Het Scheepvaarthuis aan de Prins Hendrikkade in Amsterdam is een icoon van de stad. Zes scheepvaartmaatschappijen lieten dit prestigieuze kantoor in verschillende fases bouwen, met een start in 1913.

De architect Joan Melchior van der Meij (1878-1949) kreeg de opdracht het gebouw te ontwerpen. Hij gaf het een geheel eigen stijl en uitstraling. Vervolgens stelde hij een team samen voor de inrichting. Voor velen van deze jonge kunstenaars was het een vliegende start voor hun carrière: Michel d...

In this brief, accessible volume, the authors – an urban philosopher and a mathematician-physicist – explain the surprising new findings from the sciences that are beginning to transform environmental design in the modern era. Michael Mehaffy and Nikos Salingaros explore fractals, networks, self-organization, dynamical systems and other revolutionary ideas, describing them to non-science readers in a direct and engaging way. The book also examines fascinating new topics of design, includi...

This study enlarges on the notion of composition in landscape architecture, building on the ‘Delft Method’, which elaborates composition as a methodological framework for landscape design. At the same time it takes a critical stance in respect to this method in response to recent developments in landscape architecture such as the site-specicity and process discourses.

The notion of composition is examined from a historical, theoretical and lexical perspective, before turning to an examina...

Over the years, the consumption of materials for construction exceeded more than half of the total materials consumed in the Netherlands, and construction waste exceeded the volume of solid waste produced by households. Since the introduction of the "Ladder van Lansink" (in the 1970’s) and the further development of the European Waste Framework Directives followed by the Circular Economy concept, waste prevention has been considered a priority measure. Whereas the goals to improve waste man...

This research aimed at understanding how occupants use energy in their homes to make themselves feel more comfortable. This was done to propose customized environmental characteristics that could improve the occupants’ comfort while reducing energy consumption. To conceptualize such bespoke environmental features, occupant archetypes were produced based on the occupants’ intentions and motivations behind comfort behaviours.

A mixed-methods human-centered design approach was developed for ...

This research introduces the concept of visibility as a useful tool to assess the democratic features of public spaces. It understands democratic public spaces as open spaces, which are accessible to all and allow different cultural expressions for individuals and groups. The concept of visibility refers to the visual perception of the observable features of distinctive urban groups in public space, which give evidence of how these groups engage with, shape, and construct public space. The re...

Reinout Rutte: Antoon van den Wijngaerdes tekeningen van steden in de Nederlanden. Inventief geconstrueerde stadsgezichten voor Filips II. Minke Walda: Bouwen in de krimpende stad. Renovatie, functieverandering en vergroening in Haarlem en Leiden rond 1800. Hannes De Zutter: Een nieuw platteland bouwen. Het Moderne Dorp op de Wereldtentoonstelling van 1913 in Gent en de Belgische modelschool