Spaarndammerhart in Amsterdam is designed by the architectural offices of Korth Tielens and Marcel Lok_Architect, artist Martijn Sandberg, and the landscape architects of DS Landschapsarchitecten. Photography of Max Hart Nibbrig, Dennis De Smet, and Raimond Wouda (who has been commissioned to document the life in and of Spaarndammerhart), and texts by Fred Feddes, Hans Ibelings, Vincent Kompier, and Hannah Schubert document and discuss this housing complex, in which architecture, art, courtya...

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 ...

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.

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

A landmark publication that presents a world panorama of raw earth structures from ancient times to the present day.

This unique book discusses programming, design and building evaluation providing a `joined up' approach to building design. By linking the functional and architectonic qualities of a building, the authors show the practical implications of the utility value of buildings. Starting by looking at how the relationship between form and function has been dealt with by different approaches to architecture from a historical perspective, it goes on to discuss how the desired functional quality and uti...