Het rectoraatsgebouw van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is één van de laatste grote projecten van de architect Renaat Braem en werd opgeleverd in 1976. Braem maakte er een meesterwerk van, met een totaalarchitectuur rijk aan betekenis: de vormentaal, de ellips, de luifel, de alom aanwezige symboliek en de muurschilderingen dragen allemaal de tekens van een humanistische wereldbeschouwing op basis van de vrije wetenschap met als doel de wereld te begrijpen niet vanuit een openbaring, ma...

From the World Trade Center Transportation Hub in Manhattan to his UAE Pavilion at Expo 2020 in Dubai, discover Calatrava’s organic forms through texts, photos, and the original watercolor sketches that distinguish him as a unique creative mind. The architect, engineer, sculptor, and artist showcases early collaborations and his most recent works.

The Andrew Martin Interior Design Review presents the latest and most creative interiors by the best international designers on over 500 pages.

This book chronicles and analyzes the role of the perspective within the history and evolution of landscape architecture and design. The first part of the book examines perspectives produced at key stages of the profession's history, beginning with their origins in Renaissance art, and moving chronologically into present day practice. It charts how both linear and atmospheric perspective helped visualize imagined landscapes, first in paintings, later real spaces, and expanding from private ga...

This book is as much about making architecture as it is about world making. Herman Hertzberger has never considered his works as stand-alones, but always as parts of webs of connections on different scales. Shaping freedom integrates his architecture, texts, photographs, drawings, quotes, and art and architecture of others. All these layers are reciprocally related to each other. Together, they form Hertzberger’s architectural universe.

Let's pause… and rethink home beyond its architecture. This book explores domestic life as a living, evolving experience - felt, remembered, imagined, and continuously made. Through essays, conversations, and interactive exercises with architects, designers, and educators, it examines dwelling, belonging, and everyday rituals. Divided into Reflections and Exercises, it invites readers both to consider diverse perspectives on home and to engage in their own exploration of what home truly means.

Exponential population ageing is changing how we coexist in urban spaces. The Architecture of Ageing is de Architekten Cie.’s long-term collaborative project on housing, ageing, and care in the city. It is where we synthesise our knowledge and share our experience through continuous dialogues at home in the Netherlands and internationally.

Improving discourse on ‘care’ is high on the agenda in our globally ageing world. Our task of densifying cities with hundreds of apartments in single...

Architecture and design as a source of inspiration for album covers

Collection of the finest, strangest and most remarkable architecture covers

An endless delight for lovers of both music and architecture

‘Architecture is frozen music’, Wolfgang Goethe is quoted as saying. It turns out that architecture is a major source of inspiration for musicians and composers – from classic and modern composers via jazz and the blues to new wave bands and rappers who sing the praises of the big cit...