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Re-visiting Re-inventing Buro II is a monograph on the work of the Belgian architecture firm Buro II, and celebrates the 30th anniversary of the firm. Buro II has a multidisciplinary ...

The fourth yearbook culled from features in A10 magazine showcases 20 celebrated projects, from new chapels and shopping malls to drug rehabilitation centres, private houses and mixed use developments. The ...

This richly illustrated work provides a survey of the main developments in European architecture from the end of the nineteenth century to the present. It is the first architecture history ...

Circumstances influence the design, the ideas and the methodology of an architect. In this book the architects Roberto Meyer and Jeroen van Schooten explain how their projects and architecture are ...

Charles Prosper Wolff Schoemaker (1882-1949) was the Frank Lloyd Wright of Indonesia. Between 1910 and 1940 he designed numerous buildings on Java, including Villa Isola and Hotel Preanger in Bandung, ...

This biography of one of the most famous architects of the Netherlands, Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964), offers insight into his life, thoughts and work. An important part is dedicated to an ...

Cities such as New York, Almere and Melbourne where once created behind a drawing table and delivered in a new condition, according to the master-plan. Yet from the moment that ...

According to the author and architect Adam Caruso, the concept of quality cannot be defined in the absence of values. According to Caruso, the decline of social values became visible ...

One of the few Western studies on modern African architecture, author and architect Antoni Folkers raises the discussion about the place of the often moralising and simplified period of western ...

The tenth edition of Europan not only focuses on the nominees and winning plans of the tenth Dutch Europan competition, but is also a commemorative publication to celebrate twenty years ...

Colour is an inseparable and important aspect of architecture, but it can often provoke strong reactions and differing opinions. This book explores the various uses and practical applications of colour ...

Scarpa was commissioned by Carlo Ottolenghi to design a villa for his son, situated on Lake Garda, near Bardolino, Italy. Here, this delightful project, which coincided with some of the ...

Land InSight attempts to define and unravel the Dutch Landscape. It is intended to inspire designers and others who are interested in landscape to look at it anew and to ...

In the aftermath of the Hurricane Katrina that laid waste to large parts of New Orleans, a number of large infrastructure and research projects have been initiated to improve flood ...

At the end of the 20th century, Barcelona, London and Berlin set the tone for urban renewal in Europe, but a unique approach adopted by the region of Flanders in ...

The work of Soeters Van Eldonk Architecten always gives a buzz, and that is excactly what they aim for. For the first time an overview of their complete oeuvre of ...

Appointed with a pivotal role to protect, guide and stimulate qualitative good architecture, the Master Architect (Bouwmeester) in Flanders, Belgium, is a privileged and important position. The last decade has ...

Taking the 'crisis of 2009 as its point of departure, this yearbook chooses to both reflect on what has happened within the practice of architecture and what the consequences for ...

Public space is changing. Where in earlier times people met each other on a public square it seems that now a hotel lobby is the desired designation. This change in ...

Water is re-conquering the contemporary agenda of urbanism. The renewed focus for urbanists is not uncalled for. Rather, its disappearance during the heydays of urbanism in the 19th and 20th ...