MTALKS - Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten on countryside

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MTALKS Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten on countryside
3 October 2017
Theatre B117, Melbourne School of Design
Rem Koolhaas is among the most celebrated and exciting architects working today. From the gravity-defying CCTV Headquarters in Beijing to the startling Seattle Central Library to the hallucinogenic ‘vertical city’ De Rotterdam complex, the work of the office of the Pritzker Prize-winner is audacious and always unpredictable.
As co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in the Netherlands, Rem Koolhaas is revered not just for creating buildings that inspire and astonish. He’s also a leading urban theorist and the author of several books including Delirious New York, SMLXL and Content. His writing explores the possibilities of the modern metropolis and the effects of globalisation, capitalism, preservation, virtuality and renewal on city life.
MPavilion 2017 is designed by Rem Koolhaas and OMA managing partner-architect, David Gianotten. At the Melbourne School of Design, Rem Koolhaas will present a lecture on his vision of the countryside-a current preoccupation of OMA’s-with David Gianotten speaking to an Australian context at the end of the lecture.
This talk is presented in partnership with MPavilion, Melbourne School of Design and The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

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@denverp33 6 жыл бұрын

Hmm So the sacred Uluru rock of indigenous Australians is a cliche. People need to be more sensitive. To understand the Australian countryside you need to understand the many tribes that inhabit it, their many languages. Their isolation is what has helped a civilization that is arguably one of the oldest in the world to survive for more than 60,000 years. It is vital that it stays that way. In a desperate attempt to shift focus from an imploding Netherlands, trying to encroach on land elsewhere by Comparing two highly differing and complex contexts based on tangible statistical evidence seems fairly naive. He says there are no cows left in the Dutch countryside, it shouldn't come as a surprise if there won't be any of the 'Aboriginals' left on their land.

@gonzaloreyeroaldama 4 жыл бұрын

I agree, Koolhas has a very annoying way of using the word "Cliche". I think he tries to say "common place" as a phyisical or symbolic territory, shared by many. Maybe that doesnt make those places better, but it definitely doesnt make them worse. Being focused on hunting stereotypes and challenging topics, he sometimes forgets that maybe traditions are good. He does that anyway in every conference, wherever he goes, he never praises the local architecture.