An observatory is a place for the observation of the universe. The artists of Observatorium, however, cast their gaze upon the inhabited world. All over the planet, they have created works of art that are not only to look at, but also to enter, observe and reflect from. Over the past 30 years, Observatorium produced an internationally significant body of work, from the sculpture Zandwacht (Sand Watch) in the Port of Rotterdam to Dwelling in Seclusion, a work of art devoted to solitude in New ...

Was verbirgt sich hinter Ideologien? Wie entstehen eigene Weltanschauungen, Grundeinstellungen und politische Theorien? Wie wirken sie auf andere? Inwieweit unterstu¿tzen sie Macht, Manipulation, Missbrauch, Ausgrenzung und Ausbeutung in den verschiedensten Gesellschaften?

Die in dieser Publikation zur 4. internationalen Triennale der ku¿nstlerischen Fotografie und verwandter Medien in Frankfurt/Rhein-Main vertretenen Ku¿nstler*innen wie Máté Bartha, Johanna Diehl, Yves Sambu, Ja'Tovia G...

The Sonneveld House in Rotterdam is one of the best preserved examples of Dutch Functionalist domestic architecture. It was built in 1933 to a design by Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, an architectural practice that acquired international fame with its designs for the Van Nelle Factory, the Van der Leeuw House and Feyenoord Stadium, all three in Rotterdam. The Sonneveld House, now a museum, was originally built for one of the Van Nelle directors, A.H. Sonneveld.

An unusual feature of the Sonnevel...

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With (w)EGO: Tailor-Made Housing, The Why Factory investigates participatory processes applied to housing design. These processes establish a negotiation among the desires of each of the residents of a housing slab and help determine the design of their apartments. To achieve this, Wegocity manifests a particular interest in the development of a gaming process. This game leverages the specificities of each resident and transforms them into spatial needs. This way, unexpected hous...

Japan: Nation Building Nature is the first book to map out the views of nature that have shaped the widely acclaimed but often misunderstood modern architecture of Japan.

By connecting the dots between philosophy, design, geopolitics, and an earnest quest for a greener tomorrow, this book explains how Japanese culture can shed new light on our understanding of ecology, and vice-versa.

Using a distinctive blend of academic research and personal experience, Joachim Nijs draws on architectural h...

David Tudor (1926-1996) war in den 1950er-Jahren einer der führenden Pianisten und Interpreten zeitgenössischer Musik in Europa und den USA. Seine Fähigkeit, auf die Unbestimmtheit anspruchsvoller Partituren von Komponisten wie John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen und Christian Wolff zu reagieren und deren komplexe, manchmal mehrdeutige Anweisungen umzusetzen, war einzigartig und faszinierte seine Zeitgenossen. Ab den frühen 1960er-Jahren vollzog er den Wandel vom Interpreten zum Komponisten-...

For English see belowHet boek Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature is een nieuwe stap in het groeiende debat over literaire middelen in de architectuur. Het boek richt zich op geschreven taal alseen cruciaal aspect van architectonische cultuur en op de potentie van literaire methodes in het architectonisch en stedenbouwkundig onderzoek, onderwijs en ontwerp.Voor eenieder die geïnteresseerd is in de wisselwerking tussen architectuur en literatuur biedt Writingplace zowe...

Eindhoven, the city of light and design, has experienced a stormy development and is now the centre of a ‘brainport’ focused on innovation, design and tech that ranks among the finest in the world. The city also has a lot to offer in terms of architecture: from the Evoluon to MVRDV's pop podium De Effenaar and from Kropholler’s Van Abbe Museum to the current large-scale redevelopment of the Philips factories.

This handy-sized and up-to-date Eindhoven architecture guide zooms in on the c...