Following Best Buildings – Belgium, Luster brings a second title in the new Best Buildings series: Best Buildings – Holland. The concept is the same: this book presents over 90 buildings completed after 1900 in the Netherlands, with a photo and a short text in English and Dutch. The selection is based on the top ten lists of renowned Dutch architects and architecture critics, which are also included in the book. Best Buildings – Holland features a surprising mix of bold contemporary arc...

De winnaars van de Amsterdamse Architectuur Prijs 2011 (de Gouden A.A.P.) zijn de Liberaal Joodse Gemeenschap Amsterdam en SeARCH, respectievelijk de opdrachtgever en architect van de Synagoge aan de Zuidelijke Wandelweg. Dit is maandagavond 16 mei tijdens een feestelijke bijeenkomst bekend gemaakt. Wiel Arets (winnaar van de vorige editie) hing de gouden medailles om bij Bjarne Mastenbroek & Uda Visser (SeARCH) en Luc Stranders (LJG).De Amsterdamse Architectuur Prijs wordt toegekend aan arch...

Formats for Living Amsterdam features 59 contemporary residential projects built between 2013 and 2023, with more than 250 detailed floor plans on a scale of 1:100. Immerse yourself in a wide range of designs, from micro lofts and innovative social housing to lavish apartments. This exceptionally by Ricky Rijkenberg designed large-format book contains a series of critical essays that places housing development in its societal dynamics. Editors: Marc Reniers and Jan Loerakker. Authors: Vincent...

This book documents the most recent realizations of urban factory facilities in Flanders designed by the upcoming architecture studio TRANS. In Flanders three recently built factory facilities showcase the potential of bringing manufacturing back to the city. Nina Rappaport (Yale University) and Job Floris (Monadnock architects) put these projects designed by Ghent-based architects TRANS into context.

Interviews with CEOs and policymakers give a 'behind the scenes' insight on the co-productio...

Writingplace Journal for Architecture and Literature is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal focusing on architecture and literature.

This journal is a vehicle for the Writingplace platform to continue its exploration of the relationship between architecture and literature, which has already resulted in the publication of Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature in 2016.

Each issue of the journal will focus on themes central to the fruitful relationship betw...

Architectural training seems to be more difficult to organize than ever before. After May 1968, education was radically democratized, or at least that was the intention. However, the 1999 Bologna Declaration radically changed the structure of architecture schools as well. Is there any tradition left to hand down to students? What skills do they need before they can enter the job market? And how about the kind of knowledge that may not be practical, but is nevertheless necessary to fully under...

How can the public library fulfil its classic social mission in our individualized and sometimes fragmented society? And how does such a library fit into the urban public space, in which commerce and consumption seem to reign supreme? This requires innovative architecture, the strength of imagination and the willingness to think countercyclically.

In Imagination and Participation librarians Rob Bruijnzeels and Joyce Sternheim examine the most important transitions in public library work. They...

A map is a visual story of the world. It feeds our imagination and shapes our view of the world. A standard atlas, however, predominantly tells only one story, that of the nation-state. It depicts a world in which people are uniformly packed into national containers, enclosed by borders, and in which migration is often represented as threatening invasion arrows.

Free the Map goes beyond this narrow, state-centric cartography. The book argues for a new cartographic story: a Hermes – the gran...