Acht jaar na publicatie van de Atlas Westelijke Tuinsteden Amsterdam opnieuw een prikkelende analyse van de ontwikkelingen in een van de grootste stadsuitbreidingen van Nederland in de twintigste eeuw. Wat is er veranderd in de afgelopen jaren? Wat is het effect van de stedelijke vernieuwingsoperatie, die begin eenentwintigste eeuw inzette op sloop-nieuwbouw, maar daarna stagneerde door de crisis? Wat zijn de gevolgen van de autonome sociale, culturele en economische dynamiek in de wijk? Heef...

The future of humanity is urban. We are facing major problems such as climate change, social inequality, large-scale migration, and resource depletion. Cities (and those who 'make' the city) play an important role in addressing these problems. In Urban Challenges, Resilient Solutions the 'Future Urban Regions Lectorate' offers designers, their commissioners and (local) governments new models and ideas to deal with healthy urban development. Illustrated by more than fifty case studies and glob...

Since the 1960s, art and architecture have experienced a series of radical and reciprocal trades. While artists have simulated ‘architectural’ means like plans and models, built structures and pavilions outside art institutions, or intervened in urban and public spaces, architects have employed ‘artistic’ strategies inside art institutions, in exhibitions, biennales and art events. At the same time, art galleries and museums have combined both activities in an interdisciplinary, hybri...

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 04: Planning and Heritage

Negentig jaar geleden legde architect Henry Van de Velde de laatste hand aan zijn plannen voor de bouw van de Boekentoren, de modernistische 'opslagplaats' van de Gentse Universiteitsbibliotheek. Zeven jaar later stond het 64m hoge bouwwerk er en werd zo de vierde toren van Gent.

Die Boekentoren heeft zoveel verschillende facetten. Het is een kunstwerk op zich. Het is een stadsmonument, een toeristische aantrekkingspool. Het is een bibliotheek natuurlijk, voor studenten, academici, maar bij ...

Charles Holland challenges us to look beyond the day-to-day familiarity of buildings to rediscover the pleasure of experiencing architecture

This highly original and sophisticated look at architecture helps us to understand the cultural significance of the buildings that surround us. It avoids the traditional style-spotting approach in favour of giving an idea of what it is about buildings that moves us, and what it is that makes them important artistically and culturally. The book begins by looking at how architecture acquires meaning through tradition, and concludes with the exoticism of the recentavant garde.

Illustrations of p...