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In celebrating its 35th anniversary, the seminal yearbook of architecture in the Netherlands takes the opportunity to reflect on the far-reaching changes which have been taking place in the building ...

What started as an expo for modern construction in 1901, the Internationale Bauausstellung has developed into an urban planning instrument that often provides a powerful impulse to the local economy, ...

Games and playfulness are serious tools for architects and urban designers. 'Serious Fun dives into games conceived and created by architects, urban designers, artists, and game developers since the end ...

Able to work anywhere we have a tortured relationship with the office today. Desperate to work again in physically shared spaces, we are also now questioning whether offices are needed ...

How can the public library fulfil its classic social mission in our individualised and sometimes fragmented society? And how does such a library fit into the urban public space, in ...

Dutch hofjes have been capturing the imagination for six centuries; their special architecture makes these small, hidden urban oases unabatedly topical. In every period architects have innovated the 14th-century archetype ...

Many buildings are made with standard or system products. However, a whole new world opens up when the architect, in line with his or her design, designs parts that specifically ...

What role does storytelling play in urban imaginaries? How do these imaginaries converge or diverge from reality? Can we use stories to test ideas for future architecture? This volume brings ...

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 ...

For over 30 years 'Architecture in the Netherlands' has provided an indispensable overview of Dutch architecture for everyone with a professional or more general interest in the subject. The 'Yearbook' ...

By reorganizing access to a wide spectrum of fundamental domains, such as education, housing, health care, or even political information, platforms are destined to become the most powerful players regulating ...

In this book, activist philosopher and philosophical activist Lieven de Cauter investigates the idea that if we want to avoid collapse, we have to end the Anthropocene - the geological ...

'In Search of Sharawadgi' presents the ideas and dreams of Piet Oudolf and LOLA Landscape Architects. Piet Oudolf is the Netherlands most well-known garden designer and he has completed such ...

'Spacematrix' explores the potential of urban density as a tool for urban planning and design. The authors fascination with density is driven by the desire to understand the relational logic ...

'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 ...

How to Build an Indian House' focuses on one of Mumbais and Indias perennial and most daunting questions: mass housing. It documents, analyses, and represents robust examples of different housing ...

The Yearbook is the international showcase for Dutch architecture. The three editors select special projects that have been completed in the preceding year and describe the most important developments that ...

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 ...

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 ...