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Marker Wadden
Nature, building, designing
2023 || Hardcover || Rik de Visser e.a. || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
The design story of Marker Wadden is unique. This man-made group of uninhabited islands in the Markermeer mainly comprises marshes and shallow waters, which makes them perfect bird habitats. Only the main island is accessible to the public.
This newest piece of the Netherlands – its landscape, the urban design of the settlement and the architecture – has been designed with care and attention. An impressive approach that leaves the shaping of the landscape largely to nature. By realizing M...
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Reflections: Renewing Paleis Het Loo
2023 || Hardcover || Floris Alkemade e.a. || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
Reflections tells the story of the renovation of the largest seventeenth-century palace of the House of Orange and the new underground extension. Spectacular photography and captivating texts showcase KAAN Architecten’ ingenious design for the project, the history of the palace, the convergence of old and new and the palace's current role as an museum.
The underground extension is inextricably linked to the historical building even while leaving the facade and the interior of the palace unt...
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'Compliments to our brave architect!'
The Netherlands' First Women Architects
2023 || Hardcover || Erica M. Smeets-Klokgieters || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
Margaret Staal-Kropholler (1891–1966) is regarded as the first woman architect in the Netherlands. She completed her first work as an unqualified architect in 1917. Less well known is that Grada Wolffensperger (1887–1965) became the first woman to complete the univer-sity course in architecture at the Technische Hogeschool in Delft that same year. A further twenty women had completed their architectural training by 1945.
Why and how did these women become architects at a time when women w...
Spatial Planning in the Netherlands
History of a Self Made Land, 1200-present
2023 || Hardcover || Len de Klerk e.a. || nai010 uitgevers/publishers
The Netherlands was made by humans. Cities, polders, the landscape and even nature reserves have all clearly been shaped by man. The country’s planned development is as unique as it is famous.
This book describes the intriguing history of spatial planning in the Netherlands from the late Middle Ages to the present day. Where does this strong tendency towards regulation and planning come from? Did these thousands of plans always come together? Or did planners and urban designers sometimes ge...