For more than 20 years, work was done at the East side of the Grote Markt square, with the Forum as the cultural heart of the intervention. Commissioned by the City of Groningen, NL Architects designed a new type of building, moving way ahead of the international competition in the multiple assignment early 2017.

At the opening in late 2019, the daring, visionary design concept finally took concrete form: a series of stacked squares, opening up and overlapping a rich cultural programme.

With ...

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...

Was verbirgt sich hinter Ideologien? Wie entstehen eigene Weltanschauungen, Grundeinstellungen und politische Theorien? Wie wirken sie auf andere? Inwieweit unterstu¿tzen sie Macht, Manipulation, Missbrauch, Ausgrenzung und Ausbeutung in den verschiedensten Gesellschaften?

Die in dieser Publikation zur 4. internationalen Triennale der ku¿nstlerischen Fotografie und verwandter Medien in Frankfurt/Rhein-Main vertretenen Ku¿nstler*innen wie Máté Bartha, Johanna Diehl, Yves Sambu, Ja'Tovia G...

The Sonneveld House in Rotterdam is one of the best preserved examples of Dutch Functionalist domestic architecture. It was built in 1933 to a design by Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, an architectural practice that acquired international fame with its designs for the Van Nelle Factory, the Van der Leeuw House and Feyenoord Stadium, all three in Rotterdam. The Sonneveld House, now a museum, was originally built for one of the Van Nelle directors, A.H. Sonneveld.

An unusual feature of the Sonnevel...

Architect Hugh Maaskant (1907-1977) heeft een belangrijke rol gespeeld in de moderne Nederlandse architectuur. Hij ontwierp vooruitstrevende, complexe, grootschalige gebouwen met metropolitane allure, zoals het Groothandelsgebouw en de Euromast in Rotterdam en de pier van Scheveningen.Hugh Maaskant geldt als godfather en voorloper van de generatie van Winy Maas (MVRDV), Adriaan Geuze (West 8), Willem Jan Neutelings en Rem Koolhaas. Toch was hij lange tijd ondergewaardeerd. Provoost beschrijft...

Japan: Nation Building Nature is the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan.

By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics, and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of ecology, and vice-versa.

Using a distinctive blend of academic research and personal experience, Joachim Nijs draws on architectural h...

Modern Times schetst de spectaculaire en onstuitbare groei van de fotografie in de twintigste eeuw aan de hand van ruim 300 hoogtepunten uit de fotocollectie van het Rijksmuseum. Unieke werken van o.a. William Klein, Man Ray, Laszló Moholy-Nagy, Ed van der Elsken en Jacques Henri Lartigue passeren de revue, net als verrassend werk van minder bekende fotografen. Samen laten ze de grote ontwikkelingen zien die de fotografie in de 20ste eeuw doormaakte: de opkomst van de amateurfotografie, foto...

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With (w)EGO: Tailor-Made Housing, The Why Factory investigates participatory processes applied to housing design. These processes establish a negotiation among the desires of each of the residents of a housing slab and help determine the design of their apartments. To achieve this, Wegocity manifests a particular interest in the development of a gaming process. This game leverages the specificities of each resident and transforms them into spatial needs. This way, unexpected hous...

David Tudor (1926-1996) war in den 1950er-Jahren einer der führenden Pianisten und Interpreten zeitgenössischer Musik in Europa und den USA. Seine Fähigkeit, auf die Unbestimmtheit anspruchsvoller Partituren von Komponisten wie John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen und Christian Wolff zu reagieren und deren komplexe, manchmal mehrdeutige Anweisungen umzusetzen, war einzigartig und faszinierte seine Zeitgenossen. Ab den frühen 1960er-Jahren vollzog er den Wandel vom Interpreten zum Komponisten-...