Drawing by Michael Hurley.
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Jan Huijben
“I was a bartender for one night in my life when the restaurant where I worked as a dishwasher needed some extra hands for christmas night.
I had to divide my attention between the two recently divorced men attending my bar. one was over from the UK to visit his children, the other had just been kicked out by his wife. they both wanted to share their story so I only had half an ear for each of them.
For the event ‘Barwars’ manifestion at Extrapool, Nijmegen, I built a bar in a closet and made it really small, so that I could focus my entire attention on the needs of one customer at a time.”
‘One-man bar’ (2005) by Jan Huijben.
Andreas Bauer, Christoph Meier, Robert Schwarz and Lukas Stopczynski
Andreas Bauer, Christoph Meier, Robert Schwarz and Lukas Stopczynski, ‘Los Bar’ (2015)
Artists and architects Andreas Bauer, Christoph Meier, Robert Schwarz and Lukas Stopczynski, made a scale replica of Adolf Loos’s famous Loos Bar in Vienna, made from MDF and cardboard.
During its exhibition at the MAK Center in Los Angeles, it is in use as a venue for performances, discussions and parties.
E-1027
Le Corbusier painting a mural on Eileen Gray‘s E-1027 house.
While staying as a guest in the house in 1938 and 1939, Le Corbusier painted bright murals on its plain white walls, sometimes while nude. Infuriated, Gray considered this a defacing of her work and deemed the murals outright vandalism.
Whether he painted his murals out of admiration for Gray’s work or out of jealousy of her accomplishment we still don’t know.
Bernard Tschumi
From ‘Advertisements for Architecture’ (1976-77) by Bernard Tschumi.
Tschumi illustrated several of his early theoretical texts with Advertisements for Architecture, a series of postcard-sized juxtapositions of words and images. Each was a manifesto of sorts, confronting the dissociation between the immediacy of spatial experience and the analytical definition of theoretical concepts.
Jan Dibbets
Jan Dibbets, ‘Museum Sokkel met vier hoeken van 90°’ (‘Museum plinth with four corners at an angle of 90°’ (1969)
Dibbets dug out the four corners of the Stedelijk Museum to expose the building’s ‘plinth’.
