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The Courthouse
Making Public Architecture
2022 || Hardcover || Kaan Architecten e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers
Located in the up-and-coming Zuidas district, the new Amsterdam Courthouse exudes approachable authority adhering to the principle that the judicial process is a public matter.
KAAN Architecten designed the stately yet inviting institution for public discourse through a collaborative DBFMO* contract overseeing the building's funding, construction, maintenance, and property management.
The Courthouse: Public Architecture is entirely produced and compiled by the building's architects. Through o...
The Power of Landscape
2022 || Hardcover || Sven Stremke e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers
The energy transition is in full swing. Worldwide, windmills and solar panels are taking over from fossil fuels. The construction of these new energy landscapes is often met with resistance. What if this is not about energy technologies, but about the drastic change of our immediate living environment, the places where we live, work and recreate?
The Power of Landscape examines various energy landscapes in Europe and the US in the present, past and future, based on the qualitative and emotion...
Datapolis
2022 || Paperback || Paul Cournet e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers
Data has become a critical component to our life - when was the last time that you spent 24 hours offline? In a way we granted the idea that we are and will be connected. Yet, we hardly comprehend its mechanisms: connected objects, self-driving vehicles, satellites, global internet cable networks, data centers and humanoid robots are yet the tangible evidence of a complex and connected world.
Datapolis contributes to a theoretical debate on data and its effects on space, architecture and envi...
Serious Fun. Architecture & Games
2022 || Hardcover || Mélanie van der Hoorn || nai010 uitgevers publishers
Serious Fun is about architecture and urban design games that have been conceived and created by architects, urban designers, artists and game developers since the end of the twentieth century – from doll’s houses to construction games and city building games, from SimCity to Block by Block.
The games are looked at from both a game technical and an architectural-critical point of view. As much attention is paid to the games themselves (the way they look, their construction and rules) as t...
Acid Clouds
2022 || Hardcover || Niels Schrader e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers
Acid Clouds is an atlas and anthology of datacenters that maps the material traces of virtual data in the Dutch landscape. It investigates the massively resource-intensive and earthbound properties of digital storage, and questions the image of large-scale data repositories as clean, sterile and environmentally-friendly domains. The book brings together data of more than 100 datacenters across the Netherlands with texts on ecological, architectural, economical, political and digital righ...