By Wim Denslagen
On this planet of architectural conservation, there's little tolerance for reconstructing or perhaps retaining ancient facades while every thing in the back of is sleek, or even much less for reconstructing a construction that has been thoroughly destroyed. those offenses are thought of lies opposed to heritage. during this considerate, revealing paintings, conservation professional Wim Denslagen lines this predilection for honesty to the legacy of Functionalism, a Romantic-era stream that denounced the construction of pseudo-architecture in want of a brand new, rational kind of construction. With specified analyses of headline-making recovery initiatives from Bruges to Berlin, Denslagen indicates that the adoption of those romantic values by way of conservationists gave upward thrust to a brand new wave of recent additions and changes.
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26 He thought it was nonsense to turn every city into a ‘ville morte’ – a reference to the title of Henri Havard’s famous 1874 book, Voyage aux villes mortes du Zuiderzee, that was a eulogy to the picturesque character of those towns and which opened the eyes of many Dutch people to a sort of beauty they had not always appreciated. The reduction of a city panorama to a pretty picture – this was something that Modernists could never take seriously, as it was against their functionalist principles.
In Brazil, ‘the creative recycling of existing buildings and structures has been raised to an art form’ and. in Meurs’ view, that is better than cultivating a ‘homogeneous urban image’, which he sees as uninspiring. In his view, new buildings may acquire ‘their own scale, aesthetic taste, function and shape unashamedly ... ’ The word ‘unashamedly’ reminds one of Lydia Schouten’s frightening dolls or Rem Koolhaas’s deliberately ugly Kunsthal building. Paul Meurs thinks that endeavouring to preserve a harmonious urban image is too easy an option, but he does not explain why the examples of unashamed new development in a historical city are better than the bettermannered option.
This was the case in the application filed in order to build a new Tuschinski cinema on the Vijzelstraat in Amsterdam, diagonally opposite the Nederlandse Handelmaatschappij building. For some years now, a postmodern façade, designed by the French architect Christian de Portzamparc, is to be seen there. In the design drawing, this façade looked totally delightful, but once it was built in a dull grey brick, the applause fell silent. The façade does its best to be challenging, but falls flat, as it were, giving one the uncomfortable feeling of a comedian who is no longer funny.