De architect als publieke intellectueel

‘Een moeilijk verhaal’, noemde de Rotterdamse architect Jaap Bakema wat hij te vertellen had in de tweedelige televisieserie Van Stoel tot stad, die op zondagavond in 1961 en 1962 op de Nederlandse televisie werd uitgezonden. Toch voelde hij de noodzaak om het Nederlandse publiek juist dit moeilijke verhaal te vertellen. ‘Ik heb namelijk de...

Revisiting Critical Regionalism: Critical Regionalism Revisited

For more than five decades, Anglo-American architecture critic and historian Kenneth Frampton has played a prominent role in architecture culture. During this entire period, he has taken a rather exceptional position, operating mainly in the registers of historiography while simultaneously maintaining an engaged relation with contemporary...

The Vicissitudes of Criticism in the Landscape Metropolis

The editors of this themed issue of SPOOL place the discussion on the possibilities and impossibilities of criticism within the field of the design disciplines at centre stage. We are especially interested in how criticism can make an active contribution to taking a position vis-à-vis what we have called, in earlier issues of SPOOL, the...