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Something Completely Different

Christophe van Gerrewey

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Entrance building of OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Kortrijk XPO, 2007–2009. Photo: Filip Dujardin.

History/Theory
November 2017










Notes
1

Dan Graham, Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon (New York: Dia Art Foundation, 1992/2017).

2

Jean Baudrillard, Jean Nouvel, The Singular Objects of Architecture (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002), 20-21.

3

Ibid., 20.

4

Aldo Rossi, L’architettura della città (Venezia: Marsilio, 1966), 8.

5

Aldo van Eyck, “Steps Towards a Configurative Discipline”, Forum 16, no. 3 (1962): 93.

6

Gabriele Mastrigli, “Modernity and Myth: Rem Koolhaas in New York”, San Rocco 4, no. 8 (2013): 86.

7

Rem Koolhaas, “How Modern is Dutch Architecture?” in Mart Stam’s Trousers. Stories From Behind the Scenes of Dutch Moral Modernism, Crimson, Michael Speaks, and Gerard Hadders eds. (Rotterdam: 010 Publishers, 1990), 165–166.

8

Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1982), 103.

9

Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and The Profane (New York: Harcourt, 1957).

10

Ibid., 21.

11

Ibid., 11.

12

Ibid., 204.

13

Ibid., 211.

14

Ibid., 23-24.

15

Manfredo Tafuri, Architecture and Utopia (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1976), 105–107.

16

Elia Zenghelis, “For A New Monumentality,” in Pier Vittorio Aureli, Brussels, A Manifesto. Towards The Capital Of Europe, ed. Véronique Patteeuw, Joachim Declerck, Martino Tattara (Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2007), 226; Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011). On Dogma, see: Christophe Van Gerrewey, “How Soon Is Now? Ten Problems and Paradoxes in the Work of Dogma”, Log 35 (2015), 27–47.

17

Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project (Cambridge: The Belknapp Press of Harvard University Press, 1999), 548.

18

On OFFICE, see also: Christophe Van Gerrewey, “Order, Disorder. Ten Choices and Contradictions in the Work of OFFICE”, in: OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen. Volume 2, ed. Ellis Woodman (Köln: Walther König, 2016), 7–14. On advvt: Christophe Van Gerrewey, “Hard to Explain. Ten Opinions and Misunderstandings about the Work of advvt,” 2G 66 (2013), 5–13.

19

Kersten Geers, “Architecture with Delay,” in architecten de vylder vinck taillieu 1 boek 2, Jan De Vylder, Inge Vinck, Jo Taillieu eds. (Ghent: MER Paper Kunsthalle), 49.

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