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Saints walking around headless, vagina-shaped wounds and a Jesus being crushed like a grape: welcome to medieval mans intriguing perception of the world. Thanks to a growing fixation on the ...

Where there are vacancies, there is room for new uses, such as housing and leisure and health-care facilities. This often results in surprising combinations, such as a school or a ...

Habitat: Expanding Architecture highlights an important moment in the history of architecture and urban planning: the tenth CIAM Congress, held in Dubrovnik in 1956. The central theme of the congress ...

This book is an appeal to start designing minimum weight applications to seriously save energy. It also offers practical advice for doing so. 'Designing Lightness' entertains the reader with its ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 18th century is the most international, most European century in Dutch art history. This book, designed by Irma Boom, with 100 of the most beautiful and surprising objects from ...

Metabolism is the conversion of one form of matter into another. Urban design and architecture are currently paying a great deal of attention to the charting and controlling of material ...

The new Schiphol opened its doors in 1967. Everything had been thought out, from the runway system to the details of its interior and its now world-famous signage and lettering. ...

Every year the Dutch schools of architecture, urban design and landscape architecture select their best graduation projects. The crop is unfailingly rich and varied and reflects the ambitions of a ...

Here, architects and urban planners explore innovative design concepts and creative solutions to combat the architectural uniformity of Hong Kong resulting from strict housing regulations and increasing population density.

'Narrative Architecture' reveals a stream of remarkable architectural and urban visions in the twentieth century that culminated in the construction of one of the most powerful, misunderstood and underutilized weapons ...

In recent years, Dutch Design has sharply diverged from its previous course. A generation of designers trained in and shaped by the crisis years chose new values and starting points. ...

Satyendra Pakhalé stands at the crossroads of the diverse currents shaping contemporary design. His design work is an act of unity going beyond any binary such as high and low ...

The 'Shared Cities Atlas' applies the new, global "sharing paradigm" in architecture and public sphere to a site-specific situation in seven cities in Central Europe. Mapping current practices of sharing ...

n this book, Belgian architecture office a2o presents an investigative and connecting approach to architecture through an evocative reading of their latest project, crematorium Statie Stuifduin in Lommel, Belgium. This ...

In 'Parliaments of the European Union' Dutch photographer Nico Bick presents a photographic view of the plenary chambers where the European democracy is actually realized. The book features photographs of ...

Our contemporary service economy calls the divide between living and working, one of the dogmas of modernist urbanism, into question. People increasingly work from home, in dwellings that were never ...

Our cities consist of buildings that are introverted and not mixed with urban life. They are closed. How to open them? How can we introduce pockets for encounters, for streams ...