One
Architecture
Bouw (Matthijs) (1967), Meuwissen (Joost) (1950), Van Dansik (Donald)
(1951)
• Extension of a house near Eindhoven 1999
| (NL) | One Architecture was founded in 1994 in Amsterdam, with two members: Matthijs Bouw and Joost Meuwissen. Joost Meuwissen is a critic and theoretician, who also teaches in the city planning faculty at the University of Technology in Graz. In the 1970s, he played a very important part in introducing the Netherlands onto the international stage. Together with Matthijs Bouw, who hails from the younger generation, they form one of the currently most unpredictable and eccentric teams in the Netherlands. Their extension project for the house in Eindhoven illustrates this desire for subversion which was already present in the early and provocative conceptual works produced by Matthijs Bouw. The project consists in hijacking the Mies Van der Rohe Farnsworth Villa, choosed on a catalogue by the clients as a model for enlarging their initial house, a French-style villa. By respecting the wishes of the clients and introducing references verging on mockery, their approach is akin to that of many contemporary artists, such as Jeff Koons, to which they readily admit, and Berend Strik, with whom they work on a regular basis. |
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