Lecture about climate resistance cities and chairs. Jan Brouwer is architect and formar professor Architecture at TU Delft.

1. Dynamics
from stool to city
Jan Brouwer
11052015

9. The development of building in a new direction
as outlined in the invitation to this symposium
is taking place very slowly. More slowly than
you and I would wish. The solutions for
realizing a new generation of products,
buildings and towns are often paid lip service
to, but barely put into practice.
Pressure from the political front will appear
necessary in order to achieve that change.

15. The course for designers of the built
environment is not or barely up to par in view of
the desired developments. For the architecture
courses, conceptual and contextual thinking on
the basis of the cultural component is still of
greater significance than thinking on the basis
of change in, among other things, energy
management, climate change and scarcity of
materials.
A change must be formulated in this conceptual
behaviour. Cultural history and aesthetics are
important but the social concepts and climate
change require our specific attention.

19. The architect course benefits from a
collaboration with the industrial designer
course. The architect is expected to have
considerable awareness of cultural history
and aesthetics, the industrial designer
thinks in a broader and more integral way.
In the construction industry, sequential
processes still apply, for industrial projects,
an integral approach is at the forefront.

24. After World War II, Jean Prouvé and his
followers lost from the lobby of the traditional
construction industry. He had and still has a
considerable influence on the development of
light construction components where
prefabrication, replacement and recycling play
an important role.
This movement was suppressed in France by
the existing building companies. The
traditional building company saw the market
being lost to other branches of industry.

38. It are not just the necessary changes from
within the industry which are important, but
external factors such as climate change
play an important role in construction
processes. The spatial adaptation in this
area requires much attention to the design
and execution of a new generation of
products, buildings and towns

50. Death to the
architectural concept
• Jan Brouwer