Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools are currently making a dynamic appearance in the architectural realm. Social media are being bombarded by word-to-image/image-to-image/word-to-3D/image-to-3D illustrations of fictive buildings generated by 2D or 3D AI algorithms. However, these “designs”, while visually appealing, have initiated a debate about their substance and the impact they have on conventional design methods. This book investigates the integration of generative ai-assist...

Willem Marinus Dudok (1884-1974) behoort tot de grootste architecten van de twintigste eeuw. Hij oogstte bewondering niet alleen in Nederland, maar over de hele wereld. In zijn lange loopbaan als architect en stedenbouwkundige heeft Dudok een schat aan schoonheid gerealiseerd.

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DVD NEXT 21 – An ExperimentEen documentaire / A documentary by van Beate LendtJapanese and English (with English subtitles)ISBN 9789076863927 € 12,50November 2009With the aim of creating an energy-efficient, green, social and flexible urban living environment fit for the challenges of the 21st century and its demands, Osaka Gas commissioned the experimental residential complex NEXT 21 in Osaka (completed in 1993). 15 years into its existence and after three consecutive five-year cycles of o...

Michel de Klerk was the great inspirer of the Amsterdam School, the Dutch expressionist movement in architecture. Besides a brilliant architect he was also a versatile artist. 'The Rembrandt among architects' made drawings and paintings and designed furniture and interiors. De Klerk created an innovative language of forms and brought beauty to the working class. This book reveals the versatility of his work through lavish images and quotes from De Klerk himself and his contemporaries.

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.

Dit boek beschrijft hoe Rotterdam in dertig jaar tijd is uitgegroeid tot dé hoogbouwstad van Nederland. Daarnaast werpt het boek een blik in de toekomst en kijkt het vanuit 2050 terug op de huidige situatie. Verschillende essays belichten aspecten die cruciaal zijn bij de verdere ontwikkeling van hoogbouw in Rotterdam. Tot slot wordt een overzicht geboden van de 48 hoogbouwprojecten die op dit moment op de tekentafels liggen of in aanbouw zijn.

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...