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- The Potential of Abstraction
- Abstract
- The proposals by OMA for Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart in 1987 are based on abstract spatial systems of order and equally abstract representations of an ageless character. Any orientation towards historical points of reference and their formal qualities is repressed. Instead, they start from an unbiased analysis of spatial contexts and postulated programmes and conditions. Places are examined and developed comprehensively or fragmentarily; local, regional and global subjects can be combined in multiple ways. The actual proposal, though, is not sequential to the analysis, it is developed simultaneously. The design process is characterised by an interaction between argumentation and creativity, between rational and intuitive operations within an abstract medial space. The drawings remain open to different interpretations and future influences. This abstraction and its potential for perpetual adaptability make these drawings congruent with the current demands made on the discipline of urban development.
- Citation
- Schurk, H. (2020). The Potential of Abstraction. The Drawing in Landscape Design and Urbanism, OASE, (107), 56–59. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/107/ThePotentialofAbstraction
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- Editors of this issue
- Frits Palmboom, Bruno Notteboom, Kornelia Dimitrova, Bart Decroos
- Authors
- Nitin Bathla & Sumedha Garg, Paul Broekhuizen, Chiara Cavalieri, Kees Christiaanse, Elke Couchez, Roberto Damiani, Koenraad Danneels, Gini Lee & Antonia Besa, Gianna Lobosco, William Mann, Julie Marin & Bruno De Meulder, Frits Palmboom, Sandra Parvu, Pieter Schengenga, Holger Schurk, Marialessandra Secchi & Marco Voltini, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, Marc Treib, Bram van Kaathoven
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- Karel Martens & Aagje Martens
- November 2020
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