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Q: Why didn’t you make it larger so that it would loom over the observer?

A: I was not making a monument.

Q: Then why didn’t you make it smaller so that the observer could see it over the top?

A: I was not making an object.

(Tony Smith about his six-foot steel cube)


STUDIO FOR IMMEDIATE SPACES

In between the logic of constructing architecture and the design of objects, we experiment and explore the immediate space. The Studio for Immediate Spaces is a place for understanding and defining specific spaces that we live in, we work, eat, socialize, discuss, or perform in.

To explore and expand the field of the interior as a specialized focus on space that has a direct relation to their users, we include any space as a possible place. For us they are in- and outside. They are here and on the moon. They exist in our minds and are physically around us.

Our practice is to define our gestures out of which we construct the spaces we inhabit, and to see space as a circumstance to let something happen.


COURSE

This two-year master course is set up around four practice-based studios, each led by a practitioner in the field of architecture, design or fine arts. A studio revolves around a topic, which for the current year are the Autobiographical Construction, Let’s Dance - from Studio to Situation, Material Gesture and the graduation studio. Participants will develop and understand through these four studios their own intuitions, the tangible aspects of their work, the context they relate to and the environments they make.    

Next to the studios, a theory programme provides a space for reflection on the practice, while experimenting with theory as a practice in its own right. One that encompasses writing and  critical thinking. Besides regular seminars and individual tutorials, the theory program comprises a series of talks by invited speakers, the Monday Evening Talks, as well as the two day-long Roundtable Discussions, both of which are open to the public.

Additionally guests from different disciplines and nationalities are invited for up to a week during the weekly program. The general rule for these visits is that there is no rule. The guests can organize a lecture, a discussion, a walk, create work, or build a space.


course director: Anne Holtrop (architect, NL)
coordinator: Rinske Wessels (architect, NL)