This book is as much about making architecture as it is about world making. Herman Hertzberger has never considered his works as stand-alones, but always as parts of webs of connections on different scales. Shaping freedom integrates his architecture, texts, photographs, drawings, quotes, and art and architecture of others. All these layers are reciprocally related to each other. Together, they form Hertzberger’s architectural universe.

Exponential population ageing is changing how we coexist in urban spaces. The Architecture of Ageing is de Architekten Cie.’s long-term collaborative project on housing, ageing, and care in the city. It is where we synthesise our knowledge and share our experience through continuous dialogues at home in the Netherlands and internationally.

Improving discourse on ‘care’ is high on the agenda in our globally ageing world. Our task of densifying cities with hundreds of apartments in single...

Architecture and design as a source of inspiration for album covers

Collection of the finest, strangest and most remarkable architecture covers

An endless delight for lovers of both music and architecture

‘Architecture is frozen music’, Wolfgang Goethe is quoted as saying. It turns out that architecture is a major source of inspiration for musicians and composers – from classic and modern composers via jazz and the blues to new wave bands and rappers who sing the praises of the big cit...

A unique insight into the making of the architectural world’s most influential event

Yaneva’s ethnographical approach offers a fresh perspective on the Biennale as an essential tool for architectural discourse

Launch at the finissage of the 2025 Biennale Architettura di Venezia

Biennales have occupied a central place in the discourse of architecture. Every two years, architects, educators and students from all over the world gather in Venice to celebrate the most influential event...

Ir. Jan de Bie Leuveling Tjeenk (1885-1940) maakte na zijn afstuderen aan de Technische Hoogeschool in Delft in 1912 en 1913 een wereldreis, waarbij hij behalve Amerika en Canada ook vele landen in Azië doorkruiste, om tenslotte Nederlands-Indië aan te doen. Zijn bevindingen op het gebied van architectuur, kunst, toneel en dans, zijn contacten met medereizigers, onder wie de jonge Azië-kenner Hervey Wetzel (1888-1918), legde hij vast in dagboeken die bewaard zijn gebleven. Terug in Nederla...

In Steden op slik beschrijft Han Meyer de controversiële maar ook inspirerende geschiedenissen van Venetië, Rotterdam en New Orleans: hoe deze havensteden omgingen met het dynamische karakter van de delta en de lagune. Voor het mogelijk maken van de economische en stedelijke ontwikkeling in deze kustlandschappen is steeds weer geprobeerd met technische ingrepen het natuurlijke proces van dichtslibben tegen te gaan. Dat leidde tot het verlies van veel ecologische en landschappelijke kwalitei...