De komende jaren zullen in Nederland honderden basisscholen moeten worden verbouwd. De nood is hoog, want de visies en behoeftes veranderen voortdurend en er is veel achterstallig onderhoud. Voor de meeste schooldirecteuren, teamleden en schoolbesturen is dit een ingewikkelde opgave waarbij veel komt kijken. De scholenbouwatlas biedt hulp bij het aanpassen van basisscholen en kindercentra.

Opdrachtgevers kunnen zich via De Scholenbouwatlas goed oriënteren en afvragen welke verbouwmogelijkhei...

The Art of Urbanization reexamines a forgotten tradition in Belgian and European planning history, reconstructed through a longitudinal analysis of the Study Committee of the Antwerp Agglomeration (1907-1939). Against prevailing trends, Antwerp’s urban expansion was not the product of rational master planning, but evolved gradually through collective and pragmatic responses to emerging urban questions.

Drawing on a wide range of historical sources and richly illustrated, the book reconstruc...

Unieke inkijk in het persoonlijk archief van een Vlaams Bouwmeester.In dit erg persoonlijke werk geeft Marcel Smets, voorloper van de Belgische stedenbouw en voormalig Vlaams Bouwmeester, een overzicht van de vele projecten, ontmoetingen en bijdragen die zijn professionele leven hebben getekend. Uit zijn persoonlijke archief, dat hij onlangs schonk aan de universiteit van Leuven, maakte Smets een selectie van betekenisvolle stukken die de diverse aspecten van zijn loopbaan illustreren. Dit ri...

Dit werkboek geeft handvatten voor kerkrentmeesters, CvB leden en bouwcommissieleden voor praktische zaken op het gebied van budget, planning, vergunningen etc. Ook is er aandacht voor ‘het waarom’ van de verbouwing. Wat is de aanleiding en wat is het doel? En hoe betrek je de gemeente op een positieve manier bij het hele proces?

Naast informatie van professionals, delen kerkrentmeesters, CvB leden en bouwcommissieleden die al een verbouwing achter de rug hebben hun ervaringen. Wat had...

Cities are experiencing a renaissance today, because we've begun to understand how they really work -- and how to make them work better for people.

This book is a lively, readable account of two revealing figures in the history of that renaissance: the urban economist Jane Jacobs and the architect Christopher Alexander. Their key insights have shaped several generations of scholars, professionals, and activists. However, as the book argues, this renaissance is still immature, and more must be...

The Modern movement began in the 1920s when a small group of young architects felt all that had gone before should be rejected and that architectural design should start afresh. This fresh start, they declared, should be based on modern technology and a new, modern approach to life. Their innovations became the 20th century’s dominant movement in architecture, crystallizing into the international style of the 1920s and '30s. In Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, Malcolm Millais exp...

Architectural firms can be regarded as creative professional service firms. As such, architects need to navigate creative, professional and commercial goals, while simultaneously attempting to fulfil client, user and societal needs. This complex process is becoming increasingly difficult, as the historically established role of architects has become more blurred, contested and heterogeneous. While attempting to reclaim their role or to take on new roles in collaborations with other actors, ar...

This research seeks to provide insight into the energy performance progress, of the existing non-profit housing stock in the Netherlands, through the application of energy renovations. The non-profit housing stock comprises 30% of the housing market in the Netherlands and a large part of the policies towards a more efficient housing stock rely on the non-profit housing sector. To that end, we determine the energy renovation rate of the stock and the impact of the applied renovations on both t...

Apparatus and apparatisation, the focus of the Cyber-Physical Architecture (CpA) issue #2 of SPOOL, refer to an assemblage of various components, tools, and instruments that in combination produce an exponential surplus beyond the linear sum of parts.

The CpA #2 samples various interests afforded by the apparatus and apparatisation in and of architecture and how they open up new potentials and opportunities. The first article, Building as Apparatus? (by Leach) addresses the theme of “buildi...