Spaces between Servitude and Statement

ISBN: 0-8070-6473-4

Gaston Bachelard 1884-1962

1 The House, from Cellar to Garret

The significance of the Hut 2

House and Universe 3

Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes 4

Nests 5

Shells 6

Corners 7

Miniature 8

Intimate Inmensity 9

The Dialectics of Outside and Inside 10

The Phenomenology of Roundness

Roombeek “Bauen ist Sterben Sterben ist Leben”

Tancred, Prince of Antioch

On Monday, October 12, 1654, shortly after half past eleven in the morning, one of Delft's powder magazines exploded and devastated a large part of the city. The “Delftsche Donderslag” was said to have been heard as far away as the island of Texel, seventy miles north of Delft. When the magazine exploded, it contained about ninety thousand pounds of gunpowder. The force of the blast was so great that most houses in the immediate vicinity were destroyed and buildings throughout the city were damaged. The two major churches, the Oude and the Nieuwe Kerk, were also damaged. Although the number of people killed is not known, it has been estimated that deaths were in the hundreds. Among the casualties was one of Delft's most famous painters, Carel Fabritius.

Egbert van der Poel (1621-1664)

View of Delft after the Explosion of 1654 Oil on wood, 36,2 x 49,5 cm National Gallery, London

Carel Fabritius 1622 - 1654

Self-portrait, ca. 1650 oil on panel, 65x49 cm, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen

Carel Fabritius

A View of Delft, with a Musical Instrument Seller's Stall Oil on canvas, 15,4 x 31,6 cm, 1652

National Gallery, London

Dutch Art Institute becomes

Carel Fabritius Institute

A great talent who died too young (James Dean Effect)

Hieronymus Bosch Painter (1450-1516)

The Brotherhood of our Lady

Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Delights (The Millenium), Prado, Madrid

Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Delights (The Earthly Paradise), Prado, Madrid

Bridal Chambers

Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Delights (The Earthly Paradise), Prado, Madrid

Fermez l’espace! Fermez la poche du Kangourou!

Il y fait chaud.

Close space! Close the kangaroo’s pouch!

It’s warm in there.

Maurice Blanchard - Le temps de la poésie

Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Delights (Female Rock), Prado, Madrid

Ernst Haeckel Art Forms in Nature - Radiolaria 1899

Hieronymus Bosch The Garden of Delights (Hell - The Tree of Knowledge), Prado, Madrid

Ferdinand Cheval Postman (1836-1924)

Le Palais Idéal Charmes-sur-l’Herbasse (Drôme) 1879-1912

93,000 hours 10,000 days

33 years of hardship

Le Palais Idéal, 1924 East facade

Le Palais Idéal, 1924 south-east corner

Le Palais Idéal, 1924 east facade

Le Palais Idéal, 1924 details

Le Palais Idéal, 1924 roofscape

Le Palais Idéal, 1924 roofscape

Le Palais Idéal, 1924 roofscape

Quand les cines de notre ciel se rejoindront Ma maison aura un toit

When the peaks of our sky come together My house will have a roof

Paul Eluard - Dignes de vivre

In winter like in summer Night and day I walked Over the plain, the hills

And the river too, To bring back the hard stones

Chiselled by nature. My back paid his share

I braved everything Even death.

In the evening after dark When man is resting I work on my palace.

No one will ever know How hard it was.

With the moments of leisure My occupation gave me

I built this Arabian nights’ palace Where my memory is engraved.

German Expressionist Architecture 1919-1933

Hermann Finsterlin (1887-1973) Project of a Cathedral on the VIII hill in Rome

bone (1924)

Hermann Finsterlin (1887-1973) Project of a Cathedral on the VIII hill in Rome

architectural model (1970)

Hermann Finsterlin (1887-1973) Project of a Large Building, 1919

(snails, mushrooms, corals)

Hermann Finsterlin (1887-1973) Cathedral of Light, 1919

Wenzel A. Hablik Duplex Chrystal House, 1920

Wenzel A. Hablik Chrystal collection

Matthew Barney Cremaster 3, 2002

Bruno Taut Snow-Glacier-Glass / Alpine Architecture, 1918

German Expressionist Cinema 1919-1933

Robert Wiene The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920

Karl Boese, Paul Wegener The Golem, 1920

Fritz Lang Metropolis, 1927

“ I believe that as technology advances in architecture, the closer it comes to nature.”

John M. Johansen Architect

(1916)

“It’s not biomorphism in the sense that it is imitation of natural form,

better is learning how nature organises, and in the same way we can organise

our buildings and our cities.”

(quotes from an interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist)

ISBN: 1-56898-301-8

John M. Johansen Molecular-Engineered Apartment Building 2001

Ernst Haeckel Art Forms in Nature - Radiolaria 1899

John M. Johansen Froth of Bubbles - Conference Center 2001

MERZ MERZBAU

(cathedral of erotic misery)

Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948)

Kurt Schwitters Construction for Noble Ladies, 1919

113x84 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Kurt Schwitters Merzbau, Hannover 1920-1936

MERZ ist Konsequenz. MERZ bedeutet Beziehungen schaffen, am liebsten zwischen allen Dingen der Welt.

Kurt Schwitters Merzbau, Hannover 1920-1936

Steven Holl Architect (1947)

Competition Project for the Museum of Evolution Burgos, Spain 2000

ISBN: 0-8513-9111-7

Steven Holl Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

Steven Holl Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

Steven Holl Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

Steven Holl Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

perspective drawing of the museum from the north

Steven Holl Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

Steven Holl Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

Steven Holl - Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos Atapuerca Cave and museum - routings

Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than all houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed to that of the childhood home. Later in life, with indomitable courage, we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done:

we are going to build a house.

Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space

Shigeru Ban Architect (1957)

Curtain Wall house Itabashi, Tokyo 1995

Katsura Villa, Kyoto Old Shoin, 16th century

ISBN: 0-9181-7202-0

Mies van der Rohe invented the glass curtain wall, but I just used a curtain

Shigeru Ban

Mies van de Rohe - Farnsworth House. 1950 Shigeru Ban, Curtain Wall house, 1995

Shigeru Ban Curtain Wall House, 1995

Shigeru Ban Curtain Wall House, 1995

Herzog & De Meuron Architects (1950)

Rémy Zaugg Artist (1943)

Centre pompidou, An Exhibition, 1995

Herzog & De Meuron / Rémy Zaugg An exhibition

(Centre Pompidou, 1995)

ISBN: 3-8932-2889-6

Herzog & De Meuron Architects Prada Aoyama Store, Tokyo, Japan 2003

Rémy Zaugg

Über die Nutzlosigkeit der Skulptur im Jahr 1987 in der Stadt

des Jahres 1987 (das erste Skulpturprojekt)

Rémy Zaugg exhibition diagram and fax message from Jacques Herzog

MAIS MOI LA VILLE

JE TE VOIS

ABER ICH DAS BILD ICH SEHE

DICH

BUT I WORLD

I SEE YOU

Utilitarian Minimalism (appropriated aesthetics)

L’espace m’a toujours rendu silencieux Space has always reduced me to silence

Jules Vallès, L’enfant

Donald Judd Artist (1928-1994)

ISBN: 3-925047-07-7

Donald Judd Untitled, 1991, aluminium, 5 units, each 1,5x1,5x1,5m

Collection Chinati Foundation, Marfa

Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas The Arena - Courtyard

Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas The Arena - Interior

Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas The Arena - Plan

Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas Concrete Building Group

Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas concrete building under construction

Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas Artillery Sheds

Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas Artillery shed - Interior with Judd sculptures

Donald Judd Furniture

Scenarios (epilogue)

At the door of the house who will come knocking? An open door, we enter

A closed door, a den The world pulse beats beyond my door.

Pierre Albert Birot

Yet listen well. Not to my words, but to the tumult that rages in

your body when you listen to yourself.

René Daumel

plane of events

nouns

verbs

time

Here, as time flows across the page from left to right, is a tiny part of the ocean of the Streams of Story, a handful of the thousand thousand and one tales.

An event is the intersection of noun and verb, of subject and action… something happens

Edward Rolf Tufte - Visual Explanations

Mr. Isaac The Favorite, á Chaconne 1707

Merce Cunningham Unfinished Work 1958?

Bob Wilson A Letter to Queen Victoria 1974

Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Programmatic Lava

Urban Design Forum, Yokohama, Japan - project 1992

Georges Perec Writer (1936-1982)

"All I know is that the puzzle is called 'The Life and Works of Georges Perec.' But I don't know what the solution is!"

Georges Perec

ISBN: 0-8792-3751-1

ISBN: 9-0295-3419-2

ISBN: 2-2530-2390-6

ISBN: 2-7186-0550-2

ISBN: 0-1401-8986-6

Ruimten Rondom

ISBN: 9-0295-350-3

The hallucinatory effect derives from the extraordinary clarity and not from mystery or mist.

Nothing is more fantastic ultimately than precision.

André Robbe-Grillet