This year’s edition of the highly successful Architecture in the Netherlands has once again been compiled by Samir Bantal, JaapJan Berg, Kees van der Hoeven and Anne Luijten. From the many submissions the editorial team selected the most remarkable examples of architecture realized in the Netherlands over the previous year. The 30 selected projects offer a wide-ranging overview of diverse trends, design strategies and topical themes that molded the architecture of 2009. The editorial team explores the entire breadth of production, from housing and offices to schools and a holiday home, in new construction as well as remarkable transformations of existing buildings. As an annual overview the volume also includes a calendar, shedding light on each month’s most significant news item. The editorial team also draws attention to relevant and urgent developments, placing them on the agenda in a series of essays. The yearbook also presents an overview of the year’s most important prizes, competitions, exhibitions, articles and publications.
With projects by Koen van Velsen, Ira Koers, Claus en Kaan, Dick van Gameren, Mecanoo, Onix, Search, VMX, Doepel Strijkers Architects and others.

Spacematrix explores the potential of urban density as a tool for urban planning and design. The authors’ fascination with density is not primarily normative, making no claim to know which density is best, but is driven by the desire to understand the relational logic between density, urban form and performance. This is a prerequisite for understanding and successfully predicting the effects of specific designs and planning proposals. The focus of attention is the relationship between types of urban environment and data such as amount, size, physical properties and economic values.
The book has been designed by the award winning Dutch designer Joost Grootens.

The apparent increase in popular demand for volumes presenting works of architecture as novelties has been curiously matched by the marked absence of a critical discussion of the objects that would explain and examine their role as cultural statements or as exponents of particular urban, social and political visions.

"Our traditional notion of privacy is coming under pressure from a political system obsessed with security and control and a commercial sector avid for sales. More and more measures are being taken that conflict with our constitutional right to privacy. New technologies are being developed and implemented in order to keep an eye on citizens and collect data about their comings and goings. Societal resistance to this is relatively scarce, particularly in the Netherlands. At the same time people harbour fewer and fewer qualms about voluntarily revealing personal information in the media and on the Internet. Apparently the protection of privacy is subordinate to people’s desire to manifest themselves publicly in society. If the perception of privacy is changing then this raises questions about the extent to which the existing principle of privacy remains tenable and whether there are alternative subjectivities or rights that are considered more important. Are new strategies being introduced for the protection of personal autonomy or for the evasion of instruments that violate privacy? Beyond Privacy attempts to give an impression of the current sociopolitical and technological violators of privacy as well as of what is on the horizon beyond privacy." (Publishers text)
With contributions by Rudi Laermans, Maurizio Lazzarato, Rob van Kranenburg, Martijn de Waal, Armin Medosch and others

There is also a Dutch edition.

Aan de hand van zes case studies – waaronder de OV-chipkaart en het rekeningrijden - wordt de lezer geconfronteerd met zijn digitale identiteit die hij op straat met zich mee draagt. Dagelijkse handelingen als geld betalen, door de OV-poortjes lopen en een kantoor betreden, worden steeds meer vastgelegd. Onze virtuele identiteit wordt daardoor steeds rijker. Ook het aantal partijen dat daarvan gebruikt maakt wordt steeds groter. En de doelen van systemen worden steeds verder uitgebreid.
Het boek Check in / Check uit stelt kritische vragen ten aanzien van de digitalisering van de openbare ruimte. Hoeveel persoonlijke informatie willen we prijsgeven en wat moet er tegenover staan? Hoe ver willen we daar in gaan? Willen we van onze stad een 'virtuele vesting met een digitale slotgracht' maken? Is privacy straks nog wel een houdbaar begrip? Of groeit de behoefte aan digitale stiltezones waar je nog anoniem kunt zijn? Helemaal als we straks live te volgen zijn en onze informatie real time inzichtelijk is voor derden?

A study of the ever increasing digitalization of our environment.

De dynamiek van het verkeer in het waterrijke Amsterdam is goed af te lezen aan zijn bruggen. Met de groei van de stad is het bruggenareaal voortdurend aangepast en uitgebreid. De auteur legt het verband tussen de grote stedenbouwkundige uitbreidingen vanaf het midden van de negentiende eeuw met enerzijds de bevlogen aandacht voor kunst en schoonheid en anderzijds de constructieve mogelijkheden, die nieuwe materialen en technieken de architecten en ingenieurs boden. Het kloeke boek is geïllustreerd met veel nooit eerder gepubliceerd beeldmateriaal, historische foto’s, prentbriefkaarten, tekeningen en plattegronden. Het eerste deel belicht de infrastructurele ontwikkeling van Amsterdam en de invloed daarvan op de bouw van bruggen sinds circa 1850. Het tweede deel is gewijd aan de technische en esthetische ontwikkeling van de Amsterdamse bruggenbouw. In drie routes, de Singelring, de Westelijke Hoofdvaarweg en de Oostelijke Hoofdvaarweg, passeren 120 bruggen de revue die exemplarisch zijn voor vrijwel alle brugtypes die in Amsterdam zijn gebouwd.

A minutely researched and richly illustrated study of the bridges and the infrastructure of the city of Amsterdam between 1850-2010. Containing a great deal of archival material which has never been published before.
Text in Dutch only.

"While climate change, sustainable architecture, and green technologies have become increasingly topical, issues surrounding the sustainability of the city are much less developed. The premise of this book is that an ecological approach is urgently needed as an imaginative and practical method for addressing existing as well as new cities.
'Ecological Urbanism' considers the city with multiple instruments and with a world view that is fluid in scale and disciplinary focus. Design provides the synthetic key to connect ecology with an urbanism that is not in contradiction with its environment. The book brings together practitioners, theorists, economists, engineers, artists, policymakers, scientists, and public health specialists, with the goal of providing a multi layered, diverse and nuanced understanding of ecological urbanism and what it might be in the future. The promise is nothing short of a new ethics and aesthetics of the urban." (Publishers text)

The design of infrastructural networks is among today’s most complex and most important design tasks. In recent times much attention has been paid to the new ‘urbanized’ landscape that has sprung up around infrastructural networks. Around the globe the importance of infrastructure as the motor of economic development is rising because of increasing mobility and need to make central locations accessible. Infrastructure is an important instrument for the design of public space and landscapes: areas around airport and railway stations, motorway systems and sprawling suburbs, traffic routes to shopping malls, access to industrial areas in the periphery and so on.
This book investigates how the design of infrastructure actively influences the organization of the inhabited landscape. Works of infrastructure are analyzed as footprints of civilization, as physical presence, as transformers of perception, and as new vessels of collective life. The authors identify these characteristics, together with the conditions that influence them, and suggest a typology of design attitudes as revealing in recent practice around the world.

Luchthaven Schiphol, het Anne Frank Huis, de Malietoren - het zijn bekende bouwwerken van Benthem Crouwel Architekten. Publieke gebouwen op cruciale, beeldbepalende plekken waar veel mensen samenkomen. BC AD biedt een verfrissende kijk op het omvangrijke oeuvre en geeft inzicht in de werkwijze van het bureau; van de grensovergangen en het experimentele woonhuis in Almere uit de beginperiode tot de stations voor de hogesnelheidslijn en de Noord/Zuid-metrolijn en de uitbreiding van het Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Naast gerealiseerd werk worden ook prijsvraaginzendingen - vaak voor spraakmakende competities - en diverse studies getoond. Uit de tekeningen, schetsen, foto’s en maquettes spreekt de fascinatie voor en het plezier in het oplossen van ingewikkelde problemen. De kracht van Benthem Crouwel Architekten ligt in het vinden van eenvoudige, heldere en duurzame oplossingen voor complexe opgaven. BC AD vat dertig jaar ontwerpen van een van Nederlands succesvolste architectenbureaus samen en geeft daarmee tegelijkertijd een beeld van de Nederlandse ontwerpcultuur.

This book brings together thirty years of work of Benthem Crouwel Architects, one of the Netherlands most successful and innovating architectural bureaus.
An English edition will be published later this year.

Although no one will deny the importance of colour in architecture, little has been published about it. Colour is an inseparable aspect of architecture, but often provokes strong reactions. This book presents the main approaches to colour in architecture. It contains descriptions of sixteen modern projects, essays, a timeline from 1800 to the present, and many original contributions by architects on colour and its use.
With contributions by: Susanne Komossa, Kees Rouw, Joost Hillen, Bas Gremmen & Liisa Aholainen, Mark Pimlott, Kazu Blumfeld Hanada & Heike Blumfeld Hanada, Michiel Riedijk, Udo Garritzmann, Heide Hinterthür and Nynke Jutten.

From city high-rise to southern desert, from urban sprawl to virgin canyons, the American landscape is endless in its variety. On the initiative of the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, a group of landscape architects, architects, urban designers, artists and critics travelled through this imposing landscape, drawing inspiration for their own work from its history and transformations. Their journey is recorded in Reading the American Landscape, which includes essays by the members of the group and a number of American landscape researchers.
The backbone of the book is a bibliography compiled specially for the study trip, from which the authors each took one title as the starting point for their essays. The result is a remarkable series of reflections on American landscape architecture and public space, with visual essays by the artists and photographers who were part of the group. The bibliography is brought to life in over 6500 photographs, pointing beyond words to a landscape that can only be truly grasped in its infinite expanse.
A striking publication design by Irma Boom.

There is also a Dutch language edition

This issue of OASE explores the potential significance of architectonic design for transformation processes on the regional scale. Besides considering the instruments that are available to the designer to fulfil this task, the authors also consider how the design can exercise a ‘positive’ influence on such processes.
The various contributions shed light on the potential significance of territory in contemporary design practice and offer critical reflection on the topical discourse that has evolved over recent years.

OASE 79 is devoted in its entirety to the architecture of the British architect James Stirling (1926-1992), who played a prominent role in the architecture discourse of the 1980s due to his striking buildings from the 1960s and ’70s. His archi¬tecture, for which he was awarded the third Pritzker Prize in 1981, was praised by critics as emblematic of the British New Brutalism, while his later work is read as the clearest testimony to the transition from modernism to postmodernism. However, because Stirling’s architecture was elevated to being an icon of specific architectural movements, the interest in his work waned as soon as a newer discourse claimed people’s attention. Besides losing its topical relevance, the enduring significance of his oeuvre was called into question.
With the benefit of a few decades of hindsight, OASE is looking back at the architecture of James Stirling and shedding new light on its potential relevance to today’s architecture debate. This monographic issue detaches the oeuvre from the era in which it was created in order to re-examine it as ‘literal architecture’, an architecture that reveals its intentions in the way it is materialized and experienced as space and form. On the basis of short essays, primarily by practising architects, as well as longer reflective articles, Stirling’s oeuvre is reinter¬preted as a continuous exploration of the language of architecture. Complemented by a selection of projects that are presented using original architectural drawings as well as recently shot photographs by Bas Princen, OASE 79 investigates the architecture of James Stirling as a coherent but non-dogmatic accumulation of formal knowledge.

De overweldigende vormenrijkdom van het polderlandschap wordt in deze atlas door de ruim 300 luchtfoto's, kaarten en tekeningen op een schitterende manier in beeld gebracht.
De meer dan 9000 poldereenheden waaruit het Nederlandse laagland bestaat zijn hier voor het eerst systematisch gecatalogiseerd. Op 35 kaartbladen zijn alle polders getekend, met hun kenmerkende waterstaatkundige en ruimtelijke eigenschappen.
Zeventien voorbeeldpolders, waaronder bekende historische polders als de Beemster en de Schermer, minder bekende als de Bethunepolder en de Tzummerpolder en gloednieuwe als de Noordoostpolder en Zuidelijk Flevoland worden uitvoerig besproken.
De Polderatlas van Nederland is een zeer waardevolle en unieke bron om het bijzondere Nederlandse polderlandschap zowel te begrijpen alsook verder te ontwikkelen.
De vuistdikke en 5 kilogram wegende uitgave: De Polderatlas van Nederland is een monument voor Nederland als polderland.

This is a monumental book production about the history and development of the Dutch polder landscape. It systematically catalogues the more than 9000 individual polders which make-up the lowlands of the Netherlands. Using more than 300 aerial-photographs, maps and drawings this book is a valuable resource and visual experience.

Open is a cahier that reflects upon contemporary public space from a cultural perspective. Through a thematic investigation into the changing conditions of public space and through new ideas relating to this space, Open aims to make a structural contribution to the development of theories about these subjects and to function as a platform for reflection on socio-cultural and artistic practices.
Amsterdam at war in 2030. This terrifying projection into the future serves to sharpen and expand our thinking about topics such as tolerance, fear, security and control, censorship, public space and urban politics. Neither naming the enemy nor proffering any answers, theorists and artists fire off questions and sketch experimental scenarios, using Amsterdam as a concrete case as well as a strange attractor.
What are the implications of urban warfare in a Western city? Is there a public domain under such circumstances and how does it function? Will people still be producing art, and how will artists reach their public?

There is also a Dutch language editon

This Architectural Guide to the Netherlands (1980-Present) charts developments in Dutch architecture since the mid-1980s. With over 500 entries, it is an up-to-date companion to the Architectural Guide to the Netherlands (1900-2000). Its pages contain a representative selection of recent work by de Architekten Cie., Benthem Crouwel, Claus & Kaan, Erick van Egeraat, Atelier Kempe Thill, KCAP, Mecanoo, Meyer & Van Schooten, MVRDV, Neutelings Riedijk, OMA, Onix, UN Studio and Soeters Van Eldonk as well as by the many foreign architects working in the Netherlands. Its compact shape, practical layout and extensive indexes make this guide as indispensable as its predecessors, whether as a source of inspiration or as a reference work on the practice of Dutch architecture today.

Schools crop up often in Hertzberger’s prodigious oeuvre. They are his favourite buildings, he says. Hertzberger designs schools that are to function like cities. Schools and cities, he contends, can be read in many ways and are challenging, inspirational and inviting. School is where you can withdraw and adopt a position with respect to others, where you learn to take a place in society. Besides a presentation of Hertzberger’s thirty-plus built schools and a number of unbuilt ones, the sociologist Abram de Swaan addresses Hertzberger’s work in an essay. Aided by examples, he examines how school architecture and the way school buildings are organized impacts the social development of children. De Swaan pays tribute to Hertzberger as a pre-eminently ’sociological’ architect.

In het omvangrijke oeuvre van Herman Hertzberger neemt het schoolgebouw een belangrijke plaats in. Hertzberger maakt scholen die als een stad functioneren. Een school en een stad zijn volgens hem multi-interpretabel, uitdagend, inspirerend en uitnodigend, de school is een plek waar je je kunt terugtrekken en je kunt positioneren ten opzichte van anderen, je leert er het samenleven. Het boek zet de scholen van Hertzberger met ruim dertig voorbeelden voor het eerst op een rij. In een uitgebreid essay gaat de socioloog Abram de Swaan in op het werk van Hertzberger. Hij toont hoe de architectuur van scholen en de organisatie van schoolgebouwen invloed hebben op de sociale ontwikkeling van kinderen. De Swaan roemt Hertzberger als een bij uitstek sociologisch architect.

It was in the early 1990s that the Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment published the supplement to the fourth report on spatial planning. This policy document achieved fame and notoriety under its Dutch acronym, Vinex. In its wake, hundreds of thousands of dwellings were erected throughout the Netherlands in what became known as Vinex districts. Sometimes eulogized, often vilified, they have always been a source of debate. The Vinex Atlas gives the first in-depth account of the entire Vinex stock, describing 52 districts aided by aerial views from the mid-nineties, plans, site data and recent on-site photographs. Add to these an exhaustive essay on the genesis and implementation of the Vinex programme and you have the definitive reference work on this unique spatial planning operation in the Netherlands.
This book has been exceptionally well designed by Studio Joost Grootens, and it has just been awarded the gold medal by the 'Schönste Bücher aus aller Welt' in Leipzig. Grootens also designed the award-winning publication 'Metropolitan World Atlas' for the same publishers.

This year’s edition of the highly successful Architecture in the Netherlands Yearbook is being compiled by Samir Bantal, JaapJan Berg, Kees van der Hoeven and Anne Luijten for the first time. From the many submissions this team has selected the most remarkable architectural projects realized on Dutch soil over the preceding year.
The shortlist of 30 projects provides a wide-ranging overview of trends, design strategies, architectural typologies and topical themes that have influenced architecture in 2008. The editorial team also highlights relevant and urgent developments and places them on the agenda in a series of essays, visual and textual.
The yearbook also presents an overview of the previous year’s most important prizes, competitions, exhibitions, articles and publications.
With projects by Cepezed, Claus en Kaan, KCAP, Köther Salman Koedijk, Meyer en Van Schooten, Soeters Van Eldonk, UN Studio, René van Zuuk, De Zwarte Hond and many others.

"Education has changed drastically within a short period. The design of the educational building has therefore become more of an architectural challenge than ever; classrooms have been replaced by learning domains, main halls have turned into genuine plazas.
This book provides an up to date and revealing survey of recent school architecture in the Netherlands. The four essays and forty school portraits by Like Bijlsma, Dolf Broekhuizen, Paul Groenendijk, Eireen Schreurs and Ton Verstegen analyse and present the changes in the architecture of primary and secondary schools from 1990 to the present." (Publishers text)

There is also a Dutch edition.

"The changing public sphere is one of the crucial themes of contemporary architectural debate. In today’s world, where can we find collective spaces in which people can meet and form public opinion?
Contemporary thinkers such as Lieven De Cauter, Michael Sorkin, and Bruce Robbins argue that urban diversity is now giving way to growing worldwide uniformity. Public life is gradually moving from the squares and the streets to hotel lobbies, shopping malls, and entertainment centres.
As the twenty-first century begins, architects still face the task of designing public buildings and spaces – whether libraries, squares, or airports. They are in search of forms they can use to connect the many different gradations of the public sphere that exist today.
Architectural Positions presents the views of thirty-six international architects who, over the past fifty years, have made their voices heard in the debate on the public sphere. They include Aldo Rossi, Rem Koolhaas, Mathias Ungers, Daniel Libeskind, Luis Barragán, and Peter Eisenman. The essays in this book give an overview of the past fifty years of architectural discourse on this theme. A detailed introduction provides background and context, focusing on the links between architecture, modernity, and the public sphere."(Publishers text)

For this year's edition of the highly successful Architecture in the Netherlands publication almost 100 projects made it to the long list from a total of more than 1,000 submissions. The team visited all the long-listed projects, which were spread throughout the country. The resulting shortlist of 30 selected projects offers a broad overview of various movements, design strategies, structural typologies and topical themes that have influenced architecture in 2007. The projects reveal trends that will probably gain in currency over coming years. The yearbook is not merely a retrospective, but also a glimpse into the future.
The yearbook also provides an overview of the previous year's most important awards, competitions, exhibitions and publications.
With projects by Arons & Gelauf, BUROBEB, Claus en Kaan, Dynamo Architecten, Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Korteknie Stuhlmacher, Van Sambeek & Van Veen Architecten, VMX, Han Westelaken and many others.

Uit de ruim duizend inzendingen hebben iets minder dan honderd de short list gehaald. Al deze over heel het land verspreide projecten zijn bezocht. De dertig uitverkoren projecten geven een breed overzicht van verschillende stromingen, ontwerphoudingen, bouwtypen en actuele thema's die de architectuur in 2007 mede hebben bepaald. Ze maken tendensen zichtbaar die zich vermoedelijk in de komende jaren zullen versterken. Het jaarboek kijkt niet alleen terug, het kijkt ook vooruit.

In het omvangrijke oeuvre van Herman Hertzberger is de bouw van scholen een van de belangrijkste opgaven. Hij bouwde tot op heden ruim dertig scholen. Volgens Hertzberger is scholenbouw vandaag de dag een van de weinige deelgebieden binnen de architectuur waarbij de ontwerper nog de menselijke condities kan bepalen en beïnvloeden. Hij stelt dat er evenwicht moet zijn tussen gebruik, functionaliteit en de architectuur van schoolgebouwen, waarbij de architectuur geïnspireerd wordt door het onderwijs. Juist met de huidige ontwikkelingen in het onderwijs, van klassikaal naar meer individueel gericht onderwijs, dienen de gebouwen steeds opnieuw bedacht te worden. De wisselwerking tussen onderwijs, onderwijssystemen en architectuur is evident. In Ruimte en Leren legt Hertzberger zijn ruime ervaring, kennis en opvattingen vast in een theoretische beschouwing over de ruimtelijke condities van leren. Het boek is rijk geïllustreerd met eigen werk en werk van anderen.

An English edition will be published in September

The work of Herman Hertzberger is the subject of wide international esteem. 1991 first saw publication of Hertzberger’s Lessons for Students in Architecture, an elaborated version of lectures he had given since 1973 at Delft University of Technology. In it, the background to his work and the ideas underlying it are put into words by the architect himself. It presents a broad spectrum of subjects and designs, with practical experience and evaluation of the use of these buildings serving as a leitmotif. This immensely successful book has gone through many reprints and has also been published in Japanese, German, Italian, Portuguese, Taiwanese, Dutch, Greek and Chinese. More than 750 illustrations give a broad insight into Hertzberger’s ’library’ and a stimulating impression of the influences and sources of inspiration of one of the Netherlands’ major postwar architects.

Space and the Architect is the second book written by Hertzberger in the series 'Lessons for Students in Architecture'. It charts the backgrounds to his work of recent years and the ideas informing it, drawing on a wide spectrum of subjects and designs by artists, precursors, past masters and colleagues, though with his own work persistently present as a reference. Space is its principal theme, physical space but also the mental or intellectual regions the architect calls upon during the process of designing. Once again Hertzberger’s broad practical experience, his ideas and his seemingly inexhaustible ’library’ of images are a major source of inspiration for anyone whose concern is the design of space.

"Political conflicts, humanitarian disasters, wars and migrations- we live in an age of global unrest and discontinuity. While official reactions consist in the search for means of stabilization and restraint, the dynamics of deregulation are giving rise to a situation characterized by global parallel systems: parallel architectures, parallel societies, parallel lives.
This book offers an insight into the complex spatial and social realities of globalisation, from city-like informal markets in Moscow and the post-war self-urbanization in Kosovo to the border economies of the Mediterranean and the parallel worlds of today's burgeoning megacities.
In this state of uncertainties, networks have become the most powerful tool in how we organize our lives. The emerging struggle between network formations produces a space that is both fragmented and contested, yet testifies to the creativity of its inhabitants. As a result, our cities have become topologies of overlapping realities and narratives as much as they are geographical entities.
'Networked Cultures' traces these conflicting negotiations in dialogue with artists, architects, curators and theorists whose work explores possibilities for a multi-inhabitation of territories and narratives across cultural, social or geographical boundaries.
The enclosed DVD features conversations with the contributors to this book that follow the thematic strands along which the collaborative format of 'Networked Cultures' has evolved: Network Creativity - Contested Spaces - Trading Places - Parallel Worlds." (Publishers text)

Rarely has a Dutch architect been such a defining factor for the impression of an era than the Roermond-born architect Pierre Cuypers (1827–1921). It is not only the famous edifices such as the Rijksmuseum and the Central Station in Amsterdam that have been fixed in the national consciousness; his many Catholic churches with their neo-Gothic towers are also inseparably associated with the image of Dutch cities and villages.
Cuypers’ views on restoration, the international context in which he developed his ideas, his plea for a revaluation of Gothic architecture, his many followers and his influence on H.P. Berlage and Michiel de Klerk make him the most important Dutch architect of his time. The work of Cuypers made the Industrial Revolution manifest in the Netherlands and gave a major impulse to the professionalization of architectural practice. With his hundreds of buildings, Cuypers not only left a quantitative mark on the built environment in the Netherlands, but he also raised the quality of Dutch architecture and established a model for the modern architecture firm.
This beautifully designed publication unlocks Cuypers’ complete oeuvre for the first time. A selection of essays sheds light on Cuypers’ position and the significance of his work. Many hundreds of photos, designs and maps make this standard work complete.

There is also a Dutch language edition

"The Dutch architecture studio Mecanoo, active for over twenty years, has built up an extraordinary capacity for the critical exploration of contemporary architecture from a viewpoint unconstrained by set stylistic features, showing a preference for its productive and relational aspects. This book undertakes an analysis of their work through thematic chapters that set out to reconstruct the complex modalities which link the Delft studio's eclectic linguistic experimentation with its concrete activities in the real world. In fact the continuity in diversity that characterizes Mecanoo represents one of the most interesting proposals of resistance to the media-obsessed consumption that is typical of contemporary architecture, taking a critical approach to research that is continually examining new problems instead of taking refuge in tried and tested formulas." (Publishers text)

Concrete Architectural Associates is one of today's most innovative design firms working in the Netherlands. This ambitious Amsterdam based firm gained worldwide fame with its cutting-edge interior designs. Concrete deals with all facets of design and endeavours to provide a total approach to commercial projects. They believe in an extremely logical execution of ideas, resulting in a methodology that is a crossover of architecture, advertising, fashion and product design, with a mixture of elements from 'popular culture'.
This richly illustrated volume documents almost all of Concrete's striking and renowned projects, including the SupperClub nightclub/restaurants in various cities around the world, the De Lairesse Pharmacy in Amsterdam, various shops and restaurants at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, several design hotels, shops at the Centraal Museum, Utrecht and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Rituals Home & Body Cosmetics (worldwide), Australian Homemade (worldwide), The Coffee Company and Laundry Industry.

The publication 'Visionary Power. Producing the Contemporary City' serves as a catalogue for the third edition of the International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam's main exhibition, ‘Visionary Power’, but also stands in its own right as a source of new expertise on the development of the city in the 21st century. The book draws together research about the foundations of the contemporary city, discusses forces that have a bearing on its development, formulates the task for architects and urban planners, and presents strategies with which they can operate in the midst of this interplay of forces, on the basis of topical, coherent visions for the 21st-century city.
More than ever, the city represents a challenge for critical reflection and action. The clear-cut standpoints of internationally respected researchers, the clearly formulated textual contributions and the engaging visual material means that this publication will appeal to both a broad public and those with a professional interest, confronting them with the urgency for probing reflection on the city of the 21st century.

The 50th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Rome in 2007 is emblematic for the 50th birthday of the European project itself. This symbolic point in time presents the ideal opportunity to turn the spotlight on the current and future role of Brussels as the Capital of Europe.
What image does Brussels want to project as a capital city within the European Union and beyond? What are the indisputable qualities of the European presence in Brussels? How can Brussels consciously do justice to its European mission and be a true embodiment of the European political project? Led by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Elia Zenghelis, an international team of 16 architects and urban planners who are associated with the Berlage Institute investigated these questions and devised a plan for the possible future of the Capital of Europe. Brussels- A Manifesto is a pamphlet that treats the city’s self evident, hidden or forgotten qualities as building blocks for a tangible project that revolves around the relations between the European institutions and the city. By adopting this perspective, the pamphlet makes the discussion about the future of the European Union and its capital city concrete, palpable and accessible, rescuing it from a discourse that often remains abstract.
Brussels – A Manifesto is an exceptionally visionary project, presenting a poetic, engrossing and magical image of our communal capital city. With contributions by prominent thinkers such as Tronti, Zenghelis, Aureli and Strauven, this volume presents a powerful standpoint that links architecture’s -representative role to the very future of Europe.

Documenting more than 400 items, this fully revised guide to the architecture of Rotterdam gives a representative overview of the key buildings and urban projects in this city, from its earliest churches dating from the 15th century, the Schielandshuis of 1665, the 19th century Witte-Huis, the Van Nelle factory, the Euromast, the cube houses, the Kunsthal and the Erasmus Bridge up to and including the latest developments at Kop van Zuid.

Remment Koolhaas (born November 17, 1944 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas first studied script writing at the Dutch Film Academy, and was then a journalist for the Haagse Post before starting studies, in 1968, in architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, followed, in 1972, by further studies at Cornell University in New York. Koolhaas is the principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO, nowadays based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
This extensive publication by the Spanish Architectural magazine El Croquis presents a comprehensive overview of the major building projects that Koolhaas and his OMA have created since 1996. It shows conceptual plans, drawings, floor plans, cross-sections, models and photographs of the following projects: Hyperbuilding, Bordeaux House and Pool [The Sustainable House], Port of Genoa, Universal Headquarters Building, 'De Rotterdam' Building [Vertical City], MoCA [Museum of Contemporary Arts, Rome], UN City, Schiphol City [New Concept for the Schiphol Site], Wenner House [The Distributed House], 3 USA Prada Epicenters [in-store Technology, Prada San Francisco Epicenter, Prada New York Epicenter, Prada Los Angeles Epicenter, Astor Place Hotel, Cordoba Congress Center, Flick House I & II, Whitney Museum Extension, LACMA [Los Angeles County Museum of Art], Koningin Julianaplein, CCTV Television Station and Headquarters and TVCC Cultural Center, NATO Headquarters, Deltametropool, European Union and Brussels Study, The McCormick Tribune Campus Center at IIT, H e rmitage Museum Extension, St. Petersburg, Quartier des Halles [Urban Development Study], European Central Bank Headquarters, Netherlands Embassy in Berlin, and the Content Exhibition.

Europan, the European competition for young architects held every two years, selected the theme 'European Urbanity and Strategic Projects' for the coming competition round. For Europan 8, 74 sites in Europe were selected for designs exploring the theme of 'European Urbanity'. Nearly 160 projects by young architects from the Netherlands and abroad were submitted for the six sites in the Netherlands.
The book Europan 8 - European Urbanity and Strategic Projects presents an overview of the winning projects. The designs are documented in detail, with photos of architectural models, plans and sketches. The winning designers also personally explain their designs in interviews. The project section is complemented by an essay about the central theme, a description of the six sites in the Netherlands, and a critique of the entries from a European perspective. The book includes a CD-ROM that contains the designs by the prizewinners and all other entrants.

In 1915 Willem Marinus Dudok was commissioned to design a town hall for Hilversum, just outside Amsterdam. He set out his vision in numerous sketches and texts. Various locations were considered and in 1927 it was decided to build the town hall on the ‘Witten Hull’ estate. In the middle of an area of villas a striking structure was built among the trees. It was the pride of Hilversum and hailed as a high point in international architectural history. The building has been in use for 75 years as government offices for the city of Hilversum and has also gained major cultural status as a venue for exhibitions and concerts.
The book is unique in that for the first time all Dudok’s designs and locations are listed and explained. Much unique visual material is shown from the collections of Hilversum Museum, Gooi and Vechtstreek Regional Archives and the Netherlands Institute of Architecture. New photographic material is also presented.

In 1915 kreeg Willem Marinus Dudok de opdracht voor Hilversum een raadhuis te ontwerpen. Zijn visie zette hij uiteen in talrijke teksten en schetsen. Diverse bouwlocaties werden overwogen. In 1927 werd besloten het raadhuis te bouwen op de buitenplaats ´Witten Hull´. Midden in een villagebied werd tussen de bomen een opzienbarend complex gerealiseerd. Het werd de trots van Hilversum en een hoogtepunt in de internationale architectuurgeschiedenis.
Het complex is nu 75 jaar in gebruik als bestuurscentrum van de omroepstad. Door exposities en concerten heeft het ook een belangrijke culturele status. Het gebouw werd als één van de eerste jonge monumenten aangewezen als rijksmonument. Na bijna 60 jaar onderging het een grootscheepse restauratie, die in binnen- en buitenland de aandacht trok. Het gebouw vormt na de restauratie weer het stralende en democratische middelpunt van de Jonge Monumentenstad Hilversum.
Het boek is uniek omdat voor het eerst alle ontwerpen van Dudok en de bijbehorende locaties op een rij worden gezet en toegelicht. Er wordt veel uniek beeldmateriaal getoond uit de collecties van Museum Hilversum, Streekarchief Gooi en Vechtstreek en Nederlands Architectuurinstituut. Tevens wordt nieuw fotomateriaal gepresenteerd.

The first edition sold out within a few months, making a demand for a second editon of the first overview of Blaisse's broad spectrum of work, presented in the same stunning book design by Irma Boom.
Internationally recognized as one of today's most important and pioneering landscape and interior designers, the Dutch designer Petra Blaisse continues to define new and increasingly ambitious roles for landscape and interior design. In contrast to architecture's static and immutable severity she devises flexible and flowing solutions that interconnect interior and exterior. Her designs are often poetic and colourful, but they consistently provide astute and elegant solutions to complex technical problems.
Blaisse contributes to important projects in Europe, Asia and the USA both as an independent designer and in association with urban planners and architects such as Tim Ronalds, SANAA/Kazuyo Sejima, Macken & Macken, OMA/Rem Koolhaas and Michael Maltzan.
This volume provides extensive documentation of key projects, features the designer herself in conversation with the editor Kayoko Ota, and includes essays by a range of experts, making it an indispensable source of inspiration for architects, engineers and designers, as well as providing a new impulse for the whole field of architecture.

The concepts 'Indonesian architecture' and 'architecture in Indonesia' are both somewhat flawed. Architecture in Indonesia is extremely multifaceted and includes influences from many important cultures, ranging from India, China and the Middle East to the countries of the West. It's certainly fair to question whether or not a 'real' Indonesian architecture exists, even with regard to the country's vernacular architecture, which is highly diversified from an ethnic perspective. In fact, the search for the creation of an 'authentic Indonesian' architecture has long been a topic of discussion among architects in Indonesia. Importantly, this architecture is not confined to the territory of the Indonesian state but has migrated to other parts of the world, especially to the Netherlands.
This collection of essays about architecture in the context of Indonesia is intended to provide an impression of the diversity of architecture in modern-day Indonesia, while at the same time recognizing that such a perspective cannot be productive without taking history into account.

Vast areas of the Netherlands and other states seem to be filling up with a suburban 'matter' of low cost housing, low rent offices, warehouses and other low density elements. How are we to cope with this matter that is turning our environments into one 'sea of mediocrity', one vast 'greyness', an equation of difference and individualism? Is it possible to reconsider this situation by carrying density to extremes and ruffling the texture with inserts or polarities? This book examines the possibilities of these extremes. It sets out to discover the prospects and limitations, the world of the extreme Floor Area Ratio, FARMAX. Conceived and edited by Winy Maas and Jacob van Rijs with Richard Koek and produced by MVRDV, FARMAX reads as an architectural narrative composed of studies and designs made by MVRDV and students from Delft University of Technology, the Berlage Institute and the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Planning, along with contributions by other authors.
A welcome new edition of this highly provocative and timely study.

'Crossover' is the very first publication by the Delft School of Design (DSD), a laboratory for research and experimentation in architecture, urbanism and technologies of construction at the TU Delft. Its investigations cover a wide variety of subjects, from theoretical considerations and historical studies to urban and architectural practices and contemporary structural design. What they all have in common is the emerging condition of architectural and urban knowledge in both the academic context and professional practice. Since its inception in 2003, the DSD has developed a strategy or field of inquiry for mapping new means of approaching the complexity of the contemporary urban and architectural conditions. Traditional approaches are seen to be increasingly inadequate in the face of this complexity. This is in part due to the nature of the information age. Yet, on the other hand, new technologies offer us the challenge and the potential to represent our world in unprecedented ways.

This book represents the fruits of a year long forum carried out in the Delft School of Design (Faculty of Architecture, University of Technology Delft). The papers in this collection are gathered from renowned visiting scholars, faculty members, and doctoral candidates who contributed to workshops, seminars and lectures carried out under a guiding framework, entitled 'forms and relations'. The essays contained in this volume contribute to matters which have come to increasingly shift our understanding of architecture and urbanism. The authors offer insight on urban processes and the aesthetic challenge for contemporary design in relation to image, technology and life sciences.
Contributions include discussion on: the structure of the network city in terms of temporal manipulations, the virtual emergence and resilience of contemporary urban place in the context of Beijing, the practice of the 'production of space' is detailed with a study of Nowa Huta, Poland, a post communist city and a phenomenological account of habitat and the urban body is presented in relation to Bogotá.
This is the third volume in the new Delft School of Design Series on Architecture and Urbanism.

"With its wealth of facts and clean, abstract design, the Metropolitan World Atlas is a must-buy. Despite the burgeoning interest in metropolitan growth and globalisation there has been no way of directly comparing metropolises - until now, that is. This atlas offers a unique survey of global trade networks and their impact on metropolitan space. It documents a total of 101 metropolises, analysing them in easy-to-read ground plans. It also includes index numbers and tables regarding such aspects as population, density, pollution, travel time, data traffic, air and water travel and the size of Central Business Districts. Its unexpected combination of ground plans and statistics makes this atlas a unique work of reference where for the first time metropolitan areas like Beijing, Lagos, London, Los Angeles, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo can be compared with one another and in terms of their position in the global urban network." (Publisher's text)

This book has has now been awarded a Gold Medal for the Best World Book Design 2006 at Leipzig, is included in the 33 Best Dutch Book Design 2005, has won a Red Dot Award: Best of the Best, and has now won the Nederlandse Designprijs 2006 for best graphic design.

"Fully revised with all new photographs and containing over 1000 entries, this 'Architectural Guide to the Netherlands 1900-2000' gives a balanced and representative overview of all movements and developments in Dutch architecture throughout the 20th century. With its compact shape, practical layout and extensive indexes, the new edition of this 'classic among Dutch architecture books' will prove as indispensable as its predecessors both as a work of reference and as a source of inspiration for architecture and urban design in the Netherlands." (Publishers text)

"Constructing The Netherlands displays the results of four years work on the ten Great Projects. These projects were selected by the government as part of the national architecture policy, and an elite of Dutch and international architects involved. The projects reflect present and future commissions in the field of architecture, urban planning, landscape architecture and infrastructure development. This richly illustrated book shows us not only the definitive design for the Rijksmuseum by the Spanish architects Antonio Cruz and Antonio Ortiz, but also the intriguing visions of Paul Chemetov, Francesco Venezia, Heinz Tesar and others. Further, it turns it's attention to the design studies for the Delta Metropolis by OMA, Teun Koolhaas, H+N+S and Luigi Snozzi, as well as future scenarios for the Nieuwe Waterlinie, The Zuiderzee Line and the A12 National Motorway.
In their contributions Chief Government Architects Jo Coenen and Mels Crouwel, and Government Advisors Dirk Sijmons, Fons Asselbergs and Jan Brouwer speak at length about their involvement with these projects. Constructing The Netherlands leads the reader through complex and intriguing design processes, and shows the wide range of design results arising from them." (Publishers text)

"In the seventeen years since Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos established their studio in Amsterdam, they have continually pushed the boundaries of contemporary architecture, seeking new design practices and building solutions. The work that has resulted from these explorations fuses a sophisticated understanding of digital design with a formal and material experimentation that has ensured their work reaches far beyond the 'supermodernism' associated with architectural practices of the Netherlands.
Fluidity and flexibility, often underpinned by diagrammatic method, are hallmarks of UN Studio's buildings and projects. From a live-work house based on a Möbius strip to radical infrastructure projects, such as bridges and transportation hubs, from power stations to museums, the practice has subtly, but profoundly, reinvented a number of standard building types and proposed radical new modes of collaboration in the digital age.
This book is a complete monograph of UN Studio's output." (Taken from the publishers cover text).

"The face of the nocturnal metropolis is marked decisively by light, and the number and variety of the light sources is increasing to the point of 'light terror'. A well-lit urban space can be very inviting, giving residents and visitors a sense of well-being and security. A successful lighting design can also give the city at night an identity of its own and accentuate architectural qualities.
In this book, Christa van Santen embodies her many years of experience as a practioner and teacher of lighting design. In preparation, she visited several European cities- including Paris, Barcelona, Brussels, Berlin, London, Rome, and Amsterdam- with various urban situations. This has enabled her to present different planning and design tasks systematically and to illustrate specific solutions. In addition to articulating basic planning rules for the outdoor lighting of buildings, traffic routes, and squares, she presents and elucidates new artificial lighting systems and outdoor lamps with the help of examples." (Publishers cover text)

This publication brings together the manifold, international and interdisciplinary contributions to the 'GameSetandMatch II Conference' held at the Delft University of Technology. It addresses contemporary and future changes within and across the boundaries of digitally driven architectural and design practices. The notion of architecture as a co-laboratory accentuates this strong devotion to experimentation and collaboration. In doing so it offers a kaleidoscopic view of, rather than a defined perspective on current developments in the digital design domain.
The authors of the essays and papers included in this book come from very diverse backgrounds ranging from architecture and design to technology and engineering as well as computer sciences and humanities. It contains contributions from: Robert Aish, Ole Bouman, Raoul Bunschoten, Bernard Cache, Jan Edler and Tim Edler, Georg Flachbart, John Frazer, Mark Goulthorpe, Branko Kolarevic, Anne Nigten, Marcos Novak, Kas Oosterhuis, Antonino Saggio, Katie Salen, Norbert Streitz, Tom Verebes, Peter Weibel, a.o.

Starting this year, the highly successful Architecture in the Netherlands is being compiled by a new editorial team. Daan Bakker, Allard Jolles, Michelle Provoost and Cor Wagenaar made a selection from the most remarkable architecture realized in the Netherlands over the last year. From the hundreds of entries, more than 90 projects were selected for an on-site visit. Seven days and 2,500 road kilometres later, about 30 projects remained. These represent a cross-section of Dutch architecture realized in 2005.

With projects by 3XN (Concert Hall Bimhuis), de Architekten Cie. (Philharmonie - De Tricot), Claus en Kaan (Ter Huivra), Jo Coenen (Tower Smallehaven), Constellation (Eindhoven Airport), diederendirrix (Dynamo, cultural Youth Centre; Patronaat, Pop Music Centre), DRO (Oostelijke handelskade), DRO/Hans van Heeswijk/NPK (IJ-Tramway, Rietlanden Tram Stop), GDA (Wooncom), GroupA (Booster Zuid), hvdn (Qubic Houthavens), Joustra Reid (House), MAD (Service Pavilion Kardinge), Mecanoo (Amenities Cluster Hogeveld), MOPET (Velominck), Neutelings Riedijk (Shipping & Transport College), Onix (Dogma House), ONL (Acoustic Barier, Cockpit), Rowin Petersma (Park + Ride Sloterdijk / Zeeburg), RAPP+RAPP (Ypenburg Centre), Rothuizen van Doorn 't Hooft (Lunet B), Paul de Ruiter (Veranda Car Park), Satijnplus (Kruisherenhotel), Van Schagen (Vissenkommen), Soeters Van Eldonk Ponec (Kasteel Lelienhuyze), J. van Stigt (Groot Handelsgebouw), Taneja Hartsuyker (Spaarnoogplan), Zecc (extension of townhouses), Zeinstra van der Pol (combined Heat and Power Plant), zofa (Municipal Offices).

This extensively illustrated handbook presents 150 Dutch Architects and Architectural Offices spanning a period from the beginning of the 19th century to today. It contains all the important names from Berlage and Cuypers to Hertzberger and Rem Koolhaas' OMA. Each entry contains a biographical sketch and at least 3 or 4 photographs of the architect's work.

Hendricus Theodorus Wijdeveld(1885-1987), who lived to be 102, was architect, set-designer, graphic designer and publisher. He was one of the most visionary thinkers and creators in the history of Dutch Architecture; a utopianist who saw the world as his theater where he could design his dreams. He has often been compared to visionaries like Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier. He designed a 20-kilometre deep shaft to the centre of the Earth, devised a plan for the reforestation of the Netherlands and proposed a new neighbourhood around a people's theater in the Vondelpark in Amsterdam. Although his utopian world was never realized he had an enormous influence on the thinking of his day. Besides a small number of land-houses and urban living complexes his most visual legacy is Wendingen, the influential architecture magazine that he founded, designed and published between 1918 and 1931.
This Dutch publication coincides with a retrospective exhibition at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam entitled "Ontwerp het Onmogelijke"(Plan the Impossible)from January 28 to May 21 2006.

Architecture affects people. The architecture of hospitals contributes to the well-being and recovery of patients. This bold proposition dates back to the late 18th century, and has been a recurring theme in the functional development of hospital architecture ever since. The most recent manifestation of this was the phenomenon of 'Evidence-Based Design', which originated in the USA. This methodology compares the effects of various spatial factors and provided indisputable evidence that architecture does indeed work for the first time. The positive influence of architecture is one of the two cornerstones of The Architecture of Hospitals. The other is architecture as an historical discipline with a wide-ranging cultural dimension. The hospital, being a public and representative building with a special societal function, is the ideal vehicle to express this cultural dimension. From French and German examples it seems that good architecture can, moreover, contribute to an agreeable, orderly and well maintained environment, which perhaps has a greater impact on the functioning of the hospital than the effects of Evidence-Based Design.
Architecture as architecture and as medicine is the theme of The Architecture of Hospitals. Partially based on a project of the same name initiated by the University Medical Centre Groningen (UMCG), which included various conferences, studios and workshops, the book bears no resemblance to the standard bundle of conference proceedings. Instead it is a richly illustrated publication which is constructed around five themes: culture, healthcare concepts, Evidence-Based Design, technology and country-specific presentations. The book includes a selection of new, ground-breaking designs interspersed with a number of in-depth historical studies.

The Dutch architect and urban planner Keels Christiaanse and his bureau KCAP conceive and realize exceptional concepts and designs in the fields of urban planning and architecture, and at the interface between the two. In the space of 15 years, KCAP Architects & Planners has grown into an internationally active bureau with an impressive built oeuvre in the Netherlands and beyond. KCAP's broad field of work includes large-scale urban and landscape planning, complex inner city transformations and designing buildings.
In recent years, the attention for the future development of European cities has shifted towards the regeneration and restructuring of urban areas, including inner cities. KCAP has realized pioneering work in this area: at former dock land and industrial locations and in the waterfront areas along important rivers. With highly distinctive concepts, KCAP acts as supervisor, urban planner or architect within these settings.
This wide-ranging book represents the first in-depth survey and analysis of KCAP's most important projects.

'The Atlas of the Dutch Urban Block' provides an overview of the development of the urban housing block as that has taken shape in both Amsterdam and Rotterdam from the 17th century to the present day. In a systematic and methodical way, the book makes the relations between individual dwellings, the housing block and public space visible. Nineteen urban fragments are explored in the book by means of precisely rendered floor plans and cross sections. The manner of drawing sheds new light on the fluent relation between the public and private domain. From each example it is easy to read how individual dwellings are arranged within the housing block, and how the block is positioned in the system of public space.
Among the topics taken up are the urban expansion of Amsterdam's ring canals, Berlage's expansion plan for Amsterdam South, the restructuring plans for the former harbour and industrial areas on the tongue of land along the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam, and urban development plans for Amsterdam's Java Island.

"Until the beginning of the 1990's, the centre of Amsterdam was regarded as the obvious nucleus of urban and regional economic activity. But since then, issues of accessibility and scale have prompted the development of multi-nodal spatial networks on a regional scale. In ten years' time the spatial and economic configuration of the region has changed dramatically. The development of the Zuidas or 'southern axis' district in the coming thirty years offers a strategic opportunity to furnish this regionalization of urbanity with a new, more appealing structure. After all, the Zuidas is not only emerging as a business centre of international significance, its favourable position in the traffic and transport system provides it with optimum conditions for evolution into a varied urban-centre environment." (Publisher's text)

'Living Library' introduces the recently opened Utrecht University Library in the Netherlands designed by renowned Dutch architect Wiel Arets. In addition to illustrating the buildings visual splendour and ingenious use of space, 'Living Library' takes the reader on a journey through its inner world: the history of the library and its collection, its current and future use. The building by Arets is juxtaposed with a compilation of diverse and often surprising fragments made up of photographs, drawings, artworks, film stills, essays and interviews that address the library as an institution and metaphor in today's society.
This intriguing combination, along with its innovative design (Irma Boom), makes 'Living Library' an exceptional book.(Publishers cover text)

This monograph about architecture bureau De Zwarte Hond (The Black Dog) presents a comprehensive overview of designs and realized projects by this office, formerly Karelse Van der Meer Architecten. De Zwarte Hond is a large and wide-ranging bureau with branches in Groningen and Rotterdam, and has one of most extensive and eclectic portfolios of built projects in the Netherlands. The bureau is distinctive for its down-to-earth design mentality, inspired by the conviction that the best design is the result of a thorough study of the task, programme and context.
The book concentrates on the design process and the resulting design solutions for a series of projects from recent years. This focus on 'process' and 'result' is approached in two ways: on the one hand, by means of a substantive reflection on the methodology, in which craftmanship and research are at least as important as the end result; on the other, by means of a complete overview of all 500 projects in a comprehensive project archive. Between the reflection and archive there is a concise chronology that traces the history and evolution of the bureau over the years.
Also available in a Dutch edition.

"This book can be read in a variety of ways: as a didactic manual for designers on how to deal with architecture; as selected items from the history of the space in and around buildings; and as an account of a view of architecture based on the author's own oeuvre and that of other architects.
The rich potential of space is taken, not as an end in itself, but as a way of allowing a building and its surroundings to function in a meaningful way. In other words, 'Revisions of Space' is about a architecture that offers (and leaves) space for everyday life. It is above all a plea for a more balanced approach to architecture as a whole: the design assignment, the history of architecture, and how existing buildings are handled. That plea- inevitably- has its nuances too, though sharp criticism is implied. That criticism is aimed at the one-dimensional approach to architecture as form, or in a more extreme version, as concept; at the mono functionality of many spaces in and around buildings; and thereby at the spatial poverty of much contemporary architecture." (From the cover text)

There is also a Dutch edition.

In the twenties Theo van Doesburg design the Van Doesburg house in Meudon, a suburb of Paris. He originally intended the house to be used as a meeting place for like minded friends from the avant-garde movement, but due to his untimely death he never saw that crystallize. His widow Nelly Doesburg took over the house and made it into a place of pilgrimage for artists and architects. After her death and since 1983 the house has been in the hands of the Van Doesburg Foundation who have made it available as a residence for like minded artists working in Paris.
This nicely designed and well illustrated book provides a sketch of the special quality of the house, its designer, and its various residents; 19 former artists give an impression of what it was like to live and work in such a unique piece of architecture.

This publication is the result of Group Portraits of Young Architects 2004(GP04), a project of the Netherlands Architecture Fund and the Netherlands Foundation of Visual Arts,Design and Architecture.
Western society is terrorized by fear, which leaves behind ever more visible traces in the public domain of our cities, 'Group Portraits' asked young and talented designers to consider the theme 'fear & space'. They explore the various aspects of fear and analyse its impact on contemporary urban space. There are contributions from: Benjamin Barber, Joshua Karant, Moritz Küng, Bert de Muynck, Mark Pimlott and Jacob Voorthuis.

The seventh edition of this most comprehensive overview of Dutch architecture today. It comprises the recent projects of about 120 architects, interior architects, urban planners and landscape architects.
The book is an excellent way of gaining a first visual impression of the signature style of Dutch architects and what they have to offer, while the website www.architectenkeuze.nl, is a handy tool for selecting offices by objective criteria.
With an index of addresses of nearly every Dutch design office, it is the ultimate guide to the field of spatial design in the Netherlands.

The Dutch architect and urban planner Jo Coenen is one of the most inspired professionals in contemporary Dutch Architecture. He has created a large and varied oeuvre which reflects his beliefs that architects should have historical knowledge, depth and a feeling for continuity. He has been head-architect for various large urban developments in the Netherlands over the last 10 to 15 years including the Ceramique project in Maastricht and part of the Eastern Docklands project in Amsterdam. He is the architect of the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam and he recently held the position of 'Rijksbouwmeester' - an appointed governmental position the work of which is to oversee all Dutch national architecture projects.
This very well designed book is a major presentation of his oeuvre and an insight into his philosophy of architecture.

In the young generation of 'digerati' architects, Rotterdam-based Lars Spuybroek and his studio, NOX, are among the few who have completed built projects. Part manual, part manifesto, part monograph, this is the first publication that looks comprehensively at the methods and techniques of Spuybroek's hugely inventive & sometimes outlandish architecture. Written and compiled largely by the architect, the book gives the inspirations, insights and methods that allow him to conceive - and build - such original work.
This dynamic presentation of one of the world's most experimental and influential young architects contains three essential elements: a complete documentation of NOX's oeuvre, including built and unbuilt work; essays by leading figures in design and cultural criticism - Manuel DeLanda, Detlef Mertins, Brian Massumi, Andrew Benjamin and Arjen Mulder; and explanatory texts by Spuybroek that link the projects together.

This extensive study reveals the great currency that 'materiality' has in contemporary architecture. The choice of architectural materials has never been greater and architects use materials in innovative ways as never before.
The editors and the various experts who have contributed to 'Skins for Building' have catalogued more than 200 different surface materials in eight families; wood, natural stone, fired man-made stone, unfired man-made stone, glass, metal, plastics and future materials. Each individual sample material is shown on the righ-hand pages via a very detailed, full-page and full-colour picture and on the opposite page the book shows examples of striking usage and a description of it's specific physical and sensory chararacteristics. Each material family is introduced by an illustrated essay highlighting their general characteristics and the history of their use.
This is an important source book which shall prove to be of great help to many architects and designers.

"In the Netherlands, of all places - for decades a bastion of modern and super modern architecture - a kind of 'unmodern' architecture emerged in the 1990s and went on to great success. In this book, Hans Ibelings analyses unmodern architecture from a number of angles: as an atypical, Dutch phenomenon; as an international movement; as an intellectual response to the limitations of modernism in its various forms; and as a commercial exercise in the niche marketing of nostalgic images. In examining unmodern architecture as an international, as well as a historical, phenomenon, Ibelings answers the question of what unmodern architecture has to offer society

Containing over 300 entries, this Guide to Contemporary Architecture in the Netherlands presents an overview of the most recent developments in Dutch architecture and urban design from the 1980s to the present day. It includes work by Rem Koolhaas, Mecanoo, Wiel Arets, Ben van Berkel, Cepezed, Erick van Egeraat, Sir Norman Foster, Xaveer de Geyter, Herman Hertzberger, Rob Krier, MVRDV, Neutelings Riedijk, Michael Graves, Jo Coenen, Benthem Crouwel, Nox and many others.
Its compact shape, practical layout and extensive indexes make this guide an indispensable and handy reference work on the architecture of the Netherlands today.

"An encounter with the architecture of Wiel Arets- with the diversity of language, scale, program and context that he tackles, and the different responses that he comes up with- can be baffling. It is not easy, in fact, to place the Dutch architect's work in a category, in a genre, in a single system capable of explaining the multiple lines of research that he pursues. The objective of his architecture is not complexity of form, but complexity of content. Yet the puzzlement stirred by Arets' architecture can help us to find the right approach to the interpretation of a body of work that is by its nature multiform, varied and eclectic." From the introduction.
This well designed study of Arets work contains extensive illustrations of his projects and includes floor plans, cross-sections and drawings. The book ends with a black & white catalogue of his entire oeuvre chronologically arranged from 1982 to 2003.

This very well designed monography of the Dutch architecture office of Van Herk & De Kleijn portrays the varied and unconventional body of work consisting of architecture, urban design, interior design, furniture, household objects, films and experiments in form and material which they have produced between 1966 and 2004.

There is no other period in the history of the Netherlands which excites such emotion, resistance or aversion as the period between 1970 and 1980. There are also varying opinions about architecture in the 1970's. Architecture at that time headed off in pursuit of new definitions and forms. Though a number of architectural movements were driven by a devoted social engagement and a profound belief in architecture as a means of moulding society, there was such a varied choice that it did not generate a single and unanimous alternative, resulting instead in polarization and pluriformity.
So far there has been little research into the architecture and planning of the 1970's in the Netherlands, even though it is a period when changes took on a definitive form. With the imminent demolition and renovation of much of the infrastructure and architecture of the 1970's, this book is a document that bears witness to the importance of this period. Remarkable and specific projects from this period are discussed and extensively documented.

The Dutch Embassy in Berlin is one more intriguing example of contemporary architecture by OMA/Rem Koolhaas. After the Kunsthal in Rotterdam and the Congrexpo in Lille, the Berlin embassy once again attests to the astonishing design talent of this international renowned architect.
This publication provides an in-depth analysis of the building’s design and its realisation. This book assembles line drawings by OMA illustrating the design’s points of departure. The famous German photographer Candida Höfer presents the embassy building in a series of 40 photographs giving her personal perspective on the exterior and interior. Koolhaas himself expounds upon the context of the project while Parisian architecture critic François Chaslin analyses the building in an extensive and poetic essay.

The basis for the partnership of Moshé Zwarts and Rein Jansma is an enthusiastic interest in mathematics, a fascination with technology and a pleasure in design. Their large civil works such as bridges, viaducts and tunnels, as well as the stadiums and sports complexes they have designed, are an unmissable presence in the everyday Dutch environment. This book presents a complete overview of the work of Zwarts & Jansma Architecten and documents about 30 selected designs more extensively, with descriptive texts, photographs, settings, plans, sections and details.

Oase is a bi-lingual, independent architectural journal which focuses each issue on a single theme which relates to the contemporary architectural discussion. Published in the Netherlands, designed by Karel Martens and his Werkplaats Typografie, and contributed to by many of the leading figures in the architectural world it has in the last several years become one of the leading platforms of architectural debate.

Herman Hertzberger, one of the initiators of Structuralism in architecture, is known today for the great international influence he exerts as an architect, both through his buildings and his theoretical ideas.
This book provides an extensive sampling of his buildings and projects, many of which have never been featured in book form, as well as writings and sketches from his notebooks. From schools and housing projects to offices and theatres, Hertzberger's concern for individuality, utility and sustainability in architecture have earned him an ethusiastic following especially among those interested in urban renewal.

This Liber Amicorum for the Dutch architect Carel Weeber, now Professor Emeritus at the Technical University of Delft, is a combination of personal remembrances and historical references from a large range of colleagues and friends. The contributors where choosen with the intention that they would be able to put the work and theories of Weeber into a context which would touch upon various aspects of his

This well designed book tells the remarkable story of a cartoonist who made his dream come true in a building made of brick, glass and wood. The well known Dutch cartoonist Joost Swarte designed the new Toneelschuur theatre in the historic city center of Haarlem in his own characteristic style. The Dutch architects Mecanoo elaborated his outline drawing and turned his sketch into a functional building.
The book documents the unique and experimental project with sketches, architectural drawings, and photographs by Henze Boekhout.

Amsterdam Architecture 2000-2002 presents an overview of the most recent architecture in Amsterdam. The projects, which range from large residential buildings, office complexes and shopping centres to cinemas, bridges, a petrol station, a floating bicycle shelter and a temple in the city center, are documented with photographs, some floor plans and text.

Kas Oosterhuis's architecture runs along the fine line separating or joining it to the realms of art. Oosterhuis has built all his work, illustrated in this book, around a combination of rigorous design and artistic freedom, while also paying subtle attention to digital technology. His work ranges from the multiform Active Structures of "Trans-ports", an interactive pavilion, to the functional layout of spaces of the Garbage Transfer Station, Variomatic S(culptures) and Variomatic L(andscapes), and finally the clever architectural forms of the Helsinki Music Center and fantastic Programmable Landscapes, a "game" played by a Database on the one hand and Intuition on the other.
These dialectical relations between design philosophy and clever invention place Oosterhuis's work at the cutting-edge of modern-day architectural design.

This book examines the context of MVRDV's research-based thinking and radical design strategies. It includes texts by a number of international critics, design philosophers and fellow architects who probe into the whys and wherefores of MVRDV's architecture, the potentials of the data-scapes and the secret of the firm's success. The contributors compare MVRDV with other generations and describe how new concepts are born.
The pros and cons surrounding MVRDV converge in this book, which takes a critical stand towards architectural thought in general and the practice of this office in particular.

Liesbeth van der Pol is one of the most wayward architects in the Netherlands. She designs buildings with strong characters; buildings that are not ashamed of themselves. This monograph studies twelve of her most noteworthy projects with abundant photographs, ground plans and sketches. The illustrations give a good impression of how remarkably multi-faceted her oeuvre is, making it very hard to fit into the well-known architectural schools or building traditions.
The essays by Eelco Beukers and Geert Bekaert seek constants in her work - constants that lie not so much in the external appearance of the buildings, as in her way of looking, her approach, and her deeply rooted ideas about the relation between people and buildings.

Wiel Arets, Director of the Berlage Institute of Rotterdam and one of the Netherlands most influential architects practicing today, is renowned for the transparent clarity and rigid geometry of his work. Austere but humane, his buildings evince a forceful presence yet retain a remarkable sensitivity to their uban context and he is regarded as a modern master in the tradition of Louis I.Kahn. This full length monograph features hunderds of stunning photographs by the acclaimed architectural photographer H

Willem Marinus Dudok (1884-1974) is regarded internationally as one of the most important Dutch architects of the twentieth century. As director of Public Works and City Architect in Hilversum, Dudok realized in that municipality not only his world famous City Hall but also a wealth of smaller projects including public baths, a library, housing, schools, a sport park and a cemetery. It was in this period that Dudok developed his own idiom, marked by compositions of cubic volumes; his buildings are regarded as exemplifying, and architecture that appeals not only to the professional world but also to the public at large. This compact, extensively illustrated book offers a complete overview of his major works.

The book gives an overview of the architectural detailing of a number of prominent contemporary Dutch architectural practices. Rather than offering standard details, it shows details whose chief significance is contextual. The accompanying text explains how these architects are able to deploy details in such a way as to achieve maximum architectural effect with the result that the details form an important part of the architect's signature.
In separate chapters, the author describes the detailing philosophy of Wiel Arets, Benthem Crouwel, CEPEZED, Erick van Egeraat, Herman Hertzberger, Mecanoo, MVRDV, OMA, Hans Ruijssenaars, UN Studio, Rudy Uytenhaak and Koen van Velsen.

The Municipal Museum in The Hague (NL) is the last masterpiece of Hendrik Petrus Berlage (1856-1934), one of the Netherlands most important architects and master-builders who was responsible for the original plans which became the world reknown "Amsterdam School of Architecture" in the begining of the 20th. century. This beautiful building, which has just in the last 2 years been renovated and brought back to it's original form, was built in the period 1931-1935 and when finished was acclaimed as the most modern and advanced museum in the world. This book tells in pictures and words the history and renovation of the building.

The name J.J.P.Oud is synonymous with modern Dutch architecture in the first half of the twentieth century. This impressive book covers the entire work of this pioneer of Dutch modernism from his first steps in his chosen profession to his role as one of the founders, together with Theo van Doesburg, of 'De Stijl'; from his celebrated prewar housing estates to his varied and until now relatively neglected post-war output. The book demonstrated Oud's versatility; his written articles, his designs for stationary, book covers, furniture, a gravestone, a war memorial, and of course his innovating architectural designs such as the Witte Dorp in Rotterdam, the Hoek van Holland housing estate, Kiefhoek in Rotterdam, the Shell building in The Hague, and the Spaarbank and 'De Utrecht' buildings in Rotterdam.
The book offers extensive documentation of his oeuvre and for the first time renders it accessible to an international public in a manner comparable to that of other prominent figures in the Modern Movement such as Le Corbusier, Gropius and Mies van der Rohe.

The Sonneveld House in Rotterdam is one of the best preserved examples of Dutch Functionalist domestic architecture. It was built in 1933 from a design by Brinkman and Van der Vlugt, an architectural bureau that acquired international fame with it's designs for the Van Nelle Factory, the Van der Leeuw House and the Feyenoord Stadium all in Rotterdam. An unusual feature of the house, which is now a museum, is that the architects designed not only the house but also the entire interior using recently introduced series of furniture and lamps by Gispen and fabrics from the collection of Metz & Co.

As an architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) belongs in the ranks of the most innovating and important figures of twentieth century Dutch design. When in 1987 the Rietveld Schröder House and Archive were transfered to the Centraal Museum in Utrecht(NL) it was a stimulus for the research necessary to document his life and work. This complete catalogue of Rietveld's work provides an overview of the multi-faceted and highly productive career. The designs that he realized as well as those never actually made have been chronologically listed. With more than 600 illustrations, his complete work is now visually accessible. It also contains six texts by Rietveld himself as well as a list of biographical details.

More then twenty five years after the opening of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the original building (designed by Gerrit Rietveld, Van Dillen and Van Tricht) has been extended with a new wing designed by the Japanese architect Kisho Kurokawa and renovated by Greiner and Van Goor. This richly illustrated publication, accompanied by plans and sections, details both the new extension and the renovation.
In an accompanying essay, Ibelings traces the history of the original architecture and the new wing. As well as exploring Kurokawa's position in contemporary architecture he provides readers with a lucid introduction to the architect's design philosophy.

Authoritative survey of recent projects by 150 Dutch architects and interior architects. Each architectural firm presents its latest projects in full colour illustrations with project information and company profiles, providing the reader with an accurate overview of the broad quality of Dutch architecture today.

The work of the Dutch architects Roberto Meyer(1959) and Jeroen van Schooten(1960) belongs to some of the most inspired and innovating architecture built in the Netherlands in the last ten years. Their work has never lacked formal or technical elegance, but the perfectionism that motivates them in this is now paired with experience. In the course of a decade their artitecture has become more concentrated but simultaneously freer. It is freer in its boldness of form and in the choice and use of materials. Their ING Group headquarters building, in which construction, technique and programme are wholly integrated, is a prime example of this.

The city of Maastricht has been in the process of re-developing a large area in Wyck where the Céramique factory and yards used to be. The master builder and "Dutch National Architect" Jo Coenen is responsible for the overal project. This small handsome publication is a sketch book of his drawings, roughs, and notes made during the development. This visual narrative in seventeen episodes shows how Coenen responds to the situation and to divergent commissions and events, and how he proceeds to graft this onto the historic area on the east bank of the Maas river.

The architecture practice of Cees Dam and his son Diederik produces all manners of projects in every possible size, from private houses to large office and apartment towers and complete urban projects. Dam works in a way that could be considered untypical for the Dutch; in the range of commissioning bodies or individuals and the varied scale of the projects, the application of richly contrasting materials and the search for comfortable spaces. The book presents some 35 different projects from the last decade.

UN Studio UN Fold presents opinions, new approaches, observations and questions by the internationally renowned architects Ben van Berkel and Caroline Bos and their UN Studio. Based upon the format of a magazine, this book unfolds their most recent thoughts and exploits concerning architecture in 9 projects, 1 essay, 3 concepts, 9 project narratives, 3 columns and 1 digital conversation.

The book presents in words and over 500 illustrations an easy-to-read and compact overview of Dutch architecture of the past hundred years. Starting with Berlage and the Amsterdam School, the social housing of Oud, De Stijl and the Rietveld Schröder house, the Dutch Modern Movement ('Nieuwe Bouwen')and the work of Duiker, Dudok, Van der Vlugt, Van Eyck, Hertzberger, Meccanoo's housing projects and ending with the latest achievements of Koolhaas, Arets, Van Berkel and MVRDV. There is also a Dutch language edition.