7TH OH SYMPOSIUM
“URBANISM, NEW APPROACHES“
In the Scales from Macro to Micro – from Shelter to a New Community, from Primary Needs to Open Form”.
- Exhibitions, Lectures, discussions, also by social games, the Warsaw Game.
OSKAR HANSEN SYMPOSIUM NO.7 -- 1st-3rd FEBRUARY 2007 at BAS, Bergen.
The first guest lecturer will be architect Lucien Kroll, Brussels. He will also take
part in the prologue of the Symposium, in the evening 31.January: the Plenum Presentation
of the first two BIMBAS Diplomas, the Bergen International Master Exhibition at Gathe
Gallery, Strandgaten/Gågaten. At this presentation also the other diploma assessors will
take part, artist professor Pavel Büchler from Manchester Metropolitan University, BAS-architect
Tommie Wilhelmsen, Stavanger, and civil eco engineer Katharina Bramslev, Oslo. Some of the BIMBAS
teachers will complete this assessor team, Ti-Nan Chi from China/Taiwan and Mona Steinsland
(architecture), and May Elin Eikaas Bjerck and Asbjørn Andresen (the other world /DAV).
The session will be lead by Svein Hatløy, principal BAS.
THE 7TH OSKAR HANSEN SYMPOSIUM
For 3 days, 1-3. of February:
- The main lectures and comments on the on the topic of New Urban Form,
Scales and Open Form, by the guests mentioned above.
- The BAS-BAF program of 20+20 years of BAS, experience and future.
- The students' day, running courses actual for discussing Open Form.
LUCIEN KROLL AND OSKAR HANSEN.
Lucien Kroll had a close relation to Oskar Hansen, and will tell us his relationship to
Team Ten, the Otterlo Conference in 1959, and his way of developing Open Form dealing with the Great Number.
LUCIEN KROLL AND OPEN FORM.
Lucien Kroll is an internationally renowned architect, with studio in Brussels, and realizations
in the Netherlands, Belgium and France. His practice started in Africa and had significant realizations
before 1968, when he was chosen by political engaged Belgian students to design and develop the dormitories
and social services at the Catholic University of Louvain, outside Brussels. This project also got to
include the new subway station, Alma, for the new Louvain University Campus. In collaboration with the
students,also in his studio, Lucien Kroll introduced Open Form in contrast to the closed form of the
institute buildings by other architects. This was the reason that the students engaged Kroll, not to
get dead concrete containers for their individual lives and social activities. Ref. publications: Look
international magazines and books from early seventies till now.
His last presentation was at the Venice Biennale of Art and Architecture ’06, representing France,
by his buildings and his issues of engaged participation in developing our contemporary society.
20 years ago, BAF (the union of Bergen architects) invited Kroll to exhibit in The Grieg Hall, at
Bergen International Music Festival 1986. A special issue of BAF-nytt (New of the union) was edited,
and the newspaper Bergens Tidende printed an article about architect Kroll’s values in architecture
and social environment. In the Festival exhibition his vast production was presented, specially how he
looks for new solutions; old factories and farm buildings converted into new functions, mostly into
cultural use, new housing realizations in France, as well as rebuilding existing suburban concrete
blocks, not by tearing down, but by adding new single building parts. We can see his search for individual
identity as well as for community identification and the conditions for having a home. This social
engagement makes him fight for the human rights by opposing the industrial prefabrication of suburbs
all up to today. He claims that this kind of industrial housing leads to passiveness or criminal engagement.
Lucien Kroll uses new architectural means and public writing to urge a change in planning and
architectural expression, by a program of respect for peoples’ ethnicity, culture of life, basic social
and individual needs, and possibilities self engagement. For which he proposes Open Form instead
of technological rules of making man’s environment.
At the Oskar Hansen Open Form Symposium no. 7 at BAS, we will discuss these issues by help of
the invited very engaged individuals, confronting the BAS teachers and students, urging our new
generation of architects and landscape architects.
A Symposium Program for the daily events, lectures, discussions and games, will follow on this page.
Svein Hatløy
BAS 15th January 07
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