Post Box for the Open Society
Online platform for the exchange of ideas and designs on the subject of the open society
Open: A Bakema Celebration
The Dutch entry to La Biennale di Venezia’s 14th International Architectural Exhibition
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Entry: Thursday, December 18, 2014
During the Biennale we have sent out a monthly newsletter, each including new submissions to the post box, material from the archive and an article in a series of reflections on the subject of the open society. Here you find an overview of the newsletters of June, July, August, September,...
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Entry: Monday, October 13, 2014
Title: Urbanity of Things
Madrid Rio - West 8. Photo © Jeroen Musch
Urbanity of Things, by Simon Kretz and Christian Salewski, is a chapter from the forthcoming book The City as Resource: Texts and Projects 2005—2014, edited by Professor Kees Christiaanse, with Tim Rieniets, Nicolas Kretschmann and Myriam Perret (...
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Entry: Wednesday, October 1, 2014
In every newsletter from the Post Box for the Open Society, we refer to Jaap Bakema’s historic Post Box for the Development of the Habitat.
On of the contributors to the Post Box was the Japanese architect Fumihiko Maki. In 1961 he submitted his report ‘Thoughts on Collective Form with an...
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Entry: Tuesday, September 9, 2014
Title: New Collectivities
The auteur in Hengelose Es (Van den Broek en Bakema), around 1969.
Since its foundation in 1991, MVRDV has researched ways of adding collective spaces, publicly accessible or not, to its residential buildings. This quest has broadened to include the addition of new collectivities.
New...
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Entry: Wednesday, August 27, 2014
The Post Box for the Open Society is inspired by the historic Post Box for the Development of the Habitat of Jaap Bakema. From time to time, we refer to the old newsletters by Bakema which he sent to his network.
The newsletters nrs 3, 4 and 5 give some insight in the development of the...
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Entry: Sunday, August 3, 2014
Cape Town photo Alessio Baù
It is hard to conceive of a country where contemporary city planning has had a more negative impact on society than in South Africa. In this country, the ‘makeable’ world and social engineering were so ‘successful’ thanks to the apartheid regime that the...
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Entry: Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Open: A Bakema Celebration
A conference organised by the Jaap Bakema Study Centre together with TU Delft and Het Nieuwe Instituut, 24-25 November 2014.
The Jaap Bakema Study Centre organizes a special conference on the work of Jaap Bakema (1914-1981) and his idea to build towards an open...
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Entry: Monday, July 14, 2014
Following MACBA’s interest in understanding the role played by architecture in the expression of modernity outside orthodoxy, the exhibition dedicated to the work of the Polish architect Oskar Hansen (1922–2005) will concentrate on the evolution of his Open Form theory. More than a theory,...
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Entry: Monday, July 14, 2014
This Wednesday, 16 July, The Good Cause exhibition will be opened at the Architekturmuseum der TU München. At the same time the launch of Volume’s 40th issue, Architecture of Peace, Part II will be celebrated.
Architecture of Peace (AoP) is an international research project that was...
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Entry: Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Title: Newsletter #2
Post Box for the Open Society
Newsletter #2
July, 2014
Het Nieuwe Instituut launches the online and interactive Post Box for the Open Society, an invitation to the international community of architects, designers, thinkers and researchers to submit ideas and designs for an open society....
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