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Today, under the pressure of climate change and ecological catastrophe, environmentalism has become a key driver to rethink the architectural discipline. The publication Habitat: Ecology Thinking in Architecture aims to highlight some of the historical sources of ecological approaches that are currently reshaping the architectural field. The book will point out the paradigmatic shift in thinking about the built environment as something inherently contextual ...

Het Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature is een internationaal, open-access, intercollegiaal getoetst tijdschrift over architectuur en literatuur.

Dit tijdschrift is een middel dat door Writingplace platform gebruikt wordt om de relatie tussen architectuur en literatuur nader mee te onderzoeken. Dit heeft eerder al geresulteerd in de publicatie van Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature.

Elk nummer van het tijdschrift is gericht op thema’s die centraal s...

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...

For the first time in history, the Internationale Bauausstellung or IBA is

being held outside Germany, in Parkstad- Limburg, the Netherlands. What started as an exhibition for modern construction in 1901, has developed into an urban planning instrument that often provides a powerful impulse to the local economy, public space and society. IBA Parkstad was launched in 2014.

Through sometimes intricate, sometimes far-reaching urban and rural interventions and the cohesion of regional politan Par...

All over Europe, cities struggle with an accumulation of environmental crises like global warming, the depletion of natural recourses, pollution and the extinction of species. If we want to keep our cities liveable, we have to make them circular and climate adaptive.

Making our planning methods, production processes and building economies circular in order to remove the causes of the environmental crises, is a tough assignment. Turning our cities into climate-adaptive environments, ready to c...

Dit boek is het resultaat van een onderzoek naar een architectonisch type, het cultuurgebouw en naar

de rol die 'cultuur' heeft bij de realisering van een democratische maatschappij. Het boek People's

Palaces is geschreven rondom twee specifieke projecten, de South Bank in Londen, met de Festival

Hall ontworpen in 1948 en geopend in 1951, de Hayward Gallery/ Queen Elizabeth Hall, ontworpen in

1960/61 en het Kulturhus in Stockholm, ontworpen in 1966/67 en gerealiseerd tot 1974. De keuze

voor d...

Tweetalige editie, Nederlands en Engels.

Eerste boek over de Amsterdamse architect Philip (F.A.) Warners die in het interbellum een pioniersrol vervulde bij de introductie van het luxe appartementencomplex in Amsterdam. De rijk gedetailleerde interieurs van een aantal van deze gebouwen Westhove, Loma, De Steenhoek en Oldenhoeck zijn gefotografeerd door Arjan Bronkhorst. Dit materiaal, met originele tekeningen en plattegronden levert een nieuwe kijk op de periode van de Amsterdamse School. War...