VARIOUS Men Only Magazine August 1946 Vol 32 No 129 GBP 6.00 (ED.) Preparative Centrifugation: A Practical Approach GBP 28.03 HAMMOND, FRANK & IDA MAE Demonie en bevrijding. EUR 50.00įRANSSENS, JEAN-PAUL Oefening voor de zondagmorgen. The exhibition forms part of a project to give a shot in the arm to a district in the process of transition.HARRISON, R E & C R Know Your Garden Flowers USD 35.00īROOS, C.H.A. A selection of the follies will be built in the area, which now consists of temporary no-man's lands, empty harbor sheds and dilapidated houses, in 2007 (the Year of Architecture in Rotterdam). The NAI will exhibit the fifty nominated folly designs. A folly may be described as an architectural scherzo, a visually provocative, poetical structure without a specific function.

The changing situation of Heijplaat prompted the visual artist Lowieke Duran to announce The International FollyDOCK Contest. Creative, educational and recreational functions are being added and the fabric is being partly restored. are promoting redevelopment of Heijplaat. Now that industry is leaving the district and the population is ageing, the housing corporation Woningcorporatie Woonbron and the development company Stadshavens Rotterdam N.V. The district had its own schools, shops and churches, and for years its main source of employment was harbor-related industry. Since the yards were quite a long way from the center of Rotterdam and difficult for personnel to reach, the company NV Bouwmaatschappij Heijplaat commissioned the construction of a new garden village.

RDM started building and maintaining ships there in 1904. In the middle of Rotterdam's docklands, the Heijplaat district lies tucked between the yards of the Rotterdamse Droogdok Maatschappij (RDM), harbor sheds and shipping containers. > Sketches of follies on location, the Heijplaat district in Rotterdam. Artist Lowieke Duran organizes an international 'folly contest' in the Heijplaat district in Rotterdam. Through their bizarre styles, forms and stories, they act as masonry mirrors of the soul without a response from the passer-by, they do not exist. They are not there to live or work in, but only to provoke a reaction. Follies exist only by grace of their viewers.

Follydock Expo by Lowieke Duran