New title in the Architecture and Design Experiments Series. The core idea for this book is to use operative verbs as tools for designing space. These operative verbs abstract the idea of spatial formation to its most basic terms, allowing for an objective approach to create the foundation for subjective spatial design. Examples of these verbs are expand, inflate, nest, twist, lift, embed, merge etcetera. This book catalogues these verbs and shows in diagrams and architectural applications ho...

Marc Schoonderbeek (redactie), Tom Avermaete, Jennifer Bloomer, Wim Cuyvers, Lieven De Cauter, Raviv Ganchrow, S. Umberto Barbieri, Sandro Bisa, Raoul Bunschoten, Francesco Careri, Teddy Cruz, Michel Dehaene, Gil Doron, Klaske Havik, Oscar Rommens en Sebastiaan Veldhuisen Border Conditions presenteert de eerste resultaten van de onderzoeks- en ontwerpstudio van de faculteit Bouwkunde aan de TU Delft. Het boek biedt een collectie van essays en experimentele architectuurprojecten voortkomend ui...

This publication recounts the history of a place and of the real and parallel lives of a building originally intended for the treatment of children with respiratory diseases. The book features interdisciplinary research and texts on the building’s past and on its architect, presented from various angles. It also reflects our attempts to include the participants of the citizens’ initiatives for the protection and revitalisation of the building, as well as to give voice to the tenants of th...

All human-made structures are “incomplete,” according to author Michael Mehaffy – that is, they embody abstract information that necessarily leaves out essential aspects of reality. This important concept from mathematics and philosophy has new relevance for today’s human challenges, Mehaffy argues. For “incompleteness” need not be a problem – but we must understand its nature, and be prepared to work toward a “right adjustment of the process of abstraction,” in the words o...

The architectural history of the Middle Ages is full of surprises

It is hard to imagine today that relatively few construction plans have been found for the impressive churches and cathedrals of the Romanesque and Gothic periods. Where did most of the drawings go? Were the plans destroyed or lost over time? Or were they never made at all? Although there were very few architectural drawings, there were numerous compasses. What were they used for and how? Was it possible to design complex bui...

Maarten Meijs, Ulrich Knaack (Red.) (e.a.)

Bouwdelen en verbindingen

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Dit rijk geïllustreerde en educatieve boek behandelt de constructie van gebouwen en bouwdelen. Bouwdelen en verbindingen maakt inzichtelijk hoe verschillende constructies ontworpen worden, welke verbindingen mogelijk zijn en welke krachten een rol spelen.

In coproductie met uitgeverij Birkhäuser verschijnen ook een Engelse en een Duitse editie.

Andere titels door Maarten Meijs

Façades

- 12 city walks along modernist gems -

Toerist Modernist is a tribute to Belgium’s lesser-known modernist heritage. It all started with

an online heritage platform. In 2019, Gerlin Heestermans created toeristmodernist.be to share her passion for beautiful modernist houses and buildings and draw attention to their heritage value and vulnerability. Many of them currently do not have official monument status. Since then, spotting these gems, and ringing people’s doorbell to ask if she can ta...

The advocates of urban renewal met their Waterloo in the Amsterdam Jordaan district. As recently as 1975, the Amsterdam city council made a serious proposal to demolish the Jordaan, but outraged district residents managed to scuttle the plan. In a structure which originally contained seven apartments, where at least 35 people lived, habits now four people. The district has changed entirely. This illustrates that new uses of a district in no way require demolition. The city's architectural sto...

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Met ‘permanente tijdelijkheid’ stellen Elma van Boxel en Kristian Koreman met hun bureau ZUS een radicaal nieuwe manier van stad-maken voor. Het is een strategie die vertrekt vanuit een stedelijke realiteit van waarden, materie en mensen; een filosofie die geënt is op het verleden en is gericht op de toekomst. City of Permanent Temporality is een handboek voor stad-maken waarbij tijdelijke interventies zijn gekoppeld aan langetermijndenken.

Aan de hand van de inter...