Lecture date: 1999-01-15
Dutch architect and installation artist John Körmeling presents a selection of his sculpture, buildings, cars, and roads. Suffused with characteristic wit and humour, his interdisciplinary work pushes common sense to seemingly absurd levels in order to liberate inventive strategies for rethinking the possible. Preoccupied by the need for urban design to accommodate increasing vehicular traffic, and observing that town and country planning is a direct result of designing for the petrol engine, Körmeling is working on a car with special engine and fuel. In the days when everything was possible, he put a pioneer’s house on top of the Customs’ Headquarters in Rotterdam harbour as a reminder of an era before passports and taxes. At the Utrecht exhibition Panorama 2000 he designed Mobile Fun with a car in a drive-in high wheel.
Körmeling is a winner of the Maaskant prize for young architects in Rotterdam. A former tutor at the Jan Van Eyck Academie in Maastrict, he has exhibited and lectured widely.
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