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  • AP-2. Architecture and the City: Public Building /Public Realm, Composition & Tectonics

    The AP-2 research group focuses on and questions the mutual relationship among public buildings, public spaces and the public realm. Their functioning and organization are physically, symbolically, socially and economically fundamental to the city. Architecturally, they form a domain both of convention and experimentation. And due to the nature and ever-changing character of the public realm, this relationship can only be seen in socio-cultural and economic context.

    The idea of the public realm refers to an intermediate “space,” be it virtual or physical, which facilitates and mediates between different groups of inhabitants and individuals; the idea of the public realm as the space of (ex)change of ideas, opinions and beliefs of the different groups of users. Therefore, the architecture of the city and its actual qualities form the main framework of this research.
    Coordinator:
    Susanne Komossa
    Participants:
    Roberto Cavallo, Susanne Komossa, Michiel Riedijk, Hans Teerds, Sien van Dam, Nicola Marzot, Joost Hillen, Ana-Maria Patroi, Ana Silva Pereira da Luz, Lidwine Spoormans
    Publications:
    • Job Floris, Susanne Komossa, Nicola Marzot, Roberto Cavallo, Arie Lengkeek, GROOT, Tekenboek stadsgebouwen; functie stapelingen, publieke binnenwerelden, in één blok. (Rotterdam: AIR 2011)
    • Sien van Dam, Susanne Komossa, Lidwine Spoormans "De transformatie van het schoolgebouw."
(Bussum: Thoth 2011)  >>
    • Michiel Riedijk (ed.) Architecture as a Craft. (Amsterdam: SUN Publishers, 2010) >>
    • Komossa, Susanne (ed), The Dutch Urban Block and the Public Realm. (Nijmegen: Van Tilt, 2010) >>
    • Tom Avermaete, Klaske Havik, Hans Teerds (eds.) OASE #77, Into The Open; Accomodating the Public. (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2008) >>
    • Nicola Marzot, Franco Purini, Livio Sacchi (eds.) La citta' nuova. Italia-Y-2026. Invito a Vema(The New City. Italy 2026. Welcome to Vema) (Bologna, Editrice Compositori, 2006) >>
    • Susanne Komossa, Han Meyer, Nynke Jutten, Sabien Thomaes. Atlas of the Dutch Urban Block. (Bussum, Thoth, 2005) >>