supervisor : Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mennan September 2018, 128 pages Shifts from centralized towards socially distributed knowledge production modes are having a great impact on many fields and reshaping the understanding of knowledge production.
    [Show full text]
  • Dutch Architecture Abroad Christian Maijstré on the Sixth of June the Symposium Committee Organized Another Symposium
    symposium Dutch architecture abroad Christian Maijstré On the sixth of June the symposium committee organized another symposium. This time the symposium was titled ‘Dutch architecture in foreign countries’. Working abroad is very popular with Dutch architects. Why is that and what are they building there? The theme was conceived out of the contem- tries also. While having worked with a lot of ficient, they found out that countries such as porary issues within the field of the Dutch ar- local architects he gave us a good example of China were not incompatible with this, limiting chitect, which forces a bulk of them find their Erick van Egeraat, who had designed and rede- their activities to European countries. luck abroad. Issuing how to deal with the dif- signed some of Budapest’s most well known Next, Friso van der Steen, currently the mana- ferent cultures: how would one position him- buildings. During that period, he guided some ger of international projects at Mecanoo, told or herself as a Dutch architect abroad? Would interns on which he had a clear influence. In of his activities in Korea, China and Taiwan. His one submerge into the local approach of the return, Hungary also had influence on Emiel lecture shed light on a big issue in East Asia: a assignment by ways of techniques and archi- Lamers: in 2007 he designed a pavilion in Am- diminishing understanding of building scale. tecture, or would a Dutch identity still be seen sterdam taking Hungarian vernacular design Clients want to see a design first, before kno- in the result, or would perhaps an internatio- characteristics and molding them into a pavi- wing the necessary program to design pro- nal approach be more fitting? lion which fit perfectly in any Dutch city.
    [Show full text]
  • 400 Buildings 230 Architects 6 Geographical Regions 80 Countries a U R P E Or Am S Ica Fr a Ce Ia
    400 Buildings 100 single houses┆53 schools┆21 art galleries 66 museums┆7 swimming pools┆2 town halls 230 Architects 52 office buildings┆33 unibersities┆5 international 6 Geographical Regions airports21 libraries┆5 embassies┆30 hotels 5 railway staions 80 Countries 80Architects dings Buil 125 ia As O ce an ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS//OMA//FUKSAS//ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTURE//ANDRÉS ia 6 5 PEREA ARCHITECT//SNØHETTA//BERNARD TSCHUMI//COOP HIMMELB(L)AU//FOSTER + B u i ld in g PARTNERS//UNStudio//laN+//KISHO KUROKAWA ARCHITECT AND ASSOCIATES//STEVEN s s t c e 8 it 0 h A c r HOLL ARCHITECTS//JOHN PORTMAN & ASSOCIATES//3DELUXE//TADAO ANDO ARCHITECT r c A h 0 it e 8 c t s & ASSOCIATES//MVRDV//SAUCIER + PERROTTE ARCHITECTES//ACCONCI STUDIO// s g n i d l i DRIENDL*ARCHITECTS//OGRYDZIAK / PRILLINGER ARCHITECTS//URBAN ENVIRONMENTS u B 5 0 ARCHITECTS//ORTLOS SPACE ENGINEERING//MOSHE SAFDIE AND ASSOCIATES INC.// 2 LOMA //JENSEN & SKODVIN ARKITEKTKONTOR AS+ARNE HENRIKSEN ARKITEKTER AS + e p o C-V HØLMEBAKK ARKITEKT//HENN ARCHITEKTEN//GIENCKE & COMPANY//CHETWOODS r u E A ARCHITECTS//AAARCHITECTEN//ABALOS+SENTKIEWICZ ARQUITECTOS//VARIOUS f r i ARCHITECTS//DENTON CORKER MARSHALL//SAMYN AND PARTNERS//ANTOINE PREDOCK// c a FREE Fernando Romero...... 3 5 s B t c u e i t l i d h i n c r g s A 0 8 8 0 s A g r c n i h d i l t i e u c B t s 0 9 a c i r e m A h t r o N S o u t h A m e r i c s t a c e t i h c r A 0 8 1 s 1 g n 5 i d B l i u ISBN 978-978-12585-2-6 7 8 9 7 8 1 Editorial Department of Global Architecture Practice Editorial Department of Global Architecture
    [Show full text]
  • From File to Factory: Advanced Manufacture of Engineered Wood Elements
    From file to factory: Advanced manufacture of engineered wood elements Part 1: Innovative design solutions for multi-storey timber buildings throughout the entire building process Part 2: Application to project Zembla in Kalmar, Sweden Magnus Larsson Alex Kaiser Ulf Arne Girhammar From file to factory: Advanced manufacture of engineered wood elements Part 1: Innovative design solutions for multi-storey timber buildings throughout the entire building process Part 2: Application to project Zembla in Kalmar, Sweden Magnus Larsson Alex Kaiser Ulf Arne Girhammar Luleå University of Technology Department of Engineering Sciences and Mathematics Division of Wood Science and Engineering ISSN 1402-1528 ISBN 978-91-7790-870-8 (print) ISBN 978-91-7790-884-5 (pdf) Luleå 2020 www.ltu.se FROM FILE TO FACTORY: Advanced manufacture of engineered wood elements – Part 1: Innovative design solutions for multi-storey timber buildings throughout the entire building process Magnus Larsson1, Alex Kaiser2, Ulf Arne Girhammar2,* 1 Former Luleå University of Technology, Sweden 2 Division of Wood Science and Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 931 87 Skellefteå, Sweden ABSTRACT: “File-to-factory” processes of computer technologies is a contemporary way to both maximise efficiency throughout the building process, increase a building's performance, and be able to add interesting architectural possibilities throughout the design phase. Viewing the building as a parametric network of connected components that can be individually controlled through unique parameters may no longer be a novel architectural concept, but its application to multi-storey timber buildings is still a territory for which there are no maps. Allowing not only the notion of identicality in mechanically reproduced objects to be left behind, but replacing the idea of the object with that of the objectile, the authors investigate a novel approach that produces a set of building trajectories rather than a set of buildings, yet yields a series of buildable examples of those trajectories.
    [Show full text]
  • Final IA 14022007.Indd
    > content > page 4 introduction / editorial Kas Oosterhuis > page 12 research / File to Factory and Real Time Behavior in ONL-Architecture Kas Oosterhuis, Henriette Bier, Cas Aalbers, Sander Boer / Envisioning the Responsive Milieu Nimish Biloria, Kas Oosterhuis / Virtual Reality Operation Room Hans Hubers, Sven Blokker, Michael Bitterman, Christian Friedrich > page 12 education / Designing a Hyperbody of a Train Station Design Lab Tomasz Jaskiewicz / Emotive Office & Papabubble Dominik Otto > page 12 workshops / Robot Driven Swarm Paintings Dimitris Theocharoudis, Hans Hubers > page 12 dialogue Kas Oosterhuis and Ayssar Arida > page 12 linked > page 12 contributors 2 > introduction / editorial two systems find a new equilibrium: number of people, goods, light, temperature, and data. The door processes by counting what passes through the opening. In iA we do exactly that -- our iA software counts every change that occurs in the position and configuration of any IPO object. Each object that is defined in Protospace *) software (developed during the past few years by the Centre for Interactive Architecture), behaves in time and What is Interactive Architecture? Let me first keeps track of changes. Each object is a kind of clarify what it is NOT. Interactive Architecture IPO machine, an agent communicating with other - from here on abbreviated as iA - is NOT simply agents. An example of this type of communication architecture that is responsive or adaptive is a bird communicating with other birds in a swarm. to changing circumstances. On the contrary, Birds are complex adaptive IPO systems. They iA is based on the concept of bi-directional receive signals, they process these signals and communication, which requires two active parties.
    [Show full text]
  • Reprinted from Euromoney Magazine, December 2007 Interview
    Tatarstan reprinted from Euromoney magazine, December 2007 Interview “We can!” Tatarstan’s President Mintimer Sharipovich Shaimiev talks to Euromoney about the republic’s economic development, its plans for the future and its determination to succeed Please tell us about the specifics of Tatarstan’s Mintimer Sharipovich Shaimiev, President of Tatarstan economic development and about the priorities for 2008? total of 1,153 people have been sent for training to the best univer- The main objective of Tatarstan’s development strategy is to sities and centres of science in the Russian Federation, the US, UK, achieve a European standard of living for the population. We France, Switzerland and Germany. aspire to build a democratic society on the basis of a competitive Another feature of our economy is cluster development. We set market economy, organically integrated into the world system. out the strategic task of developing four main clusters: oil/petro- Tatarstan is capable of achieving this aim. I say this because the chemical, car-building, aviation and power production. Here the results of social and economic development in 2007 bear witness most effective industrial complexes have been formed by various to the dynamic development of the republic. enterprises with a single sector orientation. Today our industrial production is growing at a rate of slightly less We pay great attention to developing small businesses. By 2010, than 9%. Across the Russian Federation the rate is 7 %. The value of we intend to raise the small business share of total regional product industrial output by the end of the year will be little bit more than to 30%.
    [Show full text]
  • Summary Review
    Archivolta 1(57)2013 Summary Review ____________________________________________________ ®Archivolta Publishing House Michal Stepien Krystyna Januszkiewicz, Mateusz Zwierzycki, Sensitive skin of Al Bahar Towers in Abu Dhabi, UAE pp. 10-23 Aedas Abu Dhabi and Arup London The Al Bahar Towers innovative dynamic façade opens and closes in response to the movement of the sun, reducing solar gain by more than 50 percent, creating a more comfortable internal environment for occupants and producing a distinctive external aesthetics which helps to define the building as a gateway to the UAE capital. The façade was conceived as a contemporary inter- pretation of the traditional Islamic “mashrabiya” a popular form of wooden lattice screen found in vernacular Islamic architecture and used as a device for achieving privacy. The design concept for Aedas’ innovative competition winning design is derived from an algorith- mic composition, informed by Islamic principles of design, that has been supplemented by the application of a dynamic translucent ‘mashrabiya’ which opens and closes in response to the movement of the sun. The resulting composition seeks to create a building which is both cultura- lly and environmentally responsive, reflecting the aspirations of the brief while also respecting the emergent Abu Dhabi 2030 Plan. The building is targeting a LEED Silver rating and is on program-me for occupation at the beginning of 2013. In order to generate the form of the towers, Aedas applied the principles of geometric compo- sition derived from traditional Islamic architecture. Geometric composition has been a defining characteristic of Islamic architecture for centuries, the circle and rotation reflecting the concept of unification and unity evident in nature; an important concept in Islam and in the emerging science of biomimicry.
    [Show full text]