All over Europe, cities struggle with an accumulation of environmental crises like global warming, the depletion of natural recourses, pollution and the extinction of species. If we want to keep our cities liveable, we have to make them circular and climate adaptive.

Making our planning methods, production processes and building economies circular in order to remove the causes of the environmental crises, is a tough assignment. Turning our cities into climate-adaptive environments, ready to c...

'Reuse to Reduce. Architecture within a Carbon Budget. The Case of BioPartner 5'is a plea by Popma ter Steege Architects to embrace the circular transition as a chance for a more meaningful architecture. An architecture that employs the necessary reuse of building materials to rethink our needs, way of building and aesthetics. It is a plea for design shaped by planetary boundaries and the use of a carbon budget as a tool for this. It wants to help shift the discourse on circularity towards de...

A collection of nine contemporary homes by architect Celeste Robbins, who imbues her modern designs with warmth and emotion

De stad is niet alleen de habitat van mensen, maar ook van planten en dieren. Stadsnatuur bouwen is een pleidooi voor een natuurinclusieve, bio-receptieve architectuur die ontwerpers inspireert om de natuur een plek te geven in hun werk.

Aan de hand van gerealiseerde projecten wordt getoond hoe natuurwaarden kunnen worden opgenomen in onze gebouwen. De publicatie bespreekt de vestigingsvoorwaarden van flora en fauna op en aan onze gebouwen, evenals de ontwerpmethoden, -strategieën en -techni...

From nomadic labour to online services and from street food kitchens to pop-up shops, informality is on the rise as never before. Its transformative power can be seen in the new ways we produce, consume and live, with commerce playing a crucial role in these changes. The resulting tension between the formal and the informal is nowhere more evident than in the struggles over contested marketplaces.

This book provides a deeper understanding of the formal-informal linkages that have given shape ...

Brussel viert dit jaar 130 jaar art-nouveau-architectuur. In Antwerpen mogen we schrijven over 125 jaar. In 1897-98 zijn de eerste art-nouveauwoningen ontworpen. Toonaangevende architecten zoals Alexis Van Mechelen, Jos Bascourt, Emile Thielens, Jules Hofman en Ernest Stordiau bijten de spits af. Antwerpen heeft meer dan 100 art-nouveaugebouwen waarvan er heel wat beschermd zijn als monument. In het Antwerpse straatbeeld zijn de ontwerpen van de architecten Frans Smet-Verhas en Emiel Van Av...

Towards Home / / Ruovttu Guvlui, an Indigenous-led publication,

explores how Inuit, Sámi, and other communities across the Arctic are creating

self-determined spaces. It is informed by the perspectives of a group of Inuit,

Sámi, and settler co-editors who share the ambition to promote northern Indigenous

forms of sovereignty shaped by an understanding of the land as home.

The project emphasizes caring for and living on the land as a way of being, and

celebrates practices of spacemaking and ...