MARK: No fooling about
An extensive, 14 pages longinterview, an inside into our office, our works, our method, China, droog design and more...
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Amsterdam based, next architects approach architecture from many points. since beginning in 1999, the studio
has developed research, products and buildings that explore the overlapping space between these disciplines.
they have developed a number of product for droog design as well as urban plans, buildings, interiors and bridges around the world. they also opened an office in beijing in partnership with huan yang architecture. their recently re-designed site features a series of projects from the past and current work still in progress. here is a selection of projects that demonstrate their multi-disciplinary work.
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A + U: An attitude towards the public domain: five recent projects
NEXT architects combines the design practice with innovative research. This research explores the potential that arises from contemporary urban, cultural, and social developments and is characterized by a survey into new typologies that appeal to actual phenomena as scale-enlargement and the fading of physical and virtual boundaries. A motive behind many projects is moblity and accessibility, where on different levels of scale the relation between urban development and movement evolves.
Slow Glow in the NY Times
The New York Times about the Slow Glow, formaly known as Fatlamp:
"Likewise, the 2004 “Fatlamp” by NEXT Architects and Aura Luz Melis, whose globe is filled with fat that partly melts when the light is on, is a multiple sculpture that Josef Beuys should have made, but never did. "
L'Arca: Experimentation on a silver plate
NEXT, a team of Dutch architects, is serving the fruits of their experimentation in architectural design on a silver plate. Research lying somewhere between sign and design, philosophy and magic, Bart Reuser, Marijn Schenk, Michel Schreinemachers and John van de Water seem to be striving for a revival in magic after its defeat at the hands of northern European enlightenment thinking. Indeed it was Emanual Kant, the epitome of that turn against magic, who set the limits of reason that was banned from forming metaphysical constructs.
Nowadays, we tend to treat the work of wild romantic architects, gurus and mercenaries as magic. A certain strain of modern-day critical thinking is even inclined to resort to such figures in the search for an antidote to the rule of technology, which they feel is responsible for wiping out any trace of transcendentalism. But this is just an old misunderstanding.
Summa: A Changed Perspective
Cuando en 1969 los astronautas del Apollo 11 vieron por primera vez el planeta Tierra desde la perspectiva del espacio, percibieron claramente un rompecabezas de tierra y agua. En su camino de vuelta a Orlando, sin embargo, su perspectiva del planeta se transformo. El continente al que ellos se acercaban se conirtio en una acumulacion cohenete de superficies amarillas, marrones, verdes y azules.
