Waking up to the idea of a post-growth society, Rotterdam Ripresa presents a city that aims to amend instead of renew, accepting not just the pleasant past, but also the impudent present. To find the new in the old may well be the most sustainable thing of all. Can a city change while remaining the same?

Rotterdam Ripresa adopts an alternative method towards the production of new visions for the city. An urbanism of fragmentary intervention as a cadavre exquis where authorship is deluded rath...

Door de wereldwijde klimaatverandering zal Nederland vaker te kampen hebben met hevigere en frequentere regenval die wateroverlast kan veroorzaken. Ondanks dat Nederlanders wereldberoemd zijn vanwege hun eeuwenlange ervaring met het hydrologisch systeem, zijn de bestaande stedelijke watersystemen sinds de Industriële Revolutie langzamerhand inflexibel geworden. De technische inrichting van het watersysteem, en dan met name in relatie tot het bouwrijp maken van de natte en slappe gronden, kan...

De Deltawerken in de Nederlands-Vlaamse Delta van Rijn, Maas en Schelde behoren tot de iconische monumenten van ons land, mede door de beeldbepalende kracht van de dammen en dijken. Met name door de Oosterscheldekering, een wereldwonder, voortgekomen uit de wens om de Delta voorgoed veilig te maken na de watersnoodramp van 1953. Na de realisatie van de Deltawerken is een grote reeks nieuwe projecten voor waterveiligheid gerealiseerd, waarover niet veel bekend is. Bij de meeste van deze nieuwe...

Although thinkers in the field of architecture have embraced ideas emerging from philosophy through the works of continental philosophers since the late 1980s, references to analytic philosophy have remained distinctly absent within architecture history and theory. In part this may be attributable to a perception of analytic philosophy as historiophobic and politically conservative. However in recent decades the philosophical camp is readjusting its relation to language, and notably returning...

The theme of the Prix de Rome Architecture 2022 is Healing Sites. At a time when labour inequality and climate issues have resulted in a demand for change, this edition of the Prix de Rome Architecture calls to rethink and redesign spatial practices. Architecture has been complicit in establishing the ecocidal legacies of capitalism, colonialism, and imperialism. How can architects, urbanists, and landscape architects reflect upon and rearticulate their working methods in order to undo these ...

Throughout the twentieth century housing displays have proven to be a singular genre of architectural and design exhibitions. By crossing geographies and adopting multiple scales of observation – from domestic space to urban visions – this volume investigates a set of unexplored events devoted to housing and dwelling, organised by technical, professional, cultural or governmental institutions from the interwar years to the Cold War. The book offers a first critical assessment of twentieth...

Nederlanders gebruiken de fiets in combinatie met de trein om regio's onderling te verbinden. Andere landen gebruiken de fiets om historische stadscentra weer leefbaar te maken. Maar wat als het fietsen zou worden ingezet als het organiserende hoofdprincipe voor stedelijke groei en nieuw te ontwerpen gebouwen?

Het boek laat zien dat steden die in de toekomst de meeste verbindingen bieden, dezelfde steden zijn die fietsverkeer verkiezen boven lopen en openbaar vervoer. Deze steden zijn niet al...

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The fiercely social and vigorously innovative Mei realizes trend-setting buildings in the Netherlands and abroad. This Rotterdam-based architecture firm has built up an idiosyncratic oeuvre in which respect for the environment is central.

This first overview shows works of the past 25 years. From the 1995 modular Smarthouse to the wooden residential building Sawa that is currently being developed: they all display a fascination with intelligent building...

In this PhD research, the major environmental challenges of our time, such as climate change, sustainable energy transition and scarcity of resources, are approached from a spatial, landscape-architectural perspective. The goal is to accelerate the transition to liveable, low carbon cities. The focus of the research is at the local scale and attempts to turn challenges into opportunities for a better quality of life and living environment.

This research contributes to sustainable urban develo...