Urban notebooks / Stadsschriften / Cahiers Urbains

In Brussels, the need for affordable and middleincome housing is entangled with the necessity to reduce the environmental impact of housing. The current climatological and health crises demand us to improve the resilience of our human habitat in the city. In planning and developing new collective housing projects, private and public developers alike are struggling to find the right answer to these questions.

In this book, we present a researc...

Footprint #29 aims at exploring the architectural relations to populism intended as the political approach that strives to appeal to the “common” public. It examines architecture’s intersection with media, politics and aesthetics. From Nazi Germany to Trump’s presidency the use of architecture and its relationship with ideologies is reflected upon, as well as how architectural aspirations are reshaped in the light of different populist ramifications. This issue is an open inquiry into...

An evocative photo book with three essays documenting the careful transformation of the nineteenth-century Fort Hoofddorp, part of the Amsterdam Defence Line. The strategic interventions of architect Serge Schoemaker are captured in the photos of Max Hart Nibbrig and described in the contributions of Kirsten Hannema, Hans Ibelings, and Jolanthe Kugler.

Architect Jan Sterenberg (1923–2000) werkte in de overgangsperiode van strakke wederopbouwwijken met rijtjeswoningen naar bloemkoolwijken met woonerven. Zijn bureau in Ter Apel was een van de grootste architectenbureaus van Nederland en bouwde tussen circa 1950 en 1980 tienduizenden woningen door het hele land, van de stadswijk Lewenborg in Groningen tot Buytenwegh de Leyens in Zoetermeer en stadsvernieuwing in Zwolle.

Sterenberg zag wonen als een activiteit en zijn ontwerpen moesten bewone...

Recently, Chinese Public Rental Housing (PRH) provision has witnessed a shift from ‘government’ to ‘governance’: policy making shifted from government steering to mixed forms involving government, market and civic actors to pursue effective and fair policies. In the meantime, this new-era PRH governance is credited with mixed results. However, the existing studies fail to describe the mechanisms underlying this new-era governance of PRH with the rising involvement of market actors and...

This dissertation focuses on architectural education and practice as a collective experience, examining the particular case of the PUCV School of Architecture and Design and Ciudad Abierta in Chile. The study asks whether the culture of collectivity that characterises the school has served as a supporting structure for its artistic and pedagogical project and if so, which elements configure the collective ways of studying and practising at this school. The dissertation delves into these quest...

"Nikos Salingaros is a mathematician who's also a brilliant thinker about architecture and urbanism. 'Solid' doesn't begin to hint at his virtues and talents, but isn't it nice when you encounter 'solid' in the world of the arts? Salingaros has worked closely with Christopher Alexander, and has become a major architecture theorist in his own right." -- Ray Sawhill.

"This is an interesting compilation of some of the important roots and evolutions of modernism and its latest development, the De...

De vierde bundel van de Stichting Kastelenstudies Nederland (SKN) bevat wederom een rijk en breed overzicht van recent onderzoek op het gebied van kastelen en buitenplaatsen. Daarmee sluit dit boek aan bij het doel van de SKN: het bevorderen en publiceren van wetenschappelijk onderzoek naar kastelen, buitenplaatsen, landgoederen en het hieraan gerelateerd historisch groen.

De bundel staat voor een deel in het teken van hernieuwd onderzoek. Dat wil zeggen, onderzoek naar kastelen en buitenplaa...