There's no two ways about it: life is better by the beach. The salty air, the sound of the waves and, above all, the relaxed way of life. This low-key attitude to living manifests itself in how we decorate our homes by the sea.

Life's A Beach takes readers into beach homes around the world - from the hills of New Zealand to beaches of Brazil to the remote islands of the Aegean - exploring the many ways to decorate a cozy home by the sea. Handmade touches, natural materials and eclec...

Combine concrete's stoicism with luscious vegetative environments and you get to the language of tropical modernism. In continuity with its founding principles from the mid 20th century, today's architectural visionaries renew the use of raw materials, such as exposed concrete, to explore functionality rather than aesthetics.

No matter if works are created in total symbiosis with the tropical landscape or surrounded by flourishing nature, Concrete Jungle presents the dichotomy of the rough ma...

Discover the essential culture of Majorca through the work of local architects and interior designers who are shaping the lifestyle of the Mediterranean island today.

A colour illustrated study of some thirty houses in various rural environments which have been built or converted or rehabilitated for modern comfortable living.

- non-standard- building relations- open sourceThe iA bookzine series will consist of twelve issues, bi-annually published over a period of six years under the supervision of Prof. ir. Kas Oosterhuis., director of the Hyperbody at the Delft University of Technology. Contributors to this first issue of iA are Cas Aalbers, Ayssar Arida, Henriette Bier, Nimish Biloria Michael Bittermann, Sven Blokker, Sander Boer, Lukas Feireiss, Chris Kievid, Christian Friedrich, Hans Hubers, Tomasz Jaskiewicz,...

In Zuid-Korea is een enorme ontwikkeling waar te nemen op het gebied van architectuur. Het land heeft zich razendsnel ontwikkeld, momenteel is het de elfde wereldeconomie. Door de snelle ontwikkeling zijn er zowel in de hoofdstad Seoul, momenteel een van de compactste steden van de wereld, als in de rest van het land, veel plannen op het gebied van architectuur en stedenbouw.'SeoulScape. Towards a New Urbanity in Korea' brengt een overzicht van het werk van zes gerenommeerde Koreaanse archite...

Conditional Design is the sequel to Operative Design. This book will further explore the operative in design in a more detailed, intentional, and functional manner. Spatially, the conditional is the result of the operative. Both terms work together to satisfy a formal manipulation through a set of opportunities for elements such as connections and apertures. The conditional starts with investigating not only ideas of circulation and light but also how volumes relate to the ground. These manip...

The Ship in Amsterdam marks an international high point in art, architecture and social housing. It was designed by the Dutch architect Michel de Klerk in the expressionist Amsterdam School style of architecture.

With its wavy patterns in colourful brick, sculptural forms and wealth of detailing, The Ship is a real eye-catcher that continues to attract visitors from around the world. In this richly illustrated book, Museum het Schip - housed within The Ship - shows why The Ship is known as a ...

Twelve one-hour video lectures are archived online, and can be accessed for free. These lectures apply cutting-edge mathematical techniques to architectural and urban design. The course material is original, and includes innovative topics such as algorithms, fractals, cellular automata, complexity, emergence, information theory, symmetries, scaling, codes, and networks, here introduced into architecture and urbanism for the first time. Students from around the world can now learn the intellig...

The richness and diversity of Dutch contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known in the study of twentieth-century architectural history. Between 1902 and 1961 more than seventy Dutch-born émigré architects were active from the Cape to the Highveld, both in major towns and remote areas, and they designed hundreds of buildings and neighbourhoods. A sequel to the acclaimed Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens: A Shared Dutch Built Heritage in South Africa, Common Ground reve...