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New Spatial Configurations of Sport? Experiences from Danish Alternative Planning

1993; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 28; Issue: 2-3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/101269029302800212

1461-7218

Henning Eichberg,

Sports, Gender, and Society

In the 1980s, new practices of sport and body culture have arisen - and with them the question whether the functionalist rationality of sports facilities-straight lines, right angles, international standardization - conforms to the new patterns. The new orientation is happening both in the alternative critical milieux and in the field of commercial sports. Both tendencies seem to be part of a "post-modern" re-orientation in architecture in general and with impulses for "feminist building" in particular. In Denmark the new situation has lead to an architectural competition for a new generation of movement houses. The reflections around this competition as well as its results can contribute to a new social ecology of sport. Connections with the alternative architecture in other countries, e.g. a new Hungarian generation (Imre Makovecz) also exist. On the horizon of the architectural problem, the sociological question about trans- modern configurations in sport is arising.