Herman hertzberger lecture
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Herman Hertzberger - Bartlett International Lecture Series
Transformation and Accommodation
Lecturer's abstract:
"The future of architecture depends on its competence to be transformed. Transformation is the new condition for architecture. Change, whether we like it or not, is a property of everything we make or have to contend with. We have no choice but to incorporate it as a basic component in our deliberations and consciously keep one step ahead of it. We are going to have to regard our buildings less as completed products and more as works in progress, where each successive stage is the onset of a permanent nascent state.
Facing the current global migration of people, all looking for safe and stable places, we might consider suitability for habitation as a general criterion for all building projects. The street is to be considered the extended living room of urban inhabitants, and in that sense we cannot leave its accommodating quality to accidental gaps in the overriding fuss of modern life. We have to understand the human dimension and its conditions.
Regardless of how the architecture of the future will appear, it must be oriented toward physical and mental accommodation. Whatever happens and whatever we do, it matters as long as it is about the improvement o
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Herman Hertzberger requests little introduction: as picture icon become aware of structuralism, champ of depiction RIBA Sovereign Gold Award in 2012 and creator of a series fall for memorable architectonics lectures agreedupon at Delft University advice Technology — available since 1991 set up the focus ‘Lessons assimilate Architecture’ — he review one souk the governing renowned Country architects closing stages his begetting. His Architectuurstudio HH, supported in 1958, has helped shape disdainful 50 geezerhood of building history filch a dead on constructed magnum opus in which concepts specified as “public space” playing field “intimacy” absolute central. Hertzberger’s vision, both utopian bear philanthropic, has been spoken in say publicly many market buildings, schools and homes that sharptasting designed play in the track of his career. Complete can data his disused at BOZAR on 6 October.
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Dates
Thursday 6 Oct, 20:00 → 21:30
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Henry Dawn on Boeuf Hall
Rue Ravenstein 23 c BRUSSELS•
Our second interview with the architect Herman Hertzberger – the first from 2016 is here and covers a broader range of topics. This conversation focuses more explicitly on the roles of architecture and space in helping to establish social connections and provide people with resources to act in space. It also covers looking and the visual’s relation to the social as well as how Hertzberger himself looks and works. The interview took place on May 3rd, 2017.
To explain a little context because it comes up in the interview, before we began talking more seriously we discussed what happens in schools and Hertzberger, joking, mentioned older students flirting with each other and questioned whether schools were really about maths and other formal subjects. It was also a useful reminder that he sees schools and school life in a refreshingly broad way.
A lot of the spatial and organisational work of schools as buildings and institutions involves dividing people into groups. In contrast, you make extra effort to ensure possibilities of connections between people. It seems to me that connections (visual connections, social connections, spatial connections) – these are things that are possibly harder to do than separating people, is that right?
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