The world loves Paris for its beauty. But Paris is in peril. Despite polls and lawsuits showing that residents oppose skyscrapers, the city’s leaders have started developing colossal skyscraper projects at the old gates of the city. They destroy the traditional street furniture that adds to the charm of Paris. The city is becoming filthy. In this book, forty-nine experts, many of them Parisians, show that Paris City Hall threatens to damage Paris irreparably. They call on the world to aid P...

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...

For the first time in history, the Internationale Bauausstellung or IBA is

being held outside Germany, in Parkstad- Limburg, the Netherlands. What started as an exhibition for modern construction in 1901, has developed into an urban planning instrument that often provides a powerful impulse to the local economy, public space and society. IBA Parkstad was launched in 2014.

Through sometimes intricate, sometimes far-reaching urban and rural interventions and the cohesion of regional politan Par...

Aan de Rijnhavenkade in Rotterdam staat Meelfabriek CO-OP aan de vooravond van een transformatie. Vlak voor het startschot van deze ingrijpende ontwikkeling is de huidige vorm van het iconische industriële gebouw gedocumenteerd en de bijzondere ontstaansgeschiedenis ervan vastgelegd.

Meelfabriek CO-OP vertelt aan de hand van een architectonisch, stedenbouwkundig en cultuurhistorisch onderzoek door Crimson Historians & Urbanists de bouw, gebruiksgeschiedenis en functie van dit industriële er...

Documents and Histories is de eerste publicatie in de nieuwe serie Vrouwen in architectuur. Met deze reeks belicht nai010 uitgevers ontbrekende stemmen in de architectuur.

Deze eerste publicatie is een pluriforme verkenning van meerstemmigheid in de architectuur. Catja Edens reflecteert op de uiteenlopende rollen van vrouwen in de architectuur. Lara Schrijver strijdt met haar essay voor een verschuiving van rivaliteit naar samenwerking binnen de ontwerppraktijk. Indira van 't Klooster ontwikk...

In recent decades, architecture has been seen as a field of practice that contributes greatly to the performativity of public space. In spite of the explosion of virtual communities through social media and the limitations imposed by pandemics, architecture today still holds an active role in (literally) building our societies. Bearing in mind its acute politicisation in past years, Living Politics in the City looks at public space from the perspective of architecture and its effective contri...