Climate change In one second The body of Democracy Suddenly being frozen Only kept alive by Breathing artificially Even the extremities of the body Fingers and toes Being restricted in their movements By a nazi Ausweiss inspired Form named ATTESTATION DE DÉPLACEMENT DÉROGATOIRE For how long, nobody knows The next second The […]
Read more "Covid-19 in France"A few years ago a younger colleague suppressed several times the grid of the design drawings, floor plans, but also the façades and cross-sections. Because the project being concerned was a rather big and complex building (a campus for a French banking group) I asked for what reason the grid had disappeared. To my astonishment […]
Read more "Grid 001"The 3m distance model Very recently I assisted to a lecture of the philosopher Hein van Dongen at a symposium “Vision on philosophy in architecture” in Rotterdam, organized by the architectural firm DJGA known for their excellence in conceiving healthcare buildings. The title of his lecture was “The tactile dimension of architecture”. He mentioned the […]
Read more "Space 02"The 50 years age and beyond During the symposium “Vision on philosophy in architecture” in Rotterdam, a musician played a musical intermezzo on a grand piano. Afterwards he came to me to talk about music. Since architecture and music, as an art, have in common the fact that both arts are created, I pushed the […]
Read more "Age 01"Space is a notion rather hard to comprehend when one starts to dig a bit deeper. At first one can approach space by its measure-ability. We human beings feel a profound need to master space. By applying a measuring unit, for instance a meter or an inch, we can simply measure (a) space. Since we […]
Read more "Space 01"The general public is daily confronted with Architecture, although the big majority is hardly aware of its existence. We live in a built environment, but in everyday life we take it for “granted”. As a tourist on the contrary, discovering a new environment, we open our mind to Architecture, in an active way or passive. […]
Read more "The notion of Architecture"Why pi-r? This question has been asked to me many times. In the eighties, when I studied architecture at the Academie van Bouwkunst in Amsterdam I worked at the architectural firm called Loerakker Rijnboutt Ruijssenaars. We used to sign each drawing by using our initials, so that the drawing would be “tracable”. In the archives […]
Read more "Pi-r?"Welcome to pi-r.eu ! This blog is a medium by which Pierre van Bolderen, an experienced architect (and a qualified building engineer), and a former teacher at the french Clermont-Ferrand School of Architecture, expresses his thoughts and ideas about, and his memories of the art of Architecture. The personal life experience is a crucial source, as one […]
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