Title: Parasite paradise : a manifesto for temporary architecture and flexible urbanism /
Authors: Melis, Liesbeth.; Stichting Kunst en Openbare Ruimte.
Publisher: NAi Publishers,
Year: 2003
Subjects: Buildings, Portable Netherlands Utrecht Exhibitions.; Flexible structures Netherlands Utrecht Exhibitions.; Architecture Netherlands; Buildings, Portable Netherlands.; Buildings, Temporary Netherlands.; Flexible structures Netherlands.
Abstract: "Parasites are flexible and temporary structures, designed by artists or architects, that feed off existing infrastructure. Parasite Paradise documents 23 projects that respond on their own terms to new and unforeseen demands. Many of these parasites have settled in the government-designed 'Vinex' district of Leidsche Rijn near Utrecht, turning a district almost exclusively concerned with dwelling into a more urban entity." "What do these small, mobile architectural interventions mean for our strictly regulated society and for the planning of architecture and urbanism? What sense (or nonsense) is there in mobile architecture from a historical perspective? How much of it is art and how much is architecture? Contributions by Jennifer Allen, Hans Ibelings, Olof Koekebakker, Ivan Nio and Gijs van Oenen examine these issues in depth." "Parasite Paradise encourages us to consider a new approach to planning, one where not everything is fixed beforehand. This makes it required reading for architects, urban planners and artists whose concern is designing urban space."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction / Tom van Gestel -- The art of unsettling : mobile architecture and its political surplus value / Gijs van Oenen -- From clusters to smallness : flexible and temporary facilities in Liedsche Rijn / Ivan Nio -- An interview with Peter Kuenzli / Olof Koekebakker -- Futuro / Matti Suuronen -- Hotelit / Vadim Fishkin, Yuri Leiderman -- Mobile linear city / Vito Acconci -- Markies / Eduard Böhtlingk -- Pioniersset / Atelier van Lieshout -- Mini capsule side entrance (6 units) / Atelier van Lieshout -- Boerenwereldkeukenrestaurant / Maurer United Architects -- Bar Raketa / Inge Roseboom, Mark Weemen -- Zusatzraum 1 / Exilhäuser Architekten -- Zusatzraum 2 / Exilhäuser Architekten -- Orbino / Luc Deleu -- paraSITE / Attila Foundation -- Billboardhouses / Alicia Framis -- Dome / Shigeru Ban -- Mobile porch / Kathrin Böhm & Stefan Saffer, Andreas Lang -- Miele ruimtestation / 2012 Architecten -- Lichtspielhaus / Wolfgang Winter, Berthold Hörbelt -- Dodenbivak / Dré Wapenaar -- Agora Phobia (digitalis) / Karen Lancel -- Mobile / André van Bergen -- Mobile unit-shed / Daniel Milohnic, Dirk Paschke & Lex Rijkers, Steffi Harzbecher -- Nomads in residence / Bik VanderPol & Korteknie Stuhlmacher architecten -- Sainte Bazeille / Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster -- Mobile architecture in the twentieth century / Hans Ibelings -- Portrait of the artist as an architect / Jennifer Allen.