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After thousands of years with all different styles of architecture all ended up in the most simple form of the cube! The same form as the saltcristal and as dead as the Dead Sea and as uninteresting as possible! But also the experience of utmost freedom! Freedom to play with cubes, connecting and disconnecting, inventing your own interior, colours and furniture, materials and lights. And that’s exactly what happened afterwards! In the time that Mies van der Rohe build skyscrapers and Rietveld built his Mondriaan home, Frank Lloyd Wright designed the magnificent house on Falling Waters connecting inside living and outside nature.

And Herman Herzberger opened up the cubes to each other in the great office building of Centraal Beheer in the Netherlands so that people could meet each other and work together. From cubic cells towards open structures! And it was then that architecture could go forward seeking new lines and forms.

Although worldwide experimenting in the most different directions, new directions become clearer and clearer in the organic architecture, where connections between spaces are designed by tangents, as we also can recognise in the world of plants. Mathematically we’re not working anymore with lines and curves and corners (first degree) but with tangents (called second degree) that connect one direction with the other. One of the most beautiful buildings chosen by the public in the Netherlands was the headquarters of ING Bank in Amsterdam, also prizewinning as the lowest energy-using building of the world at that time!

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Frank Lloyd Wright – Falling waters

Herman Herzberger – Centraal Beheer Apeldoorn / Netherlands

Alberts en Van Huut – ING Bank Amsterdam

 

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Developments in Modern Architecture
 
From the circle to the cube and beyond …..  where the circle was used in Roman architecture and in the 20th century the cube
we can recognize them ourselves coming from the zodiac to the ship container – from the stars to the earth, from infinity to point.
 
So what’s next? From the earth as the centre to the infinity of the universe is now more and more made by using mathematical
first higher degree lines: the tangents to circles.
 
But most interesting it is to see those tangents also when connecting the sides of the cubic forms, also as a higher degree of  
connecting different worlds. Amsterdam champion soccer player Johan Cruyff would say “when you see it you’ve got it!”
 
The endless possibilities of connecting inner and outher worlds can be experienced worldwide in modern organic architecture.
One of the latest and most splendid buildings is the Natural History Museum in Utah USA.
 
Experiencing our modern way of living as we are the species of freedom and responsibility, of conciousness and discoveries,
of knowledge and design, we can recognise ourselves in these buildings time after time, day by day, minute by minute! See
yourself around the world. Not only in buildings but also in patterns of roads, gardens, furniture etc etc. Tangents are the secret
of life itself. Not only in plants but also in architecture!
 
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07 202307 July 2023

Architecture in the 21st Century – From Cubic to Organic, Social and Sustainable.

The cube is the most materialistic, the pentagon dodekaeder the most cosmic form when looking mathematical.  But design and creativity alone are not enough. Sustainability and the social issues on living together and also the price/income questions are even more important. Architects from around the world were in Copenhagen this month to talk about sustainability and the SDG’s.

Prominent researchers and practitioners across borders and generations discussed how they can design to combat climate change, increase biodiversity and promote social inclusion. The congress concluded with the launch of the 10 principles for rapid and radical change in the built environment – titled “The Copenhagen Lessons”.

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World Congress of Architects July 2023

 

 

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Organic architecture in the 21st century

The iconic building of organic architecture in Amsterdam will be transformed into a small city of appartments, shops, restaurants and exposition areas. The former head office of the ING Bank is still a marvellous example for the architecture of the 21st century and is visited by many people through the years since 1985 when it was built.

In the transition from the cubic architecture of the last century – image of (dead) matter and materialism – organic architecture is the art of building structures based on the mathematics of the living nature.

Projective geometry is allround geometry and so it is the basis of all forming processes in the universe between point and infinity (see also our news article of April 2022). Not only in sculptures of cristal forms but also in the forming principles in the living nature of flora and fauna. And even so in the developing of the human being, organizations and the world as a whole!

We can see the transformation of architecture all around us in the world. Beginning with building structures of cubic buildings in an ever more “dancing” relationship with each other, forming highly interesting new living spaces and working areas! It shows us the transformation from the materialistic architecture towards the living architecture!

As architecture is not only a building principle in stone but also influencing the people who are living or working there or travelling and sightseeing, it also is a kind of mirror which can help us to work towards another world, towards the future we want. For instance: Triodos Bank for sustainable financing started with the help of people working at ING Bank. And Consumer360Academy has its roots in both banking institutions, connecting old and new principles of marketing and consumer-producer dialogue!

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