Hertzberger's structuralism pictured in breathtaking black and white photographs

Featuring exquisite photographs of every structure the architect designed from scratch or incorporated into a historical building, this elegant volume is as sumptuous and inviting as a Scarpa interior.

Although he was not widely known during his lifetime, Carlo Scarpa has in the past-half century become one of the most revered of modern architects. His passion for integrating the ancient with the modern, the natural with the built environment, and the sensual qualities of glass, wo...

Showcasing modern living spaces that are functional, aesthetic and sustainable and which express a deep connection to the surrounding environment and culture.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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