Migration is one of the most pressing and complex spatial urban challenges in Europe today. Observing how newcomers, such as labour migrants, refugees, border crossers sans papiers, and asylum seekers are accommodated, we must conclude that at present not a single urban strategy convincingly enables us to receive new arrivals at the heart of our societies and cities. People are being stored in overcrowded refugee settlements on Greek islands, in squalid basement apartments in central Athens, ...

Petra Noordkamp (1967) beweegt zich vloeiend tussen fotografie en film. In 'Better not move' verkent zij een terugkerend thema in haar werk - de invloed van ervaringen, herinneringen, films en dromen op de perceptie van architectuur en de stedelijke omgeving - op een zeer persoonlijk niveau. De foto's zijn gemaakt tijdens een verblijf in Japan, kort na de dood van haar geliefde. Beelden van stenen, muren, mos, boomwortels en architecturale ruimtes worden afgewisseld met herinneringen aan haar...

Climate change in the Andes is affecting the relation between urban development and the landscape. Design-led explorations are reframing landscape logics and urbanisation patterns within the Cachi River Basin of Ayacucho, Peru. A co-production of students, researchers and designers, the book suggests alternative futures, crossing scales of landscape systems to new settlement typologies.

Urban Andes marks the start of the new series LAP on innovative design research in architecture, urbanism, ...

A multitude of port cities dots Europe’s coastline, all serving the purpose of facilitating maritime transportation. Over millennia, public and private leaders have built harbours, urban spaces and infrastructures in diverse territories to serve hinterlands, including landlocked capital cities and metropolitan areas. As nodes on the edge of water and land, port city territories embody knowledge on maritime flows and water conditions. At a time of climate change, they can be paradigms and st...

In the 1950s and 1960s, thousands of churches were built across Europe in an attempt to keep up with the continent's rapid urbanisation. This book addresses the immense effort related to the planning, financing, and construction of this new religious infrastructure. Going beyond aspects of style and liturgy, and transcending a focus on particular architects or regions, this volume considers church building at the crossroads of pastoral theology, religious sociology, and urban planning. Presen...

This dissertation concerns the optimisation of the use of spatial data from the National Continuously Operating Reference Stations (NCORS) in Thailand. Thailand, among many countries, has established NCORS to observe and process the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals into spatial data to improve the positional accuracy in spatially related activities. Despite many potential user groups, only some of them appeared actually to use NCORS data. In order to investigate and recommend...

De selectie artikelen van Hans van Dijk in WonenTABK/ARCHIS, NRC Handelsblad, Forum, Jaarboek Architectuur, etc. geven zowel een portret van zijn werk als ‘journalist’, criticus en hoofdredacteur (van Archis), als van een invloedrijke generatie architecten en het toenmalig debat over structuralisme, stadsvernieuwing, (post)modernisme, en de legitimiteit van architectuur. Een goed begrip voor het werk van Hans van Dijk kan helpen in het huidige, globale landschap van architectuurpublicatie...

Museums not only facilitate encounters among visitors, objects and stories, but they also facilitate the staging of these visits. They organize tours of the exhibition spaces as well as provide additional publicly accessible spaces, including entrances, corridors, auditoriums and museum cafés.

In nineteenth-century monumental art museums, the transition from city to museum interior was dramatized. Climbing the stairs of Schinkel’s Altes Museum in Berlin or traversing the pergola between th...