Indispensable account of the last fifty years of urban development in Amsterdam

Year-by-year record of regeneration and growth

With all the groundbreaking ideas and plans for living and working in the city, new public amenities and street and square design

In Amsterdam Urban Development 1975–2025 urban designer Maurits de Hoog describes how the city has changed over the past fifty years, from a port and industrial city in decline into a fast-growing metropolis. Old districts have been rege...

Seeing, tasting, smelling, hearing, feeling. After early education, sensory skills are rarely trained directly, but most professionals naturally develop them with practice. Come to Your Senses provides direct exercises that will help sharpen your and your students’ senses so that they can utilize them in their professional and personal lives. Senses-based learning is a pedagogical methodology that focuses on exploring and developing sensory awareness and skills, and critically reflecting on...

A plea for the reassessment of photocopies and reproductions in architectural collections worldwide

A visual spectacle of blueprints, whiteprints, colourful adhesive films, rub-down letters and symbols and zips

Never-before-published designs from the National Collection for Dutch Architecture and Urban Planning at the Nieuwe Instituut

Original Copies radically discards the idea that reproductions are inferior to the ‘authentic original’. It introduces the copy as a driver of new c...

Revised edition of the highly successful publication

Including the latest case studies, methods and technologies

The ideal reference work and source of inspiration for all engaged in creating a liveable city

Ten years after its well-received publication, Weather in the City is more relevant than ever. Prolonged heat waves are a source of many heat stress related problems, especially in our cities, which tend to exacerbate already high temperatures. At the same time, there is a growing aware...

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...

Architects, researchers and poets share their approaches to place

Stimulating explorations of architecture, poetry and place

Featuring interviews with Anna West, Erik Linder and Ted Landrum

Architects and poets alike experiment with writing as a spatial act, using verse and reflection to navigate landscapes both real and imagined. But how does poetry emerge from place, and what knowledge of place can poetry reveal— for architects, designers, and spatial practitioners?

This inaugural...

Iconic UNESCO World Heritage site in Rotterdam

Actualized edition of the useful guide of the Van Nellefabriek

Accessible introduction to a Rotterdam icon

The iconic Van Nellefabriek is inextricably linked to Rotterdam’s dynamic world port. This modernist masterpiece on the Schie canal was originally built for the processing and packaging of coffee, tea and tobacco. The neon sign on the roof still testifies to this past.

After careful adaptive re-use, the Van Nellefabriek is now used...

Architecture and design as a source of inspiration for album covers

Collection of the finest, strangest and most remarkable architecture covers

An endless delight for lovers of both music and architecture

‘Architecture is frozen music’, Wolfgang Goethe is quoted as saying. It turns out that architecture is a major source of inspiration for musicians and composers – from classic and modern composers via jazz and the blues to new wave bands and rappers who sing the praises of the big cit...

A unique insight into the making of the architectural world’s most influential event

Yaneva’s ethnographical approach offers a fresh perspective on the Biennale as an essential tool for architectural discourse

Launch at the finissage of the 2025 Biennale Architettura di Venezia

Biennales have occupied a central place in the discourse of architecture. Every two years, architects, educators and students from all over the world gather in Venice to celebrate the most influential event...