Willem jan neutelings wiki english

Explore Interview. Edited transcripts of both exchanges are published below. Lyn Rice : Thank you for your presentation. You have said that one of the premises of your studio is to make what your client wishes, but not what they expect. There is often a misunderstanding that if something is new then it is somehow better. I think the idea of newness is very dangerous because it can make you forget what has already come before.

The sciences have the right approach, where newness is always based on the old inventions. You are first going to read what doctors before you have done, and you are going to develop that further. Neutelings : No, exactly, that could be quite dangerous. Architecture is a 5,year-old profession.

Neutelings Riedijk Architects is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, founded by Willem Jan Neutelings and Michiel Riedijk in

Things that have been done can be reused or adapted; we can get knowledge from those ideas. At the same time, we also try to reshape those tools slightly, try to see if we can make a next step with them—not necessarily to achieve something new, but something better. We like to think more in the direction of surprise than newness. Innovation is a good thing, of course.

Rice : One of the most salient features of your work that you described tonight is the rupture you illustrate between the logics of the interior and the exterior. As I understand it, the ornament and the skin give the project another layer of meaning and an opportunity to resonate with a local setting; in other words, to make it one with the specific place and not transportable to another site.

Are you ever tempted to blur or synthesize this dichotomy, or would doing so somehow defeat the potential of the projects to expand and localize meaning?