These various resemblances are frequently blurred or ambiguous, emphasised by such spaces' scale and extensiveness. The most common type of contemporary large-scale space-with which almost everyone who has walked through a shopping mall, an international airport or the entrance area of a major museum is familiar-embodies aspects of the corporate lobby, the Winter Garden, the shopping mall and the transport terminal concourse. This Book is the catalogue to the exhibition. The result is a dismantled floating olympic village for Rotterdam, which is exhibited at it’s site in the historic docklands RDM on the Heijplaat. Students drew and built models of their analyses, where four layers are detachable as a separate entity, and then played a game the surrealist called Cadavre Exquis. 32 students selected and analyzed outstanding built work of a wide field of architects from four generations of Dutch practitioners starting with Huig Maaskant (founder of the RAvB), Huig Maaskant, Wim QUist, OMA, SANAA, Mecanoo, MVRDV, NOX, De Zwarte Hond, NL-Architects, Onix, FACT and MonderschijmMoonen. Through experiment our lab develops methods to analyze such phenomena in focused studies of specific cases, understanding how architects use landscape not only as a metaphor but also as a method to design buildings. Like at many other places, a new mindset is emerging, transforming the core values of the disciplines of architecture and urbanism with the notion of the organization of architectural space as a landscape. The paper was written as the thesis for MA in Architecture (history & theory) at University of Westminster (2013-14)Ĭontemporary architecture is increasingly influenced by the concept of landscape, and this is particularly the case in the Netherlands. What becomes important is how the architect’s intentions embedded in the design may enable users positively, and engender different meaning in them other than those directly prescribed by the architect.
More importantly, the thesis questions the user’s occupation in buildings where no direct physical alterations are possible. Focusing on Koolhaas’s built work, my thesis questions the architect’s agency in relation to other agents who may initiate creative or unpredicted uses of space beyond the designer’s intention. In this respect, Rem Koolhaas cuts a peculiar figure as he can be seen simultaneously as the villain of ‘starchitects’ and a critical or post-critical architect. The aim is twofold: to give a comprehensive account of the discourses on agency today and to push it beyond the current scope of the debate in order to expand our understandings of agencies in architecture. Therefore, my thesis begins with a critical inquiry into the current discourse and considers interdisciplinary theories from architecture and sociology. Despite the booming debate over agency in architecture, the recent discourse tends to be associated with marginal types of architecture, and hardly goes beyond that line. Agency, as used in architecture, questions the role of architects in terms of criticality and responsibility.
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