In the light of the current housing and environmental crisis and increasing social inequalities, there is a growing sense of urgency for architecture as a discipline to engage with the transformation in housing evident in the postwar period. Rather than conceiving this task as a technical matter, this book proposes to reassess the conditions and legacy of this large and ubiquitous housing stock. By foregrounding the mismatch between constructed cultural, social and ideological narratives and ...

Een vast onderdeel van onze vakantie in het buitenland is voor velen een bezoek aan een kerk. Maar waarom doen we dat in eigen land niet? Kerkinterieurs in Nederland laat zien dat de rijkdom van het Nederlandse kerkinterieur minstens zo indrukwekkend en divers is. Kenmerkend is de middeleeuwse kerk met een protestantse inrichting. Maar we hebben ook barokke schuilkerken, uitbundig gedecoreerde negentiende-eeuwse katholieke kerken, en strakke naoorlogse kerkinterieurs. In alle perioden van onz...

Victor Horta (1861-1947) wordt gezien als de belangrijkste Belgische architect van de art-nouveaubeweging. Zijn privéwoning in Brussel, gebouwd in 1901, is een zeldzaam voorbeeld van deze architectuurbeweging die een schitterende maar korte bloeiperiode kende rond de vorige eeuwwisseling. In 1990 kreeg Barbara Van der Wee de uitdagende opdracht om het huis te restaureren - het originele architecturale concept was in de loop der jaren door talloze verbouwingen aangetast - en om te vormen tot ...

Since 1978, urban redevelopment in China has resulted in large-scale neighbourhood demolition and forced residential relocation, which can severely disrupt established people-place interactions in the demolished neighbourhoods. This issue of A+BE conceptualises forced relocation as a process and as a specific type of residential mobility that occurs in the context of urban restructuring. It suggests a conceptual model to show the sequence of events that households experience

during urban rede...

Residential buildings account for a significant amount of the national energy consumption of all OECD countries and consequently the EU and the Netherlands. Therefore, the national targets for CO2 reduction should include provisions for a more

energy efficient building stock for all EU member states.

National and European level policies the past decades have improved the quality of the building stock by setting stricter standards on the external envelope of newly made buildings, the efficienc...

This thesis explores the ways in which landscape is relevant as a concept for designing architecture. Buildings that have been designed like landscapes have become a topic in contemporary architecture. The apparent distinction between architecture and landscape is questioned in exemplary theories and new designs.

The core of this thesis is three case studies of architectural designs that use landscape strategies. The analytical model for landscape architectural composition that Steenbergen an...