Early modern heraldry was far from a nostalgic remnant from a feudal past. From the Reformation to the French Revolution, aspiring men seized on these signs to position themselves in a changing society, imbuing heraldic tradition with fresh meaning. Whereas post-medieval developments are all too often described in terms of decadence and stifling formality, recent studies rightly stress the dynamic capacity of bearing arms.

Heraldic Hierarchies aims to correct former misconceptions. Contributi...

Faced with the highly overlapping factors of the external disturbances -- natural disasters caused by extreme climate change, and internal interactions -- the contradiction between natural conditions and rapid urbanization, traditional spatial planning and design used to pursue economic development could not be flexible enough to respond to the dynamic and uncertain future of the Pearl River Delta (PRD).

Therefore, spatial planning and design should pay great attention to the fragile natural ...

Public bodies acting in the construction industry have to deal with major transitional issues, such as globalization and urbanization, population ageing, climate change and digitalization. Moreover, the public domain, private parties and society are becoming increasingly interdependent. As a result, safeguarding public values in the built environment has become ever more complex.

Public bodies face the challenge to adhere to collective public values while confronted with private and societal...

The PowerSKIN Conference aims to address the role of building skins to accomplish a carbon neutral building stock. Topics such as building operation, embodied energy, energy generation and storage in context of envelope, energy and environment are considered.

The focus of the PowerSKIN issue 2021 deals with the question of whether simplicity and robustness stay in contradiction to good performance of buildings skins or whether they even complement each other: simplicity vs. performance?

As an...

This booklet presents the work of fourth-year students from Delft University of Technology, Faculty of

Architecture and the Built Environment, Chair of Heritage & Architecture, Section Heritage & Architecture.

What you see is the result of one semester’s work (20 weeks) to study together the conservation and

redesign of De Zonnehof in Amersfoort. The international group of students worked all on the architectural

relation to de Zonnehof, on different ways to exhibit, on climate control and ...

As we face new technological developments and new ways of working, rapid economic growth, globalisation, climate change, growing inequality and Covid-19, no-one can deny that times are changing fast. Therefore, organisations’ human resource management also needs to adapt: this is where Sustainable HRM (or SHRM) comes into the picture.

But what is Sustainable Human Resource Management? How does it differ from HRM, and what makes it a truly new way of looking at the management of people and o...

Het werk van Angel Vergara (°1958, Spanje) geeft gestalte aan een diepgravend onderzoek naar de kracht van het beeld. Aan

de hand van performances, video’s, installaties, schilderijen en tekeningen tast Vergara de grenzen af van kunst en realiteit, en bevraagt hij hoe de hedendaagse beeldcultuur onze private en publieke sferen vormgeeft en beïnvloedt. Elk werk is een poging om doorheen een beeld te breken en zijn esthetische, politieke en socio-culturele impact bloot te leggen. Vergara c...

Phoebus Focus XX

In this Phoebus Focus edition, Lieke Wijnia takes the reader through the history of Saint Mary Magdalene and the little-known artist Melchior de la Mars. Moreover, the author holds up a mirror. In these crazy COVID times, De la Mars’s Mary Magdalene is perhaps more relevant than ever.

IT systems have a lot of functionality. We used to present this functionality as a whole to the user. He could then choose what he needed. This created enormous amounts of stress and many erroneous actions. It doesn’t have to be that way.

A lot of stakeholder-oriented techniques may help you put the functionality in the right perspective for the user. The navigation model brings this information together and transforms it into a scenario, a narrative. Accompanied with the motivation of the ...

Bone tool studies are at a crossroads. A current path is to go beyond the concatenation of methods or concepts borrowed from other disciplines and aim instead at a truly integrated approach that is more in line with the objectives of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research.

The papers in this volume follow this direction by adopting various forms of dialogue and integration between old and new methods and approaches, including technological analysis, usewear analysis, typology, zooa...