Eindhoven, the city of light and design, has experienced a stormy development and is now the centre of a ‘brainport’ focused on innovation, design and tech that ranks among the finest in the world. The city also has a lot to offer in terms of architecture: from the Evoluon to MVRDV's pop podium De Effenaar and from Kropholler’s Van Abbe Museum to the current large-scale redevelopment of the Philips factories.

This handy-sized and up-to-date Eindhoven architecture guide zooms in on the c...

The Writingplace journal for Architecture and Literature is an international, open-acces, peer-reviewed journal on architecture and literature. Each issue of the journal focuses on themes central to the fruitful relationship between architecture and literature.

This Writingplace journal issue Meaningfulness, Appropriation and Integration in/of City Narratives is developed in context of the EU COST Action “Writing Urban Places”. From an inter- or a multidisciplinary theoretical perspecti...

Acid Clouds is an atlas and anthology of datacenters that maps the material traces of virtual data in the Dutch landscape. It investigates the massively resource-intensive and earthbound properties of digital storage, and questions the image of large-scale data repositories as clean, sterile and environmentally-friendly domains. The book brings together data of more than 100 datacenters across the Netherlands with texts on ecological, architectural, economical, political and digital righ...

This manual sheds light on every aspect of designing housing. The organization of the living space and the residential building is dealt with systematically, from the breadth, depth, stacking, access to dwellings and the urban ensemble. This revised edition has been expanded with 20 new exemplary projects, boasts an improved structure and has been enriched with a new chapter about the process of design. Housing Design is primarily focused on residential construction in larger entities, such a...

Herman Hertzberger is een van de invloedrijkste figuren in de internationale architectuur van de laatste vijftig jaar. Hij is een voorvechter geweest van een humane moderne architectuur geworteld in plaats en geschiedenis, maar ook openstaat voor nieuwe vormen. Hertzberger wordt beschouwd als 's werelds meest vooraanstaande ontwerper van scholen, een type gebouw dat hij bijna in zijn eentje heeft geherdefinieerd. Zijn vernieuwende ontwerpen van kantoren en werkplekken vormen vaak de meest ove...

Scarlett Hooft Graafland (1973) creates magical photographic images of highaltitude salt flats in Bolivia, remote farming sheds in Iceland, the beaches of Dubai, Madagascar, the polar region and the village of Gorinchem, The Netherlands. Her work touches upon major themes such as the disappearance of traditional cultures and the fragility of nature, yet the tone is always light, colourful and surreal. Initially, Scarlett mainly took pictures to document her sculptures and performances, but he...

The Netherlands is not only known for its clogs and tulips, but also for its waterworks. From the Stormvloedkering (flood barrier) in Zeeland and the Balgstuw (weir) in Flevoland to the new locks in the Maas River: besides examples of unprecedented technical ingenuity, these so-called wet infrastructural works are also an integrated part of Dutch public space and culture.The publication Waterworks in the Netherlands: Tradition and Innovation portrays the diversity and spatial, cultural and cu...

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In Theory of Type Design wordt door de wereldwijd vermaarde typograaf en letterontwerper Gerard Unger voor het eerst een compleet en toegankelijk geschreven theorie van het letterontwerp gepresenteerd. Het handboek bestaat uit 24 beknopte hoofdstukken die op heldere wijze elk een ander facet van het letterontwerp beschrijven, van de invloed van taal tot de digitale ontwikkelingen van vandaag, van de manier waarop het oog en de hersenen lettervormen verwerken tot en met h...

Of the world famous Dutch architecture bureau Mecanoo, is has been said that it has the ‘power to give ordinary things an unusual experience’, and of its projects that they are ‘pieces of time-bound spatial poems’. Like poetry, Mecanoo’s projects can resonate deep in our mind, generate emotion, conjure up magic, and evoke memory, either personal or collective. Taking this poetic quality as an important focus, this new book offers a completely fresh look at Mecanoo’s work. A surpri...