Dit boek vertelt het verhaal van het zee-landcontinuüm aan de hand van dat van de Noordzee – een van de meest geïndustrialiseerde zeeën ter wereld, waar Nederland een centrale rol in speelt. De ruimte van de Noordzee is bijna volledig ontworpen. De zee is tegelijkertijd zowel belast met de taak om de economische productie van zowel nieuwe als traditionele maritieme sectoren te verhogen, als van zijn culturele betekenis ontdaan.

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Who were Le Corbusier’s photographers? The question is seldom asked yet is germane to under­standing the architect’s work. Le Corbusier used photography to promote modern architecture in ways no others did. He directed the photography of his buildings, selected the images that he liked, cropped them, abstracted them, and placed them on the pages of his many books. He mediated the medium of photography mani­pulating visual facts in an era when “the camera never lied”. Yet always ...

The 17th conference (2016, Delft) of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) and its proceedings place presentations from different continents and on varied topics side by side, providing insight into state-of-the art research in the field of planning history and offering a glimpse of new approaches, themes, papers and books to come. VOLUME 05: Historical Perspectives

This small booklet contains the inaugural speeches of Th. K. van Lohuizen and Cor van Eesteren on their appointments as professors at the Technical College of Delft. The texts provide novel insights into their respective teaching programs, and appear here for the first time in English. An analytical reflection on their work by the architectural historian Herman van Bergeijk introduces them.