Abstract

MARTIN, Guiomar  and  RODRIGUEZ, Isabel. Between geometrical rationality and material sensitivity. Joop van Stigt in Twente. Estoa [online]. 2019, vol.8, n.16, pp.9-30. ISSN 1390-9274.  https://doi.org/10.18537/est.v008.n016.a01.

In 1961, the Dutch architect Joop van Stigt received the commission to design a small staff canteen at the University of Twente. His proposal, which takes as a point of departure a very precise structural reasoning -both in geometric and bearing terms- reveals a simultaneous extraordinary effort to emphasize the haptic dimension of the built space. Halfway between exactness and imperfection, between abstraction and a palpable condition, between the artificial and the natural world, this project is based on the organic value of wood as a building material, calling for a line of research alternative to the machinist paradigm, which seeks a redemption from the Cartesian anxieties of the modern movement, in order to bring architecture closer to man and nature.

Keywords : Joop van Stigt; revision of the modern movement; structuralism; tectonics; wood construction.

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