The PowerSKIN Conference aims to address the role of building skins to accomplish a carbon neutral building stock. Topics such as building operation, embodied energy, energy generation and storage in context of envelope, energy and environment are considered.

The focus of the PowerSKIN issue 2021 deals with the question of whether simplicity and robustness stay in contradiction to good performance of buildings skins or whether they even complement each other: simplicity vs. performance?

As an...

This booklet presents the work of fourth-year students from Delft University of Technology, Faculty of

Architecture and the Built Environment, Chair of Heritage & Architecture, Section Heritage & Architecture.

What you see is the result of one semester’s work (20 weeks) to study together the conservation and

redesign of De Zonnehof in Amersfoort. The international group of students worked all on the architectural

relation to de Zonnehof, on different ways to exhibit, on climate control and ...

Het thema van iA#4 is Quantum Architecture.Met tekst bijdragen van Ayssar Arida (Libanon, UK), Ran Berman (Israël), Han Feng (China), Georg Flachbart (Duitsland), Christian Friedrich (Duitsland), Chris Kievid (Nederland), Megan Ng (Hong Kong SAR), Kas Oosterhuis (Nederland), Ivan Redi (Oostenrijk), Dieter Vandoren (België), Pieter E. Vermaas (Nederland). Voor meer informatie zie:De iA-bookzine serie brengt een overzicht van interdisciplinaire bijdragen over het onderwerp 'Interactive archit...

"New generations of city officers will speak the language of games and they will play to plan their cities. We, the experts working for the city, need to adapt our methods to fit a new generation of policymakers and city makers that are born into a world that not only contains, but is reshaped by, the likes of Minecraft, Pokemon Go and Foursquare on a daily basis. Interactive maps, mixed realities, 3D environments, and multiplayer settings are the new mediums through which an entire generatio...