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- Title
El círculo sin centro. Tradición moderna, clásica y vernácula en la Casa Visser de Aldo van Eyck.
- Authors
RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA, ANA; DE LA CUERDA, RAFAEL HERNANDO
- Abstract
An extraordinary interest in the vernacular, the primitive and the popular went through post-war Europe in the 1950s. It is a period of great industrial development that will also show, probably by contrast, a revived interest in tradition. How to approach the dichotomy between industrial society and tradition is a central issue of the architectural debate of that time, carried out by architects born between wars, the Third Generation of the Modern Movement, and is the context of this text: an exploration on how tradition, and especially "the vernacular", influenced the proposals made by Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999), in his work of transferring to architecture what had already happened in the art of the avant-garde at the early twentieth century, and in science with the Theory of Relativity. Van Eyck presented at the last CIAM held at the Kröller Müller Museum, the Otterlo circles, a diagram formed by two circles that represent the interrelation, "the in-between", between the three great traditions: classical, modern and vernacular. This paper delves deeper into the work carried out by Van Eyck, in the Visser House extension (1967-1969), developed as an interpretation in Holland of a "kiva" -the Pueblo Indians sacred place-, and a paradigmatic example of the interrelation mentionated.
- Publication
ZARCH: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture & Urbanism, 2018, Issue 10, p74
- ISSN
2341-0531
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2018102932