Resultaten (13)
Marker Wadden
Nature, building, designing
2023 || Hardcover || Rik de Visser e.a. || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
The design story of Marker Wadden is unique. This man-made group of uninhabited islands in the Markermeer mainly comprises marshes and shallow waters, which makes them perfect bird habitats. Only the main island is accessible to the public.
This newest piece of the Netherlands – its landscape, the urban design of the settlement and the architecture – has been designed with care and attention. An impressive approach that leaves the shaping of the landscape largely to nature. By realizing M...
Kuijer-Rietveld / Rietveld-Kuijer
2024 || Hardcover || Bart Rutten e.a. || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
Eleven striking pairs of Rietveld’s furniture and sculptures by Ruud Kuijer
Exhibition, Centraal Museum Utrecht
For Kuijer, Rietveld / Rietveld, Kuijer, Dutch sculptor Ruud Kuijer (1959) curated eleven striking combinations of chairs from the famous Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) and his own sculptures. The focus is not on Rietveld as a designer, architect, or member of De Stijl, but specifically on the process of making a chair versus making a sculpture. Particularly, Riet...
How To Build an Indian House
2020 || Hardcover || Sameep Padora || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
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How to Build an Indian House focuses on one of Mumbai’s and India’s perennial and most daunting questions: mass housing. It documents, analyses and represents robust examples of different housing types in the city. Along with the documentary drawings and photographs, Sameep Padora developed a series of analytical models in order to understand spatial organization and infrastructure in residential building typologies.
This documentation is particularly perti...
Amsterdam Urban Development 1975–2025
2025 || Hardcover || Maurits de Hoog || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
Indispensable account of the last fifty years of urban development in Amsterdam
Year-by-year record of regeneration and growth
With all the groundbreaking ideas and plans for living and working in the city, new public amenities and street and square design
In Amsterdam Urban Development 1975–2025 urban designer Maurits de Hoog describes how the city has changed over the past fifty years, from a port and industrial city in decline into a fast-growing metropolis. Old districts have been rege...
Bridging Time
The New KMSKA, Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp
2022 || Hardcover || Inge Bertels e.a. || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
Since 1890, the Royal Museum of FIne Arts in Antwerp has been home to a rich collection spanning over seven centuries of art history; from the Flemish Primitives to Expressionists. More recently, the Museum has been enriched by another treasure by the Dutch architectural firm KAAN Architecten. Their restoration work and new design combine a contemporary allure with the glorious but somewhat neglected beauty of the 19th-century landmark. Completely conceiled within the existing museum, the new...
Landscape and energy / druk 1
designing transition
2014 || Hardcover || Dirk Sijmons e.a. || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
Reflections: Renewing Paleis Het Loo
2023 || Hardcover || Floris Alkemade e.a. || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
Reflections tells the story of the renovation of the largest seventeenth-century palace of the House of Orange and the new underground extension. Spectacular photography and captivating texts showcase KAAN Architecten’ ingenious design for the project, the history of the palace, the convergence of old and new and the palace's current role as an museum.
The underground extension is inextricably linked to the historical building even while leaving the facade and the interior of the palace unt...
'Compliments to our brave architect!'
The Netherlands' First Women Architects
2023 || Hardcover || Erica M. Smeets-Klokgieters || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
Margaret Staal-Kropholler (1891–1966) is regarded as the first woman architect in the Netherlands. She completed her first work as an unqualified architect in 1917. Less well known is that Grada Wolffensperger (1887–1965) became the first woman to complete the univer-sity course in architecture at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft that same year. A further twenty women had completed their architectural training by 1945.
Why and how did these women become architects at a time when women w...
Rijksmuseum 1100-1600
2016 || Hardcover || Frits Scholten || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
This collection book presents 106 late-medieval and Renaissance highlights. In this era the cultural centres of Europe were booming. The book introduces the wonderful collection of the Rijksmuseum in 106 illustrated entries and an essay focusing on the artist's world. Book design: Irma Boom.