In 1990 the then Minister for Culture, Hedy d’Ancona, issued the Delta Plan for Cultural Preservation: a large-scale and national program to thoroughly improve collection storage conditions in Dutch museums. This signalled the start of a transformation of the Dutch museum.he reason for this radical transformation of Dutch museums was the pending privatization of the country’s national museums. From the beginning of the 1990s, national museums had to stand on their own feet. That gave the ...

The first half of the twentieth century witnessed the rise of modernist architects. Brokers of Modernity reveals how East Central Europe turned into one of the pre-eminent testing grounds of the new belief system of modernism. By combining the internationalism of the CIAM organization and the modernising aspirations of the new states built after 1918, the reach of modernist architects extended far beyond their established fields. Yet, these architects paid a price when Europe’s age of extre...

By using Amsterdam as a living laboratory, graduate students, researchers and teachers of the architectural design chair of Complex Projects at the Department of Architecture at TU Delft Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment have been interested in seeing how ‘growth’ and rapid ‘changes’ – growth of numbers of inhabitants and tourists, and change of energy, mobility, health and leisure concepts - will affect the City of Amsterdam on a time horizon 2050. How can innovatio...

Hoe kan de hedendaagse architect en stedenbouwer beter reageren op actuele vraagstukken en ontwikkelingen, met de bestaande context als uitgangspunt? Hoe kan de bestaande context opnieuw gelezen, begrepen, op waarde geschat én verder ontwikkeld worden? Hoe kunnen de zorg voor erfgoed en nieuwe ontwikkelingen hand in hand gaan? En hoe kan architectuur vanuit het bestaande anticiperen op nieuwe ontwikkelingen, van vergrijzing en sociale segregatie tot klimaatverandering? Dit zijn vragen die ce...

Kiosken: ze staan op straathoeken en pleinen, in winkelcentra en industriegebieden, bij scholen en stadions, sportvelden en parken. Kleine, luchtige bouwwerken in de buitenruimte, met de stad als decor. 'Kiosk in de stad' vertelt over de historie, verscheidenheid en inbedding van de kiosk in de stad. Over handel en reuring, verpozen en eten op straat. Het boek geeft inzicht in de stedenbouwkundige, architectonische en stadssociologische waarde en betekenis van de verkoopkiosk. Lange tijd ware...

Wordt klein wonen het nieuwe gewoon? Ruim vier van elke tien mensen zal midden deze eeuw alleenwonend zijn. Alle reden om aan klein wonen aandacht te geven. In 2016 startte in Almere de BouwEXPO Tiny Housing met een ideeënprijsvraag. Iedereen kon meedoen. De winnaars bouwden zestien huisjes. Sommige zijn vrijstaand, andere zijn geschakeld dan wel gestapeld. Ze zijn allemaal als echte woningen vergund en bewoond.

De huisjes zijn een inspiratiebron voor klein wonen elders. Op lege plekken, als...

An illustrated celebration of how wood is used in modern architecture as a thermal and acoustic insulator and to bring warmth and texture to buildings.

How can we design and develop a transformation area in an integral way into an attractive and future-proof urban environment? This is the the central question of the research project Stad van de Toekomst (City of the Future).

This question is motivated by urgent social as well as local tasks in the urban areas, varying from housing demand, social inclusiveness, new economy, climate adaptation, and the like, taking into account the transitions in energy, mobility, circularity and digitization....

It is hard to imagine a world without bridges. Bridges lie at the heart of our civilization bringing growth and prosperity to our society. It is by virtue of bridges that communities are able to physically connect to new people and to new places that were previously disconnected. However, bridges are more than mere functional assets. A well designed bridge reflects mankind’s creativity and ingenuity. One could even state that the way bridges are designed tells us something about our identity.

The way that our bridges are commissioned, designed and procured is rapidly changing. Ideally the design of a bridge is made through an integrated approach that addresses all relevant technological angles, practiced by all involved disciplines through all phases of the design. In reality, many different people from many different disciplines work on the design during different phases of the project. The segregation of knowledge into discipline-specific fields, and the fragmented approach to bridge procurement, have resulted in a general lack of cohesion in bridge design. Critical investigation into how to pursue good integrated design is absent. Therefor the objective of this research is to identify a design approach, through all scales of the design, that leads to bridges that are well-integrated, that are integrally-designed and that are valued by societ...