#Hans van Houwelingen

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Starting at Avans AKV Sint Joost

Starting at Avans AKV Sint Joost

In the beginning of september the starting of the schools began once again, finally I’ll study in my first year at an Art academy. At that point my class already had an introduction, what was very fun, interesting but mostly educational to be at.

At the beginning we had some workshops at school about photography & film, graphics, wood & metal, nylon & ceramics, The last week of the introduction…

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Ruins Of Public Space

The Nonument project is a new community initiative that tackles the research of monuments, buildings and public spaces in a novel way. Instead of focusing on the initial projects, the focus moves towards new context and changes experienced by these spaces in the time of their duration.

The Monument to Brotherhood in Plovdiv by Vladimir Rangelov and Lyubomir Shinkov is one of many monuments dedicated to Bulgarians and Russians who sacrificed their lives in the wars. | Photo © Emil Iliev

As coal mining declined in the 1960s, the significance of the Kohlebrecher Kohlgrube by Wiechels Steyr began to wane. In 1966 it finally shut down and the facilities were left to decay. After several fires in 1968, the wooden façade was destroyed. | Photo via Nonument 

During Socialism Bulgarian cities were meant to get reconstructions. Shumen was selected for renovation and an Unfinished city by Ivan Sivrev has started but it was never finished. | Photo © Ani Ivanova

The third international Nonument symposium on decaying, destroyed and abandoned monuments, architecture and public space of the 20th century celebrates the release of the first book, combining possible strategies of intervention in a continually transforming contemporary city. 

The first panel Nonument Spaces will be focusing on the decaying and abandoned buildings and spaces as an opportunity for their radical recontextualisation through the contributions of Miljena Vučković, Elisa Sorentino, Peter Rauch in Urška Jurman. The second panel will address the Urban Discontinuities. Spaces and buildings of socialist societies becomes relevant again through focusing on how they change because of the political transitions and exhibit signs of collective suppression. Antonia Stanev, Adam Knight, Blaž Babnik Romaniuk and Helka Dzsacsovszki will focus on the question of these political and social voids. Speakers of the third panel Public Space in Extremis, Nika Van Berkel, Antonio Grgić, Andrea Elera and Mollie Brooks will address the contemporary movement and surveillance of the public space. The evening will conclude with the keynote “Egypt” rather then “October”: Incongruences in interpreting Yugoslav national-liberation monuments, then and now. Branislav Dimitrijević will present an analysis of discursive approaches to Yugoslav socialist monumental sculpture from the time of their installment to their current popularity.

The symposium will also be the launch of our first and long awaited Nonument! Book with texts by Branislav Dimitrijević, Alexei Monroe, Nika Grabar, Ljubica Slavković, Hans von Houwelingen, Miloš Kosec and Elke Krasny. These essays offer a bird’s eye view of the vast nonumental field from all across the globe, from contextualising the fetishism of both British brutalism and Yugoslav “Spomeniks” to the influence of post-colonial discourse and laissez-faire economics of the post-1990 transition from socialism to capitalism upon the changed urban space.

The book also includes two visual essays by the Nonument Group. The outer sleeve of the book is printed with an index and a map of nonuments in Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Serbia and Slovenia. This index of 120 nonuments - the nonument database, is an archive of the ongoing multidisciplinary research of twentieth-century built spaces that have undergone a shift in meaning.

*** Ruins of Public Space* Kino Šiška, Ljubljana, 28. October 2020 from 14.00 to 20.30

Program schedule abstracts // Registration  Organisation: MoTA - Museum of Transitory Art, Kino Šiška *symposium will be live-streamed 

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Inauguration Medal 2013 received on the occasion of the inauguration of Willem-Alexander as King of the Netherlands on April 30, 2013.

Letizia was never seen in public wearing this medal.

This medal was instituted by Royal Decree of 24 April 2013 . In previous inaugurations, a similar commemorative medal was awarded, such as the Inauguration Medal 1980, the Inauguration Medal 1948 and the Inauguration Medal 1898. The medal is awarded "to people who have made a special contribution to the inauguration, a contribution significantly exceeds their day-to-day work. Furthermore, this commemorative medal was awarded to a limited number of people who attend the inauguration ceremony". It comes with a certificate.

The medal made of silver, round and has a diameter of 30 mm. On the front is the portrait of the King to the left and on the reverse a crowned monogram with the letters W and A, the text 'April 30, 2013' and around 'Willem-Alexander King of the Netherlands'. The design is by Hans van Houwelingen

Queen Letizia’s Orders 14/??

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June 02, 2021

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Hans van Houwelingen, zuil van Lely, Stadhuisplein, Lelystad 2002-2004 in Museum de Fundatie

Lelystad: al in de jaren zestig bleek het modernistische model van stedenbouwkundige Cornelis van Eesteren (1897-1988), dat ten grondslag ligt aan het ontstaan van de nieuwe stad in de nieuwe polder, onrealistisch te zijn. Het utopische plan om een dynamische moderne stad uit het niets te laten verrijzen ging aan kil pragmatisme ten onder. Veertig jaar later bleek een grondige stedenbouwkundige vernieuwing nodig om de stad voor een sociaal-economische ondergang te behoeden en een nieuwe toekomst te bieden.

Masterplan Stadshart Lelystad, het revitaliseringsplan dat West 8 landscape architects & urban planners ontwikkelde, werd welbeschouwd de genadeklap voor het falende modernistische ideaal. Lelystad moest zich schikken in de onvermijdelijke postmoderniteit van de samenleving. De Zuil van Lely proclameert dat moment. 

De intentie was het standbeeld van ingenieur Cornelis Lely (1854-1929), het brein achter de IJsselmeerpolders en naamgever van de stad, eveneens te revitaliseren. Het bronzen standbeeld van Lely dat sinds 1984 elders in Lelystad stond werd op een 32 meter hoge classicistische zuil geplaatst - her modernistische erfgoed doelbewust omver gegooid en opnieuw geassembleerd. 

Professor Piet Esser (1914-2004), die het beeld van Lely had gemaakt, eiste dat zijn beeld weer van de zuil zou worden verwijderd. Meer dan 200 oproepen van bewoners om hem op andere gedachten te brengen mochten niet baten. Anticiperend op di mogelijke scenario waren eerder ook de rechten verkregen om een tweede gietsel te maken van het monument van Lely op de Afsluitdijk dat Mari Andriessen (1897-1979) in 1954 had gemaakt. Deze Lely werd in 2004 op de Zuil van Lely geplaatst. 

Een iconoclastische samenvoeging van stedelijke elementen die elkaar in ideologisch opzicht uitsluiten markeert nu het stadscentrum van Lelystad, als in metropool. Anders dan zijn beroemde pendanten in Rome, Londen of Parijs is de Zuil van Lely gebouwd van basaltstenen, waarmee de dijken de polder drooglegden en Lelystad beschermen tegen de zee. Johannes van Houwelingen (1914-1977) was één van die steenzetels die zijn hele leven bouwde aan de dijken van Lely, waaronder de Afsluitdijk. De zuil die Lely op grote hoogte tilt is aan hen opgedragen. 

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Ministerie van VWS ontmoedigde uitbreiding van ic’s tijdens coronacrisis: ‘Wanneer komt het volk eens in opstand?

De overheid ontmoedigde ziekenhuizen midden in de coronacrisis hun ic met extra bedden uit te breiden. Sterker nog: sommige ziekenhuizen kregen zelfs het advies bedden te schrappen. Dat blijkt uit onderzoek van NRC. Het Landelijk Coördinatiecentrum Patiënten Spreiding deed juist een dringend beroep op ziekenhuizen om bedden uit te breiden.

Ambtenaren schreven aan de zorgminister dat er ‘maximaal werd ingezet op het voorkomen van een verhoging in de aantallen bedden’. Ziekenhuizen die zeiden meer ic-bedden te kunnen uitbreiden dan gepland, kwamen voor een gesloten subsidieloket.

Inhumaan

Het onderzoek ontketent een golf van verontwaardiging. “Wie gelooft nog dat het gaat om de volksgezondheid?” vraagt Tweede Kamerlid Pepijn van Houwelingen (FVD). Zijn partij schrijft op social media: “De druk op de zorg is moedwillig verhoogd om vrijheidsbeperkingen te legitimeren.”

BVNL-bestuurder Hans van Tellingen reageert: “Inhumaan. Onethisch. Snood. Een middelvinger naar mens en samenleving.” Wybren van Haga, voorman van BVNL, heeft een spoeddebat aangevraagd. Hij stelt dat het ministerie van VWS hiermee doodzieke patiënten de dood heeft ingejaagd.

Zo slecht

“De schoften hadden liever een lockdown, liever afschaling van de reguliere ziekenhuiszorg, liever 95 miljard op de staatsschuld, liever 22 procent jongeren die zelfmoord overwogen, dan te investeren in ziekenhuiscapaciteit. Zo slecht,” schrijft PVV-Kamerlid Fleur Agema.

Caroline van der Plas van de BoerBurgerBeweging zegt: “Elke dag komt er meer boven tafel. Maar waarom waren de media destijds niet zo kritisch? En werden critici steeds weggezet?”

Dood door schuld

“Dood door schuld noemen we dat toch?” vraagt vastgoedondernemer Erik de Vlieger. Mediaondernemer Michael Pilarczyk schrijft: “Denk even terug aan al die paniekzaaierij. Iets met een tekort aan ic-capaciteit. Wanneer komt het volk eens in opstand?”

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Underground Bicycle Parking Leidseplein Amsterdam

Underground Bicycle Parking Leidseplein Amsterdam, North-Holland Building, forty lizards of Blaauw Jan, Dutch Architecture

Underground Bicycle Parking Leidseplein in Amsterdam

28 May 2021

Underground Bicycle Parking Leidseplein Amsterdam by ZJA

Design: architectural studio ZJA

Location: Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen, Amsterdam, North-Holland, The Netherlands

Photos © ZJA

Inauguration Underground Bicycle Parking Leidseplein In Amsterdam

Amsterdam, May 28th 2021 – Under the Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen, one of the busiest squares in Amsterdam right next to the Leidseplein, the underground bicycle parking Leidseplein designed by the architectural studio ZJA has been inaugurated. The forty lizards of Blaauw Jan, a work of art by Hans van Houwelingen have returned to the park and watch over the bicycles in the parking.

On one hand the lizards of the work of art are integrated in the design of the bicycle parking. And on the other, the bridge over the Lijnbaansgracht, designed in the characteristic style of the Amsterdam School, is also a leading visual element in the design of the bicycle parking and its entrance.

ZJA, together with Ballast Nedam, was awarded the contract by the municipality of Amsterdam for the construction and design of the bicycle parking Leidseplein under the Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen. By bringing all bicycles underground, a spatial, green square has been created above ground. This has been designed by landscape architect Ruwan Aluvihare of the municipality of Amsterdam, and provides space for visitors to the Leidseplein. Thus a renewed meeting place for the city has been created.

Erik Smits, project architect at ZJA: “Before the Leidseplein underground bicycle parking garage was built, the Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen was full of bicycles. Bicycles have now been brought underground and a new place to stay has been created on the square above for visitors to walk or enjoy the sun between the bronze lizards in the park or on one of the terraces. In this way, the square has become part of the city again.”

Amsterdam School The bicycle parking has two entrances; one for pedestrians and one for cyclists. The characteristic Amsterdam School style of the bridge over the Lijnbaansgracht has been continued in the wall of the entrance to the bicycle parking. This masonry wall in warm red brick continues underground in a straight line to the entrance at the Leidseplein. The wall thus not only connects both entrances, but also connects the underground with the world above.

Light and spacious bicycle parking In the new bicycle parking, 2000 bicycles can be stored in a safe and dry manner. In the design, ZJA has given extra attention to the entry of daylight into the bicycle parking and lighting above the footpaths. What is remarkable is the wider paths and greater height (3.20 m) of the bicycle parking. This creates a light and spacious space with a transparent and pleasant atmosphere, which contributes to social safety.

Bronze lizards With the redevelopment of the Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen and the construction of the Leidseplein bicycle parking, the forty lizards of Blaauw Jan, a public work of art by Hans van Houwelingen have also returned to the park. In the grass and on the natural stone wall that continues into the entrance of the bicycle parking, forty bronze iguanas, monitor lizards and agames adorn the roof of the bicycle parking. As a nod to this, the floor of the bicycle parking is provided with lizards that guide the pedestrians to the exit on the Leidseplein.

For more information about the bicycle parking Leidseplein in Amsterdam: Bicycle parking Leidseplein, Amsterdam

ZJA ZJA is an international architectural studio, headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and founded in 1990. ZJA is an optimistic team, using an innovative signature to translate often complex assignments into unexpected solutions with added value. Born as a design studio for architecture and product development, ZJA has now developed into a professional architectural studio specializing in Sports & Leisure, Infrastructure and Public Transport.

Underground Bicycle Parking Leidseplein Amsterdam by ZJA, North-Holland images / information received 280521

Location: Leidseplein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, western Europe

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THE ARTIST/KNIGHT

Enkele weken geleden ben ik naar de expo THE ARTIST/KNIGHT gegaan in het kasteel van Gaasbeek. Samen met een paar vrienden ben ik er naar toe gefietst om een middagje cultuur te beleven (of toch tenminste iets te doen voor het vak Estetica...)

In een artikel van Ewoud Ceulemans uit De Morgen staat:” Voor The Artist/Knight in het Kasteel van Gaasbeek bundelde de crème van de hedendaagse kunstenaars de eigen ridderidealen.”, dit vat zeer mooi de essentie van de expo samen vind ik. In elke kamer van de expo was wel iets unieks te zien, andere visies van verschillende kunstenaars. Museumdirecteur Luc Vanackere vertelt in het artikel dat vele toeristen, grotendeels uit Frankrijk, een normaal middeleeuws kasteel verwachten, maar dan geconfronteerd  worden met wat wel eens als “raar” kan beschouwd worden. De expo is een hedendaags en modern vervolg op de meer romantische versie Allemaal ridders, een tentoonstelling van 10 jaar geleden in het kasteel. Er komen moderne kunstenaars aan de pas zoals James Ensor en Damien Hirst, en hun beeld op de aloude ridderfiguur. 

Feminisme en de verdrukking van vrouwen is ook een prominent thema hier. Kubra Khademi’s Armor is hier een goed voorbeeld van. Haar project bestond uit een wandeling door de straten van Kaboel, Afghanistan gekleed in een metalen harnas dat haar lichaamsdelen benadrukte. Onder het harnas had ze een traditionele boerka aan. Nadat ze het harnas had verwijderd, werd ze aangevallen door het mannelijke publiek en moest ze een schuilplaats zoeken. Het project is geïnspireerd door haar persoonlijke ervaringen uit de kindertijd en heeft de kwestie van seksuele intimidatie waarmee vrouwen in Afghanistan dagelijks worden geconfronteerd, aangepakt. 

Volgens het artikel zijn er 2 artiesten die eruit springen: Hans Van Houwelingen en Meiro Koizumi. De 1e creëerde een portret van de Hitlerjugend, de 2e een videokunstwerk waar een Kamikaze-piloot uit WO II afscheid neemt van zijn familie. Door hen als opvolger te stellen van de ooit zo nobele kruisvaarders en samoerai, benadrukken de kunstenaars de gevaarlijkste zwakke plek van de ridder: zijn idealen. 

Ook al moest ik vaak zeggen: “Wat is dit nu weer?”, vond ik het wel een zeer interessante expo. Elke kamer was iets nieuws en je wist niet wat je moest verwachten, maar jullie nu wel nietwaar?

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Dutch firms plan to build on their FDI in Vietnam

Vietnam has become a magnet to big Dutch firms and investors who are interested in many sectors in the country, especially through engaging in financial investment and state-owned enterprise equitisation.  

During his July 9-11 visit to the Netherlands, Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc met with many Dutch firms and investors who said the country is one of the most dynamic and fast-developing economies in Asia, with great potential for financial investment.  

They expressed their wish to participate in Vietnam’s sectors of state-owned enterprise (SOE) equitisation, energy, climate change adaptation, and micro-finance.  

The investors and firms include globally-famous investment equity management funds like Actiam N.V, Shell Pension, Orbit Asset Management, Pacific Spring, and Obam, as well as firms like NACO, Damen, Puma Energy, Vamed, and hundreds of others.  

Arnold Bon, representative from Orbit Asset Management, said Orbit has invested in Vietnam’s financial market via VinaCapital, and will continue expanding its operations in Vietnam via co-operation with partnering organisations, individuals, and enterprises.  

Tony Chan, co-founder of Pacific Spring, which specialises in supporting Asian investment funds to approach European partners, said that Pacific Spring wants to invest in Vietnam in the time to come – and like other firms, it hopes to receive support from Vietnam’s government.  

Obam’s representative Erwin van Zuidam said that Obam is a long-term investor seeking well-performing firms with a sustainable business model in Vietnam, which it feels is an emerging market.  

Actiam N.V’s general director Hans van Houwelingen and Shell Pension Fund’s investment consultant Jeroen Kakebeeke said their funds stand ready to pour a great deal of capital into the Vietnamese market, whose consumption and production are strongly rising.  

Actiam N.V has $54.6 billion worth of assets and provides services about investment portfolio management and consultancy for individuals, organisations, and firms globally.  

Meanwhile, the Shell Pension Fund, managed by Shell Group, has an asset volume of $35 billion, $27 billion of which comes from other funds from the UK, the Netherlands, and the US.  

According to Dutch Deputy Prime Minister Lodewijck Asscher, Vietnam is seen by Dutch firms and investors as a “huge consumption market” with its population of 93 million people, fast-developing economy, and stable political climate.  

Many other Dutch firms are also seeking to invest in projects in Vietnam.  

Damen, a Netherlands-based global leader in shipbuilding, is seeking to complete its acquisition of a 70 per cent stake in Song Cam Shipbuilding JSC, the most profitable shipyard in Vietnam. The stake sale is still under governmental consideration.  

Phuc asked Damen to expand its investment in Vietnam, and to soon decide on its investment in some shipbuilding firms in the country.  

Puma Energy, whose asphalt factories have been operating in Vietnam for the past 20 years, already considers Vietnam a strategic market in Southeast Asia. It recently decided to participate in the equitisation of some Vietnamese SOEs, and expressed its desire to engage in that of Vietnam’s PV Oil. Phuc also suggested the firm co-operate with oil refineries in Vietnam.  

NACO, one of the world’s leading airport consultancies, also wants to seek business opportunities in Vietnam, where a number of large airports are being developed.  

Currently NACO is co-operating with Vietnam Aviation Agency by providing consulting on the upgrade and construction of new airports in the country. NACO particularly wishes to co-operate with the government to deploy an airport-based city model in Vietnam.  

In calling upon Dutch firms to invest in Vietnam, the PM stressed, “Vietnam is creating the best conditions for all foreign private investment funds.”  

He said that now is the best time for the Dutch to invest in Vietnam, where the stock and financial markets are flourishing. Many SOEs have and will be radically equitised, including big groups operating in the sectors of transport, airports, expressways, seaports, electricity, telecommunications, agriculture, and tourism. Vietnam has committed to removing barriers in many sectors, especially telecommunications, finance, and banking, whose foreign ownership limits have been and will continue to be lifted.  

During Phuc’s visit to the Netherlands, 11 co-operation deals worth about $700 million were inked by enterprises from both nations. For example, Vinalines and Holland’s STC Group clinched a deal on training co-operation, while Xuan Thanh Group and BS Bull signed a co-operative agreement on climate change consultancy, agriculture, and renewable energy development.  

As of June 20, 2017, the Dutch had 292 valid investment projects in Vietnam, registered at $7.97 billion, according to Vietnam’s Ministry of Planning and Investment. (Vietnam Investment Review – July 17)  

                               Vian Company Limited                            

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Two reasons to write a new blog on Eja Siepman van den Berg. The first and most important reason is that Eja won the pertigious price for sculpture : the WILHELMINA RING Sculpture prize

Eja Siepman van den Berg is laureate of the 2017 Wilhelmina Ring Sculpture Prize

The Wilhelmina Ring is a biennial oeuvre award, awarded to leading Dutch sculptors; it is one of the most important art prizes in the Netherlands.

Eja Siepman van den Berg is the 2017 laureate of the Wilhelmina Ring, consisting of a ring designed for the occasion, of a commissioned sculpture for the municipal park and an accompanying exhibition at Museum CODA, both in the city of Apeldoorn.

With this award, Eja Siepman van den Berg finds herself in the company of esteemed winners such as Joost Beljon, Joep van Lieshout, Jan van Munster, Carel Visser, Hans van Houwelingen, and Auke de Vries, among others

The second is that she recently launched a completely new which you can visit over here: http://www.ejasiepmanvandenberg.com

Of course her publications are available at : www.ftn-books.com

  Sculpture 10 days… Day 2 ..Eja Siepman van den Berg Two reasons to write a new blog on Eja Siepman van den Berg. The first and most important reason is that Eja won the pertigious price for sculpture : the WILHELMINA RING Sculpture prize…

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Kunstfort Vijfhuizen

Wonderful sculptures by Thom Puckey in Kunstfort Vijfhuizen and a short walk over Hans van Houwelingen’s Sluipweg. (more…)

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