More than 70 percent of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2050. Cities in Africa, Latin America and Asia in particular are growing like never before. Photographer Yvonne Brandwijk and journalist Stephanie Bakker travelled to five of the fastest-growing cities in the world. Not to Mumbai or Shanghai, but to the up-and-coming cultural, creative and economic hubs of tomorrow: Kinshasa, Lima, Yangon, Medellín and Addis Ababa. 


In this book, they share five years of tra...

The province of Gelderland (The Netherlands) inherits many castles, country houses and estates. Together they form historic estate landscapes that partially determine the regional landscape character. Climate change and urbanisation have a significant effect on the management and protection of these heritage landscapes. An abundance and a shortage of water, spatial fragmentation and increasing pressure from recreation and tourism are only a few of the many challenges that need to be addressed...

Projectontwikkeling is een uiterst dynamisch en veelzijdig vakgebied. De taak voor het realiseren van een kwalitatief hoogwaardige gebouwde omgeving waarin het goed wonen, werken, winkelen en verblijven is, vraagt om vakmanschap, een brede kennis en een scherp inzicht in private en publieke wensen. In die gebouwde omgeving spelen projectontwikkelaars een belangrijke rol.

Het Handboek Projectontwikkeling laat (toekomstige) professionals op enthousiasmerende en toegankelijke wijze kennisnemen v...

For English see below

Lang voordat museumarchitectuur populair was als toeristische trekpleister, droomden architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage en museumdirecteur Hendrik Enno van Gelder van een spraakmakend museumgebouw. Een gebouw waar bezoekers zich thuis zouden voelen, en waar de kunst ultiem tot z’n recht zou komen. In 1935 werd deze droom werkelijkheid met de opening van een nieuw museum voor moderne en toegepaste kunst in Den Haag. Hoewel Berlage in 1934 stierf en de oplevering dus niet ...

Many buildings are made with standard or system products. However, a whole new world opens up when the architect, in line with his or her design, designs parts that specifically match the architectural expression of the building. The hidden possibilities of glass are a great source of inspiration for this.

This book covers product development - Design & Build - in glass facades, glass roofs and even applications of cold bent and cold turned double laminated glass.

Based on many examples reali...

Rotterdam ranks among the top international architectural destinations. And with good reason: The Depot Boijmans van Beuningen, Little C and Theatre Zuidplein, along with such established icons as the Kunsthal and the Van Nelle Factory are just some of the architectural magnets drawing international architecture lovers to the city on the Maas.

This compact and up-to-date architecture guide to Rotterdam presents the highlights of the Netherlands’ number one city of architecture: the latest h...

Within architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role both within the design process and its reception. This book explores the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, and reflexive understanding of what we build. Much of architecture’s knowledge resides beneath the surface, in nonverbal instruments such as drawings and models that articulate the spatial imagination of the design process. Tacit knowledge, described in 1966 by Michael Polany...

Waterfront Analysis and Design Comparative Report of Beijing, Suzhou and Yinchuan systematically summarizes the research and planning cases. Conventional concepts and strategies concerning urban planning implemented in Beijing, Suzhou and Yinchuan have long been established, and the construction of many areas in these cities have been widely finished. Under such circumstances, based on analyses of the three cities and several typical cases of waterfront planning, this book breaks through the ...