Recently I visited the construction site of a small project I'm doing. At that day we had at least one representative from every profession that was going to do something in the next 40 days there. So a sort of chaos was to be expected… After a lot of debates & discussions the meeting ended after 5 (!) hours. Which proofs, that no matter how small the project itself is, the work is not getting less too. This was my first experience to really be that involved in the constructi

The job as an architect is becoming more and more complex. Through new technologies, guidelines and opportunities of construction, the architectural profession is getting divided in various areas of expertise. These different areas of expertise showcase themselves as independent professions, which leaves the architect himself, usually known as the universal machine, pushed back the role as a decorative technician. Other Professions, such as the structural engineers, feed us w

Recently my friend Ana and me checked out some music videos from talented artists we like. Nowadays in the music scene the video became at least as important as the piece of music itself. With the time it occurred to me, that a lot of those videos are dealing with alienated spaces, especially those of singer and songwriter Banks. (http://www.hernameisbanks.com) In a lot of her videos the space itself gets a very surreal dimension and all the rational elements, including herse