Alsof het een reisgids betreft kan met Hertzberger's Amsterdam (een deels imaginair) Amsterdam worden verkend. Dit boekje verschijnt ter gelegenheid van Herman Hertzberger's 75e verjaardag en bevat een uniek overzicht van zijn Amsterdamse werk. Met zowel onbekende plannen uit zijn studietijd als hoogtepunten in zijn oeuvre, en zowel gerealiseerde projecten (Studentenhuis, Monstessori College Oost en Waternet) als onuitgevoerde ontwerpen (voor het Stadhuis en het Stedelijk Museum) en een inmid...

The American office GEO has been redefining landscape architecture for nearly 15 years. This exceptional book is focused on projects in their hometown Miami. Incorporated in 2005, and led by Laurinda Spear and Margarita Blanco, two women steeped in architecture, has elevated the conversation about the important role landscape architecture plays and the contributions it can make in the face of climate change and sea level rise. Surrounding nature, plants and landscapes are the starting points ...

Models of Concern

The East Railway Line in London is a fascinating subject of study. It is rich in history and forms a surreal and fragmented physical presence between the City and the East End. A literary analysis of the chaotically ordered composition of this part of the metropolis involves spaces, places, voids and objects within the realm of this place of experience and imagination, with its visible elements and its ethereal body of histories and myths. The process of naming spaces and elements becomes a n...

Waking up to the idea of a post-growth society, Rotterdam Ripresa presents a city that aims to amend instead of renew, accepting not just the pleasant past, but also the impudent present. To find the new in the old may well be the most sustainable thing of all. Can a city change while remaining the same?

Rotterdam Ripresa adopts an alternative method towards the production of new visions for the city. An urbanism of fragmentary intervention as a cadavre exquis where authorship is deluded rath...