New title in the Architecture and Design Experiments Series. The core idea for this book is to use operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms, allowing for an objective approach to create the foundation for subjective spatial design. Examples of these verbs are expand, inflate, nest, twist, lift, embed, merge etcetera. This book catalogues these verbs and shows in diagrams and architectural applications ho...

The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. One of today’s major challenges, however, concerns the concepts and tools to be deployed for mapping processes of transformation—that is, interpreting and imagining the relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes, both in space and in time, at micro- and macro-scale. The opening up of increasingly divers...

Noesis should not be mistakenly identified with cognition. It is essential to steer clear of conflating cognition with re-cognition, which involves a stagnant affirmation of sameness or a repetitive process lacking in heterogeneity. In contrast, noetics shares a common root with noema, translating literally as ‘meaning’ or, in a broader sense, as ‘sense.’ However, it is important to note that sense is not pre-existing; its production is inherently embodied, embedded, enactive, extende...

Ontwerp en analyse is een handboek over de geschiedenis en praktijk van het ruimtelijk ontwerpen in ruime zin. De nadruk ligt hierbij op de bespreking van de diverse ontwerpopvattingen in historisch perspectief.Het boek reikt materiaal aan voor de systematische bestudering van het ruimtelijk ontwerpen: architectuur, stedenbouw en landschapskunde. Er wordt een systematisch begrippenapparaat voor het ontwerpen ontwikkeld dat de lezer in staat stelt de factoren te definiëren die op de keuzes va...

De stad is niet alleen de habitat van mensen, maar ook van planten en dieren. Stadsnatuur bouwen is een pleidooi voor een natuurinclusieve, bio-receptieve architectuur die ontwerpers inspireert om de natuur een plek te geven in hun werk.

Aan de hand van gerealiseerde projecten wordt getoond hoe natuurwaarden kunnen worden opgenomen in onze gebouwen. De publicatie bespreekt de vestigingsvoorwaarden van flora en fauna op en aan onze gebouwen, evenals de ontwerpmethoden, -strategieën en -techni...

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe’s age of extre...

Conditional Design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in design in a more detailed, intentional, and functional manner. Spatially, the conditional is the result of the operative. Both terms work together to satisfy a formal manipulation through a set of opportunities for elements such as connections and apertures. The conditional starts with investigating not only ideas of circulation and light but also how volumes relate to the ground. These manip...