/ Leeke Reinders
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January 2020
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BK Report
Streets of BK City: Student Spolia
Nicole van Roij
Since the beginning of the academic year, the new chair of Urban Architecture offers studios in the Architecture track. The graduation theme of this year is spolia. A term from archaeology, spolia are the left-overs or ‘spoils’ of a building, which find themselves back in a new structure. The students were asked to introduce themselves together with a personal piece of spolia. The spoils, taken to the studio by students, illustrate that every-day artefacts can change function, carry emotional narratives or transform in meaning.
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