9. JUNE 9

MARKTHAL [MVRDV architects]
Compare it to Depot (same designer - Winy Maas).

How did your body feel in each of those two spaces?

Would you want to live in one of the Markthal apartments? Why? Why not?

Modernists accused Maas of making something pop and quirky just to stand out so that the building would become an icon. What was his answer to them?

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LUCHTSINGEL [ZUS architects]

Why is it made of wood? Why is it yellow? Why was it crowdfunded?

Why make it?

How is a bridge (architecture/engineering) related to community (sociology)? cf: Bruno Latour's "We Have Never Been Modern" -- things are actually more entangled and related than modernism allows. cf: Latour's "Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy" How to intentionally invite non-human agents (like rivers) to the democratic, decision-making table? Matter matters. Everything matters (even if just a little bit). Everything is entangled.

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How are these two architectural projects similar?