MVRDV at VPRO (ACTAR 1999) explores MVRDV’s architectural thinking and design solutions for their inaugural project Villa VPRO for the Dutch broadcasting company which was realized in Hilversum, The Netherlands, in 1997.
Although it may not appear so, this book is based on a story more than on an architecture. the story of an architecture made for a producer of messages, a number of television and radio studios. An architecture which already has an informational goal per se; that is, for understanding and seeking, in reality itself, the generative bases of architectural form. A curious coincidence. The architects with the greatest experimental ambition in the architecture of the information era are commissioned to create the new headquarters of a media company whose rational is also the unbiased exploration of reality. Therein lies the basis of the story. And so this book sets out to consider architecture, once again, as the terrain of a more general argument about reality, and not merely the fact of producing buildings. A single ‘science of creating architecture’ does not exist, one that might be delimited or defined, just as the method through which it is manifested cannot be delimited. In this book, the bok in itself, television, radio or architecture are not different media, but rather different messages springing from a single global medium of information. Thus, the story this book tells is the particular story of various ‘generators of information’ – VPRO – which , linking up with various ‘generators of space’ – MVRDV – produce the result featured in these pages.
– Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries, Stefan Witteman, Nicole Meijer, Marjolijn Bronkjuyzen, Natalie Eckelkamp, and Jaime Salazar, MVRDV at VPRO – form follows action (ACTAR, 1999), p.7
The text is in English. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in very good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The binding is fine. The covers show only some minor traces of shelf wear.
