"In dit huis zullen de muren lesgeven", verkondigde het sovjet persbureau Pravda in 1962 bij de opening van het Paleis voor Jonge Pioniers in Moskou. Terloops toont deze verklaring een steeds terugkomend motief in de geschiedenis van de architectuur voor de jeugd: de aanspraak op te kunnen voeden door middel van de gebouwde omgeving. De jeugd werd gezien als ideale doelgroep voor deze sociaal-constructivistische benadering, vanwege hun ambivalente positie: wel objecten van sociale wetgeving m...

Hoe verhoudt het menselijk lichaam als levend organisme zich tot toegepaste technologieën in de medische zorg? In Critical and Clinical Carthographies buigen Nederlandse en internationale experts op het gebied van robotica, mechatronica, medische technologie, design en architectuur zich over dit onderwerp.

Critical and Clinical Carthographies komt voort uit een transdisciplinaire conferentie georganiseerd door de Theorie afdeling en Hyperbody van de Faculteit Bouwunde aan de TU Delft,in ...

A E I OU Articles, Essays, Interviews and Out-takes. The name itself says something of the nature of Tony Fretton's collected writing.

As an architect he has said 'Words, the most collective form of communication, thread their way through the projects, in explanations to clients and constructors, and as my means, along with drawings, of explaining the projects to my collaborators, to myself and to the wider world.'

As Professor of Architectural Design-Interiors at TU Delft, he wrote: 'Interi...

For both Jo Kruger (1914–1983) and Rob Hootsmans (1962) the architecture of the Courthouse in Zwolle, the Netherlands, was a long time in the making. Kruger began in 1963 with his project for a combined district and subdistrict court, which took fourteen years to be completed. In 2004, while still working for the Government Building Agency, Hootsmans began exploring how Kruger’s building could be expanded. He finished a new extension in 2013, and completed the renovation of Kruger’s ori...

Architecture has always been found in a space between its economic and cultural values. As distinct from the intrinsic values attributed to the visual and performing arts, literature and music, architecture's values are often seen to be compromised by, or contingent upon, forces outside of the discipline—on property prices, real estate markets and the vicissitudes of local and global economies. Such intersections of cultural and economic values are especially conspicuous in architectural he...

The latest volume in Frame's series of books on workplace design, The Other Office 3 highlights inspirational interiors that are setting the trends in creative workplace design.

At its core are around 100 pioneering projects drawn from 86 practices all over the world. Featured offices include ad agencies, media outfits, technology firms and co-workspaces, ranging from compact offices and design hubs to large workplaces.

The Other Office 3 is divided into three chapters, each of which offers i...