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Prospectus 2010 2011

08 Institutional aims and goals

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decolonizing Architecture Mexico City: Territorial densification Rome, the Center(s) Elsewhere Radicalizing the Local: Post-Bubble Urban Strategies h2oBITAT: Living with Water When Economies Become Form: Micro-economic Models as Spatial Prescriptions in Northeast Brasil 30 Bridging Untroubled Waters: The Ningbo Mall as a Quest for Alternative Strategies in open Space development

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Research policy Implementation of research policy Facilities People

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Berlage Institute

About the Institute

The Berlage Institute is a post-academic laboratory for design-based research in architecture, urbanism, and other issues related to the built environment. Its postgraduate program and PhD program are open to applications from graduated and experienced architects, urban planners, landscape architects, and other researchers. Complementary to these programs, the Institute also broadens its activities to the professional sector with a series of publications, for which it solicits internal and external collaborators, and a public program of lectures, debates, and symposia. The Institute provides the intellectual climate and infrastructure to explore the forces that shape the contemporary built environment; subsequently developing, by means of design, alternative models and new insights to devise a transformative impact on the built environment. Essential to the laboratory is the guidance by and exchange with leading and emerging voices and practitioners, and the direct engagement in concrete conditions represented by third-party collaboratorsthose public authorities, cultural institutions and/or private bodies that are the holders of the problem that constitutes the basis of each research study. This simultaneous commitment to research and reality allows the Institutes researchers to develop a precise understanding of the challenges that necessitate reflection, innovation, and speculation. Through seminars, lectures, publications and exhibitions, researchers directly communicate and debate their polemical architectural and urban propositions with the stakeholders.

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From the General Director and DirectorThe Berlage Institute structures its post-academic activities to better contribute to the development of knowledge and debate within the cultural and professional fields of architecture and urbanism in the Netherlands and abroad. Since Herman Hertzbergers effort to establish a truly new model for post-professional education almost twenty years ago, the Institute is today among the renowned international laboratories for designbased research. Since 2005, it has expanded its profile as a research institution that emphasizes collective work and broader cultural participation. The Institute provides a rigorous environment to explore how the global developments that shape the built world are expressed within the Dutch context. As an independent foundation, the Berlage Institute takes part in Dutch governmental policy on culture, focusing specifically on architecture. Partially funded by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science for this purpose, the Institute also aims to nurture the professional community in the Netherlands by offering a place for cultural debate and international encounter and exchange. In this respect, this post-academic laboratory focuses on research and design issues relevant to the Netherlands more than ever before. The Institute consciously situates the challenges of the contemporary Dutch built environment in an international perspective. It also provides the opportunity to exchange and disseminate the rich legacy of Dutch architecture and planning expertise into a broader context. The Institute reinforces its contribution to disciplinary development and actual policy-making, while strengthening its participation as a cultural player in a Dutch and international context. With its 20092012 Program, the Institute continues its mission to enrich, test, and present skills that empower architects to bring visionary quality to their work through its postgraduate program, PhD program, and public program of lectures, symposiums, exhibitions, and publications. The rapid redefinition of the contemporary city as the physical and public structure of society constitutes the next set of challenges for todays architects and urbanists. From massive migration to urban centers in Latin America and Southeast Asia, the decreasing and aging populations of Western Europe, to the present-day economic upheavals, each day the transformations related to the built environment are experienced with increasing complexity and ambiguity. The question for architectural research is how to directly engage with these conditions, while also finding experimental ways of developing new spatial models and principles. The Institutes international body of researchers and participants takes on this challenge by aiming to produce relevant and innovatively applicable knowledge that influences the cultural and professional aspects of architectural production. In the coming year, the Berlage Institute will celebrate twenty years of equipping the next generation of architects not only with awareness of the design and realization of built form, but also with the ability to synthesize private and public interests within a shared social, political, and cultural landscape.

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Vedran Mimica Director

Rob Docter General Director

Berlage InstituteLecture by Marion Weiss from the Process in Detail: Recent Buildings from the Architectonic to the Bureaucratic lecture series

About the Institute

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A master plan for the Maashaven in Rotterdam

Berlage Institute studio space in the former Spaarbank Building by J. J. P. Oud

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Second-year participants conducting fieldwork in Phoenix, Arizona

Berlage InstituteA proposal for shared living and working facilities outside Rome

About the InstituteA master plan rethinking mobility infrastructure outside via Flaminia Rome

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Elia Zenghelis participating in a final studio presentation

Lecture by Hans Werlemann from the Forms and Figures: Exploring Architectural Language lecture series

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A master plan for mixeduse residential facilities in Ningbo, China

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About the InstituteLecture by Peter Cook from the Fabricators of Ideology and Architectural Education lecture series

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A master plan for residential facilities in Mexico City

Institutional aims and goals

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The Berlage Institute positions its activities in the void that exists between the rapidly changing forms of worldwide urbanization and the lack of models and principles available to structure the physical environment into a socially, culturally, and ecologically sustainable habitat. While the disciplines of architecture and urbanism are more and more compartmentalized areas of knowledge, the Instituteas a cultural platformprovides the context for its researchers to establish, test and propagate new forms of synthesizing skills that would strengthen the visionary quality of their work.

Berlage Institute Research policyThe rapidly changing field of spatial practices makes evident that architecture is no longer produced within a closed body of knowledge. Therefore, the Berlage Institute organizes its activities according to a set of defined research trajectories. The aim is to address supra-disciplinary knowledge, by relating the research ambitions to other disciplines (economy, sociology, etc.), and subdisciplinary knowledge, by focusing on specific aspects of architectural production (materiality, organization, technology, etc.). The activities of the Berlage Institute are structured along the following six distinct research trajectories: new live/work conditions, tourism and territory, emerging technologies and techniques, structuring metropolitan formations, cohabitation and conflict, and energy and the built environment. While developing specific insights to each respective trajectory, the Institutes research activities collectively aim to advance new models, visions, and principles to be able to frame the different forces shaping the contemporary built environment. The Berlage Institute participates with the cultural and professional sectors in three ways: projectbased exchange with each research trajectory, the development of the public program as a form of postprofessional education, and broadcasting through the Internet and publications. The Institute presents the results of its research projects in the form of seminars, workshops, exhibitions, and publications. This offers researchers the opportunity immediately to check their plans, visions, and convictions with reality. For more information, see p. 3435

About the InstitutePhD Program The Berlage Institute offers a PhD program in conjunction with the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology. Presently, there are two different ways to obtain a PhD from the Institute. The first is through individual doctoral studies and the second through participation in The City as a Project PhD program. The PhD program is meant to function in close relationship with the postgraduate program. PhD candidates are encouraged to take part in design studio presentations and other related postgraduate events. For more information, see p. 39 Public Program The architectural and urban research, ideas, and projects pursued at the Berlage Institute are expanded, consolidated, and complemented for presentation to a global audience through a series of architectural broadcasting initiatives. This content is disseminated as print publications, online interactivity, and public events. The flagship of the Institutes publication series is Hunch. Each issue includes contributions on a selected topic as well as other wide-ranging columns, essays, interviews and design projects. Published at the end of each term, The Berlage Papers is a large-format broadsheet highlighting recent news, activities, announcements, previews and reviews related to the Institute. The Institutes website, www.berlage-institute.nl, is a tool to exhibit the past and present activities of the Institute. The Institutes public program of lectures, exhibitions and other events is framed around a selected theme that complements the research topics presently being investigated. For more information, see p. 40 Professional Development Program Complementary to the postgraduate, PhD, and public programs, the professional development program broadens the Institutes activities to the professional sector through design research and continuing education activities, and contracted studies. The program focuses on the transmission and further advancement of the architectural knowledge developed within the Institutes research trajectories into the professional sector; while, at the same time, addressing new fields of speculation and research that may eventually feed back into the Institutes other activities. The professional development program is organized under the auspices of Berlage InstituteCentre for Research and Development (BICARD) and operates on the basis of external funding and grants. For more information, see p. 41

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Implementation of research policyPostgraduate Program The postgraduate program of the Berlage Institute provides the next generation of architects and urbanists with tools to better comprehend and intervene in the complexity of contemporary life. Study is conducted in an in-depth collaborative and experimental setting. This two-year research program is structured around three design research studios, a series of history and theory seminars, fieldwork, and master classes. Participants take part in two one-term studios in the first year and one yearlong studio in the second year. A series of public colloquia, lectures and exhibitions complements the research program. For more information, see p. 38

First-year participants conducting fieldwork in Caracas, Venezuela

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First-year participants on an excursion to Zeeland, the Netherlands

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About the InstituteLecture by Michael Speaks in spring 2009

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The site of the 2008 Summer School Restructuring Aleppo: Research into the Grey City in Aleppo, Syria

Second-year participants during a midterm presentation

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A proposal for a mixed-use residential intervention in Oligata, outside Rome

Berlage InstituteBerlage Institute studio space in the former Spaarbank Building by J. J. P. Oud

About the InstituteFirst-year participants during a final presentation

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A series of interviews conducted during fieldwork in northeastern Brazil

Lecture by Teddy Cruz in spring 2009

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The site of the 20082009 second-year studio Mexico City: Territorial Densification in the Cuauhtmoc District of Mexico City

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About the InstituteThe site of the 20082009 second-year studio Mexico City: Territorial Densification in the Cuauhtmoc District of Mexico City

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Caption to the diamant First-year participants shaped image, Teddy conducting fieldwork in Cruz master class. Ningbo, China

Caption to the triangle shaped image, Rome, the Centers, Elsewhere second-year research project

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The Berlage Institute was established in 1990 to promote excellence in architecture and urbanism. Herman Hertzberger, the Institutes first dean and one of its founding fathers, established its worldwide reputation as a place for discussion, reflection and research on architecture and urbanism. In 1995, Wiel Arets became the Institutes second dean, introducing the opportunity to perform doctoral research in conjunction with the Delft University of Technology. Alejandro Zaera-Polo was named the third dean in 2002. During his tenure he restructured the Institutes activities to emphasis the connection of research to professional practice. Building on this, the Institute increased its profiled as a research institution. Therefore, in 2007, the Berlage Institute Research Board was established to serve as a new and diverse leadership structure. The Berlage Institute Research Board, presently consisting of Ben van Berkel, Winy Maas, Robert E. Somol, Alejandro Zaera-Polo, and Elia Zenghelis, establishes the profile of the Institute by identifying new research trajectories. Each member of the Research Board is personally involved in one or more component of the program. Under the direction of Vedran Mimica, the program is developed in collaboration with the faculty, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Joachim Declerck, Salomon Frausto, Roemer van Toorn, and Peter Trummer. Leading and emerging voices and practicioners are invited as visiting tutors or as guest lecturers to generate an unparalleled research environment.

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Recent postgraduate research projects

The following is a selection of postgraduate research projects conducted at the Berlage Institute during the 20082009 year. These projects have been taken place in a collaborative and experimental setting in order to provide the next generation of architects and urbanists with tools to better comprehend and intervene in the complexity of contemporary life. Each of these research projects overlaps into one or more of the six distinct research trajectories: New live/work conditions, tourism and territory, emerging technologies and techniques, structuring metropolitan formations, cohabitation and conflict, and energy and the built environment. The results of these research projects were presented in the form of seminars, workshops, exhibitions, and publications.

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Postgraduate program Workshop 2008 Winter Term

Palestine

Decolonizing ArchitectureThis one-week workshop investigated how to situation in Gaza; on the other, the reuse reverse the deadlock and trauma of occupaof facilities that tends to reproduce spatial tion by imagining architectural scenarios aspects of colonial power relations. Believing for decolonization. The rising duality of in the potential of existing forces to shape our world is physically visible at specific reality, the starting point of this project will places on the planet: the walls of Ceuta and be the strategy of subversion. Melilla, the closing of Spanish enclaves from Two case studies explored that Morocco, the sealing of fortress Europe speculate on the use of colonial architecture from Africa, or the running fence between for purposes other than those they were Mexico and the United States. But the spadesigned to perform. The first looked at the tial divisions, inequalities, and exclusions in evacuated housing of the colonists in the Palestine have a complexity that could prePsagot, Jabel Tawil/Ramallah region (the figure a spatial order to come: the formation north site); and the second, the abandoned of secured and networked pockets of wealth military structures of Oush Grab, the Crows that form an archipelago as opposed to cutNest, in Beit Sahour (the south site). The off enclaves of deprivation. In that respect, first imagined set of scenarios, the second a the Palestinian occupied territories can be battleground between Palestinians who want conceived as a laboratory of the spatial order to turn it into a public park and settlers who of the twenty-first century, of an urbanism of try to claim it (escorted by the Israeli army). exclusion and containment. It is an extreme This workshop accompanied an spatial planning in which urbanism becomes exhibition of the same name entitled curated a tool for occupation and colonization, or by Iwan Strauven and Lieven De Cauter even the continuation of war by other means. (with assistance of Marie-Ccile Guyaux) The workshop explored how Israeli and produced by Bozar in collaboration with colonies and military basesthe architecthe Masarat Festival (an initiative of les ture of Israels dominationcould be reused, Halles) and the Brussels Biennale. recycled, or re-inhabited by Palestinians at the moment they are unplugged from the military-political power that charges them. The Bethlehem and London-based architectural collaboration of Sandi Hilal, Alessandro Petti, and Eyal Weizman used a series of architectural proposals to open an arena of speculation about possible futures for Palestine. This approach seeks to avoid two extremes: on the one hand, the destruction of evacuated infrastructures, like the

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Tutors Lieven De Cauter, Brussels Sandi Hilal, Bethlehem and London Alessandro Petti, Bethlehem and London Participants Han Ju Chen Shih-Yen Chiang Jeong Eun Choi Guillermo Delgado Maria Giudici

Wanyu He Kuniyoshi Katsu I-Chen Lee Sebastiano Manservisi Alessandro Martinelli Ayaka Matsuda Lukas Narutis June Young Park Ioanna Volaki Wei Wang Jiong Wu

Guest critics Joachim Declerck, faculty member, Berlage Institute Salomon Frausto, faculty member, Berlage Institute Vedran Mimica, Director, Berlage Institute Roemer van Toorn, faculty member, Berlage Institute

Links www.decolonizing.ps

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A proposal for implementing a strategy of unroofing and recycling of housing settlements in the Jabel Tawil/Ramallan region

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A proposal to de-wall and de-parcelize housing settlements in the Jabel Tawil/Ramallan region

Postgraduate program Second-year research studio Associative Design Research Program 20082009 academic year

Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico City:

Territorial DensificationWithin the last thirty years, the center of Mexico City has decayed due a series of environmental, economic, administrative, and governmental processes that have led to its decline. Mexico City could be called a pathological environment. Due to the historical and current situation in which big capital institution, being either the municipality of the city, as in the big housing project of Mario Pani, or being it big developers or multinationals, that take large part of city fabric and develop it as an completely autarchic object, as in the example of the Mercedes Headquarter in Santa Fe, the research program takes the position that the multiplication of individual rights, to own and develop land, has to the serve the city as a whole. This position is taken as a preliminary conclusion of urban development within a city that lacks any form of governance. The first phase of the studio focused on the forces that have affected the population decline within the central district of Cuauhtmoc from Aztec times to the present. The second phase investigate the material organization of the city and its inhabitation. Participants studied the way in which the city has grown in terms of colonials, specifically looking at how over time each has been organized differently in relation to the grid of manzanas, or city blocks. These city blocks are varied in size and shapes, characterized by their specific subdivision. Participants mapped the citys population distribution, economic properties, and the environmental affects of water, air pollution, wind circulation, soil conditions, and earthquake damages. In the second term, participants based their work on the fieldwork conducted in January of 2009 in Mexico City. The material manifestation of the citys decay was the focus of six case study zones within the district of Cuauhtmoc. The aim of this research was to understand the potential of voids that the decay of the city has generated and the means by which each of the manzanas gives raise to the way its layout of subdivision either increases or decreased the potential of urban development. Participants projected new forms of housing environments that unfolded urban milieus, which were embedded within the biophysics of our cities. Based of the biophysical property of the cityeither being it air, soil, water, voids, greenery, and patio colectivo each proposed prototypical project projected the construction of an urban milieu.

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Tutor Peter Trummer

Participants Han Ju Chen Shih-Yen Chiang Jeong Eun Choi Wanyu He Kuniyoshi Katsu I-Chen Lee Sebastiano Manservisi Alessandro Martinelli Ayaka Matsuda June Young Park

Select guest critics Lawrence Barth, Architectural Association, London Jos Castillo, architect, Mexico City Alejandro Hernndez, architect, Mexico City Jrg Leeser, partner, BeL/Soziett fr Architektur BDABDA, Cologne Andreas Ruby, architecture critic and theorist, Berlin Elia Zenghelis, architect and educator, Athens and Brussels

Select experts Jos Castillo, architect, Mexico City Alejandro Hernndez, architect, Mexico City

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Master plan for the Cuauhtmoc District of Mexico City. The proposal traces the relationship between earthquake intensities and theoretical maximum height of a building, producing different densities of connection with the ground plane.

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Postgraduate program Second-year research studio Capital Cities Research Program 20082009 academic year

Rome, Italy

Rome, the Center(s) ElsewhereThe myth and historical aura of Rome is both the source of its strength and the cause of its impasse. The studio departed from this paradox. Since its constitution, Rome has been an undeniably archetypical city, a city that incarnates the meaning of political form the representative role of city form and architecture. Romes historical richness should not be only understood through an art historical reading, but also from the successive political regimes that have chosen it as their symbolic center. From the Roman Empire and Christianity to the Fascist regime and the Italian Republic, each political power that has inhabited the city has redefined its political charisma and the form of its architecture. The dramatic vicissitudes that built the Rome we know today demonstrate how its history is far from a linear accumulation of beautiful and spectacular interventions. The city has been a battlefield of ideologies that have produced an extraordinarily conflicting heritage. The use, selection, and representation of this heritage have formed a complexity of politics, projects, transformations and manipulations that are always at the core of any appropriation of Romes myth. The relevance and importance of this myth reaches far beyond local urban interests and is bound to the fate and meaning of todays global civilization. Contemporary Rome appears divided into two sectors: the first is the city center that has been conserved and restored as tourist destination; and the second, the citys periferia that for a long time has been the neglected subject of any cohesive architecture and urban project. It is in this context that the possibility of new territorial organizational principles and cohesive architectural forms of living are explored. The territorial dimension of the city the center and its peripheral settlementsis addressed through the reinterpretation of the Roman consular roads system. This is first done by rethinking the citys infrastructural system to explore new means collective mobility along the consular roads in order to reduce traffic and to determine a new palimpsest for the redevelopment of the periferia. Secondly, the open space structurethe remarkable campagna romanawas understood as the driving element in connecting and dividing existing settlements in order to develop a more equitable and sustainable urban organization. The studio foresaw a long-term scenario where new forms of living introduced a new type of collectivity into a society that has grown very reluctant to it. These new centralities were not be defined as hubs, but as dense places of living and working. They take in consideration not only new infrastructure accessibility, but also, and especially, what seems to be the exceptional and yet not recognized quality of the territory around Rome: its vast spots of emptiness. Instead of looking at these voids as something to be programmed, they have been used as positive obstructions to urban development. Thus the very core was not to shift of emphasis from the city center to its hinterland, but instead focus on the imagination of new centralities as the limit of the city.

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Tutors Pier Vittorio Aureli Martino Tattara

Participants Guillermo Delgado Maria Giudici Suchada Kasemsap Ioanna Volaki Wei Wang Jiong Wu

Select guest critics Lawrence Barth, Architectural Association, London Luca Galofaro, partner, IaN+, Rome Elias Gunoun, architecture critic and theorist, Paris Luca Montuori, partner, 2tr architettura, Rome Andreas Ruby, architecture critic and theorist, Berlin Elia Zenghelis, architect and educator, Athens and Brussels

Select experts Luca Galofaro, partner, IaN+, Rome Gabriele Mastrigli, architecture critic, Rome Luca Montuori, partner, 2tr architettura, Rome

Berlage InstituteAerial view of proposed project for Castel Gandolfo at Lago Albano


Plan drawing of the patio-garden in relation to the exisiting urban situation

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Proposed project for Castel Gandolfo at Lago Albano, view from Via Appia

Proposed project for Castel Gandolfo at Lago Albano, view from Lago Albano

Postgraduate program Master class spring 2009 term


Radicalizing the Local:PostBubble Urban StrategiesParticipants on this ten-day master class looked at conflict as an operational device to transform architectural practice. The purpose was to see if architectsat this juncture of economic crisiscan, in addition to designing buildings, also participate in designing the political and economic process. The changing of geopolitical boundaries across continents, the unprecedented shifting of socio-cultural demographics produced by the ongoing explosion of urbanization across the world, and the current economic crisiseverywheregenerate new conditions that call into question traditional methods of artistic and architectural intervention in the city. These intensified geoeconomic and political dynamics begin to foreground once more the tensions between the formal and the informal, the top down totalizing institutions of land use and development at the scale of the metropolitan and bottom up agencies of social activism at the scale of the neighborhood. Above all, the multiple forces of division at play across the globe and in the contemporary city are producing a crisis of both housing affordability and social and public infrastructure. The main challenge in our time, primarily when the paradigm of private property has become unsustainable in conditions of poverty, is the need to rethink existing conditions of ownership. This series of seminars will be aim at redefining affordability by amplifying the value of social participation. The idea will be posited that dwellersin collaboration with communitybased, non-profit agenciesmore than merely own units, they can also co-own the economic and social infrastructure around them. At a time when the formal economic and political institutions that have been producing the official large, hyper-development in many contemporary cities have come to a stand still, it is important to re-evaluate the role of architects in rethinking the institutions of urban development.

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Tutor Teddy Cruz Participants Itxaso Ceberio Bergs Wei Ting Chen Zetao Chen Pedram Dibazar Marco Galasso Wei-Jung Hsu Dong Woo Kang Eunjin Kang

Andreas Karavanas Joune Ho Kim Wonjin Kim Yong Il Kim Takaomi Koibuchi Nara Lee Chia-Shun Liao Chen-Jung Liu Fang Liu Takeshi Murakuni Luca Picardi Nuria Pujol Caire

Jad Semaan Timur Shabaev Janki Shah Xiachao Song Dae Hee Suk Keming Wang Ran Wu Ryosuke Yago Xiaodi Yang Jungang Zhou

Select guest critics Lieven de Cauter, philosopher, Brussels Ana Dzokic, principal, STEALTH Group, Rotterdam Dennis Kaspori, founder, The Maze Corporation, Rotterdam Jeanne van Heeswijk, artist, Rotterdam Tahl Kaminer, Design and Theory instructor, Delft School of Design, Delft University of Technology

Berlage InstituteA diagram depicting the Afrikaansemarkt in relation to governmental authorities and representative stakeholdersNational government Eu

Recent postgraduate research projectsA diagram depicting the Afrikaansemarkt infrastructure in relation to the public sphereCity levelCity council

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Local levelLocal council Local traders Market committee Shop seller Market director Union Dutch Market seller (Muslim) Union leader: rob Hindi Afrikanerplein Neighbourhood Muslim women Freehouse Stall contractor Freehouse Park Cleaning contractor City guards Police Young people Park director

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Swimming pool Botanical garden Library Mosque

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Culture centre Botanical garden Library Mosque Sports hall

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A diagram, based on Londons specialized market system, reorganizing the daily activities and specificity of AfrikaansemarktRotterdamBlaak Afrikanerplein West Hoogvliet Zuidwijk Prins Alexanderpolder Schiebroek Overschie IJsselmonde Ommoord Hoek van Holland Schiedamse Noordplein Binnenrotte General

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LondonCamden Lock Church Street Portobello Shepherds Bush Bayswater Road Grays Antique Market Antiquarius Picadilly Covent Gardens Brixton Borough Market Bermondsey Petticoat Lane Upmarket Spitaelds Brick Lane Columbia Camden Passage Chapel Stables Art, vintage, market hall Fruit, fashion, bric-a-brac Vintage, antiques/general Local market, ethnic foods Painting, scultpure Antiques Antiques Antiques/general Tourist Afro-carribean Gourmet food Antiques Asian Fashion Young designers/art/general Anything and everything Plants, garden Books General Fashion

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Postgraduate program First-year research studio spring 2009 term


H2OBITAT:Living with WaterConfronting cutting-edge ecological knowledge with critical design proposals, this first-year postgraduate research studio investigated to what extent new ecological parameters and sustainable opportunities can change the current cultural outlook on the definition of housing. The intention was to investigate how the shift of view can introduce new qualities and relations, how it can break open what exists. The Netherlands has always been a designed country. Architecture is valued here because it is a necessity. Without design (and architecture) the country would only partially exist. Intrinsic to the studio was the belief that the artificial can become a natural part of life (this pro-active attitude will serve as the mental backdrop of the studio). However, the studio also took the a critical view on the Dutch legacy that architecture should always be new, more an engineering result then an artistic product. The studio is also questioned to what extent can architecture reduce C02. Shifting from a rather homogeneous society to a fragmented cluster of subcultures and target groups, the Netherlands is no longer able to cater to difference. The studio looked for a precise way of approaching the problem of difference, freeing architecture from the hyper-specific marketing point of view. At the same time, the studio produced urbanity from the urban to architectural to ecological scales of size and space. All design proposals dealt with the issue of housing in relation the frictions between social relationships and spatial organizations. They were backed up by an in-depth survey of Dutch architectural history and the societal models that have led to the present-day built environment. This studio, although driven by today s hottest design driver (eco-friendly design), also just as much focused on the things that make architecture brutal, banal, and slow: its users, its scale, its inertia, etc.. Therefore, the studio dealt with these issues in a very specific and contextual way by relating to the Rotterdam Climate Initiative; by dealing with real stakeholders like the city of Rotterdam, ARUP Amsterdam, and select Dutch housing corporations; and by developing proposals for the Maashaven and the Rijnhaven in Rotterdam. Participants had the opportunity to directly engage with reality in order to propose an architecture that goes beyond reaffirming what already exists.

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Tutors Freek Persyn Laurens Tait

Participants Zetao Chen Fang Liu Marco Galasso Wei-Jung Hsu Nara Lee Chia-Shun Liao Takeshi Murakuni Timur Shabaev Ryosuke Yago

Select guest critics Filip Geerts, Assistant Professor, Delft University of Technology Nico Tellie, Ds+V, Rotterdam Teun van den Dries, ARUP, Amsterdam Alexander Van Dam, Dura Vermeer Mariet Schoenmakers, Director, AM Jaap Wiedenhoff, ARUP, Amsterdam

Select expert ARUP, Amsterdam

Berlage InstituteA proposed neighborhood that integrates a water battery program


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Postgraduate program First-year research studio 2008 Winter term

Northeast Brazil

When Economies Become Form: Micro-economic Models asIn a time of global economic challenges paralleled by a resource crisis as the result of an increasing awareness regarding the looming depletion of crude oilthere is arguably the potential for a reverse globalization: that of extreme locality and context produce. While international trading, shipping, and physical logistics are becoming increasingly expensive, even tax-exempted islands of economic potential will no longer hold true to their visionary frameworks. When transport becomes a luxury, economies will thrive locally. Such an exacerbation of localities arises in tandem with the reverse logic and proliferation global tourism. When paradise becomes generic, the touristic and market value placed on the local, and localities, proliferates. There is an odd notion hidden in this appeal of localities. We are skeptical about intervening in foreign lands. One should try to avoid the risks of authenticity and progress turning into the opposite of what they promise, i.e., either mimicking local customs by emulating their formal characteristics, or introducing planning frameworks that result in a pretense of heterogeneity through individual pedigree architectures. This eighteen-week first-year postgraduate research studio investigated a strategy for local intervention. The current economic climate and emergence of six resorts within the emerging sub-urban economy of Northeast Brazil, which has proven resilient to the current economic crisis, was invoked as a case study. The six-star Duas Barras resort under development along Alagoas s 143 miles of unspoiled coast provided a backdrop for investigation.

Spatial Prescriptions in Northeast BrazilParticipants investigated twelve meta-topics via micro-economies in which content-productions became formal interventions and spatial prescriptions. Individual interventions arose out of explorations considered on local, regional, and super regional scales, which will in turn be considered as an accumulation or composite to produce a new, generative layer for the (sub-) region. The site of intervention was considered both physical and strategic, within the given locale of Duas Barras, Poxim, Coruripe, Alagoas, Northeast Brazil and that of generative micro-economies on local, regionale, and supra-regional scales. Fieldwork to Brazil took place during the last week of March.

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Tutors Tina DiCarlo Markus Miessen

Participants Itxaso Ceberio Bergs Pedram Dibazar Dong Woo Kang Joune Ho Kim Yong Il Kim Chen-Jung Liu Janki Shah Xiachao Song Keming Wang Xiaodi Yang

Guest critics Joachim Declerck, faculty member, Berlage Institute Salomon Frausto, faculty member, Berlage Institute Jorg Leeser, principal of BeL, Cologne Vedran Mimica, Director, Berlage Institute Roemer van Toorn, faculty member, Berlage Institute

Experts Itacare Capital Fund, real estate developer, Brazil Zak Kyes, communication designer, London Michael Speaks, Dean, University of Kentucky College of Design Steve Teruggi, consultant and partner, Winkreative

Berlage InstituteA proposal for a flexible spatial and programmatic open-air market structure


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RUPTURING BOUNDARIES

Postgraduate program First-year research studio spring 2009 term

Ningbo, China

Bridging Untroubled Waters:The Chinese city of Ningbo, located 200 km south of Shanghai is an affluent city known for its rivers and tradition of trade. It has been a major center of Chinese light industry in for the past two decades and is now preparing itself for its postindustrial age.Therefore, a huge financial investment is being made to transform the city into a culture-oriented and environment-friendly new habitat with the construction of the Ningbo mall. The Ningbo mall is located in the southern district of Yinzhou. It is a 1.5 kmlong flood bed containing branched water systems, stretching from a three-hectare public park to the citys second largest river.According to the citys master plan, it will be reserved for a 300-meter wide public open space with mid-rise to high-rise buildings developed on both its sides. In contemporary China, too many urban waterfront development projects have been imposed by functional planning and a strict gridironwith relatively moderate and untroubled water systemsand resulted in various forms of monumentality Thereby . , leading to the homogenization of these raw territories once and for all. It is time to reconsider this type of artificial intervention and to rethink the city as a part of the natural system. The Ningbo mall provides the good opportunity to challenge the popular strategies, and to explore new potentials of sustainability The . mall is the ideal testing ground bed for new design strategies that deal with the last trends in the contemporary architecture debate: sustainability reclamation, density scale, and , , networks.

The Ningbo Mall as a Quest for Alternative Strategies in Open Space Development

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Tutor Rients Dijkstra Assistant Thomas Stellmach

Participants Wei Ting Chen Eunjin Kang Andreas Karavanas Takaomi Koibuchi Luca Picardi Nuria Pujol Jad Semaan Dae Hee Suk Ran Wu Jungang Zhou

Select guest critics Adrian Hornsby, critic, London Hiroki Matsuura, partner, Maxwan, Rotterdam Patrick McCabe, partner, Redscape, Rotterdam

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Proposed master plan for the Ningbo Mall, China

Winter 2009 term first-year postgraduate research studios Eura-ring Lille: City after Euralille, led by Petar Zaklanovic and Markus Appenzeller The 900-KM Nile City, led by Pier Paolo Tamburelli and Oliver Thill Skill Bill: The Possibility of Mixed-use Structures in Rotterdam, led by Rients Dijkstra Stranger Than Fiction: Welcome to Los Angeles, led by Christophe Cornubert Winter 2009 term Projective Theory seminars The Other Image: The Politics of Appearance, seminar sessions with George Baird, Edward Dimendberg, and Andreas Ruby; convened by Roemer van Toorn Modernity and its Discontent: Architectural (Op)positions Revisited, led by Roemer van Toorn The Subversion of Architecture? The Architecture of Subversion, led by Lieven De Cauter 20092010 yearlong second-year postgraduate research studios Environments of Collectivity: The Tourism Resort and the City, led by Olaf Gisper Metropolitan Imprints: New Workspace Architecture in Hybrid Environments, led by Dietmar Leyk Radical Realism: Vienna, led by Peter Trummer

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The Berlage Institute continues the tradition of Dutch archit ecture and urbanism with an international perspective. From H.P. Berlages three American lectures greatly influencing the foundation of modernist discourse at the turn of the twentieth century, and Mart Stam traveling to Russia to collaborate with El Lissitsky on new urban issues, to Van Eesteren and Van Lohuizens urban research on Amsterdam impacting the agenda of CIAM and the thinking of Le Corbusier, and van Eycks call for the return of humanism to architectural design, to Hertzbergers reconsideration of spatial frameworks, and Koolhaass delirious reading of New York as the ultimate capitalist city, Dutch architects and urbanists have had a tremendous impact on the international debate and practice of architecture. Many Dutchbased architects continue to teach, research, and build internationally. As the transformations of the built environment become increasingly complex and ambitious, the professional sectors of architecture tend to break down into distinct specializations. The challenge for architectural research is to directly engage with these transformations while simultaneously developing new types of architectural knowledge. The Berlage Institute sets up the context for its researchers to test and communicate models, insights, and principles that focus on Dutchrelated architectural and urban issues in relation to a global perspective.

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Research policyDevelopment of new architectural knowledge The rapidly changing field of spatial practices makes evident that architecture is no longer produced within a closed body of knowledge. Therefore, the Berlage Institute organizes its activities according to a set of defined research trajectories. The aim is to address supradisciplin ary knowledge, by relating the research ambitions to other disciplines (economy, sociology, etc.), and subdisciplinary knowledge, by focusing on specific aspects of architectural production (planning, organization, representation, typol ogy, etc.). Within each of the different research trajectories, a deeper understanding will be built up through expert lectures, theory seminars, reviews by specialists and fieldwork. 20092012 Program Building on the positive experience of the past years with the focused research activities of the Capital Cities and the Associative Design Research Programs, the Berlage Institute structures its laboratory according to six research trajectories. The six distinct research trajectories include: new live/work conditions, tourism and territory, emerging technologies and techniques, structural metropolitan for mations, cohabitation and conflict, and energy and the built environment. While developing specific insights to each respective trajectory, the Institutes research activities collectively aim to advance new models, visions, and prin ciples able to be able to frame the different forces shaping the contemporary built environment. Each of these trajectories addresses a precise research subject related to a contemporary spatial development or phenomenon that requires architectural reflection and speculation. The activities under each trajectory consist of research studios, contract research initiatives, a lecture program, and other related public events, publications, and PhD research. For the duration of the 20092012 program, specialists and external parties related to the phenomenon under study will be intimately engaged in establishing the research goals and hypotheses to increase the insights and knowledge in each research trajectory. Description of research trajectories: and speculation. This research trajectory addresses the implications of new live/work conditions on the territory and the city. Building upon the significant Dutch neighbor hood planning tradition, this trajectory develops new models to transform existing housing environments and new forms of habitation.

Tourism and territoryAs the worlds second largest economy, tourism impacts the development of both cities and landscapes around the globe by turning these locations into destinations for an ever more mobile and increasing number of travelers. With developing countries simultaneously growing as tourist destinations (and also representing a rapidly growing number of tourists), the tourism economy will con tinue to challenge the development of the built environ ment over the coming years. The prospect of further growth makes longterm, socially and ecologically sustain able collaborations between the tourism industry and the host societies and territories are vital. While tourism tends to isolate specific experiences and places for the travelers to consume, the importance of this longterm participation of the tourist industry in the development of cities and land scapes necessitates the development of new cohesive models.

Emerging technologies and techniquesThe evolution of construction techniques and principles are in part responsible for the advancement of architectural history and practice. The advent of todays digital culture has altered technologies for conceiving and designing the built environment thus opening up a new field of specula tion for the manufacturing and building of architecture and cities. This research trajectory expands upon the know ledge gained in the Associative Design Research Program and explores the possibilities and the impact of emerging technologies and techniques in redefining the sustainable and public aspects of architectural and urban compositions.

Structuring metropolitan formationsIn search of economic prosperity, people, and industries are massively migrating to urban centers. While this devel opment applies pressure to the scale of European cities causing the formation of small metropolises and regional conurbationsin Latin America and southeast Asia these migrating populations settle in ad hoc dwellings to form increasingly vast favelas, shanty towns, or informal cities along urban peripheries or in between structured parts of metropolises. Both of these migratory fluxes challenge the existing scales of their respective cities, necessitating plan ning methods able to address comprehensively the trans formation of these conurbations into a larger urban form. While informal settlements are often accepted to be a con clusive form of urbanization of large parts of worldwide

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New live/work conditionsAn aging population, an increasing middle class in emerg ing economies, vast collective housing developments along urban edges, and the connection of living spaces to office spaces are but a few of the challenges to the contempo rary city. While it is a massive part of architectural produc tion, at a time when societal constellations and living patterns change rapidly, the very base of the cityhous inghas not often been a topic of architectural innovation

Berlage Institutemetropolises and megalopolises, this research trajectory aims to develop planning techniques and architectural projects that structurally address the scalar increases of cities and their respective territorial inequalities. The result is to establish territorial cohesion through public infrastruc tures, spaces and built form.

Program 20092012Dutch international platform Dutch architecture and urban culture has never limited itself to local issues; in fact, its respective innovation has been dependent on its international outlook. In a glo balized world, the Dutch context cannot limit itself to national boundaries in relation to cultural, socioeconomic, and environmental issues. It is pertinent to collaborate and share knowledge and expertise with colleagues and insti tutions worldwide. The Institute aims for exchange between other worldwide experiences and established traditions as well as the distribution of Dutch local exper tise in urban planning, public housing, and design to gain broader awareness of the built environment.

Cohabitation and conflictThe pervasion of neoliberal globalization has led to a growing inequality between different populations through out the world. This condition not only traces dividing lines between country borders, like in the cases of Ceuta and Tijuana, but more and more it also fragments cities and megalopolises in both the West and South of the world. This research trajectory develops its architectural speculation around the territories where real or implicit conflicts arisethe places where extremes touch. This tra jectory aims to develop counterprojects against the seclud ing devices that protect one social group or society against another, while at the same time envisioning spaces of potential cohabitation. By addressing the spaces of direct confrontation and conflict as the locus of architectural spec ulation, this trajectory will develop a number of emblem atic projects that will at once critique todays economic and political inequalities, and propagate alternative models for urban spaces and strategies of cohabitation.

Energy and the built environmentSustainability and ecology are today at the crux of archi tectural discourse and urban political rhetoric. But often their green character is only a cladding and selling of cosmetic ecological skins. Even if these skins constitute remarkable technological advancements, a step forward to another level of action must be developed. This research trajectory proposes to move away from the image of sus tainability. It will focus on energy efficiency and its respec tive architectural/urban composition and organization. Based on energy models, this investigation will first develop abstract organizational principles related to higher energy efficiency. These principles will then be deployed and articulated into concrete urban and architec tural settings. This research trajectory will ground a more structural debate on the impact of energy efficiency on architecture and urban planning as well as simultaneously measure the social and cultural aspects of the proposed organizational principles.

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A selection of photographs depicting various activities, including fieldwork, seminar discussions, studio presentations, and public events, at the Berlage Institute

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Implementation of research policyPostgraduate ProgramThe postgraduate program of the Berlage Institute pro vides the next generation of architects and urbanists with tools to better comprehend and intervene in the complexity of contemporary life. Study is conducted in an indepth collaborative and experimental setting. This two year research program is structured around three design research studios, a series of history and theory seminars, fieldwork, and master classes. Participants take part in two oneterm studios in the first year and one yearlong studio in the second year. A series of public colloquia, lec tures and exhibitions complements the research program. First-year research program During the first year, participants are involved in one of two offered design research studios per term, which relate to different urban conditions and design issues. Participants take part in situational research by develop ing knowledge bottom up, and in subjective research, by gaining knowledge top down. This research targets generic fields of knowledge and tests them with site specific application. The aim is to test the potential of speculative design research on specific architectural and urban conditions. Working in an immersive and collabo rative environment, firstyear participants explore real urban conditions by applying professional techniques and approaches. These studios focus on subjects such as cul tural, technological, and typological analyses in relation to the Institutes overall research trajectories. tures, and excursions, related to the elected studio topic.

Recent secondyear design research studios include:Mexico City: Territorial Densification, led by Peter Trummer Rome, the Center(s) Elsewhere, led by Pier Vittorio Aureli andMartino Tattara

Projective Theory Program The Projective Theory Program offers a series of theoreti cal and historical seminars to mobilize theory and acti vate history by developing innovative forms of aesthetic, urban, and architectural knowledge to seek new political opportunities in architectural production. It establishes a framework for understanding how creative practices through their situated, embodied and contained knowl edge within the order of thingshave a chance to succeed in building a progressive future. Seminars framed around key issues related to the various research trajectories are developed in close collaboration with the research studio tutors.

Recent seminars include:Reality Demands a Theory, led by Roemer van Toorn About Berlage, led Thomas A. P. van Leeuwen The Return to the State of Nature, led by Lieven De Cauterand Rudi Laermans

Recent firstyear design research studios include:Bridging Untroubled Waters: The Ningbo Mall as a Quest for Alternative Strategies in Open Space Development,led by Rients Dijkstra

Master classes The Institute organizes two intensive oneweek master classes per year led by architects as well as professionals from related fields. One master class is organized around a design assignment; the other emphasizes a theoretical issue. The results of selected master classes are published and/or exhibited and may be further developed in the regular studio program. Master classes are open to a limited number of external participants.

H2OBITAT: Living with Water, led by Freek Persyn andLaurens Tait

Recent master classes include:Radicalizing the Local: PostBubble Urban Strategies,led by Teddy Cruz

Hong Kong Fantasies, led by Winy Maas When Economies Become Form: Micro-Economic Models as Spatial Prescriptions in Northeast Brazil, led byTina DiCarlo and Markus Miessen

The Politics of the Envelope, led by Alejandro ZaeraPolo Fieldwork Prior to the completion of the first term of the second year program, participants take part in an international fieldwork related to their elected research trajectory. Participants broaden and expand their acquaintance with international practices, cultural institutions and universities by attending workshops, seminars, lectures and excur sions organized by the Institute in close association with local authorities and leading practitioners. In the last two years, participants took part in fieldwork in Beijing, Berlin, Brasilia, Hong Kong, London, Mexico City, Moscow, New York, Paris, Phoenix, Rome, and Seoul.

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Second-year research program Secondyear participants engage in one of a minimum of two yearlong design research studios offered. Focusing on issues related to the transformation of the contem porary built environment, knowledge is developed that better bridges speculative and actual architectural production. The program establishes innovative connec tions between new and existing largeand smallscale planning techniques to explore urban development situ ations. Aspects of the secondyear research program are organized in consultation with firstyear participants. Participants engage in a collaborative research process with a focus on individual growth. Each year, participants perform extensive fieldwork, consisting of workshops, lec

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Program 20092012Launched during the 20092010 year, this research is conceptualized to understand the citys form as an act that defines a political intentionality. Thus establishing a precondition for engagement with the citys complex nature. A fundamental issue at stake is form in relation to the political. The term city is defined not as a mere mass of flows and programs but as a political form. The terms political and form are assumed to be the fun damental criteria that construct the essence of the city. If the essence of political action is the attempt to project a form of coexistence among individuals, it may be said that architectural form inevitably implies a politi cal vision. Even if there is no political architecture, there is certainly a political way of making and reading architectural form. Far from being just an aesthetic category, physical form represents the political under standing of the city as a constant dialectic process of inclusion and exclusion. This commitment to formal and material responsibility is meant to be a departure from the laissezfaire rhetoric of flexibility and indetermina cy that has paralyzed recent discussion on the city. The threeyear program is organized and structured as a critical forum where participants are asked not only to pursue their individual studies but also to share these studies as part of a collective debate. Candidates are not full time, but required to take part in all these events. Participation consists of individual tutorials with the supervisor, monthly seminars with invited guest scholars, a yearly international colloquium, and sym posia. These activities are venues for discussion and constitute occasions for candidates to deliver content related to his or her thesis in the form of presentations, papers, and publishable essays. The program begins with a limited number of candi dates. Each year after, a selection of new candidates will be accepted. For more information on application procedures, deadlines, and other pertinent informa tion, please consult www.berlageinstitute.nl/applying The following dissertation topics have been submitted to the program:The Concept of Continuity in Urban Morphology, Bernardina Borra; Beyond Public Space: Autonomous Common Space and Insurgent Ecologies, Amir Djalali; Mass-produced Classicism: Rethinking the Relationship Between Economy and Architecture, Fernando Donis; Commonplace: Rethinking the Architecture of the Street, Maria S. Giudici; The Colonization of the Greek Polis: The Greek State and the Political Form of the City, Platon Issaias; Between Power and Control: Typological Ideas from and for the City, Christopher CM Lee; Tehran has a Coast: Geopolitics of a Megalopolis in Formation, Hamed Khosravi; A Justicing Notebook: Authority, Conflict, and Control in Chicagos Politics and Architecture since the 1900s, Kathleen ODonnell; Typical Plan: Architecture of Labor and the Space of Production, Francesco Marullo; The Resistance of Architecture to Political Regime(s): The Case of Novi Zagreb,Dubravka Vranic

PhD ProgramThe Berlage Institute offers a PhD program in conjunc tion with the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology. Presently, there are two different ways to obtain a PhD from the Institute. The first is through individual doctoral studies and the second through participation in The City as a Project PhD program. The PhD program is meant to function in close relationship with the postgraduate program. PhD candidates are encouraged to take part in design studio presentations and other related postgraduate events. The possibility to perform individual doctoral research is open to a limited number of candidates with an extensive list of previously published work. Research conducted is meant to be critical, progressive, and speculatively risktaking. The emphasis is meant to be on the development of spatial interventions or sce narios, rather than on a written dissertation alone. The research is performed on an individual basis at the Berlage Institute and is guided by the Berlage Chair Professor at the Delft University of Technology, cur rently Alejandro ZaeraPolo. Candidates are selected by invitation only. Recently defended dissertations:The Possibility of Absolute ArchitecturePier Vittorio Aureli Defended on October 10, 2005

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The Liberal Monument: A Definition of Urban Design as the Manifestation of Romantic Late-ModernismAlexander DHooghe Defended on November 19, 2007

Histories of the Immediate Present: Inventing Architectural Modernism, 19301975Anthony Vidler Defended on October 25, 2005

Dissertations in preparation:Noise EnclavesMiguel RoblesDuran

Aesthetics as Form of Politics: Fresh Conservatism or Radical Democracy?Roemer van Toorn

Population Thinking in ArchitecturePeter Trummer

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Coastline Ecologies: The Case Study of CroatiaSasha Zanko

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Public ProgramThe architectural and urban research, ideas, and projects pursued at the Institute are expanded, consolidated, and complemented for presentation to a global audience through a series of architectural broadcasting initiatives. This content is disseminated as public events, print and digital publications, and online interactivity. Public events From lectures and roundtable discussions to exhibitions and conferences, each year a public program of events complements the research topics presently being pursued at the Berlage Institute. Each term, a lecture series is pre sented framed around a central topic. Recent lecture series: Risky Business: Architecture and Economies of MeansThis lecture series focused on the cultural dimension of architecture in relation to its economic organization. From balancing public policy with private investment interests and to rethinking the relationship between architect and client, each lecturer look at the influence of a globally marketdriven world in relation to the construction of the built environment. Lecturers included Wiel Arets, principal, Wiel Arets Architects; Keller Easterling, Associate Professor of Architecture, Yale University; and Reinhold Martin, Associate Professor of Architecture, Columbia University.

Publications The Institutes flagship publication is Hunch. Each issue includes contributions on a selected topic as well as other wideranging columns, essays, interviews, and design projects. In addition to publishing Hunch twice a year, the Institute releases The Berlage Papers at the beginning of each term. This broadsheet highlights recent news, announcements, previews and reviews related to the Institutes activities. In 2009, the Institute initiated a publishing agreement with NAi Publishers to be publish Hunch and two new book series. The first will present selected research activities produced by Institute faculty, participants, and affiliates. To reach a wider and more diverse readership, a pocket size book series will also be launched. Each paperback volume will present a single essay by leading as well as emerging scholars and practitioners; along with supple mental material. Recent publications: Hunch 12 BureaucracyThis issue presents twelve contributions by leading and emerging architects, critics, and scholars that explore the role of bureaucracy in shaping contemporary architecture. From governmental regula tions and new organizational models for professional practice to contrasting forms of urbanism and divergent interpretations of eco nomic value in relation to cultural capital, the authors focus on how select determinants affect the built environment. At the same time they rethink these processes in order to influence the buildings and cities of today and tomorrow. Along with these topical contributions which are supplemented by marginalia of short stories, annotations, terminologies, and inventoriesfour 1,000word texts and a visual essay complement the issue to reflect on broader theoretical aspects of architecture culture.

Form and Figures: Exploring Architectural LanguageThis lecture series brought together architects, urbanists, designers, and scholars to present languages, thoughts, and representations that successively contribute to the historical and contemporary canon of architecture culture. The series aimed to individuate modes of articulation that implicitly, rather than explicitly, serve as frameworks and reference points for the debate within the discipline of archi tecture. Lecturers included Alan Colquhoun, Emeritus Professor of Architecture, Princeton University; Hubert Damisch, Faculty member, cole des hautes tudes en sciences sociales, Paris; Mary McLeod, Professor of Architecture, Columbia University, Vincent de Rijk, model maker; and Hans Werlemann, photographer and filmmaker.

Hunch 13 ConsensusFrom decisionmaking strategies, participatory forms of urbanism, and topdown planning methods, to the collaborative process of the architecture studio, the political implications of commissioning of star architects, and the actualization of universal planning principles, the contributors focus on how collective thought influences and enriches the development, design, and planning of cities. Along with the topi cal contributionswhich are supplemented by marginalia of annota tions, inventories, terminologies, and short storiesthe issue also presents a series of peripheralia, consisting of four conversations with renowned architectural theorists and practitioners, and a visual essay and text reconsidering the role of images in architectural his tory and theory.

Fabricators of Ideology and Architectural EducationThis threepart lecture and seminar program, initiated in spring of 2009 and to continue until spring of 2010, brings together those architects who are the protagonists of architectural ideology and education during the last halfcentury to discuss their influence on contemporary theorists, critics, and practitioners. The aim is to trace a historical trajectory based on the fiftyyear teaching experience of Elia Zenghelis. The series includes the participation of many of the protagonistsboth practitioners and theoriststhat fashioned this historical trajectory. Many of these protagonists are still prac ticing and all have been involved in search for, or critique, of a paradigm. Most importantly, all are educators. Participants in the program to date include Andrea Branzi, architect, Milan; Peter Cook, architect, London; Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture, Columbia University; and Herman Hertzberger, archi tect, Amsterdam.

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Digital program The website www.berlage-institute.nl is designed to be the central hub in the network connecting the Institutes past and present production with a greater architectural audi ence. It is also a tool for the archiving and exhibiting of the research projects pursued at the Institute. The website presents live streaming of public events and a selection of video featuring past events. In the future, it will also feature blogs, topicoriented bulletin boards and partici pantgenerated video.

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Program 20092012candidates to become European Capital of Culture: Kosice (Slovakia), Bordeaux (France), Mechelen (Belgium), and Plzen (Czech Republic). It offers the framework for exchange between eight selected archi tects and cities to develop, present, and debate speculative architec tural ideas on the future of these cities as well as the European city in general. www.cityvisionseurope.eu

Professional Development ProgramComplementary to the postgraduate, PhD, and public programs, the professional development program broad ens the Institutes activities to the professional sector. The program focuses on the transmission and further advance ment of the architectural knowledge developed within the Institutes research trajectories into the professional sector; while, at the same time, addressing new fields of specula tion and research that may eventually feed back into the Institutes other activities. The professional development program is organized under the auspices of Berlage InstituteCentre for Research and Development (BICARD) and operates on the basis of external funding and grants. On the one hand, the Institute opens its laboratory to architectural practitioners, practices, and other related organizations engaged in the production of the built envi ronment by organizing professionallyoriented seminars, conferences, master classes, and design research projects. The aim is to provide the opportunity for professionals to further explore their design intentions, techniques, or ambitions as well as to broaden their expertise and knowl edge. On the other hand, the Institute directly contributes to the development of the built environment by execut ing contracted studies and research for both the public and private sectors, often in close collaboration with the Institutes other programs. Design research activities The Institute coordinates, often in collaboration with national and international partners, design research activi ties open to practicing architects, urban planners, and landscape architects. Often based on international calls for participation, they explore architectural challenges and trends in urban development that countries, regions, or cities are confronted with by setting up a collective reflec tion and speculation to project alternatives for the future development of those areas. These activities simultane ously allow for the selected practitioners to develop new architectural ideas and urban principles that aim to contrib ute to the development of the discipline overall as well as to nurture their respective professional practice. Croatian Archipelago New LighthousesCroatian Archipelago New Lighthouses is a joint project by the Berlage Institute Rotterdam and the Croatian Architects Association focus ing on the process of development of the cities and landscape along the Croatian coast, part of the Mediterranean that is still considered rather virginal. In order to investigate alternative models of devel opment, CANL realized urban redevelopment projects for seven concrete locations along the coast, in close cooperation with the local municipalities. www.croatianarchipelago.com

Continuing education activities The continuing education activities organized by the Institute are open to participation for architects, urban planners, and other related professionals, such as project developers, public planning officers and political decision makers. The program consists of a series of intensive semi nars, colloquia, and master classes, giving participants the opportunity to collaborate with distinguished colleagues and experts on planning and design issues of mutual inter est. The courses focus on teamwork, strengthening the international orientation of participants, and contributing to professional performance at the highest level. Hospital Master Class I: Evidence Based DesignThis oneweek master class, held in January of 2008, was organized in collaboration with the Dutch Center for Health Assets (DuCHA) and led by Kirk Hamilton, professor, Center for Health Design, Texas A&M University. Participants focused on intensive care unit design and reflected on the theory and practice in architects use of evidence.

Corporations and CitiesThe Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Architecture, in collaboration with the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam, organized a threeday colloquium, entitled Corporations and Cities: Envisioning Corporate Real Estate in the Urban Future, held in May of 2008. This event brought together international professionals, policy makers, researchers, and scholars in the fields of corporate accommodation, real estate, organizational management, urban planning, architec ture, and other disciplines related to the built environment to consider the relations between urban planning and the accommodation of largescale organizations. For more information see www.corporationsandcities.org

Contracted studies The Institute responds to international requests for propos als and tenders, and executes commissioned studies and contracted services. Leading and emerging profession als, consisting of Institute alumni and other collaborators, are responsible for the execution of these activities, while the subject of the study is explored in the postgraduate program. When appropriate, the institute also invites architectural practices, consultancy offices, and other insti tutions active in complementary fields of knowledge to collaborate. Third International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam PowerProducing the Contemporary CityThe Berlage Institute was invited to curate the Third International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam, entitled PowerProducing the Contemporary City, in 2007. The event consisted of four exhibitions, an international master class, a conference, a lecture program aimed at exploring the role that architects can play in envisioning and projecting the development of cities. For more information see www.2007.iabr.nl

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City Visions Europe: Bordeaux, Kosice, Mechelen, PlzenThe 18month program City Visions Europe, running from autumn 2008 to spring 2010, is focused on the role of architectural specula tions in relation to evolution of the European city. It will provoke public debate on the future of four midsized cities that have been

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Clockwise: History and Future of the European City exhibition in Mechelen; discussion related to the firstyear studio Rethinking the AllInclusive: New Coastal Tourism Resort Development, taught by Saffet K. Bekiroglu and Olaf Gisper and ; launch of Hunch 12; installation at the 2007 Venice Architecture Biennale, cover of Hunch 12, exhibition of the firstyear studio Amsterdam Zuidas: Transfer Node taughy by Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos, and Olaf Gisper; final presentation of a master class; a proposal for a shared work/ live urban intervention in Seoul; lecture by Keller Easterling.

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FacilitiesBuilding Located in Rotterdam, a city noted for its modern architecture, the Berlage Institute is housed in the former Spaarbank building designed by the renowned architect J. J. P. Oud and completed in 1954. Participants work in a communal studio space in the buildings skylit main banking hall. Computing facilities The Institute offers general networking services, including Internet access, email, printing, scanning, and data server storage. Technical equipment for presentation, such as digital projectors and laptops, is also available. Please note that workstations are not provided; participants are advised to supply their own computers and software. Library The Institute operates a specialized library for use by participants, faculty and visiting tutors. It contains a selection of architectural monographs, publications on history and theory, and a broad range of international architectural journals. The library also houses an extensive DVD and video collection of public lectures and final presentations previously held at the Institute. Participants have access to the libraries of the Netherlands Architecture Institute and the Faculty of Architecture at the Delft University of Technology. Exhibitions space and bookshop The gallery area and studio space are used for the display of guest exhibitions as well as the research and design work conducted by participants, alumni, and faculty. A selection of recent publications, focusing on topics being discussed at the Institute, is featured in the entrance bookshop. Model workshop The Institute provides a model workshop, adjacent to the studio space, containing facilities for building in wood, plastic, foam, metal and concrete. It is also equipped with a selection of the latest computerdriven fabrication technology for model making, including a largebed milling machine. Opening hours The Institutes office is open Monday through Friday, from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and closed on public holidays. Access to the studio space is open twentyfourhours, seven days a week to all participants.

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Lecture room All public events and presentations take place in the H.P. Berlage Lecture Room. Situated on the ground level, this 125person room is equipped with a sound system, projector, large projection screen and capacity for live Internet broadcasting.

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PeopleSupervisory BoardThe Board of Supervisors oversees the Berlage Institute, governed by the General Director.Rob Docter is General Director in charge of the administration. He was the Senior Advisor on Film and Architecture for the Arts Directorate of the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. From 1992 to 1996 he was responsible for the Dutch governments policy on architecture as Head of the Architecture Department of the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. He worked at the Netherlands Department for Conservation, concentrating on the protection of historic towns and the advisement of local authorities on urban conservation issues. He consults worldwide on various subjects related to the larger cultural position of architecture, including education policies and the integration, conservation, and development of urban heritage. He is the President of the European Forum for Architectural Policies, a founding board member of the Venice Rietveld Pavilion Foundation, a member of the Advisory Committee of the European Prize for Contemporary Architecture Mies van der Rohe Award, and a board member of the Palladio Project Foundation. His past activities include being the Secretary of the International Specialist Committee on Urbanism and Landscapes for DoCoMoMo International and a board member of the Architecture Film Festival Rotterdam. Jan Jessurun is former chairman of the Netherlands Cultural Council and former General Director of Cultural Affairs for the Netherlands Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Tom Meijer is the former CEO of the MAB Real Development Group. Ivo Opstelten is the former Mayor of Rotterdam, Delfzijl, and Utrecht. Jurgen Rosemann serves as Chairman of the Board of Supervisors. He is Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Urban Management and Renewal at the Delft University of Technology. Mariet Schoenmakers is the Director of AM Wonen. She is the former Director of the Municipality of Rotterdam Stedenbouw dS+V.

Research BoardThe Research Board establishes the profile of the Institute by identifying new research trajectories. Each member of the Research Board is personally involved in one or more component of the program.Ben van Berkel is cofounder and Principal Architect of UN Studio in Amsterdam. He is presently Professor in Conceptual Design at the Stdelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Winy Maas is partner of MVRDV in Rotterdam. He is Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Delft University of Technology. Robert E. Somol is an architecture theorist. He is the Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Alejandro Zaera-Polo is partner in Foreign Office Architects in London. He is former Dean of the Berlage Institute and is presently Professor of Architecture at Delft University of Technology, holding the Berlage Chair, as well as at Princeton University. Elia Zenghelis is an architect and educator based in Brussels and Athens. He most recently taught at the Accademia di Archittetura in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

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FacultyUnder supervision from the Director, who is responsible for establishing the research program in consultation with the Research Board, the faculty and visiting tutors guide research studios, seminars and other related activities.Vedran Mimica is Director responsible for composing and implementing the research policy, in concordance with the Research Board. Educated as an architect, he was a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Zagreb and a postgraduate researcher at the Delft University of Technology prior to joining the Institute. He has supervised and taught numerous design studios, seminars, and master classes at the Institute and numerous international venues. He initiates and organizes a series of annual International Design Seminars in Zagreb, Croatia. An active writer on architecture and architectural education, in 2007 he coauthored Contemporary Croatian Architecture: Testing Reality and contributed to the volume Project Zagreb: Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice published by Actar Publishers in association with the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He is also the author of Notes on Children, Environment and Architecture. He recently completed Croatian Archipelago New Lighthouses, a joint initiative of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Berlage Institute and the Croatian Architects Association. Focusing on the future of tourism development along the Croatian coastline, this twoyear research project investigated processes to better integrate the natural landscape and local culture into a content witnessing accelerated pressure by global economic forces. He led the curatorial team for the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2007.

Pier Vittorio Aureli is Head of The City as a Project PhD Program. This program aims to conceptualize and understand the citys form as an act that defines a political intentionality. His forthcoming book, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture: A Study on the Representation of the City through Architectural Form From Bramante to Mies, will be published by The MIT Press as part of the Writing Architecture Series. He studied architecture and urbanism at the Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia and the Berlage Insitute before receiving his Ph.D. from the Berlage Institute/Delft University of Technology. He, together with Martino Tattara, is the cofounder of DOGMA, an office carrying out architectural and urban projects at different scales. In 2006, they shared the first prize in an international competition for a new administrative city for 500,000 inhabitants in Korea. They received the first Iakov Chernikov Prize for Young Architects in 2006. Joachim Declerck is Director of the Centre for Architectural Research and Development. This independent entity initiates design research projects to further advance the expertise developed by the Institutes faculty and alumni as well as establishes research trajectories. Educated at Ghent University and the Berlage Institute, Joachim Declerck is an active independent architect. He coedited BrusselsA Manifesto: Towards the Capital of Europe and was cocurator of the exhibition A Vision for Brussels. Together with Vedran Mimica, he formed the curatorial team for the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam 2007, which investigated the subject the production of the contemporary city. He lectures and publishes internationally on the role of architecture and urban design within the project for the city. He is a member of the editorial board of OASEArchitectural Journal.

Salomon Frausto is Head of Architectural Broadcasting. He develops the Institutes public program of events, exhibitions, online interactivity, and publications with the aim of further expanding and complementing the research pursued at the Institute for presentation to a global architecture audience. An advocate for improved and diverse architectural literacy, Salomon Frausto teaches, publishes and lectures internationally to sharpen awareness of the contemporary built environment. He graduated with professional degrees in architecture from the University of Michigan and Columbia University. From 20012007 he coordinated the public and scholarly programs of the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University. He is coeditor of Architourism: Authentic, Exotic, Escapist, Spectacular published by Prestel in 2005. This volume of essays and projects by leading scholars, critics, artists, and architects explores the role of architecture in the tourist imagination. He is the editor of the Institute's flagship publication Hunch Roemer van Toorn is Head of the Projective Theory Program. This postgraduate program presents a series of theoretical and historical seminars related to mobilizing the consequences of contemporary urban life, including individualization, globalization and technology. An architect, critic, and photographer, Roemer van Toorn published The Invisible in Architecture in 1994. This acclaimed publication dissects a range of cultural, economic, political and philosophical perspectives to outline different positions and issues within architectural discourse. He is the editor of several issues of the annual publication Architecture in the Netherlands. As author and photographer he regularly contributes to many international publications. He is presently working on a publication entitled From Fresh Conservatism to Radical Democracy: Aesthetics as Form of Politics. A selection of his photography, along with commentary by leading critics, will be published in Society of The And.

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Berlage InstitutePeter Trummer is Head of the Associative Design Research Program. This postgraduate program investigates the potential of designing new sitespecific housing environments by applying associative design to all scales of a design process to increase its relevance to the architectural discipline. Peter Trummer is a native of Graz, Austria, where he studied architecture at the Technical University of Graz prior to studying at the Berlage Institute. A former project architect at UN Studio, he cofounded Offshore Architects, with Hannes Pfau and Astrid Piber, before establishing his own practice in 2004. He internationally lectures and publishes. His research focuses on population thinking in architecture; in particular, how city life, urban planning policies, economic desires, and population growth may be better integrated into the design of living environments.

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StaffThe staff works closely with the General Director, Director and faculty to facilitate all aspects of the Institute.Giel van Arkel is Systems Manager. He manages all computer and serverrelated matters. Danny Bosten is Librarian and Technical Assistant. He maintains the archive and library as well as all matters of technical assistance. Marja van der Burgh is Program Manager. She manages the organizational aspects of the research program, including studio presentations. Liselotte de Haan is Office Manager. She is responsible for all matters of mangement assistance as well as hospitality. Maria Monteiro is Housekeeper. She maintains the housekeeping. Mick Morssink is Graphic Designer. He is responsible for the graphic design of presentations, documents and publications. Betty Tan is Financial Assistant. She handles all financialrelated issues. Franoise Vos is Projects Manager. She manages the organizational aspects of the Institutes complementary programs, including master classes and lectures.

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