Margaret Staal-Kropholler (1891–1966) is regarded as the first woman architect in the Netherlands. She completed her first work as an unqualified architect in 1917. Less well known is that Grada Wolffensperger (1887–1965) became the first woman to complete the univer-sity course in architecture at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft that same year. A further twenty women had completed their architectural training by 1945.

Why and how did these women become architects at a time when women w...

Markets and market halls have always been more than about trade and nourishment. A detailed look at the histories of marketplaces provides evidence of the public health concerns they faced, as well as the social commotion, mobilization and, at times, unrest they hosted. This edited volume reappraises the market hall, examining both its architectural and its social and political significance.

Focusing on how these buildings embodied transformations in architecture and urbanism from the mid-nin...

Every building project should start with a brief. A good brief clearly explains what the client wants while providing the design team with the information and inspiration they need to create a successful building. Beyond that, the brief functions as a framework for quality management during the project. To this end, experts Juriaan van Meel and Kjersti Bjørkeng Størdal assembled this practical guide for developing high-performance briefs. Using clear language, the book succinctly explains t...

Met 40 jaar ervaring als docent, architect en aanjager van architectuurbeleid blikt Thijs Asselbergs vooruit in Over de nieuwe architect. Naar aanleiding van gesprekken met studenten geeft Asselbergs zijn persoonlijke kijk op het vak en zet hij uiteen hoe ‘de nieuwe architect’ vorm moet krijgen. Juist op het moment dat Thijs Asselbergs in 2008 aantrad als hoogleraar aan de TU Delft ging investeringsbank Lehman Brothers failliet. Het luidde de financiële crisis in, die een enorme impact h...

All over Europe, cities struggle with an accumulation of environmental crises like global warming, the depletion of natural recourses, pollution and the extinction of species. If we want to keep our cities liveable, we have to make them circular and climate adaptive.

Making our planning methods, production processes and building economies circular in order to remove the causes of the environmental crises, is a tough assignment. Turning our cities into climate-adaptive environments, ready to c...

'Reuse to Reduce. Architecture within a Carbon Budget. The Case of BioPartner 5'is a plea by Popma ter Steege Architects to embrace the circular transition as a chance for a more meaningful architecture. An architecture that employs the necessary reuse of building materials to rethink our needs, way of building and aesthetics. It is a plea for design shaped by planetary boundaries and the use of a carbon budget as a tool for this. It wants to help shift the discourse on circularity towards de...

A collection of nine contemporary homes by architect Celeste Robbins, who imbues her modern designs with warmth and emotion

A deluxe presentation of thirty architects with their latest dream house projects in Europe, Asia and the USA.