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...

De Italiaanse architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616) was de opvolger van Andrea Palladio en schreef een belangwekkend architectuurtractaat over klassieke architectuur. Hij haalt daarin veelvuldig zijn collega architecten aan en met name ook zijn grote voorbeeld uit de oudheid, Vitruvius. Reeds twee delen uit een reeks van drie publicaties zijn in een nieuwe vertaling verschenen. De oorspronkelijke tekst is in het Italiaans en was in de Gouden Eeuw van groot belang voor onder meer de bouw van...

Bouwen in Amsterdam werd tussen 1973 en 1992 in zestig afleveringen gepubliceerd door de Vereniging Vrienden van de Amsterdamse Binnenstad, in samenwerking met het Bureau Monumenten en Archeologie en het Stadsarchief Amsterdam. In 2007 zijn deze afleveringen met een geintegreerd register herdrukt in boekvorm, in verbeterde druk. De auteur, zowel theoretisch als praktisch geschoold, schreef het standaardwerk aan de hand van alle mogelijke architectonische details.Building in Amsterdam is the m...

Formats for Living Amsterdam features 59 contemporary residential projects built between 2013 and 2023, with more than 250 detailed floor plans on a scale of 1:100. Immerse yourself in a wide range of designs, from micro lofts and innovative social housing to lavish apartments. This exceptionally by Ricky Rijkenberg designed large-format book contains a series of critical essays that places housing development in its societal dynamics. Editors: Marc Reniers and Jan Loerakker. Authors: Vincent...