With this work in the form of a book, Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot present the phenomenon of a particular pending architecture mutely present all over Athens. The concrete skeletons of polykatoikia – multi-story apartment buildings – are emblematic of the development of modern Greece throughout the second half of the twentieth century.

The book deals with the politics of urban space by treating the unfinished buildings as study objects and tracing their individual histories. Through the...

Footprint #28 examines the relation between cybernetics and architecture by focusing on a problem they both share: the production, consumption and flow of information, or, in other terms, of meaning. Therefore, cyberneticisation can set the foundations for a relational account that examines how signs are communicated and how meaning is produced and experienced within systems. This third-order cybernetics extends beyond the original scope of living organisms and their environments in order to ...

Desperate times demand optimistic transdisciplinary measures. This volume unites a select group of thinkers who courageously traverse disciplinary boundaries. What brings them together iWs the least stratified ‘component’: a shared problem. It is a widely recognised that a problem gets the solution it merits. However, only a few acknowledge that a problem seldom neatly fits within a single discipline, nor does it conform to the principle of general equivalence. Handling its irreducibility...

An extensively revised and updated edition of a bestselling classic on modern architecture and its origins.

This pocket guide to highlights of modern and contemporary architecture in New York City features entries for 85 famous skyscrapers and cutting-edge projects.

Printuitgave van het boek "Groep'32"

De geschiedenis van Groep '32 is interessant vanwege het streven van het genootschap om voort te gaan

op de weg van de Nieuwe Bouwers. De groep nam een kritisch standpunt in tegenover de toepassing van

de verworvenheden van het Nieuwe Bouwen van de jaren twintig, ze zagen deze niet als doel maar als

middel om architectuur te bereiken. Deze kritische houding werd aangescherpt door het uitblijven van

werk, en door de fusie met De 8, een meer radicaal functio...

In 2011 the RMIT-department of the Faculty of Architecture of TU

Delft formulated the ambition to be structurally involved in the

transformation of urban neighbourhoods in both research and education.

This was decided upon because of the complex social, spatial

and physical issues that many districts in large cities are facing

and the urge to react on these issues with research based design

within the awareness of the cultural significance of those threatened

areas.

The mentioned complexity f...

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...