> The 100 best buildings of Amsterdam

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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...

Magali Reus. Rode Rozen toont de buitengewone artistieke praktijk van deze internationaal geprezen kunstenaar uit Londen en winnaar van de prestigieuze Prix de Rome 2015. De publicatie bevat een scala aan recent werk. Het werk van Reus verkent onze relatie met utilitaire objecten en de onlosmakelijke context van de consumptiemaatschappij. Haar virtuoze objecten lijken functioneel, maar onthullen niet expliciet wat hun werkelijke functie is. Door onze relatie met objecten te onderzoeken, zoekt...

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...

Women have been professional photographers since the invention of photography in 1839, but until now their work has received far less attention than that of their male colleagues. From the more than 15 million photographs stored in the Dutch National Archives in The Hague, the editors of Pioneers. Photography by Women selected work of 43 women created between 1859 and 1999. All of them can be described as innovators whose work paved the way for future generations of photographers.

Pioneers fo...

Maaike Schoorel. Unsung Eve documents Dutch artist Maaike Schoorel’s contemplation of her own work in relation to the historical collection of one of the oldest museums of the Netherlands – The Willet Holthuysen House. Through paintings, drawings, collages and objects, Schoorel explores and reimagines the museum’s history, its collection and the story of its founder, Louisa Holthuysen.

This visually stunning volume, designed by Goda Budvytyte, showcases artworks created specifically wit...

Dutch Waterworks Worldwide documents the story of architecture and landscape photographer Luuk Kramer’s journey documenting waterworks built by Dutch engineers around the world, from the sixteenth century to the present day, from polders in Poland to dikes and dams in Japan, from canals in Brazil to a small lock in Surinam.

The Dutch brought knowledge gleaned from centuries of experiences with living in a delta, including land reclamation efforts, droughts and catastrophic floods. They wer...

This book delves into the practice of Office Winhov, the acclaimed Amsterdam-based architecture firm, whose buildings elegantly blend the past with the present. Architecture Repurposed showcases Office Winhov’s adaptive reuse approach, combining contemporary transformations with respect for architectural heritage.

At a time when sustainability is paramount and our cities yearn for historical and cultural nuance, it is essential that existing buildings are transformed with care. Office Winho...