Architectural firms can be regarded as creative professional service firms. As such, architects need to navigate creative, professional and commercial goals, while simultaneously attempting to fulfil client, user and societal needs. This complex process is becoming increasingly difficult, as the historically established role of architects has become more blurred, contested and heterogeneous. While attempting to reclaim their role or to take on new roles in collaborations with other actors, ar...

The 17th conference (2016, Delft) of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) and its proceedings place presentations from different continents and on varied topics side by side, providing insight into state-of-the art research in the field of planning history and offering a glimpse of new approaches, themes, papers and books to come. VOLUME 05: Historical Perspectives

De mooiste en gaafste middeleeuwse kerken van Europa staan onder andere in het vlakke land van Groningen en het noorden van Drenthe. Ze behoren tot de vroegste getuigenissen van de christelijke cultuur in het

Noorden. Architectuurkenner Peter Karstkarel brengt in dit ambitieuze boek een overzicht van deze juweeltjes. Hij bezocht 136 monumentale kerken in beide provincies. Dit leverde uitvoerige beschrijvingen op, met adembenemende foto's van exterieur en interieur. Het geheel wordt gecomplete...

The fantastic works of Antoni Gaudí and the Amsterdam School still appeal to the imagination. And although the architects never met each other, they were children of the same period. They looked for beauty and individuality in a world which was becoming increasingly functional and impersonal.

At the heart of their designs are nature and its organic forms, craftsmanship and traditional materials. At the same time, though, they did not turn their backs on modernity, embracing new techniques an...

De Dageraad is een wereldberoemd woningbouwcomplex dat ligt in Plan Zuid van Berlage. Het is ontworpen door de architecten Michel de Klerk en Piet Kramer in de stijl van de Amsterdamse School.

Het initiatief tot de bouw kwam van een arbeiderscoöperatie die winkeltjes exploiteerde en goede huisvesting voor de arbeiders wilde verzorgen. Hierbij waren belangrijke Nederlandse politici betrokken, waaronder de Amsterdamse wethouder Floor Wibaut die nog altijd in het complex wordt geëerd. In 20...

Van Philips-industriegebied op zijn retour tot creatief stadshart van ​Eindhoven (​Brainport-regio)​: een fascinerende en complexe transformatie naar hoogstedelijkheid. Strijp-S was het grootste (27 hectare) industrieterrein van Philips. Daar stond de eerste glasfabriek. Ook het NatLab, het veelgeroemde onderzoekscentrum van Philips, bevond zich op het terrein. Tienduizenden werkten er en voelden zich innerlijk verbonden met het gebied langs de spoorlijn. Ze waren ​trots op gebouw...

The inquiry that has culminated in this thesis was inspired by the challenges that many young Chinese people were facing when trying to gain access to affordable housing at the time of study, the early 2010s. By then, more than thirty years of housing reforms had completely changed how housing was being provided in China. The resulting structure had led young people to access housing in ways that were very different from those of their parents’ generation (Deng, Hoekstra & Elsinga, 2017). T...

The thesis develops an empirically tested analytical framework which links value theory with planning and design practices to investigate context-specific spatial transformations as a result of individual and collective value judgements. Four key aspects of water values including flood safety, as well as economic, social and environmental values, are studied, and their interrelationships are discussed. Morphological analyses and value assessments are conducted to explore in what sense spatial...

Održiva i otporna građena sredina je složen sistem čije se značenje kontinualno razvija. Cilj ove publikacije je da problemu održivosti i otpornosti pristupi kroz sistematsko istraživanje različitih segmenata i razmera izgrađenog okruženja, odnosno da predstavljanjem preglednih radova (poglavlja), među kojima je uspostavljena odgovarajuća funkcionalna veza, podstakne razvoj specijalizovanog znanja, podigne kritičku svest o potrebi za interdisciplinarnim i transdiciplinarnim istra...