The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. One of today’s major challenges, however, concerns the concepts and tools to be deployed for mapping processes of transformation—that is, interpreting and imagining the relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes, both in space and in time, at micro- and macro-scale. The opening up of increasingly divers...

This small booklet contains the inaugural speeches of Th. K. van Lohuizen and Cor van Eesteren on their appointments as professors at the Technical College of Delft. The texts provide novel insights into their respective teaching programs, and appear here for the first time in English. An analytical reflection on their work by the architectural historian Herman van Bergeijk introduces them.

In 1990 the then Minister for Culture, Hedy d’Ancona, issued the Delta Plan for Cultural Preservation: a large-scale and national program to thoroughly improve collection storage conditions in Dutch museums. This signalled the start of a transformation of the Dutch museum.he reason for this radical transformation of Dutch museums was the pending privatization of the country’s national museums. From the beginning of the 1990s, national museums had to stand on their own feet. That gave the ...

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe’s age of extre...

By using Amsterdam as a living laboratory, graduate students, researchers and teachers of the architectural design chair of Complex Projects at the Department of Architecture at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment have been interested in seeing how ‘growth’ and rapid ‘changes’ – growth of numbers of inhabitants and tourists, and change of energy, mobility, health and leisure concepts - will affect the City of Amsterdam on a time horizon 2050. How can innovatio...

Hoe kan de hedendaagse architect en stedenbouwer beter reageren op actuele vraagstukken en ontwikkelingen, met de bestaande context als uitgangspunt? Hoe kan de bestaande context opnieuw gelezen, begrepen, op waarde geschat én verder ontwikkeld worden? Hoe kunnen de zorg voor erfgoed en nieuwe ontwikkelingen hand in hand gaan? En hoe kan architectuur vanuit het bestaande anticiperen op nieuwe ontwikkelingen, van vergrijzing en sociale segregatie tot klimaatverandering? Dit zijn vragen die ce...

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Afrika is vanwege de groei van de bevolking en de economie het snelst verstedelijkende continent ter wereld. Hoewel sommige mensen Afrika nog steeds associëren met plattelandsontwikkeling is de toekomst van het werelddeel in feite zeer stedelijk. In gebieden met fragiele institutionele kaders en chronische armoede vormt deze verstedelijking een enorme uitdaging. Veel migranten die naar de stad trekken eindigen in zelfgebouwde nederzettingen zonder basisvoorzienin...

Eindhoven, the city of light and design, has experienced a stormy development and is now the centre of a ‘brainport’ focused on innovation, design and tech that ranks among the finest in the world. The city also has a lot to offer in terms of architecture: from the Evoluon to MVRDV's pop podium De Effenaar and from Kropholler’s Van Abbe Museum to the current large-scale redevelopment of the Philips factories.

This handy-sized and up-to-date Eindhoven architecture guide zooms in on the c...