NOVELTY: PART 1, RECURRENCE OR RECOMBINATION   <-

2018.01, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design


Drawing on Novelty: A history of the new, by Michael North, a consideration on historical and philosophical attempts at defining the NEW, and the

openness that the term NOVELTY conjures.


To alter. To remain. To repeat. To substitute. Originality. Autonomy.

Recurrence. Recombination.


NOVELTY.

Can the quality of not having been before be perceived in something (in a place, or a work of architecture)?

Is the familiar really necessary, in the places we inhabit and dwell?

What of the NEW lives on, as something identifiable or describable?

What, of our material - the city, the dwelling – is recurring, recombining?


Conceptual and physical positions in art and architecture:

Donald Judd

Trond Solberg

Asnago + Vender

Ryue Nishizawa + Rei Naito

Kazuyo Sejima

Olve Sande

Junya Ishigami

Lacaton + Vassal

Beijing

Wood Marsh

The Queensland House

Hiroshi Nakao

selgascano

Rudolph Schindler

Kathleen Pettyare

Terunobu Fujimori


Concorde, Wolfgang Tillmans

Nest or Cave, Sou Fujimoto

Before House, City and Forest, Sou Fujimoto


To Live: between earth and sky, drawing on own translations of Mellom Jord og Himmel (Between Earth and Sky), by Christian Norberg-Schulz

Kazuyo Sejima

Beijing

selgascano

Rudolph Schindler


Photographs by Matthew Anderson