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Amsterdam Architecture City
The 100 Best Buildings
2024 || Paperback || Paul Groenendijk e.a. || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
> The 100 best buildings of Amsterdam
> Including maps and the best things to do
> Over 10,000 copies sold of the previously published Rotterdam edition
From the world-famous seventeenth-century Canal District to the striking new buildings of the Zuidas: Amsterdam is home to many architectural treasures, dating from the Middle Ages to the present day. This guide shows the 100 must-see highlights, including the Royal Palace, Rijksmuseum, the Anne Frank house, Artis Zoo, the Amsterdam School ho...
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Free the Map
From Atlas to Hermes: a New Cartography of Borders and Migration
2024 || Paperback || Henk van Houtum || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
A map is a visual story of the world. It feeds our imagination and shapes our view of the world. A standard atlas, however, predominantly tells only one story, that of the nation-state. It depicts a world in which people are uniformly packed into national containers, enclosed by borders, and in which migration is often represented as threatening invasion arrows.
Free the Map goes beyond this narrow, state-centric cartography. The book argues for a new cartographic story: a Hermes – the gran...
Cut Down Build Up
2024 || Paperback || Mer
Explore the fascinating interplay between visual art and architecture in 'Cut Down Build Up.' This book delves into three thought-provoking dialogues initiated by two talented visual artists and an architect, each with a unique perspective on abstraction and architecture. Rather than a dry analysis, this book takes a hands-on, practical approach to the subject. Through experimentation, creation, and mutual exploration, Hans Demeulenaere, Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, and Thierry Lagrange, along wit...
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Blue Papers: Water & Heritage for Sustainable Development - 2024/1
2024 || Paperback || Matteo D’Agostino || UNESCO Chair Water, Ports and Historic Cities
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Modern Architectures in Central America
2024 || Paperback || Mauricio Quirós Pacheco e.a. || Idea Books B.V.
The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic significance. Such buildings functioned as models for the desired societal, economic, and cultural changes, or as aspirational placeh...
Between Conventional and Experimental
Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture
2024 || Paperback || Regine Hess e.a. || Leuven University Press
Architectures of Resistance
Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices
2024 || Paperback || Angeliki Sioli e.a. || Leuven University Press
Borders between countries, neighbourhoods, people, beliefs, and policies are proliferating and expanding despite what self-proclaimed progressive societies wish or choose to believe. For a wide variety of reasons, the early 21st century is caught struggling between breaking down barriers and raising them. Architecture is complicit in both. It is central to the perpetuation of borders, and key to their dismantling. Architectures of Resistance: Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices appr...
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AI-Assisted Architectural Design
Generative form-finding methods by using artificial intelligence
2024 || Paperback || Asterios Agkathidis || BIS Publishers BV
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Towards the Integration of Additive Manufacturing for Freeform Steel and Glass Facade Construction
2024 || Paperback || Lia Tramontini || TU Delft
The thesis, titled ‘Towards the Integration of Additive Manufacturing for Freeform Steel and Glass Façade Construction,’ explores the transformative role of additive manufacturing (AM) in enhancing the design and construction of Freeform Steel and Glass Façades (FFSGF). These façades involve intricate components, necessitating collaborative efforts among designers, engineers, and fabricators to achieve complex façade geometries with good performance while ensuring efficiency in design...
UArchitects
a Journey of a Studio
2024 || Paperback || Conrad White e.a. || Loft Publications
An intimate look into the author’s visionary mind and the work of his architectural studio, UArchitects (Urban Design & Archiects).