this book

staan nuchter tegenover de huidige ontwikkelingen
in Denemarken en de invloed van de OMA school.
Oprichter Jonas Rune Sangberg: ”Denmark is the
only country in the world nowadays were they make
Dutch architecture of the nineties”. Originally
educated as architects they experienced that the
separation between architecture and landscape was
annoying especially when the proposals of the
architects they had to cooperate with, were not
that good....
SLA
Sla, interview with Martin Soberg. Communication
manager at SLA. Monday 20 oktober 10.00. An old
industrial boathouse. He shows us two models for
a garden with a bank, an industrial area with new
houses. He shows us two new books. One of Korean
Publisher C3.
In public space things can happen which in a
building cannot happen. Landscape is coincidence.
Architecture is strict and controlled. We want to
surprise and provoke people.
Public space is a place for the senses.
Landscape is culture. We want to change the
romantic idea about landscape. We almost want to
be brutal. Surrealistic.
Plans should be multilayered, have more faces.
In our images you can experience the complexity
which we want to express. We are not especially
interested in the essence of a plan but more in
adding up different things.
We don’t think landscape is the romantic
traditional landscape of the Danish countryside,
this is not reality. Reality is also a new factory
in this landscape, should it be camouflaged?
I would call us postmodern, but Stig would never
say this.
Large open space with 20 designers. A mix between
architects and landscape architects. There is a
boss Stig Andersson who is like a supervisor on
the projects. There is a competition team and a
technical team. Some people only do competitions,
some mix. In a workshop with architects plans melt
together.
We look for projects with ambition. Mostly no
private gardens and no buildings.
Stig lived 3 years in japan, we get the concept
of nature from Japanese philosophy. Culture and
nature melt together, it is not black and white.
An example is the bonsai tree.
We are a reaction to the modernist Danish
tradition. It is to boring and to defensive. Too
stable and not surprising enough.....