In February 2004 I presented a lecture for the Dutch Art Institute (DAI) in Enschede, The lecture focuses on several theories of shelter in an increasingly complex urban environment. The lecture is titled "Spaces Between Servitude and Statement" It indirectly pointe towards DAI's prospect to be relocated elsewhere in Enschede. The Dutch Art Institute is a postgraduate art institute that, in 2004, claimed an abandoned industrial building in Roombeek, a neighborhood that was heavily hit in 2000 by an enormous explosion caused by a fireworks factory located there. Basically the lecture addresses on a theoretical level, the necessity of providing art students with an optimal working environment that should be located right in the heart of an urban community. These working conditions not only should be utilitarian, but first and foremost should provide staff and students with a an optimal creative and evocative envirionment.

1. Spaces between Servitude and Statement

2. ISBN: 0-8070-6473-4
Gaston Bachelard
1884-1962

3. 1
The House, from Cellar to Garret
The significance of the Hut
2
House and Universe
3
Drawers, Chests and Wardrobes
4
Nests
5
Shells
6
Corners
7
Miniature
8
Intimate Inmensity
9
The Dialectics of Outside and Inside
10
The Phenomenology of Roundness

4. Roombeek
“Bauen ist Sterben
Sterben ist Leben”
Tancred, Prince of Antioch

5. On Monday, October 12, 1654, shortly after half past eleven in the morning, one of
Delft's powder magazines exploded and devastated a large part of the city. The
“Delftsche Donderslag” was said to have been heard as far away as the island of
Texel, seventy miles north of Delft.
When the magazine exploded, it contained about ninety thousand pounds of
gunpowder. The force of the blast was so great that most houses in the immediate
vicinity were destroyed and buildings throughout the city were damaged. The two
major churches, the Oude and the Nieuwe Kerk, were also damaged. Although the
number of people killed is not known, it has been estimated that deaths were in
the hundreds. Among the casualties was one of Delft's most famous painters, Carel
Fabritius.

6. Egbert van der Poel
(1621-1664)
View of Delft after the Explosion of 1654
Oil on wood, 36,2 x 49,5 cm National Gallery, London

7. Carel Fabritius
1622 - 1654
Self-portrait, ca. 1650
oil on panel, 65x49 cm, Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen

8. Carel Fabritius
A View of Delft, with a Musical Instrument Seller's Stall
Oil on canvas, 15,4 x 31,6 cm, 1652
National Gallery, London

9. Dutch Art Institute
becomes
Carel Fabritius Institute
A great talent who died too young
(James Dean Effect)

10. Hieronymus Bosch Painter
(1450-1516)
The Brotherhood of our Lady

11. Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Delights (The Millenium), Prado, Madrid

12. Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Delights (The Earthly Paradise), Prado, Madrid

13. Bridal Chambers
Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Delights (The Earthly Paradise), Prado, Madrid

14. Fermez l’espace!
Fermez la poche du Kangourou!
Il y fait chaud.
Close space!
Close the kangaroo’s pouch!
It’s warm in there.
Maurice Blanchard - Le temps de la poésie

15. Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Delights (Female Rock), Prado, Madrid

16. Ernst Haeckel
Art Forms in Nature - Radiolaria 1899

17. Hieronymus Bosch
The Garden of Delights (Hell - The Tree of Knowledge), Prado, Madrid

18. Ferdinand Cheval Postman
(1836-1924)
Le Palais Idéal
Charmes-sur-l’Herbasse (Drôme) 1879-1912
93,000 hours
10,000 days
33 years of hardship

19. Le Palais Idéal, 1924
East facade

20. Le Palais Idéal, 1924
south-east corner

21. Le Palais Idéal, 1924
east facade

22. Le Palais Idéal, 1924
details

23. Le Palais Idéal, 1924
roofscape

24. Le Palais Idéal, 1924
roofscape

25. Le Palais Idéal, 1924
roofscape

26. Quand les cines de notre ciel se rejoindront
Ma maison aura un toit
When the peaks of our sky come together
My house will have a roof
Paul Eluard - Dignes de vivre

28. In winter like in summer
Night and day I walked
Over the plain, the hills
And the river too,
To bring back the hard stones
Chiselled by nature.
My back paid his share
I braved everything
Even death.
In the evening after dark
When man is resting
I work on my palace.
No one will ever know
How hard it was.
With the moments of leisure
My occupation gave me
I built this Arabian nights’ palace
Where my memory is engraved.

29. German Expressionist Architecture
1919-1933

30. bone (1924)
Hermann Finsterlin (1887-1973)
Project of a Cathedral on the VIII hill in Rome

31. architectural model (1970)
Hermann Finsterlin (1887-1973)
Project of a Cathedral on the VIII hill in Rome

32. (snails, mushrooms, corals)
Hermann Finsterlin (1887-1973)
Project of a Large Building, 1919

33. Hermann Finsterlin (1887-1973)
Cathedral of Light, 1919

34. Wenzel A. Hablik Matthew Barney
Chrystal collection Cremaster 3, 2002
Wenzel A. Hablik
Duplex Chrystal House, 1920

35. Bruno Taut
Snow-Glacier-Glass / Alpine Architecture, 1918

36. German Expressionist Cinema
1919-1933

37. Robert Wiene
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, 1920

38. Karl Boese, Paul Wegener
The Golem, 1920

39. Fritz Lang
Metropolis, 1927

40. “ I believe that as technology advances in architecture,
the closer it comes to nature.”
John M. Johansen Architect
(1916)
“It’s not biomorphism in the sense
that it is imitation of natural form,
better is learning how nature organises,
and in the same way we can organise
our buildings and our cities.”
(quotes from an interview with Hans-Ulrich Obrist)

41. ISBN: 1-56898-301-8

42. John M. Johansen
Molecular-Engineered Apartment Building 2001

43. Ernst Haeckel
Art Forms in Nature - Radiolaria 1899

44. John M. Johansen
Froth of Bubbles - Conference Center 2001

45. MERZ
Kurt Schwitters
(1887-1948)
MERZBAU
(cathedral of erotic misery)

46. Kurt Schwitters
Construction for Noble Ladies, 1919
113x84 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art

47. Kurt Schwitters
Merzbau, Hannover 1920-1936

48. MERZ ist Konsequenz. MERZ bedeutet Beziehungen schaffen,
am liebsten zwischen allen Dingen der Welt.

49. Kurt Schwitters
Merzbau, Hannover 1920-1936

50. Steven Holl Architect
(1947)
Competition Project for the Museum of Evolution
Burgos, Spain 2000

51. ISBN: 0-8513-9111-7

52. Steven Holl
Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

53. Steven Holl
Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

54. Steven Holl
Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

55. Steven Holl
Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

56. perspective drawing of the museum from the north
Steven Holl
Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

57. Steven Holl
Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos, Spain 1995

58. Steven Holl - Museum of Human Evolution, Burgos
Atapuerca Cave and museum - routings

59. Sometimes the house of the future is better built, lighter and larger than
all houses of the past, so that the image of the dream house is opposed
to that of the childhood home. Later in life, with indomitable courage,
we continue to say that we are going to do what we have not yet done:
we are going to build a house.
Gaston Bachelard - The Poetics of Space

60. Shigeru Ban Architect
(1957)
Curtain Wall house
Itabashi, Tokyo 1995

61. Katsura Villa, Kyoto
Old Shoin, 16th century

62. ISBN: 0-9181-7202-0

63. Mies van de Rohe - Farnsworth House. 1950 Shigeru Ban, Curtain Wall house, 1995
Mies van der Rohe invented the glass curtain wall,
but I just used a curtain
Shigeru Ban

64. Shigeru Ban
Curtain Wall House, 1995

65. Shigeru Ban
Curtain Wall House, 1995

66. Herzog & De Meuron Architects
(1950)
Rémy Zaugg Artist
(1943)
Centre pompidou, An Exhibition, 1995

67. ISBN: 3-8932-2889-6
Herzog & De Meuron / Rémy Zaugg
An exhibition
(Centre Pompidou, 1995)

68. Herzog & De Meuron Architects
Prada Aoyama Store, Tokyo, Japan 2003

69. Rémy Zaugg
Über die Nutzlosigkeit der Skulptur
im Jahr 1987
in der Stadt
des Jahres 1987
(das erste Skulpturprojekt)

71. Rémy Zaugg
exhibition diagram and fax message from Jacques Herzog

72. MAIS MOI
LA VILLE
JE TE
VOIS

74. ABER ICH
DAS BILD
ICH SEHE
DICH

76. BUT I
WORLD
I SEE
YOU

78. Utilitarian Minimalism
(appropriated aesthetics)
L’espace m’a toujours rendu silencieux
Space has always reduced me to silence
Jules Vallès, L’enfant

79. Donald Judd Artist
(1928-1994)

80. ISBN: 3-925047-07-7

81. Donald Judd
Untitled, 1991, aluminium, 5 units, each 1,5x1,5x1,5m
Collection Chinati Foundation, Marfa

82. Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
The Arena - Courtyard

83. Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
The Arena - Interior

84. Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
The Arena - Plan

85. Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
Concrete Building Group

86. Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
concrete building under construction

87. Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
Artillery Sheds

88. Donald Judd - The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas
Artillery shed - Interior with Judd sculptures

89. Donald Judd
Furniture

90. Scenarios
(epilogue)
At the door of the house who will come knocking?
An open door, we enter
A closed door, a den
The world pulse beats beyond my door.
Pierre Albert Birot

91. Yet listen well. Not to my words,
but to the tumult that rages in
your body when you listen to yourself.
René Daumel

92. plane of events
nouns
verbs
time
Here, as time flows across the page from left to right,
is a tiny part of the ocean of the Streams of Story,
a handful of the thousand thousand and one tales.
An event is the intersection of noun and verb,
of subject and action…
something happens
Edward Rolf Tufte - Visual Explanations

93. Mr. Isaac
The Favorite, á Chaconne 1707

94. Merce Cunningham
Unfinished Work 1958?

95. Bob Wilson
A Letter to Queen Victoria 1974

96. Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
Programmatic Lava
Urban Design Forum, Yokohama, Japan - project 1992

97. Georges Perec Writer
(1936-1982)
"All I know is that the puzzle is called 'The Life and Works of Georges Perec.'
But I don't know what the solution is!"
Georges Perec

98. ISBN: 0-8792-3751-1 ISBN: 2-2530-2390-6
ISBN: 9-0295-3419-2

100. Ruimten
Rondom
ISBN: 9-0295-350-3 ISBN: 0-1401-8986-6
ISBN: 2-7186-0550-2

101. The hallucinatory effect derives
from the extraordinary clarity
and not from mystery or mist.
Nothing is more fantastic ultimately than precision.
André Robbe-Grillet