Bnieuws x INDESEM
THE INDESEM ARCHIVE Words Inez Margaux Spaargaren
Be inspired by a selection of INDESEM’s early editions! We went for the old editions, because we thought they really deserve some light and attention. Get yourself inspired by these themes, most of them are still accurate and relevant!
INDESEM ’85 was organized by Herman Hertzberger. The right size is what they spoke about. How to design something the right way, and how to interpret it. This quote is definitely still accurate.
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”See if you can translate all that (and lots more, if you like trough preferably not less!) into what, with more time than we can offer you, would become a GOOD BUILDING (architecture) – meaning simply: a nice place which HASN’T GOT WHAT IT NEEDN’T HAVE (BUT DOES HAVE WHAT IT NEEDS) AND ALSO BELONGS TO WHERE ITS IT PUT*” INDESEM ’85 – Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect In 1991, INDESEM imagined that a modern theatre, luxurious, comfortable, a great number of technical facilities was the ultimate building to explore. Because in an auditorium many different arrangements of the audience can be created. They researched theather space, a framework not only by aims at the possibility to categorize but also as an aid regarding performance-analysis concerning structure and use of theatrical space. A history of theatre and architecture was their main theme. “To reach the theatre/temple complex, one must climb to the mountain’s summit, through the town in front of the temple gates. The experience of this difficult climb heightens the feeling that one is approaching an unusual place, and enhances one’s sense of pleasure upon arrival.” INDESEM ’91 - Tadao Ando, Founder of Tadao Ando Architects & Associates In 1996 INDESEM ‘explored the Darklands’ a suggestive poetical term that cannot be found in dictionaries and or encyclopedias, but that they nevertheless explored. This exploration had positive and negative sides. The negative side was that architects designed projects without visiting the site, which they thought was a cardinal mistake. The positive side was that as nobody could visit the site information was the same for all.
