Megastructures for Open Societies
Jaap Bakema's Contribution to Post-disaster City Reconstruction
D. van den Heuvel (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
Elaboration of the lecture given at the 2023 conference commemorating the 60th anniversary of the earthquake of Skopje, presenting the ideas and contributions of Jaap Bakema to the international design competition organised by the UN at the time; with special attention to the architectural concept of megastructures of the 1960s, and the exchanges between the avant-garde groups of Team 10 and Metabolism.
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