Eerste monografie over het Amsterdamse architectenbureau VenhoevenCS Architekten. Ton Venhoeven (1953) studeerde als architect cum laude af aan de TU Delft. In 1995 is hij als zelfstandig architect gaan weken en in 1998 richtte hij zijn eigen bureau op. Mei 2005 werd Venhoeven benoemd tot hoogleraar Architectural History and Theory aan de TU Eindhoven. Venhoeven werd augustus 2008 benoemd tot Rijksadviseur voor de Infrastructuur. Als ontwerper is Venhoeven geïnteresseerd in diverse schaalge...

Does our knowledge about city and urban planning have solid ground? Can historical research promote creative thinking? How can we theorise about urban design and architecture in our age of the media?

These questions have guided the creation of this multi-layered, richly documented and illustrated triptych, in which the Dutch architectural theorist Wim Nijenhuis pursues a creative goal: to stimulate new ways of thinking in architectural culture.

Each part of the triptych treats distinctive i...

Dutch edition ISBN 9789076863757Located on the water along the quay of the northern banks of the IJ in Amsterdam is one of the few remnants of the this city’s rich port history: het Kraanspoor. An office building, 270 metres long and approximately 13 metres wide, now stands where ships used to be loaded and unloaded. With a flourish, het Kraanspoor put a forgotten city district in the international limelight, transforming it into one of the most coveted locations in Amsterdam, where a variet...

MVRDV heeft met Ilka en Andreas Ruby een vernieuwende architectuurmonografie over de gerealiseerde werken samengesteld met gebruikerservaringen, journalistieke artikelen, niet eerder gepubliceerde beelden en toegankelijke tekeningen.

Sinds MVRDV de wereld versteld deed staan met het ontwerp van het Nederlandse paviljoen op de Expo 2000, behoort het bureau tot de internationale top. De architecten van MVRDV zijn beroemd om hun visionaire onderzoeken en tot nadenken stemmende projecten als Pig ...

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...

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...

Since 1890, the Royal Museum of FIne Arts in Antwerp has been home to a rich collection spanning over seven centuries of art history; from the Flemish Primitives to Expressionists. More recently, the Museum has been enriched by another treasure by the Dutch architectural firm KAAN Architecten. Their restoration work and new design combine a contemporary allure with the glorious but somewhat neglected beauty of the 19th-century landmark. Completely conceiled within the existing museum, the new...

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...