Architects, researchers and poets share their approaches to place

Stimulating explorations of architecture, poetry and place

Featuring interviews with Anna West, Erik Linder and Ted Landrum

Architects and poets alike experiment with writing as a spatial act, using verse and reflection to navigate landscapes both real and imagined. But how does poetry emerge from place, and what knowledge of place can poetry reveal— for architects, designers, and spatial practitioners?

This inaugural...

The second edition of Circular Communities, now featuring new, inspiring community-led circular practices from across the globe

An alternative perspective on the relationship between resources, nature and human beings

Provides a design method to facilitate an alternative economic and cultural model: what do we value and how do we organize ourselves in relation to one other and to nature?

Building on the first edition of Circular Communities (2022), this sequel explores culturally dive...

Een prachtig aangelegd plein waar je wegwaait, een moderne stadswoning waarin je 's zomers door de hitte niet kan slapen. Iedereen kent voorbeelden van stedelijke architectuur waarvan het ontwerp onvoldoende rekening houdt met het stadsklimaat. In deze publicatie wordt op begrijpelijke en beeldende wijze uiteengezet hoe uitgekiend stadsontwerp het comfort in de stad kan verhogen.

De manier waarop wij het stadsklimaat beleven, is afhankelijk van fysieke en omgevingspsychologische factoren. Aa...

Urban Megaprojects – here referred to as Grands Projets – are increasing in number all over the world. They have become major drivers for urban intensification and oftentimes set out to take a city’s expansion to the next level. As such, Grands Projets can be read as manifestations of the larger economic and political agenda of their city and they offer a productive moment to investigate current urban trends in a globally connected form of concentrated urbanization.

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Narrative Architecture reveals a stream of remarkable architectural and urban visions in the twentieth century that culminated in the construction of one of the most powerful, misunderstood and underutilized weapons of architectural and urban critique, thinking and representation.

This historical genealogy in three parts weaves inseparable modern architecture and narrative critique through never before seen images of half a century of utopian, heroic, commerc...

Building with Nature is een bewezen, innovatieve aanpak om watergerelateerde Nature-based Solutions te realiseren voor maatschappelijke problemen. Deze aanpak benut de krachten van de natuur en versterkt de kansen voor natuurontwikkeling, waardoor meerwaarde ontstaat voor omgeving,economie en maatschappij. EcoShape is een unieke samenwerking tussen wetenschappers, ingenieurs, bouwers, ontwerpers en NGO’s.

In het afgelopen decennium heeft EcoShape verschillende Building with Nature projecten...

De standaardisatie van de Nederlandse woningbouw staat op gespannen voet met de steeds gevarieerdere vraag naar woningen. Hoe kan de overheid ontwerpers, bouwers en ontwikkelaars prikkelen om vernieuwende woonconcepten te realiseren?

Sinds WO II zien we wereldwijd overheidsbeleid met als doel te kunnen voldoen aan een telkens veranderende woonvraag. Experimentele woningbouwprogramma’s hebben in Europa en daarbuiten interessante alternatieven opgeleverd voor de standaard van de grondgebonde...

It is a major challenge to write the history of post-WWII architectural theory without boiling it down to a few defining paradigms. An impressive anthologising effort during the 1990s charted architectural theory mostly via the various theoretical frameworks employed, such as critical theory, critical regionalism, deconstructivism, and pragmatism.

Yet the intellectual contours of what constitutes architectural theory have been constantly in flux. It is therefore paramount to ask what kind of ...

The practice of architecture manifests in myriad forms and engagements. Overcoming false divides, this volume frames the fertile relationship between the cultural and scholarly production of academia and the process of designing and building in the material world. It proposes the concept of the hybrid practitioner, who bridges the gap between academia and practice by considering how different aspects of architectural practice, theory, and history intersect, opening up a fascinating array of p...