After years of experience in education, research, design and policy, Professor Marcel Smets, former Flemish Government Architect, compiles his insights on the city and urban design in a personal booklet.

In his search for the foundations of urban design, Marcel Smets puts forward thirty complementary pairs of concepts. He starts from archetypal settlement forms (ribbon and cluster, ladder and star), typifies morphological categories (street and road, island and archipelago) and highlights ch...

Residential architecture and landscape design projects in the USA desert states, highlighting unique design challenges and opportunities.

Since 1890, the Royal Museum of FIne Arts in Antwerp has been home to a rich collection spanning over seven centuries of art history; from the Flemish Primitives to Expressionists. More recently, the Museum has been enriched by another treasure by the Dutch architectural firm KAAN Architecten. Their restoration work and new design combine a contemporary allure with the glorious but somewhat neglected beauty of the 19th-century landmark. Completely conceiled within the existing museum, the new...

Located in the up-and-coming Zuidas district, the new Amsterdam Courthouse exudes approachable authority adhering to the principle that the judicial process is a public matter.

KAAN Architecten designed the stately yet inviting institution for public discourse through a collaborative DBFMO* contract overseeing the building's funding, construction, maintenance, and property management.

The Courthouse: Public Architecture is entirely produced and compiled by the building's architects. Through o...

The energy transition is in full swing. Worldwide, windmills and solar panels are taking over from fossil fuels. The construction of these new energy landscapes is often met with resistance. What if this is not about energy technologies, but about the drastic change of our immediate living environment, the places where we live, work and recreate?

The Power of Landscape examines various energy landscapes in Europe and the US in the present, past and future, based on the qualitative and emotion...

Homes by the Water is a beautiful compilation of photogenic residences from around the world, designed to make the most of their waterside locations.

An illustrated showcase for the Ibiza-based company specialising in all aspects of house construction and remodelling in the traditional Balearic island style.

An illustrated celebration of architecture with bricks - the most traditional, inexpensive and flexible of building materials - in a series of recent modern projects.

Die 1969 von Aldo van Eyck erbaute Pastoor van Ars-Kirche in Den Haag ist einer der wenigen bedeutenden Kirchenbauten der zweiten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dieses Buch beleuchtet die einzigartigen architektonischen und räumlichen Qualitäten des Gebäudes. Obwohl er selbst nicht katholisch war, bemühte sich Van Eyck um den Bau eines authentischen und zeitgemäßen katholischen Gotteshauses. Zu diesem Zweck griff er auf die ursprüngliche Typologie der frühchristlichen Basilika zurück,...

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...