Willem van Tijen (Wormerveer 1894 – Heemstede 1974) was een visionaire architect. Hij was een pionier van het nieuwe bouwen, stond met zijn Rotterdamse architectenbureau aan de wieg van de sociale woningbouw en werd beeldbepalend voor het Nederlandse bebouwde landschap. Velen hebben zijn woonwijken, galerijflats, standaardwoningen, scholen en bejaardentehuizen gekend of zullen zich die herinneren. Ze hadden een diepgaande impact op het naoorlogse leven en wonen, waarbij de architect steeds ...

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...

The first major survey of contemporary apartment buildings that foster a sense of community while giving every resident an inspiring place to live.

Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all, often responding to crises, the imperatives of nation-building, and housing shortages by rapidly developing, distributing, and assembling structures.

The book’s contributions, with a geographical emphasis on Europe and Israel,...

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...