Book launch of ‘Deventer’ in NYC, presented by architect Matthijs Bouw

Tue, Mar 25 - Tue, Mar 25  2014

Syracuse University Fisher Center - New York Consulate Region

On the occasion of the launch of ‘Deventer’, the Syracuse University School of Architecture presents ‘Architecture & Narrative’ at the Fisher Center on March 25, 2014, 6-8pm. Matthew Stadler (by skype), Matthijs Bouw (One Architecture) and Jimenez Lai (author of Citizens of no place: an architectural graphic novel) will present their work and will discuss how “the ways we write about architecture permanently shape and change what architects do.” Dean Michael Speaks will moderate the discussion.

‘“The city”’ says author Matthew Stadler, ‘is not so much an architectural or spatial fact as it is an agreed upon story, a tale we tell to give shape and meaning to the places where we live.’

In Deventer, the Netherlands, a routine real estate deal and demolition became the site of innovation and new intelligence in urban design. Not all of the endings were happy ones. Matthew Stadler’s Deventer, a novel-type book which narrates the messy, compromised, human reality of architecture and planning through the checkered story of Dutch architect Matthijs Bouw and One Architecture‘s projects, and connects them to broader changes in the professions as a first step toward finding a vocabulary for the new scale of change in architecture.

Books will be available for sale at the event and are also available online.