MVRDV

CAD by OMA, MVRDV and Nouvel.

Images by Autodesk. Autodesk makes CAD workers beleive they’ve again aged: releases always appear a year in the future - 2007 in 2006, and 2008 in 2007! Anyway - do you really use AutoCAD 2006’s new features like “Dynamic Blocks”? Or maybe the “Tool Palettes” of version 2004? At least the[...]

FARMAX_MVRDV_01

Today, I will start to post reading notes of FARMAX, by MVRDV. This is post number 01. Topic “PERMANENCE” under category “LITENESS”, published in 1995. Floor Area Ratio (FAR): The ratio of the total floor space of a built area to the total size of its[...]

anArchitecture in MVRDV’s new book - KM3.

MVRDV does a lot and they show it - still fresh and self-confident. You will find no beauties in the book but great smart designs and experiments. Luckily they can do that! But how did anArchitecture came into the book? Shortly before MVRDV’s project for the Serpentine gallery ‘failed’ anArchitecture wrote[...]

Landscape_MVRDV

The article “Landscape” was published in 1995 by Winy Maas of MVRDV. In this article he mentioned that the word “landscape” has been brought up in the field of architecture and urban design very often recently. “The landscape architect is seen as the personification of the pastoral, the harmonious, the[...]

Campingland and Villageland_MVRDV

In 1997, 2 years later after their publication of “PERMANENCE”, MVRDV published 2 texts to support their theory, Campingland and Villageland. These 2 articles are more like social studies than architectural report. Campingland Individualizing is on the increase. Loneliness, insecurity and unease are the keywords. The[...]