The Architectural Record during its midcentury years of 1942 to 1967, was a riveting centre of architectural journalism following and participating in the changing development of the architectural profession. Through the Second World War and the Korean War that brought functionalist modernism to the foreword and through the emerging consumer market of the 1950s, the magazine’s editors’ mission was one of “helping this new-born architectural infant to learn to walk, talk, and attain his ...

In 2016, the Government of Suriname, financed by a loan from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), launched the Paramaribo Urban Rehabilitation Program (PURP), which contributes to the socio-economic revitalisation of Paramaribo’s historic inner city. It aims to attract new residents and commercial activities to the centre of Paramaribo, to restore value to its cultural heritage, to reduce traffic congestion and to strengthen the institutional framework for managing its sustainable dev...

To speed up residential energy retrofitting in the Hot Summer and Cold Winter(HSCW) zone, the barriers to retrofitting projects need elimination. Energy retrofitting contributes to improving building quality and living comfort, but has not been accepted by the public. It stems from poor project performance in quality, time, costs, etc. The risk is an essential factor hindering such project objectives and project success. Residential energy retrofitting in China is exposed to various risks due...

This dissertation concerns the optimisation of the use of spatial data from the National Continuously Operating Reference Stations (NCORS) in Thailand. Thailand, among many countries, has established NCORS to observe and process the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals into spatial data to improve the positional accuracy in spatially related activities. Despite many potential user groups, only some of them appeared actually to use NCORS data. In order to investigate and recommend...

Het officiële boek ter gelegenheid van honderd jaar Rietveld Schröderhuis vertelt het verhaal van twee geliefden en radicale vernieuwers in de moderne architectuur: Truus Schröder en Gerrit Rietveld

"Het idee van het huis zo te bewonen kwam in principe van mij."

— Truus Schröder

Rietveld Schröderhuis – Een biografie van het huis vertelt het verhaal van het iconische huis en zijn makers: Truus Schröder (1889−1985) en Gerrit Rietveld (1888−1964). De bouw van het huis, de ontwerpen...

De Roemeens-Nederlandse kunstenaar en theoreticus Calin Dan (1955) heeft in de afgelopen jaren een zeer specifiek interessegebied geformuleerd, de zogenoemde 'Emotional Architecture'. Dan ontwikkelde een heel eigen idioom waarin video en fotografie, naast tekst en muziek, een grote rol spelen.

Zijn werk richt zich op het gebruik, de beleving, betekenis en emotionele waarde van architectuur en de stedelijke omgeving. Door zijn observaties van de stad, het rondtrekken door buurten, het contact ...