Explore the A–Z of modern space. From Gio Ponti’s colored geometries to Zaha Hadid’s free-flowing futurism, this comprehensive overview features more than 280 profiles of architects, styles, movements, and trends that have shaped structures from the 19th to the 21st century.

In the middle of the Lebeaustraat in Brussels, sandwiched between neo-Renaissance and neo-Gothic houses, stands an Art Nouveau jewel designed by Victor Horta: the Frison House. It was

commissioned by Maurice Frison, a lawyer and friend of the architect, and was built in 1894-1895. Horta designed not only the house, but also all its furniture and decoration, right down to the smallest detail: from door handles to marble fireplaces, from mosaic floors to elegant banisters, from wall lamps to th...

The Why Factory droomt van de Groene Stad. Over de betekenis van het begrip 'groen' heerst verwarring onder ontwerpers, architecten en stedenbouwkundigen. Winy Maas stelt dat groene projecten nog steeds onsamenhangende pogingen zijn waarvan de schaalgrootte het niet haalt bij die van de interventies die in feite nodig zijn. Groen is 'in', maar met het ontwerppotentieel ervan wordt weinig gedaan.Green Dream stelt vraagtekens bij wat tegenwoordig als 'groen' wordt aangemerkt en onderzoekt in sa...

Jaap Bakema and the Open Society is the first extensive publication on the Dutch architect and the remarkable production of his office Van den Broek and Bakema. His ideas on the open society are extremely relevant to the current debates about how to involve citizens in city building and creating alternative systems to crumbling welfare states. This historical document will highlight both his most relevant and less known work through texts, archival materials and photography. The book contains...

The Dageraad is a world-famous social housing complex located in Berlage’s Plan Zuid. It was designed by the architects Michel de Klerk and Piet Kramer in the style of the Amsterdam School.

The initiative to build it was taken by a workers cooperative that managed shops and wanted to provide the workers with good quality housing. Important Dutch politicians were involved in its realisation, among them Amsterdam’s Alderman Floor Wibaut, who is still honoured at the complex today. In 2001,...

Cities around the world are working to build more livable environments, better-quality public spaces, more resilient and sustainable urban economies, lower resource impacts, greater social equity, and other goals of a “new urban agenda.” In this process, the American movement advanced by the Congress for the New Urbanism has been unquestionably influential, if sometimes controversial. This volume presents a distillation of key essays by CNU proponents in their own words, as well as perspe...

Hoe kan nanotechnologie gebouwen en steden in de toekomst veranderen? Stel je een nieuwe stof voor, dat je zelf kunt aansturen en veranderen. Stel je voor dat dit een nanomateriaal wordt, dat zijn vorm kan veranderen, dat krimpen kan en groeien - dat bijna alles kan doen... Wij noemen dit materiaal Barba. Met Barba zouden wij in staat zijn om onze omgeving aanpassen aan welke wens en behoefte dan ook. Het nieuwste boek uit The Why Factory's Future Cities Series verbeeldt hoe nanomaterialen on...