The East Railway Line in London is a fascinating subject of study. It is rich in history and forms a surreal and fragmented physical presence between the City and the East End. A literary analysis of the chaotically ordered composition of this part of the metropolis involves spaces, places, voids and objects within the realm of this place of experience and imagination, with its visible elements and its ethereal body of histories and myths. The process of naming spaces and elements becomes a n...

Marc Schoonderbeek (redactie), Tom Avermaete, Jennifer Bloomer, Wim Cuyvers, Lieven De Cauter, Raviv Ganchrow, S. Umberto Barbieri, Sandro Bisa, Raoul Bunschoten, Francesco Careri, Teddy Cruz, Michel Dehaene, Gil Doron, Klaske Havik, Oscar Rommens en Sebastiaan Veldhuisen Border Conditions presenteert de eerste resultaten van de onderzoeks- en ontwerpstudio van de faculteit Bouwkunde aan de TU Delft. Het boek biedt een collectie van essays en experimentele architectuurprojecten voortkomend ui...

At a three-day conference held at the TU Delft on November 6-8, 2019 researchers, scholars, activists, practitioners and artists presented individual papers that addressed the relationships between spatiality, mediation and conflict from a variety of perspectives.

In addition to academic paper contributions, the conference welcomed other proposals in different formats and media: audio-visual material (film, video, photography), digital or physical archives, experimental design proposals, inst...

The terrorist attacks at the start of the 21st century catapulted the issue of space and conflict into the forefront of architectural debates. As a result, existing and newly emerging national, religious and ethnic conflicts in relation to urban space became the focus of attention in architecture. Though military thinking had already had a long-standing tradition in architectural history, the sudden emergence of new spaces of conflict considerably altered architectural discourse. Extreme cond...