More than a decade in the making, this is a textbook of architecture rich with design techniques and useful for every architect whether a first-year students or experienced practicing architects. The book teaches the reader how to design by adapting to human needs and sensibilities, yet independently of any particular style. It explains much of what people instinctively know about architecture, and puts that knowledge for the first time in a concise, understandable form. There has not been su...

Re-Framing the Politics of Design is a research, exhibition and book project exploring the role of designers in collaboratively giving shape to future changes addressing complex challenges such as climate change, mobility and migration. By looking at concrete, situated case studies, this book explores the current need for designers to re-frame their political agency, engaging with the deep relationality connecting us all, humans (and not only those who already have a voice in society and are...

Hyperbody is een onderzoeksgroep naar nieuwe wegen voor het ontwerpen en maken van niet-standaard- en interactieve architectuuraan de Faculteit Bouwkunde aan de Technische Universiteit van Delft onder leiding van Prof. Kas Oosterhuis.<br/>Deze publicatie geeft een overzicht van de resultaten van Hyperbody. Na uitgebreid onderzoek naar software- gereedschappen (voor directe interactie en parametrisch ontwerpen) en het toepassen van nieuwe productietechnieken (bestand-naar-fabriek produc...

The first in a series by the Sikkens Foundation, this pocket-sized publication of the Mondrian Lecture given by Charles Jencks reprints his talk in full, along with various images. Jencks discusses the possibility that architecture and well-being can have a direct correlation, exploring how architecture can influence society, business productivity, profits and hospitals. He elaborates with examples of architectural determinism from both ancient and modern history, with a special focus on his ...

Danube, Rhône, Bow, Mississippi, Chao Phraya, Buffalo Bayou, Tagus, Meuse, North Sea. Follow the River shows how designers who cherish the river are creating beautiful projects in many places. Projects in which the river is approached with care, love, knowledge, and creativity, whether far upstream or at the very end, at the mouth. In which the river and its natural environment are given space again, while people can enjoy it in park-like environments.

We have collected twelve such projects...