De Deltawerken in de Nederlands-Vlaamse Delta van Rijn, Maas en Schelde behoren tot de iconische monumenten van ons land, mede door de beeldbepalende kracht van de dammen en dijken. Met name door de Oosterscheldekering, een wereldwonder, voortgekomen uit de wens om de Delta voorgoed veilig te maken na de watersnoodramp van 1953. Na de realisatie van de Deltawerken is een grote reeks nieuwe projecten voor waterveiligheid gerealiseerd, waarover niet veel bekend is. Bij de meeste van deze nieuwe...

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 ...

The 17th conference (2016, Delft) of the International Planning History Society (IPHS) and its proceedings place presentations from different continents and on varied topics side by side, providing insight into state-of-the art research in the field of planning history and offering a glimpse of new approaches, themes, papers and books to come. VOLUME 01: Ideas on the Move and Modernisation

Wat zijn duurzame en vernieuwende oplossingen voor een aantrekkelijk pad naar de toekomst? Hoe kun je ingewikkelde gebiedsontwikkelingen in goede banen leiden? Fijne en rustgevende plekken ontwerpen? 

Het Jaarboek Landschapsarchitectuur en stedenbouw in Nederland toont 22 opmerkelijke projecten: parkontwerpen met intrigerende combinaties van land art, historie en muziek, woonbuurten met een uitgekiende mix tussen oud en nieuw, een unieke rechtzaak om de Noordzee te beschermen, en een kritis...

The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic significance. Such buildings functioned as models for the desired societal, economic, and cultural changes, or as aspirational placeh...

More than 70 percent of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by 2050. Cities in Africa, Latin America and Asia in particular are growing like never before. Photographer Yvonne Brandwijk and journalist Stephanie Bakker travelled to five of the fastest-growing cities in the world. Not to Mumbai or Shanghai, but to the up-and-coming cultural, creative and economic hubs of tomorrow: Kinshasa, Lima, Yangon, Medellín and Addis Ababa. 


In this book, they share five years of tra...

The province of Gelderland (The Netherlands) inherits many castles, country houses and estates. Together they form historic estate landscapes that partially determine the regional landscape character. Climate change and urbanisation have a significant effect on the management and protection of these heritage landscapes. An abundance and a shortage of water, spatial fragmentation and increasing pressure from recreation and tourism are only a few of the many challenges that need to be addressed...

In cities around the world a new urban condition is spreading

rapidly: an ever-increasing push for ‘perfection’, efficiency

and control and the active eradication of any

aberration, friction or alternative. The smooth city with its

sanitized spaces and new technologies compresses urban

life into a seamless experience. While the demand for safe,

clean, and well-functioning urban environments is understandable,

the rise of the smooth city undermines the democratic

nature and emancipatory po...