Hans ibelings biography
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Nicholas Socrates 2008
Analysis: Architecture – In The Age of Globalization, by Hans Ibelings
Biography
Hans Ibelings is a Dutch art historian and independent architecture critic, exhibition maker and writer of numerous works including:
Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization (1998 / 2003)
Twentieth Century Architecture in the Netherlands
Amercians: Dutch architecture in the Netherlands
Twentieth Century Urban Planning in the Netherlands
The Artificial Landscape: Contemporary Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture in the Netherlands
Un-modern Architecture: Contemporary Traditionalism in the Netherlands.
He was a professor at the Polytechnic school of Eindhoven (2003 – 2004), and a member of the scientific committee of the ‘Ciudaded, Esquinas’ exhibition in Barcelona.
Hans Ibelings , is also the editor of the international architecture magazine ‘A10 New European Architecture (since 2004).
Postmodernism
Postmodernism literally means
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Hans IbelingsProfile page
Hans Ibelings is an architectural historian and critic, and editor/publisher of the Architecture Observer (Amsterdam/Montreal). Prior to moving to Canada in 2012 he was the editor and publisher of A10 new European architecture, a magazine he had founded in 2004 together with graphic designer Arjan Groot.
Ibelings wrote his dissertation on the five volumes of Dutch architectural magazine Forum (1959-1963) edited by Jaap Bakema, Aldo van Eyck, and Herman Hertzberger.
He is the author of a number of books, including Supermodernism: Architecture in the Age of Globalization (1998/2003), which has been published in Dutch, English, French, Italian, and Spanish, and European architecture since 1890 (2011), with translations in kinesisk, Dutch, German, and Russian.
Among his upcoming publications are a monograph of the early work of Danish modernists Knud Friis and Elmar Moltke (edited with Boris Brorman Jensen), and the first history of modern architecture
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Cardiff Bay Tower Proposal
Nicholas Socrates 2009
Urban Design: Art, City, Society.
Public Participation
Public participation is the involvement of people in the creation and management of their built and natural enviroments.
Its strength is that it cuts across tradition professional boundaries and cultures.
The activity of community particiaption is based on the prinicple that the built and natural enviromnets work better if citizens are active and involved in its creation and management instead of being treated as passive concumers.
The main purposes of participation are;
To involve citizens in planning and design decision making processes and, as a result, make it more likely they will work within established systems when seeking solutions to problems.
To provide citizens with a voice in planning and decision making in order to improve plans, decisions, service delivery, and overal quality of the enviroment.
To promote a sense of community by bringing together people