Left: Touch tone telephone with “classic” design. Right: Fake battlements in Spijkenisse, the Netherlands. Photo: RM
Imitation-bricked windows in a new apartment building and a “classic” touch-tone telephone. What do these have in common? Among designers both can count on reactions ranging from scorn and contempt to irritation and anger. But why? Continue reading
The front: rigid facades: alonging for more law and order? Photos: RM
According to art historian Wilhelm Worringer the chosen style in art (or architecture) reflects not only the current state of society, but also is the fulfillment of a desire for something that is lacking. The dominant style in art and architecture tells us something about (the future of) a given culture. Continue reading
Uithof, Utrecht. Photo: Rogier Mentink
It is without a doubt part of my professional deformation as an architect to sometimes regard buildings is if they had characters. They might just as a person be strict, or playful. Inaccessible or rude and crass. Continue reading
Living in a Barrel 