Jean Du Ry

In their practice, the three authors – French architects Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal – work on making careful and continuous changes to the existing city. To them, total demolition followed by new construction is not an opti…

Arata Isozaki won the international competition for designing the new central station in Bologna. The competition was announced by the city of Bologna and the Italian railway association. First Norman Foster designed the new station in Florence and t…

Jean Nouvel was announced to be the Pritzker Prize Laureate of 2008. The prize, which includes 100.000 US-Dollars and a bronze medal, is annually awarded by the Hyatt Foundation. The 62 year-old French architect will officially receive the highest ar…

‘Do you want to be relevant?’, was Ole Bouman’s rhetorical opening. ‘Yes’, nodded his audience. Of course, agreed Bouman, and he then showed them five ways to be relevant.  - You keep doing your work like you’ve always done- You try to be contemporar…

Architecture is not only a profession but also a window on the world, and it can be deployed as an instrument to effect social change. It’s a message you’ve been spreading for years in lectures, though activities such as the RSVP events…

ArchiAfrika is a foundation set up by a group of Dutch architects who worked in Africa and want to increase knowledge about African architecture in Africa and the rest of the world. During the three-week workshop the participants documented and analy…

When it comes to buying general-interest magazines, which usually happens spontaneously at a station kiosk, there are a few things that matter: the cover has to appeal, the format should be sound, and a quick flick through it should give the impressi…

Aldo van Eyck (1918-1999) was 28 when he joined the Department of City Development at Amsterdam Public Works in 1947. After working on city expansions for a short time, he was asked to design a playground for Bertelmanplein. At the time, there were j…

The LACMA is a complex of different buildings. In the last 36 years the museum gradually expanded with new buildings or additions to existing buildings. The architects' mandate was to transform the many buildings into a cohesive design. Besides Rem K…

Curated by Paulo Martins Barata (Promontório Architects, Lisbon), with Gerrit Confurius (Editor, Berlim) and Luis Tavares Pereira (Architect, Oporto) with the support of the APM (Portuguese Management Association) and Prototypo (Portuguese architectu…

For the exhibition Mutations (designed by Jean Nouvel) the Arc en Rêve architecture centre in Bordeaux, France, allowed a group of architects, photographers, film-makers and critics to record the current state of urbanism. Curators Rem Koolhaas,…

Riding the waves of success in Dutch Design, various Dutch publishers have launched new architecture magazines primarily aimed at international readers over the past year. The latest to join A10 and Volume in the bookstores is the English-language ma…

John Entanza, editor of the architecture magazine Arts & Architecture, initiated the Case Study House Program in 1945. As the introduction to the book outlines, Entanza saw the programme as a way to 'offer the public and the building industry mod…

Roemer van Toorn introduced Dubai with a quote from the American writer Mike Davis. In his article ‘Fear and Money in Dubai’ (New Left Review, 2006), Davis writes that Dubai is one big gated community, a neo-liberal dream turned real in…

Building ProcessThough even his complex forms cause many a mouth to drop open in wonderment, Greg Lynn's design method is every bit as interesting as the end result. In recent years, however, his pioneering work has shifted emphasis - spurred no doub…