— a project in progress / development phase —¬
The Friendly Architecture project is an art-design video project focusing on social and socialist architecture. The project is in its development stage right now.
Friendly Architecture is tracking a process occurring over time. A certain transition in which ideas, often very well intended, gained form and materialised into blocks of stone, metal, wood and concrete, framing living units and daily routines.
The goal is to share a fascination with both the way functionality meets design and with the way architecture relates and influences sphere and moods. The other goal is to reflect on the notion of human kindness and care: the right for protection and a roof above one’s head. All in the light and darkness of recent events.
In the meantime SpOp & Bruinsma present an audiovisual parallel project.. Cymph (click)
Snapshots from conducted tours in Rotterdam, with architect-writer Andrea Prins, in London with social-historian John Boughton and in Berlin, tracing the history/story of building projects dating pre and post 2nd ww.
I have written this guidelining poem:
If a building is a day
and a day is a name
then a name is say
a building again.
The I as a sentient
being, in time and
material-location, it’s not
its skin and bones
but a memory of A
future plan B
or C or whateva
utopia it might be.