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来自专筑编辑邱媚，范偲慧的报道。激进精神主义建筑师 Jan Kaplicky （1937 年 4 月 18 日 — — 2009 年 1 月 14 日） 是一个雕塑家和一个植物插画师的儿子，受家庭影响，他在职业生涯中创造过很多如雕塑般的建筑和有机形态的建筑。Jan Kaplicky与Amanda Levete合伙成立了一家公司，他命名为 Future Systems。Jan Kaplicky在1999年设计了极其前卫的Lord’s Cricket Ground新闻中心后一夜成名，并且真正成为了前卫建筑设计领域的一个创新代表。

Radical neofuturist architect Jan Kaplicky (18 April 1937 – 14 January 2009) was the son of a sculptor and a botanical illustrator, and appropriately spent his career creating highly sculptural and organic forms. Working with partner Amanda Levete at his suitably named practice Future Systems, Kaplicky was catapulted to fame after his sensationally avant-garde 1999 Lord’s Cricket Ground Media Centre and became a truly innovative icon of avant-garde architecture.


Enzo-Ferrarai Museum, Modena, 2012/2012年摩德纳Enzo-Ferrarai 博物馆. Image © Andrea Morgante


Enzo-Ferrarai Museum, Modena, 2012/2012年摩德纳Enzo-Ferrarai 博物馆. Image via Studio cento29

他的职业生涯开始在捷克斯洛伐克，他就读于布拉格的应用艺术和建筑设计学院。1968 年苏联入侵捷克斯洛伐克，Kaplicky逃往伦敦，并在蓬皮杜中心Richard Rogers和Renzo Piano手下工作。在Rogers和Piano转移到巴黎后 他加入了Foster and Partners 。1979 年他成立 Future Systems，在那里他画了很多关于轨道机器人和家用直升机的复杂而古怪的图纸。

Beginning his career in Czechoslovakia, where he studied at the College of Applied Arts and Architecture and Design in Prague, Kaplicky fled to London in the wake of the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia and soon found himself working on the design for the Centre Georges Pompidou under Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano. Moving to Foster and Partnersafter Rogers and Piano relocated to Paris, he later set up Future Systems in 1979, producing intricate and outlandish drawings of orbiting robots and homes transportable by helicopter.


Selfridges at the Birmingham Bullring Centre, 2003/2003年位于伯明翰斗牛场购物中心的塞尔福里奇百货公司. Image © Flickr user Bs0u10e0


© Jan Kaplicky


© Jan Kaplicky

Future Systems刚成立的前十年，这些天马行空的想法并没有促使委员会建造成实际建筑，直到上世纪 90 年代 — — 包括 1994的Hauer-King House项目 — — Kaplicky优雅激进的风格越来越引人注目。在 1999年 Lord’s Cricket Ground媒体中心和 2003年伯明翰斗牛场购物中心的塞尔福里奇百货公司取得成功后，对他的质疑最终消失在伯明翰的钢筋混凝土丛林中。当其他建筑师们设计的高科技和未来派建筑越来越商业化，使得激进主义备受诟病时，Kaplicky不顾媒体的关注，延续以往风格，提出并建立一系列看似古怪、不切实际的建筑，包括在摩德纳的Casa Enzo Ferrari博物馆。令人惋惜的是，2007 年他在祖国的首个大型项目——捷克国家图书馆 — — 被认为过于前卫，受到了来自公众和政治阶级的强烈反对。他直到去世前也没能看到它的通过。

For the first decade of Future Systems existence these fantastical plans did not drive commissions for actual buildings, but built projects in the 1990s – including 1994′s Hauer-King House – supplied ever increasing amounts of attention to Kaplicky’s elegantly radical projects, culminating in 1999′s Lord’s Media Centre and 2003′s Birmingham Selfridge’s at the Bullring Centre, the ultimate rejoinder to what was then Birmingham‘s reputation as a decaying concrete jungle. Where other practitioners of high-tech and futuristic architecture have been accused of moderating their radicalism as they became increasingly commercial, Kaplicky built on the media attention these projects gave him to propose and build a series of buildings just as outlandish or seemingly impractical as ever, including the Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari in Modena. Sadly, his proposal for the Czech National Libraryin 2007 – his first major project in his own country – was viewed as a step too far, and met with fierce opposition from the public and political class. He died without seeing it commissioned.


Hauer-King House, London, 1994/1994年伦敦Hauer-King House. Image © Flickr user David Holt


Lord’s Cricket Ground Media Centre, 1999/1999年Lord’s Cricket Ground媒体中心. Image © Flickr user Jim Bowen


Lord’s Cricket Ground Media Centre, 1999/1999年Lord’s Cricket Ground媒体中心. Image © Flickr user Ben Sutherland


Oxford Street Facade/牛津街立面. Image © Flickr user Steve Cadman


Model of 2007′s Czech National Library proposal/2007年捷克国家图书馆方案模型. Image


Hauer-King House, London, 1994/1994年伦敦Hauer-King House. Image © Flickr user Steve Cadman


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