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In this publication 'The Why factory' demonstrates the size of the footprint that our leisure activities have left behind on our landscapes, cities and architecture. But that is not all: the...

Every two years, Archiprix International invites all 1,700 university-level courses in architecture, urban design and landscape architecture to submit their best final-year projects. A representative...

There are few countries in the world where water dominates the landscape and national identity as much as in the Netherlands. The vulnerable delta is always being taken back to the drawing board for...

Ornament is back--not as detail adorning a fa?ade, but in the body of entire structures, producing buildings in the shape of letters, a heap of pebbles or a national emblem. In Building as Ornament,...

Margaret Staal-Kropholler (1891-1966) is regarded as the first woman architect in the Netherlands. She completed her first work as an unqualified architect in 1917. Less well known is that Grada...

As cycling continues to enjoy a worldwide revival, experiments in new cycling facilities are underway everywhere. Cycle Infrastructure includes international examples, interviews with the makers of...

DASH 9 focuses on the objectives and outcomes of housing exhibitions, which have had a significant impact on the development of twentieth-century residential architecture. An interview with Barry...

This issue of DASH teases out the relationship between home and work in the age of the service economy. Looking globally and historically at the transformation, DASH explores proposals put forth to...

Explains how to achieve sustainability through urban redevelopment and upcycling. Of interest to policymakers, bureaucrats, designers, developers and other urban professionals > with projects by...

Discursive ArchitectureAuthor: NAPublisher: Nai010 PublishersPublication Date: 45699Number of Pages: NA pagesBinding: ArchitectureISBN-10: 9462088993ISBN-13: 9789462088993

Without reservations, DOWN TO EARTH starts from the observation that the climate crisis is a given, and that we are already in over our heads. Can we then still redesign our living environment to...

Nowhere in the world have architects built homes as small as in Japan, and nowhere have they done so with such ingenuity and success. How to Make a Japanese House presents 21 lessons in how to design...

Jansen's iconic bamboo shoe as both fashion item and art objectDutch designer Jan Jansen (born 1941) has been turning heads with his baroque and experimental footwear for more than 40 years, and his...

Making Urban Nature' is an inspirational book of examples about nature-inclusive designing in European cities. It calls for the integration of the living conditions found in nature in the designs of...

Of the world famous Dutch architecture bureau Mecanoo, is has been said that it has the?power to give ordinary things an unusual experience?, and of its projects that they are?pieces of time-bound...

Exploring the role of the village in a highly urbanized 21st centuryThis latest issue of OASE contributes to the ongoing conversation around the architecture and urban design of villages, spurred by...

This issue OASE looks at the theme of Context. It includes case studies by and about architects such as Miller Maranta (Switzerland), Biq, Monadnock and Korteknie Stuhlmacher (the Netherlands), De...

A cartographic guide to Europe's seaport infrastructureA multitude of port cities dot Europe's coastline, each with its own history and relationship to sea transportation and development. In the era...

Ted Noten is one of today's most original, radical designers. His transparent acrylic bags, containing objects ranging from animals, jewels and cocaine to pistols, have seduced collectors, confused...

This thorough study on the work of the German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin exposes - in Benjamin?s own metaphor - the ?dwarf of theology? hidden in the machinery of his work, his own form of...

A critical review of the history and legacy of Dutch Architecture Institute (NAI) Figueiredo offers insight into how cultural policy works in practice and how specific national cultural institutions...

This reprinted publication presents anew an acclaimed overview of town planning in the Netherlands from the late 18th century onward. The book sheds light on developments such as the emergence of a...

Vademecum: 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places' offers a set of concepts that stimulate new approaches in planning, architecture, urban design, policy and other practices of spatial development...

From Limerick to Delft: applying a literary lens to the study of urban culture and planning in European citiesThis special issue of Writingplace brings together the work of the EU COST Writing Urban...

The first issue of the Writingplace journal builds upon the discussion initiated in Writingplace: Investigations in Architecture and Literature in 2016, specifically focusing on literature used in...