Jo Coenen

Schetsen/Roughs Noordknoop Céramique, Maastricht

Hardcover, 208 pages, text in Dutch and English, ISBN 90-5662-220-X, € 27.00

Schetsen/Roughs presents a selection of sketches, roughs and notes made by the architect and urban developer Jo Coenen (Heerlen, 1949) during the genesis of the North node (the heart of the Céramique site, Wyck, Maastricht). This visual narrative in seventeen episodes shows how Coenen responds to the situation and to divergent commissions and events, and how he proceeds to graft this onto the historic area on the east bank of the Maas. The book demonstrates Coenen's skill, his stratified way of thinking, his approach in terms of process, and his way of working and cooperating, in a highly personal way.