Since the origins of architectural history, proportional systems have served as objects of belief and modes of iconographical communication. Whether they are capable of fulfilling more tangible functions remains a matter of debate today, for this ancient and diverse belief system continues to infiltrate architectural thinking in subtle and sometimes surprising ways.

In this collection of original essays, twenty-six leading scholars reconsider the long history of proportional systems across nu...

Within architecture, tacit knowledge plays a substantial role both within the design process and its reception. This book explores the tacit dimension of architecture in its aesthetic, material, cultural, design-based, and reflexive understanding of what we build. Much of architecture’s knowledge resides beneath the surface, in nonverbal instruments such as drawings and models that articulate the spatial imagination of the design process. Tacit knowledge, described in 1966 by Michael Polany...

New title in the Architecture and Design Experiments Series. The core idea for this book is to use operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms, allowing for an objective approach to create the foundation for subjective spatial design. Examples of these verbs are expand, inflate, nest, twist, lift, embed, merge etcetera. This book catalogues these verbs and shows in diagrams and architectural applications ho...

Dit overzicht van stedenbouw in Nederland, bij verschijnen al een klassieker, is nu weer beschikbaar. Het laat zien hoe de Nederlanders vanaf het einde van de achttiende eeuw de steden. De op water gebaseerde infrastructuur werd vervangen door een uitgebreid spoorwegennetwerk en later door snelwegen. Het platteland werd geherstructureerd om zo de landbouwproductie op te voeren en vervolgens herontwikkeld tot ruimte voor suburbane agglomeratie.Deze publicatie is een bloemlezing van plannen, en...