A.J. Lode Janssens : 1.47 mbar. / txt
1.47 mbar txt
editors, Peter Swinnen & Nikolaus Hirsch ; authors/contributors, Elke Couchez
- First edition
- 191p. : ill. ; photo. ; plans ; col. ; 18cm. book
"This book accompanies the exhibition 'A.J. Lode Janssens: A Balloon Home,' ... (December 10, 2021-March 27, 2022) at CIVA"--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references.
FOR A GENTLE PRESSURE Peter Swinnen 6 -- MODEL LIFE - THINKING THROUGH BUILDINGS Nikolaus Hirsch 10 -- SYMBIOSIS and SYMBICLE: A RETROSPECTIVE A.J. Lode Janssens 18 -- A BALLOON HOME (EXHIBITION) Filip Dujardin 33 -- A TEMPORARY DATUM (EXHIBITION VIEWS) Peter Swinnen & A.J. Lode Janssens 48 -- THE END OF THE FUTURE Bart Decroos 69 -- UNRAVELED ARCHIVE 81 -- THE HANDKERCHIEF PRINCIPLE Guy Mouton 144 -- EDUCATION BETWEEN THOUGHT AND ACTION Elke Couchez 150 -- LIVING AND BUILDING WITH AIR Pieter Uyttenhove 159 -- 1979 Herman Selleslags 171 -- BIOGRAPHIES 187 --
A. J. Lode Janssens (b. 1947) is one of Belgium?s most idiosyncratic architects and a radical educator. He was co-founder of the experimental studio Atelier Alpha and the Sint-Lucas Werkgemeenschap, a workshop linking architectural education, practice, and research, and operated in close collaboration with ILAUD, the International Laboratory of Architecture and Urban Design. The publication A. J. Lode Janssens 1,47 mbar presents ?The Balloon, an all-but-unknown temporary pneumatic home experiment, built in 1973 in Humbeek, where he lived with his family until 1986. Lode Janssens considered it an uncompromising ephemeral attempt at de-architecturalization and living in harmony with nature: a cave-dwelling, a work-in-progress, an empirical residence.
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Air Supported Structures--Exhibitions Experimental houses--Exhibitions