CHONGQING LEVELS
Friday September 29, 2024
Borders & Territories, TU/Delft
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I will give a lecture at the department Borders & Territories at TU/Delft on the city of Chongqing. Scrolling through the expanding photo archive of my favorite megapolis.
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Studio Frank Havermans creates strategic interventions both self-initiated and commissioned. The innovative and experimental works arise from a combined deep interest for architecture, urban dynamics, landscape, and infrastructure. In addition, there is ongoing worldwide research into self-organization.
Modules set up transitional spaces, including small scale architecture, urban think models and drawings, autonomous installations and (public) furniture. These play a strategic role, both spatially and socially in the context in which they are constructed and literally redefine space as we know it. These interventions invite us to experience space in an alternative way challenging us to contemplate the identity of a certain location.
The urban and architectural innovations always provoke the use around them and can be considered as proposals for architectural and urban change.
Frank Havermans (1967) studied Architectural Design at the Art Academy St. Joost in Breda, the Netherlands. His studio is awarded with several prizes and commissions. With his design of an artist studio dwelling, he won the Dutch award for innovative wood architecture in 2006. With the same project he won also an honorable mention at the Dutch Building Awards 2007 and was nominated for the important AM NAi prize 2006 for young architects. With recent projects he is longlisted for the Mies van der Rohe Award 2014 and 2016 and nominated for the Nijmegen Architecture Prize 2017. He exhibited at the Architecture Biennales of Sao Paulo, Hong Kong and Shenzhen and has projects, residencies and exhibitions worldwide as amongst others in Macau, Vienna, Jakarta, Toronto, Chongqing, Athens and Venice.
