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Play the City & Jap Sam Books presenteren 'The future of city gaming. Which games will help us to build the city of the future?'

Van 8 tot en met 17 september 2017 pakt het Vlaams Architectuurinstituut uit met de eerste editie van het Festival van de architectuur (F/a).

Graag vragen wij uw aandacht voor de boeklancering van DIY Klarenstraat. Zelfbouw en de herontdekking van de portiekflat

De invloedrijke architectuurcriticus en emeritus hoogleraar Vincent van Rossem vindt de U.J. Klarenstraat 'de toekomst van de stadsvernieuwing in Amsterdam'. Hij is niet de enige die er zo over denkt. De allereerste Do It Yourself portiekflat werd genomineerd voor meerdere prijzen. Dit boek is een handreiking aan iedereen die zich bezighoudt met de transformatie van bestaand vastgoed, in het bijzonder de portiekflat.

In the West, we operate in a condition of interiority, an elaborate set of arrangements that are reflected in the built environment. These are the physical bases of the social contract, some of whose outcomes we might find unpalatable. There are realms within this condition where people become conscious of themselves in relation to their cities and others; and there are those in which this consciousness is sheltered, accommodated.

The public interior is the pre-eminent public environment in the contemporary city. It is the space that historically and presently frames and situates the public. The public interior is, all too often, an instrument for the inculcation of predictable behaviour: a realm of control geared towards the acceptance of a social, political or economic order, rather than a realm for enfranchisement, association, or political action. Mark Pimlott’s recent book ‘The Public Interior as Idea and Project’ (Jap Sam Books, 2016) looked at a range of possibilities for the public interior that have emerged through time, finding––among the interiors as machines to which we have become supplicants––spaces for the imagination, for heightened consciousness of the self, the other and the world, interiors that offer a kind of freedom. The motifs employed by interiors that encouraged the latter are offered as models for the contemporary condition. 

The Public Interior as Idea and Project

Boekpresentatie: donderdag 3 november 17.50 - 19.00 uur

Locatie: TU Delft, Faculteit Bouwkunde, Julianalaan 134, 2628 CR Delft, kamer 01.Oost 410