The second edition of Circular Communities, now featuring new, inspiring community-led circular practices from across the globe

An alternative perspective on the relationship between resources, nature and human beings

Provides a design method to facilitate an alternative economic and cultural model: what do we value and how do we organize ourselves in relation to one other and to nature?

Building on the first edition of Circular Communities (2022), this sequel explores culturally dive...

Een prachtig aangelegd plein waar je wegwaait, een moderne stadswoning waarin je 's zomers door de hitte niet kan slapen. Iedereen kent voorbeelden van stedelijke architectuur waarvan het ontwerp onvoldoende rekening houdt met het stadsklimaat. In deze publicatie wordt op begrijpelijke en beeldende wijze uiteengezet hoe uitgekiend stadsontwerp het comfort in de stad kan verhogen.

De manier waarop wij het stadsklimaat beleven, is afhankelijk van fysieke en omgevingspsychologische factoren. Aa...

Cartographies of Catastrophes is an in-depth exploration of how disasters, whether due to wars or to natural calamities, have been documented and mapped over the past two centuries. This interdisciplinary volume brings together historians, urban planners, and architects to examine the role of maps in understanding, responding to, and reconstructing after catastrophic events. From the Greek War of Independence to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, this book offers a unique perspective on how map...

It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism.

Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of ...

The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of designing and building in the material world. It proposes the concept of the hybrid practitioner, who bridges the gap between academia and practice by considering how different aspects of architectural practice, theory, and history intersect, opening up a fascinating array of p...

What physical and morphological conditions need to be in place within an urban environment in order for Complex Adaptive Systems dynamics arise - such that the physical components (or ‘building blocks') of the urban environment have an enhanced capacity to discover functional configurations in space and time as a response to unfolding contextual conditions?

This thesis looks at how cities operate as Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS). It focuses on how certain characteristics of urban form can ...

This PhD thesis focuses on Urban River Corridors (URCs) as spaces of social-ecological integration par excellence—that is, spaces where the interaction between the urban systems (carrying the ‘social-’) and the river system (carrying the ‘-ecological’) is (potentially) the most intense. The general hypothesis is that with an integrated spatial understanding, planning and design of rivers and the urban fabric surrounding them, cities could become more resilient, not just to flood-rel...

Anchored by Hüppauf and Umbach’s notion of Vernacular Modernism and focusing on architecture and urbanism during Franco’s dictatorship from 1939 to 1975, this thesis challenges the hegemonic and Northern-oriented narrative of urban modernity. It develops arguments about the reciprocal influences between the urban and the rural that characterize Spanish modernity, and analyzes the intense architectural and urban debates that resulted from the crisis of 1898, as they focused on the importa...

In de zeventiende eeuw liet de stedelijke elite op grote schaal buitenplaatsen en landgoederen in het Hollandse laagland aanleggen. Zij verkozen de meest welgelegen plaatsen voor hun zomerverblijf met speelhuizen, bomenlanen en geschoren hagen. De voorkeur om in elkaars nabijheid te gaan wonen was veelal ingegeven door eenzelfde gebruik of vanwege een vergelijkbare stedelijke of landschappelijke beleving van de omgeving. Door identieke keuze drukte de elite hun stempel op het landschap.

Door ...

Joke Reichardt: Reis door een land vol wonderen. Architect Willem Marinus Dudok op lezingentour door

Amerika, 19 september-18 december 1953 Frederik Vandyck en Matthijs Degraeve: ‘Baukultur’ in Brussel. Kleinschalig industrieel erfgoed van bouwbedrijven als drager van de productieve stad Hélène Damen: Sober Nederlands vlagvertoon. Naoorlogse ambassadegebouwen in Washington en Bonn Publicaties: Marinke Steenhuis (red.), De nieuwe grachtengordel. De realisatie van het Algemeen Uitbreiding...