Numerous actors have been involved in the planning of the port and city of Naples. National and local authorities—namely central government, the Region, the Municipality of Naples, and the Port Authority—act upon the port at different scales, according to diverging interest and by using different planning tools. Each entity has different spatial claims and contrastive views on what port city integration can be. Their diverse goals have led port and city to develop into separate entities, ...

In this brief, accessible volume, the authors – an urban philosopher and a mathematician-physicist – explain the surprising new findings from the sciences that are beginning to transform environmental design in the modern era. Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros explore fractals, networks, self-organization, dynamical systems and other revolutionary ideas, describing them to non-science readers in a direct and engaging way. The book also examines fascinating new topics of design, includi...

Dit fraaie boek toont wat er tussen 1965 en 1995 is gebouwd in Den Haag en wat deze architectuur en stedenbouw kenmerkt. Landelijk krijgt dit zogenaamde Post 65-erfgoed steeds meer aandacht. Dat is hard nodig. Veel van deze gebouwen worden namelijk alweer gesloopt terwijl het misschien toekomstige monumenten zijn.

Bij een terugblik op de Delftsche Afdeeling Bouwkunde van de Technische Hoogeschool in de jaren dertig van de vorige eeuw, is er vaak het beeld van een sombere en in zichzelf gekeerde periode waarin het conservatisme van de Delftse School het vooruitgangsdenken in verdrukking bracht. Het ligt genuanceerder; een enthousiaste groep studenten, later geformeerd onder de naam De Groep, bracht destijds de architectuurdiscussie op gang, waarbij zowel Granpré Moliere – later gezien als leider van d...

‘The great-grandfather I never knew has gradually become closer to me as I read what was written about him and discovered the circumstances in which he must have lived and worked. It has become Jos’s story, following his path from budding architect to the one who has the age I have now. For me it also became an act of looking back.’

Architect Jos Viérin (1872-1949) played a prominent role in the reconstruction of the Destroyed Regions. After World War I, it was decided to reconstruct i...

'The university is now on air, broadcasting modern architecture' examines a key experiment by The Open University to mobilize new media environments for distance and adult education.

Eight episodes written by Joaquim Moreno, conversations with Tim Benton, Nick Levinson, Adrian Forty, Joseph Rykwert and Stephen Bayley, and contributions by Nick Beech, Laura Carter, Ben Highmore, and Joseph Bedford, offer a close reading of the course A305, History of Architecture and Design 1890-1939, which wa...