Studio ilinx
Ilinx: vertigo, a form of play introduced by Roger Caillois, the action of the tightrope walker
Studio ilinx is an interdisciplinary studio based in Rotterdam which works on the boundaries of art, architecture, design, and research. It critically explores the potentialities of space through experimental, theoretical, scientific, or practice-based projects.
Studio ilinx challenges the conventional understanding of architecture, as a practice which is only engaged with designing buildings. Instead, it understands an architectural construct as any sort of outcome of spatial thinking. In this line of thought, an architectural construct can be a text, a drawing, a photograph, as well as a building. Neither have a value over the other, but they are all different mediums through which architectural discourse is rethought.
Studio ilinx has a specific focus on the themes of play, experimentation, fiction, and imagination. Since 2010, studio ilinx has designed a series of "play-grounds". It understands space as a performative phenomenon and the child as the genius architect.
Studio ilinx understands space as a performative phenomenon. While architecture is conventionally approached as a static medium, it celebrates the spatial dynamism.
Studio ilinx understands activation of sensation as an internal operation of art and architecture. It regularly works with the questions of architectures of love, life, and death.
Studio ilinx is fascinated by operations of boundaries, limits, and borders.
Studio ilinx understands architecture as the mediator always constructing relations between the binaries such as humans and non-humans, objects and subjects, interiority and exteriority, earth and body, and so on.
Studio ilinx has fascination with materiality and likes to experiment with "other" methods of making space.
Studio ilinx has a posthuman, multi-agential, and multi-scalar approach towards architecture and space.
Studio ilinx has environmental concerns and it is fascinated by ecologies, geographies, spaces, and modes of living in the world which considers lives of humans in relation to the life of other things and beings.
Founder
Nasim Razavian, Architect, Artist, Researcher, and Educator
Registered architect in the Netherlands
Registration Number: 1.150801.002
Nasim Razavian, is an architect, researcher, architectural educator and artist.
Since 2010 she has been active in architectural practice and built several projects including houses, villas, public buildings, landscape, furniture, and object design and has won awards and exhibited her work internationally.
Since 2016, she is teaching design and theory courses and supervising graduation students at different institutions in the Netherlands such as TU Delft in Delft, Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts in Tilburg, Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst in Rotterdam, and Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in Den Haag.
Nasim is also a PhD candidate at the Borders & Territories research group in the Faculty of Architecture at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) where she is conducting her research with the topic Play of Architectural Construct. Her doctorate thesis is situated at the intersection of architectural theory, art philosophy, play studies, and architectural design.
Teaching
2021-ongoing: Graduation Supervision
Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK)
Master Interior Architecture (INSIDE) programme
2022: Studio Crossing Borders
Design Studio and Seminar
Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst
Master of Architecture
Teachers: Negar Sanaan Bensi, Carolien Schippers, Communication: Nasim Razavian
2021-ongoing: Studio Dutch Mountains
Design Studio and Seminar
Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst
Master of Architecture
Design Teachers: Nasim Razavian, David Rademacher
Research: Hugo Corbett
Communication: Mauricio Freyre
2020: Studio Crossing Borders
Design Studio and Seminar
Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst
Master of Architecture
Teachers: Negar Sanaan Bensi, Carolien Schippers, Communication: Nasim Razavian
2020: Experiments in Drawing Theory
Elective course (Design and theory)
Delft University of Technology
Master of Architecture
Teachers: Nasim Razavian, Stefano Milani, and Marc Schoonderbeek
2018: Studio Constraints
Design Studio
Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts
Master of Architecture (MA+ U)
Teachers: Nasim Razavian and David Rademacher (Rademacher de Vries)
2018: Studio Constraints
Theory Seminars
Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts
Master of Architecture (MA+ U)
Teachers: Nasim Razavian and David Rademacher (Rademacher de Vries)
2017: Means of Architectural Design
Online lecture series on architectural design
Delft University of Technology
Lecturer: Michiel Riedijk (Neutelings Riedijk Architects)
Course developers: Nasim Razavian, Alper Alkan, Gökçe Önal
2016: Collage, Montage and Assemblage in Architecture
Design Studio
Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts
Master of Architecture (MA+ U)
Teachers: Nasim Razavian and Marc Schoonderbeek
2016: Collage, Montage and Assemblage in Architecture
Theory Seminars
Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts
Master of Architecture (MA+ U)
Teachers: Nasim Razavian and Marc Schoonderbeek
Lectures and Jury Member
2022: Lecure and feedback sessions at Willem de Kooning Academie, Autonomous practice (public and Private)
2022: External Examiner at Piet Zwart Institute, Interior Architecture: Research + Design (MIARD) programme
Evaluation of the MIARD Graduation Studio
2021: External Examiner at Piet Zwart Institute, Interior Architecture: Research + Design (MIARD) programme
Evaluation of the MIARD Graduation Studio
2020: Lecture at Rotterdamse Academie van Bouwkunst
Lecture Title: The Architectural Drawing & its Potentials
2019: External Jury at the Architecture Faculty of Delft University of Technology
Final presentations and exhibition of the course Architectural Composition and Media
2018: Lecture at Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts (MA+ U)
Lecture Title: The poetics of constraints
2018: Lecture at Architecture Faculty of Delft University of Technology organized by Public Building Graduation Studio
Lecture Title: Architecture and Assemblage Thinking
2017: External Jury at Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts
2016: Lecture at Fontys School of Fine and Performing Arts (MA+ U)
Lecture Title: Assemblage, Montage, and Collage
Publications and Exhibitions
2020: OTher Ways of Watching Together (By Neverland Cinema and MAMA), video art screening, MAMA, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2018: DISEGNO 2018, Mastery and uncertainty: the drawings of architecture, international colloquium and exhibition: Exhibited 5 drawings titled The Dead Drawings of Theatrical Istanbul, LOCI Faculty, University of Louvain, Tournai, Belgium
2018: The drawings of the Doctoral thesis titled An Inhabitable Infrastructure: Rethinking the architecture of the bazaar, Doctoral Dissertation by Negar Sanaan Bensi defended on 11-12-2018, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
2017: BYOB at BARPLUS, video art screening, Barplus, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
2015: Third Biennale of Public Space, exhibited the project Wall of Happiness, Rome, Italy
2015: Article Public Space and Happiness in the Urban Environment
Published in Urbanistica Informazioni special issue,
(Edited by: Sepe,M., ISSN n. 0392-5005, May and June 2015, Published by INU, Rome)
Pages: 115-119
2015: Project Wall of Happiness
Published in Urbanistica Informazioni special issue
(Edited by: Sepe,M., ISSN n. 0392-5005, May and June 2015, Published by INU, Rome)
Pages: 164-165
