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  • F-1. Revisions: Changing Ideals and Shifting Realities

    “Revisions: Changing Ideals and Shifting Realities” focuses on the investigation of design approaches, attitudes and positions in the context of existing and emerging architectural cultures. The research aims for an in-depth evaluation of architectural proposals (projects, realizations, methods) in relation to wider political, social and cultural questions and challenges.

    Special attention is given to the evaluation of approaches that can be qualified as “revisions of the modern” during the period 1945 to 1979. There is a rich body of architectural projects, realizations, texts and methods (mitigated moderns, other moderns, situated moderns) that offer alternatives to the paradigms of the pre-World War II modern avant-garde and what could be described as “high modernism.” This architectural body of work is of substantial interest for contemporary architectural debate and practice. 

    Coordinator:
    Tom Avermaete
    Participants:
    Tony Fretton, Christoph Grafe, Irene Cieraad, Birgitte Louise Hansen, Jurjen Zeinstra, Dirk van den Heuvel, Karin Theunissen, Nelson Mota, Max Risselada (Professor Emeritus), Jorge Mejia, Tom Avermaete
    Publications:
    • Tom Avermaete, Christoph Grafe, Klaske Havik, Hans Teerds, et.al. (eds.) OASE #81, Constructing Criticism (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2010) >>
    • Flows from early Modernism into the Interior Streets of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, in: ARQ, vol. 14, no.1, 2010, pp. 53-62 >>
    • Tom Avermaete, Serhat Karakayali, Marion von Osten (eds.) Colonial Modern. Asthetics of the Past Rebellions for the Future. (London: Black Dog Publishing, 2010)   >>
    • Polder Joy, in: Club Donny, nr. 4, 2009 >>
    • Le Plus Grand Nombre. Some Notes on Mass Housing and Our Public Spaces Today, in: Volume 21 / Archis 3, 2009 'The Block', ISBN 978-90-77966-21-1
      also published in: Project Russia, no. 55, 2010, 'Housing' >>
    • Jaap Bakema et l'exemple de Leeuwarden: un paysage artificiel dans l'infinité de l'espace, in: B.F. Lussac, R. Papillault (eds.), 'Le Team X et le logement collectif à grande échelle en Europe', MSHA, Pessac, 2008 >>
    • Another Sensibility - The Discovery of Context, in: OASE 76,'Context / Specificity', 2008, pp. 21-46 >>
    • Dirk van den Heuvel, Maarten Mesman, Wido Quist, Bert Lemmens (eds.), 'The Challenge of Change, Dealing with the Legacy of the Modern Movement. Proceedings of the 10th International Docomomo Conference', IOS Press, Amsterdam 2008, ISBN 978-1-58603-917-2 >>
    • Vincent Ligtelijn, Francis Strauven (eds.), 'Aldo van Eyck. Writings', two volumes, SUN Publishers, Amsterdam 2008, ISBN 978-90-8506-262-2 >>
    • 'Inside-Outside. On the Work of Petra Blaisse and the Architecture of the Drape', in: OASE nr. 75, 25 Years of Critical Reflection on Architecture, pp. 285-299, ISBN 978-90-5662-063-9 >>
    • Raumplan versus Plan Libre. Adolf Loos / Le Corbusier, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 2008 >>
    • Dirk van den Heuvel, Max Risselada (eds.), 'Alison y Peter Smithson. De la Casa del Futuro a la casa de hoy', Ediciones Polígrafa, Barcelona 2008, ISBN 978-84-343-1168-8 >>
    • 'Raumplan versus Plan Libre. Adolf Loos / Le Corbusier', 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2008, second and revised edition of the original 1987 edition, ISBN 978-90-6450-665-9 >>
    • 'To Jump', in: PIN-UP magazine nr. 3, 2007, pp. 62-64
    • 'Alison and Peter Dress Up to Go to a Party', in: PIN-UP magazine, nr. 1, Fall 2006, pp. 91-93 >>
    • 'Le présent de l'utopique: la grille de réidentification urbaine d'Alison et Peter Smithson', in: Jean-Lucien Bonillo, Claude Massu, Daniel Pinson (eds.), 'La modernité critique, autour du CIAM 9 d'Aix-en-Provence - 1953', Editions Imbernon, Marseille 2006, pp. 147-156, ISBN 2-9516396-4-3 >>
    • 'Recolonising the Modern. Robin Hood Gardens Today', in: P. Johnston (ed.), 'Architecture is not Made with the Brain. The Labour of Alison and Peter Smithson', AA publications, London 2005, pp. 30-37 >>
    • Max Risselada, Dirk van den Heuvel (eds.), 'Team 10. In Search of a Utopia of the Present (1953-1981)', NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2005, ISBN 90-5662-471-7 >>
    • Dirk van den Heuvel, Max Risselada (eds.), 'Alison and Peter Smithson - from the House of the Future to a house of today', 010 Publishers, Rotterdam 2004 >>
    • Dirk van den Heuvel, Madeleine Steigenga, Jaap van Triest, 'Lessons: Tupker/Risselada. A Double Portrait of Dutch Architectural Education 1953-2003 / Lessen: Tupker/Risselada. Dubbelportret van het Nederlandse architectuuronderwijs 1953-2003', SUN Publishers, Amsterdam 2003, ISBN 90-5875-051-5 >>
    • 'Occupation of Desires. Concerning the Sudden Topicality of Situationism', in: Archis nr. 2, 1999, pp. 72-78