De wijde omgeving van grote luchthavens, die te maken krijgt met geluidsoverlast, extra infrastructuur en tijdelijke vormen van architectuur, is tot op heden nog nooit onderzocht als een samenhangend fenomeen. Maar dergelijke geluidslandschappen zijn wereldwijd in opkomst. Hun afmetingen overtreffen in veel gevallen die van naburige steden en steken die in termen van economisch belang soms naar de kroon.

Aan de hand van acht Europese praktijkgevallen (Amsterdam, Zürich, Londen-Heathrow, Fran...

Margaret Staal-Kropholler (1891–1966) is regarded as the first woman architect in the Netherlands. She completed her first work as an unqualified architect in 1917. Less well known is that Grada Wolffensperger (1887–1965) became the first woman to complete the univer-sity course in architecture at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft that same year. A further twenty women had completed their architectural training by 1945.

Why and how did these women become architects at a time when women w...

The Taiwan Strait is a liminal space, and a natural incubator. These two conditions create a unique opportunity for implementing a future city-making process.

The Conscious City concept brings together all the challenges facing contemporary city-making. It is a concept for the urban curation processes required for future cities; for adapting to the impacts of climate change, emerging intelligences, a growing population, affordable housing, the need for a new pact with nature, as well as navi...

Smart-lighting design is a rapidly growing area of interactive and cross-disciplinary design that is defining new practices in the profession. This book focuses on the projects that use light to animate architecture and media screens; new forms of lighting in industrial zones and public areas, and interactive installations in urban spaces.

The definitive overview of and ultimate resource on the iconic architect-designed houses built in Japan from 1945 to the present. The Japanese House Since 1945 is a cohesive chronology of iconic Japanese houses, presenting 100 architect-designed homes to show developments in form, material, architectural expression and family living over almost eight decades.

Visionary landscape architecture firm OJB reveals the guiding principles behind its award-winning work in this new, expanded edition of its debut monograph

For more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use - or could use - the spaces where they live and work. In this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people.

Taking into account changi...