How are memories preserved - in archives, in minds, in the landscape and on film? Visual artist and filmmaker Fiona Tan (1966, Indonesia) investigates ways in which time is recorded.

This publication focuses on her works Gray Glass (2020), Inventory (2012) and Footsteps (2022), key works in the homonymous exhibition at Eye Filmmuseum. Hanneke Grootenboer reflects on the way in which looking, thinking and time converge in Tan's work. In doing so, she places the oeuvre in a broad historical an...

A map is a visual story of the world. It feeds our imagination and shapes our view of the world. A standard atlas, however, predominantly tells only one story, that of the nation-state. It depicts a world in which people are uniformly packed into national containers, enclosed by borders, and in which migration is often represented as threatening invasion arrows.

Free the Map goes beyond this narrow, state-centric cartography. The book argues for a new cartographic story: a Hermes – the gran...

The city is not only the habitat of people, but also of plants and animals. Building Urban Nature is a plea for nature-inclusive, bioreceptive architecture that inspires designers to give nature a place in their work.

Through the presentation of realized projects, the book shows how the values of nature can be incorporated into our buildings. It discusses the conditions under which flora and fauna settle on and around our buildings, and the design methods, strategies and techniques that can h...

Repository. 49 Methods and Assigments for Writing Urban Places biedt een reeks methoden en opdrachten die bedoeld zijn om nieuwe benaderingen in architectuur, stedelijk onderzoek en andere gebieden van ruimtelijke ontwikkeling te stimuleren en uit te nodigen tot creatieve, actieve en speelse interventies in de materiële en immateriële dimensies van stedelijke omgevingen.

Dit Repository verzamelt 49 methoden – hier gedefinieerd als systematische procedures, technieken en handelwijzen – o...

Nergens ter wereld hebben architecten zoveel kleine en bijzondere huizen gebouwd als in Japan en nergens met zoveel vindingrijkheid en succes. How to Make a Japanese House presenteert 21 hedendaagse huizen en plaatst die in de ontwikkeling van de huisvesting in Japan. Tegelijkertijd biedt het boek inzicht in de unieke ontwerpaanpak van drie generaties Japanse architecten. In de in het boek opgenomen interviews lichten architecten als Jun Aoki, Ryue Nishizawa en Sou Fujimoto op persoonlijke wi...

Dutch artist Kees Visser is one of the most important representatives of today’s geometric and conceptual art. His work is characterized by an investigation into color and form and is inspired by Mondriaan, De Stijl and Matisse. His long career is closely linked to the evolution of Icelandic art in the 1970s and 1980s, where Visser was part of a cosmopolitan art scene with a strong focus on Fluxus, minimalism and conceptual art. Visser combined these influences in his research into shape an...

The work of Dick Bruna, his posters, book covers and of course his world famous Miffy, was inspired by the great modern masters of art history. This book explores the colourful sources of inspiration that have made Bruna the versatile artist that he is. English language edition.

Dutch artist Zoro Feigl has built his remarkable oeuvre with installations that roar and meander, are both exhilarating and terrifying, intimidate and then sooth. The works in Sun-spark spraying mark a new step in Feigl's oeuvre. He has succeeded in getting to the core of his artistic practice. The former rascal of Dutch art has grown up.

In his work, Zoro tries to capture natural phenomena and everyday things in installations. Think of the behavior of a swarm of starlings, ridges in the sand...