Untitled_Space and the other projects presented on this site are conceived and realised by Paul Toornend (NL 1967) and Jelle Post (NL 1967).
Our work explicitly explores the realms of visual arts, architecture and photography.
> Read more about some of our interests and motivations in this brief statement about our work…
Untitled_Space is elaborated in text by different authors:
> Paul Toornend introduces the project as a paradoxical space without properties in his text 'Untitled_Space', taken from the publication _UntitledSpace (Amsterdam, Architectura + Natura Press 2005, p. 003-010).
> Vincent van Rossem presents Untitled_Space as a theoretical representation of a Traumhaus , the possible senior citizens' dwelling for the Wunderkinder of the twentieth century in his text 'Magical Trailer Home', taken from the publication _UntitledSpace (Amsterdam, Architectura + Natura Press 2005, p. 017-029).
> Maaike Bleeker discusses architecture's potential for thought and knowledge and Untitled_Space itself as a visualisation of Deleuzian thinking in her text 'What if...? Untitled_Space and the architecture of constructive thinking', taken from the publication _UntitledSpace (Amsterdam, Architectura + Natura Press 2005, p. 030-040).
> Wouter Vanstiphout questions the escapist tendencies of both Untitled_Space and its authors and their humble attempts to show beauty through the contemporary mess that our world has become in his text 'Absolute_Beginner', taken from the publication _UntitledSpace (Amsterdam, Architectura + Natura Press 2005, p. 066-078).
> Joost Meuwissen suggests Untitled_Space as a categorical statement about what architecture is and what, mutatis mutandis, architecture therefore is not in his text 'Primary_House', taken from the publication _UntitledSpace (Amsterdam, Architectura + Natura Press 2005, p. 080-088).
> Jeroen Boomgaard opposes Untitled_Space, and its ability to predict the impossible moment when architecture makes the world become visible, to the glass myth of traditional transparent Utopias in his text 'The_Glass_Dream', taken from the publication _UntitledSpace (Amsterdam, Architectura + Natura Press 2005. p. 114-121).
> Roemer van Toorn presents Untitled_Space as a viewing machine that directs the gaze and reveals the actual character of place through spatial reflection of its immediate surroundings in his text 'Looking through the Space, the Politics of Appearance', taken from the publication Highrise-Common Ground, Art and the Amsterdam Zuidas Area (Amsterdam, Valiz Publishers 2008, p. 092-133).
The publication Untitled_Space (Amsterdam, Architectura + Natura Press 2005) is still available! Both the English (brown, isbn 90-768631-4-8) and the Dutch (white, isbn 90-768631-3-x) edition can be ordered through your local bookstore or by sending us an email: aW5mb0B1bnRpdGxlZHNwYWNlLm5ldA==
On several occasions through the years Untitled_Space was financially supported by both the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Amsterdam) and the Netherlands Architecture Fund (Rotterdam) .