Laurent-Benoît Dewez (1731-1812), court architect to Charles of Lorraine, was the most outstanding architect of his time in the Southern Low Countries. After studying in Italy and serving in the eminent office of Robert Adam in London, Dewez developed a personal, classical style that came to embody the “Eglise Belgique” under the Austrian Habsburgs. He designed numerous castles, abbeys, and churches across Belgium, but time has not been kind to his legacy: of his 80 architectural project...

Architectuurhistoricus Wouter van Elburg deed onderzoek naar de ruimte achter Nederlandse

voordeuren: de entree. Zijn gedachte was dat deze ruimte een rol speelt in hoe een huis verder is ingedeeld. Op basis van 2500 plattegronden van huizen tussen 1550 en 1950 identificeerde hij acht verschillende entreeruimtes.

Voor het onderzoek werd gekeken in de woonhuizencollectie van Vereniging Hendrick de Keyser én, uit oogpunt van representativiteit, naar woonhuisplattegronden die bij de Rijksdiens...

Restauratie van een Utrechts stadsicoon

Een eeuw na afronding van de vorige grote restauratie was de Utrechtse Domtoren toe aan groot onderhoud. Wat komt er anno 2024 bij kijken wanneer een grootschalig binnenstedelijk maar vakspecifiek restauratieproject

moet worden opgetuigd?

Icoon in de steigers doet verslag van de restauratie van de Domtoren, die werd voorbereid vanaf 2016 en uitgevoerd tussen 2020 en 2024. De organisatie van het project, de onderzoeken die zijn gedaan, de plannen die zij...

This special issue of the Journal of Facade Design and Engineering (JFDE) is linked to the conference FAÇADE 2018 – Adaptive!, the fifth conference that has been organised by Lucerne University of Applied Science and Arts within the framework of the European Façade Network, EFN. FAÇADE 2018 is also the final conference of the COST Action TU1403 ‘Adaptive façades network’ (www.tu1403.eu) and dedicated to multifunctional, adaptive, and dynamic building envelopes.

Despite the odds, manufacturing is not in terminal decay in western cities. On the contrary, it is at the opening of a new chapter. Urban manufacturing can help cities to be more innovative, circular, inclusive and resilient.

Since the 1970s, cities world-wide have been witness to radical de-industrialisation. Manufacturing was considered incompatible with urban life and was actively pushed out. As economies have grown, public officials and developers have instinctively shifted their priori...

Structuralism represents an architecture that can interact, grow and adapt. The buildings can be recognised by their vivid open structures, composition of small units, and a spatial organisation like a city. As a reaction to CIAM functionalism, the avant-garde members of Team 10 proposed inclusive and social space and a more human form of urbanism and architecture. Starting in 1959, Dutch Structuralism became a very influential movement in the development of architecture in The Netherlands.

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