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16 Gustave Eiffel – Eiffel Tower, Paris,
1889.(Alistair Gardner)
17 Richard Meier – Atheneum, New Harmony,
Indiana, 1975-79.(Jonathan Hale)
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column system forms a minimum system of arrangement that allows great freedom
when it comes to filling it in, and that is able to coordinate the large
variety of parts issuing from the highly complex program. While ensuring the
unity of the whole, the column system is an encouragement to shape every spot
according to the requirements of each particular situation.23
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this means he hoped to engender a sense of identity between user and space,
based on the “colonization” of the individual’s environment, wh... more ...
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15 Herman Hertzberger – Centraal Beheer
Offices, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, 1974: Upper level plan. (Redrawn by the
author, after Herman Hertzberger)
“speech” take place when specific
activities begin to colonise a space. Likewise at the Utrecht Music Centre
where Hertzberger employs a similar analogy for his column system, although
here the architecture is made more expressive in its elaboration of the basic unit:
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13 Herman Hertzberger – LiMa Housing,
Berlin-Kreuzberg, 1982-86.(Alistair Gardner)
14 Herman Hertzberger – Centraal Beheer
Offices, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, 1968-72.(Alistair Gardner)
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12 Aldo van Eyck – Hubertus House for
single Mothers, Amsterdam, 1973-78.(Alistair Gardner)
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