Senses of Architecture is a groundbreaking book that challenges the traditional approach to design by emphasizing the often overlooked senses. It explores how engaging all our senses—touch, smell, sound, and even taste—can enhance our experience of spaces, sparking a new wave of inspiration and intrigue among architects and designers. The book urges architects and designers to awaken these dormant senses, often neglected in modern design, to unlock a deeper understanding and appreciation ...

Abbah Unveiling represents a mystical disclosure. It touches a summit of realisation. It can be seen as a natural sequel to the previous book written by Yoginâm, The Book of Nâm. It is also a condensation of another book by Yoginâm called Oh Abbah, Songs for Lovers in which allusions are presented as springboards for transcendental realisation. Abbah Unveiling is like music in the sense that it does not describe anything, but attempts to open in the reader conclusions and realisations that...

The transition to sustainable energy means much more than building more wind turbines and solar panels. An overhaul of the entire energy system is needed. The gap between supply and demand for sustainable energy is too large. In cities and industrial areas, where sustainable energy is most needed, there is a severe lack of space. And the deserts and oceans, where there is an abundance of sun and wind, are far away. This book shows how to solve these storage and transport problems in smart way...

Design thinking has created divisions in the discipline: either designers are too theory driven or simply practitioners. Those feeling lost can easily turn to a language meant to inspire creative production in easy to pitch ways. Led by Antonio Gramsci’s advice that knowing thyself requires compiling an inventory, design critic, educator, and researcher Danah Abdulla pays tribute to the late architect, activist, and critic Michael Sorkin, whose original list 'Two Hundred and Fifty Things an...

The Amsterdam School (c. 1910-1930) is famous for its expressive brick architecture and richly decorated interiors. But what sources of inspiration informed these wonderous designs? This book shows how the colonial relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia, the former Dutch East Indies, profoundly shaped the style of the Amsterdam School.

Seeking inspiration for the enlivening world of beauty they hoped to create, the architects and designers of the Amsterdam School latched onto all ...

'Wars Overseas' focuses on Dutch military actions outside Europe in the early-modern period. Those actions were rooted in the Eighty Years’ War, the conflict between Spain and the northern Netherlands that led to the creation of the independent Dutch Republic. The Republic was determined to trade in tropical products from Asia, Africa and the Americas, commodities on which the Iberians had had a monopoly for a century or more. To do so, however, it would have to fight. The fledgling State d...

This book, 'Climate Security and the Military: Concepts, Strategies and Partnerships', reviews the climate Security Nexus from the military angle and proposes the design of climate security strategies and how they can contribute to adaptation to and mitigation of the related challenges. Part 1 reviews the understanding of the Climate Security Nexus. Subsequently, Part 2 assesses the potential design of climate security strategies. In Part 3, adaptation to climate change by the military is rev...