With this work in the form of a book, Maria Lalou & Skafte Aymo-Boot present the phenomenon of a particular pending architecture mutely present all over Athens. The concrete skeletons of polykatoikia – multi-story apartment buildings – are emblematic of the development of modern Greece throughout the second half of the twentieth century.

The book deals with the politics of urban space by treating the unfinished buildings as study objects and tracing their individual histories. Through the...

Footprint #28 examines the relation between cybernetics and architecture by focusing on a problem they both share: the production, consumption and flow of information, or, in other terms, of meaning. Therefore, cyberneticisation can set the foundations for a relational account that examines how signs are communicated and how meaning is produced and experienced within systems. This third-order cybernetics extends beyond the original scope of living organisms and their environments in order to ...

‘Abby—that is the name of the new art and exhibition site in and around the remains of the former Groeninge Abbey in Kortrijk. The building itself is a lesson in architecture, not only in museum architecture or design, but also in how to engage with historical buildings. The result is a modest yet inviting gesture towards future visitors.’Design door Barozzi Veiga

Desperate times demand optimistic transdisciplinary measures. This volume unites a select group of thinkers who courageously traverse disciplinary boundaries. What brings them together iWs the least stratified ‘component’: a shared problem. It is a widely recognised that a problem gets the solution it merits. However, only a few acknowledge that a problem seldom neatly fits within a single discipline, nor does it conform to the principle of general equivalence. Handling its irreducibility...

An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available that contradicts the standard narrative for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations

Printuitgave van het boek "Groep'32"

De geschiedenis van Groep '32 is interessant vanwege het streven van het genootschap om voort te gaan

op de weg van de Nieuwe Bouwers. De groep nam een kritisch standpunt in tegenover de toepassing van

de verworvenheden van het Nieuwe Bouwen van de jaren twintig, ze zagen deze niet als doel maar als

middel om architectuur te bereiken. Deze kritische houding werd aangescherpt door het uitblijven van

werk, en door de fusie met De 8, een meer radicaal functio...

In 2011 the RMIT-department of the Faculty of Architecture of TU

Delft formulated the ambition to be structurally involved in the

transformation of urban neighbourhoods in both research and education.

This was decided upon because of the complex social, spatial

and physical issues that many districts in large cities are facing

and the urge to react on these issues with research based design

within the awareness of the cultural significance of those threatened

areas.

The mentioned complexity f...

The fantastic works of Antoni Gaudí and the Amsterdam School still appeal to the imagination. And although the architects never met each other, they were children of the same period. They looked for beauty and individuality in a world which was becoming increasingly functional and impersonal.

At the heart of their designs are nature and its organic forms, craftsmanship and traditional materials. At the same time, though, they did not turn their backs on modernity, embracing new techniques an...