Nox
(NL)
Lars Spuybroek (1959)
(NL)
Lars Spuybroek (1959)
At
his Nox agency, set up in Rotterdam in 1991, architect, city-planner, producer,
and publisher Lars Spuybroek develops many different processes for adapting
architecture to the present-day world, a world of real time and ceaseless
change. By making use of the calculating power of computers, he interweaves
active and interactive relationships between the restrictions, uses and
"liquid" forms of his projects, aiming at an ideal based on continuity--continuity
between architectonic elements (floor, walls, ceilings), between spatial
scales (design, architecture, city, territory), but above all between the
two arms of a dialectic which he deems to be obsolete: between artefact
and nature, between human and urban, between the spatiality of life, which
is forever changing, and the spatiality of the construct, hitherto seen
as inert. Ten years after Koolhaas' Tabula Rasa Revisited (2001) for La
Défense in Paris, his experimental urban project ParisBRAIN (2001),
on the same site, and in keeping with his Soft Site (1997) and Off the Road
(2000) projects, thus proposes an organized "liquidation" of the
city--its dilution in experiment.