The northern Italian architect Vincenzo Scamozzi (1548-1616) completed a comprehensive study of ancient classical architecture, including the possibilities for its application in a modern context. The original text is in Italian and was all the rage in the Dutch architectural world during the Golden Age. The treatise `The Idea of a Universal Architecture' was highly influential in the construction of the Amsterdam canal belt, among other things. Several parts of Scamozzi's treatise were also ...

Over het vensterglas uit de periode 1850- 1930 is zeer weinig bekend. Door onderzoek te doen naar een in die tijd zeer bekende fabriek heeft Laura Roscam Abbing kennis bijeengebracht over het vlakglas en de vlakglasindustrie in die periode.

De Koninklijke Nederlandsche Glasfabriek J.J.B.J. Bouvy (1854-1926) in Dordrecht was een goedlopend familiebedrijf met internationaal aanzien, een brede klantenkring, een breed assortiment met alle mogelijke soorten vensterglas (functioneel en decoratief...

In recent decades, Soviet modernism has garnered significant global interest, challenging previous assumptions about the Soviet Union's architectural achievements. The rise of "All-Union Modernism" highlighted the complexity and innovation within Soviet architecture, particularly in the post-Soviet era when the former Soviet republics became accessible to international experts. This book investigates the relationship between Soviet and Western architecture during the 1950s and 1970s, examinin...

Examines narratives as rigorous drivers of design rather than mere storytelling devices

Provides detailed insight into three KAAN Architecten projects that reflect changing architectural practice in the Netherlands and beyond

Connects to ongoing research from the "Activating Design" initiative at Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture

Building Narratives proposes design as a communications engine and enabler of collaboration, as opposed to the traditional understandin...

Urban Megaprojects – here referred to as Grands Projets – are increasing in number all over the world. They have become major drivers for urban intensification and oftentimes set out to take a city’s expansion to the next level. As such, Grands Projets can be read as manifestations of the larger economic and political agenda of their city and they offer a productive moment to investigate current urban trends in a globally connected form of concentrated urbanization.

The book looks into ...

Luchtwachttorens uit de Koude Oorlog geeft een compleet beeld van het landelijke netwerk van luchtwachttorens waarin tussen 1950 en 1968 duizenden vrijwilligers in weer en wind het luchtruim afzochten naar vijandelijke Russische vliegtuigen. Een nationaal netwerk dat een taak vervulde binnen de internationale luchtverdediging van West-Europa. Van de bijna 300 objecten zijn er nog 70 bewaard gebleven: betonnen torens, bakstenen uitkijkposten en commandocentra. De door architect Marten Zwaagstr...

The energy transition is in full swing. Worldwide, windmills and solar panels are taking over from fossil fuels. The construction of these new energy landscapes is often met with resistance. What if this is not about energy technologies, but about the drastic change of our immediate living environment, the places where we live, work and recreate?

The Power of Landscape examines various energy landscapes in Europe and the US in the present, past and future, based on the qualitative and emotion...