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TEXT: But is this a bad thing? Shouldn’t it be incredibly liberating for the current generation of architects to be ignored? Finally they can just look at the world around them, instead of being asked to join up, be brilliant, and reinvent it. Dirty Minimalism: The Liberation of Unimportance in Recent Dutch Architecture by Wouter Vanstiphout

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Já aqui tínhamos anunciado o livro Future Practice , uma revisão do que será o futuro da arquitectura, vista por profissionais de várias áreas. Essencialmente há uma proposta de quebra de paradigma e uma reflexão que procura modelos mais participados e integrados no planeamento; não só por outro tipo de profissionais, mas com a a participação activa de quem usa e vive a cidade.

Num dos capítulos, Wouter Vanstiphout reflecte sobre a cidade modernista no realojamento e comprova uma correlação de 100% entre essa arquitectura e os motins dos suburbios de Paris.

Ei-lo aqui outra vez com "Damn the master´s plans"

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Failed Architecture #9: Sell out cities

September 26 | 20:00h | TrouwAmsterdam | €5 | English | Talks & Debate

With: Owen Hatherley (writer and journalist, a.o. the Guardian), Wouter Vanstiphout (architectural historian and holder of Design as Politics chair TU Delft), Rudy Stroink (architect and real estate developer), Kai van Hasselt (urban strategy consultant at Shinsekai Analysis)

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During Failed Architecture #9, we want to examine the role of market forces in our current living environment and the persistent urge of local administrators for ‘too-big-to- fail’ iconic architecture. What are the pros and cons of the marketization of urban space, and what are the underlying reasons for the continuing governmental support for large- scale office and luxury housing developments? We address these issues by looking at British examples and by analyzing Dutch cases such as Amsterdam’s Zuidas and Amstel III, and Rotterdam’s Calypso and De Rotterdam developments.

The debate about who owns and who makes the city has reappeared lately. This could be ascribed to the current economic conditions, but is also due to the sometimes-questionable power relations in urban planning and construction. Dutch spatial planning is increasingly dominated by the whims of the market. Especially over the last two decades, construction companies and private developers have scaled-up their activities and have consequently merged into ever larger conglomerates. Housing corporations, universities and other former semi- governmental institutions have become financial market players. Business parks as well as inner city housing projects are more and more developed and owned by international investors.Since the economic crisis has kicked in, it has become clear that the marketization of spatial planning and public space has not led to unreservedly positive results. Furthermore, the market forces in these domains have proven to be difficult to control for local administrators. The latter are actually still encouraging the private development of office space and luxury apartments, even in times of economic hardship and little market demand. Recent complications in the development of Amsterdam’s Zuidas and Rotterdam’s inner city sites have not discouraged local politicians from supporting prestigious architectural projects.

Owen Hatherley is the author of the acclaimed Militant Modernism, a defense of the modernist movement, A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain and, most recently, A New Kind of Bleak. He writes regularly on the political aesthetics of architecture, urbanism and popular culture for a variety of media, including Building Design, Frieze, the Guardian and the New Statesman.

Website: http://nastybrutalistandshort.blogspot.nl

Wouter Vanstiphout is an architectural historian, writer and since 2009 professor of design and politics at the Delft University of Technology. Vanstiphout is one of the founders of the Crimson Architectural Historians research collective. Furthermore, he is member of the reflection team of VROM, Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment.

Website: http://designaspolitics.wordpress.com

Rudy Stroink graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology. In the 1980s he worked at design studio Villa Nova, which he also cofounded. Stroink is director of TCN Property Projects, which was founded in 1994. TCN is one of the leading Dutch real-estate companies, which develops innovative real-estate concepts and has branches in the Netherlands, Germany, Portugal, Belgium and Hungary.

Website: http://www.tcnpp.com

Kai van Hasselt is the founder of Shinsekai Analysis, a research-based advisory practice in Amsterdam. Its clients range from (landscape) architecture firms to real estate developers, cultural institutions and governments. He studied economics at the University of Amsterdam and worked for a leading Dutch trend analyst from 2000 to 2003 and for OMA’s think tank.

Website: http://shinsekai-analysis.blogspot.nl

This edition of Failed Architecture is part of a dual programme, together with the film night ‘Shadow Cities’ at TrouwAmsterdam. On September 20th we will screen Francesco Rosi’s Hands over the City, a blistering work of social realism and the winner of the 1963 Venice Film Festival Golden Lion. This expose of the politically driven real-estate speculation that has devastated Naples’s civilian landscape moves from a cataclysmic building collapse to the backroom negotiations of civic leaders vying for power in a city council election, laying bare the inner workings of corruption with passion and outrage. The film night starts at 8pm.