Migration is one of the most pressing and complex spatial urban challenges in Europe today. Observing how newcomers, such as labour migrants, refugees, border crossers sans papiers, and asylum seekers are accommodated, we must conclude that at present not a single urban strategy convincingly enables us to receive new arrivals at the heart of our societies and cities. People are being stored in overcrowded refugee settlements on Greek islands, in squalid basement apartments in central Athens, ...

Petra Noordkamp (1967) beweegt zich vloeiend tussen fotografie en film. In 'Better not move' verkent zij een terugkerend thema in haar werk - de invloed van ervaringen, herinneringen, films en dromen op de perceptie van architectuur en de stedelijke omgeving - op een zeer persoonlijk niveau. De foto's zijn gemaakt tijdens een verblijf in Japan, kort na de dood van haar geliefde. Beelden van stenen, muren, mos, boomwortels en architecturale ruimtes worden afgewisseld met herinneringen aan haar...

Acid Clouds is an atlas and anthology of datacenters that maps the material traces of virtual data in the Dutch landscape. It investigates the massively resource-intensive and earthbound properties of digital storage, and questions the image of large-scale data repositories as clean, sterile and environmentally-friendly domains. The book brings together data of more than 100 datacenters across the Netherlands with texts on ecological, architectural, economical, political and digital righ...

A multitude of port cities dots Europe’s coastline, all serving the purpose of facilitating maritime transportation. Over millennia, public and private leaders have built harbours, urban spaces and infrastructures in diverse territories to serve hinterlands, including landlocked capital cities and metropolitan areas. As nodes on the edge of water and land, port city territories embody knowledge on maritime flows and water conditions. At a time of climate change, they can be paradigms and st...

This dissertation concerns the optimisation of the use of spatial data from the National Continuously Operating Reference Stations (NCORS) in Thailand. Thailand, among many countries, has established NCORS to observe and process the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals into spatial data to improve the positional accuracy in spatially related activities. Despite many potential user groups, only some of them appeared actually to use NCORS data. In order to investigate and recommend...

Unique glimpse behind the scenes of the KMSKA: an eleven year-renovation project presented in words and pictures

The Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA) has undergone an eleven-year renovation period resulting in a total makeover. The museum as it stands today is in all respects new: there is an entirely new museum volume, the monumental museum building has been restored to its historic magnificence, the exterior has been conserved and the garden newly landscaped.

KMSKA – The Finest M...

Polders can be found in coastal and alluvial lowlands all over the world. Water levels are artificially controlled so people can live and work in these reclaimed areas. This often centuries-old interaction between man and water had produced a rich variety of polder landscapes with their own cultural identity and spatial, functional, and ecological characteristics. These landscapes are under threat due to climate and economic change along with the standardization tendencies of globalization.

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De selectie artikelen van Hans van Dijk in WonenTABK/ARCHIS, NRC Handelsblad, Forum, Jaarboek Architectuur, etc. geven zowel een portret van zijn werk als ‘journalist’, criticus en hoofdredacteur (van Archis), als van een invloedrijke generatie architecten en het toenmalig debat over structuralisme, stadsvernieuwing, (post)modernisme, en de legitimiteit van architectuur. Een goed begrip voor het werk van Hans van Dijk kan helpen in het huidige, globale landschap van architectuurpublicatie...