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One of my favorite floor plans ever (this week) is the temporary pavilion by Aldo Van Eyck. I really got into van Eyck this summer because I was re-reading a lot of Charles Jencks (just impulse),
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and of course
Mr Jencks loves Mr van Eyck, though probably not as we want them to love each other but whatever (and also Aldo passed away in 1999). Anyway, I found out that this pavilion, which looks like a really great space to look at art, or even a space that could be art , and was temporary in 1967, was re-built last year for another show, and as usual I didn't read
the whole thing so I don't know exactly why, but its kind of disappointing
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because the place looks so inspiring in a 70's way in the grainy photos from Jencks' book,
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while in the new photos it looks nice but a little bit like a public toilet, though now that I see this in print maybe thats a good thing in an entirely different way.
1 comment:
HI, I am a second year student of architecture in South Africa , I too enjoy Van Eyck's work especially his seemingly ridiculous comment: "The time has come to concieve of architecture ubanistically and urbanism architecturally(this makes sensible nonsense of both words)"
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