Lecture date: 1998-05-16
The Dutch government plans to build one million houses by the year 2010. What makes the Dutch situation unique is the employment – and the influence – of leading architects and planners. Arguably, at no other time this century have architects been in a similar situation where they could have such an impact on the future of suburbia. The symposium addresses this subject through a number of themes including questions of density (notably how architects and planners are responding to the new VINEX policy), social individualisation and its impact on housing types, and the consequences of the privatisation of housing on the design of housing and neighbourhoods.
Frits Palmboom, co-founder of the architecture and urban design practice Palmboom & van den Bout, provides the contextual and conceptual background to two of his practice’s planning projects commissioned under the VINEX policy, including the construction of the new polder of IJ-burg.
Panel discussion with Noud de Vreeze, Arnold Reijndorp, Frits Palmboom, and Dominic Papa, moderated by Mohsen Mostafavi.
