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Raoul Bunschoten, “Door”, The Skin of the Earth, 1991.
© Photograph by Hélène Binet, from Raoul Bunschoten: The Skin of the Earth. Arkitekturtidsskrift B, No. 49. Edited by Gilbert Hansen and Peter Mandal Hansen, translated by Thomas Birket-Smith, Orla Vigs
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Posted 01 Aug 1993

Joost Meuwissen, 'Houses of desire'. [Translated from the Dutch by John Rudge,] Archis, 8.1993, August (Doetinchem: Misset Bouw, [1993]), 64-80.

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Houses of desire

Joost Meuwissen

A free-standing house can be an attractive assignment for an architect these days because no collectivity, nothing of discipline and punish needs to be expressed. Once thought through to the end, it can be a 'house with no style'[1], i.e. its style is both free and general and coincides with architecture as art. It can be ...


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Rem Koolhaas, Willems tower and housing slab design, Boompjes, Rotterdam, 1980-1982. View from the east, facing Willem Molenbroek´s Witte Huis from 1897-1898.
© Perspective drawing by Madelon Vriesendorp. Courtesy of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
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Posted 01 Feb 1982

Joost Meuwissen, ‘Delirious Rotterdam’, Plan onafhankelijk maandblad voor ontwerp en omgeving, jaargang 13, 1982|2, februari 1982 (Rijswijk: Stam Tijdschriften, 1982), 8-9.

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Delirious Rotterdam

Joost Meuwissen

Eupalinos vond dat gebouwen moes­ten zingen en er zijn ook bouwwerken bekend die fluisteren of murmelen als de zee. In Rotterdam Iijkt tegenwoordig alles wat dikker te worden aangezet en de opgetrokken bouwsels zullen er ‘roepen’. Als men er een brug die ...


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