Stroom School 'Another Reality': The Historical Present

Wednesday 15 June 2016, 14.00-17.00 uur
Location: Stroom, Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
Language spoken: English
Entrance: free
RSVP: reserveren@stroom.nl


Part of Stroom School, a public program of lectures, tours and events accompanying the exhibition Another Reality. After Lina Bo Bardi.

Paul Meurs (SteenhuisMeurs, professor Heritage & Cultural Value, Bouwkunde TU Delft) about a ‘historical past'. According to Bo Bardi it is necessary to consider the past as a historical present, still alive. Paul Meurs will talk about the search for the soul of a building, based on the work of Lina Bo Bardi in Salvador and also in SESC Pompeia in Sao Paolo. Paul Meurs will talk about the role culture, history and identity play in the transformation of a city.

In the late 1980s Paul Meurs graduated from university with a paper on the rejuvenation of Salvador, a city he visited numerous time. At the moment he is preparing a special course on Heritage based design for the University of Bahia in Salvador, Brazil.

Lina Bo Bardi worked in Salvador during two separate periods. First from 1959 to 1964, when she was the director and curator of the Museum of Modern Art and Popular Art and became deeply interested in the folk culture of Bahia Province. During this period she restored and transformed the Solar do Unhão into a museum and designed a staircase whose detailing is derived from the wheels of bullock carts. In the mid 1980s Bo Bardi returned to Salvador on invitation of the mayor in order to develop a restoration plan for the dilapidated downtown area of the city.

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In the evening history is also the topic of The Knight's Move with Avery Gordon (starts at 20 hrs). Combine these two events at Stroom Den Haag.

      Wednesday 15 Jun '16 14.00-17.00 hrs
      Stroom Den Haag, Hogewal 1-9, Den Haag
      Entrance: free
Lina Bo Bardi, Ladeira da Misericórdia, Salvador, Brazil
photo: © Finn Beames
Lina Bo Bardi, Restaurante Coati, Salvador, Brazil
photo: © Finn Beames

photo: design: Studio Manuel Raeder