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Danish artist Asger Jorn (1914-1973) is internationally renowned for his activities within the CoBrA and the International Situationist groups. Quite apart from his paintings, prints, ceramics and sculptures, Jorn produced a remarkable amount of theoretical work. His ideas are still extremely relevant to contemporary discourse. However, in contrast to his artistic oeuvre, Jorn's theoretical arguments have received much less attention from scholars of architecture, art history or philosophy. This book for the first time reveals this largely ignored aspect of Jorn's work. Jorn's opinions and motivations are subsequently contextualized within the theoretical debate of his time and are linked in the book to examples of built architecture, which influenced and informed his conception of architecture and urbanism. His position regarding the relationship between architecture and art encompasses a harsh critique of modern architecture. By developing the concept of an "Architecture Sauvage," a notion coined by Guy Debord many years later, Asger Jorn tries to map out a series of perspectives for the way modern architecture can help to create a pleasing and dynamic everyday environment for human beings.

The newest issue of "DASH "explores the 1960s Dutch concept of the "home zone," which refers to the design of residential areas as human-scaled environments incorporating pedestrian-friendly areas, ecological features and small-scale architecture. The essays presented here examine the quality of living in home zones, with projects by Vandkunsten, Onix, Verhoeven, Zuiderhoek, Valikangas, Persson, Lyons and others.

Nederlandse editie: Represent Koninklijke Tichelaar Makkum ISBN 9789064507076 Represent describes the past 15 years in the long history of this Frisian ceramics factory, the Netherlands' oldest family business. Under the inspiring leadership of its present director, Jan Tichelaar, Royal Tichelaar Makkum has stayed one step ahead of the competition particularly from the Far East. Armed with the age-old in-house craft expertise on the one hand and the pioneering designs by Dutch designers and architects on the other, the family company expanded its activities to include contemporary products in design and architecture. This has done nothing to affect the continued production of traditional earthenware, one of the Netherlands' best-known products. This way, new products are developed in both fields (design and architecture) and new developments incorporated into traditional craftsmanship. Represent describes the context in which these developments and products have emerged and presents the results, drawing on the firm's many inspirational products.How a manufacturer of traditional products became a pioneer and collaborated with designers such as Jurgen Bey, Dick van Hoff, Studio Job, Hella Jongerius and Alexander van Slobbe.

Text by Mark Wilson, Sue-an van der Zijpp, Ingeborg Harms, Francesca Granata.