Heerlen, the radical city

Lecture

Date:  

Location: SCHUNCK Glass Palace

The story of Heerlen, and with it its future, is the story of a city that used architecture radically. A radical stance that often (intended and unintended) severed ties to the past, to the landscape or the community. The climate and housing crisis, social inequality and the growth of loneliness are the great challenges of our time. They call precisely for radical architecture that restores interconnections and social cohesion. The Labor Office on the Putgraaf, as a cooperative living and working building, can be a leading example of how heritage and future go hand in hand, but is now in danger of being demolished. In his lecture, architect Raoul Vleugels shows how brutalist buildings can actually strengthen the fabric of the city. They challenge us to ask a new question: no longer 'how do I want to live?' but 'how do we want to live together again?'"

Raoul Vleugels (1985) graduated cum laude as an architect from Eindhoven University of Technology in 2011. He worked at firms at home and abroad, including Peter Zumthor in Switzerland and HCVA in Rotterdam and as a restoration architect. He also teaches at the Academy of Architecture in Maastricht and advises the municipality of Roosendaal on social cohesion and sustainability.

Cost

€5 per person

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A maximum of 100 people can register. Registration goes in order of receipt of the above contribution to: Account NL31SNSB0924282142 t.n.v. Vrienden van Schunck o.v.v. lezing Raoul

This lecture was made in cooperation with the Municipality of Heerlen and Association of Friends of SCHUNCK in collaboration with SCHUNCK, architecture and the Open Monument Day Foundation for the Heritage Year. 

Location

SCHUNCK Glass Palace, Bongerd 18, Heerlen-Centrum. The lecture will take place on the fifth floor in the room formerly occupied by Filmhuis de Spiegel.