Exhibition HORROR VACUI
Terror of Emptiness/Urban Implosions in the Netherlands
Gallery of Jaroslav Fragner
Betlémské nám. 5a, Prague 1
Duration of the exhibition: May 28 – June 20, 2009
Opening: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Introductory speech: Cultural attaché of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Heleen Saaf van der Beek and curator of the exhibition Hans Ibelings
Lecture
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Světozor Cinema, Vodičkova 41, Prague 1
Hans Ibelings, curator of the exhibition and editor-in-chief of A10 magazine
Organizers
Gallery of Jaroslav Fragner
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Netherlands Architecture Institute
A10 New European Architecture
The exhibition is part of the NethWorks.cz festival of contemporary Dutch culture, co-organized with the Architecture Centre in Brno (April 21 – May 21, 2009).
Supported by
Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur
CTP Invest spol. s r.o.
ING Real Estate
NethWorks.cz
GJF Partners
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
Czech Architecture Foundation
Capital City of Prague
Real Estate Karlín Group
CEGRA
Canon
Media partners
Earchitekt
Archiweb
Architekt
Projekt
ASB
Construction Forum
Design Magazin
Estate
Respekt
Radio 1
Participating architectural firms
S333 architects
KCAP
OD 205 architectuur bv
De Architecten Cie
Wiel Arets Architects
Rijnboutt Van der Vossen Rijnboutt
JHK
Claus en Kaan Architecten
Benthem Crouwel
Jeroen van Schooten of Meyer & van Schooten
UN Studio
Herman Hertzberger Architects
Jo Coenen
Vera Yanovchinsky
NL Architects
MVRDV
Soeters van Eldonk
OMA
West 8
Concept of the exhibition
www.gjf.cz
www.nethworks.cz
www.a10.eu
Betlémské nám. 5a, Prague 1
Duration of the exhibition: May 28 – June 20, 2009
Opening: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 7:30 PM
Introductory speech: Cultural attaché of the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands Heleen Saaf van der Beek and curator of the exhibition Hans Ibelings
Lecture
Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 6:00 PM
Světozor Cinema, Vodičkova 41, Prague 1
Hans Ibelings, curator of the exhibition and editor-in-chief of A10 magazine
Organizers
Gallery of Jaroslav Fragner
Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
Netherlands Architecture Institute
A10 New European Architecture
The exhibition is part of the NethWorks.cz festival of contemporary Dutch culture, co-organized with the Architecture Centre in Brno (April 21 – May 21, 2009).
Supported by
Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur
CTP Invest spol. s r.o.
ING Real Estate
NethWorks.cz
GJF Partners
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic
Czech Architecture Foundation
Capital City of Prague
Real Estate Karlín Group
CEGRA
Canon
Media partners
Earchitekt
Archiweb
Architekt
Projekt
ASB
Construction Forum
Design Magazin
Estate
Respekt
Radio 1
The traveling exhibition NAi (Netherlands Architecture Institute) presents in its project the perspective of eighteen leading contemporary Dutch architectural firms on the issue of urban densification and the development of older urban areas. Among the presented examples are solutions from the cities of Amsterdam, Arnhem, Eindhoven, Eschede, Groningen, Lelystad, Maastricht, Rotterdam, Tilburg, Utrecht, and Zaanstad, showcasing projects from residential, community, and office buildings to university campuses – both in the peripheries and in the original centers of urban agglomerations. The examples demonstrate possibilities for reusing and reorganizing older urban areas in response to the lack of building space.
Participating architectural firms
S333 architects
KCAP
OD 205 architectuur bv
De Architecten Cie
Wiel Arets Architects
Rijnboutt Van der Vossen Rijnboutt
JHK
Claus en Kaan Architecten
Benthem Crouwel
Jeroen van Schooten of Meyer & van Schooten
UN Studio
Herman Hertzberger Architects
Jo Coenen
Vera Yanovchinsky
NL Architects
MVRDV
Soeters van Eldonk
OMA
West 8
Concept of the exhibition
The increasing extent of occupancy in the Dutch landscape, as a result of the unforgivable expansion of cities (which the government and architects regularly focus on), is a movement against the effort to densify existing cities. Although demographic indicators predict that the Netherlands could soon be on the brink of population decline, nothing of the sort is evident, at least not in the construction industry, where the number of square meters per person, as a developmental indicator of growth that society can bear, continues to rise.
While in other parts of the world cities continue to grow explosively, the Dutch situation is best described as implosion, inward-directed growth, which fills the gaps in the urban fabric – even in Rotterdam, where emptiness has been a fundamental quality of the local "genius loci" ever since the destruction of the city center in 1940.
While in other parts of the world cities continue to grow explosively, the Dutch situation is best described as implosion, inward-directed growth, which fills the gaps in the urban fabric – even in Rotterdam, where emptiness has been a fundamental quality of the local "genius loci" ever since the destruction of the city center in 1940.
Until recently, almost every Dutch city was characterized by a significant number of unused spaces, overgrown areas, surplus land, and other blank spots. Moreover, modernist ideals of openness had far-reaching implications in many areas. However, over the past two decades, previously unfilled spaces in the urban fabric, whether they arose naturally or intentionally, have rapidly vanished, filled with buildings or public spaces that have consumed all "openness" like a black hole. And if something remained untouched by human hand, it will likely come into play in the coming years. The most important interventions of the last fifteen years and some promising projects currently underway mainly concern the transformation of former industrial and port areas, densification of urban centers, regeneration of post-war residential development, and intensification of transportation routes and hubs. These projects showcase a wide variety of strategies, from careful restoration of old buildings in inner cities, reshaped by modernist urban planning, to radical new solutions such as building over existing houses and also dual land use.
The exhibition will also feature a projection by MVRDV – Metacity/ DataTown.The curator of the exhibition is the leading Dutch architecture theorist Hans Ibelings (1963), editor-in-chief of A10 magazine, which brings news from the young European architectural scene six times a year. The quality of the breadth of perspective is ensured by a large number of correspondents from across Europe, making it one of the highest quality and most interesting magazines on contemporary architecture in terms of content, graphics, and the scope of information.
www.gjf.cz
www.nethworks.cz
www.a10.eu
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