In recent decades, the field of architecture has witnessed a fundamental shift under the banner of ‘ecology’: from the innovation in energy technologies to the use of circular materials and climate-neutral building solutions – today, more than ever, the construction of a building seems to be dominated by an ecological awareness. At the same time, such sustainable thinking often places ecological questions outside of the design itself, in the hands of experts and within the logic of quan...

New York: de stad waar zovelen van dromen, die in vrijwel eenieders top vijf van citytrips staat en meteen ook de stad die je zo met Amerika vereenzelvigt maar tegelijk toch bitter weinig met de rest ervan te maken heeft. "The Big Apple",

"The City That Never Sleeps", "Gotham", "Center of the World",... het zijn maar een paar van de populaire bijnamen voor deze stad, die ongeveer twaalf keer zoveel inwoners telt als Amsterdam en pakweg evenveel inwoners als geheel België.

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Deze pocket bevat illustraties en beschrijvingen van 26 Amsterdamse architectonische hoogtepunten uit 2011. Een gevarieerde selectie, met zowel vrijstaande villa's als grote woongebouwen, voorbeelden van nieuwe typologieen en van opmerkelijke renovaties en venrieuwingen, maar ook bruggen, scholen en een jongerencentrum. Opmerkelijk zijn ook enkele voorbeelden van nieuwe vormen van opdrachtgeverschap, illustratief voor de verschuivende verhoudingen in de bouw.Met werk van vele bekende architec...

Within architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role both within the design process and its reception. This book explores the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, and reflexive understanding of what we build. Much of architecture’s knowledge resides beneath the surface, in nonverbal instruments such as drawings and models that articulate the spatial imagination of the design process. Tacit knowledge, described in 1966 by Michael Polany...

Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all, often responding to crises, the imperatives of nation-building, and housing shortages by rapidly developing, distributing, and assembling structures.

The book’s contributions, with a geographical emphasis on Europe and Israel,...

Borders between countries, neighbourhoods, people, beliefs, and policies are proliferating and expanding despite what self-proclaimed progressive societies wish or choose to believe. For a wide variety of reasons, the early 21st century is caught struggling between breaking down barriers and raising them. Architecture is complicit in both. It is central to the perpetuation of borders, and key to their dismantling. Architectures of Resistance: Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices appr...

The silhouettes of the great European metropolises are characterised by a high density of high-rise facades made of glass, metal or stone. On one hand this density stands for economic power and good employment values. On the other hand, the large sound-reflecting surfaces in the cities are responsible for an increase in sound pollution in their vicinity. They cause the most frequent inner-city sound source, traffic noise, to double in perceived intensity. Direct sound and reflected sound add ...