The theme of the Prix de Rome Architecture 2022 is Healing Sites. At a time when labour inequality and climate issues have resulted in a demand for change, this edition of the Prix de Rome Architecture calls to rethink and redesign spatial practices. Architecture has been complicit in establishing the ecocidal legacies of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. How can architects, urbanists, and landscape architects reflect upon and rearticulate their working methods in order to undo these ...

The seventh edition of the highly successful The City Reader juxtaposes the very best classic and contemporary writings on the city. Sixty-three selections are included: forty-five from the sixth edition and eighteen new selections, including three newly written exclusively for The City Reader. The anthology features a Prologue essay on "How to Study Cities", eight part introductions as well as individual introductions to each of the selected articles.

The new edition has been extensively upd...

Investments, global warming and crossing the road – risk is a factor embedded in our everyday lives but do we really understand what it means, how it is quantified and how decisions are made? In six chapters Ben Ale explains the concepts, methods and procedures for risk analysis and in doing so provides an introductory understanding of risk perception, assessment and management. Aided by over seventy illustrations, the author casts light on the often overlooked basics of this fascinati...

A fresh edition of the sustainable design pioneer Victor Papanek’s classic and ever-relevant book.

China's recent re-emergence as a world power is one of the transformative events of our time, and the most visible manifestations of the country's continuing rise can be seen in its two greatest cities: Beijing and Shanghai.

Since its inception as a colonial enclave in 1842,Shanghai has been one of the world's largest, richest, and most important cities. Traditionally

it has set the pace of change in China, and acted as a model for the rest of the country, both as an icon of capitalism befor...

De museumwoning Huis Sonneveld in Rotterdam is een van de best bewaarde woonhuizen in de stijl van het Nieuwe Bouwen. Het huis werd in 1933 gebouwd naar een ontwerp van het architectenbureau Brinkman & Van der Vlugt, dat internationale bekendheid verwierf met ontwerpen voor de Van Nellefabriek, het Woonhuis Van der Leeuw en het Stadion Feijenoord, alle in Rotterdam.

Het huis werd gebouwd in opdracht van de heer A.H. Sonneveld, één van de directeuren van de Van Nellefabriek. Bijzonder aan de...

De opkomst van de capsulaire beschaving is een doemscenario dat zich voor onze ogen voltrekt, zonder dat we er erg in hebben. Door de snelheid van onze technologie, de suburbanisering van onze dagelijks leven en de schrijnende dualisering van onze maatschappij, voelen we ons gedwongen ons terug te trekken in de capsules van onze voertuigen, in architecturale cocons of urbanistische enclaves: malls, gated communities, pretparken. Sinds 11 september, de oorlog in Irak en de War on Terrorism, ka...

Stedelijkheid in context en concept

Urbanity in context and concept