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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...

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De architectuurgeschiedenis wordt vaak gelezen in termen van periodes met een eigen zeitgeist, in stromingen met een eigen architectuurtaal. Wat betekent het om afscheid te nemen van het concept van de zeitgeist en in plaats daarvan een cyclisch model van geschiedenis te hanteren? In de jaren 1970 en 1980 werd dit vraagstuk meestal beschouwd vanuit elkaar ogenschijnlijk uitsluitende moderne, anti-moderne en post-moderne posities. Deze scheidslijnen werden ook direct verb...

This publication offers an overview of the latest cross-disciplinary developments in the field of Building with Nature (BwN) for the protection of coastal regions. The key philosophy of BwN is the employment of natural processes to serve societal goals, such as flood safety. The starting point is a systems-based approach, making interventions that employ the shaping forces of the natural system to perform measures by self-regulation. Initial pilots of this innovative approach originate from c...

Architectural design greatly influences building energy performance (BEP), and energy-efficient design is therefore often studied. Architectural space layout also can affect BEP. However, only a few of the numerous studies on energy-efficient design considered the effect of space layout. Within these studies, the isolated effect of space layout on the BEP has hardly have been analysed systematically.

The framework of Performative Computational Architecture (PCA) had been proven to be effectiv...

In de Westelijke Tuinsteden in Amsterdam is een onwaarschijnlijke vernieuwingsoperatie uitgevoerd. Tussen 2000 en 2021 zijn meer dan 25.000 woningen nieuwgebouwd, gerenoveerd of getransformeerd.

Dat is vergelijkbaar met wat in dezelfde periode in Leidsche Rijn in Utrecht gebouwd is – de grootste vinex-locatie van Nederland. Nieuwe scholen, broedplaatsen, hotels, winkels en horeca maakten de tuinsteden bovendien tot een completere, gemengde stad. Dat zie je ook in de superdiverse bevolking ...

How can the public library fulfil its classic social mission in our individualized and sometimes fragmented society? And how does such a library fit into the urban public space, in which commerce and consumption seem to reign supreme? This requires innovative architecture, the strength of imagination and the willingness to think countercyclically.

In Imagination and Participation librarians Rob Bruijnzeels and Joyce Sternheim examine the most important transitions in public library work. They...

A sound understanding of how our built environment came about constitutes a core competence in any architectural training and professional experience. The history of urbanism on the European continent, in particular, constitutes a fundamental basis for thinking about the city today.

This textbook offers a synthetic, chronological and illustrated overview of the essential ideas, protagonists and paradigms that dominated the theory and practice of urbanism on the European continent from Antiq...