ZAPP URBANISM

It was founded in 1995 while working in the studio of and with Johanna Post at 158 Dapperstraat, Amsterdam on a small Dutch house for a man with two Ferrari’s who wanted to park, and hide them, in an underground garage below the house.

That and this is what we do and work with and through:

Zoology – because this is about animal and human life in the natural and built world. It also includes by immediate inference to botany as part of an overall, universal view that we as animals among animals are first and foremost part of nature, long before building and architecture.

Architecture – because we as animals, small and great, have the capacity to make things, small and great, and to build shelter, roads, and cities. This is also who we all are in universal terms of what we do. Also some way we are by vocational choice, education, training and architects practicing architecture.

Planting – because we are interested and involved in the earth, the ground, seeds, water, sun, air and growing plants. This is also something basic, deep, primal in human nature and but missing with many architects and most architecture.

Painting – because this is also what we do: we use flat materials to make, to construct, to build pictures and not-pictures, compositions, of our view of the world past, present and future in shifting entropy between memory and imagination. — Andrew MacNair