Forum’ Architectural journal as an educational and spreading media in the Netherlands. Influences on Herman Hertzberger

This paper has been developed as part of the research activities linked to the contract funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities within the project Smart Architectural and Archeological Heritage. Instrumentos y Estrategias de Innovación para la Integración de la Gestión Patrimonial, Turística y Paisajística (HAR2016-79757-R). ; In the sixties, the journal Forum voor Architectuur en Daarmee Verbonden Kunsten becomes the media employed by the Dutch wing of Team 10 to lecture on and spread the new architectural theories developed after the dissolution of C.I.A.M. Ald... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Merino Del Rio, Rebeca
Dokumenttyp: conferenceObject
Erscheinungsdatum: 2019
Verlag/Hrsg.: CEAA/ESAP-CESAP
Schlagwörter: Forum / architectural journals / Herman Hertzberger / the sixties / Aldo van Eyck / Jaap Bakema
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/28367

This paper has been developed as part of the research activities linked to the contract funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities within the project Smart Architectural and Archeological Heritage. Instrumentos y Estrategias de Innovación para la Integración de la Gestión Patrimonial, Turística y Paisajística (HAR2016-79757-R). ; In the sixties, the journal Forum voor Architectuur en Daarmee Verbonden Kunsten becomes the media employed by the Dutch wing of Team 10 to lecture on and spread the new architectural theories developed after the dissolution of C.I.A.M. Aldo van Eyck and Jaap Bakema head the editorial board in between 1959 and 1967. The editorial approach gravitates towards the themes defended by these young architects in the last meetings of the International Congresses of Modern Architecture, accompanied by the analysis of works of architecture that, in the editorial board’s opinion, give a correct response to the epoch’s needs. Moreover, the permeability and cross-sectional nature of the content, bring the editors’ board closer to the European architectural, cultural and artistic avant-garde. Thus, it is appreciated that similar theoretical assumptions than the ones that gave support to the different revolts that happened in Paris, London and Amsterdam between 1966 and 1968 underlie in great part of the journal’s writings. Its content is aligned parallel to the revolutionary phenomenon, contributing to some degree to it. Herman Hertzberger, a young architect who worked for years as a part of the editorial board, was highly influenced by the contents of the journal. His later dedication to education as professor at Delft University of Technology, and his association with Dutch Structuralism as well, turn him a key figure to study, because of the determining role of Forum’s acquired knowledge in his future professional activity. The proposed study pretends, first, to accentuate the content of Forum voor Architectuur en Daarmee Verbonden journal where the approach to the ...