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Inauguration speech Wouter Vanstiphout, june 9, 2010 - 15.00: Aula, TU Delft Wouter Vanstiphout hoogleraar Ontwerp en Politiek director International New Town Institute general management for Hofbogen BV (de Hofbogen) 2009
22 october: Wouter Vanstiphout hoogleraar Ontwerp en Politiek. 9 october / 7 february 2010: Exhibition ’Insiders - practices, customs, know-how’, Bordeaux, France. WiMBY! 7 october: Michelle Provoost in Conversation with Lars Lerup at the Berlage Institute. 25 september / 10 january 2010: Exhibition ’4th International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam: Designing Coexistence’, Rotterdam 16 june: lecture Michelle Provoost, New Towns from the Cold War Era to Neoliberal Reality, Berlage Institute, Rotterdam 17-27 may: New Town excursion to Caracas and Ciudad Guyana, Venezuela 5 march: Symposium Open City; Designing Coexistence, ETH Zurich 8-17 februari: New Town excursion to Beijing, China director International New Town Institute Subcurator Rotterdamse Architectuur Biennale 2009 general management for Hofbogen BV (de Hofbogen) 2008
21 & 22 november: Lecture by Michelle Provoost on ’New Towns on the Cold War Frontier; urban planning as an instrument in cold war politics’ at the conference ’Cold War Culture’ Michelle Provoost director International New Town Institute publication Het langste gebouw van Rotterdam, Toekomstvisie De Hofbogen, Crimson, de Hofbogen, 4 october 2008 Part of the content-team for the World Expo 2010 Shanghai Subcurator Rotterdamse Architectuur Biennale 2009 19 june: Presentation of the Vlaams Architectuurjaarboek 2008 in Brussel ’WiMBY! Hoogvliet, Future, Past and Present of a Satellite Town: or the big WiMBY! book’ on the RIBA International Book Award for Architectural Practice Long List Elke zaterdag van 19 april - 21 juni bij de AVRO om 17.00 het programma Architecturen, over scholen, bedrijfsterreinen, particulier opdrachtgeverschap, hergebruik, creatieve stad en duurzaamheid. Commentatoren o.a. Mels Crouwel en Michelle Provoost. 14 april: Lecture by Michelle Provoost about WiMBY! in Copenhagen, Denmark. ’WIMBY! - WELCOME INTO MY BACKYARD’. Copenhagen X (with D. Bakker, A. Jolles, C. Wagenaar, ed.), Jaarboek van de Nederlands Architectuur 2007/2008, Yearbook of Dutch Architecture, Rotterdam 2008 21 februari: Lecture by Michelle Provoost about WiMBY! in London at the New New Towns congres. ’What the past can teach the future’, organised by the Architecture Foundation and Urban Drift. See: www.newnewtown.com, Building Design 17 february to 27 april: exhibit ’Shrinking Cities. International Investigation’, Duisburg, Germany general management for Hofbogen BV (de Hofbogen) project Sociologica; Een simpele strategie voor vernieuwing van de Afrikaanderwijk. Commissioned by Vestia and Estrade 2007
15 december lecture by Michelle Provoost about WiMBY! in the Smart Project Space in Amsterdam for the symposium Forward! On the revitalization of modern architecture. See: www.archined.nl 14 december Michelle Provoost public talk with André van der Zande about WiMBY! for the Belvederedebat, NAi, Rotterdam 1 november interview by Michelle Provoost and Eric Luiten of Elma van Boxel, Michael van Gessel, Frits van Dongen, Jos van Eldonk, Floris Alkemade and Endry van Velzen for the Belvederefestival, Den Bosch 25 october CRIMSON moves to a new office: Mathenesserlaan 179-181, 3014 HA Rotterdam, The Netherlands article ’Een dubbele Tabula Rasa. Heesterveld, Ymere, het NAi en de Bijlmerrmeer’, 18 october 15 october/16 october - VPRO, Tegenlicht: ‘Het nieuwe bouwen. De WiMBY-methode’, ma. 15 okt 20.55 uur / di. 16 okt 23.30 uur | Nederland 2 article ’The New Town: voorstel voor een architectuurhistorisch project’, 15 oktober 2007 VPRO 13 october introduction to film ’Many words for modern’, a film by Jord den Hollander, Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam member of the board of the Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur member of the jury of the Charlotte Köhler prize column ’Rotterdam Architectuurstad?’ in: Huig, tijdschrift van de Academie van Bouwkunst Rotterdam, nr.8, september 2007, p.40-41 research trip to Ghana (Tema) as part of the New Town project, in co-operation with filmer Jord den Hollander, sept. 2007 column ’Nieuwe stedenbouw voor u’ in: A+, Belgisch tijdschrift voor architectuur, nr.206, juni-juli 2007, p.26 notitie cultuurhistorische waarde W-Hal, TU/e, 27 may 2007 publication WiMBY! Hoogvliet, Toekomst, Verleden en Heden van een New Town, of: het grote WiMBY! boek / WiMBY! Future, past and present of a New Town, Crimson and Felix Rottenberg, NAi Publishers, 25 may 2007 publication De lessen van WiMBY! 2001-2007. Over acupunctuur in Hoogvliet, of: Het kleine WiMBY! boek, Crimson and Felix Rottenberg, WiMBY!, 25 may 2007 exhibition ’WiMBY!’, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, May 25 - August 19 2007 general management for Hofbogen BV (de Hofbogen) projectleaders for WiMBY!, the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, (www.wimby.nl) article ’Absolute Beginner’, Gaudi Anthology of Architectural Criticism, Brussels article ’New Towns on the Cold War Frontier’, Arch+, May 2007 article Continuer Hoogvliet, Lí Architecture, May 2007 column ’Alles komt goed’ in: A+, Belgisch tijdschrift voor architectuur, nr.205, april-mei 2007, p.26 NPS Arena over Jaarboek Nederlandse Architectuur, April 22 2007 article ’Almere New Town’ in: S. Franke (red.), Adolescent Almere, 2007 (with D. Bakker, A. Jolles, C. Wagenaar, ed.), Jaarboek van de Nederlands Architectuur 2006/2007, Yearbook of Dutch Architecture, Rotterdam 2007 article ’Fanmail’, in: Artvertising, Sandberg Institute Amsterdam, 2007 article ’New Towns on the Cold War Frontier’, vertaling in Litouws literatuur- en cultuurtijdschrift exhibition ’Holland-Italy, 10 works of architecture’, Maxxi, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome, Italy, May 18 - July 1 2007 cultural & historical analysis of postwar railway stations in The Netherlands, ’De Collectie, Cultuur-historische visie naoorlogse stationsgebouwen’, commissioned by Bureau Spoorbouwmeester, maart 2007 TV Rijnmond over Architectuurjaar/Lijnbaan Radio 1 Journaal over Architectuurjaar Rotterdam, January 18 2007 NOS Journaal over Architectuurjaar, January 13 2007 article ’Wijlen de Lijnbaan/Lijnbaan R.I.P.’, www.Archined.nl, Januari 10 2007 member of the Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur member of Quality Team for Architecture and Urbanism, Port of Rotterdam, (with Adriaan Geuze & Jan Benthem) researchproject The New Town, (www.thenewtown.nl) article ’Sade, Fourier, van Lieshout?’ in: Atelier Van Lieshout, Rotterdam 2007 column ’We, the people’ in: Huig, tijdschriftvan de Academie van Bouwkunst Rotterdam, nr.7, januari 2007, p.70-71 2006
projectleaders for WiMBY!, the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, (www.wimby.nl) projectleader for de Hofbogen Member of the Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur architectural & development concept ’Building better & cheaper’, with Maxwan Architects & Urbanisms, commissioned by Housing Corporation Vista AT5 over historiserende architectuur lecture at Sandberg Institute Amsterdam on Artvertising and Architecture lecture Hugh Maaskant at the Academy of Architecture, Rotterdam column in the Masterclass ’De stad gaat door’, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam podcast: ’op bezoek bij Wimby’, waarin KAN-voorzitter Jaap Modder, op initiatief van de programmakers van Ruimte!, Michelle Provoost van Wimby! interviewt, 7 juli 2006 / 11 juli 2006 / 16 juli 2006 article ’New towns on the Cold War frontier’, 2006-06-28 Eurozine lecture ’New Towns’ at opening congress of the International New Towns Institute, Almere (with D. Bakker, A. Jolles, C. Wagenaar, ed.), Jaarboek van de Nederlands Architectuur 2005/2006, Yearbook of Dutch Architecture, Rotterdam 2006 lecture at the congress Shared Histories: Decolonising the Image, University of Amsterdam, ’New Towns in the developing world: emancipation-machines between nation building and Cold War-politics’. exhibition ’Het Geheugen van de Stad’ (The Memory of the City), Technical University Delft lecture at the DSD TU Delft, ’How to Survive the Twentieth Century: Recent Works on the Postwar City by Crimson Architectural Historians’ lecture at Harvard GSD, ’How to Survive the Twentieth Century: Recent Works by Crimson Architectural Historians’. critic at MIT Studio Monuments for Passaic, by Alexander d’Hooghe lecture at Harvard GSD, PhD students Group. researchproject The New Town, (www.thenewtown.nl) Docomomo Newsletter article Facts on the Ground, Harvard Design Magazine Danish Lettre Internationale article ’Facts on the Ground, Urbanism Mid-Road to Ditch’, Harvard Design Magazine, Cambridge (Ma.) article ’Slopen bouwen slopen’, de Groene Amsterdammer, 20 januari 2006 Member of Staff Academy of Architecture Rotterdam (www.avbr.nl) 2005
Member of the Rotterdamse Raad voor Kunst en Cultuur projectleaders for WiMBY!, the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, (www.wimby.nl) Visiting Scholar at Harvard Graduate School of Design, sept 2005-april 2006, working on Crimsons researchproject The New Town researchproject The New Town, (www.thenewtown.nl) article The New Town. Proposal for a Researchproject in: Liber Amicorum for Ed Taverne ’Huizen voor nieuwe Hoogvlieters’, in Architectuur Lokaal september 2005 article ‘Happy Hoogvliet’ in Shrinking Cities book publication Maak een stad. Rotterdam en de architectuur van J.H. van den Broek, Crimson, Wouter Vanstiphout, 010 publishers, 16 june 2005 cultural & historical analysis of the RDM factories, commissioned by the Department of landmark preservation, municipality of Rotterdam, february 2005 article ’Teherans Lost Civilization’, Stadt Bauwelt, Berlijn, Germany Member of Staff Academy of Architecture Rotterdam (www.avbr.nl) 2004
cultuurhistorische verkenning van het Lijnbaan ensemble, De Lijnbaan, december 2004 projectleaders for WiMBY!, the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, (www.wimby.nl) Member of Staff Academy of Architecture Rotterdam (www.avbr.nl) article ‘C60, C90, C00, Go! Plans for the New Recession by Crimson Architectural Historians’, in: UM Urban Mutations, congresbundle Arhus School of Architecture, Arhus 2004 website www.avbr.nl, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam researchproject The New Town, (www.thenewtown.nl) website www.wimby.nl, International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY! and Campus Hoogvliet website www.wimby.nl/campus exhibition ’Onderonsje’ De Strip, Vitrine ’Until we meet again’, Westwijk, Vlaardingen, 13 december 2003 / 7 march 2004 Member of Jury Charlotte Köhlerprijs article ‘Happy Hoogvliet’, in: Cor Wagenaar (red.), Happy, Rotterdam 2004 Member of ’Programmaraad AIR’, Architectuur Instituut Rotterdam project Lijn 6, stedenbouwkundig ontwerp voor Tramlijn 6 als een stadsstraat, Den Haag, with: Verena Balz, commissioned by: VELOV (Verdichten Langs Openbaar Vervoer Lijnen), Den Haag as of August 2004 founding member Ernst van der Hoeven has started an independent design and consultancy practice based in Amsterdam. 2003
projectleaders for the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY!, (www.wimby.nl) Member of Staff Academy of Architecture Rotterdam (www.avbr.nl) Website www.avbr.nl, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam Website www.wimby.nl, International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY! Article ’Vernacular Spectacular’, in: Alex de Vries (red.), NEO, Centraal Museum, Utrecht Lecture ’Vernacular Spectacular’, at: Exd Masterclasses, Design Biennale, Lissabon, Portugal / Collegi d’Arquitectes de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spanje / Berlage Institute, Rotterdam Studio with Rients Dijkstra at SCI-ARC, Los Angeles, USA Contribution to the Gerrichhausen Congres ‘Het genot van het doen’, Dordrecht publication Hugh Maaskant. Architect van de vooruitgang, Monography on the architect H.A. Maaskant, Uitgeverij 010 Lecture ‘Pressure on space: how use and renewal go hand in hand’, congres ’Cities & Markets, shifts in urban development’, IFHP, Vianna, Austria Article ’Dwelling Richness’, in: M. Stadler (red.), The Clear Cut Future, Seattle, (WA), U.S.A. Filmed interview about ’mobiliteit en stedenbouw’ for the exhibition ‘Motopia’, part of the first Architectuurbiënnale Rotterdam, NAi Research, editing and text contribution to the Rotterdam Pavilion in the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam exhibition ’La ciudad radiante’ (The Radiant City), Valencia, Spain, june 5 - august 31 Exhibition ’Onderonsje’ De Strip, Vitrine ’Until we meet again’, Westwijk, Vlaardingen, 13 december 2003 / 7 march 2004 publication Profession: Architect. de Architekten Cie., Rotterdam, 010 publishers Lecture ’WiMBY!’ for the project ‘At Home in the City’, Gallowgate, Glasgow, organisation: the Lighthouse Article ‘Scholen als consumptieartikel. Industrieel en flexibel bouwen tijdens de wederopbouw’, in: SchoolParasites. Nieuwe noodlokalen voor naoorlogs Nederland, Rotterdam 2003 2002
projectleaders for the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY!, (www.wimby.nl) Member of Staff Academy of Architecture Rotterdam (www.avbr.nl) lecture School of Architecture, Aarhus, Denmark website www.avbr.nl, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam website www.wimby.nl, International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY! nomination ’ISOC Award’ for website www.wimby.nl, International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY! award ’Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize for Young Architects’ ’250 Huizen’, part of the WiMBY project. publication Too Blessed to be Depressed, Crimson 1994-2002, Rotterdam, 010 publishers, 2002 lecture ’Too Blessed to be Depressed’, at: École d’Architecture, Marne la Vallée, Frankrijk / Societé Francaise des Architectes, Parijs, Frankrijk exhibition ’Moving Landscapes, il paesaggio contemporaneo – arte e architecttura nei Paesi Bassi’, Rome, Italy article ‘Crimson’, in: L. Benedetti and M. Van Rooy (red.), Moving Landscapes, il paesaggio contemporaneo – arte e architecttura nei Paesi Bassi, Rome 2002 article ’Crimson und Lila, Rede zur Verleihung des Maaskant-Preis 2002’, Arch +, Berlijn, Duitsland article ’De puinhopen van acht jaar Crimson’, in: De Witte Raaf, België article (with Gerard Hadders) ’Dwelling Richness’, in: Harvard Design Magazine, Fall 2002 introductory essay and editorship of 11ha, Het Storkterrein in Amsterdam verkend door kunstenaars en onderzoekers, Stichting WerkSpoor/De Balie Publishers, Amsterdam 2002 2001
projectleaders for WiMBY!, the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, www.wimby.nl exhibition and publication Post.Rotterdam, Architecture and City after the tabula rasa, Porto (Portugal), with: Pedro Gadanho, commissioned by: Porto 2001. Post. Rotterdam. Architecture and City after the tabula rasa, 010 publishers, Rotterdam/Porto 2001 Organisation of national debate on future of landscape heritage ‘Belvedere’, NAi Rotterdam Lecture ’Too Blessed to be Depressed’, at: Steierische Herbst, Graz, Oostenrijk / Academie voor kunst en architectuur, Wenen, Oostenrijk / conference Performing the City, Porto, cultural city 2001, Portugal Infrastructure studio, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam, with: Peter Trummer and Astrid Piber Website www.avbr.nl, Academy of Architecture Rotterdam Visual Communication Studio Hoogvliet/Delhi, Post Graduate School for Graphic Design Breda, with Gerard Hadders Lecture ’WiMBY!’, IFHP congres, Rotterdam Series of essays on contemporary architecture and urbanism for Newspaper BN/De Stem Concept for Rotterdam architecture biennial ‘Take A Stand’. Lecture Architecture Conference Tromsö, Norway Architecture and Urban Planning Studio, MRD Program, Southern California Institute for Architecture, Los Angeles, California, with: Rients Dijkstra, Michael Speaks & Minke Themans ThinkTank ‘ Creative Cities’, for Ministry of Housing, Planning and the Environment, The Hague 2000
projectleaders for the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, WiMBY! (www.wimby.nl) teacher at the Metropolitan Research + Design Program, Southern California institute for Arhcitecture publication WiMBY! Welcome into My Backyard!, International Building Exhibition Rotterdam-Hoogvliet, for the International Building Exposition Rotterdam Hoogvliet 2001-2010, NAi publishers, Rotterdam 2000 urban design for the Kunstberg/ Mont des Arts Brussel/Bruxelles, commissioned by Brussel/Bruxelles 2000, with Max 1. contribution to symposium ‘Dag van IJburg’, Amsterdam exhibition ‘Big Soft Orange’, Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio, Verenigde Staten lecture ’WiMBY! & Mart Stam’s Trousers’, ETH Basel, Switzerland lecture ’WiMBY!’, Linz, Oostenrijk lecture Habitat conference Buenos Aires, Argentinïe workshop and lectures, DiTella Insititute, Buenos Aires, Argentina publication Ruimtelijke Ordening als deel van het Cultuurbeleid, Ministerie voor Onderwijs, Cultuur en Wetenschappen, Den Haag exhibition ‘The Stadium. The Architecture of Mass Sports’, NAi Rotterdam publication Het Stadion. De architectuur van massasport, NAi publishers, Rotterdam 2000 collage, ‘The Stadium. The architecture of Mass Sports’ on southwall of the Netherlands Architecture Institute Rotterdam 1999
publication Mart Stam’s Trousers. Stories from behind the scenes of Dutch Moral Modernism, with Michael Speaks en Gerard Hadders, 010 Publishers exhibition ‘What If?’ in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen exhibition ‘Big Soft Orange’ in: Storefront Gallery/Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, New York City; Sci-Arc, Los Angeles; CCCA, San Francisco contribution to the manifestation ‘Mobiliteit als uitdaging’ (Mobility as a challenge), Erasmus Universiteit, with Jaap Modder, director NIROV Member of the Quality Team for Leidsche Rijn educational project ‘De Stad’ (the city), at the Postgraduate School for Graphic Design, Breda design for ’Straatbrug Fina’, Vlaardingen Westwijk lectures at the Academy for Architecture on ‘Infrastructure and the City’ coaching graduate students TU Delft, TU Eindhoven and several Academies Member of the jury for the EO Wijers competition Member of the jury Rietveld award Utrecht urban design for the ’Leuvehaven’, commissioned by Wijkontwikkelings Maatschappij, Maritiem Museum and Maritiem Buitenmuseum architectural design for ’stairs’ in Leuvehaven, commissioned by Maritiem Buitenmuseum Rotterdam atelier Stedelijk Realisme (Urban realism) at the Academy for Visual Arts in Arnhem contribution and publication for workshop Maasvlakte II lecture ’WiMBY! & Mart Stam’s Trousers’ and workshop, Academy for architecture, Oslo, Norway lecture ’Mart Stam’s Trousers’, Form Zero Gallery & bookstore, Los Angeles, U.S.A. lecture ’Big Soft Orange’, California Center for Architecture, San Francisco, U.S.A. educational project ‘Urban Sprawl’, at the Southern California Institute for Architecture contribution to the project Ruimtelijke kwaliteit Corridorontwikkeling (Urban quality of infrastructural corridors), commissioned by INCODELTA ‘Bleeding Pages’, with Chris Dercon, Metropolis M teacher Postgraduate School for Graphic Design, Academy St.Joost Breda article ’Hot AIR’, Archis 1999 nr.1 exhibition ‘Dutchtown’, NAi Rotterdam publication (with Bernard Colenbrander and Floris Alkemade) Dutchtown. O.M.A.’s meesterproef in Almere, NAi publishers, Rotterdam 1999 1998
publication Media & Architecture, publication following the Leon Kiers Master Class organised by the Berlage Instituut Amsterdam and the VPRO article ‘Wilde Wonen’, research on the role of governemental planning in housing, commissioned by ERA Bouw and with the Architecten Cie., and article in publication with the same name, 010 Publishers, 1998 historical research on the industrial area Spaanse Polder for the project ’Haven- & Industriegebieden’, comissioned by the Stichting Comité Wederopbouw Rotterdam article ’De regie van de stad’, Archis 1998 nr.3, 64-65 educational project aan de Academie for Visual Arts in Arnhem, department Monumental Arts article ’Glad & schoon’, in: Panorama Nederland, boekenweekmagazine 1998 project ’Rose’, research project commissioned by dS+V, department Monuments, with Camp & Kamphuis project ’Noordsingel’, design for a new use of the jail at the Noordsingel in Rotterdam, commissioned by theWijk Ontwikkelings Maatschappij competition design for Valkenburg Ondergronds, with Max 1 ‘Toyota Home’, educational project at the Berlage Instituut Amsterdam, with Max 1 and NL-Architects contribution to ’Symposium over de nuloptie’, Vleeshal, Middelburg article ’Achteruit is vooruit’, in: catalogus Vleeshal Middelburg, 1998 travelling exhibition ’Big Soft Orange’ with Max 1, One Architecture and NL Architects in Yale School of Art and Architecture lecture ’Big Soft Orange’, at: Faculty of Architecture, Yale University, New Haven (conn.) / Storefront Gallery, New York (NY) lecture ’Org Wars’, Berlage Institute, Amsterdam lecture ’Crimson Architectural Historians, Recent Work’, Architectural Association, London, England article ’De stedelijkheid van de snelwegzone’, in: Werkdocument Muizengaatje/Poort van Noord i.o.v. Centrum Beeldende Kunst Rotterdam, 1998 article ’Groot en groots’ in: 25 jaar Rotterdam-Maaskantstichting, Rotterdam 1998 article ’Rockbottom, OMA builds house in Bordeaux’, in: Harvard Design Magazine, Summer 1998, no. 5 article ’Nieuwe stedelijkheid in de snelwegzone. Het bestuur van de dertiende provincie van Nederland’, in: Socialisme en Democratie 1998 article ’Compacte stad. Openbaar vervoer en projectontwikkeling in Hong Kong’, Archis 1998 nr.6, 28-3 project ‘Bouwen tegen de buurt’, plan for the second urban renewal of Rotterdam, commissioned by the Dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting (phase 2) 1997
study for the Stationspostkantoor Rotterdam with architect Rob van Erk, for the project ’Ontwerpgericht onderzoek’, about new uses for reconstruction architecture in the centre of Rotterdam, commissioned by het Comité Wederopbouw study for the PTT Telecomgebouw Rotterdam, with One Architecture, for the project ’Ontwerpgericht onderzoek’, commissioned by het Comité Wederopbouw publication Re-Urb: Nieuwe Plannen voor Oude Steden (New plans for old cities), commissioned by Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur, 010 Publishers article ’De dertiende provincie van Nederland’, de Volkskrant 16-8-1997 article ’Consensus Terrorism’, in: Harvard Design Magazine, summer 1997, no.2 urban concept for Historic Delfshaven, commissioned by de Wijk Ontwikkelings Maatschappij project ‘Bouwen tegen de buurt’ (Orgwars), ontwikkelingsvisie voor de tweede stadsvernieuwing van Rotterdam, commissioned by de dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting Rotterdam (phase 1) CD-ROM ‘Locatieboek’, an automated guide to municipal planning in the Rotterdam region article ’Architectuur en consensus’, in: De Gids article ’Havenstad Rotterdam’ / Rotterdam Harbour City, Archis 1997 nr.10, 8-23 Article ’Vies, Lekker en Direct’, Archis 1997 Article ’Das Educatorium, Hörsaalgebaüde auf dem Campus von Utrecht’, Bauwelt, Heft 43/44, 21 November 1997 Member of the editing board of the magazine Archis Member of the Welstandscommissie Rotterdam Member of the Welstandscommissie Amsterdam 1996
plan for the New Town Hoogvliet (Pdf 600 Kb), commissioned by de dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting Rotterdam ‘Dipping Delft’, scenario for the visual arts in public spaces, commissioned by evenementenbureau Delft 750 jaar Cultuurstad CD-ROM ‘De Wederopbouwarchitectuur van Rotterdam’ (Architecture of the reconstruction period in Rotterdam, commissioned by de dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting Rotterdam atelier ‘City of Flows’ met Winka Dubbeldam, Academie voor Bouwkunst Rotterdam en Groningen article ’Black & Whiteness’, in: ANY Magazine, New York lecture ’Black & Whiteness’, Soho Guggenheim Museum, New York several contributions to the ‘Dizionario dell’Architettura Contemporanea’, edited by Carlo Olmo, Turijn publication ASFALT, automobiliteit in Rotterdam (Automobility in Rotterdam, 010 Publishers article ’Moerasandijvie, boomkikkers en paddentunnel’, Archis 1996 nr.7 workshop Coastwise Europe, in samenwerking met Matthijs Bouw Member of the Welstandscommissie Rotterdam article ’A Compulsion towards The Real’, in: Wiederhall, no.19, 1996 article ’Oh Heavens, Philip Johnson and the Dawning of the New’, in: Wiederhall, no.19, 1996 1995
Article (with Rients Dijkstra) ’30.000 huizen in Utrecht’, in: Archis 1995 Articles ’Massa en weerstand’ / ’Leegte’, and editing for the publication Vijftig jaar wederopbouw Rotterdam (Fifty years of reconstructing Rotterdam), commissioned by Dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting Rotterdam, 010 Publishers, mei 1995. Publication Re-Arch. : nieuwe ontwerpen voor oude gebouwen (New designs for old buildings), commissioned by Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur, 010 Publishers, september 1995. Article ’Een grand projet voor Nederland’, Archis 1995 nr.3 Interactive computerprogram ‘Wederopbouwarchitectuur Rotterdam’ (Architecture of the reconstruction Rotterdam), commissioned by de dienst Stedebouw + Volkshuisvesting Rotterdam Publication (with Jan Duursma) Rotterdam-Moscow. Architectural Training at the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and the Moscow Architectural Institute, 010 Publishers, Rotterdam, 1995 Workshops en paneldiscussions within the manifestation ‘Rotterdam 2045’ Different articles for the publication: K. Bosma and C. Wagenaar, Een geruisloze doorbraak. De wederopbouw van Nederland, (The reconstruction of the Netherlands), NAi Uitgevers Readers ‘Rotterdam-Maaskantprijs 1996’, commissioned by de stichting Rotterdam-Maaskant Editors of the magazine ‘Wiederhall Architectural Serial’, with One Architecture, Pieter Feenstra and Donald van Dansik. 1994
Part of designteam for the VINEX-location Leidse Rijn, with Max2 architects . Competition design for Cruise Terminal Yokohama, with One Architecture architects and Heerema Offshore Consultants. ’Au dela du polder neo-plastique’, text and contribution to the exhibition ’La Ville’, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France. Article ’Groothandelsgebouw; a work of genius and bureaucracy’, Bouw, november 1994 Article ’Generatiekloof’, Archis nr.10 1994 Article ’Hoe de Twintigste eeuw ook aan ons land niet voorbij ging’, in: Archis 1994 |
New Towns
De buitenlandse wortels van een oer-Hollandse polderstad May 2007
Almere geldt in Nederland als de typische polderstad, uiterst Hollands, uit de klei getrokken daar waar eerst niets was. Zij wordt wel de ultieme 21ste eeuwse stad genoemd, de modernste Hollandse stad, niet alleen omdat ze pas dertig lentes jong is, maar ook omdat zich hier de suburbane levensstijl heeft kunnen ontwikkelen zoals nergens anders in ons land. In het buitenland heeft Almere een iets ander imago, dat van de succesvolle New Town, van een volkomen planmatig tot stand gebrachte stad die desalniettemin verstoken is gebleven van sociale problemen en verloedering - iets wat de meeste andere New Towns in Europa Almere niet nadoen. Almere maakt graag gebruik van die twee positieve imago’s en afficheert zichzelf in het buitenland als ‘new towns capital of the world’ en in het binnenland met ‘In Almere kan het’. De volgende stappen die getuigen van een groeiend zelfbewustzijn zijn inmiddels overtuigens gezet met het nieuwe centrum, dat met zijn signature architecture internationaal de aandacht trekt, en de campagne voor de ‘dubbelstad’, waarin de afhankelijkheidsrelatie met Amsterdam stoer voor een gelijkwaardige verhouding wordt omgeruild. Almere is een unieke stad, de boodschap is duidelijk, en het zou flauw zijn dat te willen betwisten. Maar de vraag die zich opdringt bij zoveel succes is: waar komt al die uniciteit toch vandaan?
2004
After the second world war a large family of New Towns was built all over the globe. The towns were planned from scratch, based on the combined ideologies of the Garden City, CIAM-modernism and the neighbourhood principle. From Western Europe to Asia, from Africa to the former communist countries, the original universal model of the New Town was adapted to local cultures, economics and politics. The New Town research project will try to paint a worldwide panorama of the differences and similarities between the thousands of offspring of the universalist planning model of modernism. It will point out the familiarity between the superquadras in Brasilia and the neighbourhood-modules in Rotterdam. But it will also celebrate the fact that one model could simultaneously lead to Scandinavian cleanliness, Indian visual richness and Chinese density. 23 June 2004
Only six kilometers long, Rotterdam’s subway line was the shortest in the world when it opened in 1968. Not surprisingly, the city took great pride in having built the Netherlands’ first subway. It was yet another sign of the city’s agility in re-inventing itself after the devastating air raid that had destroyed it’s historical core in 1940. It manifested the two pillars of Rotterdam’s carefully cultivated image: modernity and progress. A new urban core dominated by buildings that meant business, and spacious new housing estates fostered the city’s self-esteem. The subway was welcomed as a gadget that strengthened the new image. Starting in the rebuilt center, the line crosses the river disclosing the old working class estates on the southern bank. It continues to the postwar housing estates that repeated endless series of identical or very similar units (which had appropriately been labeled ‘stamps’). For the time being the line ended in Slinge station, in one of the world’s most famous housing estates: Pendrecht.
16 June 2009
Lecture by Michelle Provoost at the Berlage Institute, Rotterdam. How modern urban planning was exported as an instrument in the battle for the developing world May 2007
Looking at the cities that were built from scratch during the fifties and sixties all over the world, it is astonishing to see how the world population growth was accommodated along very similar lines in places very remote and different in culture and political background. Whether one looks at the Villes Nouvelles around Paris, the New Towns close to London, the new parts of Stockholm or cities like Hoogvliet in the Netherlands, a similar strategy and design method was applied. These cities were erected based on the ideas of the garden city, and a hierarchical ordering and zoning of functions relying on modernist urban planning. Starting in the London region in the forties, these New Towns soon became the panacea for urban growth in Western Europe. Harder to understand is how the same modernist urban planning started to pop up and spread in developing, decolonising countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. The export of these New Town principles can only be understood from the background of the Cold War period, in which the east and west were both competing for the loyalty of the third world in every which way they knew how. While the endeavours of the Soviet Union in this field remain largely unresearched, it is clear that the US sent out a number of urban planners and architects to countries in strategic places like the Middle East. The hypothesis soon formed that urban planning was considered to be a powerful instrument in cold war politics, and that the export of architecture and planning functioned as a means of cultural in stead of political colonization.
Crimson Architectural Historians in Mentougou | Beijing 13 February 2009
"On Friday February 13, MovingCities went on an embedded urban research trip with Crimson Architectural Historians. Throughout the past one and a half decade this Rotterdam based collective has developed an intriguing hybrid practice that takes the contemporary city as its object. Their ongoing study is a worldwide research project on the phenomenon, evolution, discourse and current state of the New Town: After the second world war a large family of New Towns was built all over the globe. The towns were planned from scratch, based on the combined ideologies of the Garden City, CIAM-modernism and the neighbourhood principle. From Western Europe to Asia, from Africa to the former communist countries, the original universal model of the New Town was adapted to local cultures, economics and politics." 10.30–17.00, Lecture Theatre, London 14 November 2008
Lecture by Michelle Provoost on ’New Towns on the Cold War Frontier; urban planning as an instrument in cold war politics’ at the conference ’Cold War Culture’. Friday 21 & Saturday 22 November 2008 De WiMBY-methode 4 October 2007
Na de tweede wereldoorlog wisten we het precies: zó moeten we onze steden bouwen. De ruimte, het vele groen, de rangschikking van de woonblokken. En dicht bij de baas. Hoogvliet, in de jaren zestig gebouwd voor de arbeiders van Shell en de Rotterdamse haven, was de eerste modernistische New Town in Nederland. De architectuurhistorici Michelle Provoost en Wouter Vanstiphout doen onderzoek naar deze wereldwijde familie van New Towns en hun mondiale eenvormigheid. Er zijn immers duizenden Hoogvlieten: van Bagdad tot Detroit en van Islamabad tot Nowa Huta. Nooit zijn ze geworden wat de planners hadden voorzien. Ze worden als ‘mislukt’ beschouwd en voor een flink deel weer afgebroken. Waarmee alles wordt weggevaagd wat in de loop der jaren is ontstaan. VPRO, Tegenlicht: Maandag 15 oktober 20.55 uur / dinsdag 16 oktober, 23.30 uur | Nederland 2 |
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