Oskar Hansen's Open Form

Introducing the Room For Space blog - and closing the Open Form blog.

2010-11-19T12:28:00.000-08:00

This is the last post of the Open Form blog. Work will continue on the Room For Space blog.

Oskar Hansen Symposium 2009

2009-12-02T06:36:00.000-08:00

OH-SYMPOSIUM 09 - BAS 18. OG 19. DESEMBER 2009 – OPEN FORM 50 ÅR
AT BAS 18th and 19th of December – OPEN FORM 50 YEARS

JUBILEUMSYMPOSIUM - PROGRAM
FREDAG 18. DESEMBER
Friday 18th of December
Time
KL.18 OSKAR HANSEN SYMPOSIUM - OPEN FORM 50 år. v/ Svein Hatløy
Open Form 50 year’s anniversary - Oskar Hansen symposium
KL.19 Helsing til Svein Hatløy.
Greeting to Svein Hatløy
Immatrikulering av 1.klasse. v/ Marianne Skjulhaug
Matriculation of 1.year
OPNING AV 1.ÅRS JULEUTSTILLING OG JULEFEST
1.year’s Exhibition and Christmas party

LAURDAG 19. DESEMBER
Saturday 19th of December
KL.10 Hårsamlinga. Hårinnsamlingskontor www.zeth.no/hair.html
Kurt Johannessen
Hair collection. Hair collection Office
KL.10.20 OF2 – framhaldskurs Open Form, v/ Svein Hatløy
OF2 – continuity course of Open Form
KL.11-11.10 PAUSE, te og kaffi
SHORT BREAK
Økt 2: MARKERING av OPEN FORM 50 ÅR i GUANGZHOU, KINA,
prosjekta til OF2, viste på utstilling og førelesingar - norsk kveld
CELEBRATION in GUANGZHOU, OPEN FORM 50 YEARS
KL.11.10 Prosjektet: Sterk vind – Open Form, metode og praksis i Gulen,
Strong Wind – Open Form, method and practice at Gulen
v/ Mona Steinsland
KL.11.50 Prosjekt: Sjølvbygging ved Lisboa, Portugal
Self building invitation outside Lisbon, Portugal, v/ Jørgen Stavseng
KL.12.20 Prosjekt: Nasjonale turistvegar, CODE Arkitektur og 3RW Arkitektar
v/ Bjarne Ringstad og Espen Rahlff
Reading topological space. Projects and realizations from the National Norwegian Tourist Route Project
KL.13.20 LUNCH - Godt grovt brød og varm suppe
Good bread and hot soup

Økt 3. REPORTS FROM CHINA - RAPPORT FRÅ KINA
KL.14 OPEN FORM 50 YEARS - OPEN FORM INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE - OF2, THE CONTINUATION.
CHINA, GREAT NUMBER, from Shi Pai Guangzhou to Beijing.
KINA, FLEIRTALSFORM, frå Shi Pai, Guangzhou til Beijing.
Open Form 50 år – OF2 i symposiet og 3 verkstadar. Oversyn ved Svein Hatløy og innlegg ved OF2, Mona Steinsland, Jørgen Stavseng, Bjarne Ringstad, Espen Rahlff, Henning Kaland
Open Form 50 year – OF2 in the symposium and 3 workshops. Introduction by Svein Hatløy, and contribution from OF2
Ordskifte - Discussion
KL.15 MIND THE GAP. Diplom 2009. Marit Kornberg
KL.15.15 – 16 WARZAWA SPEL, alle er med – CONTINUITET/SIMULTANITET.
WARSAW GAME everyone takes part – CONTINUITY/SIMULTANEITY

Ralph Erskine

2009-08-18T04:25:00.000-07:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Erskine_(architect)

The Byker Wall:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byker_Wall

Lucien Kroll - Manifesto: slow mutation of housing politics

2009-08-18T04:19:00.000-07:00

http://www.vitruvius.com.br/arquitextos/arq000/esp106i.asp

Open form related

2009-07-31T05:08:00.000-07:00

http://www.sfj.no/cmssff/cmsmm.nsf/lupgraphics/OpenForm_Exhibition_Norway_2_Smaller44.pdf/$file/OpenForm_Exhibition_Norway_2_Smaller44.pdf

http://www.slideshare.net/guest0ba4782/visuell-struktur-bas-finale-mars-2010

http://www.tate.org.uk/tateetc/issue16/polishart.htm

http://www.kaput.gr/05/papamichali.html

http://www.artmargins.com/content/feature/ronduda.htm

http://the-return-of-the-previ.blogspot.com/

http://www.kulikzofia.pl/index_eng.html

http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Arts_and_engineering_collaborations_in_CEE

http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/game_theory

http://magazines.documenta.de/frontend/article.php?IdLanguage=1&NrArticle=1444

http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_kowalski_grzegorz

http://www.microurbanism.net/blog/2005_03_01_archive.html

Oskar Hansen & open form

2009-07-31T05:01:00.000-07:00

http://www.tnn.lublin.pl/Oskar_Hansen,2969.html

http://www.sekcja.org/miesiecznik.php?id_artykulu=81

http://galeria-obrazow.com/artists/artists-environment/88

http://www.team10online.org/

http://societyofalgorithm.org/OH/openform.pdf

Oskar Hansen at Monoskop

2009-02-16T12:36:00.000-08:00

http://www.burundi.sk/monoskop/index.php/Oskar_Hansen

Open Form - Recommended reading:

2009-01-30T05:21:00.000-08:00

Oskar Hansen: "Towards Open Form" [ISBN 83-89302-07-1]

Oskar Hansen: "Zobaczyc Swiat" [ISBN 83-89145-70-7 & 83-87321-78-8]

Documenta Magazine: "Part 1 of the series 'Games, Visual Conversations, Activities and Interactions"

Documenta Magazine: "Part 4 of the series 'Games, Visual Conversations, Activities and Interactions"

Polish Culture: Oskar Nikolai Hansen: http://www.culture.pl/en/culture/artykuly/os_hansen_oskar

Oskar Hansen and the Auschwitz "Countermemorial," 1958-59: http://web.archive.org/web/20070614162550/http://www.artmargins.com/content/feature/murwaska.html

Open Form manifesto (1959) by Oskar Hansen

2009-01-20T14:04:00.001-08:00

Is the difference between contemporary sculpture and the works of Michelangelo in terms of difference and their relation to space still a matter of superficial changes? ... Was the primary idea behind the compositional design of the housing structures of the Interbau estate in Berlin (1957) focused on the representation of the differences between the individualities of their inhabitants? Were those buildings ready to absorb the changes and events taking place during the lifetime of the form? I characterize here various kinds of visual intervention just to call attention to their helplessness in meeting our contemporary needs. Those works are above all personal monuments to their authors. Therefore, it seems, they ought to be more or less alien to each of us. As hermetic compositions, filled up to the brim, they become peremptory, and thus evoke imperviousness on various levels ... Those monuments are the corollary of composing by way of closed form, in which the formal and often also the contextual components are fixed. They are passive towards changes in time. The moment they are born they become antiques ... Closed form. The decision taken in my name. I am standing next to the process. There is no way to find your identity here - your own self. All these are somebody else's souvenirs, feelings, somebody else's houses and housing settlements.
How to find the way out of this situation? It seems that, today - utilizing the large output of the closed form, with the support of new ways of visual education, and with the new organisation of resources - right now we are able to begin the creation of a new organic art of our time, the art that is compositionally based on the open form. It will awake the desire of existence for every one of us, it will help us to define ourselves and find ourselves in the space and time in which we live. (This new art) will become the space which suits our complex and yet not unexplored psyche, and it will become so because we will constitute the organic elements of this art. We will walk through it, and not around it. Diverse individuality, in all its randomness and bustling, will become the wealth of this space, its participant.
Being a composition of spatial sub-text - it will become a multi-layered phenomenon, constantly alive. In relation to the conventions of the closed form, entailing mainly the craftsmanship of the manufactured object, the conventions of the open composition will imply the activity defined (as) "passe-partout" to the changes taking place in space. It will be the art of events. Time acts more forcefully than it used to, when we could still trust the wholly unchangeable, the once-for-all fixed relation between the elements (of form). The open form is not exclusively a speculative discovery of our times. It is above all the post-observational conclusion of the existing configurations.

From O.Hansen, "Forma Otwarta", Przeglad Kulturalny, vol 5, no.5, 1959,
p.5. Translated by Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius.

Introduction

2009-01-20T13:56:00.000-08:00

The Open Form forum at Bergen School of Architecture is down, and it seems that it is going to take a while to get it back running. In the meantime, I will repost some of the material and the links to related websites here.