Five acclaimed international guests join OMA/AMO's Reinier de Graaf and the students of the Berlage Theory Master Class for a final debate on With the Masses - Architecture and Participation this Friday Night. Expect new insights into Het Nieuwe Insituut's collection and new formats for vigorous debate designed by the students. With a.o. Françoise Fromonot, architecture critic and educator, Ricardo E. Bofill, architect, and Lucien Kroll, Atelier Kroll.

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Five acclaimed international guests join OMA/AMO's Reinier de Graaf and the students of the Berlage Theory Master Class for a final debate on With the Masses - Architecture and Participation this Friday Night. Expect new insights into Het Nieuwe Insituut's collection and new formats for vigorous debate designed by the students. With a.o. Françoise Fromonot, architecture critic and educator, Ricardo E. Bofill, architect, and Lucien Kroll, Atelier Kroll."We have been reading a footnote under a microscope, hoping it would turn into a novel. Our obsession with the masses has blinded us to the people's architecture," said Rem Koolhaas in Junk Space, 2004.The Masses and the People... Even if the terms were to refer to the same crowd, their connotation couldn?t be more different. The Masses: a supposedly willing instrument of ideology; the People: a power that needs to be reckoned with. There?s no need for an intensive study of the architectural history to realize there...