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Het thema grond – als materie, niet als territorium – is lange tijd het quasi exclusieve onderwerp geweest van de landbouw, de geografie en de bodemkunde. Pas de laatste decennia, door een snelgroeiend bewustzijn over de klimaatverandering, is grond steeds meer in het vizier gekomen als materie die ook ecosysteem-diensten kan leveren in het ontwerp van de stad.

De redactie van OASE 110 is ervan overtuigd dat veel bodems, al zijn ze gedegradeerd en gefragmenteerd, vragen om...

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...

In Waardevolle Wijken staan pionierende, collectief gedragen initiatieven centraal die gericht zijn op het sluiten van één of meerdere grondstofkringlopen op buurt- of wijkniveau en hiermee dus bijdragen aan de transitie naar een circulaire economie.

Voor de analyse van deze verschillende initiatieven is door de onderzoekers - stedenbouwkundige Els Leclercq en architect Mo Smit - een unieke methodiek ontwikkeld: de Circulaire Waardebloem-methode. Deze methode helpt het gezamenlijk sluiten ...

The story of the designing Marker Wadden is unique. In only a couple of years, a completely new group of artificial islands has been created in the Markermeer. This archipelago is composed mainly of marshes and shallow waters, and is designed a perfect habitat for bird colonies. Only the main island is accessible for visitors.The story of the designing Marker Wadden is unique. In only a couple of years, a completely new group of artificial islands has been created in the Markermeer. This arch...

De rol van architecten gaat verder dan alleen het ontwerpen van gebouwen. Architectuur en ruimte zijn altijd gerelateerd aan maatschappelijke opgaven en uitdagingen. Architecten lijken daarom goed gepositioneerd om bijdragen te leveren aan het maatschappelijke debat over uitdagingen als klimaatverandering, mobiliteit, de wooncrisis, zorg en migratie. Veelal worden de gebouwde omgeving en maatschappelijke vraagstukken met elkaar verbonden door sociaalgeografen en sociologen, journalisten en pl...

Dutch Waterworks Worldwide documents the story of architecture and landscape photographer Luuk Kramer’s journey documenting waterworks built by Dutch engineers around the world, from the sixteenth century to the present day, from polders in Poland to dikes and dams in Japan, from canals in Brazil to a small lock in Surinam.

The Dutch brought knowledge gleaned from centuries of experiences with living in a delta, including land reclamation efforts, droughts and catastrophic floods. They wer...

This book delves into the practice of Office Winhov, the acclaimed Amsterdam-based architecture firm, whose buildings elegantly blend the past with the present. Architecture Repurposed showcases Office Winhov’s adaptive reuse approach, combining contemporary transformations with respect for architectural heritage.

At a time when sustainability is paramount and our cities yearn for historical and cultural nuance, it is essential that existing buildings are transformed with care. Office Winho...

The first publication about the building of the Academia Belgica in Rome, residential facility and research centre for Belgian artists and researchers in Rome. Constructed between 1937 and 1939 by both an Italian and Belgian architect, in a style both modernist and art déco, the building has preserved not only its exterior but also in large parts its original interior decorations and even furniture.

This book covers the various stages of the realization of the original building and its inte...

Acoustic atmospheres can be fleeting, elusive, or short-lived. Sometimes they are constant, but more often they change from one moment to the next, forming distinct impressions each time we visit certain places. Stable or dynamic, acoustic atmospheres have a powerful effect on our spatial experience, sometimes even more so than architecture itself. This book explores the acoustic atmospheres of diverse architectural environments, in terms of scale, function, location, or historic period—pro...