The editors of this themed issue of SPOOL place the discussion on the possibilities and impossibilities of criticism within the field of the design disciplines at centre stage. We are especially interested in how criticism can make an active contribution to taking a position vis-à-vis what we have called, in earlier issues of SPOOL, the contemporary condition of 'the landscape metropolis'. Criticism is an important means of reflection on the creative processes and interventions that are part...

The Writingplace journal for Architecture and Literature is an international, open-acces, peer-reviewed journal on architecture and literature. Each issue of the journal focuses on themes central to the fruitful relationship between architecture and literature.

This Writingplace journal issue Meaningfulness, Appropriation and Integration in/of City Narratives is developed in context of the EU COST Action “Writing Urban Places”. From an inter- or a multidisciplinary theoretical perspecti...

OASE 98 onderzoekt de historische basis van het concept van het narratief bij het lezen en het ontwerpen van het stedelijk landschap, op zoek naar de relevantie van narratieve methoden in de hedendaagse praktijk.

Dit nummer presenteert een nieuwe invalshoek op het werk van (landschaps)-architecten en stedenbouwkundigen van de jaren 1960 en 1970 (Edmund Bacon, Kevin Lynch en Jacques Simon) en vandaag (Günther Vogt, Anke Schmidt en Bas Smets) en belicht recente experimenten in de academische w...