> The 100 best buildings of Amsterdam

> Including maps and the best things to do

> Over 10,000 copies sold of the previously published Rotterdam edition

From the world-famous seventeenth-century Canal District to the striking new buildings of the Zuidas: Amsterdam is home to many architectural treasures, dating from the Middle Ages to the present day. This guide shows the 100 must-see highlights, including the Royal Palace, Rijksmuseum, the Anne Frank house, Artis Zoo, the Amsterdam School ho...

Explore the fascinating interplay between visual art and architecture in 'Cut Down Build Up.' This book delves into three thought-provoking dialogues initiated by two talented visual artists and an architect, each with a unique perspective on abstraction and architecture. Rather than a dry analysis, this book takes a hands-on, practical approach to the subject. Through experimentation, creation, and mutual exploration, Hans Demeulenaere, Dimitri Vangrunderbeek, and Thierry Lagrange, along wit...

The Architecture Observer offers an overview of different forms of modern architecture in Central America since the outset of the 20th century. Although modern architectures constituted only a small percentage of the total building production in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama, they hold in these countries an evident symbolic significance. Such buildings functioned as models for the desired societal, economic, and cultural changes, or as aspirational placeh...

Borders between countries, neighbourhoods, people, beliefs, and policies are proliferating and expanding despite what self-proclaimed progressive societies wish or choose to believe. For a wide variety of reasons, the early 21st century is caught struggling between breaking down barriers and raising them. Architecture is complicit in both. It is central to the perpetuation of borders, and key to their dismantling. Architectures of Resistance: Negotiating Borders Through Spatial Practices appr...

For the fifth book in the In Practice series, Aurélie Hachez and Leeke Reinders invite readers on a road journey through three transformative projects: L’Ermitage in urban Brussels, suburban Jubel, and rural Ulysse. This volume not only explores the design process and its subsequent adoption by inhabitants but also delves into the theoretical implications of object agency in AHA’s work, the strategic day-to-day work ethic, and the creative portrayal of buildings as entities with their ow...

The thesis, titled ‘Towards the Integration of Additive Manufacturing for Freeform Steel and Glass Façade Construction,’ explores the transformative role of additive manufacturing (AM) in enhancing the design and construction of Freeform Steel and Glass Façades (FFSGF). These façades involve intricate components, necessitating collaborative efforts among designers, engineers, and fabricators to achieve complex façade geometries with good performance while ensuring efficiency in design...