Dirk van den Heuvel : Bakema et la société ouverte
On Wednesday, March 28, 2018, at 7:00 PM, a lecture will be held at the VI PER gallery by Dutch historian and architecture critic Dirk van den Heuvel, a professor at TU Delft. During the evening, he will present the publication Jaap Bakema and the Open Society, which is the first comprehensive publication dedicated to Dutch architect Jaap Bakema, his ideas, and visions for society. In the post-World War II era, Bakema sought to contribute to the building of a democratic and open society. His work, pedagogical activities, and writings, along with his international presence, serve as evidence of the changing nature of the welfare state and the roles architecture and planning played in its construction.
Amid today's ongoing neoliberal crisis and its conservative cultural decline, these ideas about an open society have gained renewed relevance, particularly in light of current debates about how to engage citizens in city building and how to create alternatives for crumbling welfare states. Bakema's legacy also serves as a mirror that reminds us of the radical potential of architectural concepts in their commitment to addressing social issues.
The publication highlights both internationally recognized and lesser-known works of Jaap Bakema through his texts (some of which are published in English for the first time), complemented by rich visual documentation from archives. The book includes interviews with contemporaries who collaborated with him in various contexts, as well as essays that critically examine the socially engaged aspects of Bakema's work and the contexts in which they emerged.
The book Jaap Bakema and the Open Society has been edited by Dirk van den Heuvel, with contributions from Brita Bakema, Christine Boyer, Lard Buurman, Dick van Gameren, John Habraken, Carola Hein, Herman Hertzberger, Frans Hooykaas, Arnold Reijndorp, Izak Salomons, Johannes Schwartz, Jorrit Sipkes, Carel Weeber. Graphic design by Jaap van Triest.
Jaap Bakema (1914–1981) was one of the main figures of the post-war avant-garde. He was responsible for the transformation of the CIAM group into Team 10, and in the Netherlands, along with Aldo van Eyck and Herman Hertzberger, he belonged to the so-called Forum group that introduced structuralism into architecture. At the same time, he led one of the leading architectural firms, Van den Broek and Bakema, in Rotterdam, which was responsible for key projects of the time, such as the Lijnbaan shopping center in Rotterdam. In Germany, Bakema contributed to the design of one of the towers in Berlin's Hansaviertel, the town hall in Marl, and the research complex of Siemens in Munich. Bakema can be considered the last representative of the construction of the Dutch welfare state and its changing principles from a universalist approach to a neoliberal turn in the 1970s.
Dirk van den Heuvel is a professor at the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft). He is the founder and director of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, a joint research initiative of TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut. In 2017, he received a Richard Rogers Fellowship awarded by Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Van den Heuvel was the curator of the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, where he presented the exhibition Open: A Bakema Celebration. He also curated the exhibition on Dutch structuralism An Installation in Four Acts: Education, Ideals, Building, the City (Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2014) and a showcase on the architecture of the house as a paradigm of architectural discipline Changing Ideals: Re-thinking the House (Bureau Europa, Maastricht, 2008). His publications include: Jaap Bakema and the Open Society (Archis 2018), Architecture and the Welfare State (Routledge 2015, co-authors Mark Swenarton and Tom Avermaete), Team 10: In Search of a Utopia of the Present 1953–1981 (NAi Publishers 2005, co-author Max Risselada), and Alison and Peter Smithson: From the House of the Future to a House of Today (010 Publishers 2004, co-author Max Risselada). Together with Madeleine Steigenga and Jaap van Triest, he is the author of the book Lessons: Tupker / Risselada. A Double Portrait of Dutch Architectural Education (2003). Van den Heuvel is the editor of the publication series DASH. Delft Architectural Studies on Housing (nai010publishers) and the online magazine for architectural theory Footprint. From 1993 to 1999, he was the editor of the Dutch magazine OASE.
The lecture is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Czech Republic.
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Amid today's ongoing neoliberal crisis and its conservative cultural decline, these ideas about an open society have gained renewed relevance, particularly in light of current debates about how to engage citizens in city building and how to create alternatives for crumbling welfare states. Bakema's legacy also serves as a mirror that reminds us of the radical potential of architectural concepts in their commitment to addressing social issues.
The publication highlights both internationally recognized and lesser-known works of Jaap Bakema through his texts (some of which are published in English for the first time), complemented by rich visual documentation from archives. The book includes interviews with contemporaries who collaborated with him in various contexts, as well as essays that critically examine the socially engaged aspects of Bakema's work and the contexts in which they emerged.
The book Jaap Bakema and the Open Society has been edited by Dirk van den Heuvel, with contributions from Brita Bakema, Christine Boyer, Lard Buurman, Dick van Gameren, John Habraken, Carola Hein, Herman Hertzberger, Frans Hooykaas, Arnold Reijndorp, Izak Salomons, Johannes Schwartz, Jorrit Sipkes, Carel Weeber. Graphic design by Jaap van Triest.
Jaap Bakema (1914–1981) was one of the main figures of the post-war avant-garde. He was responsible for the transformation of the CIAM group into Team 10, and in the Netherlands, along with Aldo van Eyck and Herman Hertzberger, he belonged to the so-called Forum group that introduced structuralism into architecture. At the same time, he led one of the leading architectural firms, Van den Broek and Bakema, in Rotterdam, which was responsible for key projects of the time, such as the Lijnbaan shopping center in Rotterdam. In Germany, Bakema contributed to the design of one of the towers in Berlin's Hansaviertel, the town hall in Marl, and the research complex of Siemens in Munich. Bakema can be considered the last representative of the construction of the Dutch welfare state and its changing principles from a universalist approach to a neoliberal turn in the 1970s.
Dirk van den Heuvel is a professor at the Technical University of Delft (TU Delft). He is the founder and director of the Jaap Bakema Study Centre at Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam, a joint research initiative of TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut. In 2017, he received a Richard Rogers Fellowship awarded by Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. Van den Heuvel was the curator of the Dutch pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2014, where he presented the exhibition Open: A Bakema Celebration. He also curated the exhibition on Dutch structuralism An Installation in Four Acts: Education, Ideals, Building, the City (Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2014) and a showcase on the architecture of the house as a paradigm of architectural discipline Changing Ideals: Re-thinking the House (Bureau Europa, Maastricht, 2008). His publications include: Jaap Bakema and the Open Society (Archis 2018), Architecture and the Welfare State (Routledge 2015, co-authors Mark Swenarton and Tom Avermaete), Team 10: In Search of a Utopia of the Present 1953–1981 (NAi Publishers 2005, co-author Max Risselada), and Alison and Peter Smithson: From the House of the Future to a House of Today (010 Publishers 2004, co-author Max Risselada). Together with Madeleine Steigenga and Jaap van Triest, he is the author of the book Lessons: Tupker / Risselada. A Double Portrait of Dutch Architectural Education (2003). Van den Heuvel is the editor of the publication series DASH. Delft Architectural Studies on Housing (nai010publishers) and the online magazine for architectural theory Footprint. From 1993 to 1999, he was the editor of the Dutch magazine OASE.
The lecture is supported by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Czech Republic.
More information >
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