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Lucien Kroll: Moments D`Architectures |
| posted by duncan on Tuesday, 10. October 2006, 15:01 in topic: architecture? |
eco week with Lucien Kroll @ METAVILLA, French Pavillion, Venice Bienalle, 9 - 14 october 06
"Ecology is exactly and no more the science of relations" : Lucien Kroll
The week is a sacred form, so the days of the week are divided into seperate themes; 6 days of work and we rest together on the 7th day.
audio recordings from the week (work in progress, apologies)
Day 1 : no recording available at present
Day 2 : architecture : why is participation important (1 hr 38 mns)
invited friend : Peter Blundell-Jones
Day 3 : architecture and the participation of the user (1 hour 25 mns)
invited friend : Peter Hubner
Day 4 : From Bauhaus to our uncles house: eco decolonisation ( 1 hr 50 mins )
invited friend : Sergio Porto, human space lab
Day 5 : eco landcapes (1 hour)
invited friend : Luigi Cavallari
Day 6 : open conclusions from the week (2.5 hours)
invited friend : Ugo Sasso from Bioarchitettura and many more
Weeks closing touching words between friends and mutual role models; Lucien Kroll, Patrick Bouchain, Simone Kroll
last words from the last NATIONAL pavilion, bon appettite (3 mins)
Paris riots; a natural result of a criminal modern architecture? (kids destroy)
"As a matter of urgency, we must stop considering architecture, urban and landscape design as products of techniques, rationalities, methods, economy, hard sciences, specifications, or narcissism. Last year, in the French Clichy-sous-Bois, we saw riots when young people burned 1000 cars in 20 days as well as many public buildings, and how it had been triggered by a criminal modern architecture. If the 20th century was overwhelmed by the power of technology authority, the 21st century will probably endeavour to soften and try to rehumanize its citizen`s behaviours and by the way, also its architecture.
We should first place inhabited environmant along with human and global knowledge system: intuitive, ecological, relational, emotional, experienced, etc. Instead of seeing it as a frigid mechanism or as merchandise.
Only after that, may we talk abut inventing tools and intelligence: no one is useless as a servant, provided that he or she renounces taking power for him-herself. Hence, weshould reinvent the friendly and free relations we had with our techniques because they have become autistic and harmful. Architecture will then become once again humanitarian and hospi-table as it was in the pre-human epoch ( the Zeus of hositaltity René Schérer)"
humane architecture as a participitive social act - Peter Hubner schoolbuild (kids create)
so reads the poster for this week of discussions in METAVILLA, the French Pavilion, here at the Venice Bienalle
programme for week:
Each day will be illustrated by a sort of daily exhibition of "banners" with 2 or 3 of our projects qs examples of hte signification of architecture. The whole exhibition will be shown Saturday and Sunday.
Many books will be exposed and 2 new ones: "Partecipazione e partecipazione ... " Mancosu publisher in Roma, A magazine of Milan University with my study ( 1965: "Kimihurura, Rwanda, urban decolonization"
Exhibition: "Spontaneous cities and gardens": a comparison between the freedom of the gardens of Simone Kroll and naturally self formed cities.
Monday 9th, 5.00 : Eco-ethology
Model: Conrad Lorenz as architect?
invited : Jean-Louis Deneubourg (social insects behaviour)
Tuesday 10th, 5.00 : Eco-Biology
Model: Ebenezer Howard & Patrick Geddes as urban designers?
invited : Peter Blundell-Jones, architectural critic
The Participative observations demonstrate that the "whole" is a net of active, solitary living things and I invite Ebenezer Howard, Patrick Geddes and James Lovelock: they showed the city as a living being. Peter Blundell-Jones just wrote a book about participatioin....
Wednesday 11th, 5.00 : Eco-Pedagogy
Model: Carl Rogers as architect?
invited : Peter Hubner, architect.
Thursday 12th, 5.00 : Eco-Decolonization,
Model: Ivan Illich as architect?
invited : Sergio Porta: analysis of street nets:
Friday 13th, 5.00 : Eco-Landscapes
Model: Louis le Roy, Gilles Clement; architects?
invited : Luigi Cavallari
Saturday 14th, 11.00 : Open Conclusions
Model: Peter Sloterdijk : (rules for a hman park) :: ( ancient humanism became mechanization untill eugenics`...) and Marcel Gauchet "the disenchant,ent of the world"
invited : Ugo Sasso, Wittfrieda Mitterer, founder of INBAR (Bioarchitettura)
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attempts are being made at present to braodcast these discussions live over the net via streaming technology. Discussions from today onward will be archived for later listening.
___________________________________
previous posts about or from Venice Bienalle;
Onboard the (French) pirate ship METAVILLA (whats being pointed at in Venice this year?)
Cities, architecture and culture, Venice architecture Bienalle 2007
previous example of streaming event :
Future of Digital Media
watch 4 minute film about : streaming from the gaff
recent eco work I have been involved with:
Ireland:
greenway and eco corridor for Dublin : Botanic spine and Dublins greenway
community gardens Dublins community gardens
Denmark:
eco building; a new outdoor playhouse for Bornholm Kindergarten
Bosnia:
Eco city Banja Luka
related thread and base for audio files:
Cities, radical urbanism, sqatting, social centres
"Ecology is exactly and no more the science of relations" : Lucien Kroll
The week is a sacred form, so the days of the week are divided into seperate themes; 6 days of work and we rest together on the 7th day.
audio recordings from the week (work in progress, apologies)
Day 1 : no recording available at present
Day 2 : architecture : why is participation important (1 hr 38 mns)
invited friend : Peter Blundell-Jones
Day 3 : architecture and the participation of the user (1 hour 25 mns)
invited friend : Peter Hubner
Day 4 : From Bauhaus to our uncles house: eco decolonisation ( 1 hr 50 mins )
invited friend : Sergio Porto, human space lab
Day 5 : eco landcapes (1 hour)
invited friend : Luigi Cavallari
Day 6 : open conclusions from the week (2.5 hours)
invited friend : Ugo Sasso from Bioarchitettura and many more
Weeks closing touching words between friends and mutual role models; Lucien Kroll, Patrick Bouchain, Simone Kroll
last words from the last NATIONAL pavilion, bon appettite (3 mins)
Paris riots; a natural result of a criminal modern architecture? (kids destroy)
"As a matter of urgency, we must stop considering architecture, urban and landscape design as products of techniques, rationalities, methods, economy, hard sciences, specifications, or narcissism. Last year, in the French Clichy-sous-Bois, we saw riots when young people burned 1000 cars in 20 days as well as many public buildings, and how it had been triggered by a criminal modern architecture. If the 20th century was overwhelmed by the power of technology authority, the 21st century will probably endeavour to soften and try to rehumanize its citizen`s behaviours and by the way, also its architecture.
We should first place inhabited environmant along with human and global knowledge system: intuitive, ecological, relational, emotional, experienced, etc. Instead of seeing it as a frigid mechanism or as merchandise.
Only after that, may we talk abut inventing tools and intelligence: no one is useless as a servant, provided that he or she renounces taking power for him-herself. Hence, weshould reinvent the friendly and free relations we had with our techniques because they have become autistic and harmful. Architecture will then become once again humanitarian and hospi-table as it was in the pre-human epoch ( the Zeus of hositaltity René Schérer)"
humane architecture as a participitive social act - Peter Hubner schoolbuild (kids create)
so reads the poster for this week of discussions in METAVILLA, the French Pavilion, here at the Venice Bienalle
programme for week:
Each day will be illustrated by a sort of daily exhibition of "banners" with 2 or 3 of our projects qs examples of hte signification of architecture. The whole exhibition will be shown Saturday and Sunday.
Many books will be exposed and 2 new ones: "Partecipazione e partecipazione ... " Mancosu publisher in Roma, A magazine of Milan University with my study ( 1965: "Kimihurura, Rwanda, urban decolonization"
Exhibition: "Spontaneous cities and gardens": a comparison between the freedom of the gardens of Simone Kroll and naturally self formed cities.
Monday 9th, 5.00 : Eco-ethology
Model: Conrad Lorenz as architect?
invited : Jean-Louis Deneubourg (social insects behaviour)
Tuesday 10th, 5.00 : Eco-Biology
Model: Ebenezer Howard & Patrick Geddes as urban designers?
invited : Peter Blundell-Jones, architectural critic
The Participative observations demonstrate that the "whole" is a net of active, solitary living things and I invite Ebenezer Howard, Patrick Geddes and James Lovelock: they showed the city as a living being. Peter Blundell-Jones just wrote a book about participatioin....
Wednesday 11th, 5.00 : Eco-Pedagogy
Model: Carl Rogers as architect?
invited : Peter Hubner, architect.
Thursday 12th, 5.00 : Eco-Decolonization,
Model: Ivan Illich as architect?
invited : Sergio Porta: analysis of street nets:
Friday 13th, 5.00 : Eco-Landscapes
Model: Louis le Roy, Gilles Clement; architects?
invited : Luigi Cavallari
Saturday 14th, 11.00 : Open Conclusions
Model: Peter Sloterdijk : (rules for a hman park) :: ( ancient humanism became mechanization untill eugenics`...) and Marcel Gauchet "the disenchant,ent of the world"
invited : Ugo Sasso, Wittfrieda Mitterer, founder of INBAR (Bioarchitettura)
___________________________________
attempts are being made at present to braodcast these discussions live over the net via streaming technology. Discussions from today onward will be archived for later listening.
___________________________________
previous posts about or from Venice Bienalle;
Onboard the (French) pirate ship METAVILLA (whats being pointed at in Venice this year?)
Cities, architecture and culture, Venice architecture Bienalle 2007
previous example of streaming event :
Future of Digital Media
watch 4 minute film about : streaming from the gaff
recent eco work I have been involved with:
Ireland:
greenway and eco corridor for Dublin : Botanic spine and Dublins greenway
community gardens Dublins community gardens
Denmark:
eco building; a new outdoor playhouse for Bornholm Kindergarten
Bosnia:
Eco city Banja Luka
related thread and base for audio files:
Cities, radical urbanism, sqatting, social centres
duncan, Wednesday, 11. October 2006, 13:51
Lecture this evening : audio file : architecture : why is participation importantfile length - 1 hr 38 mins
by Peter Blundell-Jones, an architectural critic and more importantly a friend of Lucien Kroll`s. He translated Lucien`s book the architecture of complexity into english
last nights lecture was great, here is the audio recording of it,
full report to follow
after lecture : Lucien Kroll and Peter Blundell-Jones chat about this and that
playful social spaces : the architecture of Lucien Kroll
a corner for free play, but also an example of open participitive architecture, Lucien asked the bricklayers to make a shape of sorts at this corner; he gave very rough sizes but let them do their own thing. The result was the brickies made something beautiful, they really got excited by this invititation to openly create, they returned later with their families saying "I made that". A simple gesture that resulted with a form that couldent have been planned for by the architect. as you can see "functinally speaking" it does whats it supposed to do very well; an odd object for kids to walk over and play on.
duncan, Wednesday, 11. October 2006, 23:09
architect, inventor, self help builder, someone who does architecture to "see the bright eyes of the people" : Peter Hubner Lecture this evening : audio file : architecture and the participation of the user
length : 1 hour 25 mins
battery on recorder died so missing the last 20 minutes of very nice discussion
lecture description from poster
dazzling: his Gelsenkirchen project is deeply shaped upon the childrens initiaves: they transform themselves into designers and craftsmen of their own construction
my own thoughts on it;
truly inspiring; a man who has totally loved his work, working with clients, becoming part of a team, designing with ten year olds, "seeing the bright eyes of people"
archtitecture which is wholly cmmitted to the most open explorative communication process with client; they are excitied; they design; they help build. the result; the buildings are THEIRS, or so they believe and feel, even with 1% of the building work done by them; cutting a piece of timber, driving in a screw
this is about architecture which is about real life, healthy, inclussive, social. the result is the end of that amazing process which gives meaning and joy to the task of architecture; possibly the way it was before there were "architects", when communities did it themslves?
duncan, Sunday, 15. October 2006, 10:27
talk : From Bauhaus to our uncles house: eco decolonisationa talk with Professor Sergio Porto, from the Politecnico di Milano, part of human space lab
Is there a type of order behind the old cities of Europe?
from this initial idea, Sergio ended up on a fascinating journey into the wolrd of science that has revealed some fascinating orders that do explain, in one sense, why places work
human space lab investigate a bottom up approach to town planning
he gave a talk about a new way to understand cities; an analysis of urban street, in mathematical terms derived from cmplex nets
from bauhaus to our uncles house,
original reason for urban journey; is there a type of order behind the old cities of euroope?
intro from lucien; 32 mins
total file ;1 hr 50 mins
duncan, Sunday, 15. October 2006, 10:28
audio file: eco landcapes : 1 hourspeaker : Luigi Cavallari
Landscapes and gardens as urban design have to grow by themselves...
gardeners role is simply preparing the conditions of hte birth of a maximum complexity, never imposing his rules.
the introduction from Lucien is in French, and Luigi`s talk is in Italian
duncan, Sunday, 15. October 2006, 11:35
www.bioarchitettura.orgPeter Hubner
Ugo Sasso, Wittfrieda Mitterrer
The tireless founders of INBAR ( bioarchitettura ). They just founded at the LUMSA in Rome, a post university course of urban and architectural design essentially dedicated to ecology and humanism.
a 2 and a half hour discussion
mostly in Italian, but also French, English, and a little bit of Gaelic
i made a point, roughly:
intro : architect, eco-activist, independant media activist:
I believe that if we, the human species, are still alive in 5000 years, we look back on history and say "how were we so stupid back then in the oil age, we nearly killed ourselves". it is a state of emergency, the world is in crisis, if allowed to continue with present means; we die.
But there are solutions, and partipating in those actions and projects leads to a beautiful existence, a social life with amazing people.
communication is the key; we need to improve our communication technichues and mechanisms to allow for the open participative dialogue about how to live ecologically. As an example of this; all the very important dialogues that have happened during this week with Lucien and his friends have been recorded and put on a blog, anyone can freely access and listen ot these discussions and add their own input. The Venice Superblog, The Bienalle and MOMA have been informed of this and they can point people in that direction.
It is my opinion that the "architectural world" has built walls around itself and talks and listens to itself; it is not listening to all those outside the walls which have real needs.
some years ago the building designed by le corbusier, la villa savoye, was seen as the seminal building of a new age. It is my opinion that the "architectural world" has built walls around itself and talks and listens to itself; it is not listening to all those outside the walls which have real needs.
At this point Ugo intervened and explained to people the significance of the villa savoye in terms of it being the model for the "machine age" which lead to the modernism that Lucien and his friends have reacted against
I finished with the last little point:
some years ago cuba was faced with a crisis; the soviet bloc fell and suddenly cuba experienced a peak oil situation; whereby the old ways that were used were no longer possible due to the severe shortage of the oil. so cuba had an emergency: how do we feed ourselves. The solution was an urban and agriciultural one; a series of local decentralised food production zones were created in local areas, local food markets were set up. people survived and they now have the same level of life systems as western ones with the difference that theirs is now sustainable because it is not oil dependant. a film has been made about this situation "the power of community; how cuba survived peak oil" (at this point the film case was held up and shown to the group): i believe that in many years people will look at this system as one of the most seminal architectural
audio file:
radio.indymedia.org
duncan, Sunday, 15. October 2006, 12:06
last words from the last "national" pavilion: bon appettitelet this be the end of the "national" pavillion, let future bienales be about themes, regions, people. ....
bon appetit
this is a rough translation of the words in french of Patrick Bouchain, the man who was invited by the French Cultural body to be the architect in charge for the French Bienale, he in turn invited his friends to come and live in the pavilion with him. from here the story of the life in METAVILLA grew, to where it is now and to wherever it leads to tomorow....
radio.indymedia.org
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