Once synonymous with eyesore highway bridges and crumbling, unloved walls, concrete has been reborn as adventurous and sexy. This collection considers the elaborate feats and prodigious engineering of contemporary concrete architecture, from stars such as Tadao Ando and Herzog & de Meuron, to fresh new studios like the Russian SPEECH.

Nederland is door mensen gemaakt. In steden, polders, landinrichting, zelfs in natuurgebieden is de ordenende menselijk hand zichtbaar. De planmatige inrichting is even uniek als befaamd.

Dit boek beschrijft de intrigerende geschiedenis van de ruimtelijke ordening van Nederland, vanaf de late middeleeuwen tot nu. Waar komt de sterke neiging tot ordening en planning vandaan? Die duizenden plannen, ging dat altijd goed? Of sloegen de planologen en stedenbouwkundigen de plank wel eens mis?

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For more than 20 years, work was done at the East side of the Grote Markt square, with the Forum as the cultural heart of the intervention. Commissioned by the City of Groningen, NL Architects designed a new type of building, moving way ahead of the international competition in the multiple assignment early 2017.

At the opening in late 2019, the daring, visionary design concept finally took concrete form: a series of stacked squares, opening up and overlapping a rich cultural programme.

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Although largely overlooked in studies of architectural history, church architecture in a Gothic idiom outlived its 19th century momentum to persist worldwide throughout the 20th century and into the new millennium.

Global Gothic presents a first systematic worldwide understanding of "Gothic" in contemporary architecture, both as a distinct variation and as a competitor to recognized modern styles. The book’s chapters critically discuss Gothic’s various manifestations over the past centur...

The richness and diversity of Dutch contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known in the study of twentieth-century architectural history. Between 1902 and 1961 more than seventy Dutch-born émigré architects were active from the Cape to the Highveld, both in major towns and remote areas, and they designed hundreds of buildings and neighbourhoods. A sequel to the acclaimed Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens: A Shared Dutch Built Heritage in South Africa, Common Ground reve...

Als geen ander bouwwerk bepalen kerken het beeld van een stad of een dorp. In Den Haag is dat niet anders. Zeker de grote kerken met hun hoge torens vormen belangrijke bakens en oriëntatiepunten in de wijk. Minder zichtbaar maar net zo belangrijk is de binnenkant. Kosten noch moeite werden gespaard om de interieurs zo mooi mogelijk in te richten en zij vormen vaak een hoogtepunt in het oeuvre van een architect of kunstenaar.

Dat maken de 25 kerken in dit boek meer dan duidelijk. Auteur Botin...

Cities around the world are working to build more livable environments, better-quality public spaces, more resilient and sustainable urban economies, lower resource impacts, greater social equity, and other goals of a “new urban agenda.” In this process, the American movement advanced by the Congress for the New Urbanism has been unquestionably influential, if sometimes controversial. This volume presents a distillation of key essays by CNU proponents in their own words, as well as perspe...