This lecture was presented at the ArtEZ Academy for Architecture in Arnhem, in the framework of 'Lightness > Utopia' a lecture series and workshop curated by Martine de Wit/DUS Architects.

1. lightness
(utopia)
Plein 13 / Academie van Bouwkunst Arnhem / Lichtheid en Utopia / January 12, 2013

2. Thomas Moore
(+1516)
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2130

3. “He that knows one
knows them all,
they are so alike
one another.”
!
Sir Thomas Moore
(a precognition of the hive mind)

4. “He that knows one
knows them all,
they are so alike
one another.”
!
Sir Thomas Moore
(a precognition of the franchise mind)

5. Voynich manuscript
(+1404-1438)
http://www.voynich.nu

6. City of Truth
Bartolomeo Del Bene
http://www.spamula.net/blog/2006/06/civitas_veri_1.html

7. Palmanova, Udine, Italia
(1593)
45°54′N 13°19′E

8. lightness
(sprezzatura)

12. The New Atlantis
Francis Bacon, 1626
http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm

13. The New Atlantis
Francis Bacon, 1626
http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm
Optics and
Astronomy

14. The New Atlantis
Francis Bacon, 1626
http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm
Genetic
Modification

15. The New Atlantis
Francis Bacon, 1626
http://www.constitution.org/bacon/new_atlantis.htm
Communication

16. Campo Marzio
Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1762)
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/3171144?uid=3738736&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101517121243

17. Campo Marzio dell’antica Roma (1762)
Eisenman Architects, Yale University, Dogma
http://news.yale.edu/2012/07/16/yale-school-architecture-professor-and-students-reinvent-rome-venice-biennale

19. Utopian-Dystopian
Circular section
London, 1872
!
!
Paul Gustave Doré
(a precognition of 20th century ideologies)

20. 500.000 BC - 1850
!
(against forces)
1850-1950
!
(transitional)
1950 >>>
!
(natural)
Richard Buckminster Fuller
Man on Earth: Transport Species

21. 26% of earth’s surface is dry land.
85% of all earth’s dry land is here shown.
86% of all dry land shown is above equator.
The whole of the human family could stand on Bermuda.
All crowded into England they would have 14sq. mtr. each.
!
“United we stand, divided we fall”
is correct mentally and spiritually but
falacious physically or materially.
!
2,000,000,000 new homes will be required in the next 80
years.
!
Richard Buckminster Fuller, 1928
!
!

22. “We are concerned
with mooring first
class habitation
to the earth’s surface.”
!
!
!
Richard Buckminster Fuller (1932)
(a precognition of 21th century heterotopias)

23. utopia
(biomass)

24. bi·o·mass
/’bīō¸mas/
!
Noun
1. The total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume.
2. Organic matter used as a fuel.

25. bi·o·mass
/’bīō¸mas/
!
Noun
1. The total quantity or weight of organisms in a given area or volume.
2. Organic matter used as a fuel.
3. Organic matter perceived as a form of transitory intelligence

26. Oliviero Toscani (concept)
Benetton Campaign
Spring-Summer 1992

27. Neal Stephenson
Snow Crash, 1992
ISBN-13: 978-0553380958

29. two films, produced by
the student team

30. fin
Ronald van Tienhoven 2013
Overview projects - http://www.slideshare.net/rvtienhoven/ronald-van-tienhoven-projects19932013