The design story of Marker Wadden is unique. This man-made group of uninhabited islands in the Markermeer mainly comprises marshes and shallow waters, which makes them perfect bird habitats. Only the main island is accessible to the public.

This newest piece of the Netherlands – its landscape, the urban design of the settlement and the architecture – has been designed with care and attention. An impressive approach that leaves the shaping of the landscape largely to nature. By realizing M...

In 1898 betrok mgr. Henricus van de Wetering, aartsbisschop van Utrecht, een statig neoclassicistisch herenhuis aan de Maliebaan. Twee jaar later liet hij het gebouw uitbreiden met een huiskapel, opgetrokken en ingericht in neogotische stijl. Het bijzondere interieur van deze huiskapel, gewijd aan de H. Willibrordus van Utrecht, is tot op de dag van vandaag zeer gaaf bewaard gebleven en vormt een voor Nederland uniek ensemble. De kapel wordt al bijna 125 jaar onafgebroken gebruikt door de aar...

Oud-Zuid is een 400 pagina's dik boek over wereldberoemde gebouwen in het mooiste stadsdeel van Nederland. 100 rijksmonumenten komen in dit unieke boek aan bod met honderden foto's van exterieurs en interieurs. Bewoners, eigenaars en gebruikers vertellen hun verhaal over het cultureel erfgoed van Amsterdam.

The Thinking Foot is a study of history and associations. In method and form it claims to be no more (nor less) than an illustrated essay on the architectural expression of surface. It concentrates on the Earth on which we walk: not the Earth in depth (the underground world) nor the geological Earth, but simply the Earth as visible crust, as surface. The Thinking Foot is indeed about surface and in particular about how this surface was made into a ‘civilized’ theatre of communal existence...

The first monograph on Mok Wei Wei, Singapore’s most inventive, thoughtful and respected architect.

Following his bestselling quest for Soviet Bus Stops, Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig has completed a subterranean expedition photographing the stations of each Metro network of the former USSR. From extreme marble and chandelier opulence to brutal futuristic minimalist glory, Soviet Metro Stations documents this wealth of diverse architecture.

The first in-depth publication of drawings that reveal the creative genius of H. H. Richardson, the greatest American architect of the nineteenth century

After years of experience in education, research, design and policy, Professor Marcel Smets, former Flemish Government Architect, compiles his insights on the city and urban design in a personal booklet.

In his search for the foundations of urban design, Marcel Smets puts forward thirty complementary pairs of concepts. He starts from archetypal settlement forms (ribbon and cluster, ladder and star), typifies morphological categories (street and road, island and archipelago) and highlights ch...

A fascinating new take on the architecture of Adjaye, exploring his approach to five building materials through his projects