Florian Beigel: 1941-2018

摘要

The most intense collective architectural spaces are often half outdoors, in-between spaces that remain both sheltered and open, simultaneously allowing for, and charged with, formal significance. They can accommodate everyday life and collective ritual while connecting house and landscape, interiority and place, art and nature. In the work of architect Florian Beigel [1], such spaces took on a significant role throughout his creative, influential, and rich career. These infrastructures serve to open architecture up to a fluid relationship with the environment, underlining the vulnerable cultures we should nourish and protect in the age of the Anthropocene. His seminal design for the Half Moon Theatre in London, 1979, can be seen as a Borges-like collection of labyrinthine spaces that alternate in being the 'outside' of one another, making spatial relationstheatrically ambiguous.TheTheatre's intricate plan [2] continues to act as touchstone for both architects and students, and the bold freshness of its construction, in blockwork and steel, continue to inspire an acute and precise economy of means in a world that longs for imagination, sympathy, and care.