This highly original and personal exploration of Tadao Ando's work, one of Japan's leading architects, traverses both the physical and spiritual world.

In 2012, Philippe Se¿clier visited Tadao Ando's iconic Church of the Light, and was immediately compelled to journey around the world to further study the architect's buildings. This unique presentation of Ando's work is the result of what turned into a nine-year project to photograph 130 buildings. Walking around each structure, try...

Modulaire architectuur met avant-gardistisch design

Modular Projects heeft in 2009 een modulair architectuurproduct op de markt gebracht, gebaseerd op modulair geïndustrialiseerd bouwen met een houten structuur voor particuliere woningen, magazijnen, penthouses of een aanbouw. Dit type van constructie, gebruikelijk in de VS en veel Noord-Europese landen, maakt bouwen in 120 dagen mogelijk tegen veel lagere kosten dan het traditionele bakstenen bouwsysteem, met een onovertroffen energiezuinig...

In het koffietafelboek The Touch, een samenwerking tussen Nathan Williams van Kinfolk en Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen van Norm Architects, ontdek je meer dan 25 inspirerende ruimtes waar interieurontwerp verder gaat dan alleen visuele schoonheid. Hier draait het om ontwerpen die licht, natuur, materialen, kleur en gemeenschap integreren om al je zintuigen te betrekken en het dagelijks leven te verrijken.

Het fotoboek nodigt je uit in bijzondere huizen, hotels, musea en winkels. Van hedendaagse ontwer...

Jón Kristinsson (Reykjavik, 1936) is the godfather of sustainable building in the Netherlands and probably elsewhere in the world. Already in the 1970s and 1980s he invented and applied designs and technology that still to date are unequivocal in the built environment. With the completion of his masterpiece, Villa Flora (Venlo, 2012), Kristinsson again sets the benchmark for sustainable architecture. This abundantly illustrated book guides the reader through Jón Kristinsson's vision, theory...

This publication presents a selection of design proposals submitted for the 14th session of Europan, the Netherlands. Europan is an urban-architectural competition for design professionals (architects, urban planners, landscape architects, artists, ecologists, and social geographers) under the age of 40. The competition is organized every two years in several European countries, around a common theme, and involving sites provided by cities and/or developers. Europan NL has partnered with the ...

Spring 1934. In a boggy clay polder south of Amsterdam, the first sods are cut for what would become the largest urban forest in the world: Amsterdamse Bos. Over the next decades, the so-called Boschplan expanded into a unique project. Creating woodland in the polder was a technological tour de force, and Cornelis van Eesteren and Jakoba Mulder’s modern design caused a sensation at home and abroad. Equally unique were the conditions that surrounded the Bos’ birth. Amidst the hardships of ...

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This little book with the lengthy title The Magic Stove: Barry, Soyer and The Reform Club or How a Great Chef Helped to Create Great Building explores the architecture and technology of the London Reform Club building (1837-1840), a noted but generally misinterpreted work of Charles Barry, Britain’s most famous unknown nineteenth-century architect. Barry’s fame rests mainly on two over-familiar monuments: the Houses of Parliament and Highclere Castle, the decor of television drama Downton...