July - August - September 1999

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Louis Le Roy
September, 1999
For more than thirty years Louis le Roy has been stacking up paving stones, pavement tiles, kerbstones and other street rubbish with his bare hands, while he lets nature take its course around him. In that period a hectare of Fries grassland changed into a fascinating jungle to which terms such as beautiful or ugly absolutely no longer apply. This Eco Cathedral has seen approximately 1500 trucks street rubbish, thousands of visitors and many publications.
ArchiNed recently went to see how the land lies in one of the few places in the Netherlands where nature is really free and where it becomes clear what one person, with no other tool than patience and will, is capable of. We also learned a lesson that wild planners can take to heart.

Silent Collisions
September, 1999
Starting September 4, the exhibition 'Silent Collisions' can be seen in the large hall of the NAi. The exhibition shows a review of the works by Thom Mayne and his firm Morphosis. Just like Daniel Liebeskind, last year, Mayne has designed an installation that takes up the entire space. Mayne goes even further because a large part of this space will literally move. The upper part of the exposition will slowly be transformed in 51 minutes. The exhibition will be expanded on September 11th with an exposition about the works of Frank Gehry in the Balcony hall. Together the expositions provide a current image of two of the most important representatives of the so-called LA School.

Villa E 1027 one year later
September, 1999
In the summer of 1998 Herman and Hans Hertzberger visited Eileen Gray's Villa E 1027 in Roqyebrune in the South of France. A cry for distress and an email-protest page were partly triggered by the rundown state of the villa. Curious to see how the situation is one year later, one of ArchiNed's co-workers risked his neck this summer during his climb over cliffs to be able to return with some current photos.