Continuity and the everyday in architecture: four British practices working in Flanders

IF 0.2 4区 艺术学 0 ARCHITECTURE
Lucas Antonissen
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Since 2000, when the Flemish Government Architect established the ‘Open Oproep’, an instrument for awarding large public building projects in Flanders, it has been relatively easy for foreign offices to compete for commissions that are more difficult to obtain in their own countries. Participating in a competition, however, is one thing, winning it is another. The prevailing building culture creates a certain pattern of expectations against which entries are measured; in a design competition, the architecture needs to connect to this culture to meet these (typically implicit) expectations. In terms of these cultural resonances, Dirk Somers has referred to the ‘brown banana’, a metaphor for an architecture of mutual interest stretching from London, via Flanders, Germany, and Switzerland to part of northern Italy. This is an architecture linked by a certain continuity, defined by both invention and convention. This article takes a closer look at the northwestern part of Somers’s brown banana: Flanders and Great Britain. It examines the work of four contemporary British firms that have featured prominently in the final selection since the ‘Open Oproep’ began; namely, Sergison Bates, Tony Fretton, Maccreanor Lavington, and Witherford Watson Mann. On the basis of publications and lectures about and by these firms, a comparison is made between Flemish architecture and building culture, on one hand, as it has been described in recent years and the theoretical position of the four British firms, on the other. Key concepts in this study are collective memory, accumulation, continuity, style, phenomenology, teaching, and writing.
建筑的连续性和日常:四个在佛兰德斯工作的英国实践
自2000年以来,佛兰德政府建筑师设立了“Open Oproep”,这是一种在佛兰德斯授予大型公共建筑项目的工具,外国办公室可以相对容易地竞争在本国更难获得的佣金。然而,参加比赛是一回事,赢得比赛是另一回事。流行的建筑文化创造了一定的期望模式,与之相对应的是衡量入口;在设计竞赛中,架构需要与这种文化相联系,以满足这些(通常是隐含的)期望。在这些文化共鸣方面,Dirk Somers提到了“棕色香蕉”,这是一个从伦敦延伸到佛兰德斯、德国、瑞士和意大利北部部分地区的共同利益的建筑的隐喻。这是一个由一定的连续性联系起来的建筑,由发明和惯例定义。本文将深入研究萨默斯棕香蕉的西北部:佛兰德斯和大不列颠。它考察了四家当代英国公司的作品,这些公司自“Open opproep”开始以来在最终评选中占据突出地位;也就是中士森·贝茨、托尼·弗雷顿、麦克雷诺·拉文顿和威瑟福德·华生·曼。在关于这些公司的出版物和讲座的基础上,对佛兰德建筑和建筑文化进行了比较,一方面是近年来所描述的,另一方面是四家英国公司的理论立场。本研究的主要概念是集体记忆、积累、连续性、风格、现象学、教学和写作。
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期刊介绍: Arq publishes cutting-edge work covering all aspects of architectural endeavour. Contents include building design, urbanism, history, theory, environmental design, construction, materials, information technology, and practice. Other features include interviews, occasional reports, lively letters pages, book reviews and an end feature, Insight. Reviews of significant buildings are published at length and in a detail matched today by few other architectural journals. Elegantly designed, inspirational and often provocative, arq is essential reading for practitioners in industry and consultancy as well as for academic researchers.
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