“Biology of a Writer” doesn't only hold up a mirror, but a microscope.

This collection is divided in three distinct movements, exploring the social vulnerability of the poet, the private bargaining with inherited wounds, and stubborn hope.

It is a journey told through self-aware social commentary, dreamlike scenery, mythic stories and a pile of dripping dishes, exploring what it means to create, to endure, and to remain yourself.

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Spacematrix introduceert stedelijke dichtheid als instrument voor stadsontwikkeling en stadsontwerp. Berghauser Pont en Haupt ontrafelen op beelden gebaseerde termen als ‘urbaniteit’, ‘compacte stad’ en ‘parkstad’ door vraagtekens te plaatsen bij de betrouwbaarheid van zulke begrippen en door kritisch na te gaan of het mogelijk is om die te herdefiniëren met behulp van het begrip dichtheid. De belangstelling van de auteurs voor dichtheid is niet in de eerst...

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How to Build an Indian House focuses on one of Mumbai’s and India’s perennial and most daunting questions: mass housing. It documents, analyses and represents robust examples of different housing types in the city. Along with the documentary drawings and photographs, Sameep Padora developed a series of analytical models in order to understand spatial organization and infrastructure in residential building typologies.

This documentation is particularly perti...

Indispensable account of the last fifty years of urban development in Amsterdam

Year-by-year record of regeneration and growth

With all the groundbreaking ideas and plans for living and working in the city, new public amenities and street and square design

In Amsterdam Urban Development 1975–2025 urban designer Maurits de Hoog describes how the city has changed over the past fifty years, from a port and industrial city in decline into a fast-growing metropolis. Old districts have been rege...

A plea for the reassessment of photocopies and reproductions in architectural collections worldwide

A visual spectacle of blueprints, whiteprints, colourful adhesive films, rub-down letters and symbols and zips

Never-before-published designs from the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning at the Nieuwe Instituut

Original Copies radically discards the idea that reproductions are inferior to the ‘authentic original’. It introduces the copy as a driver of new c...

This book examines the South Asian constitutional systems (India 1950, Bangladesh 1972, Pakistan 1973, Sri Lanka 1978, Bhutan 2008, Nepal 2015), adopting a comparative law and ‘contextual’ approach. Social diversity is the main feature of this geographical region, vast in dimension, also according to its demographic profile. This is why studying this area from a legal and institutional perspective is not only a crucial need for comparative law, but also a major methodological and intellec...

“What exactly is the arranged marriage?” That is the central question that this book evolves around. The author argues that the arranged marriage is often misrepresented in academic literature as it is generally analyzed through a Eurocentric lens. This is not neutral lens. The Eurocentric frame perceives the free-choice marriage system as the ideal. As a result, the arranged marriage is perceived to be a lesser marital tradition, a “marriage of shortcomings”, one that fails to meet t...

The prevalence of the rules and practices on the recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments gradually blurs the dividing line between ‘recognition’ and ‘enforcement’.

However, recognition is not an afterthought of enforcement. Recognition of Foreign Judgments explores how the courts in the selected jurisdictions, namely the European Union, England and Wales, and the United States, decide whether and to what extent to grant some preclusive effects to foreign judgments, while giv...