Architectonic Space: Fifteen Lessons on the Disposition of the Human Habitat
By Hans van der Laan
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Makers work in a world that does not stand still
Iteration allows for continual correction (material conversation) in response to an ongoing perceptual monitoring of the task as it unfolds, mixing the potential for blending or combining matter that already exists into new combinations
Tim Ingold 2010
The social life of making
Making speaks in vivid dialogue with two associated themes, material and skill
Creativity involves not merely a spark of innovation or the execution of artistic inspiration. But the capacity to respond to unfolding iterations with materials. To use slowly accrued haptic knowledge to manipulate processes on the fly, and to judge how to counteract error and seize opportunities as they evolve
Making becomes a process of iteration, and a maker works with this iteration prolifically
Matter and materials are lively and require attention, materials continue to thwart in unpredictable ways, decaying and breaking down or wearing or breaking under force
Vibrant Matter, A Political Ecology of Things
Jane Bennett 2010
Attending to the process of making opens up prospects for following the lead of the material, where the properties of the materials themselves shape the direction in which making proceeds
Tim Ingold 2010
The aesthetic/vibrant spaces between objects
Collected Notes : Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2020
Walking underneath, through, passing by,
… are all laid out in different moments in time.
Dom Hans van der Laan
ODYSSEY Aesthetic Intervals/Timbre/Traces
Studio Blackboard
Immateriality/Temporal/Transitions material and movement/Human agency
A Species of Spaces
Construction/Making/Collage
Forming, slowness and repetition, elements of painting
Assemblage, sensation, surface, objects and spaces between them gathered/thresholds
Sheltering/Weathered/ Exploring a fragility of a painting in the landscape
Robert Mangold, Paintings and Architectural Forms
Fragments from sketchbooks
Ephemeral Architecture
Canvas as spatial verb
Yellow Ochre, Molochite, Gesso, Canvas, Paper, Textiles,
Wood, Lead, Nails
Canvas as folded construction/shelter/place
Operative Design, A Catalogue of Spatial Verbs
Georg Simmel, text Frames, Handles, Landscapes and the aesthetic ecology of things
Dom Hans van der Laan’s architectonic space
Caroline Voet
Already in his first writings in the 1930s, Dom van der Laan aims to define architectural principles that provide an intellectual expression of the act of dwelling (‘wonen’). To dwell is to enter into a relationship with one’s surroundings, meaning to understand them. For van der Laan, this is the primordial function of architecture: it makes space readable. From his Benedictine background, he draws concepts that enable him to understand this complex process of cognition. He studies the old church fathers such as St Thomas Aquinas, especially his comments on Plato and Aristotle. The Benedictine way of life builds upon the intertwined relation between mystery and matter, between intellect and senses, believing that this relation can be expressed through a Platonic order.5 Professor van Hooff, in describing the work of Dom van der Laan, defines cognition as a dual process of synthesis and analysis.6 On the one hand, there is the act of living, a synthesis of the concrete and singular reality. On the other hand, there is the process of analysis by the abstracting intellect. For us to know the concrete and singular reality, an intense interrelation between the two processes is needed.
http://www.vanderlaanstichting.nl/pics/pdf/130105-poetics_of_order-Caroline_Voet.pdf
Caroline Voet
Already in his first writings in the 1930s, Dom van der Laan aims to define architectural principles that provide an intellectual expression of the act of dwelling (‘wonen’). To dwell is to enter into a relationship with one’s surroundings, meaning to understand them. For van der Laan, this is the primordial function of architecture: it makes space readable. From his Benedictine background, he draws concepts that enable him to understand this complex process of cognition. He studies the old church fathers such as St Thomas Aquinas, especially his comments on Plato and Aristotle. The Benedictine way of life builds upon the intertwined relation between mystery and matter, between intellect and senses, believing that this relation can be expressed through a Platonic order.5 Professor van Hooff, in describing the work of Dom van der Laan, defines cognition as a dual process of synthesis and analysis.6 On the one hand, there is the act of living, a synthesis of the concrete and singular reality. On the other hand, there is the process of analysis by the abstracting intellect. For us to know the concrete and singular reality, an intense interrelation between the two processes is needed.
http://www.vanderlaanstichting.nl/pics/pdf/130105-poetics_of_order-Caroline_Voet.pdf
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