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Gerco de Ruijter
Grid Corrections
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For English please see below Het Public Land Survey System, ofwel het Jefferson Grid, is het systeem waarmee landmeters eind achttiende eeuw het midden en Westen van de Verenigde Staten in keurige vierkanten verdeelden van exact één bij één mijl. Maar omdat de aarde rond is, liepen de lijnen naar het noorden taps toe. Daarom moest het raster gecorrigeerd worden: grid corrections brachten om de 20 mijl theorie en praktijk weer bij elkaar. Toen vlieger- en luchtfotograaf Gerco de Ruijter tijdens een residentie in Wichita (Kansas) in 2016 over deze kaarsrechte stofwegen reed, kwam hij ze tegen: kleine knikjes en T-kruisingen in het verder volkomen geometrische wegennet. Doordat de verspringingen in het raster steeds variëren, ontstaat een veelvormige en dynamische reeks van beelden die vervreemdt en verwondert. De Ruijter speurde met behulp van Google Earth duizenden van deze correcties op: ondergesneeuwd of uitgedroogd, in steden en woestijnen, door alle seizoenen heen. ‘Grid Correct’ toont een selectie van ruim 250 van deze grid corrections, gekozen en vormgegeven door Gerco de Ruijter en grafisch vormgever Irma Boom. Begeleid door een tekst van schrijver Peter Delpeut vormt dit bijzonder vormgegeven boek een kunstwerk en monument ineen, getuigenis van de menselijke drang om het landschap in te richten en de vele manieren waarop de natuur daarop reageert. — The Public Land Survey System or Jefferson Grid is the system with which surveyors divided the middle and west of the United States into neat squares of exactly one by one mile in the late eighteenth century. But because the earth is round, the lines tapered to the north. Therefore the grid had to be corrected: every 20 miles, grid corrections brought theory and practice back together. When pilot and aerial photographer Gerco de Ruijter drove along these dead straight dust roads during a residency in Wichita (Kansas) in 2016, he came across them: small bends and T-junctions in an otherwise completely geometric road network. The grid corrections are all different and therefore create a multiform and dynamic series of images that alienates and amazes. With the help of Google Earth, De Ruijter looked up thousands of these corrections: snowed under or dried up, in cities and in deserts, throughout the seasons. ‘Grid Correct’ presents a selection of over 150 grid corrections, selected and designed by Gerco de Ruijter and graphic designer Irma Boom. Accompanied by a text by writer Peter Delpeut, this exceptionally designed book is a work of art and monument in one, a testimony to the human urge to design the landscape and the many ways in which nature responds to that urge. Tweetalig boek Engels en Nederlands
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Karel Vlierman
Cogs, Small Cogs and Boats
From the thirteenth to the fifteenth century an important part of the economy in northwestern Europe was based on trade in the Hanseatic League. The main means of transport consisted of ships, mainly cogs. The importance of this type of ship was already apparent from medieval documents, miniatures, and other sources. However, until the mid-twentieth century, no material remains of such ships were known. Results from archaeological excavations of shipwrecks had to be awaited for greater clarity on the construction, technology and appearance of these ships. One of the world's largest collections of medieval shipwrecks emerged after the Second World War during the partial reclamation of the IJsselmeer lake (the former Zuiderzee inlet) in the Netherlands, where three polders were created from 1942 onwards. During these works, hundreds of shipwrecks from the period between 1250 and 1900 were discovered, about twenty of these being cogs. The first cog was excavated in 1944. The famed cog, with its remarkable construction and the ingenious manner in which the seams between the planks were made watertight using moss, laths and iron clamps, clearly demanded an in-depth study. The Netherlands were an ideal place to start, as more than half of all the cog wrecks in Europe have been found, (partially) excavated and studied in the Netherlands. Maritime archaeologist Karel Vlierman has excavated shipwrecks all his working life. He dedicated himself to the research of these ships, including two cogs found at Doel near Antwerp and the recently uncovered cog from the river IJssel near Kampen. His research of more than twenty years has resulted in a monograph of 996 illustrated pages, together with some 70 large technical drawings of all the investigated cogs and their reconstructions. The monograph (in two volumes) and the folder with the 70 technical drawings -in A0, A1 and A2 format- together come in a fine slipcase. Karel Vlierman explains the shipbuilding tradition of the Hanseatic period in detail and clarifies the differences between the cog and, for example, the 'nef' of the southern North Sea, which belongs to the Nordic or Scandinavian tradition. Based on the finds excavated at Kampen, he considers it very likely that a shipyard was located there in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century. The largest piece of woollen sail ever excavated was discovered at Kampen. Hundreds of typical iron clamps too were found, some of them unused, suggesting a blacksmith's workshop specifically dedicated to producing them. Ships could be hauled out from the water and, after repairs, sail to the Zuiderzee via the IJssel. This is the first cog shipyard ever to be discovered in the Netherlands. Until the 'IJssel cog' was discovered and excavated near Kampen, the so-called 'Nijkerk-II' was the best-preserved known cog. The analysis of this cog was the starting point for this study, together with the experience gained during the construction of a replica of it, the so-called Kamper Kogge (Kampen Cog). It gradually became clear that there had been a tradition of cog building. Through studying and drawing all the cog wrecks, it was possible to make reconstruction drawings of many of them, with the benefit of evidence already obtained from other wrecks. This voluminous and impressive book will set the standard for publications on maritime archaeology for decades to come, as it is the landmark handbook for the way in which shipwrecks should be documented, described, and reconstructed. The detailed manner in which the technical drawings have been created makes it possible to construct virtual 3D models. The vectorised drawings are of a very high quality and are available digitally. In addition, Karel Vlierman created about twenty artists&; impressions of the cogs as they must have looked during operation and of life on board. These not only appear in a large format in the book but are also available as postcards and posters. This will be the standard work on cogs, the first of its kind to be published, with the size and scope of the study unequaled in any area of maritime archaeology. The famous publication on the sixteenth-century ship Mary Rose comes close but is about a single ship only. The present book on cogs covers the entire spectrum of these vessels, from seagoing ships to boats and barges plying the inland waterways and even a possible military cog for army transport.kunst
Christian Salewski
Dutch New Worlds
For English see below- Onze beslissingen geven vorm aan onze toekomst, maar we weten weinig over hoe. Om daar achter te komen, construeren planners en ontwerpers levendige beelden van wat zou kunnen zijn. Deze scenario's dienen als baanbrekers tussen verbeelding en rede. Eind jaren tachtig nam de elite van de Nederlandse planning en ontwerp scenario's op ongekende schaal om het publiek te overtuigen van hun ideeën. Maar de zoektocht om Nederland als geheel opnieuw vorm te geven mislukte jammerlijk. Hun poging ontketende echter een golf van nieuw denken over de toekomst en creëerde een enorm aantal spectaculaire beelden van de dingen die komen gaan. 'Dutch New Worlds' vertelt voor het eerst het verhaal van hoe scenariodenken stedenbouw en ruimtelijke ordening veranderde, vanaf het begin eind jaren zestig tot het hoogtepunt in de jaren negentig. Het laat zien hoe de meeste grootse scenarioprojecten op niets uitliepen door overambitie en misbruik. Het laat ook zien hoe scenario's vandaag de dag krachtige instrumenten blijven voor gericht en transparant ontwerpend onderzoek om betere steden en regio's te creëren. Verteld vanuit het perspectief van een architect en stedenbouwkundige, bevat deze ideeëngeschiedenis fundamentele lessen voor planners, ontwerpers en beleidsmakers - en voor onze volgende beslissingen die onze toekomst zullen vormgeven.-Our decisions shape our future, but we know little about how. To find out, planners and designers construct vivid images of what could be. These scenarios serve as path-breakers between imagination and reason. In the late 1980s, the elite of Dutch planning and design took scenarios to unprecedented scales to convince the public of their ideas. But the quest to reshape the Netherlands as a whole failed dismally. Their attempt, however, unleashed a wave of new thinking about the future and created an enormous number of spectacular images of things to come. Dutch New Worlds tells for the first time the story of how scenario thinking changed urbanism and physical planning, from its beginning in the late 1960s to its height in the 1990s. It shows how most grand scenario projects came to nothing because of overambition and misuse. It also shows how, today, scenarios remain powerful tools for focused and transparent design research to create better cities and regions. Told from the perspective of an architect and urbanist, this history of ideas holds fundamental lessons for planners, designers, and policy makers - and for our next decisions that will shape our future.kunst
Wowo Ding
Cities in Transition
For English see below- Op dit moment leeft de helft van de wereldbevolking in steden. Binnen twee decennia zal dit oplopen tot 60 procent. Extreme rijkdom en extreme armoede komen naast elkaar voor, maar steden blijven magneten die mensenmassa's aantrekken. Steden bieden voor velen de mogelijkheid voor werk en inkomen, scholing, en betere voorzieningen. In een achttal thema's geeft het boek een intrigerend beeld van deze ontwikkelingen en schetst het een mondiaal toekomstperspectief. 'Cities in transition' onderzoekt de recente urbane en politiek-economische ontwikkelingen in Noord-Amerika, Zuid-Amerika, Europa, Zuid-Afrika en China. Met bijdragen van dertig deskundigen in het vakgebied, onder wie Saskia Sassen, Fulong Wu, M. Christine Boyer, Vittorio Lampugnani, Eric Swyngedouw, Marc Angélil, Joan Busquets, David Grahame Shane, George Baird, en vele anderen. Het boek sluit af met de stedelijke ontwikkelingen in China, waarbij tevens de urgentie van goed onderwijs en onderzoek wordt geformuleerd door een tiental decanen van invloedrijke Chinese universiteiten. - Currently, half of the world's population lives in cities. Within two decades this will rise to 60 percent. Extreme wealth and extreme poverty coexist, but cities remain magnets that attract crowds. For many, cities offer the opportunity for work and income, education, and better facilities. In eight themes, 'Cities in transition' provides an intriguing picture of these developments and outlines a global future perspective 'Cities in transition' examines recent urban and political-economic developments in North America, South America, Europe, South Africa and China. With contributions from thirty experts in the field, including Saskia Sassen, Fulong Wu, M. Christine Boyer, Vittorio Lampugnani, Eric Swyngedouw, Marc Angélil, Joan Busquets, David Grahame Shane, George Baird, and many others. 'Cities in transition' concludes with urban developments in China, where the urgency of good education and research is also formulated by ten deans of influential Chinese universities.geschiedenis
